The Auron MacIntyre Show - Can the Anti-Woke Coalition Hold？｜ Guest： Seamus Coughlin ｜ 5⧸26⧸23

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00:00:30.360 Hey, everybody. How's it going?

00:00:32.180 Thanks for joining me this afternoon.

00:00:33.820 I've got a great stream with a great guest that I think you're really going to enjoy.

00:00:38.580 So I wanted to go ahead and bring on Seamus Coughlin.

00:00:42.020 He is, of course, the creator of Freedom Tunes and a regular over at TimCast.

00:00:46.260 Seamus, thanks for coming on.

00:00:47.520 Yeah, thank you so much for having me.

00:00:50.000 I was very glad to do this.

00:00:52.020 You did my podcast a few months ago.

00:00:53.460 And I remember I met Aaron on TimCast about a year ago at this point.

00:00:58.200 Yeah, and a lot of what you were saying really resonated with me because I think that on TimCast, we do have a wide variety of guests, which is great.

00:01:05.840 And I think that's why the show works.

00:01:07.120 But a lot of the more conservative guests tend to be more in the mainstream.

00:01:14.220 And that's not so much by design as it is the fact that there are more public figures available with those political leanings.

00:01:21.740 Part of what's great about TimCast is we do bring so many people on who have views outside of the status quo.

00:01:27.440 And I remember when I was having a conversation with you on the show and then after the show, I thought, OK, I love what this guy is doing.

00:01:34.460 And we've been talking about doing each other's podcast since then.

00:01:37.920 And so I'm glad that I'm finally getting a chance to do yours.

00:01:40.740 No, man. Yeah, I really appreciate that.

00:01:42.720 Of course, there's a great opportunity.

00:01:44.000 And I was surprised as anyone when I got that first invite over to TimCast.

00:01:47.920 But it was great meeting you at that first episode.

00:01:50.040 And like I said, both had a good time.

00:01:52.260 So I think it's going to be a great conversation.

00:01:54.440 But before we get started, actually, you know, I don't think I've ever really heard your story.

00:01:59.760 Could you tell everybody a little bit kind of were you always interested in animation?

00:02:04.100 Was that a passion? Were you a comedian growing up or is these things you kind of grew into?

00:02:08.340 Yeah, absolutely. So I always loved animation.

00:02:11.100 I always wanted to be a cartoonist and an animator, but I was always strongly interested in politics.

00:02:15.340 And as a kid, I very much wondered which path am I going to pick?

00:02:18.160 I knew I wanted to do animation.

00:02:19.880 I also knew that I wanted to change the culture or at least try to do what I could to change the culture

00:02:24.280 because basically everything that I saw on television was completely antithetical to my values,

00:02:29.260 even when it was entertaining.

00:02:30.620 I thought someone needs to make things that are funny, that are entertaining, that are engaging,

00:02:34.740 but that instead of always taking cheap shots at the right, will either A, just tell a story

00:02:38.840 or B, when it doesn't want to take cheap shots, take some of them at the left every now and again.

00:02:43.080 And so when I was about 12, I started teaching myself to animate.

00:02:47.620 And I started freelancing probably at 13, 14 on the side.

00:02:53.240 And then when I graduated high school, I started a small business in animation production.

00:02:59.020 When I was 20 on the side, what I began doing was just uploading these short little political

00:03:03.960 cartoons that I made to a YouTube channel that I'd created when I was in high school that had

00:03:08.180 maybe 100 subscribers at the time.

00:03:09.920 And this was not my main bread and butter.

00:03:14.180 This was not the thing I intended to make any kind of a living off of.

00:03:17.940 It was just sort of like a receptacle for my angry rants in animated form when I felt a need

00:03:24.120 to vent or when there was something I needed to make fun of.

00:03:27.200 And after doing this a few times, I changed the name of the channel to Freedom Tunes.

00:03:33.780 And I've just been hacking away at that ever since.

00:03:36.800 I've been very blessed to have many different opportunities come up.

00:03:38.900 So the business has grown along with Freedom Tunes.

00:03:41.060 And now we're in the direction of just creating educational political cartoons and political

00:03:46.540 satire for different Catholic, Christian, or conservative organizations.

00:03:50.400 And then the main heart of the business is still this YouTube channel uploading edgy, engaging

00:03:56.600 content that I hope the audience finds funny to lampoon the left.

00:04:01.560 And I would say probably about two years ago, Tim and I crossed each other's paths.

00:04:09.340 And I shouldn't say that, actually.

00:04:11.000 He did a voice for me in a cartoon maybe back in 2018, 2019.

00:04:15.020 And so we were on each other's radar.

00:04:17.100 And he invited me out to work on a project with him in, I want to say, early to mid-2020.

00:04:22.900 And we just really hit it off.

00:04:24.520 Before I ever even did his podcast, he and I were just collaborating on different funny ideas.

00:04:29.320 And then he started bringing me on.

00:04:30.940 The audience seemed to like me enough.

00:04:32.220 So I've been a semi-regular ever since.

00:04:34.640 And I think last year I did about a six-month stint as a co-host.

00:04:37.620 And I'm probably on my second month out here as a co-host now.

00:04:41.340 And so one important thing to mention, just to me a culpa here, when I first started Freedom

00:04:45.220 Tunes, I was heavily in my libertarian phase, which of course I was because it was 2014.

00:04:49.060 We were all in our libertarian phase at that point in time.

00:04:51.920 And I don't mean that in a condescending way to denigrate all libertarians, because some

00:04:56.340 of them are very base.

00:04:57.160 I think Dave Smith is fantastic.

00:04:59.400 I think the writings of Hans-Hermann Hoppe are absolutely wonderful, and I would say

00:05:02.780 even indispensable to conservatives in trying to understand how societies build and maintain

00:05:08.120 themselves in the modern world.

00:05:10.160 And so I'm not one of these, I'm no longer part of that club, so I have to bash it all

00:05:15.620 the time, people.

00:05:17.180 But I certainly think there are many issues with the libertarian prescriptions for how we

00:05:21.520 should form our culture and society.

00:05:24.320 No, I hear you.

00:05:25.080 I do bash libertarians, probably a little too much on the timeline, but I do it out of

00:05:29.500 love.

00:05:30.040 You know, these are the people that are kind of close to, you know, like I was telling

00:05:35.060 Dave Smith when I was talking to him on his podcast, you know, like you said, Hans-Hermann

00:05:38.820 Hoppe, Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

00:05:41.120 These are the kind of people that lead you to, I think, kind of more based understandings of

00:05:46.320 political power.

00:05:47.760 They are a key part of kind of your journey, and you don't need to be ashamed about that.

00:05:52.280 You know, those are stepping stones that get you to a place you need to be.

00:05:56.340 But if you get stuck there forever, that is a problem, you know, so.

00:05:59.140 Exactly.

00:05:59.620 And so the kinds of libertarians who I really will bash are the very milk toast out to lunch

00:06:04.200 libertarians who will say absurd things that don't even line up with libertarian philosophy.

00:06:09.180 Like two people are doing this in the free market.

00:06:11.440 So it's beyond criticism or reproach, which is complete insanity.

00:06:15.060 That's not part of libertarianism, but that's something I hear libertarians say all the

00:06:19.220 time, and it drives me crazy as if like the only matrix for moral analysis is did two adults

00:06:25.400 consent to this?

00:06:26.420 Okay.

00:06:26.600 Yes.

00:06:26.880 Like two adults do need to consent to something.

00:06:29.180 Absolutely.

00:06:29.540 But that doesn't mean once that requirement has been fulfilled, nothing that that action

00:06:36.860 produces or even is intrinsically can't be criticized.

00:06:41.660 Yeah.

00:06:42.220 This is why Hoppe works, you know, physical removal into the plan, right?

00:06:45.580 Okay.

00:06:46.200 Yes.

00:06:46.640 And this, so this is the thing there, there people talk about the libertarian moment and

00:06:52.580 how the mainstream Republican party is very libertarian and what they get wrong about this.

00:06:56.820 And this is not me like trying to defend libertarianism because ultimately I don't, I just don't think

00:07:00.540 it works and I don't believe in it, but in their defense, what libertarianism says is not, we are

00:07:07.220 socially liberal and fiscally conservative. That's an unbelievably absurd oversimplification of their

00:07:14.900 values. That doesn't actually map onto anything that they're really saying, at least not the ones

00:07:18.940 with any level of like intellectual prowess who are analyzing the issues and know their philosophy.

00:07:23.020 Well, what libertarianism teaches, depending on the formulation is either like non-aggression

00:07:28.700 principle or propertarianism, the idea that all rights are rooted in property rights, which again,

00:07:33.520 are not things I agree with, but those don't get you to a position of I'm socially liberal and

00:07:37.600 fiscally conservative because social liberalism doesn't actually work in the long run without a

00:07:41.740 massive welfare state.

00:07:44.000 Yeah. I think that the problem for libertarians who, you know, kind of the more of the Mises type

00:07:50.120 libertarians is that that term is kind of entirely gotten away from them. Libertarianism for better

00:07:55.620 or for worse. I know they hate this when I say it, but it's just true.

00:07:59.140 Libertarianism is that guy dancing naked in his underwear at the, at the Libertarian National

00:08:03.420 Conference. I'm sorry. It just is.

00:08:05.040 But that is how people are going to understand, right?

00:08:06.780 Right.

00:08:07.000 This is the thing is both the left and the right see it that way. The left. And when the

00:08:11.160 left sees that, they don't think there's anything wrong, of course, with the man at a political

00:08:14.000 rally doing that, but they say like, all right, well, that's the wrong way to promote men being

00:08:17.680 naked in public.

00:08:18.680 It's not.

00:08:19.520 He wasn't even wearing any BDSM gear.

00:08:22.160 Where's his dog mask?

00:08:23.720 Exactly. And what the right says is like, we don't want men dancing naked in public. And

00:08:27.660 of course, you're correct that, you know, Dave Smith isn't in love with that. Hoppe isn't

00:08:32.160 in love with that. But that is how the average person conceives of the ideology.

00:08:37.920 Yeah. And the problem is that in the dialectic, the, what, what, the, the role that's kind

00:08:43.200 of liberal or libertarianism serves is that it always gets the, the parts of it that get

00:08:48.900 advanced are always the parts of personal freedom and the parts that get left behind

00:08:53.700 are all the ones that would restrict government or control any of the growth. So all it turns

00:08:58.160 into is a way to wedge open the expansion of the state. Libertarianism ends up working hand

00:09:03.840 in hand with this. Yeah.

00:09:04.980 I would completely agree. And so, and I'll mention like, I just had a great two hour long

00:09:09.580 prerecorded conversation with Eric July yesterday. He's an old friend. He's, he's also one of

00:09:13.200 these guys who's libertarian, but I think he understands the culture well enough. And his

00:09:17.500 personal values are not like libertarian in the sense that he believes everything and two people

00:09:22.700 consent to is, is great. Or he buys into this kind of milqueto social liberalism. And one thing

00:09:27.540 to quote him one more time, to give him one last shout out, um, is that, um, Dave Smith said

00:09:34.860 this in his debate with Nicholas Sarwark, who I think Sarwark represents like the worst,

00:09:38.580 most cringy element within libertarian thought where he was saying, well, look at this massive

00:09:42.820 libertarian victory of getting, you know, drugs legalized or decriminalized. And the point Dave

00:09:47.040 made is that wasn't libertarians who did that. Okay. That was the left. The left is the reason

00:09:52.960 why marijuana is legal in most places. This was not a libertarian victory. This is, this is something

00:09:58.700 that happened to line up with libertarian values, but libertarians didn't do it. The, the progressives

00:10:03.120 did. Yeah. And, and I think that's true, but at the same time, that's usually the kinds of

00:10:08.560 victories that libertarians will claim, right? Yes. 100%. Right. Yeah. And so I think, uh, I think,

00:10:15.620 I think that they kind of fall into that trap over and over again. Yeah. Yeah. That's no, it's true.

