The Auron MacIntyre Show - Boomer Eschatology

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00:00:30.000 Hey everybody, how's it going?

00:00:31.660 Thanks for joining me this afternoon.

00:00:33.600 I am Oren McIntyre.

00:00:35.940 So, today I want to flesh out the idea of boomer eschatology.

00:00:41.700 I've mentioned this a few times.

00:00:44.280 There's a trend among conservatives,

00:00:48.000 especially kind of the older crowd,

00:00:50.820 among establishment conservatives especially,

00:00:53.400 but even many who have joined kind of the MAGA movement.

00:00:57.460 This idea that Christianity and America would coincide,

00:01:03.400 that the cultural Christianity of the United States was eternal

00:01:07.420 and would always continue until basically the end of the world.

00:01:11.380 I want to dive into that, where that came from,

00:01:13.920 and how that impacts us today.

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00:02:47.240 So, boomer eschatology.

00:02:48.680 What do I mean by that?

00:02:50.420 Where did this idea come from?

00:02:52.620 So, most of you probably know that the word eschatology

00:02:56.440 is talking about the end of the world, kind of the end of days,

00:03:00.020 what would happen in that scenario.

00:03:02.340 And I think that, again, like I said, a lot of older conservatives linked in many ways

00:03:10.580 the existence of a Christian America to basically the end of the world.

00:03:16.320 If the Christian American empire, if the idea that America would be eternally around

00:03:23.980 or eternally Christian somehow came to an end,

00:03:26.520 that could only coincide with the actual end of the world.

00:03:30.160 They couldn't imagine a world where America was not the most dominant power,

00:03:34.980 it was not kind of the ruler of the globe,

00:03:37.540 and also that it was not very Christian.

00:03:41.260 And so, those ideas, I think, are very linked to the way that a lot of older conservatives

00:03:47.420 believe that history would unfold.

00:03:50.600 You know, a lot of us laugh at the idea of the end of history,

00:03:54.120 the Francis Fukuyama neoliberal, all politics will be solved,

00:03:59.660 all conflict will have come to an end,

00:04:03.120 we've settled on Western liberal democracy,

00:04:06.460 and capitalism as kind of the only systems that will ever be in the world.

00:04:11.940 They have beat out everyone else, they are eternal,

00:04:15.080 and we don't have to have any conflicts over this anymore,

00:04:18.560 we don't have to have any debates or discussions over this anymore.

00:04:21.120 That question is settled.

00:04:22.700 We've reached the end of history in the sense that

00:04:26.560 any political or economic questions need to be solved anymore,

00:04:30.760 and now everything will be purely procedural, right?

00:04:33.500 These things will only be solved by working out the mathematical formulas,

00:04:38.040 not by having any of those messy conflicts that used to dominate our understanding

00:04:43.160 of religion or any of these other things.

00:04:47.860 We kind of laugh at that now, looking at what has happened at the end of history.

00:04:52.800 Francis Fukuyama himself has had to revise his own theory about the end of history

00:04:57.840 because it didn't really happen.

00:04:59.440 These conflicts continued, it turned out humanity moved on

00:05:04.100 and continued to have the problems and conflicts that it had previously,

00:05:08.900 and history was not as over as he had assumed.

00:05:12.460 I think that while we can laugh at that,

00:05:14.580 there is a very similar version of this

00:05:16.740 when it comes to American identity and American Christianity.

00:05:21.320 You look at a lot of older conservatives,

00:05:24.440 and while they were often themselves Christian,

00:05:28.920 and maybe even they fought back against the pushes to get rid of Christianity,

00:05:34.920 especially in particular areas,

00:05:36.960 they fought back against particular social issues.

00:05:40.000 The general idea that America would have to embrace a Christian identity

00:05:45.360 is something that they were still very uncomfortable with,

00:05:48.160 or if they weren't uncomfortable with it,

00:05:50.180 they didn't fight very hard to keep it around.

00:05:52.940 There wasn't a desire to further Christendom

00:05:57.860 in the way that there had been with many other Christian civilizations.

00:06:03.240 They often didn't even think of America explicitly as a Christian nation.

00:06:07.660 Maybe implicitly, there were the norms of Christianity

00:06:10.900 that informed a lot of what America was.

00:06:14.000 If you ask them, should America have Christian values,

00:06:17.700 they would say yes.

00:06:18.460 But the idea that you needed to actively protect

00:06:21.700 the identity of America as a Christian nation

00:06:25.560 was one that simply did not exist

00:06:27.920 for a lot of people in the boomer generation.

00:06:31.180 And I think this is why we're seeing a resurgence

00:06:33.920 in this idea of Christian nationalism.

00:06:36.820 I've raised my own problems with that formulation.

00:06:40.760 Again, I'm not largely against the propositions

00:06:43.840 that most Christian nationalists are for,

00:06:46.460 but I think there is a branding issue

00:06:48.460 and a little bit of issue when it comes to defining

00:06:52.340 what was the classic understanding of American identity

00:06:57.020 as some kind of new Christian nationalism,

00:06:59.520 because that discards all of the history.

00:07:01.980 It discards that connection with the past,

00:07:03.980 and it gives up your stronger position

00:07:06.420 as something that was here in the roots

00:07:09.380 and history of the United States,

00:07:12.040 and instead kind of casts it

00:07:14.460 as a new, trendy, radical social movement,

00:07:17.460 which is what the left wants to do with it.

00:07:19.860 But that aside, the point is,

00:07:22.020 I think the reason that that has reentered

00:07:24.400 the conversation in a big way

00:07:26.500 is this is a kind of a,

00:07:29.160 after the horse is already out of the barn,

00:07:32.220 trying to close the gate and be like,

00:07:33.680 oh yeah, no, we really probably should have

00:07:35.820 had this Christian identity at some point.

00:07:38.400 Now, the question you want to ask yourself is,

00:07:40.800 why did boomers not fight for this Christian identity

00:07:44.500 in the way that many others would have?

00:07:47.460 Why was that not at the forefront of their understanding?

00:07:51.740 And again, I want to say two things.

00:07:53.600 One, this is not all people from the baby boomer generation.

00:07:57.180 Of course, there were people who were lions

00:07:58.920 who fought against this, who spoke out against this.

00:08:02.140 This is a statement about the general trend,

00:08:05.960 not specific people.

00:08:07.300 There are many exceptions,

00:08:08.800 and they should be praised for their efforts.

00:08:11.440 And I also want to say again,

00:08:12.720 that that does not mean that the baby boomers

00:08:15.000 weren't Christian.

00:08:15.880 In fact, as we can just see from trends,

00:08:18.560 they were more Christian probably than many generations.

00:08:22.020 Though, again, we can probably debate

00:08:25.260 different issues inside the levels

00:08:27.860 of commitment to Christianity.

00:08:29.520 But you can see a lot of people

00:08:31.400 who were baby boomers,

00:08:33.240 and to some extent, Gen X,

00:08:34.940 look at the idea of Christian nationalism

00:08:37.260 or look at the idea of cultural Christianity,

00:08:39.920 not with almost disdain.

00:08:41.860 So you don't need this around.

00:08:43.300 This didn't need to be part of our identity.

00:08:45.440 This didn't need to be part of who we are.

00:08:48.320 This is something,

00:08:49.300 in fact, it's better for Christians to be persecuted.

00:08:52.120 Real Christians face persecution,

00:08:53.680 and that actually grows the faith.

00:08:56.380 And so we don't need a Christian society.

00:08:59.380 We don't need a cultural Christianity.

00:09:00.940 We don't need Christian institutions

00:09:02.320 or a Christian public square.

00:09:04.200 In fact, it would be better

00:09:05.400 if we were against this.

00:09:06.880 And you have to ask yourself,

00:09:07.920 why would you say that, right?

00:09:09.500 Like, what would come,

00:09:11.260 what would bring someone to say that

00:09:13.200 about their own civilization?

00:09:16.260 It kind of fits in, honestly,

00:09:18.220 with the archetype of the boomer

00:09:20.060 as the person who doesn't care

00:09:21.320 what gets handed down to their children.

00:09:23.440 Well, I lived in a Christian society.

00:09:25.760 And so, you know, that's fine.

00:09:27.960 As long as I got to live under those norms,

00:09:30.420 then I don't really have to worry

00:09:32.340 about passing that down to my posterity.

00:09:34.560 We'll get into that more in a second,

00:09:36.040 but it does fit into that archetype.

00:09:38.300 But what would lead them, again,

00:09:40.180 to this idea that history was over

00:09:43.020 and they didn't need to create

00:09:44.700 this continuity of Christian culture?

00:09:48.000 Why would they have that understanding?

00:09:50.700 I think there's a couple things involved here.

00:09:53.120 First, of course,

00:09:55.280 we don't, in the United States,

00:09:57.300 we were successfully sold the idea

00:09:59.620 of separation of church and state.

00:10:01.480 Now, the separation of church and state,

00:10:03.300 that language does not exist in the Constitution.

00:10:05.300 It does not exist in the First Amendment.

00:10:07.800 Most people don't understand that.

00:10:09.960 They don't understand that it was in a letter,

00:10:11.700 separate.

00:10:12.320 It's from one founding father.

00:10:14.680 It does not imply that this is how everyone felt

00:10:17.140 about religion in the United States.

00:10:19.320 And either way, it wasn't in the Constitution,

00:10:20.880 so it shouldn't have any binding power there.

00:10:23.640 There is the Establishment Clause,

00:10:26.080 but then many people also misunderstand that as well.

00:10:30.340 There were actually literally state churches.

00:10:34.240 Different states had different official churches.

00:10:37.440 It wasn't until the incorporation

00:10:39.220 of the First Amendment,

00:10:40.720 something that I probably want to go ahead

00:10:42.060 and do an episode on as well.

00:10:44.360 Me and Ryan Turnipseed have talked about

00:10:46.120 doing an episode on that in the past,

00:10:47.640 but we should probably get into a deeper dive

00:10:49.420 on what the incorporation

00:10:50.840 of the First Amendment means.

00:10:53.480 But up until that point,

00:10:54.960 this did exist in the United States.

00:10:57.060 However, I think a lot of people,

00:10:59.480 especially of kind of the post-war,

00:11:02.420 people who were born in the post-war consensus,

00:11:05.480 the post-World War II consensus,

00:11:07.360 were sold this idea

00:11:08.780 that the United States really was

00:11:11.320 this melting pot that didn't have

00:11:13.820 a specific history,

00:11:15.100 it didn't have a specific people,

00:11:16.460 it didn't have a specific tradition

00:11:18.460 beyond one of inclusion and equality

00:11:21.540 and it's a nation of immigrants,

00:11:23.560 this kind of stuff.

00:11:24.600 And that led them to kind of get

00:11:25.980 into the maximal definition, right?

00:11:28.520 How far can we possibly stretch

00:11:30.780 the idea of the United States

00:11:32.620 to allow as many people as possible

00:11:34.940 kind of live here

00:11:36.420 and be identified as Americans?

00:11:39.380 And Christianity was one of the casualties

00:11:41.320 of that, the idea of a truly Christian culture

00:11:44.000 kind of had to go out the window.

00:11:45.820 America could continue to operate

00:11:48.040 through the 50s and 60s

00:11:49.900 as a nominally Christian culture,

00:11:53.060 but it's not something

00:11:54.680 that could be the defining identity,

00:11:57.320 something that would be stamped in

00:11:59.020 to a lot of the institutions.

