The Auron MacIntyre Show - You're the Boomer Now ｜ 2⧸12⧸24

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00:00:30.660 Hey everybody, how's it going?

00:00:31.980 Thanks for joining me this afternoon.

00:00:33.920 I am Oren McIntyre.

00:00:36.500 So obviously we had the Super Bowl yesterday.

00:00:39.380 I know it's our job to go, oh no, sports ball.

00:00:42.580 I'm too cool and too smart to care about sports ball.

00:00:46.160 But it's okay guys to enjoy, you know, some recreation every once in a while.

00:00:51.080 You just don't want it to become something you obsess with.

00:00:53.840 If you're watching 20 NFL games every weekend or however many there would be, I don't know that that's

00:01:00.000 probably too much.

00:01:01.180 But it's okay to relax and enjoy some stuff.

00:01:05.360 Understand that there's always going to be some bread and some circuses.

00:01:09.220 The main thing is to not embarrass yourself with it.

00:01:11.900 I want to talk a little bit about some of the things that came out of the Super Bowl.

00:01:15.100 First, we had the Black National Anthem.

00:01:17.980 And second, we had kind of the obsession with Taylor Swift.

00:01:20.960 And more interestingly, kind of the obsession with politicizing Taylor Swift.

00:01:26.300 I want to get into that.

00:01:27.680 I also want to talk a little bit about the Boomers.

00:01:30.540 Very popular for all of us to blame the Boomers for everything that's going on in the world.

00:01:35.420 How they destroyed America and all of our futures.

00:01:38.740 I think it's a bit much.

00:01:39.960 And whether or not it's a bit much, I think more importantly, we need to talk about our

00:01:43.980 responsibility.

00:01:44.740 Because if we sit around the whole time blaming our parents, then what are we but spiritually

00:01:50.140 Boomers anyway? 1.00

00:01:52.080 All right, guys.

00:01:52.540 I want to dive into all of that.

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00:03:24.220 So like I said, I want to talk to you a little bit about the problem of blaming boomers for

00:03:29.220 everything under the sun.

00:03:30.560 Now, don't get me wrong.

00:03:31.860 It's, of course, fun to blame this particular generation for a lot of the things that are 0.91

00:03:37.560 happening in our society.

00:03:39.340 And rightly so.

00:03:41.140 There are some real gripes.

00:03:42.320 There are some real issues.

00:03:43.400 There are some real problems tied to the boomer question that I think do need to be answered.

00:03:48.740 There is some accountability.

00:03:50.060 That's probably the thing that frustrates people the most from younger generations about the

00:03:55.820 boomer generation is the lack of accountability, the way that they hold themselves responsible 0.99

00:04:00.180 for the situation that we find ourselves in.

00:04:03.860 However, I do think it's very easy to overdo it.

00:04:06.240 I think that it's very easy to throw everything onto the boomer generation to say all of our

00:04:11.000 modern problems are involved here.

00:04:12.620 It can all be traced back to these people.

00:04:14.540 I hate to break it to people, but when the boomers are gone, all of your problems will 1.00

00:04:17.780 not disappear.

00:04:18.600 In fact, as I'm going to point out during this, I think that they're probably going to

00:04:22.800 accelerate, which is not to excuse boomers from some of the mistakes they made.

00:04:26.780 But again, also, this isn't like a total thing for the whole generation.

00:04:30.660 There are a lot of very good baby boomers out there.

00:04:33.320 I myself am the child of baby boomers and my parents are excellent people.

00:04:38.460 They didn't do any of the things that people tend to kind of attack boomers for.

00:04:43.280 They took responsibility for my family.

00:04:46.020 They made a focus on sacrificing for, you know, for me and my sibling and whatnot.

00:04:52.740 And they understood the importance of passing on their faith in these kind of things.

00:04:57.120 This was always something that was first and foremost in their minds.

00:05:02.400 And so I'm just somebody who, you know, I maybe got lucky.

00:05:07.000 Maybe I'm not the average person when it comes to having parents who are like this in my generation.

00:05:12.060 But I do think it's unfair sometimes to kind of blast everybody under this umbrella.

00:05:16.740 But we do have to talk about generalizations.

00:05:19.380 You know, I'm not going to be that not all guy.

00:05:21.540 Obviously, we do have to talk about generalizations if we're going to be able to understand certain phenomena.

00:05:26.480 And so I want to get into some things that define boomers, why people get angry at them, why some of that might be justified.

00:05:33.220 But some of it is probably overblown.

00:05:35.440 And most importantly, what we can do to kind of break the cycle.

00:05:39.620 Because if we focus, again, I think on just the mistakes of the generations before us, it's very easy to then offload our own responsibility for what comes next.

00:05:50.020 And that would be the biggest mistake we could possibly make.

00:05:53.420 So first, I want to go ahead and outline the generational split here, because this is the big question for a lot of people.

00:05:59.840 Am I Gen X?

00:06:01.540 Am I a millennial?

00:06:03.640 And am I a Gen Z?

00:06:05.360 You know, how does all of this work?

00:06:06.600 For reference, the dates I'm working from here are 46 to 64 would make you a baby boomer.

00:06:15.280 From 65, rather, to 80 would make you Gen X.

00:06:19.900 And then from 81 to 97 would make you a millennial.

00:06:24.700 Then you have Gen Z.

00:06:26.640 And a lot of people think of Gen Z as the young people, but that's not actually true.

00:06:30.240 And the phrase, the young people, dates me already.

00:06:32.660 But a lot of people think of Gen Z as the youngest relevant generation, but that's not true.

00:06:37.840 Many Gen Z people already have kids.

00:06:40.160 They're already out of college and this kind of thing.

00:06:42.580 They're already full adults living their lives.

00:06:45.620 The up and coming generations, I guess, are alphas is what they're trying to call them now.

00:06:50.480 The point is, I'll be focusing mainly on the boomer X and millennial split.

00:06:56.180 That's the one that people look at, though, we'll look at the Zoomers a little bit, too, as we focus on this. 0.85

00:07:02.020 Because the thing I want a lot of millennials, who are more my age, to remember is, you're the boomer for the Gen Z.

00:07:12.080 They see you as the boomer.

00:07:13.400 If you talk to Gen Z or many of these, even younger, kind of the alpha, they are looking at you as the boomer.

00:07:21.880 And so I want to discuss why that is.

00:07:24.280 It's a term that has now come to just mean everyone older than me in some sense.