00:10:20.560 They will claim that it's just, it's misguided because that was not your achievement. Uh, you, you,

00:10:25.620 the left happened to want the same thing you wanted. That's why it happened. Yeah. And, and I,

00:10:30.820 I, you know, again, I don't want to turn this into the libertarian back. I know, I know. I'm sorry.

00:10:35.300 But, but, but just to say like, I, you know, people I'll, I'll show up on like Tom,

00:10:39.340 Tom Wood's show or Dave Smith's show and people will be like, well, I thought you didn't like

00:10:42.640 libertarian. It's like, no, no, no. You, they just, I just want them to understand the problems

00:10:48.040 with their, the philosophy. These people are often closer to. Are you saying they're part of the

00:10:52.120 problem? I might be saying that. Yes. But, but yeah, no, I just, you know, they're,

00:10:57.640 they're very close to, they're often on their, on their journey to a more based understanding of

00:11:01.760 reality. And I just want to help them get there faster. I just don't want them to get stuck along

00:11:05.660 the way. Well, I think what happens is the ones who I get along with and the ones who I like are

00:11:10.260 people who have a very solid conception of how an individual person should act and they embody that

00:11:15.980 in their personal lives. And so in that sense, they are that, which we would call boost, but I don't

00:11:21.840 think they do enough to engage with the fact that at some level, there does need to be a use of,

00:11:27.040 of state force, even if just at a local level to ensure things don't go too off the rails as they

00:11:32.440 clearly have. Yeah. Yeah. It feels like Hoppe again. I love Hoppe because he's the libertarian

00:11:38.320 that actually understands power because he's using the juveniles model of power in democracy,

00:11:44.080 the God that failed. And so like he's the rare libertarian that actually has a functional

00:11:48.120 understanding of power, but he just kind of rearranges what the state means until its function

00:11:53.540 kind of disappears rather than understanding that no, it will continue to exist. It's alongside

00:11:59.520 the family and religion, like the most, the most consistent feature of human social organization.

00:12:05.820 It emerges naturally over and over again. So trying to stamp it out is basically trying

00:12:10.660 to eradicate human nature. And anytime you're fighting human nature, you're losing, right?

00:12:14.320 Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. All right. So now that we're done, we had to spend our first 15 minutes

00:12:22.060 bashing libertarianism. Yeah. While also expressing that there are some good eggs over there.

00:12:27.900 Yeah. Not all. Hashtag not all. Hashtag not all. So the thing I've kind of wanted to talk to you

00:12:33.940 about today is there's a, there's another kind of interesting flashpoint being created right now.

00:12:39.320 We're approaching, uh, America's most holy month. Ramadan is once again, uh, upon us. The 0.98

00:12:44.600 rainbow, uh, will, will dominate the sacred heart. Yes. Yes. Yes. I want everyone to know

00:12:51.060 that sometimes more so than bashing something ugly, it's more helpful to celebrate something

00:12:56.160 beautiful. So this June just celebrate the month of the sacred heart. You can still bash pride month, 1.00

00:13:01.800 but, but please like, just let it be known. This is the, the month of the sacred heart or June is the

00:13:06.740 month of the sacred heart. Yes. And that, yeah, there you go. So, um, yeah, so, so this is upon us

00:13:12.060 and as it comes upon us, we're starting to see once again, kind of the fissure that exists, I think

00:13:17.700 kind of naturally at the heart of the anti-woke movement. We had this kind of, uh, coalition of

00:13:24.020 convenience arise, a lot of discarded progressives, a lot of liberal casts off, a lot of, uh, classical

00:13:31.940 liberals who once saw themselves in as a, having a place in the leftist movement have joined kind

00:13:37.300 of this anti-woke coalition with conservatives because they're no longer welcome there. Right.

00:13:42.320 As you, we've kind of both said that they fell off the spear tip of the revolution. They don't

00:13:47.100 understand how they got here. The, the, the conservatives are the only people who'll talk

00:13:51.020 to them anymore. And they're kind of uneasy standing next to these people, but they'll do it if they have

00:13:55.200 to, because they want to make sure they get back to the 1990s. And all of a sudden, like, uh, whenever we

00:14:01.260 get kind of the, this, a moment like this, those fracture points start to show because all of these

00:14:06.160 people are like, Oh, well we, we don't, you know, we're not against all of these other celebrations.

00:14:10.980 We're not against recognizing all of this stuff. We just don't want it to go far enough to where

00:14:15.140 they start like mutilating kids. And it's like, okay, but these are naturally linked things.

00:14:20.020 And, and so that was always the intention, by the way, abusing children was always the intention

00:14:24.200 of the sexual revolution. If you look back to the work of Alfred Kinsey and his coauthors,

00:14:27.360 they were perfectly clear about the way they felt about pedophilia.

00:14:29.500 Yeah. And, and, and this is the, the heart of queer theory. This is the heart of people like 0.98

00:14:33.780 Foucault. This is a part of people like Butler. I mean, there's that famous, I don't know if you've

00:14:37.460 ever seen the, the queer three bingo where the professor is going through and naming all these 1.00

00:14:41.900 passages of, of kind of foundational members of a queer theory. And they're just all about 0.95

00:14:46.580 normalizing, you know, pedophilia. So this, this, this is baked into the movement from its very

00:14:52.320 beginning, but you know, we kind of have to pretend it's Marxism or something. So that,

00:14:56.140 yeah. Well, it's not real. And there's just, there's, there's a failure to understand

00:15:01.360 that this was not as if this was not a case of social revolutionaries wanting to break down

00:15:07.780 all of the social taboos that prevented consenting adults from engaging in sexually perverse

00:15:12.380 behaviors while leaving the other taboos intact. The, the entire purpose of this movement was to

00:15:18.860 break down all sexual taboo. The ones that still remain are the ones that they are going to try to

00:15:24.260 destroy without, without qualification, without a doubt. I mean, this has been the goal from the

00:15:28.840 get-go. This began with child abuse. Alfred Kinsey's work included data tables, which explicitly

00:15:34.640 confessed to the abuse of boys, the, the rape of children. Many, many young boys were included in

00:15:42.940 these data tables. And I won't get too into detail because it's very sickening. And I hate to even utter

00:15:50.120 these things out loud because they're so filthy, but he included data tables that included certain

00:15:56.400 physiological reactions to, to being raped essentially. And this was published. This was

00:16:02.400 out in the mainstream. This was not hidden. Wardell Pomeroy is quoted in time magazine in the 1980s as

00:16:08.580 saying that he believed that incest between adults and children could be in his words, beneficial.

00:16:13.860 Kinsey wrote in his book, sexual behavior in the human female, that the reason children are so shaken

00:16:21.220 up when they're abused is because of the reaction of the other adults, not because of what actually

00:16:26.080 happened to them. This stuff is baked into the movement and Kinsey's not just some guy. All right.

00:16:32.180 The New York times referred to him as the father of the sexual revolution. And the reality is if you're

00:16:36.100 talking about the sexual revolution that happened in the United States in the 1960s, that's absolutely 0.67

00:16:39.840 correct. That's absolutely correct. So from day one, the entire purpose of this movement was to

00:16:44.720 normalize pedophilia. And it actually started with pedophilia. This was not some good faith effort.

00:16:50.000 If it could even be called a good faith effort to try to remove certain taboos that might normalize,

00:16:54.380 you know, adultery or fornication, and then eventually sodomy, right? The whole purpose of this

00:17:00.600 was no taboos because in the words of Alfred Kinsey, the only aberrant or perverse sexual behavior is

00:17:06.180 chastity. Yeah. And when you're in a situation, he didn't name pedophilia, by the way, he said

00:17:11.680 chastity. That's the only perverse sexual behavior. And, you know, there, it just makes perfect sense.

00:17:19.260 I mean, all these people were warned about where this was going. This is something that, you know,

00:17:23.580 a lot of people on the religious right and things were laughed at for decades about, oh, this is 0.99

00:17:28.880 backwards and stupid for you to, to kind of notice this, to call, you know, there's the slippery slope 0.94

00:17:33.700 and pretending like all this is going to naturally lead from one thing to another. It's like, but of 1.00

00:17:37.760 course it is because if these social mores, if these taboos exist because they've been put in

00:17:43.480 place through traditional values, because they've been put in place because of a particular tradition,

00:17:48.620 a religious tradition, which made these, you know, things unacceptable, you can't just selectively

00:17:55.000 pull that. You can't just crack the foundation out from under this thing and expect certain pieces

00:17:59.800 of it to remain in place, just floating in midair. You've completely disassembled the rationale that

00:18:04.460 held this stuff in place. And it's only a matter of time before each one of these things falls.

00:18:09.460 And so this is one of the massive issues. People have these inbuilt intuitions and it's possible

00:18:14.500 that they're innate. It's also possible that on some level they're socially constructed. And I mean

00:18:19.260 that in a good way, right? Because not all social constructs are bad. Societies are supposed to

00:18:22.900 construct things, right? We should want them to do that. Social construct doesn't equal that.

00:18:27.460 But that said, people have an intuitive revulsion when they hear about pedophilia. They know what's

00:18:34.020 wrong on an innate level, but they also can't give you a robust intellectual framework for what the

00:18:40.220 purpose of human sexuality is in a way such that it refutes the possibility of allowing any and all 1.00

00:18:47.340 perverse behaviors. And so this was the case with gay marriage. I think conservatives and probably more 0.97

00:18:54.060 moderate people who were, again, relying on their intuitive revulsion to this repulsive behavior

00:18:59.900 were saying, I know this is gross. The vast majority of people know this is gross. So our argument is

00:19:03.860 going to be, this is gross. And it's okay if nobody understands what the purpose of sex is or how our

00:19:09.940 culture should hold to strong and reason-based sexual morals. Instead, it was, this is gross. And I'm

00:19:18.940 going to assume everyone else knows it's gross. Well, over time, right, the, the perverse exposure

00:19:26.120 therapy continues. And that which you consider to be absolutely hideous becomes gross and it becomes

00:19:32.200 tolerable. And then it just becomes a part of life. And so people were willing to rest on this is

00:19:40.580 disgusting and not do the intellectual legwork to say gay marriage is wrong. And in many cases, or that 0.96

00:19:45.580 it doesn't exist in the reason for that is because most of these people were using artificial

00:19:49.120 contraceptives or having sex outside of marriage or doing things which precluded them from recognizing 0.68

00:19:54.020 a reason based understanding of sex. And so they had this wishful thinking that I don't need to

00:20:03.280 straighten out my own sexual behavior in order to thoroughly combat the, the encroachment of

00:20:11.240 perversion. And we're seeing the same thing now as, as the left is inching closer and closer towards

00:20:18.760 completely normalizing pedophilia. What's being done is moderates are just assuming, well, this is

00:20:24.880 disgusting and no one is ever going to go for it. I'm sorry, but you're wrong about the fact that no

00:20:29.920 one's ever going to go for it. You're right that it's disgusting, but the story of the last 60 years

00:20:34.800 has been the story of the American public calling disgusting things beautiful. Don't think that won't

00:20:40.360 continue. Yeah. Things like, you know, originally the redefinition of marriage was wildly unpopular

00:20:46.100 when it was handed down by judicial fiat. And now it's considered a fait accompli that, you know,

00:20:51.180 it's impossible to roll back that it's, that it's widely accepted and only in the, in the case of a

00:20:56.060 decade or so here. Right. And it's a settled issue. Yeah, exactly. And pretending that this can't happen

00:21:01.200 again, that that's going to be the only thing where that occurred is ridiculous. And I think a big 0.92

00:21:06.460 thing that people don't think about with this is kind of the way that we shifted a lot of what used

00:21:11.260 to be mediated by the sacred into the realm of the scientific and the rational. I did a thread on

00:21:16.460 this on Twitter. You know, we had the, the Dodgers game, right. And they had all the, this, uh, this

00:21:21.840 like satanic, uh, you know, drag show thing that's going to show up at Dodgers games. And people are

00:21:27.320 like, I don't understand. I don't understand kind of why this stuff is out there. And it's like,

00:21:31.440 well, because you, because it's ugly, right? Well, and because you thought that religion was 0.97

00:21:37.480 dead and gone, you, you didn't think that this is a backward thing. This is something for stupid 1.00

00:21:42.600 people that they use as a crutch, but it's still here and it's still manifesting itself. And just 1.00

00:21:47.280 because you closed your mind to a connection of the metaphysical, to the spiritual, doesn't mean

00:21:52.560 that it stops because just because you decided to stop paying attention to it. Yeah. And so I think

00:21:57.680 this is something we see with many of the classical liberals is it by classical liberals. I don't mean

00:22:03.980 actual classical liberals. I mean, the people who refer to themselves that way to people who think

00:22:07.320 that 2008 was the year when we solved politics and finally figured out how the world should look.

