In this episode, we re revisiting an essay from Nick Land called "Cathedralism" written in response to a recent article written by Curtis Yarvin about the current state of mind control tactics being used by the ruling class.
00:00:34.020I've got a great stream with a great guest that I think you're really going to enjoy.
00:00:37.820So one of the things that we like to do on this channel is break out a little bit of political theory whenever possible.
00:00:44.140I want to go ahead and apply the things, the abstract ideas that we're looking at to the real world.
00:00:51.700Things that are occurring right now so that we can recognize that while ideas are important and they matter.
00:00:57.560And grasping them in a theoretical framework is very useful.
00:01:01.300Ultimately, if we can't practically apply those things, if we can't figure out how that theory turns into reality, then the model is no good.
00:01:08.380The only reason to have the model is that it maps on to something that we can observe.
00:01:11.940And so a lot has been happening with propaganda recently, both in the UK when it comes to the migrant crisis there and the riots and the way that the UK government is persecuting its own people and forcing out messages through censorship and propaganda.
00:01:28.460And here in the United States, we're seeing the manipulative launch of Kamala Harris as the media pretends like this person is some kind of charismatic social media star.
00:01:38.400And so I thought at this moment, it would be a good time to go back and revisit a Nick Land essay called Cathedralism.
00:01:46.420Nick Land is a philosopher. I talk about a good bit and someone who is always great to sit down and crack wise and think about what is happening inside these essays is, of course, your favorite frog, the Prudentialist.
00:02:06.680It's a very short one. It's really only about a page or two, but it has a lot to tell us about the way that that propaganda is being applied and why a system of mind control, which is what the cathedral essentially is, becomes the only weapon that the ruling class, the fox style elites can use, which I think is particularly important given, again, the events that are surrounding us both in the United States and the UK.
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00:04:00.760So we're going to be reading this essay from Nick Land called Cathedralism.
00:04:04.980Now, obviously, Nick Land in most of his Xenosystems work, and we're pulling this from the Xenosystems blog collection today, is responding to Curtis Yarvin.
00:04:15.760So he's using a lot of Curtis Yarvin's words for the different phenomenon that you're seeing.
00:04:21.240I know a lot of people don't like the cathedral as a term.
00:04:25.800The term is not the most important part.
00:04:28.100The most important part is the idea behind it.
00:04:30.420So we want to focus on the distributed consensus manufacturing apparatus that does a large amount of the lifting for our ruling elites.
00:04:40.540And the version of the essay we're pulling today is from the new Xenosystems collection that Passage Press is putting out.
00:04:48.200The new version collects a large amount of what was in the Xenosystems blog, not just the stuff that was in that PDF that was floating around from Postate Gallery,
00:04:59.360but it also includes a number of other posts that weren't originally in there.
00:05:03.440So if you're looking to get this in print and you want to get those extra essays and those extra blog posts that did not get included in that original version,
00:05:41.400And the fact that the cathedral, this mind control device, this control of public opinion on a regular basis is the core of the power.
00:05:50.680If we wanted them to succeed, do we think that the cathedral model is itself a great way to secure power?
00:05:57.620And Len says at the beginning, well, obviously it has some kind of advantage because it did dominate the world.
00:06:03.680It has conquered at least the Western world in large part, which I think many people living in kind of the American satellite states right now can kind of attest to.
00:06:13.380One of the things that you pointed out, Prudentials here, which I do think is a good point before we get deeper, is he says here, suggestions in this direction are not unknown, even in the XenoSystems comment thread.
00:06:23.200You know, so much of what we're doing here is looking at political theory that was mainly done online in blogs and chat boards and these kind of things.
00:06:31.360And so much of this has been lost, as you were pointing out.
00:06:35.060It's very interesting that I think a lot of the most important political theory that has been done for several years was done in this environment, not in your traditional academic environment.
00:06:45.040And on top of that, we've lost a large amount of it because so much of this was an interactive conversation.
00:06:50.600Guys like Land and Spandrel and Yarvin were critical nodes, but they were not everything.
00:06:57.320Yeah, I mean, there's countless memes or talking points that get lost in the ether when these blogs or forums die down.