00:07:27.920 But there's a relevant point to be made, I think, attached to that.

00:07:31.120 So first, the thing you need to understand about the baby boom generation is the power of demography. 0.81

00:07:39.880 The power of the size of that group.

00:07:42.800 It is the baby boom. 0.95

00:07:43.980 The massive population increase that occurred post-World War II.

00:07:49.640 And really importantly, you need to understand the way that they interact with the massification of society.

00:07:57.480 Now, society was already scaling up.

00:08:00.380 And I talk about this in many different places.

00:08:02.540 The managerial elite series is probably a good place if you want to understand the idea of the massification of society post-multiple industrial revolutions.

00:08:12.880 And the way that bureaucratic organizations have scaled up our social kind of structure.

00:08:22.720 That's critical to understand how these generations interact.

00:08:27.200 Because the baby boom comes basically right after the United States conquers the world. 0.98

00:08:33.440 A lot of people don't look at World War II that way, but it kind of is.

00:08:38.980 And a lot of people will say, well, we conquered it to defeat bad people.

00:08:41.680 And we clearly did defeat bad people during World War II.

00:08:44.820 But to be clear, we more or less took over the world at that point.

00:08:50.900 The United States took over the role of the British Empire, which had already been kind of the global hegemon prior to that.

00:08:59.000 Because England was kind of waning.

00:09:01.460 The British Empire was waning in its will to govern its own empire.

00:09:05.000 And also, it was devastated by its battle with the Axis powers.

00:09:12.080 And really, the United States ends up taking over many of these kind of critical island bases and ports and things around the world.

00:09:19.940 We take over custody of many of these critical pieces of infrastructure that secure global trade.

00:09:25.460 And global trade becomes really important.

00:09:27.880 I mean, global trade has been important ever as long as it's existed.

00:09:32.160 It's always been important to some extent.

00:09:34.340 You know, the explosion of the spice trade and whatnot.

00:09:36.520 And everything that comes with the age of exploration.

00:09:40.540 But really, with the key of mass production, mass consumption, and the ability to transport these goods en masse on a regular basis.

00:09:48.980 This becomes really critical to the global economy.

00:09:52.400 The fact that there is truly, for the first time, an integrated global economy in the way that there hadn't been.

00:09:58.180 Communications also makes this critically possible in ways that just did not exist prior.

00:10:04.340 Yeah, you could send a ship.

00:10:05.680 But if it's just carrying a letter, then that's not usually often useful.

00:10:09.480 The fact that we could constantly be in contact with each other through, you know, underwater lines.

00:10:14.460 And then eventually, satellites and everything else.

00:10:16.800 This becomes a really critical part of the way that kind of the global infrastructure works.

00:10:22.780 And so the fact that the greatest generation is linked to this massification of society and this American empire all kind of emerging simultaneously is really important.

00:10:35.920 Because in many ways, the baby boomers always had an advantage over other generations just due to their vast size and the way that transformation occurred when they were young. 0.96

00:10:49.900 In many ways, the empire that now exists, all these institutions, all these social organizations, the things that the government does, they all exist more or less for the benefit of baby boomers. 0.98

00:11:03.460 And the baby boomers were the driving force between many things that are economic and culturally relevant throughout their entire lives.

00:11:10.640 Things did not shift between generations the way they usually did because the baby boomers commanded so much economic and demographic power due to their size that you never really had that transfer of power naturally. 0.95

00:11:25.100 Whether or not the baby boomers also made decisions that made sure that that power wouldn't be transferred, and we'll talk about how they did in a second. 0.68

00:11:32.820 The key is that a lot of this stuff was built for them as the baby boomers, and things that existed for young baby boomers then followed them up.

00:11:43.040 And then the next thing, and the next thing, more and more stuff was created always specifically for the baby boom generation.

00:11:48.820 It didn't stay a kid's thing.

00:11:50.660 It didn't move to a young adult thing, and it just followed them throughout their life cycles.

00:11:56.380 And so the story of the United States and its empire, in many ways, is the story of the baby boom generation. 0.91

00:12:04.980 And while they often get the rap for being self-centered and the idea that they drove everything and created everything that was America and they contributed everything that exists,

00:12:16.180 in ways it's easy to understand how they feel that way because the culture was almost always made for them.

00:12:23.040 It was always following their growth.

00:12:26.240 This is also true of government.

00:12:28.080 This is true of music.

00:12:29.620 This is true of business.

00:12:31.160 When the baby boomers wanted to rebel, that was the key in the 60s. 1.00

00:12:35.240 And when the baby boomers wanted to settle down and get serious and have families and have material abundance in the suburbs, that was the 80s.

00:12:44.380 You can kind of see how in each one of these generational shifts and attitude in popular culture, that baby boom demographic was driving kind of a large part of it.

00:12:57.120 And so it's very easy to understand what happened.

00:13:00.900 Because, again, probably the number one criticism of the boomer generation is that they had this idea that they did not need to do what previous generations had done.

00:13:15.380 They didn't need to pass the torch.

00:13:18.300 They never needed.

00:13:19.380 They could keep all the wealth for themselves.

00:13:22.460 They could keep all the kind of opportunity for themselves.

00:13:26.540 And the other generations would simply get theirs. 0.96

00:13:29.860 It would be their turn.

00:13:31.500 And, again, it's easy to understand where that mentality comes from when you look at the way that things developed for the boomers.

00:13:38.300 Again, opportunities followed them because they were setting the pace for the expansion of the United States Empire, for the development of the culture, for the development of the economic system.

00:13:48.880 And so these things always followed them.

00:13:53.580 College became critical when they went to college.

00:13:57.040 You know, the housing market.

00:13:59.420 These things are always in the rhythm of the baby boomers. 1.00

00:14:02.440 And so it's understandable why they would think that this opportunity always would exist.

00:14:07.660 Because it existed for them.

00:14:09.320 And they legitimately felt like they had worked hard for it.

00:14:12.020 And to be fair, many of them did.

00:14:13.780 But, right, so if you're someone who's a baby boomer and you look at your parents who are part of, you know, the greatest generation or, you know, something like that, and you look at them and you say, okay, well, they were poor because many of them were poor.

00:14:26.940 Many of them are coming out of a depression, obviously, when the baby boomers are born by definition. 0.94

00:14:32.640 And so they look at their parents, who many of them were stuck in very low socioeconomic situations, and they say, well, I worked hard and I did better than them.