00:22:12.320 And that was embodied in the democratic party platform of that period. And anything past that

00:22:16.640 was just too far to the left because, you know, we finally reached the end of history. And then the

00:22:21.880 woke lefties came along and ruined all of it. These types have a very confused, two-faced,

00:22:28.460 almost schizophrenic worldview where on the one hand, they're willing to believe that

00:22:34.020 we do need to look at the biological reality with respect to the differences between men and women

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00:23:13.440 But then we can also hold to this tabula rasa view of how man operates in the world. Everything he believes

00:23:24.820 in is sort of imposed by the external society and authority structure is something that cultures decide

00:23:31.140 for on their own and not something that's built into the nature of man. This is important. Like failing

00:23:38.680 to understand that authority is inherent to human beings, that this understanding of the world is literally built

00:23:47.880 into us. It's not externally imposed. The failure to understand that is almost as absurd as a failure to

00:23:56.120 understand the differences between men and women. And it ends up getting you to a place where you eventually will

00:24:02.080 not. Because one of the fundamental authority structures is the family and the father is the head

00:24:09.820 of the household. And I think one way you can really delineate between a true ally in this fight is

00:24:17.660 whether they're willing to say that. I'm not saying there are, I'm not saying the only people we can work

00:24:24.380 with are the people who are completely on the same page with us on these issues. I think when we agree

00:24:29.560 with people, we should work with them to get to that point. We want to know whether someone is going

00:24:34.920 to be a long-term ally and they're going to be willing to embrace the kind of reason-based view

00:24:38.960 of the world that's necessary in order to repair this culture is, can you admit that the father is

00:24:44.320 the head of the household? Can you admit that that is a natural part of the human inbuilt structure of

00:24:50.020 authority? And if they can't, if they hem and haw about it and about exceptions to the rule that they

00:24:54.700 might find and how, you know, we should still promote the idea of being a girl boss, then 1.00

00:24:59.540 I'm sorry, their shit is weak. Yeah. I mean, I think one of the reasons that liberalism was so 1.00

00:25:07.100 easy to subvert was that it basically completely denies human nature and then attempts to make

00:25:14.300 claims on something it completely denies. Exactly. Exactly. And so when the question is like,

00:25:21.760 how do we define these social categories and how do we continue to uphold and maintain social

00:25:27.140 categories, even though we know that there are people who aren't comfortable with them and your

00:25:32.300 answer to that isn't, well, if the person's lack of comfort has something to do with their own

00:25:37.340 shortcomings, then we try to help them conform to reality instead of indulging them. Then you don't

00:25:45.740 have any ground to say that there's anything wrong with transgenderism.

00:25:51.760 Yeah. It's just that you currently find it personally distasteful, but there's no reason

00:25:57.520 that you couldn't be persuaded to follow along later here. Exactly. You probably won't find it

00:26:03.920 personally distasteful in 10 or 20 years. Right. You don't want to be that guy holding the sign

00:26:09.040 saying no transgenderism in the photo in the textbook in 20 years, right? The worst thing possible is to

00:26:14.560 be on the wrong side of history. You can't be one of the deplorables. Yeah. Well, and this is what

00:26:17.980 happens when you're not rooted in God because trying to be on the right side of history is a

00:26:21.200 small and petty goal in light of the possibility of being on the right side of eternity.

00:26:26.160 So I think the thing that is really hard for a lot of people, because I hear this all the time,

00:26:30.820 is like, well, why don't you guys understand your allies? Why don't you understand your allies? And I

00:26:34.520 think the answer is we're not. There is a conflict of moral visions here, not just against the woke and

00:26:40.660 the non-woke, but just incite even the opposition to the woke. There are those who cannot find a

00:26:47.140 substantive reason to be against wokeness other than they just got recently discarded from the

00:26:52.280 coalition. And there are those that really do find that there is an eternal truth that stands

00:26:56.700 against this. And those are the people that I think are going to mount any kind of substantive

00:27:02.140 opposition. But it feels like there's always this constant tension for those who have at least some

00:27:08.940 connection to that eternal truth to make concessions to those who just got discarded

00:27:14.220 from the liberal coalition in hopes that they're going to somehow bring these people over and they're

00:27:18.880 suddenly going to have a majority and then they're going to win the democratic process. And then they're

00:27:23.380 just going to reverse this whole thing in one fell swoop. And that means we constantly ratchet leftward

00:27:27.660 rather than having any kind of real opposition. And so what you were describing earlier about there

00:27:33.100 being an eternal truth that people have to be rooted in and the fact that people don't have any firm

00:27:38.400 footing to be able to say that because they don't have any faith and they're more or less just upset

00:27:42.540 that they've been pushed outside of the confines of what the left considers to be intellectually

00:27:46.920 fashionable. This is one of the massive fatal intellectual flaws of enlightenment thinking in

00:27:54.520 general, because it presupposes that we live in a universe well ordered enough that we can determine

00:28:00.600 truths about reality based on our own observations and measurement of reality, which is an idea we take for

00:28:07.720 granted as modern people, but that's not something that everyone believed throughout all of history.

00:28:11.920 And you read ancient pagan literature and you find in many cultures, it was believed that the universe

00:28:17.580 was confusing, shapeless, and we couldn't really know anything for sure. It was Christianity that gave 1.00

00:28:26.340 people the intellectual footing to be able to say the universe operates based on fixed intellectual

00:28:33.340 principles. And that is true of the physical world. And that is true of the metaphysical world. There are

00:28:40.000 things that man is meant to do based on his own nature in the same way that I can observe the universe

00:28:47.400 well enough that I'm able to now determine that a rainbow is made of light refracting off of water

00:28:55.500 particles in the air. I can also observe man's happiness or misery and,

00:29:03.340 and determine that that was based on his prior actions.

00:29:08.000 Now, enlightenment style thinking, while understanding we can make observations about

00:29:14.400 nature of the kind I just mentioned, becomes much more reluctant to make observations about the nature

00:29:20.420 of man. Because even though it's operating based on principles, a person could only possibly have,

00:29:27.120 if they believed that the universe was authored by a rational mind, reject the existence of that very rational

00:29:36.420 mind. Because they have put themselves in the place of God. They believe that the world exists and operates

00:29:48.460 based on reasonable principles, but only because they were the ones who discovered those principles. In a way, they view

00:29:55.060 themselves as the authors of that order because they discovered it. So they begin to think that because

00:30:03.720 they observed this, they're the creator of it. And they don't want to observe anything in their own personal

00:30:12.140 lives that might tell them that pursuing instant gratification is not conducive to long-term happiness.

00:30:18.980 And so because of that, they also can't make prescriptions for other people. They're only

00:30:24.620 capable of saying, that's gross. I don't like that. So in the same way that they would scoff at, at

00:30:31.540 their caricature of pre-enlightenment man and say, man could only observe nature in terms of what he

00:30:38.860 liked and disliked and not the rational operations of it. They're only capable of observing human behavior in

00:30:45.420 the exact same way. I like that. Or that disgusts me and not, what's the mechanism behind this?

00:30:53.300 What, what is this conducive to? Does this behavior help man flourish? Is this in line with his purpose?

00:31:01.100 Yeah. Once again, it's the appeal to a self-evident truth without the, the tradition from which that

00:31:07.000 truth became self-evident. You've, you've removed the ability to actually make appeals to this. And so

00:31:12.640 everything becomes a motive because there's no longer a shared substrate of like how we understand

00:31:18.500 and how we view the world and how we contextualize all this. You can't really pick a telos for a human

00:31:23.720 if you don't understand the human inside, it's different relationships between the divine,

00:31:29.480 between the family, between the church, between its tradition, between its community. You're not,

00:31:34.000 you're not some atomized, completely alone individual. You are someone who is from the very moment you're

00:31:40.180 born existing inside, sorry guys, a society. We are a society. And, and that context is what gives

00:31:47.440 you meaning. It's what, it's what helps you evaluate truth. And whenever you're trying to

00:31:50.900 communicate with another human being, it's that tradition you're appealing to for them to understand

00:31:55.540 what you're talking about. And freed from that context, all you have left is kind of these vague

00:32:01.000 notions of preference rather than anything that you can, you can actually move forward with logically,

00:32:07.580 any, any kind of system in which you can kind of advance that discussion.

00:32:12.180 Exactly. And so I was speaking to a man by the name of Steven Jonathan. I've had him on my podcast

00:32:17.400 twice at this point. He's very brilliant. He's actually someone I would really encourage you to

00:32:20.520 have a conversation with at some point, if you could, because he'd make a fantastic guest. But

00:32:24.200 he and I were having a conversation on our show when he mentioned C.S. Lewis and how C.S. Lewis

00:32:28.320 talks about sort of the first and second things and how, when you pursue the first thing,

00:32:32.560 you end up getting the second thing and they're both good. You want both of them.

00:32:36.380 When you pursue the second thing and sort of subvert that order, not only do you not get the

00:32:41.600 first thing, but like you don't even end up getting the second thing that you were aiming for.

00:32:48.840 And so what's happened is people have identified that their social role gives them meaning. Of course,

00:32:55.240 that meaning comes in large part to what you are contributing. And your identity is very largely

00:33:01.420 a product of what you can contribute, what you can give to other people. And we've subverted that.