00:07:05.240And it's sort of funny that the wonderful world of iFunny has turned into this library of Alexandria of forgotten tweets and essays by people that have been banned from Twitter for years or have, you know, given up the digital ghost, so to speak.
00:07:19.440And again, we don't have access to this.
00:07:21.120And I mean, if someone does have, you know, some records or some screenshots, by all means, share it, because when people say jokingly, oh, some obscure basket weaving forum, I mean, that could be anywhere from 4chan to some forum where, you know, some of the most influential writers and bloggers and posters of our time used to meet and talk regularly.
00:07:56.180Yeah, I think it's interesting, you know, if you go to like Washington, D.C. or some of these areas where the country was really founded, you see that they have these different buildings with plaques on them.
00:08:07.580Well, different founding fathers met here to discuss this or that, you know, will be hilarious if someday if we need like a plaque on a given forum, you know, like at some point, the minds of that informed this political system all met on this chat board.
00:08:21.780So digital, digital drinking houses for you to discuss your your political thoughts on.
00:08:30.700So back to our reading here, it says the cathedral or like you said, you know, that we could substitute the total state if people prefer that defined with this question in mind is a summation of politics into propaganda.
00:08:43.240It tends as it develops to convert all administrative problems into public relation challenges, a solution, actual actual or perspective is a successful management of perception.
00:08:57.200So this is very interesting because, you know, in in Leviathan and its enemies, Sam Francis focuses a lot on the desire of the managerial class to turn everything into an administrative problem.
00:09:09.780Right. So things that originally were in the domain of kind of the venture capitalist or even in, say, the legal realm get transferred into these managerial realms where that that that's where it actually gets adjudicated.
00:09:27.000Something like arbitration as opposed to official legal procedures where we turn things that are outside of the managerial solution into a managerial problem.
00:09:38.360So the managerial class can have controls control over all of these spheres of society.
00:09:44.540And what Land is pointing out here is it's in many ways, the cathedral is taking things that were an administrative problem and turning them into purely problems of public relations.
00:09:57.020We take all political problems and they stop being even of administrative process and become primarily about what we can sell to the public.
00:10:06.520And while that aspect of our country is also operated largely by people we would identify inside the managerial elite, the specific concentration of solutions into this exact formula is very interesting because it has important implications for the way that our leaders develop solutions and apply solutions.
00:10:27.740Yeah. Yeah. And I think one of the important things to consider, too, especially in the United States and I mean, the UK to some extent as well.
00:10:35.520But I think that the nature of how our country is demographically plays into it as well is that the matter of public relations is now purely a numbers game.
00:10:45.100I mean, this is the how you get new people to adopt into your value system that may actually be antithetical to the nation's original stock or to the beliefs that had been traditionally considered American to begin with.
00:10:57.100I mean, Gustav Le Bon wrote, you know, in the wisdom about the wisdom of crowds, the crowd, depending on your translation of it.
00:11:04.380I mean, he writes that these institutions, you know, their belief system, their ideas are a natural part of the country or a population as natural as their hair color and so on.
00:11:14.340And so when you see an adoption of these new ideas that come out of there that can seem either completely foreign or are definitely, say, you know, like the post World War II American right is far more Germanic and Catholic than, say, it's more Anglo and Protestant, you know, pre-war counterparts.
00:11:30.580And you're witnessing like the changing of these ideas. And as these ideas change out, you're also witnessing the change of what kind of people that are trying to appeal to.
00:11:39.480I mean, it does. Tim Waltz is a good example of this, because even though he is a white guy, he's putting on a minstrel show of what a dorky white progressive looks like.
00:11:49.000I mean, they literally just did a video today about how he doesn't like spice.
00:11:52.740You know, he's a mayonnaise kind of guy. He doesn't like pepper or anything like that.
00:11:56.020I mean, just sort of the most blatant sort of like anti-white tropes that you can imagine being put out there for the purpose of how do we get these PR solutions out there?
00:12:04.780This is a campaign of vibes, the live, laugh, love stuff.
00:12:09.220And it's less about policy like it was even when Hillary Clinton was running for president in 2016 or even Joe Biden.