00:14:44.080 And they did do better than them financially because, you know, obviously a lot of these people were stuck in depression.

00:14:49.900 They also attained education, which is its own issue.

00:14:54.100 We could kind of spend an entire episode or a couple breaking down the way that college was integrated into this.

00:15:00.280 In fact, I do that in a chapter of my book, The Total State, if you want to preorder that.

00:15:05.400 But you can understand how they could look at their journey through life and say, well, I improved.

00:15:13.140 You know, I was given an opportunity.

00:15:14.980 Yes, sure, because I'm an American.

00:15:16.700 But everybody gets that opportunity.

00:15:18.440 It's always the same.

00:15:19.520 And they didn't understand that this was not always the same, that this was a very particular fruit of generational investment and also being born in the right time, a time in which America was exploding an opportunity in a way that maybe had not existed before.

00:15:38.420 And the fact that we mortgaged that opportunity into the future would have effects on the subsequent generations.

00:15:46.740 That's also something that boomers often don't realize, something that they're often chided for not understanding.

00:15:53.240 They kind of thought that there are no systemic problems because there's always going to be a certain amount of institutional advantage for us.

00:16:05.820 Like, Americans are always going to have this abundance.

00:16:10.240 We don't have to make a way for our children.

00:16:14.920 We don't have to prepare for them.

00:16:16.520 We don't have to set them up.

00:16:18.800 They can all kind of pull themselves up by their bootstraps just like we did because our parents were poor and we went through this kind of ritual and a cycle of growth.

00:16:28.340 And then we, you know, went crazy during the 60s and then we settled down and had families and, you know, that everything got better for us.

00:16:37.400 And you'll go through that cycle too, right?

00:16:39.440 This is just the natural cycle of adolescence.

00:16:42.160 There's also this simultaneous convergence with that boomer narrative of, you know, the opportunity is always there for you.

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00:17:22.680 It was also the fact that there, many of the things that we now think of as kind of important to passing that stuff on,

00:17:29.280 passing on that to your posterity, those opportunities, was kind of chided by the wider culture

00:17:35.580 because that was considered nepotism or it was ingraining these different disparate impacts,

00:17:45.960 these different, the gulf, the word I'm searching for here is eluding me,

00:17:51.600 the different outcomes that were occurring between different groups.

00:17:56.780 The fact that you would go ahead and pass on your advantages was seen as you passing on some kind of systemic bias for your children,

00:18:09.700 a group that you were a part of, rather than allowing everyone to kind of have the same level of equality.

00:18:15.940 And so people were encouraged to kind of throw off this idea.

00:18:19.420 Well, what if we just kept it all for ourselves and we made our kids earn it because we had to earn it? 0.79

00:18:25.740 And that's the key to growth.

00:18:27.240 When actually like the key to generational wealth is the nepotism.

00:18:32.360 Like nepotism is only bad in the sense where you're consistently choosing people who are very bad at what they do.

00:18:39.920 In general, it's something that helps people grow.

00:18:44.300 It helps give advantages to your descendants.

00:18:47.020 And so that's something that we used to just call being a good parent, right?

00:18:50.900 Like there is a level of spoiling your kid.

00:18:54.180 Like there is something to be said for handing too many advantages to a kid

00:18:58.720 and having them expect to have everything handed to them.

00:19:01.980 There is a truth to that, to be sure.

00:19:04.120 However, there's also a difference between that and just saying,

00:19:09.040 oh, well, I'm just going to go on another vacation.

00:19:11.740 I'm going to have another cruise because I don't want to create the disparity.

00:19:15.420 That was the word I was so desperately searching for.

00:19:17.320 I don't want to exacerbate the disparities between my children or my group and another group.

00:19:23.080 And so therefore, it's really important for me to go ahead and basically just consume everything

00:19:28.080 or keep it for myself and not pass those things down.

00:19:30.840 And so you have to understand that while you might look at this as someone who didn't get

00:19:35.580 the benefit of that and think, oh, it's absurd.

00:19:38.100 These are things that were deeply ingrained in the mindset of a lot of baby boomers.

00:19:43.160 And so they really did have this mentality of, well, look, I went to college and you can go to college

00:19:48.900 and I bought a house young and you can buy a house young.

00:19:51.660 And I eventually ended my wild, crazy days and got married and everything was fine.

00:19:56.420 And you can do the same thing.

00:19:57.680 It'll be all that will be there for you, not realizing how much society mortgaged the

00:20:03.680 future to make sure that those things existed for them in many ways.

00:20:08.940 You know, the fact that they don't realize that, you know, college has exploded in price.

00:20:15.120 The housing has exploded in price.

00:20:17.020 The cost of having children has exploded in price.

00:20:19.840 It is well outpaced the rest of inflation, those kind of things, and made those things very

00:20:26.020 difficult to obtain, those things are often denied.

00:20:29.260 And then I think that's, again, where a lot of kind of the animus comes from.

00:20:34.060 So I want to talk a little bit more about the transition of power, because the next thing

00:20:40.800 I think a lot of people have as a criticism of the boomer generation is their unwillingness

00:20:47.120 to transfer the reins of control.

00:20:48.820 I think you can tell that by the fact that we have two guys who are, you know, 80-ish

00:20:53.760 vying for the presidency right now.

00:20:57.840 A lot of people bring this as a big criticism of the boomers.

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00:22:12.640 So like I said, another big criticism of the boomers that we see is the fact that they 1.00

00:22:20.120 are unwilling to transfer power, political power in particular.

00:22:25.180 I think this one is actually probably the most legitimate of the criticisms that we see here.

00:22:29.640 Again, we look at guys like Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

00:22:33.220 I mean, Joe Biden literally just was assessed as too much of an invalid.

00:22:38.100 He's too mentally compromised to stand trial for the crimes he has committed, which is kind

00:22:44.060 of an amazing thing.

00:22:45.020 The fact that either of our presidents in any other time would have been considered outrageously

00:22:52.740 old, just incapable of figuring out where they are.

00:22:57.120 These guys should be in nursing homes.

00:22:58.720 Now, don't get me wrong.

00:22:59.880 Donald Trump is more mentally there than Joe Biden.

00:23:04.520 It's very clear that I think while Trump might have lost a step or two from his last

00:23:08.800 presidency, he's still much sharper than Biden is.

00:23:12.900 He could probably do the job as well as he did last time, whatever you may think that

00:23:17.860 might be.

00:23:19.120 However, it's very clear that we have people who are holding on.