00:33:08.760 Now, our attempt is to seek out the benefits of having an identity without giving thought to the

00:33:15.620 first thing from which that identity in part or in large part or entirely arises, which is firstly,

00:33:21.220 God, the fact that you were created by an all-knowing, all-loving God and the social

00:33:25.460 expectations that come from the gifts that he gave you. Now it's, well, I see the esteem that

00:33:32.840 a person might have as a result of their social standing. And I want that esteem. And so I will

00:33:38.440 pursue the second thing without having grounded myself in the first thing. And then you don't

00:33:43.760 get either. So the perfect example of this that we see today is the esteem of womanhood. Womanhood is

00:33:49.160 such an unbelievably beautiful thing. Well, how do we know that someone's a woman, right? It's an adult

00:33:53.900 human, female. Well, it's an adult human, female. How do we define female? Some lefties argue that's 0.99

00:33:57.440 a tautological definition because female and woman are synonymous. Okay. Well, I like the way Trent

00:34:02.680 Horn defines this. A female is that whose sexual anatomy is ordered towards gestation. And a male is 0.99

00:34:10.020 that whose sexual anatomy is ordered towards insemination. Very basic, very straightforward. 0.65

00:34:15.780 Also paints a very clear picture of what role that person plays and what they're capable of providing.

00:34:20.600 In order towards is the operating phrase because your anatomy can break down, but it's still ordered

00:34:25.500 towards that. So you see the esteem of womanhood. Well, we hold women in high esteem for a very

00:34:32.840 important reason, right? Women create people inside of their bodies. That's unbelievable. There are other 1.00

00:34:41.420 things women do. There are other reasons we value women, but let's just look at that. Okay. That is a 1.00

00:34:46.600 massive part. It's a massive part of why women have the social esteem that they have because that's 1.00

00:34:51.760 pretty important. Also pretty impressive. Well, when you're only looking at that social esteem,

00:34:56.680 when you're only looking at the second thing there or what comes from it. Now you as a man want to fit

00:35:03.080 into that category. And it's not because you want to create life. It's not because you're looking at

00:35:07.560 the productive role. It's frankly, in most cases, because you've been sexually perverted either by your 0.95

00:35:13.020 own fantasies or the pornography you've consumed. And there's something sexual thrilling about a 0.80

00:35:18.200 female identity to you and conceiving of yourself and that identity. So you've taken the second thing

00:35:23.440 without the first thing. We don't have the first thing. And guess what? We don't have the second

00:35:26.560 thing because no one actually holds you in esteem the way they hold a woman in esteem. Okay. They feel

00:35:30.760 sorry for you at best. And at worst, they're angry with you. Now I think everyone should feel sorry for

00:35:36.060 these people. They do need our compassion. But to be clear, everyone does. No one on the left

00:35:43.080 truly feels happy for these people. They're pretending. They're pretending. They feel bad

00:35:47.400 for them. If they're even capable of feeling bad for them, if they have that level of compassion left.

00:35:52.360 No one says this is a woman. But some people say, I feel bad enough for this person to call him a woman.

00:35:58.900 Well, and I think it's because of this entire deracination, right? These identities are consumer

00:36:04.080 products. You don't have an identity is not something that's ingrained. It's not something

00:36:08.140 that's connected to other things. It's not something that's unshakable. It's something you

00:36:12.160 can wear as a suit. It's a chameleon. You can change at any moment because you're not a person

00:36:18.220 who's locked into a particular community. You're not locked into a particular gender. You're not

00:36:23.280 locked into biological sex. It's something that you can simply consume and discard. And that's why they 0.86

00:36:29.780 kind of have to sell these operations as something that's disposable, reversible, right? Because none

00:36:35.840 of this can become permanent because if it's permanent, oh, well, then there might be some

00:36:39.480 kind of limitation, some kind of inbuilt design that you might have to acknowledge. And so everything

00:36:45.820 needs to be consumed one day, disposed of the next. You can switch them at will.

00:36:50.740 Yeah. Well, I think this is fundamentally a product of a total lack of maturity. I think

00:36:55.280 I had an experience right around the time when I turned 20. I think many men will have a similar

00:36:59.980 kind of experience where something happened to me that caused me to realize that permanency

00:37:03.100 is a factor in life. I think when you're a kid growing up, as long as nothing horribly traumatic

00:37:08.760 happens to you, you don't really understand the nature of permanency. The idea that there are things

00:37:14.460 you can't turn back from. You could actually cause long-term damage to yourself. You lose an arm,

00:37:20.220 it's not growing back, okay? I think that this failure to understand permanency

00:37:26.320 is linked to being juvenile, right? When you're a kid, this is pretty standard. And I also think

00:37:34.560 when you have a culture where the stories that we tell reset, it creates a bad status quo in people's

00:37:42.460 minds. You watch a 22-minute or 44-minute episode of a TV show where everything is the same at the end

00:37:47.800 of the episode as it was at the beginning, regardless of what happened. This shapes the way

00:37:51.600 that people think. And when it comes to these surgeries, these operations, let's not even call

00:37:58.200 them that, these acts of mutilation, these acts of violence against the body and against the person

00:38:02.960 and against God and against morality, there has to be sold to the person the idea that this is

00:38:10.120 reversible because no one's willing to commit to anything anymore. Now, cutting off your penis, 1.00

00:38:16.260 pretty massive commitment, not one you should make. Irreversible. But they have to convince a person 1.00

00:38:22.540 that these things can be undone. Or once you start down the path to do this, it can be reversed. But

00:38:28.340 at every step of the way, irreversible change occurs. And so this is in many ways like a fundamental

00:38:36.020 rejection of maturity. And we see this, I think, with the fact that historically in the transgender 1.00

00:38:42.400 movement, it's mostly been male to female. This is really important because historically it's been

00:38:48.820 understood that you need coming of age rituals for men because our bodies don't force us to grow up the

00:38:55.400 way that women's do. Like women literally bleed for days out of the month. Their body actually does 1.00

00:39:03.280 violence to them. They're constantly at war with their own nature. Men absent formation can kind

00:39:11.740 of go along and get along without ever going to war against themselves. And so this is why every

00:39:19.000 society through history has had some kind of set social expectations and rules for men that were only

00:39:25.820 for men because they need that extra push. And I think when a man is struggling to find a masculine

00:39:32.460 identity and he sees that women just very gracefully move into maturity without needing to subject

00:39:40.620 themselves to this kind of warfare while missing the fact that their bodies subject them to that

00:39:45.320 warfare, they want that because they don't realize what it actually is. So they think that by having a

00:39:52.540 female identity, they can just have an identity without working for it because they don't understand 1.00

00:39:57.700 understand what women have to go through on a biological level without any social intervention

00:40:02.800 being necessary. Well, I think they also understand, I think, honestly, the attention that comes with

00:40:09.600 and some of the that they're going to get treated with kid gloves. I mean, just just cards on table

00:40:16.500 here. You know, I've got a lot of friends who were autistic or, you know, kind of on the spectrum

00:40:21.500 and they've decided this is the way out. You know, they've gone through this process because

00:40:26.460 they didn't know how to interact in social situations. They didn't know how to have something

00:40:30.980 that was interesting. They didn't know how to have something that have them stand apart. They didn't

00:40:35.660 know how to like make people kind of treat them better and not be so harsh toward them. And what is

00:40:40.500 this? Oh, this is this is kind of a magical identity shield. I used to teach and I taught in a title

00:40:47.580 one school and the kids were really nasty to each other, like really awful to each other. 0.89

00:40:52.100 But even like the most aggressive, nasty kid knew that they had to treat the trans kid well 0.96

00:40:58.600 because they knew that kid was untouchable. So you could bully everybody else. You could be 0.97

00:41:03.140 merciless to everybody else. But the one kid you couldn't treat badly, the one kid you couldn't make

00:41:07.700 fun of because of something going on with them, something physical was that kid. They're wearing plot

00:41:12.540 armor. And because of that, there's an incentive that if, OK, I don't know how to hand myself

00:41:17.140 a social situation. I'm a teenager. I'm awkward. I'm a little on the spectrum. Well, what's the

00:41:21.300 best way out of this? Oh, well, I'll transition and then I don't have to deal with this.

00:41:24.820 Yeah, no, I mean, it's very real. And sometimes it's even more insidious than that. So I remember

00:41:30.620 when I was in high school, you know, I graduated 10 years ago this June. So this is a little while

00:41:36.760 ago, but it's massive how much social change has happened since then. Really, really quite

00:41:40.900 remarkable. But there was a there was a gay kid in our school who everyone knew. And I'm sure

00:41:46.720 there were multiple gay kids, but everyone knew this one gay kid because he was the loud 1.00

00:41:51.380 activist at the school and he was very nasty to people. I mean, he would say things to 0.75

00:41:58.780 other students that no one could hope to get away with saying. Right. But if you responded

00:42:05.660 to him the way you responded to anyone else who had just said what he had said, now you're 0.99

00:42:10.960 in trouble because now you're being mean to the gay kid. How dare you? And so. There's 0.99

00:42:17.540 also this very antisocial angle, which is I can get away with treating other people however

00:42:23.660 I want if I'm part of this identity class. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, that's a large amount

00:42:29.260 of the leftist coalition in general. Right. If I get special benefits, I get special privileges.

00:42:34.380 I'm allowed to do certain things and I'm I have an errors. Basically, I'm the aristocracy.

00:42:39.160 I have special rights that you don't. And I get to kind of treat you however I like because

00:42:43.300 I have these particular markers. And that's the thing about a lot, again, of kind of the

00:42:48.140 anti woke center or left. They want to maintain most of those privileges. They want to maintain

00:42:53.500 most of that structure. They see everything up until, like you said, like 2008 as as just fine.

00:42:59.720 And all of that stuff needs to be protected. And that's why I think that the coalition

00:43:03.940 is is starting to see these, you know, these flashpoints, because it becomes clear that these

00:43:09.820 things are linked. It becomes clear to a lot of people that there is a clear through line

00:43:14.120 of history and logic and kind of moral degradation that comes along these things. But it's really

00:43:18.940 important for those who held these liberal values and want to continue to see that worldview

00:43:23.660 kind of perpetuated that they not notice. It's really important that these things

00:43:28.860 not be noticed, because if they are, then we might start understanding that you can't

00:43:33.080 keep the whole thing together. Exactly. And so I think you and I understand this as a

00:43:39.140 boulder that was pushed down a hill. And many left wingers who have been pushed outside of

00:43:45.420 the coalition say, man, the left made a mistake when the ball kept rolling past the halfway point.

00:43:53.240 It wasn't going to stop. It wasn't possible for it to stop. If we are to agree that pushing it down

00:44:01.420 the hill in the first place was a good idea. And you've got to stop the thing. And when you do stop

00:44:06.120 it, if you try to hold it in place halfway down the hill, it's just going to start rolling again at

00:44:11.060 some point. Like you have to push the thing all the way back up to the top and then you've got to leave

00:44:16.820 it there. And then you've got to be hyper vigilant about allowing people to push it down. And the

00:44:22.820 reason I use this analogy is because what we're seeing now is absolutely natural because decay

00:44:30.620 is a part of nature. This is why it's so difficult for the right and so easy for the left to have

00:44:35.640 political victories because a political victory on the left is merely tearing something down that

00:44:41.720 people far stronger and wiser than you built in which you resent the existence of, because it

00:44:48.620 reminds you of your own failure to live in line with the ideals of the people who gave you the

00:44:53.700 inheritance that you're squandering. And so leftism is just the intellectual rationalization a person

00:45:00.420 engages in to not live a virtuous life. And this is true of basically every left-wing cause.

00:45:07.320 There's nothing noble about it. They try to kind of use the pretext of nobility. They try to pretend

00:45:13.960 as if this comes from some genuine concern for other people. But at bottom, it's always,

00:45:18.760 I don't want anyone to interfere with my ability to fail to contribute with respect to my labor

00:45:26.580 or to restrain me from licentious sexual behavior. And I think at the heart of this, and this is why I hit

00:45:34.740 on this so often, is sexual licentiousness because that is the easiest, most surefire way to get a

00:45:42.880 person to stop caring about reason and start caring merely about their own pleasure. And when people

00:45:49.520 care about that, it's not simply the case that decay sets in. It's that is decay. Okay. That is decay.