00:12:01.380 You can see some of the actual reaction

00:12:03.360 to this attitude, I think,

00:12:05.360 because you started seeing things like

00:12:06.760 in God we trust get put onto the money

00:12:09.040 that wasn't originally there,

00:12:10.720 that gets introduced in some of these periods.

00:12:12.960 So there certainly are cultural currents

00:12:15.980 pushing back against this zeitgeist,

00:12:18.560 but overall, this is the direction

00:12:20.440 that I think people are moving

00:12:22.500 or were moving during that time

00:12:24.720 and being guided by the elites

00:12:26.720 because, again, we're believers

00:12:27.920 of elite theory on the show.

00:12:30.920 We believe that elites drive our culture.

00:12:32.540 And so there's a direction

00:12:34.960 that we were moving

00:12:36.260 and that was not just bubbling up

00:12:38.800 from the popular will.

00:12:41.260 They didn't all get together and say,

00:12:42.840 man, I really hope that we start

00:12:44.440 to think of ourselves as a secular country.

00:12:46.680 But I think that that was a big part of it.

00:12:48.740 Because we didn't have an official state church,

00:12:51.780 a lot of Americans got sold the idea

00:12:54.080 that, well, then if you don't have

00:12:55.440 an official church,

00:12:56.500 then you aren't really explicitly

00:12:58.620 perhaps a Christian nation.

00:13:00.940 We also have this loose confederation

00:13:04.380 of Protestant Christianity

00:13:06.740 that bound our many different identities together.

00:13:10.460 The United States has never had

00:13:12.500 one total unified, forged identity.

00:13:16.240 It was very regional due to its size

00:13:18.680 and the different ways of immigration

00:13:20.440 that were eventually introduced

00:13:22.160 into the United States.

00:13:23.880 And so even if you weren't a Christian yourself

00:13:27.560 or even Protestant yourself,

00:13:28.820 the thing that kind of bound America together

00:13:31.020 was the expectation

00:13:32.060 that you would conform

00:13:33.560 to a certain level of Protestant Christianity.

00:13:37.100 This is why, for instance,

00:13:38.880 Catholics and Jews

00:13:40.140 that moved to the United States

00:13:41.580 often founded their own church,

00:13:44.040 or rather not just their own churches

00:13:45.960 or synagogues,

00:13:47.020 but their own schools.

00:13:48.580 They kept their own communities separate

00:13:50.600 because the education

00:13:53.000 that would be handed out

00:13:54.140 in an American public school

00:13:55.280 was assumed to be Protestant in nature.

00:13:57.580 It was not going to cater

00:14:00.000 to Catholic or Jewish particularities.

00:14:03.140 And so if you wanted

00:14:03.760 to keep those particularities,

00:14:05.140 you needed your own separate schools

00:14:07.400 to go ahead and do that.

00:14:08.380 And that's why you have a robust tradition

00:14:10.620 of those kind of private schools

00:14:12.280 inside the United States.

00:14:14.240 And so this kind of loose coalition

00:14:16.500 of Protestant Christianity

00:14:18.020 was the binding moral fiber

00:14:23.460 of the United States,

00:14:24.480 the binding identity

00:14:25.380 of the United States in many ways.

00:14:27.540 But because it was not explicitly stated

00:14:31.020 that America,

00:14:32.180 well, we are Protestant Christians

00:14:33.520 and here is our state church

00:14:35.660 and here are our doctrines

00:14:36.840 and here are the things

00:14:37.480 that we adhere to,

00:14:38.620 this kind of became

00:14:39.340 the background radiation

00:14:40.640 for a lot of people.

00:14:42.160 And as the culture changed significantly,

00:14:44.940 a lot of that just became assumed, right?

00:14:47.700 So that background Protestant Christianity

00:14:50.360 got pushed further and further backwards

00:14:53.120 to the point where you didn't really know

00:14:54.400 where it came from.

00:14:55.820 You still have the social norms,

00:14:57.280 the customs that were built in

00:14:59.180 by that Protestant Christianity,

00:15:01.480 but you didn't really know

00:15:02.540 where they came from.

00:15:03.600 The generation that was inheriting them,

00:15:06.000 that baby boom generation,

00:15:07.400 was starting to lose contact

00:15:09.000 with the actual root of that culture

00:15:11.780 as so often happens

00:15:13.200 when you start to see a failure

00:15:14.720 of people passing things on.

00:15:16.020 So again, not to just beat up

00:15:18.060 on the baby boomers here,

00:15:19.320 this is a failure

00:15:20.580 of the previous generation, right?

00:15:22.600 The parents of the baby boomers

00:15:24.220 did not properly pass on

00:15:26.700 the centrality of Christianity,

00:15:29.880 specifically Protestant Christianity,

00:15:32.220 to the American culture.

00:15:33.960 And therefore, the baby boomers

00:15:36.440 who went ahead and kind of existed

00:15:39.200 in a new generation

00:15:40.740 without as much connectivity

00:15:42.100 to that tradition,

00:15:44.200 then did not have that root.

00:15:45.940 And when it came time

00:15:46.680 to raise their own children,

00:15:47.700 they did not pass that on to Gen X

00:15:50.200 and to the millennials

00:15:51.120 and so on and so forth.

00:15:52.600 And so this is a cascading problem.

00:15:55.600 We can recognize it.

00:15:57.180 I think most in the baby boom generation,

00:15:59.880 it becomes most evident

00:16:01.580 in this transitional period.

00:16:03.380 But to be clear,

00:16:04.600 this is a failure

00:16:05.480 of multiple generations.

00:16:06.940 This is a gradual decline

00:16:08.820 in identity and understanding

00:16:10.780 across many different groups.

00:16:13.420 We're not just beating up

00:16:15.120 on the baby boomers here,

00:16:16.220 though, to be fair,

00:16:17.340 of course, they played

00:16:18.120 a large role in this,

00:16:19.180 especially due to their outsized impact

00:16:21.280 on American culture

00:16:22.940 because of just the massive demographic

00:16:25.080 size of that group.

00:16:26.780 They wielded that power

00:16:29.320 throughout their lifespan,

00:16:30.440 and that has had a big impact

00:16:32.280 on the way that America has developed.

00:16:35.100 So because this moved

00:16:37.160 into the background,

00:16:38.300 because this became less

00:16:40.360 at the forefront of identity

00:16:42.020 and became just kind of

00:16:43.120 the assumed culture

00:16:44.100 without any real connection

00:16:45.420 to its roots,

00:16:46.980 I think a lot of boomers

00:16:48.780 started to believe

00:16:49.600 in the truth of secular government.

00:16:51.520 Even those that were

00:16:52.500 devoutly Christian,

00:16:53.820 even those who believed

00:16:55.080 very much

00:16:56.120 in their Christian faith

00:16:57.680 started to believe

00:16:58.860 in the myth

00:16:59.400 of a secular neutral state.

00:17:01.560 Okay, yes, of course,

00:17:02.340 I am a Protestant Christian,

00:17:03.780 and perhaps I want my president

00:17:06.200 to even be a Protestant Christian,

00:17:08.400 right?

00:17:08.640 Though obviously

00:17:09.220 that was a big

00:17:11.080 source of contention

00:17:12.340 when it came to people

00:17:13.400 like John F. Kennedy, right?

00:17:15.160 The fact that he was a Catholic

00:17:16.500 was still something important,

00:17:18.520 and the fact

00:17:19.280 that he conformed himself

00:17:21.180 in certain mannerisms

00:17:22.520 to WASP norms

00:17:24.800 mattered.

00:17:25.960 The fact that he catered

00:17:27.160 to that identity,

00:17:28.820 even though he himself

00:17:30.020 was an Irish Catholic,

00:17:31.760 made a big difference.

00:17:33.880 It was still something

00:17:34.980 that was significant,

00:17:36.480 that would soon fade away.

00:17:38.680 People can't imagine

00:17:39.580 that being something

00:17:40.300 that's important today,

00:17:41.760 but back then,

00:17:42.620 that was still

00:17:43.680 a transitional period,

00:17:44.700 and that was something

00:17:45.420 that mattered quite a bit.

00:17:47.160 But we started seeing this,

00:17:49.160 I think,

00:17:49.540 this transition

00:17:50.140 to the idea

00:17:50.780 that even if you're

00:17:51.480 personally Christian,

00:17:52.820 even if you want your leaders

00:17:54.400 to be Christian

00:17:55.220 and have their decisions

00:17:56.620 informed by Christian values,

00:17:58.240 the public square

00:18:00.920 is not explicitly Christian.

00:18:03.660 The public institutions

00:18:05.420 are not publicly,

00:18:07.140 are not explicitly Christian,

00:18:08.400 because increasingly,

00:18:09.360 due to large-scale immigration,

00:18:11.320 they needed to mix with people

00:18:13.000 who were not explicitly Protestant.

00:18:15.800 Now, again,

00:18:16.620 there were many people

00:18:17.460 who were Catholic

00:18:18.600 in the United States

00:18:19.640 before this point,

00:18:20.520 and there were other faiths

00:18:21.900 like Judaism

00:18:22.600 that were in the United States

00:18:24.220 at this point,

00:18:24.800 but they were not here

00:18:25.580 en masse.

00:18:26.420 You did not have

00:18:27.180 a large amount of Muslims.

00:18:28.460 You did not have

00:18:29.040 a large amount

00:18:29.840 of Eastern European immigrants

00:18:31.540 until later

00:18:32.680 in the 1800s

00:18:34.600 and the new waves

00:18:35.380 that came, of course,

00:18:36.820 after the Hart-Celler Act.

00:18:38.420 And so these transformations

00:18:39.840 were happening much slower

00:18:41.500 if they happened at all.

00:18:42.380 You did not have

00:18:43.180 kind of these tipping points

00:18:45.120 of large percentages

00:18:46.300 of immigration

00:18:46.940 that demanded

00:18:47.600 that everyone

00:18:48.340 be governed

00:18:49.380 by some kind of

00:18:50.700 neutral government,

00:18:51.920 one that would not have

00:18:52.980 a particular

00:18:53.960 religious affiliation

00:18:55.540 or bias

00:18:56.380 or would make decisions

00:18:58.000 based on a particular

00:18:59.340 moral understanding.

00:19:01.560 And so that started to shift

00:19:03.480 due to the large amount

00:19:05.100 of immigration,

00:19:05.800 and you start to see

00:19:07.420 the belief that

00:19:08.680 even if you think

00:19:10.180 in general it's good

00:19:11.400 for Christian principles

00:19:12.260 to continue on

00:19:14.240 as that background

00:19:15.620 radiation

00:19:16.380 of your moral landscape,

00:19:18.280 it can't be present

00:19:19.980 in the actual governance

00:19:21.420 of the United States

00:19:22.800 because that would

00:19:23.460 create a bias

00:19:24.200 and we have to be

00:19:25.140 understanding

00:19:26.160 and tolerant

00:19:26.960 and, you know,

00:19:27.760 the melting pot

00:19:28.640 and the nation of immigrants

00:19:30.240 and all of these things.

00:19:31.180 We can't have a preference

00:19:32.260 for a particular way of being

00:19:33.760 or particular understanding

00:19:35.060 of morality

00:19:36.240 or particular cultural frame.

00:19:38.480 And so I think

00:19:39.860 it was easier

00:19:40.900 for a lot of boomers,

00:19:42.520 especially because

00:19:43.360 they're consuming

00:19:45.240 a lot of these ideas

00:19:46.220 in college,

00:19:47.040 to say,

00:19:48.080 okay, well,

00:19:49.400 even if I return

00:19:50.640 back to my Christian faith

00:19:52.080 or something like that

00:19:53.160 later on,

00:19:54.280 I need to find a way

00:19:55.580 to make it okay

00:19:56.500 that the government

00:19:57.360 is kind of

00:19:58.520 making decisions

00:19:59.760 over all these

00:20:00.640 different faiths

00:20:01.360 and all these

00:20:01.720 different peoples.