00:23:23.380 We see so many of these congressmen serve their entire lives.

00:23:29.480 They're in the Congress or the Senate for 30 years and they die in office at like 89 or

00:23:37.720 94 or something.

00:23:39.720 Same with the Supreme Court justices just holding on forever.

00:23:42.920 Obviously, it's a lifetime appointment, but you can step down.

00:23:45.180 These people are holding on to power desperately.

00:23:48.980 And in some ways, that's because they just can't understand what it would be to have younger

00:23:56.220 generations be involved.

00:23:57.680 They can't put up the spurs.

00:23:59.080 They can't say, OK, I did my time.

00:24:01.340 I had the influence that I had.

00:24:03.480 And it's time to transition over to another generation.

00:24:06.280 And this is where a lot of the Gen X mentality is.

00:24:09.880 Now, I personally am a old millennial.

00:24:12.900 So I am just over the line into being a millennial.

00:24:16.120 So in many ways, I feel closer to Gen X.

00:24:18.760 I feel much closer to someone who, say, was born in 1979 than someone who was born in 1996.

00:24:27.040 And I imagine that's true of all people who are close to the bumper of any given generation.

00:24:32.620 I'm an older millennial.

00:24:33.720 I'm closer to Gen X than I am to most other millennials.

00:24:38.400 However, you can see the way that this was reflected in most Gen Xers.

00:24:42.560 They usually have a kind of an abandonment themselves as responsibility, not because they

00:24:47.560 probably wouldn't have picked up responsibility when they were younger, if they could have.

00:24:51.560 But it was very clear that their parents were never going to pass on the family business,

00:24:55.980 that the politicians were never going to get out of office, that the guy in the C-suite

00:25:01.600 was never going to pass things on to the next guy, you know, to train up the protege.

00:25:07.260 They simply didn't see themselves like that.

00:25:09.320 They thought of everyone below them as just churning constantly while they stood at the

00:25:14.860 wheel and made sure that the ship never ran aground.

00:25:18.120 And that's very frustrating for a lot of Gen Xers who felt like they were robbed, and they're

00:25:22.600 probably right to believe this, of their natural opportunities to take power.

00:25:27.680 Sorry, but you shouldn't have to wait until everyone is 85 and dying of, you know, random

00:25:33.860 diseases of old age before you can go ahead and exercise some degree of leadership.

00:25:40.280 And unfortunately, many of the boomers, because they were very interested in extending not only

00:25:45.480 their power, but their material advantage as long as possible, didn't really care that

00:25:50.220 a lot of these people missed their milestones.

00:25:52.840 I mean, Gen X is a little better.

00:25:54.620 Most of them probably got some level of family and housing, but a lot of millennials found themselves

00:26:00.120 without the ability really to do so.

00:26:02.200 And obviously, the Zoomers are really in this scenario where, you know, many of them don't 0.99

00:26:06.680 even want a lot of that stuff now.

00:26:08.480 And they think they don't want it because, you know, it's all really bad or, you know,

00:26:12.500 it was, it's all too much of a burden to them or, you know, oh, I'm not like that.

00:26:17.000 But really, I think a lot of them don't want it only because they've, it's very clear they're

00:26:21.680 never going to have it.

00:26:22.700 Very clear that they're never going to have the, you know, the big job.

00:26:27.360 They're never going to have the family and they're never going to have the house.

00:26:30.040 And it's just easier to tell yourself, oh, well, it's because I chose not to have it.

00:26:34.220 I'm really being free to this stuff than it is to say, oh, well, actually,

00:26:38.300 I missed out of this because my family robbed me of this, because my community robbed me 0.84

00:26:43.380 of this, because the ethos that would have encouraged this generational passing of the

00:26:48.980 torch is gone.

00:26:50.520 And ultimately, I think that that's the biggest problem with our, that's the biggest generational

00:26:55.640 divide that we have.

00:26:57.380 You know, in a healthy society, there is no generational interest because you understand

00:27:04.820 that you exist as part of the whole and that you exist to pass this down to the next set of

00:27:13.660 people that you're going to hand this down to.

00:27:16.280 And it's not about you just accumulating the most toys or the most power, the most money or getting

00:27:21.480 the most hedonistic experiences that you can have before you die.

00:27:24.740 But instead, you understand that one of the key parts of life, in fact, the key part of life is

00:27:29.880 connecting yourself to that great chain of being to sit amongst your ancestors, as Cicero would have

00:27:37.000 said, and to connect yourself to that history and that that is where purpose and meaning are found

00:27:43.660 is to weave yourself into the tapestry of the history of your society.

00:27:49.240 And so living for just yourself and your aggrandizement, that's something that only comes

00:27:54.200 when a society has lost the idea of their posterity, the idea that they have anything

00:28:02.640 to pass this to. I'll be honest, I think a big part of this is the idea that America is just

00:28:08.180 everybody, that anybody can come and be an American and that America is just an idea and

00:28:14.360 you can spread America everywhere. You can just spread America and democracy and freedom and

00:28:19.080 liberty. And you just need to sell people blue jeans and Coca-Cola and McDonald's. And now they're

00:28:25.060 just as American as you are. And, you know, that that's all there is. You know, if someone walks in

00:28:30.760 to the United States and legally and, you know, they raise their hand and they say, I want to be

00:28:36.160 one of you guys, then that's all there is to it. And they should just be an American now. And there

00:28:40.180 should be no other understanding of what America is. That breaks all continuity of civilization that

00:28:46.500 breaks all ideas about what it means to pass things from one generation to another. And if you're

00:28:52.280 trained in an ideology as a baby boomer or a Gen X or a millennial, that you're no more American and

00:28:59.020 your children are no more American than anyone else. Well, then why would you sacrifice? Right?

00:29:04.780 Why would you, why would you put forward anything in the interest of these people? You really have

00:29:09.860 to have a certain level of investment in the game. And if you don't have that level of investment,

00:29:14.640 if you don't understand why, you know, you're, you're going to be passing these things on and who

00:29:20.080 you're going to pass them on to, then you're just going to have these divides. I, you know,

00:29:24.720 these are the generational divides are luxury beliefs in the same way that the war between men

00:29:30.420 and women in our culture is a luxury belief. It's things that people who are way too affluent 1.00

00:29:36.840 and have expanded their culture way too widely and haven't had to have any real existential crisis in

00:29:42.300 a very long time. It's things that they believe because anybody who's a close knit society, anybody

00:29:48.480 who has a society that is in danger on a consistent basis, doesn't need to be reminded about what it

00:29:54.340 means to come together and protect each other and pass things down, pass down their values,

00:29:59.560 pass down their traditions, pass down their identities, pass down their moral visions.

