In this episode, Oren McIntyre takes a look at what's happening on the International Space Station, and why it's so important to understand what's going on in space, and how the government is failing to do what it's supposed to do.
00:07:17.080We don't have we're not we don't have the willingness to put in the time to put in the money to do the work.
00:07:22.560We and as we'll look here at the from a number of different videos, the NASA has decided to prioritize other things,
00:07:31.000even though it is ostensibly an agency that is designed to launch people into space.
00:07:37.320Instead, it has decided to focus on other priorities.
00:07:40.420And we can tell that this is kind of slowly eroded our ability to head into space to do even the most basic things that NASA was meant to do.
00:07:50.680So we'll start out here by just playing a few of these clips.
00:07:54.520These are some of the clips that were uncovered by Tenant Media showing the level of integration that DEI has had in several departments inside of NASA
00:08:06.200and the way that it is being prioritized over, you know, things like merit, the ability to actually do the science, do the math, get these things done.
00:08:15.180So let me start here with this montage they put together.
00:08:19.020Things from my own past that has enabled me to share stories in those DEI environments is that I thought back then when I was a kid that that the pathway to this space program was science or engineering.
00:08:38.860And now I look at the environment that I'm in and it takes a village.
00:08:45.280So that's a really bad, really bad thing to hear, right?
00:08:50.500Yeah, I used to think that the key to coming to NASA and working was to be a scientist or an engineer, have the ability to understand complex equations, the way that machines work,
00:09:02.520the way that different parts of physics impact, I don't know, the human body or the structures of a space capsule, of a space station, any of these things.
00:09:12.020That seemed like the way to work at NASA.
00:09:15.540That's how I would assume that one works at NASA.
00:09:18.600But instead we hear it takes a village.
00:09:21.480And this is the first clue that we have this more holistic idea, right?
00:09:26.600It's, oh, it's not, well, it's not entirely about you.
00:09:28.980We don't just want people who can do the science.
00:09:30.940We don't just want people who can do the math.
00:09:32.100We want a diverse group of people who can bring a lot of different interests and insights into this,
00:09:38.160which means we want a lot of people who aren't qualified in math or science, that don't have that as their primary skill set,
00:09:45.980that will not be the driver of who is selected.
00:09:49.400There will be other criteria involved in who we are bringing in to NASA to run these operations.
00:09:55.820What I'm really excited about is that our leadership, and not just in heliophysics, not just in my division, but as a center,
00:10:05.260they want to make a difference and they want to make a change.
00:10:07.920And they know because I mentioned to them a lot of conversations we have are going to be uncomfortable.
00:10:13.620And if we're not uncomfortable, we're not talking about diversity.
00:35:27.380And we explain the mechanisms of our society as if we are hyper-rational agents, even though we are not.
00:35:34.960And so he says, you know, we look at ourselves and we don't even realize that we are trapped in this kind of tyranny reason because we are its apex.
00:35:43.740We are the people most deeply drenched in this understanding of the world.
00:35:49.160We are the fish that does not know it is wet.
00:35:53.400We don't know what water is because we don't understand that we are currently swimming in it.
00:35:58.880Its most distinct expression is the cult of exact science, of dialectic, of demonstration, of causality, of old the ionic.
00:36:12.420And in our case, the Baroque were its rising limb.
00:36:15.640And now the question is, what will be the form, the down curve, what form will the down curve assume?
00:36:23.120So he says that the way that our tyranny of reason expresses itself currently is in the exact sciences.
00:36:31.240This is the fact that we pride ourselves on our scientific ability, that this is the apex of our society.
00:36:38.200That is really a, our particular manifestation of the tyranny of reason.
00:36:43.380And just as in previous ages, reason has grown and formulated itself as the primary value and then eventually dissolved and fallen away, we will see the same cycle.
00:37:02.200We know what it looks like when it comes to science and demonstration and causality and dialectic.
00:37:07.460But what does it look like when it is falling?
00:37:10.940What does it look like when it is coming apart?