00:20:02.440 And so the best way

00:20:02.960 to do that

00:20:03.540 is to kind of

00:20:04.580 transform

00:20:05.220 my nominally

00:20:07.060 Protestant morality

00:20:09.140 into this kind

00:20:10.340 of universal

00:20:11.020 secular application.

00:20:13.500 I want to get deeper

00:20:14.220 into the role

00:20:15.020 that I think college

00:20:16.160 played

00:20:16.740 and the generational

00:20:17.560 transition played

00:20:18.620 in boomer eschatology.

00:20:20.320 But before I do,

00:20:21.280 guys,

00:20:21.540 let's go ahead

00:20:22.280 and hear about

00:20:23.120 New Founding's

00:20:23.800 Venture Fund.

00:20:24.600 Hey, guys,

00:20:25.040 I need to tell you

00:20:25.580 about New Founding

00:20:26.420 Venture Fund.

00:20:27.280 Look,

00:20:27.420 we all know

00:20:28.020 that the current system,

00:20:29.220 the current companies

00:20:30.020 out there,

00:20:30.560 the current institutions,

00:20:31.540 they're old,

00:20:32.400 sick,

00:20:33.080 dying,

00:20:33.600 they're sclerotic,

00:20:34.360 they're lame,

00:20:35.440 they can't produce

00:20:36.060 anything of value.

00:20:37.100 And that means

00:20:37.580 that young,

00:20:38.280 talented,

00:20:38.860 innovative people

00:20:39.560 are trying to

00:20:40.200 break out,

00:20:40.820 break free.

00:20:41.620 That's bad news

00:20:42.640 for the establishment,

00:20:43.420 but it's good news

00:20:44.540 for us

00:20:45.160 because that means

00:20:45.940 those people

00:20:46.540 are going to go out

00:20:47.260 and found new companies,

00:20:48.740 create new technologies

00:20:49.880 and figure out a way

00:20:51.140 forward for our country.

00:20:52.800 If you're interested

00:20:53.200 in being a part

00:20:53.880 of that exciting

00:20:54.460 new future,

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00:20:57.940 the founders who have

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00:20:59.720 for a better future

00:21:00.700 and is investing

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00:21:02.620 through its Venture Fund.

00:21:03.760 The companies

00:21:04.600 they invest in

00:21:05.360 are defined

00:21:05.780 by a simple question.

00:21:07.340 Does the country

00:21:08.000 we want to live in

00:21:09.100 need the company

00:21:10.060 this person is building?

00:21:11.500 Look,

00:21:11.820 venture investing

00:21:12.400 isn't for everyone,

00:21:13.740 but if you're a serious

00:21:14.720 accredited investor

00:21:15.720 who wants to see

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00:21:17.860 for this country,

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00:21:28.260 All right,

00:21:28.920 so I think that

00:21:29.880 college

00:21:30.540 plays a huge role here.

00:21:32.320 Now,

00:21:33.040 of course,

00:21:33.480 college started

00:21:34.320 to grow

00:21:35.400 post the World War II

00:21:36.840 generation.

00:21:38.340 They come in,

00:21:39.400 they get access

00:21:40.940 to things like

00:21:41.520 the GI Bill

00:21:42.300 for the first time.

00:21:43.520 College becomes

00:21:44.320 a vehicle

00:21:45.200 of social mobility

00:21:46.680 and an indication

00:21:47.780 of class

00:21:48.620 in a way

00:21:49.000 that it hadn't

00:21:49.900 existed before.

00:21:52.200 All of a sudden,

00:21:53.180 college becomes

00:21:54.020 a necessity

00:21:54.760 for a lot of people

00:21:56.060 when before

00:21:57.040 it was something

00:21:58.160 that was really

00:21:58.940 only done

00:21:59.580 by the rich

00:22:01.200 and perhaps

00:22:01.940 a few people

00:22:02.580 who needed to

00:22:03.200 enter into

00:22:03.700 scholarly pursuits.

00:22:05.180 As we started

00:22:06.460 linking technology

00:22:08.160 and college together

00:22:09.340 or managerial expertise

00:22:10.740 in college together,

00:22:11.900 more and more people

00:22:12.800 need to go ahead

00:22:13.520 and attend college

00:22:14.760 to move on,

00:22:16.900 to ascend

00:22:17.660 to a different

00:22:18.140 social class

00:22:18.940 or to go ahead

00:22:20.080 and take their place

00:22:21.740 in their existing

00:22:22.800 social order.

00:22:24.040 So college becomes

00:22:24.800 a huge ritual.

00:22:25.820 And of course,

00:22:26.540 we know that

00:22:27.240 especially as

00:22:28.620 the boomers

00:22:29.560 end up going

00:22:30.720 to college

00:22:31.900 in eras like

00:22:33.100 the 60s,

00:22:33.920 we start to see

00:22:35.160 the counterculture

00:22:37.580 arise very much

00:22:39.080 in the universities.

00:22:42.460 And so all of a sudden,

00:22:43.700 there's this shift

00:22:45.320 in the way that people

00:22:46.140 live their lives.

00:22:47.560 Now, don't get me wrong.

00:22:48.760 There had always been

00:22:50.160 a percentage

00:22:52.160 of young people

00:22:53.440 that rebelled, right?

00:22:54.660 We all know

00:22:55.340 the story

00:22:56.240 of the prodigal son

00:22:57.300 from the Bible.

00:22:58.640 So this is a very

00:22:59.540 old notion

00:23:00.640 that a son

00:23:02.000 might try to

00:23:02.940 leave his family

00:23:04.520 and sow his wild oats

00:23:06.280 and maybe even

00:23:07.060 become his own man

00:23:08.120 in some way

00:23:08.820 and then return back

00:23:10.920 once he realized

00:23:11.600 he had made some mistakes.

00:23:12.900 This is not new

00:23:14.080 to the boomers.

00:23:15.340 However,

00:23:16.200 most people

00:23:17.080 did not live

00:23:17.780 their lives this way.

00:23:18.960 The idea

00:23:19.600 that everyone

00:23:20.740 just completely rebels

00:23:22.240 and rejects

00:23:23.220 the culture

00:23:23.960 of their parents

00:23:24.920 and exists

00:23:26.520 in a wild hedonism

00:23:27.700 and throws away

00:23:28.980 the religion

00:23:29.860 of their forefathers

00:23:31.000 when they hit

00:23:32.400 20 or so

00:23:33.380 was not some

00:23:34.120 automatic given

00:23:35.160 like we treat it today.

00:23:36.440 That was a fairly

00:23:37.140 new thing.

00:23:38.680 And that expectation

00:23:40.060 really comes

00:23:41.020 from the baby boom

00:23:41.940 generation

00:23:42.700 who was the first

00:23:44.100 generation

00:23:44.820 to kind of

00:23:46.320 exist

00:23:47.240 in this

00:23:48.100 incredible

00:23:48.680 moment of plenty,

00:23:50.140 right?

00:23:50.320 you have this

00:23:51.040 incredible

00:23:51.380 economic

00:23:52.100 boom,

00:23:54.060 you have this

00:23:54.440 incredible

00:23:54.720 economic growth,

00:23:55.680 you have

00:23:56.520 this material

00:23:57.620 wealth

00:23:58.160 that allows

00:23:58.880 for people

00:24:00.260 to move away

00:24:01.440 and many times

00:24:03.520 have their education

00:24:04.380 financed

00:24:05.060 or they can

00:24:05.480 afford to pay

00:24:06.720 for it themselves

00:24:07.640 sometimes,

00:24:08.440 but oftentimes

00:24:08.960 this is in some way

00:24:10.180 being subsidized

00:24:10.980 by the state

00:24:11.580 or their parents

00:24:12.180 or others.

00:24:13.000 They lose a lot

00:24:14.000 of their responsibilities,

00:24:14.960 they move very far

00:24:16.280 away from their

00:24:17.360 hometown,

00:24:18.460 they're introduced

00:24:19.560 to very hedonistic

00:24:21.520 opportunities

00:24:22.340 and they can

00:24:23.560 indulge in them

00:24:24.360 to great excess.

00:24:26.720 This is also a time

00:24:27.600 when the culture

00:24:28.160 shifts not just

00:24:29.160 to free love

00:24:29.880 but drug culture

00:24:30.700 and many other things.

00:24:32.060 And so there's

00:24:32.520 this great period

00:24:33.400 where a large

00:24:34.400 number of boomers

00:24:35.620 kind of threw

00:24:36.600 off the culture,

00:24:37.840 threw off the

00:24:38.340 religious constraints,

00:24:39.640 threw off the

00:24:40.020 traditions and beliefs

00:24:41.120 of their

00:24:42.480 many generations

00:24:44.300 simultaneously

00:24:46.040 in a way

00:24:46.980 that just

00:24:48.140 had not happened.

00:24:49.660 Again,

00:24:50.440 people did do this,

00:24:51.780 there was always

00:24:52.260 some element

00:24:53.080 of this,

00:24:54.000 there is some

00:24:54.740 truth to the fact

00:24:55.620 that there is

00:24:56.600 a normal human

00:24:57.500 call to this

00:24:58.920 and that some

00:24:59.560 people fall into it

00:25:00.520 but the idea

00:25:01.280 that one entire

00:25:03.400 generation

00:25:04.000 could in mass

00:25:05.280 indulge in this

00:25:06.300 just simply did not

00:25:07.440 exist beforehand.

00:25:08.620 The simple

00:25:09.360 material realities

00:25:10.940 of day-to-day

00:25:12.240 human existence

00:25:13.060 would not allow

00:25:13.880 you to just

00:25:14.440 check out

00:25:15.300 into this

00:25:15.800 hedonistic utopia

00:25:16.920 and do this

00:25:18.120 for several years

00:25:19.400 of your most

00:25:19.960 formative adult years

00:25:21.360 in any previous

00:25:23.160 culture that would

00:25:23.740 have just collapsed

00:25:24.440 your society

00:25:25.180 because no one

00:25:25.920 would have been

00:25:26.240 productive and

00:25:26.960 nobody would have

00:25:27.520 been there to

00:25:27.960 defend your society

00:25:29.480 and all of these

00:25:31.460 things would have

00:25:31.880 fallen apart.

00:25:32.820 But the United

00:25:33.280 States had a lot

00:25:34.080 of padding because

00:25:35.080 it basically conquered

00:25:35.980 the world in World

00:25:37.660 War II and so

00:25:38.880 there's a lot of

00:25:40.180 a huge kind of

00:25:41.260 peace dividend

00:25:41.940 as we would

00:25:43.260 call it

00:25:43.940 very euphemistically

00:25:46.060 that's another

00:25:47.300 way for saying

00:25:48.300 we destroyed

00:25:49.240 all of our

00:25:49.680 enemies and

00:25:50.240 none of them

00:25:50.620 can threaten

00:25:51.020 us anymore

00:25:51.520 along with a

00:25:53.420 huge economic

00:25:54.080 dividend.

00:25:55.400 And so the

00:25:56.420 boomers were

00:25:57.060 allowed to do

00:25:57.720 this.