00:45:55.700 And then it just spreads out from there. Yeah. There's a reason that pretty much every society

00:46:00.640 that made major advancements and had a high degree of success had a serious amount of rules built up

00:46:07.560 around this practice, right? Exactly. Because like you said, if you don't, then you just enter this

00:46:12.060 spiral of social entropy. And the extrapy is far harder. The erection of the standards, the

00:46:18.460 substantiation of the tradition, the creation of these institutions is far more difficult than the

00:46:26.940 disassembly of them. Yeah. The erection of the standards and the standards of erections, I guess.

00:46:30.720 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go. 0.97

00:46:32.880 But no, I mean, I mean, pardon me. I just, I couldn't help it. I think that it's very real. And

00:46:41.180 part of why this is so important is because sex is, it's all or nothing in this sense. Carol Wojtya,

00:46:46.180 St. Pope John Paul II said, as goes sex, so goes the family, so goes the world. This is undeniable.

00:46:52.920 And sex is either one of, if not the most beautiful thing human beings engage in and the

00:47:03.920 most wholesome, wonderful, wholesome, wonderful thing that creates new life and gives to the world

00:47:10.480 and bonds to people and is ultimately productive and the maximally productive thing a person can do

00:47:19.620 in some sense. Or it is completely abhorrent and disgusting and perverted. When people see sexual 0.95

00:47:29.660 perversion, they don't feel like there's something a little bit wrong with that. I mean, it shakes you

00:47:33.520 to your core. You're viscerally disgusted by it. What is food supposed to do? It's supposed to fuel

00:47:39.940 your metabolism. It's supposed to provide you with nutrients. There's a proper way to eat. And we all

00:47:45.400 know that. And when someone eats in an improper way, we're not thrilled with it. But there's not

00:47:50.640 the same level of disgust as when somebody exercises their sexual function in an improper way. There's

00:47:57.500 something much darker about it. And it's because sex is so good and has the potential to create such

00:48:02.600 beauty that it has to be attacked. Because when you can get somebody to, rather than subjugate their

00:48:10.960 passions to reason, subjugate their reason to their passions, and pursue that which feels good

00:48:17.220 at the expense of their own dignity, you've got a perfect slave.

00:48:21.260 Is this why, and I've seen you talk about this on Twitter and I have too, is this why it's so

00:48:26.620 important for many progressives and even centrists at this point to talk about the 1950s or earlier

00:48:33.360 periods as if they were somehow ridiculous? No one was ever happy. There were never intact families.

00:48:39.800 There were never people who owned homes and had good families and good churches. And there was

00:48:45.760 never a place where you could walk down the street and not have to worry about your kid getting

00:48:49.020 attacked. And you could send your kid to school and not have to worry about them getting indoctrinated

00:48:54.340 with really ridiculous stuff. Is that why? Because they just have to pretend like the past was always

00:49:00.060 so horrible. Because if you acknowledged that these standards worked, if you acknowledged that these

00:49:04.880 structures were important and maintained something important, then they might have to understand that

00:49:09.560 what's happened is not progress, but instead regress.

00:49:12.700 Exactly. Well, I don't know if you know this, Aaron, but in the 1950s, you might think it was

00:49:16.520 the case that your average man could graduate from high school at the age of 18, start a family,

00:49:22.200 have children, and a wholesome life experience all while working a job that didn't require him to

00:49:27.000 have an obscene level of education. And for his wife to be able to stay home and care for those 1.00

00:49:31.660 children and for people to reach their personal fulfillment while also having surplus wealth. 0.95

00:49:35.440 Uh, everyone was secretly gay and super sad about the fact that they were secretly gay. 0.81

00:49:40.980 That's the story of the 1950s. And every single time you discuss the nuclear family structure,

00:49:48.780 or even just fighting for the family, recognizing that men and women are different, saying that

00:49:53.960 marriage is not some archaic, outdated institution. What you are met with was, well, you want things to be

00:50:00.300 like they were in the 1950s and the 1950s racist. That was a racist time. This is so funny. The

00:50:05.920 1950s, those were the bad decade. I don't like that decade. It's a very interesting kind of slogan, 0.96

00:50:11.700 kind of rallying cry, kind of bit of citizenism we see from them. The left claims that their main

00:50:16.660 issue with the 1950s is how racist that era was. But every critique or satirization of the 1950s in

00:50:25.720 popular culture or in academia relies entirely on mocking suburban life in the nuclear family

00:50:32.880 with racism being a more peripheral issue. So we know what bothers the left about the 1950s.

00:50:41.300 Now I'll add this. One thing the left is very effective at doing is taking something that people

00:50:50.480 know is a little bit off and honing in on that and then critiquing it on the basis of the things

00:50:58.560 that actually made it wholesome while pushing for that, which made it off, made it not quite work.

00:51:05.400 There were issues with the 1950s. So for example, I think rampant materialism and consumer culture

00:51:13.180 really take off at this point in time. Basically, all of, if not all of, or at the very least,

00:51:21.660 many of the cultural shortcomings that arise when people become too wealthy begin to set in in the

00:51:29.080 1950s. And there's also an atomization of the nuclear family. Prior to the 50s, it was far more

00:51:37.560 normal to live with your extended family or at the very least close to them. And then in the 1950s,

00:51:43.960 this atomization begins to occur where now people are just within the nuclear family structure

00:51:49.860 and they moved out of the cities. There's been de-urbanization. And so people aren't living

00:51:57.760 in the communities that their immigrant forefathers moved to and then remained in. So now they're no longer

00:52:04.640 in touch with their ethnic identity and culture. And so in some sense, they've been homogenized.

00:52:10.940 And this actually pushes them away from their religious roots because for many people,

00:52:16.300 their ethnic identity and religiosity are tied together. Now, I think Christianity supersedes 1.00

00:52:22.520 ethnicity, of course, and should, and that's one of the great values of it. But you talk to people

00:52:26.960 today, I'm Irish Catholic. I'm Italian Catholic, right? I'm a WASP. People will include 0.92

00:52:33.660 their country of origin in with their religious faith. And so-

00:52:38.960 Well, and then I think, oh, sorry, not to-

00:52:40.960 No, please, because I'm going to go on for like an hour if you don't interrupt me. I'm sorry.

00:52:44.100 Well, I was just going to say, that's kind of one of the beauties of Christianity, though,

00:52:47.400 is it can be practiced as one faith while taking on the ethnic particularity of the communities in

00:52:55.080 which it's practiced.

00:52:55.960 I'm really glad you-

00:52:57.260 Yeah, sorry. No, no.

00:52:58.400 Yeah, no, it remains a true faith. It retains the truth of the faith while still taking on that

00:53:05.440 character. And so it allows- the one thing about Christianity is it can become the faith of many

00:53:10.480 peoples while still allowing those peoples to remain distinct and have their own cultural

00:53:16.640 particularity.

00:53:17.760 Bingo. And I'm really glad you said that because I would not have put those words to it, but

00:53:21.900 I think the way to conceive of it is Christianity tells you that your ethnicity is far from being 0.90

00:53:27.520 the most important thing about you. However, it does not erase your ethnicity. It takes it into

00:53:32.840 account. It takes it seriously. It loves it because God created all the different groups of people on

00:53:36.720 the planet. Why would we want to erase that? Why would we want to destroy that? Christianity 1.00

00:53:41.620 recognizes, yes, you can absolutely put far too much emphasis on ethnicity. We've seen people do

00:53:45.380 that throughout history, but to put no emphasis on it is also equally foolish, right? Because God created 0.96

00:53:51.380 different groups of people and he engineered the circumstances that led to different cultures

00:53:54.680 arising. And no, not all cultures are equal. We should be willing to engage in cultural critique.

00:54:00.040 But that said, it's okay for people to be different. It's okay for culture to be different. And this is

00:54:04.460 one of these things when the left would talk about multiculturalism that they would say, and it was

00:54:08.320 one of the things that resonated with people because intuitively we know this is true. Like we know

00:54:12.080 it's good for different cultures to get along, but to also remain distinct. We know that, and we know

00:54:18.900 that it can be good for there to be crossover too, but we, we kind of end up in this all or nothing

00:54:24.300 space today where it's culture is all that matters. And this should be, you know, the dominant

00:54:31.240 factor in determining identity. And also culture is pointless. Let's erase it. We need to homogenize. 0.94

00:54:39.780 Yeah. The left's understanding of multiculturalism is a cuisine, right?

00:54:43.780 Yes. Yes. A consumer product. What you consume. Culture is about what you consume and not what

00:54:50.040 you give. Yeah. We, we all have to believe exactly the same thing about every social issue,

00:54:54.600 every political issue, every moral issue, but we can go eat at the Thai restaurant or Mexican

00:55:00.260 restaurant or, you know, Polish restaurant. And that's the, that's the amount of cultural

00:55:04.480 particularity you're allowed. Nothing that's actually existential, nothing that actually would make

00:55:09.060 you say not a servant of a particular corporation or a particular government, right? All those things

00:55:14.740 we have to be in unity about. And we've seen this happen on a massive scale, just with how corporate

00:55:19.340 America has homogenized the United States by itself. We don't even have to talk about like different 0.61

00:55:23.340 ethnic groups. We can just talk about the fact that in the U S we had, you can almost call them

00:55:28.220 proto-ethnic groups or like different States operated through our history until, you know,

00:55:34.720 between 15 and a hundred years ago, almost as different countries. I mean, and prior to the

00:55:39.580 civil war, people really did see their state as that, which they were patriotic to in a way which they

00:55:45.980 don't today. Yeah. There's a, there's a reason that Lee sides with Virginia, even though he was the

00:55:50.460 shoe in for the commandership of the union, it's because he's a Virginian first. That's why they were 0.80

00:55:55.760 these United States, not the United States. That's a very good way of putting it. That's, and that's

00:56:00.920 exactly right. I mean, people in their own individual States had their own state identity

00:56:06.000 and in a way, which was very wholesome nowadays, you know, man, even just 20 years ago, right.

00:56:13.820 When I was a kid, we would go on vacation. You know, my dad would pack up the van and take me and

00:56:18.460 my brothers across the country, uh, over the summer, every, uh, like every other year, we'd go on like

00:56:22.780 a two, three week long road trip. And so much homogenization had already occurred by that point in

00:56:28.640 time, but you could still find unique local shops. Like if you were in an area, maybe instead

00:56:35.740 of a Walmart, there was a different kind of department store that was local and was unique

00:56:41.180 to that region. They were scarce even then, but now you don't get any of that. Like there's no

00:56:47.860 mom and pa shop left. It's the only thing that allows you to tell the difference in many cases

00:56:53.200 between Georgia and Illinois and California are climate and socioeconomics. But the way people

00:57:02.840 talk is roughly similar or becoming much more similar. Accents have melted away in many areas.