00:30:03.240 You don't need to get people together and remind them of that when they're constantly under threat.

00:30:08.380 It's something that only becomes an issue when your society scales too far, when it becomes too

00:30:14.740 wealthy, when it becomes, when it doesn't know what it's like to struggle against an outside enemy.

00:30:21.580 And I think that's really the core of the problem. I don't think that baby boomers are themselves a

00:30:28.460 problem or Gen X is a problem or millennials is a problem unto themselves. I think what we have is a 0.99

00:30:33.580 kind of broken understanding of generational connection, connection and culture that, that keeps

00:30:40.500 us from being able to pass these things down one to another. And so the thing I want to warn you

00:30:46.580 about the reason that the name of this stream is you're the boomer now is I want to warn some of

00:30:52.500 my millennial coho reports. Again, I'm an older millennial, so this may be less true for a number

00:30:57.440 of you who are millennials. You may be much younger than me while still technically being part of my

00:31:01.760 generation, but we are now the age that many boomers were when they started making the decisions

00:31:09.200 that we hate now, right? A lot of the decisions on how society would be structured, how entitlements

00:31:15.960 would be structured, how tax systems and financial systems would be structured, you know, how we would

00:31:22.240 have families, how families would be structured, how inheritance would be passed down, how culture

00:31:28.340 would be transmitted. A lot of the things that we hate about kind of what happened to society

00:31:34.880 occurred around the time or started around the time that boomers were in our position. 0.85

00:31:40.740 And so we need to be very careful because if we sit around, it's easy to sit around and just blame

00:31:47.100 prior generations, right? Say, oh, well, it's because, you know, my parents didn't hand this to me.

00:31:53.220 They didn't give this thing to me. They didn't love me in this way, you know, but again, this is the

00:31:58.400 classic boomer mentality in some ways, right? Well, my, my, my dad from the forties didn't hug me enough.

00:32:04.880 And that's why I was emotionally maladjusted as a kid in the sixties. And that's why I lived my

00:32:11.020 seventies acting sixties and seventies acting out and had to wait till my eighties before I actually

00:32:15.800 started to, uh, kind of get it together and have family and build the things that I wanted. And then

00:32:21.860 I didn't feel like I needed to transfer any of that. Cause I had to build it. My dad, I didn't feel

00:32:25.980 like he gave it to me. Like if we get stuck in that cycle of blaming the previous generation,

00:32:30.720 then no one ever escapes, right? If we adopt that mentality of being the final generation, 0.74

00:32:38.900 oh, well, it's, it's all going to end with me. America is me or the, you know, the future was

00:32:45.520 me. And the, now I'm, when I'm gone, that none of it matters. And so I'm just going to get mine

00:32:51.120 because the, the, the generations before me betrayed me. If we adopt that mentality,

00:32:56.900 then we're only going to continue this degradation. Now, obviously that doesn't steal any of the truth

00:33:04.960 out of criticisms that are leveled at many in the boomer generation or Gen X or millennials.

00:33:11.840 But again, if you talk to a Gen Z kid or you, or even, you know, a few of the old, you know, 0.87

00:33:17.140 the oldest, uh, alpha generation kids, they look at you the same way because they say,

00:33:23.060 you don't understand how good you have it. And that sounds insane. And this, so this is what

00:33:26.900 happens when you're on the backend of kind of the, the apex of an empire. So the boomers existed when 0.98

00:33:35.140 you, when the United States conquered the world and created unimaginable material wealth and created

00:33:41.340 insane things like, you know, super long life expectancy and, and, you know, vacation homes and

00:33:49.060 a million vacations and, and, and taking all the cruises and everything like all these things that

00:33:54.560 did not exist before any generation, they had the most opulent wealth. And yes, they, they expected

00:34:01.260 that. And much of the kind of venom that is directed towards the boomers is because they, they thought 0.77

00:34:07.460 that was just the normal and they were fine to burn and kind of every piece of social fabric to make

00:34:12.640 that happen. However, let's be really honest. This is painful for a lot of people, but we'll be really

00:34:17.420 honest for a second for the Gen Xers and the millennials out there. Most of our anger towards 1.00

00:34:23.100 the baby boomer generation is not really that they did that. It's that we don't get to do it.

00:34:29.680 Right. That that's the real problem for a lot of us is we don't get to live that life. We don't get

00:34:36.320 to have the insane abundance. We don't get to live with the reckless excess and then, you know, pull all

00:34:42.540 together and still have, you know, great family and still be able to afford just everything we ever

00:34:47.900 wanted and retire and live, you know, till, till we're 107 with, you know, with a constant attendant

00:34:54.920 care, like a lot of the directed anger is jealousy and understandable, right? You watch these people who

00:35:04.060 were born on second base in many cases, feeling like they hit a home run. Uh, and you say, wow, I wish I

00:35:10.600 would just be able to get a single, you know, and it's very difficult for a lot of people to watch

00:35:15.820 that. However, that's not going to change anything. It's not going to get any better. We're not going

00:35:22.960 to live the same lives they did because the lives they lived were unsustainable. And that's really

00:35:29.040 difficult. It's very difficult to be on the backside of an empire, an empire in some level of decline.

00:35:35.940 Maybe America pulls out of it. I'm a little doubtful, but let's hope, right? I'm still,

00:35:40.740 I would like to see that happen. Even if my predictive, you know, powers are, or my, rather

00:35:46.620 my, the, my, in the interest of being an accurate predictor, I don't think that's going to happen.