00:25:58.500 And so this

00:25:58.980 broke I think

00:26:00.340 a chain that

00:26:01.280 usually exists

00:26:02.360 in culture

00:26:03.140 and so

00:26:04.280 eventually many

00:26:05.640 boomers came

00:26:06.320 back right

00:26:07.100 to their credit

00:26:08.200 many of them

00:26:08.700 came back

00:26:09.380 to their

00:26:10.760 faith.

00:26:11.580 They came

00:26:11.840 back and

00:26:12.420 they grew up

00:26:13.600 they became

00:26:14.180 more responsible

00:26:15.060 they had

00:26:15.920 families they

00:26:16.420 had children

00:26:17.040 and despite

00:26:17.760 pretty wild

00:26:19.220 times like if

00:26:20.100 you read

00:26:20.840 things like

00:26:22.240 like Tom

00:26:23.200 Wolf's

00:26:24.020 I'm trying to

00:26:25.000 remember the

00:26:25.340 name of the

00:26:25.720 book the

00:26:26.060 electric Kool-Aid

00:26:27.660 test or something

00:26:28.340 like that the

00:26:28.880 electric acid

00:26:29.900 Kool-Aid test

00:26:30.460 something along

00:26:31.040 that those

00:26:31.740 lines those

00:26:32.500 are some pretty

00:26:32.980 wild times

00:26:33.860 you think about

00:26:35.380 today and you

00:26:35.880 think about it

00:26:36.320 being very

00:26:36.860 hedonistic but

00:26:38.240 we often kind

00:26:38.980 of go back

00:26:39.640 and whitewash

00:26:41.780 the 60s and

00:26:42.740 70s and how

00:26:43.820 out of control

00:26:45.000 some aspects

00:26:46.260 of the culture

00:26:47.060 were back then

00:26:48.020 of course again

00:26:48.880 I think they

00:26:49.500 were those

00:26:50.120 those normalizations

00:26:51.840 of that behavior

00:26:52.540 were more

00:26:53.060 particular at the

00:26:53.900 time that they

00:26:54.660 weren't across

00:26:55.160 the entire

00:26:55.620 culture I think

00:26:56.320 social media

00:26:57.100 and other

00:26:58.640 forces have

00:26:59.460 kind of made

00:26:59.940 that a wide

00:27:00.580 spectrum event

00:27:01.460 in our culture

00:27:02.120 in a way that

00:27:02.880 it was a much

00:27:03.260 more narrow

00:27:03.920 and contained

00:27:04.940 event in

00:27:06.440 in previous

00:27:07.920 you know 60s

00:27:08.720 and 70s type

00:27:09.300 culture but it

00:27:10.040 was still very

00:27:10.900 very hedonistic

00:27:13.080 and even though

00:27:14.180 they lived those

00:27:14.960 very wild

00:27:15.740 irresponsible

00:27:16.340 hedonistic

00:27:16.940 lives many

00:27:17.580 of them were

00:27:18.120 allowed to

00:27:18.580 kind of come

00:27:19.060 back to a

00:27:20.240 certain degree

00:27:20.880 of normalcy

00:27:21.700 now for a

00:27:23.860 lot of boomers

00:27:24.740 they assumed

00:27:25.640 that that was

00:27:26.160 just always the

00:27:27.300 case that's

00:27:27.860 just how life

00:27:28.780 was right and

00:27:29.580 we hear this

00:27:30.340 again today

00:27:30.940 this is what

00:27:31.640 we heard when

00:27:32.740 we had the

00:27:33.140 social justice

00:27:33.840 phenomenon on

00:27:34.900 campuses right

00:27:35.700 when we had

00:27:36.040 the social

00:27:36.360 justice warriors

00:27:37.140 on college

00:27:38.240 campuses in

00:27:39.880 the 2000s

00:27:40.840 we heard a

00:27:41.540 lot we heard

00:27:42.800 a lot of

00:27:43.680 boomers say

00:27:45.160 oh well these

00:27:45.940 kids these

00:27:46.640 crazy purple

00:27:47.500 purple haired

00:27:49.700 non-gendered

00:27:50.580 kids they're

00:27:51.300 going to come

00:27:51.700 to their

00:27:52.000 senses they're

00:27:52.620 going to enter

00:27:53.100 the real

00:27:53.640 world they're

00:27:54.500 going to have

00:27:54.800 to snap back

00:27:55.760 to to real

00:27:56.860 life they're

00:27:57.540 going to need

00:27:57.940 real jobs and

00:27:58.840 they're just

00:27:59.160 going to do

00:27:59.620 what we did

00:28:00.160 right they'll

00:28:00.560 sell their

00:28:00.940 wild oats for

00:28:02.040 a few years

00:28:02.720 they'll get

00:28:03.060 out of control

00:28:03.600 on college

00:28:04.060 campuses but

00:28:04.920 eventually life

00:28:06.100 will smack

00:28:06.620 them in the

00:28:06.980 face the way

00:28:07.780 that real life

00:28:08.260 smacked me

00:28:08.740 in the face

00:28:09.200 and they'll

00:28:10.520 just become

00:28:11.000 normal citizens

00:28:12.080 this problem

00:28:12.620 will solve

00:28:13.120 itself but of

00:28:14.800 course that's

00:28:15.100 not what

00:28:15.480 happened because

00:28:16.280 the boomers

00:28:17.000 experience was

00:28:17.880 unique to

00:28:19.180 them it was

00:28:19.880 not a normal

00:28:21.280 cycle that

00:28:22.860 young people

00:28:23.460 go through so

00:28:24.340 when boomers

00:28:24.840 looked at the

00:28:25.640 social justice

00:28:26.280 warriors and

00:28:26.840 said oh all

00:28:27.580 these woke

00:28:27.980 kids are just

00:28:28.600 going to get

00:28:29.160 hit by real

00:28:29.700 life no what

00:28:30.520 happened is those

00:28:31.240 woke kids

00:28:31.680 grew up they

00:28:32.860 got college

00:28:33.360 degrees they

00:28:34.240 entered the

00:28:34.560 halls of power

00:28:35.200 and they

00:28:35.700 turned all

00:28:36.140 of culture

00:28:36.580 away they

00:28:37.280 turned all

00:28:37.600 of our

00:28:37.800 institutions

00:28:38.340 away right

00:28:39.060 and and the

00:28:41.040 reason that the

00:28:41.760 boomers didn't

00:28:42.440 understand why

00:28:43.260 that what was

00:28:43.840 going to happen

00:28:44.360 there is that

00:28:45.540 they got to

00:28:46.480 live on kind

00:28:47.660 of the last

00:28:48.600 momentum of

00:28:49.340 christian culture

00:28:50.180 the the christian

00:28:52.140 culture that they

00:28:53.080 assumed that they

00:28:54.480 thought was the

00:28:55.200 standard secular

00:28:56.280 way that america

00:28:57.780 would always exist

00:28:59.260 uh the the

00:29:00.640 the the normal

00:29:01.760 families and

00:29:02.920 jobs you know

00:29:03.960 careers all

00:29:04.760 these things that

00:29:05.320 they thought people

00:29:05.940 would settle

00:29:06.360 into that was a

00:29:07.440 function of them

00:29:08.280 being the first

00:29:08.960 generation to

00:29:09.580 truly break from

00:29:10.540 that tradition so

00:29:11.680 we have this long

00:29:12.640 chain of this

00:29:14.180 tradition and they

00:29:15.240 break from it

00:29:15.840 really hard but

00:29:16.880 when life comes

00:29:18.040 at them and they

00:29:18.740 realize that

00:29:19.420 actually just

00:29:20.180 living as a

00:29:21.360 uh complete

00:29:22.540 hedonist with no

00:29:24.320 real skills and

00:29:25.560 no no no real

00:29:26.680 connections is not

00:29:27.920 actually a great

00:29:28.560 way to live the

00:29:29.980 world was still

00:29:30.840 there that enough

00:29:31.920 of that tradition

00:29:32.580 was still there

00:29:33.540 enough of that

00:29:34.580 kind of civilizational

00:29:35.940 scaffolding that

00:29:37.140 skeleton that

00:29:38.620 christianity provided

00:29:40.240 for our culture

00:29:41.200 enough of that was

00:29:42.260 still there for

00:29:43.160 them to go ahead

00:29:43.800 and reconstruct a

00:29:45.080 real life around

00:29:46.220 that and so they

00:29:47.560 said oh well that

00:29:48.300 that's what people

00:29:49.320 do right they go

00:29:50.340 out they do what

00:29:51.080 i did because you

00:29:51.700 need to normalize

00:29:52.420 your own behavior

00:29:53.100 everyone has to

00:29:53.940 assume that kind

00:29:55.060 of you know that

00:29:55.520 you can't go out

00:29:56.140 and be like oh

00:29:56.980 no i was a real

00:29:57.860 piece of trash and

00:29:58.880 like i i threw

00:30:00.060 the inheritance

00:30:00.640 of my my uh

00:30:02.220 forefathers away

00:30:03.200 and i completely

00:30:03.900 wrecked my society

00:30:05.300 like you can't

00:30:05.960 tell yourself that

00:30:06.740 so you just have

00:30:07.280 to be like well

00:30:07.760 no of course kids

00:30:08.700 they all go out

00:30:09.800 and just do a ton

00:30:10.840 of drugs and have

00:30:12.520 a a wide spectrum

00:30:14.020 of sexual partners

00:30:14.800 and enter into all

00:30:16.140 kinds of insane

00:30:16.900 behavior and then

00:30:17.880 they all just

00:30:18.680 eventually they

00:30:19.340 figure it out and

00:30:19.940 they come back and

00:30:20.580 it's fine right

00:30:21.220 that that's that's

00:30:22.340 kind of the story

00:30:22.960 that they needed to

00:30:23.640 tell themselves about

00:30:24.640 how human civilization

00:30:25.740 worked so they

00:30:26.980 could normalize

00:30:27.580 their own behavior

00:30:28.180 and and they had

00:30:29.680 some reason to

00:30:30.400 believe that because

00:30:31.260 when they came back

00:30:32.480 from kind of their

00:30:33.460 wild days uh from

00:30:34.960 their college days

00:30:35.600 there was still

00:30:36.460 enough of christian

00:30:37.600 culture for them

00:30:38.360 to come back and

00:30:39.080 settle into those

00:30:40.060 old patterns and

00:30:41.020 ways of being

00:30:41.560 without paying a

00:30:42.660 really significant

00:30:43.380 cost for some of

00:30:44.500 the things that

00:30:45.540 they did but that

00:30:47.920 wasn't true for

00:30:48.600 subsequent subsequent

00:30:49.920 generations right you

00:30:51.000 started to see

00:30:51.880 that uh the the

00:30:53.580 constant grind the

00:30:55.120 constant loss of

00:30:56.020 uh kind of intact

00:30:57.260 families the loss

00:30:58.680 of religion the

00:31:00.020 loss of uh real

00:31:01.600 communities the loss

00:31:02.840 of stable employment

00:31:04.020 and careers these

00:31:05.400 things started to

00:31:06.140 wear on subsequent

00:31:07.220 generations the

00:31:08.160 boomers still got

00:31:08.920 their pensions right

00:31:09.740 they're still set up

00:31:10.580 for social security

00:31:11.580 they get to retire

00:31:13.040 all those things

00:31:13.740 but gen x uh you

00:31:15.720 know the the

00:31:16.300 millennials uh all

00:31:18.080 these subsequent

00:31:18.700 generations they did

00:31:20.340 not and you could

00:31:21.060 start to see that

00:31:21.920 cultural wear wear

00:31:23.140 and tear that

00:31:23.940 that eventual

00:31:25.220 uh devolution of

00:31:27.000 institutions start

00:31:28.460 to cause real

00:31:29.460 problems you started

00:31:30.720 to see uh gen x

00:31:31.960 still mostly formed

00:31:33.020 families but they

00:31:33.920 didn't stay together

00:31:34.740 there was a there's

00:31:35.560 a real divorce

00:31:36.200 culture and then you

00:31:37.940 got to millennials

00:31:38.660 and many of them

00:31:39.660 started to fail to

00:31:41.360 form families they

00:31:42.420 failed to launch

00:31:43.520 careers uh millennials

00:31:44.980 are are kind of

00:31:45.880 famous for that

00:31:46.700 living with their

00:31:47.320 parents for too

00:31:48.060 long not being able

00:31:49.240 to find long-term

00:31:51.040 uh you know

00:31:52.280 stable marriages

00:31:53.460 not being able to

00:31:54.540 have children of

00:31:55.440 their own and now

00:31:56.340 we're seeing that

00:31:56.940 even more with

00:31:57.920 zoomers who are

00:31:58.680 starting to enter

00:31:59.340 into their you

00:32:01.540 know their marriage

00:32:02.280 years their what

00:32:03.340 used to be home

00:32:04.260 buying years and

00:32:05.000 career years uh

00:32:06.140 they're even further

00:32:06.940 behind and many of

00:32:08.120 them can't even

00:32:08.700 imagine owning a

00:32:09.920 home uh starting a

00:32:11.320 family is increasingly

00:32:12.380 an impossible dream

00:32:14.020 to some of these

00:32:14.720 people uh and so

00:32:16.700 uh you know they're

00:32:17.440 just these regular

00:32:18.140 patterns of life that

00:32:19.200 we assume were

00:32:20.460 kind of slowly

00:32:21.500 coming apart uh

00:32:22.980 the boomers thought

00:32:23.880 that this had

00:32:24.780 something to do

00:32:25.700 with you know the

00:32:26.820 fact that maybe the

00:32:27.840 the kids just weren't

00:32:28.900 getting up and

00:32:29.580 getting after it they

00:32:30.500 weren't pulling

00:32:30.960 themselves up by

00:32:32.240 their bootstraps

00:32:32.940 quite the same way

00:32:33.720 that they used to

00:32:34.440 again to their

00:32:35.320 credit there were

00:32:35.940 there were a

00:32:36.700 number of uh

00:32:38.400 boomers who did

00:32:39.160 see the decline of

00:32:40.040 christian culture as

00:32:40.840 a real problem

00:32:41.620 fought against it

00:32:42.900 especially again when

00:32:44.120 it came to

00:32:44.500 particular social

00:32:45.340 issues though they

00:32:46.380 still often had a

00:32:47.440 difficult time

00:32:48.240 understanding it as

00:32:49.800 a necessity of kind

00:32:50.640 of a wider defining

00:32:52.020 identity and more

00:32:53.540 importantly the need

00:32:54.620 to wrap your

00:32:55.340 institutions around

00:32:56.600 it if you want

00:32:57.320 families if you want

00:32:58.420 churches if you want

00:32:59.320 communities you have

00:33:00.360 to prioritize them

00:33:01.240 you have to

00:33:01.540 prioritize them over

00:33:02.420 economic growth you

00:33:03.180 have to prioritize

00:33:03.880 them over

00:33:04.660 individuality but the

00:33:06.380 the kind of the the

00:33:07.500 story of individuality

00:33:08.940 was more sacred even

00:33:10.680 to many boomers that

00:33:11.840 came back to

00:33:12.360 christianity than

00:33:13.800 maybe the actual

00:33:14.780 implications of the

00:33:15.740 christian faith that

00:33:16.460 they were re-embracing

00:33:17.540 and so they didn't

00:33:18.740 take care of many

00:33:19.900 of the systems that

00:33:20.960 were continuing to

00:33:22.340 deconstruct the very

00:33:23.340 culture in many

00:33:24.200 cases that they were

00:33:25.080 fighting to keep and

00:33:26.420 this brings me to the

00:33:27.980 actual boomer

00:33:28.820 eschatology i know i've

00:33:30.060 spent a lot of time

00:33:30.800 laying out the history

00:33:32.220 of the boomers but

00:33:33.000 here's the actual

00:33:33.780 boomer eschatology

00:33:34.840 right we hope you're

00:33:36.780 enjoying your air

00:33:37.380 canada flight

00:33:38.160 rocky's vacation here

00:33:39.780 we come whoa is

00:33:41.920 this economy free

00:33:43.400 beer wine and snacks

00:33:45.160 sweet fast free wi-fi

00:33:47.700 means i can make

00:33:48.400 dinner reservations

00:33:49.140 before we land and

00:33:50.960 with live tv i'm not

00:33:52.520 missing the game it's

00:33:54.040 kind of like i'm

00:33:55.100 already on vacation

00:33:56.300 nice on behalf of

00:33:59.040 air canada nice

00:34:00.180 travels wi-fi available

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00:34:05.800 because boomers lost