00:37:13.380In this very century, I prophesy, the century of scientific, critical Alexandrianism, of the great harvest, of the final formulations, a new element of inwardness will arise to overthrow the will to victory of science.
00:37:31.260So we're in this age of science, right?
00:37:36.160But he says there's going to be an inwardness, an inward looking obsession that overthrows the current obsession with science.
00:37:45.020Exact science must presently fall on its own keen sword.
00:37:49.540First, in the 18th century, its methods were tried out.
00:37:53.500And then in the 19th, its powers, and now its historical role is critically reviewed.
00:38:02.040So he's saying we moved from the point where science was rising, right?
00:38:05.120We saw the Enlightenment and scientific revolution kind of bring science to the forefront.
00:38:11.180We concentrated our energies and our purpose on turning everything into a science, right?
00:38:16.740This is one of the problems with the Enlightenment is it tried to turn – it looked at the scientific revolution and tried to take science and apply it to everything, politics, sociology, psychology, all these things.
00:38:28.260Religion, this is manifestations of science into these domains that were not previously scientific.
00:38:35.120So we saw the rise of science and then we saw the demonstration of the power of science, right?
00:38:48.520He lived from a time in which there was no indoor plumbing or electricity in most buildings, where the plane had not yet been invented, where the automobile was still a strange novelty, rarely seen, to a point at which computers were in everybody's home.
00:39:11.600He had a radical redefinition of the world around him.
00:40:23.680You are dismantling the scientific tradition piece by piece in the name of, you know, equality.
00:40:30.740But from skeptics, there is a path to second religiousness, which is the sequel and not the preface of culture.
00:40:40.300Men dispense with proof and desire only to believe and not to dissect.
00:40:44.740So he's saying, at the end of this very skeptical model, where we are staring and dismantling science, we've used science, we built science up, we've applied it to everything.
00:40:55.940We feel like we understand everything scientifically.
00:40:58.260Then we start turning in on ourselves and we start pulling the science back apart, critically reviewing it.
00:41:03.680And he says, eventually we get to the point where we don't even want to critically review it anymore.
00:41:23.420But, you know, Spengler believes that every every civilization has an animating metaphysical symbol, a Dasein, as you might call it if you're Heideggerian.
00:41:34.760And that that Dasein is is often a manifest itself in a religion.
00:41:41.720There's like a founding religion that is tied to that Dasein.
00:41:44.860And that at the end of this, we are becoming rational, right?
00:41:49.580We're separating ourselves from that metaphysical understanding, that Dasein and that religion.
00:41:56.780And we try to extract a lot of the things that defined our culture and defined who we are.
00:42:02.340A lot of things that we think as advantageous, we want to extract them and make them purely material, purely atheistic.
00:42:08.880And when we do that, we start to hollow out the meaning of all these things.
00:42:13.760It turns out that that cultural Dasein, that connection to the metaphysical, was critical to the creation of these cultures.
00:42:22.900And so when we and again, he says this is not just Western culture.
00:42:26.800He says this is a very repeatable thing that we see over and over and over again inside the civilizational cycle.
00:42:37.180And so he's, you know, he says that what happens at the end of this critical stage is that ultimately people want to be able to just believe again.
00:42:46.200They don't they want to just reconnect to the metaphysical and they don't care.
00:42:49.980But he says the second religiousness is not a sequel to or is not a preface to the culture.
00:42:59.280It's not a it's not a genuine reconnection to the Dasein, to the metaphysical spirit.
00:43:04.200Instead, it is a basically a hollow echo.
00:43:08.100So the second religiousness that comes after will be one that is not as rich, not as connected to the general, the genuine metaphysical founding of the culture.
00:43:20.020And I think we can see a lot of this when it comes to wokeness.
00:43:23.240At this point, the insight that wokeness is a religion is not particularly novel.
00:43:27.920It was back when Curtis Yarvin was making it in 2007, but now your average political commentator, heck, half of your average political audience can can now recognize the religious nature of progressiveness, progressive secular humanism or wokeness, as people call it.