00:35:51.440 Uh, I still would like to see it happen. That would still be the best possible outcome, but I just don't

00:35:56.380 think that's going to happen. However, we're probably not going to live that lifestyle, right? Because it

00:36:02.360 was just unsustainable and, and kind of the boomer generation had to do a lot of rearranging and

00:36:08.280 stealing from the future to make it even accessible to them at the time it happened. And now we're

00:36:12.820 going to pay the piper and it sucks to be the people who pay the piper that that's never where anybody

00:36:17.600 wants to be. But if we don't do it now, if we don't figure this stuff out now, then it will be just

00:36:24.840 another cycle, another generation of people who look at us, who, you know, watch us live lives of what

00:36:31.400 they see as excess. You know, they, they look at us and say, Oh, well, look at you. You, you had some

00:36:36.720 semblance of family. We don't even know what that looks like anymore. Oh, you had some semblance of

00:36:40.640 a shared culture. We don't even know what that looks like anymore. You had some hope of owning a

00:36:45.280 home or some hope of having your own business or, you know, having a nice promotion. We don't even

00:36:51.000 know what that looks like anymore. They're going to look at us and say, Oh, you know, these, these people

00:36:55.780 were spoiled rotten and they didn't even know it. And all they did was blame it on their, on their

00:36:59.720 parents. So we need to avoid being the boomers. And the way to do that is to build. We have to 1.00

00:37:06.020 invest in our families. We have to invest in our churches. We have to invest in our communities.

00:37:11.300 And there's going to be a lot of people to say, there's nothing to save. It's all gone. It's all,

00:37:15.580 you know, it's all done. It's a waste of time. You know, you can't do it. Throw those people behind

00:37:20.800 you, you know, ignore them because they'll never solve anything. Okay. If your plan is to go out and get

00:37:27.360 yours and live your life only for your benefit and not care about others, because that's what

00:37:33.280 your parents did, or you think that's the only game in town and there's no reason investing with

00:37:37.760 those people. Fine. I mean, there's nothing I'm going to do to talk you out of that if that's

00:37:42.080 really, truly your mindset. But I think for most people, that's not actually what they want. They

00:37:46.320 were just told that was the only option available. And so if we're going to change things, we have to

00:37:51.780 look because we're in that position. Now you're the boomer now, and you've got to make the decision.

00:37:56.840 Am I going to make the same mistakes that were made by this generation? Am I going to sit around

00:38:02.740 blaming them for everything that goes wrong? Even if it's legitimate, even if the points are true,

00:38:07.860 even if it would sure be nice, if there was a certain level of ownership and admission,

00:38:12.880 that things aren't the way that they see it, that maybe the idea that, that everybody is just going to

00:38:18.300 be able to pull themselves up from their bootstraps, just like they did because they, you know,

00:38:22.540 they didn't have any special opportunity, but we're just really hard workers. Yeah. It would

00:38:26.960 be nice if there was an admission of the truth of that. I understand that. I understand that

00:38:31.080 frustration, but if we sit here and we blame them for forever on that, then we're the problem

00:38:37.200 because at some point we have to be the generation that takes ownership, that takes investment and

00:38:43.400 creates the future for people to benefit from. There was a lot of borrowing against our futures.

00:38:50.080 And that's super frustrating, but if we don't make investments into the futures of the next

00:38:56.620 generation, it'll be done. The, you know, the, the quote from GK Chesterton was, you know,

00:39:02.420 Rome wasn't, uh, men didn't love Rome because it was great. Uh, Rome was great because men loved her.

00:39:09.460 And the question is, are we going to be the people who love our communities, our country, our families,

00:39:16.000 our churches, our traditions enough to make them great. There is a way to make them great again,

00:39:21.260 but they've been making them great again around a lot or rather demands that we take ownership.

00:39:26.600 And that while there are real and true grievances with previous generations, all we can do at this

00:39:33.440 point is learn from them because those mistakes are already made and they won't be here. Let's,

00:39:39.020 let's be honest. You know, the baby boomers will be gone and not, not too distant future. 1.00

00:39:44.280 And we will have to leave. We will have to pick up that mantle. Gen X has been waiting a long time.

00:39:49.920 Will they pick it up? Will it fall to millennials instead? Answers probably both, but we have to be 1.00

00:39:55.240 ready. And that means making those investments now, because if we sit in the positions that the

00:40:00.880 boomer sat in and we make the same choices that they did, we'll get exactly the same outcome.

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00:41:41.300 All right, guys. So I wanted to touch on the Super Bowl real quick. Nothing too big here. I find it a

00:41:46.240 little exhausting to go into these things too long, but I think there are two things worth

00:41:49.860 talking about very quickly. First, this is just a general statement. I know it's really popular to

00:41:57.040 scream about sports ball and, you know, people, I'm too good. I don't care. It doesn't matter to

00:42:01.860 me. That's fine. You don't have to like this stuff if you genuinely don't like it. I get that. I came

00:42:07.820 from a sports household and I did play some sports, though not that much. I really got more into

00:42:12.780 things like jujitsu and judo later on, but I didn't play a lot of team sports, but I played some.

00:42:19.280 I always followed them, though, because it was something my dad was very into. And, you know,

00:42:23.440 I just want to say real quick, it's okay that there's always going to be something like this.

00:42:28.180 Again, it's better that you spend your time working on your family. It's better that you

00:42:32.260 spend your time on your community. If you're spending all of your time watching NFL games,

00:42:37.020 that's a problem. If you spend a large amount of your time playing fantasy football and obsessing

00:42:42.560 about this stuff, all you listen to is sports radio. All you do is follow this stuff. Okay. Yeah,

00:42:46.700 that is a real issue and that it's worthy to tell people that that should not be how they spend

00:42:51.540 their time. However, there's always some level of this. There's always a Colosseum in Rome. There's

00:42:57.420 always the Hippodrome for the Byzantines and the chariot races. There's always going to be some 1.00

00:43:04.040 kind of collective thing that happens once you get to a certain level of civilization. Again,

00:43:09.960 maybe that's just decadence. You could say that it's always engaging in the decadence of the empire.

00:43:15.320 Fair enough, I guess. But I just say, I'm just going to say there's a value to, if you don't want

00:43:21.680 to watch it, don't, but there is a, there is an exhaustive element where it's just like

00:43:26.540 constantly counter signaling this. It's just kind of, it's again, it doesn't help you. It just kind

00:43:32.860 of gives people an aversion to the cultural message that you're trying to talk about.

00:43:37.280 So two things during the Superbowl. Uh, first it was, it was entertaining. Superbowl is actually a

00:43:42.040 really good game. If you like football, uh, I haven't watched football actually in quite a few

00:43:46.120 years. I just had a lot else going on. I used to watch, you know, uh, Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That

00:43:50.920 was my team. Uh, I used to watch most of their games throughout the season. I didn't really watch

00:43:54.660 any other games. Uh, this year I kind of finally got back and watched a handful of games, uh, throughout

00:43:59.760 the season, but I usually watched the Superbowl at the end either way, just again, because it's kind

00:44:04.240 of a wide scale cultural event either way. And, uh, this year they played the black national anthem.