00:34:08.540 the identity of the

00:34:11.480 united states and we

00:34:12.720 it's not just the

00:34:13.640 united states we see

00:34:14.560 this in many western

00:34:15.620 countries but i'm

00:34:16.700 speaking specifically

00:34:17.480 of my own because

00:34:18.280 that's where i have

00:34:18.820 the most the most

00:34:20.020 experience because they

00:34:21.080 lost that identity and

00:34:22.200 they lost it

00:34:22.680 religiously they lost

00:34:23.780 it culturally they

00:34:24.640 lost it traditionally

00:34:26.080 they lost it all over

00:34:27.960 the place and because

00:34:29.100 they increasingly needed

00:34:30.240 to facilitate the

00:34:31.500 integration of of

00:34:33.300 large-scale

00:34:34.280 immigration they

00:34:35.640 needed to see the

00:34:36.600 the religious and

00:34:37.520 ethnic and cultural

00:34:38.460 makeup linguistic

00:34:39.780 makeup everything of

00:34:40.840 their country

00:34:41.480 increasingly had to

00:34:42.360 go ahead and govern

00:34:43.540 a much larger and

00:34:44.880 diverse amount of

00:34:45.500 people that didn't

00:34:46.360 have a shared moral

00:34:48.200 vision or cultural

00:34:49.220 coherence or identity

00:34:50.480 or any of these

00:34:51.180 things they needed to

00:34:52.920 deify something right

00:34:54.700 you need you needed

00:34:55.420 something that could

00:34:56.320 kind of hold the

00:34:57.360 united states together

00:34:58.220 and this is where i

00:34:59.440 think we saw a lot of

00:35:00.340 the deification of the

00:35:01.420 constitution okay well

00:35:02.980 we don't have a lot of

00:35:04.100 the culture that we

00:35:04.860 used to have we don't

00:35:05.520 have a lot of the

00:35:05.980 values we used to have

00:35:06.800 but but the the

00:35:08.640 constitution will hold

00:35:10.220 this together right

00:35:11.020 that will be the

00:35:11.740 thing the laws are

00:35:12.900 written down and

00:35:14.020 none of these new

00:35:14.920 attitudes none of

00:35:15.860 these new beliefs

00:35:16.580 none of these new

00:35:17.140 religions can change

00:35:19.020 that those things

00:35:19.980 will will be here in

00:35:20.940 perpetuity because

00:35:22.140 they're written down

00:35:22.900 and if they're written

00:35:23.420 down the constitution

00:35:24.360 then they're the law

00:35:26.060 and the law is supreme

00:35:27.680 right we're we're a

00:35:28.580 nation of of laws and

00:35:30.380 not not kings or

00:35:31.880 whatever rule of law

00:35:33.600 will somehow protect

00:35:34.800 us against all of this

00:35:35.720 and so they started to

00:35:36.860 deify the constitution

00:35:38.160 as as the main thing

00:35:39.440 that was going to

00:35:39.940 hold them together

00:35:40.760 they don't no longer

00:35:42.000 needed the the

00:35:42.940 classic elements of

00:35:44.060 nationhood or or or

00:35:46.200 moral religious cultural

00:35:48.200 traditional identity

00:35:49.460 they could just go ahead

00:35:50.500 and invest wholly in the

00:35:52.060 kind of this idea that

00:35:53.200 legal positivism

00:35:54.240 positivism would save

00:35:56.960 us from our increasingly

00:35:58.680 fracturing culture and

00:36:00.840 so they they started to

00:36:02.260 invest I think America's

00:36:03.500 institutions and the

00:36:05.200 existence of America

00:36:06.080 itself as kind of the

00:36:08.920 continuation of

00:36:10.580 Christianity as many

00:36:12.560 boomers I think

00:36:13.340 reinvigorated their faith

00:36:15.100 in Christianity because

00:36:16.040 they were scared about

00:36:17.520 kind of what was

00:36:18.140 happening to their

00:36:19.140 children and to their

00:36:20.640 families and to their

00:36:21.660 communities and to their

00:36:22.800 their nation at large

00:36:24.140 they they invested more

00:36:25.540 and more into their

00:36:26.020 Christian faith and they

00:36:27.600 needed to believe that

00:36:28.900 all of those institutions

00:36:30.060 that they had neglected

00:36:31.180 and they had left to kind

00:36:32.380 of die on the vine but

00:36:33.980 things that they have in

00:36:35.020 themselves in many cases

00:36:36.660 had torn back down back

00:36:38.240 when they were younger

00:36:38.980 they needed to believe

00:36:40.240 that those things would

00:36:41.000 continue on no matter

00:36:42.100 what and it wasn't so

00:36:43.480 much the even the

00:36:44.460 Christian faith that they

00:36:45.740 needed to continue it

00:36:46.980 was the American

00:36:48.040 institutions that they

00:36:49.420 needed to continue and

00:36:50.940 so American institutions

00:36:53.040 in many ways took on

00:36:55.240 the the same importance

00:36:57.180 of religious institutions

00:36:58.560 that these the

00:36:59.600 continued existence of

00:37:00.620 these things meant the

00:37:02.120 continued existence of

00:37:04.160 the culture that my

00:37:05.000 parents handed to me

00:37:06.300 but I didn't perpetuate

00:37:07.440 and I kind of rejected

00:37:08.300 but now I'm trying to

00:37:09.600 kind of revive in my

00:37:11.260 older age I'm trying to

00:37:12.480 embrace in my older age

00:37:13.620 I'm trying to defend at

00:37:15.560 this moment I think a

00:37:16.840 lot of them saw that and

00:37:18.300 and and that's why they

00:37:19.620 went ahead and started

00:37:20.380 investing that into the

00:37:22.720 the American institutions

00:37:24.620 and in this way this

00:37:26.240 became the end of

00:37:27.840 history for conservatives

00:37:29.620 conservatives for the

00:37:30.740 right the even history

00:37:32.120 was the idea that that

00:37:34.400 Christian America was

00:37:36.600 eternal that the

00:37:38.120 dominance of Christian

00:37:38.940 America especially again

00:37:40.180 after the defeat of the

00:37:41.560 Soviet Union meant that

00:37:43.160 this what this question

00:37:44.660 was solved obviously you

00:37:46.960 know that our American

00:37:48.680 way of life you heard

00:37:50.000 that phrase a lot the

00:37:50.880 American way of life was

00:37:52.840 going to be the thing

00:37:53.540 that was going to take

00:37:54.160 over the globe I think

00:37:54.840 globe this I think this is

00:37:56.120 why the rhetoric of George

00:37:57.400 W. Bush and others that

00:37:59.140 pushed the idea that

00:38:00.880 you know democracy was

00:38:02.240 was the universal

00:38:03.500 antidote to all problems

00:38:06.580 in the Middle East and

00:38:07.400 everywhere else it would

00:38:08.360 bloom like a flower across

00:38:09.660 the deserts of the

00:38:10.440 Middle East I think the

00:38:11.480 reason that was easy to

00:38:12.340 sell to the boomers was

00:38:14.580 that they really did

00:38:16.160 equate these ideas with

00:38:18.040 Christianity they conflated

00:38:20.120 them with Christianity and

00:38:22.180 so one of the things we've

00:38:24.480 seen with the rise of

00:38:26.080 Donald Trump is the large

00:38:29.180 amount of imbuing

00:38:30.240 Christian imagery into

00:38:31.760 Donald Trump now look

00:38:32.780 there's a lot of things

00:38:34.380 that you can say in favor

00:38:36.480 of Donald Trump and

00:38:37.800 there's a lot of things

00:38:38.560 that you can say against

00:38:39.980 Donald Trump and I will

00:38:40.980 do both of them Donald

00:38:42.280 Trump is a failure in many

00:38:43.860 areas but he's also the

00:38:45.700 only person who could do

00:38:46.740 certain things and so

00:38:48.380 there's there's praise and

00:38:49.720 failure you can heap on to

00:38:51.420 Donald Trump pretty much

00:38:52.460 to the end of days I'm not

00:38:53.660 here to defend Donald

00:38:55.080 Trump I'm not here to to

00:38:57.700 bury Donald Trump you

00:38:58.820 know I'm not I'm not here

00:38:59.900 to do that at least in

00:39:01.460 this in this talk but one

00:39:04.080 thing thing you have to

00:39:04.940 say about Donald Trump is

00:39:06.060 he's not the exemplar of

00:39:07.360 Christian virtue right he's

00:39:08.580 just not I don't think

00:39:10.140 Donald I think Donald

00:39:11.060 Trump's probably Christian I

00:39:12.480 really don't know like I

00:39:13.700 don't really know much

00:39:14.480 about his personal faith

00:39:15.340 but it's very clear that he

00:39:17.300 has lived a life that is

00:39:18.820 how we say not in a

00:39:20.460 court with certain parts

00:39:22.580 of Christianity and

00:39:23.680 that's okay we're all

00:39:25.000 sinners I am certainly

00:39:25.960 one we are saved by the

00:39:27.380 grace of God now not

00:39:29.000 through our own

00:39:30.140 goodness I am no more

00:39:32.120 worthy of that than

00:39:32.900 Donald Trump but to be

00:39:35.000 clear Donald Trump often

00:39:36.120 does not conduct himself

00:39:37.240 as someone who feels the

00:39:39.900 weight of kind of

00:39:41.260 Christian morality bearing

00:39:44.220 down on his decision and

00:39:45.980 yet a lot of boomers have

00:39:47.800 injected a lot of

00:39:49.240 Christian imagery into

00:39:50.920 Donald faith they've

00:39:52.780 they've they've made him

00:39:53.920 the exemplar of kind of

00:39:56.320 the the Christian cause

00:39:57.700 right even though he's

00:39:58.820 very obviously not

00:40:00.520 someone who takes that

00:40:02.040 particular mantle very

00:40:03.900 seriously and they seem

00:40:06.200 to have done this I think

00:40:07.640 because they they

00:40:09.800 recognize correctly and

00:40:11.300 this is something that

00:40:11.940 Donald Trump did do to

00:40:13.100 his credit that that

00:40:14.760 Donald Trump awakens

00:40:15.920 something about American

00:40:17.360 identity that other

00:40:19.120 politicians even GOP

00:40:21.160 politicians would not

00:40:22.400 touch with a thousand

00:40:23.180 people I think that one

00:40:24.940 of the reasons the left

00:40:25.860 hates him one of the

00:40:26.760 reasons the press hates

00:40:27.680 him one of the reasons

00:40:28.860 and I know a lot of

00:40:29.960 people will scream at me

00:40:30.920 somewhere DeSantis

00:40:31.540 report you know

00:40:32.680 supporters are screaming

00:40:33.360 at me that no one

00:40:34.080 fears Trump but I think

00:40:35.160 a lot of the reason that

00:40:36.100 the media reacts the way

00:40:37.320 I think a lot of

00:40:38.040 Democrats react the way

00:40:38.880 they do to Trump is they

00:40:40.020 really do feel like he

00:40:40.960 touched the live wire of

00:40:42.280 American identity in a

00:40:43.340 very real way and and

00:40:45.940 part of that is

00:40:46.680 Christianity no matter