00:57:09.080 They're buying all the same products. They're consuming all of the same art. So much uniqueness

00:57:13.920 is lost. I find that to be very sad. No, I agree 100%, but I think that is what is necessary for the

00:57:21.020 state to centralize power. If they want to be able to propagandize people with the same message,

00:57:26.100 if they want to be able to put everyone under the same rubric of control, when it comes to public

00:57:31.140 schools or corporations, then you need everyone homogenized so that your managerial techniques can

00:57:36.140 be applied routinely so that there aren't any, any moral tastes, any cultural tastes, any, uh, any actions

00:57:43.580 that would put you outside of a very small, uh, defined set. This managerialism is all about

00:57:49.500 predictability, right? Every person needs to be predictable. You need to be able to control

00:57:53.180 everyone's reactions. You need to be able to plan for everything. And so any kind of individualization

00:57:58.940 in communities is a, is a problem because it runs up against that. And so I think that that has to

00:58:04.780 happen because otherwise it becomes difficult to kind of manage the, the, the nation, then eventually

00:58:10.000 kind of a global empire at scale. Yeah. And so I think what's sort of being touched on here is the fact

00:58:17.020 that what the United States did to itself and all of its subcultures, had it conquered another land

00:58:24.420 equally large and done the same thing, we would consider that one of the most horrific, uh,

00:58:30.860 examples of colonial cultural erasure that could happen in the modern world. Right. And I add like

00:58:37.500 in the modern world, cause obviously like we're not going around murdering people from different

00:58:41.740 states. I get all that, but the kind of cultural erasure is something that we just take for granted

00:58:47.260 as having happened. And people almost don't even lament. They don't think about, um, but it's very,

00:58:53.320 it's very real. And recently I was in Texas for a conference and it was unbelievably fun. I mean,

00:59:01.860 there's still an identity to Texas that I think other states have very much lost.

00:59:07.920 And it's not a perfect identity. I think just like the rest of the culture, uh, there, there was

00:59:14.160 somewhat of like an encouragement of debauchery and licentiousness, but there's this lightheartedness

00:59:21.080 to, to Texan culture even now. And it leans into its own tropes. It doesn't see them as something to

00:59:28.140 be ashamed of or something that has to be dealt with. Ironically, they don't care. They're just doing

00:59:34.480 their Texas thing. And I find that beautiful. And it's telling that Texas is so often ridiculed

00:59:43.000 because their culture is different and it's weird. And the thing that the, the, the leftist

00:59:48.760 multiculturalist always argues is we shouldn't make fun of other cultures. But of course, now that we

00:59:55.300 actually do have one culture we can identify, which is separate from the, the massive homogenous,

00:59:59.960 you know, progressive fascist American culture. We have to make fun of it. We have to ridicule

01:00:05.520 it. It's stupid. It's lowbrow. It's, it's backwater. It's low class. And you and I have 1.00

01:00:12.200 talked about this, right? Uh, you made a good point about this, the coding of basic understanding

01:00:18.660 of natural law as being low class. That's what poor people believe you're against gay marriage

01:00:23.660 and transgenderism. That's what stupid poor people think. Well, and that's because it's 1.00

01:00:29.520 something that's observable and you don't have to do a lot of education or rationalization to

01:00:34.440 understand it, but you do have to pile on a large amount of ideology to deny it. And so the overeducated

01:00:40.640 become those most easily persuadable when it comes to denying the natural order of things

01:00:46.020 because they're the only ones. Yeah. Oh no, no, no, no. I hate to keep interrupting you. Please

01:00:50.300 continue. No, no, no. Go ahead. I just, there was, there's some ideas only so absurd,

01:00:54.060 some ideas so absurd, only an intellectual could be brought to believe them. Right. It's very,

01:00:57.860 it's a very real phenomena. Um, and I think there's something to that. And I think there's

01:01:02.840 also something to the fact that when you break down the social conventions that we had so many

01:01:07.120 social conventions surrounding wealth, surrounding faith, surrounding sex, surrounding our daily

01:01:12.820 interactions. And what the left said was these social conventions are born of some primitive

01:01:17.160 part of us that needs to die. And then when they, what they, when they stripped away those,

01:01:21.060 those social conventions, what happened was those social conventions stopped restraining the parts

01:01:26.460 of us that are ancient and that will always live, but which do need to be restrained. And one of those

01:01:32.280 conventions is people will, without the proper social programming, without a firm footing in morality

01:01:39.120 or a properly formed conscience, they will look down on people who have less than them.

01:01:43.060 So when you tear around the, so when you tear down the social conventions surrounding wealth,

01:01:47.960 you return people to that ugly part of their nature in many circumstances.

01:01:52.060 So this is why we see this critique, right? When people make fun of the Southern accent,

01:01:56.840 what they're, what they're basically doing is they're making fun of people for being low class,

01:02:01.220 right? They're saying this person's poor. They're not part of my economic bracket. And so much of the

01:02:06.320 comedy we see surrounding like rednecks, quote unquote, is all punching down, 0.98

01:02:10.420 but no one cares. That doesn't upset anybody. I wouldn't consider myself obviously like an

01:02:16.020 evangelical. That term isn't usually applied to Catholics, but I find it very interesting.

01:02:23.360 The difference between the way evangelicals are regarded in the way that wasps are regarded,

01:02:29.660 like they're both Protestant. What's the difference between an evangelical and a wasp? 0.69

01:02:35.420 An evangelical actually believes in Christianity.

01:02:37.320 Believes it. Exactly. Right. Exactly.

01:02:40.820 There's a reason that Southern Baptists still actually have prohibitions against,

01:02:44.280 you know, immoral things and mainline Protestants are all bought into it a hundred percent. 0.99

01:02:48.620 Exactly. Exactly. And so evangelicals were the Christians who actually believed in Christianity

01:02:55.760 because they were stupid and poor. And wasps were people sophisticated enough to know that 1.00

01:03:02.540 you shouldn't not believe in God because that's weird, but you shouldn't really make any changes

01:03:08.300 to your life because you believe in God. The trick is to believe in God, but not really care what he

01:03:13.080 thinks. And progressives never made as much of a conservative effort to make fun of wasp culture.

01:03:20.540 And that's because in many ways, progressivism was born of wasp culture, even if it doesn't want to 0.99

01:03:24.760 acknowledge those roots. And so evangelicals are constantly torn apart and they're made fun of

01:03:31.160 because look at these, these stupid, uneducated Southerners who don't think that sodomy is beautiful 1.00

01:03:37.120 or, or who believe that like the purpose of the anus is to defecate and not to, well, let's not get 1.00

01:03:45.940 into detail, right? They're lampooned for a basic understanding of the way human beings are in

01:03:54.740 morality. Well, we can feel wonderful about our absurd worldview because, you know, we're educated

01:04:00.240 and we're wealthy. And I just want to hit on that. The white Anglo-Saxon Protestant is not relentlessly

01:04:06.380 bashed or not viewed as public enemy. Number one, the way the evangelical is.

01:04:10.380 Nope. Did I lose you there for a second? Yeah, I think we might've lost each other.

01:04:17.560 Oh, okay. No, I got you there. You're, I can hear you now. You're saying that they're not

01:04:21.440 viewed the same way as the evangelical because, because the evangelical actually believes in,

01:04:26.420 and by the way, let's not pretend that the fact that the evangelical actually believes

01:04:31.140 is totally unlinked from the poverty of the average evangelical comparatively to other Americans,

01:04:39.160 right? I mean, there's a reason Christ told us that it's easier for a camel to pass through the

01:04:44.760 eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. So when the left makes fun of

01:04:48.740 poverty, there's actually nothing ironic about that. Like they're, they're given their worldview,

01:04:54.360 they should make fun of poverty because they believe that the solution to all of the world's

01:04:59.860 problems is to properly arrange matter. That is the actual core superstition of leftism

01:05:08.200 and of Marxism. That if we move the material things of the world around in such a way that economic

01:05:17.440 resources are distributed more equitably, we bring about the end of history.

01:05:23.740 Well, and I think, you know, because, because the class situation didn't work out in the West that

01:05:31.700 the way it did in other nations where Marxism kind of took more of a hold, they understood that it had

01:05:37.040 to become social engineering instead of maybe economic engineering. And so even though we do see the

01:05:42.600 economic engineering, it's almost become secondary. It comes after the social engineering has been

01:05:48.020 achieved. So once you've got the, the, the social engineering properly lined up, then you can convince

01:05:52.840 people to do all the economic engineering that's supposed to bring about this miracle. But yeah,

01:05:57.440 I agree with you that this is, this is the lie. And, and I don't think it's just a lie at the heart

01:06:02.420 of Marxism. I think it's the lie at the heart of liberalism because liberalism believes in, uh, again,

01:06:07.880 kind of that bent blank slate. It believes in the, the infinite malleability of people that equality

01:06:13.520 is achievable, but it's not. Um, and you know, all the social and economic engineering in the world

01:06:19.580 will not make everyone equal. Uh, and all Marxism does is call liberalism on that lie and say,

01:06:25.940 we've got a better way to do it, but it's also a lie.

01:06:28.780 Exactly. And so, no, I think you're right. And I appreciate you saying that because I should also

01:06:32.420 draw that distinction as well. And I should acknowledge that similarity, which is that

01:06:35.820 both enlightenment liberals and progressive leftists believe that all the world is, is its material

01:06:42.240 elements. And there's no such thing as spiritual warfare. God's not real. And if he is, he's so

01:06:49.640 removed from our day-to-day life as to be completely irrelevant. So, whereas the Christian recognizes 0.86

01:06:56.540 the logos moves in history, Christ is truth. Not just that Jesus was a teacher who had the truth,

01:07:03.600 that he is truth. Like God is truth. The truth is not some mere abstraction. You don't get to deny

01:07:11.900 the truth because then you're actually denying Jesus Christ. And instead, what Western society

01:07:19.280 has decided to believe and what it believes now, what it has abandoned those morals for is all that

01:07:23.420 exists is the material world. And the way we will solve all of our problems in bringing about heaven

01:07:30.240 on earth is by rearranging matter. We just have to keep rearranging matter until we get to the point

01:07:36.780 where we have reached the end of history and everyone's perfectly cared for. And we're no

01:07:41.760 longer subject to the natural consequences of our actions. And what the liberal says is this should

01:07:47.380 be done mostly by the free market. And then maybe they'll embrace some form of moderate socialism.

01:07:53.340 What the Marxist says is, well, actually, no, you need total social control to be capable of something

01:07:58.280 of this. And they're correct in the sense that if such a goal were possible, which even by that

01:08:03.100 frame, I mean, that's insane. It couldn't be. But you would need massive oversight to rearrange

01:08:08.820 matter in such a way that you brought about utopia because the truth is no amount of rearranging

01:08:16.300 matter is enough to move the heart of man. You need grace for that. And you're not in charge of who

01:08:25.340 gets it. You can pray. You can try to merit graces. You can beg God. You can do fasting and abstinence

01:08:35.240 and penance. But ultimately, this is not a question of how much we've moved material around. This is

01:08:41.960 how much his man moved his heart because he has responded to the graces of God.

01:08:46.520 Yeah. C.S. Lewis says, I believe in Christianity like I believe in the sun because it's the way that

01:08:51.180 I see everything else around me. And yeah. And when you have worldviews that I think are stand in such

01:08:58.100 opposition to each other in such a fundamental level, it's hard for them to kind of work together in

01:09:02.460 that way. But let me ask you, I guess, before we move to the questions of the people here, because

01:09:06.600 they are stacking up and I don't want to keep you forever. But before we move on, let's get to the

01:09:11.060 actual answer of the question of the subject of the podcast, I guess. Do you think that the

01:09:17.640 anti-woke coalition can hold together or will these differences, will these fundamental differences

01:09:23.160 in moral visions pull it apart as it tries to push back against what's happening with progressives?

01:09:29.200 So nothing that is not rooted in Christ can hold together. I firmly believe that. And again,

01:09:35.660 just going back to what I said a moment ago, Christ is truth. It's another way of saying the same thing.