00:44:10.180 A lot of people yelling about the black national anthem. Uh, rightly so. This is stupid. Uh, this 0.99

00:44:15.480 shouldn't exist. Obviously, if you're a nation with two anthems, then you're not a nation. You're

00:44:21.260 the whole point of the anthem is to unite your people. If you've carved out a special, uh, special

00:44:26.260 and specific national anthem for another group of people, then it's very clear you're not a unified

00:44:31.360 people anymore. The question of course, is, is this more of a Latinx thing? I mean, if you talk to any

00:44:37.300 actual, uh, Hispanic people, they don't like Latinx pretty much no one without a master's degree in

00:44:43.880 some kind of gender studies cares about the label Latinx, but they keep trying to foist this on 0.99

00:44:48.900 people. Is that the same thing with black national anthem? Do most black people not like the black 0.99

00:44:53.920 national anthem? Would they decry it for the most part? Or is this different? Is this something that

00:44:58.540 people generally see, uh, that, that will, um, they, they think will ameliorate some kind of

00:45:03.620 issue. It's making up for some kind of exclusion in a sport that is at this point, vastly dominated

00:45:09.780 by, by black athletes. It seems like a very strange idea. Uh, the point is of course that 0.92

00:45:15.700 this only exists to create the separation and it's only going to continue to exist because that's who

00:45:21.380 the NFL is catering to. The NFL is completely woke. Uh, again, I understand if you just don't

00:45:26.220 want to support that, that was a large reason I stopped watching football in the first place.

00:45:29.500 I was just tired of watching people kneel during my national anthem. I don't want to see people

00:45:33.400 involved in that. Um, and it's still something that makes me not want to get super invested.

00:45:37.940 I'll still watch, like I said, games from time to time. I'll watch the super bowl, but it is something

00:45:42.040 that rubs me the wrong way. And when you lead off with something like that, you're just going to keep

00:45:45.740 driving people like me away. Maybe the good thing is that that ends up driving everyone away.

00:45:50.000 Right. And this just becomes less significant. That would be nice. Uh, you know, if that,

00:45:53.800 if that really is what, what happens, uh, and people focus on something of more substance,

00:45:58.160 but I kind of doubt it, uh, either way that that's not going away. I think anytime soon,

00:46:03.240 the second thing, the, a lot of people were talking about was Taylor Swift. Obviously Taylor

00:46:09.180 Swift is dating, uh, one of the biggest players, uh, on the, uh, on the, uh, Kansas city chiefs also

00:46:17.020 kind of fun that the chiefs keep winning. Uh, and the only reason they still have their name is that

00:46:21.940 the owner told the NFL to go pound sand when they tried to threaten him to change it. Cause they

00:46:26.040 were, Oh, it's racist or whatever. And he just didn't. So that's kind of fun or, uh, kind of

00:46:30.560 fun, but, uh, Taylor Swift is dating Travis Kelsey and be honest at this point, I probably just going

00:46:35.660 to mute Taylor Swift off of my Twitter timeline entirely. Cause I just don't care. I'm so tired

00:46:41.660 of hearing about this. Uh, she, she makes some good pop music. She's very popular for a reason, 0.86

00:46:46.940 but I don't care about her, uh, in any kind of other sense. I, you know, don't, don't really want to

00:46:52.320 know anything about her personal life or what is going on, but you can't avoid it at this point.

00:46:56.220 It's everywhere. And one of the things that's really happened, and this is probably primarily

00:47:00.000 a Twitter phenomenon. I know that I'm talking about something that is very online at the moment.

00:47:04.360 So bear with me for a second, but there was this desperate attempt to kind of politicize

00:47:08.960 Taylor Swift. And a lot of people on the left say it's the right. A lot of people on the right

00:47:13.540 say it's the left. Uh, I think it's very clear that the left is trying to do that. I mean,

00:47:18.040 Taylor Swift has political opinions. She's expressed some of them, but she has the same

00:47:22.360 level of political opinion that pretty much every famous person does. Right. Which is just like,

00:47:27.620 okay, who cares? Just move on. Uh, so she's politicized herself at some level. I'm not saying

00:47:32.280 that she hasn't, but that doesn't mean you have to focus on it. And I want conservatives to understand

00:47:36.760 this is a losing issue for them. Like looking at two good looking and famous people and saying,

00:47:42.320 uh, we, you know, we're against this. Uh, that's not helping you out. Uh, not that that doesn't

00:47:48.280 mean you can't criticize people like this, but the, the attempt to kind of culturally identify

00:47:52.980 this as the left wing isn't helping you out here. Uh, the, the left is obviously looking to use Taylor

00:47:59.260 Swift as some kind of political wedge and the right is correct to identify this. But really what we have

00:48:04.380 is a phenomenon of the total state, the total state. The whole point of the total state is that

00:48:08.920 everything comes, becomes political. Every aspect of life becomes political. You know,

00:48:13.900 we've told the, the, the story about, uh, the, the German cat with Curtis Yarvin story of the

00:48:19.260 German cat, right? Where you're reading the cat magazine in, in the 1930s. And at first it's just

00:48:24.540 about a normal cats. And then all of a sudden it's about the German cat. And then all of a sudden,

00:48:28.480 every article is only about superiority of character of the German cat and that kind of thing.

00:48:33.820 And this is, this is how, you know, you're in total state when every single aspect of life

00:48:38.580 has to be about the political. And the truth is we shouldn't be in a system where anyone cares

00:48:44.420 about Taylor Swift's political opinion or what, what some football player thinks about black lives

00:48:49.860 matter or anything. But the fact is that every single person feels compelled constantly to share

00:48:56.300 their opinion. You really shouldn't be surprised when popular famous people have popular political

00:49:02.260 opinions, acceptable political opinions. It's exactly what you should expect. In fact, and you can get

00:49:07.520 angry at those people and you can criticize those people and you'll be right to do so because

00:49:11.140 they're stupid, but that doesn't really help you with the problem. The problem is that that famous

00:49:15.700 people have safe political opinions. Like, of course they do. And if you think they didn't,

00:49:19.720 you just need to look at where power is pointing. All the people who you think were rebellious in the

00:49:24.520 sixties or seventies or whatever, with their outrageous political opinions, they were always an only ever

00:49:29.580 pointing to the emergent powers inside the U S they were, they felt safe with those opinions

00:49:35.680 because those opinions were already confirming what would become the new consensus in the United

00:49:40.640 States. It's not that the famous people used to have radical opinions and now they're all group

00:49:45.860 thinkers. They were always all group thinkers and they were just the tip of the sphere of subversion

00:49:50.780 back then. And now they're the people slamming the door at the end of the transformation process.