00:40:48.280 how people feel about

00:40:49.140 that and so when when

00:40:51.400 he touched that live

00:40:52.240 wire and boomers felt

00:40:54.120 that right and they

00:40:55.400 said look someone's

00:40:56.160 actually fighting for

00:40:57.380 the good of my my

00:40:58.280 country again they're

00:40:59.080 actually looking to

00:41:00.320 return to an American

00:41:01.940 identity that I

00:41:02.920 recognize one of the

00:41:04.480 things that they added

00:41:05.200 to that was the

00:41:06.140 revival of American

00:41:07.860 Christianity the the

00:41:09.140 prominence of American

00:41:10.380 Christianity in the

00:41:11.780 American identity and

00:41:13.160 so even though Donald

00:41:13.800 Trump is in no way I

00:41:15.260 think really an

00:41:16.040 exemplar of that

00:41:17.400 identity they made

00:41:18.580 him one because that

00:41:19.620 was part of the

00:41:20.360 American identity

00:41:22.020 especially the ones

00:41:23.140 that boomers

00:41:23.920 remembered and that's

00:41:25.180 something that they

00:41:25.660 wanted to return back

00:41:26.640 to and they kind of

00:41:27.980 impose that super

00:41:29.120 impose that on Donald

00:41:30.220 Trump and again I'm not

00:41:31.320 even saying that's a

00:41:31.900 bad thing I think

00:41:32.600 that's just a thing

00:41:33.920 that people do right I

00:41:35.280 think that in many

00:41:36.540 ways a great man

00:41:37.800 history is true that

00:41:39.960 that great men do drive

00:41:41.780 history and they do

00:41:42.500 things that other

00:41:43.020 people wouldn't do and

00:41:44.200 they create situations

00:41:45.380 and grab a hold of

00:41:46.760 movements that other

00:41:47.440 people couldn't grab a

00:41:48.220 hold of but I do also

00:41:49.740 believe that trends and

00:41:50.680 forces have a very

00:41:51.700 serious impact on

00:41:54.000 people I think that

00:41:54.900 many people are caught

00:41:56.120 in a political moment

00:41:57.620 and while a great man

00:41:59.380 needs to step to that

00:42:00.780 political moment to

00:42:01.700 completely culminate that

00:42:04.060 movement I think that

00:42:04.920 world world historical

00:42:06.680 forces and political

00:42:08.380 trends do find you know

00:42:11.060 themselves working on

00:42:12.380 particular people and I

00:42:13.340 think Donald Trump is

00:42:14.680 one of those people

00:42:15.240 maybe the most unworthy

00:42:17.900 of people for that to

00:42:19.320 happen to but he is

00:42:20.640 nevertheless one of

00:42:21.480 those and that's just a

00:42:22.200 political reality

00:42:23.040 something I try to

00:42:23.860 explain to a lot of

00:42:25.020 people who don't like

00:42:25.660 Donald Trump but

00:42:26.380 oftentimes they have a

00:42:27.400 hard time understanding

00:42:28.300 that but but whether

00:42:31.000 you think this is good

00:42:31.720 or bad I think this is

00:42:32.800 just true and so for a

00:42:34.980 lot of the the the

00:42:36.840 boomers I think the

00:42:37.960 reason that they have a

00:42:38.960 hard time understanding

00:42:40.920 that a post-Christian

00:42:42.260 America or post-America

00:42:43.900 world could exist is

00:42:45.740 that they have so much

00:42:46.940 tied the American

00:42:49.360 experience and American

00:42:51.060 institutions into their

00:42:53.740 spiritual beliefs and

00:42:55.140 they can't imagine a

00:42:56.440 world where Christianity

00:42:58.100 is reduced to a

00:42:59.500 minority faith or where

00:43:01.360 America is reduced to a

00:43:03.080 you know one of just

00:43:04.180 many players or maybe

00:43:05.580 even a smaller player on

00:43:07.960 the world stage they

00:43:09.080 can't imagine that and

00:43:10.220 so the for them the

00:43:11.460 end of America or the

00:43:13.300 end of Christian

00:43:13.960 America is the end of

00:43:15.860 the world Christ the

00:43:17.420 only the only way that

00:43:18.780 America could end or

00:43:20.460 the only way that

00:43:21.120 Christian America could

00:43:22.260 end is literally the

00:43:24.040 return of Christ no

00:43:25.860 nothing else could bring

00:43:26.780 this about and that's

00:43:27.680 why they didn't feel

00:43:28.300 the need I think to

00:43:29.740 fight many of these

00:43:31.000 things I think I think

00:43:32.160 ultimately in a lot of

00:43:33.380 ways this is a

00:43:34.440 justification for

00:43:35.280 inaction right I don't

00:43:36.740 have to take action

00:43:37.960 to protect my faith I

00:43:41.280 don't have to take

00:43:41.840 action to protect my

00:43:43.240 country I don't have to

00:43:44.060 take I don't have to

00:43:45.040 take action if people

00:43:46.920 are trying to change the

00:43:47.900 identity and the way

00:43:49.240 the traditions and the

00:43:50.520 way of being of my of

00:43:52.420 my country and my

00:43:53.760 culture I don't have to

00:43:54.860 do these things because

00:43:56.120 they're they're eternal

00:43:57.000 they're protected by the

00:43:57.840 Constitution and the

00:43:59.280 only way they would ever

00:43:59.980 go away is if Christ

00:44:01.320 returned right like

00:44:02.220 ultimately God will

00:44:03.740 will simply make the

00:44:04.800 United States Christian

00:44:05.880 again or will make the

00:44:07.320 United States preeminent

00:44:08.640 again as if it was

00:44:10.080 somewhere in Revelation

00:44:11.040 right like if it's you

00:44:12.260 could quote chapter and

00:44:13.720 verse where the trumpets

00:44:16.040 are blown and America is

00:44:17.460 the one that kind of

00:44:18.340 ushers in the return of

00:44:20.720 Christ on on his throne

00:44:21.880 and so I think a lot of

00:44:24.280 them use this as the

00:44:25.580 reason again that they

00:44:26.820 didn't have to pass down

00:44:28.040 their heritage I don't

00:44:28.620 have to work that hard to

00:44:29.660 make sure that my kids

00:44:30.940 are Christian I don't have

00:44:31.760 to make work that hard to

00:44:33.000 make sure that my

00:44:34.000 community is Christian I

00:44:35.840 don't have to make work

00:44:37.040 that hard to make my

00:44:38.460 society hold to a

00:44:40.660 particular tradition I

00:44:43.940 don't have to do any of

00:44:45.000 this I don't have to do

00:44:45.600 any of the hard work I

00:44:46.560 don't have to be called

00:44:47.080 me names I don't I don't

00:44:48.640 have to to get my hands

00:44:50.160 dirty because ultimately

00:44:51.300 the only way that kind of

00:44:54.200 America could stop being

00:44:55.300 Christian or America could

00:44:56.720 stop being the most

00:44:57.640 powerful country in the

00:44:58.260 world is if the world

00:44:59.200 literally and so when I

00:45:01.080 talk about boomer

00:45:01.860 eschatology that's what

00:45:03.740 I'm talking about is

00:45:04.760 this this attitude that

00:45:06.720 we don't we didn't

00:45:07.460 really need to take an

00:45:08.340 active role in this or

00:45:10.100 we didn't really have to

00:45:10.780 do the work or if we

00:45:12.100 failed at this it's not

00:45:12.980 really a problem because

00:45:14.140 ultimately you know that

00:45:15.600 the only way that these

00:45:16.620 things could really

00:45:17.200 disappear the only way

00:45:18.480 the Constitution could

00:45:19.360 ever no longer secure

00:45:22.440 these freedoms or protect

00:45:24.680 us as a Christian nation

00:45:25.700 is if literally just the

00:45:27.220 world ends and and so I

00:45:29.000 don't have to take any

00:45:29.980 particular action because

00:45:30.860 ultimately God will kind

00:45:33.320 of involve himself there

00:45:34.840 will be a divine

00:45:35.880 intervention to make sure

00:45:37.300 that my country is the

00:45:39.640 is the very last one my

00:45:41.880 my kind of religious

00:45:43.660 generation is the very

00:45:44.600 last one again it is a

00:45:45.640 very boomer mindset like I

00:45:47.600 the world ends with me

00:45:48.720 right and so once I'm

00:45:51.020 gone you know that that's

00:45:53.020 it and so I think that is

00:45:54.640 very much the way that that

00:45:57.320 a lot of people thought

00:45:59.800 about this and so I just

00:46:01.240 wanted to bring up that

00:46:01.880 concept guys because I

00:46:03.620 think it does rule a lot

00:46:05.680 of the way that many

00:46:06.580 people understand America

00:46:07.740 and and that is is a huge

00:46:10.300 problem I think it's going

00:46:11.400 away to a large extent

00:46:13.180 which is good but I do

00:46:14.660 think it had a serious a

00:46:16.340 serious impact on the way

00:46:17.660 that politics was done on

00:46:18.940 the right in conservative

00:46:20.480 circles in Republican

00:46:21.600 circles for a very long

00:46:22.720 time all right so the

00:46:23.840 other thing I wanted to do

00:46:24.800 was play this clip from

00:46:26.780 a Supreme Court hearing

00:46:28.440 here recently the Supreme

00:46:30.440 Court has been hearing a

00:46:31.380 number of cases and of

00:46:32.880 course Kintaji Brown

00:46:33.920 Jackson is is one of the

00:46:36.380 justices often the most

00:46:37.980 embarrassing justice on

00:46:39.980 the bench and she said

00:46:41.600 this during during a case

00:46:43.820 that they were hearing

00:46:44.400 recently this Jackson so

00:46:46.400 my biggest concern is that

00:46:48.320 your view has the first

00:46:50.480 amendment hamstringing the

00:46:52.460 government in significant

00:46:53.880 ways in the most important

00:46:56.400 time periods I mean what

00:46:59.520 would what would you have

00:47:00.360 the government do I've

00:47:01.260 heard you say a couple

00:47:02.100 times that the government

00:47:03.600 can post its own speech but

00:47:05.580 in my hypothetical you know

00:47:07.740 kids this is not safe don't

00:47:09.660 do it is not going to get it

00:47:11.580 done and so I guess some

00:47:15.600 might say that the

00:47:16.600 government actually has a

00:47:17.820 duty to take steps to

00:47:20.960 protect the citizens of this

00:47:22.360 country and you seem to be

00:47:23.680 suggesting that that duty

00:47:25.120 cannot manifest itself in the

00:47:27.340 government encouraging or

00:47:29.260 even pressuring platforms to

00:47:32.120 take down harmful

00:47:33.160 information so can you help me

00:47:35.680 because I'm really I'm really

00:47:37.180 worried about that because

00:47:39.400 you've got the first amendment

00:47:40.540 operating in an environment of

00:47:43.600 threatening circumstances from

00:47:45.880 the government's perspective and