00:12:15.360It's no longer a matter of the adults are back in charge. It's about feeling good.
00:12:20.220It's about doing so. It doesn't matter what the solution is or that your idea of a solution is price controls in a grocery store like this is Brezhnev era Soviet reforms.
00:12:29.860It's about telling people that it's actually OK.
00:12:32.880And we saw this earlier where I know you and I don't like it.
00:12:35.540Well, I don't know if you don't like him, but I mean, I cat turns a boomer.
00:12:38.720But I mean, he was talking about the price of groceries and you had these regime apparatchiks quote tweeting this guy.
00:12:44.700And anyone who was agreeing with him saying actually inflation isn't that bad, the price of groceries are not that high, despite the fact that the data tells us quite clearly you need to be making eleven thousand more dollars a year to keep up with inflation from just four years ago.
00:13:00.360So everything being a PR solution, everything about being gaslit, that you are actually not feeling the truth, you're just feeling bad because you have bias or racism or something, tells you that this whole regime that we're dealing with in America is to placate people with this society of spectacle type deal like the board would write about.
00:13:21.200And so distract you from like crumbling infrastructure, the national debt or immigration out of control, and instead make you feel good as we watch these guys dance or pose in their pheasant hunting outfits as if they're authentic ruralites or something.
00:13:35.520Yeah, the hyperreality plays into a lot of this because you're correct in how important Tim Waltz's role is here.
00:13:44.340He is supposed to be the white guy, right, that makes it like, oh, you know, the torch has been handed over, he's okay, you know, I forget which leftist was on MSNBC saying the whole point of this is just to show old white men that having a black woman boss is preferable.
00:14:03.680You know, he's doing all of these things like talking about the spice or having the real tree camo hat, but they're all caricatures of what some middle class grilling, you know, kind of boomer dad would do.
00:14:18.220None of it actually reflects many of the things, you know, people coming from that background would care about.
00:14:24.560In fact, a large amount of the entire program is aimed to eliminate a lot of the people that Tim Waltz is supposed to talk about, at least politically.
00:14:33.680That make them politically irrelevant.
00:14:36.020And so it's really about saying, well, just just take the shot, you know, just just kind of, you know, kind of kind of slowly lull off.
00:14:43.900You know, your time was has come and gone and you just need to go ahead and be a part of this rotation, this process.
00:14:50.240You know, and here are all the things that, yes, we're we're putting kind of this old white guy in here into this VP slot, but he's really here to be a character of what other people think about, like what a white old man would be.
00:15:04.300Not what they actually are, not what they actually care about, not what interests they actually represent.
00:15:09.680Yeah, I mean, when Spandrel wrote in bio-Leninism that like white guys can still be in the system, they just have to pray to the great Zimbabwe five times a day.
00:15:17.820What Tim Waltz is doing on this campaign trail, what he tweets, what videos they put out, that's what praying to the great Zimbabwe looks like.
00:15:24.580And it's important to consider that the future of all politics in this, you know, fracturing, crazy demographic situation in the United States, if you're on the left and you're a white guy, that's your role model is to be a joke, to be laughed at, be humiliated, and to be on board with this progressive ticket as the most incompetent people continue to run this country to the ground.
00:15:43.580Your job is to be the dumb father in the sitcom, right?
00:16:07.940Power isn't born out of the barrel of a gun.
00:16:10.180Power is born out of the ability to have people with guns do what you tell them to do, end quote.
00:16:14.700The question of legitimacy is, in a real sense, fundamental, when politics sets the boundaries of the cosmos under consideration.
00:16:22.900So, cathedralism is also the hypertrophy of politics to the point where reality outside of it loses all credibility.
00:16:31.860So, this is a really critical sentence.
00:16:34.420In fact, this paragraph is the whole reason I wanted to read this essay, as short as it is.
00:16:40.800It's this understanding that when it comes to legitimacy, at this point, the cathedral, the total state, has gained such a hegemony on what people are allowed to think of that those things outside of the Overton window,
00:16:58.380those things that are no longer defined as discussable and acceptable inside this rhetorical frame, they don't just, they're not just banned, they're not just impolite to talk about.