01:09:40.900 And ultimately, this isn't rooted in truth. However, is the untruth that it's rooted in

01:09:48.040 still mixed in with enough truth to withstand the untruth being forced upon it by its enemies?

01:09:56.860 That's a complicated question. What I will say is the best strategy for victory is for people to

01:10:03.420 adopt the truth. I think it's perfectly good to work with these people when that can be beneficial,

01:10:08.860 when it can help us move the cultural goalpost in the right direction. However, the problem is

01:10:18.260 many of these former liberals or people who the left left are unfortunately individuals who just

01:10:29.920 haven't gotten enough exposure therapy to the far left way of life. If you give it a little bit more

01:10:36.460 time, they'll be sufficiently inculcated in this perverse way of thinking. And we saw this happen.

01:10:45.000 So in 2014, 2013, around that time, when the anti-SJW YouTube coalition began forming,

01:10:52.260 and this was pretty much around Gamergate. This was kind of where this all began.

01:10:57.660 There were many people on the left who said, look, I was liberal and I believe in equality between the

01:11:03.260 sexes. People who would never say that the father's the head of the household. And they were saying,

01:11:08.820 well, we need to fight feminism because it may have destroyed the family, but now it's affecting video 1.00

01:11:14.280 games. So we got to get serious. Well, all of those people, or very many of those people,

01:11:20.880 they went in one direction or the other. Many of them did actually become conservative. That's great.

01:11:26.960 Yeah. You look at someone like Carl, Carl Benjamin had a very different path than say like shoe on head,

01:11:31.320 right? Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Um, and some of them proved to merely be patients who had not yet

01:11:40.700 received enough exposure therapy. And now they're completely on board with all of the progressive

01:11:44.800 causes. And this is why I said I had a long conversation. Sorry. I just want to, I had a

01:11:50.720 long conversation with Tim Pool and Lauren Southern about this a few weeks ago where I was trying to

01:11:55.820 impart and communicate. It was a little bit of a debate, but we should work with these people,

01:11:58.880 but we have to know who is and is not a hero. Yep. No, I think that's absolutely right. And it's a tool.

01:12:04.660 It's a, it's a skill. It's a, that's going to be essential going forward. If, if you don't want to

01:12:09.120 watch, uh, if you don't want to watch this whole thing, get co-opted or completely dismantled in any

01:12:14.180 meaningful way. There's a reason that some of these people are bucking up against say these boycotts

01:12:18.200 is because, you know, Oh, we can't do anything. It's actually effective. Oh, I don't want to actually

01:12:22.120 be seen as someone who opposes any of this stuff. I only wanted to do this when I get to, you know,

01:12:26.740 cry about getting deep platformed or, you know, losing my speech. Yeah. Bringing it full circle back to

01:12:32.240 the libertarians. One of the, uh, one of the good ones is I like to say, um, Robert P Murphy, the

01:12:37.560 economist, I follow him on Twitter, very funny guy. He was tweeting in response to people who were

01:12:42.300 upset about the target boycott. And they were, they were saying there's basically a libertarian

01:12:47.460 saying that libertarians shouldn't promote boycotts. He was laughing. He was like laughing. I can't

01:12:52.120 remember exactly what he said in reply to him, but it was something like, Oh, I wish I had it. Cause I'm

01:12:58.680 not going to even come close to doing it justice. But of course the whole joke had

01:13:02.200 bottom is wait a minute. Like boycotts aren't libertarian. That's the one thing libertarians

01:13:06.000 claim we can do or they like people are allowed to do. Like we're not supposed to run to the state.

01:13:10.420 Okay. So surely we can boycott target, but no, you're only supposed to boycott social conservatives,

01:13:15.080 right? Yeah. All of a sudden it becomes very clear what the agenda actually was in the first,

01:13:19.560 in the first place. But all right. So before we go over to the questions of the people,

01:13:23.440 Shamus, I'm sure most people have seen your work. It's everywhere and it's very good,

01:13:26.880 but just in case they don't know, uh, where should they find your stuff?

01:13:30.040 So I'm on freedom tunes, youtube.com slash freedom tunes, but we also have a website,

01:13:34.340 which I would encourage you to bookmark in case YouTube ever deletes us someday.

01:13:37.560 That's a just freedom tunes.com. We, we post all of the videos there. And also we post special

01:13:43.980 videos on the freedom tunes website once each week. So, so there's almost 50 videos now that

01:13:49.220 are only available on the freedom tunes website, but the catch is you have to be a supporter to watch

01:13:53.600 those. So if you become a member at freedom tunes.com, you'll get behind the scenes stuff and some

01:13:59.680 special perks. And you'll also get to watch one extra video each week that people who are just

01:14:05.180 subscribed to the main channel don't get to see. And there's like 50 of them already there. So

01:14:10.760 you'll have quite a lot of catching up to do to entertain yourself for a while. I think it's worth

01:14:16.560 it. Absolutely. All right, guys, we'll make sure that you check all of that out and let's go ahead

01:14:21.260 and check out the questions of the people. By the way, I'm so sorry. Cause this is my millionth

01:14:26.780 time interrupting you. This is a very bad look, but my podcast is called shamer. It's on rumble

01:14:30.540 and it's called shamer. Check that out. Absolutely. Get all the plugs in. That's what that time was

01:14:34.180 for. Absolutely. All right. So, uh, Jacob here for $10, uh, number one papist potato Biden bops and

01:14:41.800 Chris cucker playing Baker street for the wind. Oh, that's, that's a classic man. Chris cucker

01:14:48.000 playing Baker street. That was a video I must've made back in like 2016, 2017, maybe uploaded in 2018.

01:14:54.040 But, uh, that was a fun one. I was just, it was just a little live action video I did

01:14:58.180 where I was playing a white night. Um, and his name is actually not featured in the video or no,

01:15:04.060 I don't say it, but it's just sort of in the background on the computer screen. So I'm glad

01:15:07.080 he caught that. I was like, wait, Chris cucker. What was that? And then I remembered, oh my gosh, 0.95

01:15:10.780 that's what I, that was what I had that character is like Facebook profile picture. Say his name was,

01:15:15.960 I'm glad you like Biden bops too. Uh, that was a fun one. I think we're overdue for another music video.

01:15:21.180 Nice. All right. And a weirder, uh, uh, creeper weirdo for $5 Seamus. Have you ever watched or read

01:15:27.880 the symbolic word? You kind of talk like Jonathan, uh, Pajow, I believe is, uh, the guy who hosts that

01:15:33.100 one. Here's the thing. I will take that as a massive compliment because everything I've seen

01:15:37.580 from him has been absolutely brilliant. And I think you're being way too kind to me. I haven't seen

01:15:43.720 enough of his work. Does he interrupt people all the time and go on for like an hour? Sorry. Uh, he's,

01:15:48.820 I think he's fantastic. I've seen some of his work. Um, I've probably seen three or four of his

01:15:52.800 videos and I really should watch more because I found all of his observations to be very resonant.

01:15:57.160 One thing he said that there's two things he said, which I'll repeat now, which is people ask

01:16:01.460 about young earth creationism and they say, do you really think the world is 60 to 8,000 years old?

01:16:05.220 What he says is like everything relevant to us is fair, fair point, right? Like everything that human

01:16:11.600 beings can conceive of in terms of society, uh, all of our social structures are understanding,

01:16:16.420 like pretty much goes back to, to about that time. Obviously you get an evolutionary biology

01:16:20.160 that becomes more complicated, but you get the point. I don't think that refutes any of what he

01:16:23.840 said. He also made this point about how Neil deGrasse Tyson and these other leftists try to

01:16:28.800 deconstruct, but they only go one layer deep. And I don't know that I'll, I'll do justice to his full

01:16:35.740 point here, but he was talking about how, you know, Neil deGrasse Tyson will say something like

01:16:39.160 happy new year. January 1st has no astrological significance. It's just the earth making one

01:16:47.040 rotation around the sun. So, so he's, he's taken us one level deeper in deconstruction. Okay.

01:16:52.320 But he stops there. Like he doesn't continue to deconstruct and say like, well, what, like maybe

01:16:56.900 we should deconstruct why it would need to be astrologically significant. Like maybe we should

01:17:00.560 deconstruct the words you're using to even make that statement. Maybe we should deconstruct the entire

01:17:05.380 purpose of saying something like that, but they, they just go one level deeper and then

01:17:09.580 they feel very smug and satisfied. And instead of asking the question, like, why don't I deconstruct

01:17:15.680 my own motivations for wanting to do this? Why don't I like further deconstruct the language I'm

01:17:19.420 using or, or like, I guess the underlying social ideals that tell us that this deconstruction is

01:17:23.700 valuable. Yeah, no, there's a, the Alistair McIntyre is a philosopher and he has a great book called

01:17:30.500 After Virtue. And in that book, he, you know, kind of points out that every rebel who wants to

01:17:35.720 critique, uh, kind of, uh, the, the morality of, uh, maybe Christianity or the traditional world,

01:17:41.480 always the one thing they don't question is whether or not they have the language to actually

01:17:44.960 critique it, where the language they have actually came from. They're always willing to just go to the,

01:17:49.460 the direct critique of the, uh, of the society, but never think about the fact that they're using

01:17:53.440 the society's own moral framework, uh, to even process that in the first way, the first place.

01:17:58.240 And they don't doubt that they have the capacity to do that, but, uh, but yeah, I'm sorry. Good.

01:18:03.100 No, no, no, no, no. You go ahead. I was going to interrupt you. I thought you were done, but

01:18:05.860 just, but I was going to say, uh, yeah, everything I've only seen Pajal really in, in conversation

01:18:10.740 with others on other people's podcasts. I haven't watched a lot of his own solo stuff, but everything

01:18:15.200 I've seen from him is very good. And I think, uh, he does a great job. Well, you have to remember

01:18:19.220 is Christianity is always critiqued for not being Christian enough. That's it. Like I, I criticize

01:18:24.220 communism because it in no way, shape or form maps onto reality in a meaningful way.

01:18:27.700 That's why I critique it. The critique of Christianity is like, okay, this is all well 1.00

01:18:31.160 and good, but you're not actually doing it. Okay. Well, if it's all well and good, why

01:18:34.720 don't you try? Oh, okay. You don't want to, cause it's hard. Interesting. Yeah. Not, not

01:18:40.840 left wanting found, uh, left, uh, found difficult and left untried. Right. Amen. Yeah. Uh, Cooper

01:18:47.040 weirdo here for $2, the sex, sexual revolution and its consequences, uh, have been a disaster 0.99

01:18:52.680 for the human race. Yeah. Cue your Ted Kaczynski meme. Uh, let's see here. Uh, Paladin, uh, 0.99

01:19:00.680 YYZ for $21. Thank you very much, sir. The anti-well coalition has no chance of succeeding

01:19:05.940 if they have to defeat the alt-right in a logical debate against Orr McIntyre and his guests

01:19:10.400 in every other area of life they win. Uh, yeah, obviously these are, uh, people who usually

01:19:16.780 have not had significant parts of their worldview, their underlying worldview challenged. Uh, and

01:19:24.020 so they kind of, again, just assume that there's this self-evident truth and everybody on the

01:19:29.040 woke left is just ignoring the self-evident truth without asking themselves, how did I disassemble

01:19:33.780 the things that made that truth self-evident? Uh, I did a five episode series on Alexander

01:19:40.120 Dugan with Michael Millerman. It's rather long, but I think it's worth investing in for a lot of

01:19:45.400 people because it gets into, uh, it gets into, uh, um, post-modernism a lot and how the left

01:19:54.100 is just completely, or kind of the, uh, the, the center left is completely disarmed. Liberalism

01:19:59.220 is completely disarmed by post-modernism because they don't realize that they themselves

01:20:03.660 uh, created kind of the tool by which meaning would be eroded. Uh, and so they don't really

01:20:08.400 have a way to fight back against any of that because as Seamus and I have both pointed out

01:20:12.740 on this, uh, podcast repeatedly, they've already deracinated their, uh, their culture. They've

01:20:17.760 already deracinated their values. And so they don't really have anything to do or anything to say of

01:20:22.420 meaning, uh, or substance when post-modernism, uh, post-modernists point out you, you've, you've

01:20:28.380 completely pushed beyond this. There's no longer any leg for you to stand on.