00:43:46.840And so this is a very real manifestation of the second religiousness.
00:43:50.580We are moving into this moment where people are ready to discard the scientific because they want to believe in something.
00:43:59.600But the thing that they want to believe in is ugly and a hollow shadow of what came before.
00:45:23.780And so the general, you know, the level of understanding of religion has waned and the increase in reliance on things like science has waxed.
00:45:34.640But now we are in this moment where we are abandoning the science as well, where we now find that to no longer be a worthwhile cultural pursuit.
00:46:57.440We know that, you know, the classic example, after the fall of the Roman Empire, several technologies completely just fall off the map.
00:47:04.540Things that we knew how to do, not rediscovered for hundreds of years because the intellectual tradition was lost.
00:47:12.640All of the structures underlying that scientific learning were lost.
00:47:17.060And so just because someone achieved the scientific learning at some point doesn't mean that magically now that development tree is just unlocked for all of humanity for the rest of existence.
00:47:28.020If you don't have the great savant generation, if you don't have the men worthy of the books of the tradition, then it all falls away.
00:47:38.080Like, it continues the death of a science that no one any longer regards as an event and an orgy of two centuries of exact scientificness brings saity.
00:47:50.820So the fact that no one is really excited about science anymore, you know, major scientific breakthroughs like we talked about with the space program, right?
00:47:58.360The fact that we reached the moon used to be a huge deal.
00:49:20.180They value the opportunities that they can provide.
00:49:22.940And connecting with cultures that don't necessarily value the things that make traveling to space possible.
00:49:29.400Again, Swingler is predicting all of this and saying we will just simply put fewer and fewer able people into these things because we just don't value them anymore.
00:49:40.660The great century of the classical science was the third after the death of Aristotle when Archimedes died and the Romans came and it was already almost at its end.
00:50:30.380Every cycle of history is a little different.
00:50:33.380But it definitely has a specific pattern to it.
00:50:37.940And that's why Spangler was able to predict the situation we're in now where people would walk away from science, where people would be uninterested.
00:50:44.940They would just stop investing in science as we understand it.
00:50:49.360And that that would have the kind of effects that we're seeing now, where NASA basically just gives up on being able to reliably send people to space.
00:51:00.900They sacrifice that on the altar of diversity, equity, inclusion.
00:51:08.620You know, the quality of your health care is going down.
00:51:12.800You know, the competency crisis that we talk about is all tied to this.
00:51:17.540That competency was part of a specific tradition, a specific understanding of the world.
00:51:22.820And for anyone to access it, they have to buy into those things.
00:51:27.200They have to buy into all those values that were labeled white supremacy there.
00:51:30.920And so if you abandon that tradition, if you're not willing to join into that tradition, whatever your race may be, then you're going to have difficulty accessing the things that that tradition provides.
00:51:40.280It's going to be difficult to operate in that mode, that function, that understanding.
00:51:44.500And the less your culture is interested in investing in those great minds, those great books, those things that build the very structures of a society that can do the science, the more it's going to lose that ability.
00:51:59.140And that's what we're seeing now across the board in every domain.
00:52:03.240We are sacrificing our ability to do most of the things that keep a civilization functioning because we are obsessed with with putting other cultures, other traditions in instead of saying, look, if you're going to be involved in this, you have to prioritize these things.
00:52:30.000If you actually want people to assimilate to a culture, they have to value these things first.
00:52:35.780And if they fail to value these things, and our entire culture gets used to not valuing these things to accommodate people who don't want to really integrate, then we end up abandoning the things that were built on this tradition.
00:52:49.380And that's what Spangler is talking about.
00:52:51.100But as soon as you say, oh, no, the most important thing is valuing some other tradition outside of this that doesn't really practice this stuff, doesn't really think it's important, you're going to lose the ability to do it.
00:53:31.740I don't buy every part of Spangler's understanding as well.
00:53:34.220But still, the fact that he was able to reliably predict this kind of thing means something.
00:53:40.160Even if he doesn't have the whole thing right, he has something about this right.