00:17:09.200They literally stop to exist for a lot of people.
00:17:12.460If the media is not bringing this forward, if it's not constantly putting it under consideration for dialectical reconstruction, it simply isn't important.
00:17:21.960And you can see this, especially with the Trump assassination or the attempted Trump assassination, right?
00:17:28.080It's not just, it's not that they censored Trump out of existence.
00:17:32.580It's not like you can't talk about this.
00:17:34.260You're not going to get banned off Twitter or even, you know, Facebook maybe, actually.
00:17:37.780I've heard Facebook's actually pretty wild on this.
00:17:40.640You can talk about it on YouTube, at least for the minute now.
00:17:43.640Knock on wood, you know, whatever, pray to whatever censorship gods we need to.
00:17:47.380But it's not so much that he was censored out of existence or this event was censored out of existence, but it has simply been moved outside of the focus of the cathedral, outside of this window of discussion.
00:18:05.260And because conservative media is so reciprocally dependent on whatever topic the left is focusing on, if it disappears out of the left frame, then it disappears out of the entire media sphere.
00:18:17.860And once it's out of the media sphere, it just ceases to exist.
00:18:21.420Yeah, in reality, it's somewhere, but it is basically dropped off the conceptual radar and therefore it no longer factors in to this battle of perception and ideas when it comes to the propaganda control of the wider voting base.
00:18:37.640Yeah, and again, the perception matters a lot, specifically only to its adherence.
00:18:43.120If you're not on board with it by now, you're probably not going to be.
00:18:46.860But it doesn't particularly matter if you don't believe in what they're saying, but if your most hardcore, adherent, zealous believers are on board with the messaging, then that's all that matters to them because they're going to go along with whatever the regime tells them to do.
00:19:01.680The people with the guns are going to buy into the perception or, more importantly, enforce that public relation image that they're trying to put on board.
00:19:08.920So it does not matter, for instance, what we saw in Britain, that people who are legitimately concerned and would not consider themselves far right at all.
00:19:17.580I mean, there were literally posters out there that said, I'm not far right.
00:19:20.980I'm just a father saying that, you know, what obviously happened in Southport is a travesty and an insult and a betrayal to the British people.
00:19:29.760It doesn't matter because to anyone who is an adherent to the regime and its beliefs and its state religion, that person is a far right, you know, English Defense League member, despite the fact that EDL hasn't been around for over like 10 years.
00:19:42.140And so any sort of management of this perception is really for its adherence.
00:19:45.840And the nice thing about progressivism, especially how it works in the Western world, in the United States particularly, is if you want new adherence to your religion, you import them.
00:19:54.260Because obviously your people aren't having kids because your cities are IQ shredders, they don't want to have children, and everything that comes on board just means more immigration.
00:20:03.500And so that means more adherence, more believers, and they're going to do that.
00:20:06.640I mean, another example of the sort of like cultural PR management, consider in the last like five years, there's more than just two movies.
00:20:15.100So the two biggest ones that come to my head are, they have a Flaming Hot Cheetos biopic about the product, just the product, which of course is heavily oriented towards Hispanics, that's not based on the truth of it.
00:20:26.400And then you have that Air Jordans, Amazon film, which I think had Matt Damon and a few others in it.
00:20:32.500And it's basically just the worship of the popular culture.
00:20:35.340So it doesn't matter that you're on board with the progressive messaging, because what you're seeing in these films are cultural messaging towards new people saying, America's just products.
00:20:44.660America is product, it's an economic zone, it doesn't matter what you are, as long as you laugh at the dorky white guy dad like Tim Waltz, and you are on board with every progressive policy, and we're going to import millions of you more into the story, then it all works out for us.
00:20:59.060It's that management of perceptions, it's the, really, in a lot of ways, I do think that it would be good in the future to sort of go over the society of spectacle, just because the PR aspect is the spectacle.
00:21:11.060And then in the background, you know, these unelected bureaucrats are flying in all these migrants into like Iowa or Minnesota and places like that.
00:21:19.780And it's the perfect distraction, as long as you feel good, it doesn't matter how many kids get stabbed, because the adherence to that state religion will say that it was a good thing.