00:47:47.260 you're saying that the

00:47:48.040 government can't interact with

00:47:50.440 the source of those problems

00:47:52.960 and your honor I understand

00:47:54.720 so this is an amazing thing

00:47:58.000 right it's amazing quote a lot

00:47:59.320 of people heard this and thought

00:48:01.620 that this was just wild that a

00:48:03.140 supreme court justice would say

00:48:04.600 this that anyone that anyone

00:48:07.040 would voice these opinions out

00:48:08.920 loud and this kind of the beauty

00:48:11.100 of I guess the beauty and sadness

00:48:14.560 of degenerating elites they often

00:48:17.200 start saying the things that they

00:48:18.620 have been thinking for a very long

00:48:19.980 time and they just say them out

00:48:21.640 loud as if they're obvious

00:48:22.940 argument because this is what

00:48:24.160 they've been saying to

00:48:24.840 themselves for a very long time

00:48:26.340 it's what they've been saying in

00:48:27.680 their law schools and they're in

00:48:29.140 their in their college classrooms

00:48:30.760 women they've been saying in the

00:48:31.920 boardrooms and the activist

00:48:33.160 meetings this is what the left

00:48:34.620 really believes to be very clear

00:48:36.460 this is what pretty much every

00:48:38.000 leftist really believes and

00:48:40.360 unfortunately even many

00:48:41.760 establishment you know kind of

00:48:43.720 neocons and such at this point

00:48:45.060 this is what they believe and

00:48:47.740 they're they're just saying it

00:48:48.880 out loud they're just finally

00:48:50.180 saying what had been the quiet

00:48:51.840 part out loud to to use the

00:48:53.520 famous phrase because they're just

00:48:55.640 getting dumb and not not just that

00:48:58.280 they're getting dumb though they are

00:48:59.260 getting dumber but also because

00:49:01.300 this argument has been made among

00:49:04.560 very smart people or what they think

00:49:06.620 are very smart people elites and

00:49:08.660 elite institutions to you know this

00:49:10.800 argument has been made amongst the

00:49:12.000 many times and so they feel that

00:49:15.040 the the answer is obvious this is

00:49:16.720 like the really stupid reddit

00:49:18.300 right the really stupid reddit

00:49:19.920 atheist who has made they're like

00:49:22.000 but have you guys ever thought

00:49:23.740 about the fact that there's pain in

00:49:26.000 the world and pain is bad and

00:49:27.840 therefore God can't exist because

00:49:29.980 he's all powerful pain wouldn't

00:49:31.400 exist as if there wasn't a large

00:49:33.560 body as if the the problem of the

00:49:35.940 odyssey had never existed no you

00:49:39.180 know CS Lewis had never written the

00:49:40.360 problem of pain no no no major

00:49:42.520 scholars or you know doctors of the

00:49:44.660 church no philosophers you know

00:49:47.680 none of the church fathers had ever

00:49:49.600 thought about this they're the first

00:49:51.020 person to ever bring this up thanks

00:49:52.420 man because they've only ever had

00:49:54.200 these conversations amongst

00:49:55.320 themselves and they think they're

00:49:56.940 very smart and so on on a 13 year

00:49:59.300 old reddit reddit atheist forum

00:50:01.400 that seems like a really good

00:50:02.920 argument and so you'll still hear

00:50:04.300 people like Sam Harris just blurt this

00:50:06.400 out as if no one has ever countered

00:50:08.980 this argument and the same thing is

00:50:11.640 happening here a lot of people in

00:50:13.980 these circles have thought exactly

00:50:15.440 this for a very long time and they've

00:50:17.880 circulated this idea and it goes

00:50:19.880 around MSNBC and it goes around NPR

00:50:22.940 and it gets circulated in a bunch of

00:50:25.060 books and that leftists read and so

00:50:27.760 eventually one of them just blurts this

00:50:29.820 stupid stuff out like yeah this is just

00:50:33.060 obvious of course this is a good

00:50:34.520 argument all of my leftist friends

00:50:36.480 agree with it right and and all of a

00:50:38.540 sudden the right it says what what are

00:50:40.520 you talking about like this is very

00:50:41.860 obviously wrong but you need to

00:50:43.740 understand this is not obviously wrong

00:50:45.220 so what is she saying here well she's

00:50:47.120 saying that the first amendment is a

00:50:49.380 bit of a problem for her she's concerned

00:50:52.100 about it she is worried that the first

00:50:55.340 amendment might hinder might might put a

00:50:57.720 little hitch in the government's plan to

00:51:01.100 moderate what you can say the first

00:51:04.080 amendment is is something to consider

00:51:07.240 among many other considerations it's not

00:51:10.160 something that is paramount it's not

00:51:12.240 something that has incredible force it's

00:51:15.900 not an a priori assumption that we can

00:51:18.320 we can rest upon and then make all of

00:51:21.200 our decisions on it's just one of many

00:51:23.040 viewpoints that's up for discussion and

00:51:25.940 everyone on the right's like oh this is

00:51:27.920 crazy how could you say this but of

00:51:29.640 course you can say this excuse me and

00:51:32.000 you can say this for exactly the reason

00:51:33.660 that i discussed right

00:51:34.640 constitutions are only held

00:51:38.020 in force they're only in force their own

00:51:41.300 they only hold back government power to

00:51:44.160 the extent to which they are a reflection

00:51:47.460 of the general attitude the general moral

00:51:50.220 understanding of the people the

00:51:53.260 constitution did not make america

00:51:55.200 americans made the constitution and this

00:51:58.580 is always true constitutions never make

00:52:01.200 peoples peoples make constitution and so

00:52:04.980 when you no longer have the same

00:52:08.000 culture the same tradition when your

00:52:10.740 tradition and your culture and your

00:52:12.400 identity is just one of many in a large

00:52:15.400 melting pot what one of many stories and

00:52:20.360 narratives that is vying for you know

00:52:23.740 control and vying to be heard in your

00:52:26.260 democratic process then it starts to lose

00:52:29.600 its force right it starts to lose its

00:52:32.120 ability to hold things together and even

00:52:34.560 though that truth is written down in a

00:52:36.500 constitution somewhere it's immortalized in

00:52:38.900 your first amendment the meaning and force

00:52:41.660 of that first amendment is actually not

00:52:44.100 self-evident that that's one thing that

00:52:47.500 people don't understand the only reason

00:52:49.480 that truths could be self-evident as

00:52:51.800 they're cited in the declaration of

00:52:53.280 independence is that you have a shared

00:52:55.240 moral vision you have a shared culture you

00:52:58.140 have a shared understanding of the world

00:53:00.400 around you and if you do not share those

00:53:02.820 things then those truths cannot be self-evident

00:53:05.780 and so while it may seem clear to you that

00:53:08.980 the first amendment allows people to speak

00:53:11.220 and the government doesn't have the ability

00:53:14.140 to go ahead and censor them and that is the

00:53:16.080 obvious and clear in direct meaning of the

00:53:19.220 first amendment that is not clear to other

00:53:22.360 people it is not self-evident and it doesn't

00:53:25.160 matter how clear the language is right a lot

00:53:27.060 of people pretend like it's all about the

00:53:28.940 language of the constitution only the

00:53:30.800 second amendment had been more clear if

00:53:32.580 only you know they hadn't thrown in the

00:53:34.620 elastic clause or the commerce clause or

00:53:36.800 any of these things they wouldn't have been

00:53:38.800 able to manipulate the constitution wrong

00:53:40.920 wrong it's not the language of the

00:53:43.480 constitution that's the problem it's the

00:53:45.840 people interpreting the constitution that's

00:53:47.840 the problem if you have people who don't

00:53:50.600 care about your tradition they will make

00:53:52.620 the words on paper say whatever they want

00:53:54.560 them to me and that is very clear is very

00:53:58.000 clear that Jackson does not care about the

00:54:00.680 intent of the first amendment he does not

00:54:02.860 care about the tradition of the force

00:54:04.520 amendment just not care about the moral

00:54:06.760 the moral force of the first amendment she

00:54:09.560 does not care a culture that can redefine

00:54:13.040 marriage a culture that can redefine what the

00:54:15.120 words man and woman mean can certainly

00:54:17.480 redefine the first amendment that is small

00:54:20.580 ball compared to what has already been

00:54:22.980 been redefined in the united states so of

00:54:26.380 course she has no problem redefining the

00:54:28.680 first amendment of course she thinks that

00:54:30.540 the first amendment is just one of many

00:54:32.400 arguments that's being put forward and the

00:54:34.880 safety and security of the people the

00:54:36.700 ability of the government to go ahead and

00:54:39.700 get rid of disinformation and misinformation

00:54:42.140 is just as valid as the rights secured in the

00:54:45.320 first amendment of course she believes that

00:54:46.760 she has no interest in the tradition that

00:54:50.380 actually holds the first amendment

00:54:51.880 sacrosanct she is completely unconnected

00:54:54.980 from the tradition the moral vision the

00:54:58.140 history and understanding that would make

00:55:00.120 the first amendment what it is and we have

00:55:02.780 allowed this to happen we thought that

00:55:05.700 simply the words on paper were the critical

00:55:07.840 thing and not the culture and not the

00:55:10.040 morality not the religion not the tradition

00:55:12.960 not any of these other things it's just the

00:55:14.880 word the legal parchment is what will secure

00:55:18.760 your rights and we were very very wrong and

00:55:21.680 now we are paying the price for that so we

00:55:23.920 shouldn't be surprised when someone like

00:55:26.980 Jackson says the obvious thing that most

00:55:30.660 leftists actually believe was that the

00:55:32.680 first amendment doesn't really matter and

00:55:34.480 that the concerns that the regime has about

00:55:37.420 information and what people are saying and

00:55:39.740 the safety of the people you know whatever is

00:55:42.820 is paramount and not the first amendment we

00:55:46.040 should not be surprised at that at all we

00:55:47.720 created a culture that no longer cared about