00:53:43.320And I think that means that we should take the time to contemplate the role that traditions and that cultural understandings and passions and desires have on the maintenance of science.
00:53:55.780We tend to treat science as this far off objective thing that it happens no matter what.
00:54:22.160Well, if those things are critical to the scientific tradition that gets you into space, you're just going to get worse at going into the space.
00:54:28.800And you can call that tradition whatever you want.
00:54:30.860But if you're not willing to integrate into it, if you're not willing to adopt its values and place those values above everything else,
00:54:38.140then you will lose the tradition and you will lose the ability to place that savant generation into those positions.
00:54:45.920And you will put people who are weaker at each one of these roles until eventually they simply get worse and worse and people just fall apart.
00:54:54.300Because they say, why continue to do this?
00:54:56.420We can't even do what we used to do 50 years ago, 100 years ago.
00:55:00.960Better to just enter into the second religiousness phase.
00:55:03.580Better to just abandon this tyranny of reason for something else that we can believe in.
00:55:09.940And the fact that Spangler, again, was able to see that from that distance is very important.
00:55:50.760It's bad pro wrestling to throw in the towel early.
00:55:53.620You got to fight it out to the end, even if it's very obvious that you've lost.
00:55:56.940Tiny Stupid Demon says, as a retired software engineer, I can assure you most people are absolutely no idea the extent to which civilization is kept running by a small number of highly competent individuals.
00:56:07.280Yeah, you know, that's kind of the famous, if you guys have seen that famous cartoon of the guy and he travels back in time and all these people are like, oh, the electricity.
00:56:17.520And he's telling them electricity does this and electricity does that.
00:56:20.500And they're all amazed at all the things electricity to do.
00:56:23.240And they're like, well, how do we make this electricity?
00:56:28.520We like to think of ourselves as very advanced and sophisticated people because we live in an era where a very small number of savant minds, like the ones that he's talking about, very capable people, keep our civilization afloat.
00:56:41.280But that is not what the majority of people do.
00:56:44.220Actually, the majority of people are not very rational and are not connected to that tradition and don't put their time or energy into this.
00:56:51.860And so without that continued investment of the top tier into that scientific tradition, it will simply fall away.
00:56:59.900And that was really what Spangler was predicting and what we're seeing.
00:57:03.660He says, again, engineering is inherently right wing because reality and the laws of physics are no way influenced by your emotions or voting if you respect these laws or people die.
00:57:14.580Yeah. And that really this really ties back to for those who are familiar with previous streams and videos I've done on this.
00:57:22.460Nick Land's assertion that politics in our current democratic understanding is inherently left wing, that when things are up for debate, when there's an integrative dialectic in the public, they will move left wing inherently.
00:57:39.060It is these axiomatic truths, ones that are key to operating something like science, which are very right wing, as we kind of understand right wing, because they do not allow for politics.
00:57:50.440It's either right or wrong. And you either do it or you die.
00:57:54.160You know, either the bridge holds weight or it doesn't. Either the space capsule gets you home or it doesn't.
00:57:59.620There's not really a lot of debate, but you see, that's what they wanted to do.
00:58:03.060That's what they hated in that video, right?
00:58:05.100The white supremacy was saying there's only one way to get something done.
00:58:07.940Well, what if there is only one way to get something done?
00:58:10.300What if that is actually just the right answer and the things that your tradition comes up with are wrong, which makes your tradition not as valuable in this pursuit?
00:58:18.960I'm not saying that your tradition isn't valuable in other ways.
00:58:22.100I'm not even saying that my tradition is superior to yours, but I'm saying that this tradition is better at this.
00:58:29.000And so you have to at least value those aspects of the tradition if you want to be able to do the science.
00:58:36.000And so there's really no room for debate.
00:58:39.340There's no room for hearing all opinions and honoring all cultural differences when you're trying to do these very specific things.
00:58:45.940If you want to label those things as part of a specific culture, fine.
00:59:57.940We're going to go ahead and wrap this one up.
00:59:59.780But thank you everybody for coming by.
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