00:21:27.840And it was, you know, not all group X or whatever, just part and parcel of living in a multi ethnic democracy.
00:21:35.780So one of the things that I think is also important, talking about kind of that cultural hegemony that you are referencing here, is the way in which it gets washed out to the lowest common denominator.
00:21:45.980You know, you talk about the Cheetos, you talk about the sneakers, and when history is basically off limits, unless it's completely reconstructed into this progressive narrative, when culture that is part of our tradition here in the United States becomes off limits, because it might offend newcomers.
00:22:06.980Newcomers, they're not attached to it, they're not a part of it, then the only thing left to become culture, to become the kind of the common frame of reality that the people of the United States are chose to share, really only becomes these corporate symbols.
00:22:24.860And this is, and this is, again, to reference Sam Francis, a point he makes a lot in Leviathan and its enemies, is that wokeness is critical to the managerial elite.
00:22:37.760It's not just a thing that power decided to play with, as long as it was advantageous and is ready to throw it away.
00:22:44.000No, they need that hedonistic, cosmopolitan form of culture.
00:22:49.840It's the only thing that is the lowest common denominator to allow a maximum adoption across cultures.
00:22:55.520And so you wear away all these particular stories, particular histories, particular customs, and you reduce everything down into these corporate signifiers.
00:23:05.280And this becomes the only shared language that you have.
00:23:08.500And that, again, really drops these other issues out of reality, because the new immigrants, new populations coming in, the only thing they share with the established population is those corporate signifiers.
00:23:22.620That becomes the only thing that they know how to discuss together.
00:23:25.880And all of the history, all of these other things fall away.
00:23:28.960So that really only backs up even more significantly, Land's claim here, that the things that are no longer brought under kind of the rule of the consensus-making apparatus, the things that don't exist inside the total state's frame, simply in many ways cease to exist for a large amount of the population.
00:23:46.800Because they don't have the history, and they don't have the reference points to even draw on the stuff that you and I know we're kind of missing, while still ending up getting blasted with kind of this constant slop of this wide cultural hegemonization.
00:24:00.300Yeah, and I think that this is, there's another essay in this collection that I think it's called specifically Cathedral Decay, because he says the biggest thing that the total state or the regime or the system has to worry about is disintermediation.
00:24:14.460So non-regime-approved platforms or voices, I mean, you yourself would be an example, or myself included, you know, we're not the Walter Cronkites of the world, we're not the Dan Rathers, we're not Chris Promo or whatever.
00:24:29.060And so because we're offering an alternative narrative that is damaging to the regime, because outside of reality, or the reality put out by the system of the total state, you know, the adherents aren't, you know, they're not ever going to hear us.
00:24:43.100So we're speaking from two different languages, two different political theologies, two different everything.
00:24:48.040Yarvin had that idea of the two-story state, which he never finished.
00:24:51.820So color me shocked that he's actually putting out something for his book that he said he was going to put out.
00:24:56.320But it does illustrate, I think, in a lot of ways that what we're witnessing, of course, is that who has the ability to tell those with guns what the truth actually is.
00:25:06.180And that's really why when you look at this, you're like, well, how can anyone believe what they're putting out?
00:25:10.800Well, I mean, there are people that, you know, religiously watched all of the Rachel Maddow stuff when Trump was in office about Russia and the Mueller report, the whole Mueller she wrote thing.
00:25:21.140Like there were people who are so adamantly on board with opposing anything that is moderately to the right.
00:25:28.080And I mean, Trump is very much moderate in a lot of regards, although he has moved the Overton window much further to the right than, you know, what the GOP was even for him.
00:25:35.920And it's important to consider that in this sort of perception, PR management thing, the biggest thing that I think is also important to talk about is the CRS, the Community Relations Service teams that we put out.
00:25:49.140Anytime that there's an obviously racially motivated shooting or some kind of attack on a white person that they go out there to ensure that, you know, they tell you not to look back in anger.