01:20:32.020 Yeah. I'll also add this cause you mentioned sort of like the, the alt-right and illogical

01:20:35.360 debate. I wouldn't consider myself alt-right, but I also have no idea how to define it. It's

01:20:39.500 always used as this kind of vague boogeyman term. Um, I don't know what it means, but I,

01:20:45.120 I used to conceive of it as meaning like ethno-nationalist, but that's also not really

01:20:50.180 how it's used. It's thrown around a lot. I think the point is the point your, your commenter

01:20:54.600 is making is that they, they can debate lefties and they can even debate conservatives because

01:21:00.320 most conservatives don't have a firm footing in what conservatism actually means. Uh, and that's,

01:21:06.760 that's true. I've seen this happen, dude. I've seen like left-wing podcasters like destiny

01:21:10.760 take conservatives to task on basic stuff like sex and gender real. How could you as a conservative

01:21:17.600 lose the debate that a man can't become a woman, but I've seen it happen because they don't 1.00

01:21:22.940 understand these values. They don't actually understand these principles.

01:21:27.380 Yeah, I think it's really, uh, hard there. There's certainly something beyond conservatism

01:21:33.220 forming. And I made this argument that that conservatism is dead and you have to build

01:21:37.180 something new. Conservatism was about retaining institutions and their values, but all of those

01:21:43.300 institutions in the United States don't hold traditional religious values anymore. And so

01:21:49.040 conserving those institutions doesn't have any value. And so you have to show, you have to shift

01:21:53.760 focus of one of protecting institutions that no longer hold your values to ones of creating

01:21:58.720 institutions that will hold those values that perpetuate those values into the future. And so I

01:22:04.420 think we're moving from a time of conservatism to a time of building and no one knows what to call

01:22:08.620 that yet. Uh, but, but it is a, it is something I think that is distinct and different from kind of

01:22:13.620 that can, you know, conservatism Inc, you know, national review, you know, uh, weekly standard

01:22:19.700 kind of thing that got, you know, pushed around as, as a right wing in America for decades.

01:22:25.360 Yeah, I think that's, I think that's right. There are certain things we need to consider. I mean,

01:22:29.560 when I think of conservatism and what it should mean, it's, it's conserving the family. That's what

01:22:33.500 it should be about. And this is why like, I'll call myself, I guess I'm pro family, uh, conservative.

01:22:37.760 Uh, but I would agree with you. I mean, we can't conceive of this is trying to preserve

01:22:45.780 a Christian culture or conserve a Christian culture. We're actually trying to evangelize

01:22:50.740 a post-Christian pagan culture. Yes, exactly. I agree a hundred percent. All right. So let's 0.85

01:22:57.040 see another one here from Florida. Henry for $5 is the core of all this insanity, just people

01:23:02.700 wanting attention. I mean, it is to some extent it's, it's also because a lot of the

01:23:07.740 this brings power. I mean, there, there, we, we, we, we could go on that could do an entirely

01:23:12.480 different podcast on, on, on what the core of all this is. Uh, but, but the ability to garner

01:23:18.220 attention and acceptance is a big part of it. The long and the short of this is, this is what became

01:23:23.580 elite culture. Uh, and because this is what became elite culture, this is what gives people power.

01:23:27.900 This is what gives people social standing. This is what gives people acceptability. And that's why

01:23:31.500 they want to adopt it. People don't want to just construct, deconstruct traditional values

01:23:36.280 because they want to deconstruct traditional values. They do it because they're being rewarded

01:23:39.640 for doing it. And because it became the dominant culture, that's why people do it.

01:23:43.660 And I'll, I'll add this. I think that culture, I think that question is actually a lot deeper than

01:23:48.380 someone might initially hear it and conceive of it as, because when we're talking about a person

01:23:52.420 wanting attention, we're talking about a person wanting to be known. And we live in such an alienating

01:23:56.980 culture. And it's not just the blue haired social justice warrior screaming their head off

01:24:02.200 because Michael Knowles is speaking on campus who is seeking attention. And I don't even know if

01:24:07.680 they're doing it in that moment to seek attention. I think the reason they engage in these perverse

01:24:11.400 lifestyle choices is because part of them like wants to be known and no one's ever given them God

01:24:17.600 or they've never learned about Christ in the proper way, or they've rejected their faith.

01:24:22.140 And so there is an attention that they don't understand they're receiving from the divine,

01:24:26.720 or they do realize they're receiving it, but they know that they are not living in God's grace

01:24:31.480 and friendship. And so they need everyone else's approval instead. That's a massive part of this.

01:24:36.420 A massive part of this is alienated, lonely people wanting to be known, wanting to be loved,

01:24:41.160 wanting to know that they matter. And because our culture doesn't properly form people's

01:24:46.580 conscience or give them the tools to form healthy relationships or obey God and do what's expected

01:24:52.420 of them, they slip into debauchery and hedonism and perversion. And they ruin their lives.

01:24:59.340 They ruin their lives. I think that's actually a very good point. I think a lot of people bypass

01:25:04.340 that desire for meaning that's been created by the destruction of more organic communities.

01:25:10.500 And so by demolishing those more organic religious communities, those more tight-knit, 0.99

01:25:16.120 close-to-home communities, by making sure that everyone is atomized and alone, you increase the

01:25:22.140 need for social conformity on the mass scale because that allows you to feel once again noticed to be

01:25:27.680 accepted, to be part of it. And I think that is a big driver as well.

01:25:32.680 Creeper Weero here for $5. Richard Dawkins said he liked the idea of a creator so long as he was a

01:25:38.020 materialist nerd. So AI did something good. I don't quite understand that one. So he's okay with God

01:25:47.000 as long as God is a nerd? I don't know.

01:25:48.860 Maybe simulate. It sounds to me like this is a reference to the simulation. Yeah. No, people

01:25:52.760 will do, will believe in all kinds of dumb stuff to try not believing in God. Yeah. Not admitting 0.91

01:25:57.160 that God exists. So it's like Chesterton said, once you stop believing in God, you don't believe

01:26:00.580 in nothing. You believe in anything. Yeah. And with, with AI, I always laugh at this, this idea of

01:26:05.840 simulism because they see this as a more sophisticated approach to understanding religion.

01:26:09.640 Saying that God uses the same tools I use is an unbelievably primitive approach, which pagan 1.00

01:26:14.060 cultures have engaged in throughout all of history. God made universe with hammer. God made universe

01:26:18.440 in fight. God made universe through sex. God made universe doing things I do. No, God spoke the

01:26:23.440 universe into existence. That is a profound idea. And I hate to call it sophisticated because I don't

01:26:28.180 actually agree that sophistication is necessarily good. It's very simple and very beautiful idea. And it's one

01:26:34.300 that, that isn't totally self-evident to humans, which is why it took a lot of, a lot of history

01:26:38.280 and doctrinal development and revelation for us to fully understand that. But thinking that God uses

01:26:43.140 a computer, like you use a computer. Come on, dude, come on. Be imaginative.

01:26:48.560 It is a, it is a very desperate reach. Yeah. Uh, Darth Calhoun here for $5. If you're Catholic, 1.00

01:26:56.200 you cannot support liberalism slash Americanism. Read the papal bull of Pius the ninth and Leo the 13th.

01:27:02.520 Uh, I'll have to leave that one to you. Seamus, uh, Kim, Kim, let's not believe you.

01:27:07.180 Well, I'm not Catholic, so I can't help you on that. Yeah. I'll have to refresh myself on those,

01:27:11.720 but there's definitely a lot that the popes wrote, um, in the, the, um, industrial era

01:27:17.080 through the 18th or I'm sorry, through the 19th and 20th century that do touch on the evils of

01:27:22.020 unmitigated, unrestrained capitalism. And part of it is that it plays into this idea that all we have

01:27:27.480 to do is rearrange material reality until we bring about a utopia. That's a lot of what capitalism

01:27:32.800 says. That's a lot of what market thinking says that is thoroughly critiqued. And also

01:27:36.460 what Catholic thinkers have said, uh, writing in response to the industrial revolution is that

01:27:41.980 the excesses of capitalism, uh, will invariably lead to communism. That's something Marx was

01:27:47.080 actually right about. Yeah, a little bit. I mean, he was, he was certainly right that, uh,

01:27:54.400 that there are, there are certainly issues that will lead to particular outcomes. I don't know if

01:27:59.700 he was right that that will never leave to communism just because all of the communist

01:28:03.620 revolutions happened in poor places. But no, no, that is the thing. Marx was wrong about how it was

01:28:09.000 going to happen. Marx thought that capitalism was going to crash under its own weight and there was no

01:28:12.260 way people could be as productive as we are today or that we could amass as much wealth as we have

01:28:15.680 today. And so wealth would just become so centralized that everyone would become poor and then they would

01:28:19.260 revolt. That didn't happen. But what did happen was people got rich and lazy and uncaring enough

01:28:25.500 to allow their culture to become entirely subverted. Um, and that's what happens, right? The, the,

01:28:30.580 the population begins to only conceive of things in material terms. And once you do that, Marxism is

01:28:34.800 just a step away. Yeah. Uh, weak men make strong or make hard times. Yeah. All right. And Darth

01:28:40.680 Kilhune here again for $2. Uh, Catholic affirms truth. Liberalism denies truth. Based, based, based,

01:28:48.400 based. All right, guys. Well, I think we made it through all of our super chats again. I want to

01:28:53.420 thank Seamus so much for coming on a pleasure. Absolutely. To talk to you, sir. Yeah, this has

01:28:58.460 been fantastic, man. I'd love to do this again at any time. I would also love to have you back on my

01:29:02.260 podcast whenever you're interested. Absolutely. No. And everybody again, make sure that you're

01:29:06.540 checking out all of Seamus's work. I'm sure you are ER, but just in case you aren't, make sure you

01:29:10.540 get over there, watch freedom tunes, uh, check out the podcast on rumble. Make sure that you're

01:29:15.500 looking at all that. And of course, guys, if this is your first time on this channel, make sure that

01:29:19.440 you are subscribing. And if you want to get these broadcasts as podcasts, make sure that you go

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01:29:28.500 make sure that you leave a rating or review that helps with all the algorithm magic. All right,

01:29:33.040 everybody. Thank you for coming by. Had a lot of great questions, a great crowd today,

01:29:36.440 really appreciate it, really appreciate Seamus. And as always, we'll talk to you next time.

The Auron MacIntyre Show - May 26, 2023

Can the Anti-Woke Coalition Hold？｜ Guest： Seamus Coughlin ｜ 5⧸26⧸23

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - May 26, 2023

Can the Anti-Woke Coalition Hold？ ｜ Guest： Seamus Coughlin ｜ 5⧸26⧸23

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Can the Anti-Woke Coalition Hold？｜ Guest： Seamus Coughlin ｜ 5⧸26⧸23