00:55:49.980 these things and the words on the paper will

00:55:52.000 not save you constitution is not magic it is it is

00:55:56.080 it is not a sacred document sorry like it does

00:56:00.880 not have the force that you want it to have the

00:56:03.620 only reason it had a force in the first place is

00:56:06.720 that God had written out of the hearts of an

00:56:08.280 American people the importance of these things the

00:56:14.260 importance of these truths the importance of

00:56:15.920 these values and as soon as you changed those

00:56:20.280 people as soon as you disassociated the populace of

00:56:25.440 America and the identity of America from the

00:56:28.700 traditions that brought you the first amendment you

00:56:32.200 were inevitably going to get the deconstruction of the

00:56:34.140 first amendment it was only a matter of time and the

00:56:37.200 fact that they have deconstructed far more important

00:56:39.360 things again like what a woman is and what a marriage

00:56:43.040 is should have put you on notice that your

00:56:46.420 constitutional rights would be next and there would

00:56:48.960 be no more protection for those constitutional rights

00:56:51.880 than there were for the definitions of things that have

00:56:54.120 literally existed since the dawn of time since the

00:56:57.740 entirety of human social formation if those things can be

00:57:04.760 redefined then certainly the first amendment can be

00:57:06.940 redefined and so it is being redefined by people like

00:57:11.300 Jackson and it will continue to be until you realize that

00:57:15.560 this is a critical aspect all right guys we're going to go

00:57:18.340 ahead and transfer over to the questions of the people here

00:57:21.020 real quick creeper weirdo says I'm going to ask this nicely

00:57:24.620 as I can is a boomer is boomer a DR buzzword it feels like a

00:57:30.040 buzzword to me also you can't blame your dad forever guys this is

00:57:33.520 true right I actually already did a stream about this I already

00:57:36.600 did a stream about you know you're the boomer now and why you

00:57:40.220 can't solely blame boomers for everything it doesn't mean that

00:57:43.140 they aren't liable for a number of things it doesn't mean that

00:57:46.120 there isn't blame that is fairly placed on a generation but we

00:57:49.980 cannot sit here and blame our parents forever or in this case

00:57:53.960 probably our grandparents for many of you and so I think

00:57:57.300 that's absolutely true however no it's not it's not a buzzword

00:58:00.100 this is in pretty pretty common usage if you talk to anyone

00:58:04.040 especially younger generations they don't actually link it to

00:58:06.800 the boomer generation they just like it to anyone older than

00:58:09.000 them uh so for instance I am most certainly a boomer uh to a

00:58:12.400 large number of uh you know kind of uh gen z-ers and and

00:58:16.220 beyond creepy ruda says uh you're gonna have to talk to doug

00:58:19.980 wilson eventually oran it's gonna happen also you mixed up uh taking

00:58:23.580 for granted and uh letting go of uh sorry I don't know the the

00:58:28.500 second reference there uh somewhere in the talk uh but yeah

00:58:31.740 yeah I've seen doug wilson uh some of his videos and those

00:58:34.420 things I'd be happy to have a conversation with doug eventually he

00:58:37.600 actually ended up reviewing uh one of my videos at some point

00:58:40.320 seemed to like it so I'd be more than happy to talk to him

00:58:42.560 eventually just haven't put that together yet uh reese says uh thanks for

00:58:46.700 the stream okay thank you very much I appreciate that appreciate the

00:58:49.700 support guys always nice to have you guys come by get to do

00:58:52.700 these live uh florida henry says growing up in the 70s and 80s

00:58:57.160 states and counties were fighting back this was pushed by the courts tv

00:59:01.900 corporations and public schools boomers were garbage waiting for your

00:59:04.980 audiobook well thank you very much uh yeah obviously the book is uh is

00:59:09.280 coming out in may uh may 7th I have heard that there is going to be an

00:59:14.040 audiobook but it's still uh in the works so I can't give you any more

00:59:17.400 information on that uh and yes like you said uh there were absolutely

00:59:20.980 people pushing back in the 70s and 80s again I do believe that this is an elite

00:59:24.980 phenomenon as most uh cultural transformations are so this was most

00:59:28.920 definitely being pushed down by entertainment large corporations courts

00:59:32.320 and things like that you're 100 correct about that but of course the question

00:59:35.940 is uh why did the generations uh there still make that transition I think you're

00:59:41.780 right that there were people pushing back that's why I made sure to give credit

00:59:44.760 to that but I do think overall there is a a large degree of cope as to just kind of

00:59:50.000 how that came about uh that still exists in the wider populace

00:59:53.220 uh perspicacious heretic says maybe it's actually the boomers

00:59:57.820 getting put away uh yeah I mean to to some extent I pro that's probably true

01:00:03.100 your uh boomer boomer truth regime I believe as uh AA calls it uh is is most

01:00:09.060 certainly facing uh the uh the possibility of being put away

01:00:12.640 uh let's see uh laws and uh like Kurgis says Trump was a clown show in our minds

01:00:18.780 until he spoke about topics and that parties uh refused to since that was his

01:00:25.120 road to victory everything else was just show yeah I would absolutely agree with

01:00:28.660 that right for the most part it was very clownish it was very cartoonish

01:00:32.500 there's a reason a lot of people didn't take him seriously uh at the beginning

01:00:36.000 however it was his uh his uh ability and willingness to discuss things that you

01:00:41.160 weren't supposed to or weren't allowed to discuss that really gave him his

01:00:44.700 momentum uh even though he didn't always do that well and even though he didn't

01:00:47.940 even follow up on many of those things it was simply his willingness to do that

01:00:52.020 and his willingness to kind of attack I think the people that attacked much of

01:00:55.500 middle America uh that that gained him the following that he received even

01:00:59.980 though in many ways he was very cartoonish uh let's see here Cooper

01:01:04.620 says but Oren uh someone might say the inward and pwned yes that is the most

01:01:09.560 dangerous thing that could ever happen uh that that is the ultimate sin and the

01:01:13.260 one thing that can never happen everyone must be terrified of that at all times

01:01:16.580 uh let's see uh tiny stupid demon says uh institutional capture means we can stop

01:01:24.200 lying and start saying the quiet part out loud yes in many cases that's that's true

01:01:28.820 right we now that the left feels like they control all these institutions uh they no

01:01:33.400 longer have to play the game they don't have to give uh any any uh credit to the

01:01:38.500 old narrative the united states the old civic religion the old political formula

01:01:42.760 of the constitution and and the founding and those things and instead they can just

01:01:47.560 go ahead and say what they mean I think you're right that that's a

01:01:50.360 huge reason we're seeing a big shift in language

01:01:53.600 uh Daedalus says uh when I am weaker than you I ask for freedom because that is

01:01:59.860 according to your principles when I am stronger than you I take away your freedom

01:02:03.240 because that is according to my principles yes that's a very powerful

01:02:07.380 truth uh many people link that to dune it does appear uh Frank Herbert and dune

01:02:11.900 however I think he got that from another from a journalist of some type but yeah

01:02:16.680 either way that's certainly the the place most people know that quote from is

01:02:20.480 from dune and it is both powerful and true uh law says again here the values of

01:02:26.100 freedom and equality uh come from the merchant class to see everyone as a

01:02:29.800 customer and desire the freedom to sell and go without opposition yeah in many

01:02:34.140 ways that's true right these are things that are

01:02:36.460 uh liberal values because uh liberalism is in many ways uh the the kind of

01:02:42.820 political theory or rather the uh the larger uh moral and and uh political

01:02:48.760 understanding of uh capitalism right these are things that make kind of make

01:02:53.160 capitalism run and that's why uh liberalism became kind of this dominant

01:02:57.920 force because it kind of had to go and and make uh different nations ready for

01:03:03.060 kind of the capitalist project uh and therefore kind of the merchant

01:03:06.800 class and so I think that's that's right though to be fair

01:03:10.120 uh freedom and liberty are things that people use

01:03:13.300 interchangeably and I think that's that's dangerous

01:03:16.080 uh many ancient peoples understood the the importance of liberty uh thought of

01:03:21.660 themselves as free people in the sense of of having liberty uh but I think

01:03:26.080 that we have kind of destroyed that word uh in many ways made that a purely

01:03:30.380 economic or or more morally relativistic uh thing instead of something that uh

01:03:37.220 kind of the average person understands as a a way to exist where you are not

01:03:43.300 influenced by uh kind of the rule of foreign people

01:03:46.060 which is more what it meant previously uh Seneca says the cycle of regimes when the

01:03:51.400 people leave their founding principles they are doomed to destruction yeah I think

01:03:55.520 that's that's very true I think that you know cyclical history especially when

01:04:01.080 it comes to the rise and fall of different civilizations different empires is

01:04:06.180 largely correct uh and I think that uh many people assume that we were not going

01:04:10.980 to be subject to this uh but we are and that was that was part of the boomer

01:04:16.280 eschatology as well that uh the the United States would be eternal in a way that other

01:04:20.460 nations had not been uh because we were at the end of history uh and then uh law says

01:04:26.420 one more time liberalism was written by philosophers and merchants and again very

01:04:31.120 very hard to argue that point all right guys we're gonna go ahead and wrap this up thank

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - March 20, 2024

Boomer Eschatology ｜ 3⧸20⧸24

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