00:25:58.560The same thing happens in the United Kingdom with these stabbings or asset attacks and time and time and time again, it is done to make sure that the people who are clearly the target of this regime, which is, you know, Americans, predominantly white Christian voting, Republican voting Americans.
00:26:16.660Those people don't get an opportunity to say, well, no, clearly you guys are just targeting me.
00:26:22.120So if that perception, that PR, which they literally have part of the DOJ, I think it's with the Civil Rights Division, are all out there telling you, you know, with the force of a gun, with the force of making your life difficult, you're going to be on board with this like anti-racist messaging or life's going to be very difficult for you.
00:26:38.800So then obviously, like the PR stuff is just the velvet glove that holds the gun.
00:28:43.720Our candidates are arguing over how much more income or how much child tax credit can they get on there to finally get people to have kids.
00:28:52.500Maybe we get some Soviet price controls in there to make sure that the food is something we can afford.
00:29:00.040Giving everyone a $25,000 down payment on their first home.
00:29:05.060I'm not an economist, but from what I understand, if every single person all looking for the same commodity suddenly receives an infusion of money of the exact same amount,
00:29:16.700then the increase of price of that commodity will more or less be equal to the amount that they were handed.
00:29:23.060Probably more, actually, because it spirals out.
00:29:25.280So just, you know, these are all insane solutions.
00:29:27.980They don't really make a lot of sense in the long run, but as long as the entire discussion is really being had as a PR discussion and nobody, you know,
00:29:38.460none of these high-time preference voters can really evaluate the consequences of any of the problems that would be raised by these solutions,
00:29:47.000then you can just continue to put out these completely, these propositions that are completely unattached to reality.
00:29:54.380And interestingly, he points out here that, you know, if you're not attached, if any of these questions even come up to you,
00:30:01.140that means you're not really part of the ruling class.
00:30:04.500You're not really dealing power at the highest level.
00:30:06.760Because in order to deal into the power at the highest level, you basically have to have bought in as significantly as possible to the matrix.
00:30:13.640You need to be as completely emerged in as possible, which means you wouldn't even recognize the problems that are being created by the solutions you're talking about.
00:30:22.140Yeah, and I think that the best example of this, and again, those tweets lost to time.
00:30:28.640But, you know, on the left, if you're a leftist, like, you can disagree on some of these, like, economic issues or the size of government or whatever.
00:30:36.320But if you're not really on board with, you know, mass immigration, transgenderism, child mutilation and sacrifice, and you disagree on one of those things, you're considered anathema.
00:30:46.940And, I mean, that's the perfect example of it.
00:30:48.580Like, if you don't buy into every single thing or if you don't performatively buy into it for every single, you know, progressive value plank, then you are outside of the system.
00:30:58.220And if you're like us, who don't believe in any of this and recognize what it is, which is a threat to civilization and humankind's existence, especially Western kind existence, then all of a sudden you realize that, oh, yeah, I'm nowhere near the annals of power or the levers that are going to control the world economy and so on and so forth.
00:31:46.040So he's saying that as long as the issue can be fully resolved through the application of propaganda, then the cathedral system works, right?
00:32:03.120Because it is a master of this particular application of power.
00:32:07.740And that's why every crisis is really a crisis of public relations.
00:32:18.680You don't actually look for the effective solution.
00:32:21.300You're not really looking for how to solve this problem long term or what the policy decisions are, what administrative adjustments need to be made.
00:32:31.500The crisis is the crisis that the resolution, the crisis exists because there is a public relations problem and the crisis is resolved once a public relations solution has been reached.
00:32:43.240None of the details about policies proposed, legislations passed, application of real power really matters in that discussion or even once it's resolved.
00:32:53.800The crisis exists entirely in the realm of public relations and whatever happens outside of that is really inconsequential to the way that power is being wielded inside the cathedral's system.
00:33:09.220Yeah, I think the propaganda limit here is the important part of it because if all things, if your ability to respond is the crisis, I mean, that shows, you know, we've seen that multiple times in both, you know, the quote unquote Biden administration where Biden will say something and then quickly the press team has to come out and issue a correction and go forth to it.
00:33:30.480There's no actual ability to effectively respond to these crises and in doing so, you know, this is when the propaganda blitz comes out.
00:33:37.620It's about vibes. It's about feels. We're going to solve these issues. We're going to stand with this.
00:33:42.080And it's the same kind of social media slacktivism that often gets criticized as far back as like Tony 2012 about how to actually address issues and problems to, you know, sort of build off of this aspect of propaganda.
00:33:55.340You know, I mentioned Gustave Lebon earlier about the crowd. A critic of his, Elias Kennedy, wrote a book called Crowds in Power, I think it was 1960.
00:34:05.200And one of the things in that text talks about is that ruling, i.e. being an actual power, is very closely associated with paranoia.
00:34:13.440Like they're just interlinked in that regard. So you have to constantly be able to get the crowd on your side or to have some sort of external or even internal threat
00:34:22.480in order to make sure that they don't go after you, the ruling class, the people in charge.
00:34:28.060And in doing so, I think that we kind of see this happen here right now is that as long as there is some kind of enemy that you can put out, you know, very Schmittian in that sense,
00:34:37.940your propaganda will be targeted, highly specific, moving out where, you know, in America with our academic system,
00:34:44.600this feels very 2015, 2014 to talk about it, but the left's coalition, that intersectional framework works so well
00:34:52.760because everyone has to buy in to everyone else's progressive nonsense in order for their cause to be heard.
00:34:59.440It does not matter that you are a single issue voter on the issue of like industrial farming and animal cruelty or something like that.
00:35:06.200Like you're a PETA donator. That's your main political issue.
00:35:08.620It does not matter anymore because now you have to believe in gay race communism.
00:35:12.980You now have to believe in the extermination of a national people and ethnos.
00:35:17.320You now have to do all these things that might be even antithetical to your own personal beliefs
00:35:20.740because that's what it means to be a good progressive and to be part of the system.
00:35:25.020And so now the crisis in itself is how do I, as people who clearly should not be in power
00:35:30.140and very much like that Solzhenitsyn thing, they're lying.
00:35:32.880We know that they're lying and they know that we know that they're lying.
00:35:35.400How do we manage to stay on charge of things?
00:35:37.560And that is to ensure that there is vitriol, that there is an animus,
00:35:41.960and that any time that there is a crisis, we can effectively point to a scapegoat,
00:35:46.000very Girardian in that way, that we can say you are the problem, you are the threat,
00:35:50.080and we will take care of you and we will take, you know, our Barabbas,
00:35:54.340we will take our George Floyds of the world and we will make sure that the Rittenhouses,
00:35:59.080the Kyle Pennys, the Daniel Perrys of the world are put in prison
00:36:03.180because you are the threat despite the fact that you are the very people who've been here since the beginning
00:36:07.580and you are the economic engine that keeps this economic zone afloat.
00:36:11.320And I mean, that's the power of propaganda is that propaganda tied with mass migration,
00:36:16.900tied with economic policies that, again, explicitly reward your own friend group.
00:36:21.760We've seen this with countless statistics that almost all of the jobs under the Biden administration
00:36:26.820has either gone to foreign-born workers or recently naturalized Americans
00:36:30.720and not, you know, actual U.S. citizens or people born here.
00:36:35.000And so you have a system that propagates the idea, oh, the economy is doing great,
00:36:38.460but the actual Americans are like, well, no, that isn't the case at all.
00:36:41.620But we know that in a system of propaganda and a system of crises,
00:36:45.400what matters is, you know, rewarding, ensuring that your core believers don't turn on you,
00:36:50.800and that when there are crises to respond to, I mean, the whole Israel-Gaza conflict inside the left
00:36:57.000has been a great example of this, is that you find a way to get everyone back on board and on messaging.
00:37:03.080Christopher Ruffo pointed this out a few months ago about this very issue,
00:37:06.500that it doesn't matter that a lot of these guys on the left are, you know, being anti-Israel or whatever.
00:37:12.900Their point is, is that even if you're anti-Israel or in genocide,
00:37:17.640is that the curriculums that these schools are putting out will say, you know,
00:37:22.480Jewish people with white skin getting treated fairly in there.
00:37:24.740It goes back immediately to the American racial progressivism,