00:49:56.760 That's the only thing that's happened is the position of the celebrities and the role they play in the

00:50:01.100 process, not the process themselves itself. Okay. And so, yeah, you're sorry, but you're, you know,

00:50:06.580 pop singers and your football stars, they were never independent thinkers and they were never

00:50:11.520 really voicing their own deep thoughts on the, on the events of the day and screaming about them.

00:50:17.560 You know, that's fine. Shut up and sing. Right. But what has that done for us really at the end of

00:50:22.020 the day? How has that actually changed anything? If anything, these people are already grading enough

00:50:27.080 themselves. The more that celebrities go on and on about this garbage, the less cool they become,

00:50:32.280 the less interesting they become, the more they become, uh, you know, the, the afterschool special

00:50:36.860 1980s version of celebrity rather than anything that actually wants to set trends. And so I guess

00:50:43.660 what I'm saying is you can be angry at Taylor Swift if you want, or you can talk about, you know,

00:50:48.900 the politicization of either side if you want, and that's fine. But what I'm wanting to say is really

00:50:53.440 that this is just a function of the total state. The truth is that as long as democracy is the

00:50:58.800 driving force of political legitimization inside the United States, this will be what, this is what's

00:51:05.020 going to happen because let's be honest, people care more about what Taylor Swift thinks about 1.00

00:51:10.360 politics than the fact that Joe Biden is too senile to actually run the country. Taylor Swift tells them

00:51:16.220 to care about Joe Biden and vote for Joe Biden. They won't care whether he is brain dead. They'll just do it

00:51:22.980 because she said so. Right. And you could say that's a problem with Taylor Swift. And yeah,

00:51:27.920 at some individual level it is, but what it really is, is a problem with our whole system.

00:51:32.500 It's an indictment of our whole system. And you're not going to get individual starlets or pop singers

00:51:36.860 or football players to change the fact that they're just going to acquiesce to power. That's just not

00:51:41.760 going to happen. So what you really want to change is the system or what's cool, right? If we,

00:51:49.040 if we, if we're going to need, you know, pop popularity, you need to, you need to change.

00:51:53.660 You need to shift the idea of what is actually avant-garde. And that happens when these people

00:51:59.220 do what they're doing now, which is really pushing this ugly and brittle version of cultural 0.97

00:52:03.860 manipulation and homogenization on the entire population that will eventually happen. They'll

00:52:10.220 eventually break. It won't be pretty on the way there, but it will eventually happen. And people will

00:52:14.980 look for ascendant ideas. I think that's why there are a number of voices that are trending up that,

00:52:21.220 that have alternative ideas. And I think that you'll continue to see that, but it's only going

00:52:25.580 to be on the outside edges for a long time. And that should be expected because that's kind of

00:52:29.120 how Vanguard movements work. In the meantime, just try not to have your head explode over the fact that

00:52:35.140 a random pop star or random football player has pretty safe opinions on politics. It's pretty much

00:52:41.340 exactly what you should expect. All right, guys, let's go ahead and transition over to the questions

00:52:46.840 of the people here. We've got quite a bit of them today. Uh, Michael Robertson says, uh, victory will

00:52:52.280 be achieved when the gamer national anthem echoes throughout the Superbowl and across this great

00:52:57.260 nation. Uh, yeah. What would that be like the, the halo, uh, you know, chance? Yeah. As soon as once,

00:53:02.620 or maybe Creed, maybe I'm pushing, I think we need to meme Creed back guys. I think we need to return.

00:53:08.280 I think many of us can agree that they have the greatest Superbowl performance of all time. Uh,

00:53:13.080 perhaps once Creed once again plays, uh, the, the Superbowl halftime show or the national anthem,

00:53:18.920 we will once again be a truly great nation. That's a vision I can see of the future.

00:53:24.020 Cooper Weir says, but Orrin, I'm not a boomer. I've taken the red pill. I'm one of the kids who

00:53:28.320 read. I can blame them forever for my problems. My life is way harder. Yeah. Good reference by the

00:53:33.940 way to Dave, the distributors is Dave, the distributors, uh, latest stream on the kit,

00:53:39.760 the kid who read a very good, uh, stream by him explaining kind of the idea of this counterculture

00:53:45.300 movement. Uh, it is important as you point out, Cooper weirdo to, at some point, uh, take ownership

00:53:50.900 over, uh, kind of who we are and where we're going. Um, and that doesn't mean we're wrong to

00:53:56.160 criticize the system. It doesn't mean we should stop criticizing the system and trying to get people

00:54:00.920 to hold themselves accountable, but you know, you can sit there until you're red in the face

00:54:04.500 and change nothing. So probably best to also think about how you can make the world a better place,

00:54:10.900 or more importantly, forget the world, your community, uh, something far more local and far

00:54:15.180 more important and far more likely for you to change. Uh, Trevor 50 Daniel says, you think you

00:54:20.240 hate the boomers enough, but you don't. It's a mindset that encompasses the generations of current 0.94

00:54:24.080 world for your own game, uh, gen X, millennial, whatever you're a boomer. If you don't care,

00:54:28.620 fair enough. Again, if you want to exchange, if you want to expand that definition to really just

00:54:33.060 be a mindset, you can do that. And you'll be right that that exists, uh, on many levels.

00:54:37.400 I would say, honestly, that just means that pretty much everyone is a boomer. Like everyone is a

00:54:42.000 spiritual boomer. Almost no one cares. Like if you look at gen X and you look at millennials, 0.98

00:54:47.120 almost none of them care. And again, some of them have every reason not to every, you know,

00:54:51.740 they have every reason to be spurned. They have every reason to feel like they were cheated. They have

00:54:55.680 every reason to say to themselves, well, I, I didn't get mine and I'm never going to get mine.

00:55:00.420 And I, everything that I had was mortgaged and stolen. Uh, and so I just can't get there. And so

00:55:05.500 I might as well just get my own and okay, you can take that. There's nothing that's going to stop

00:55:10.380 you. It's very popular mentality and it will continue to be. However, if you don't make that

00:55:15.140 shift, then your kids will have, or if you even have kids, you know, they'll have the same,

00:55:19.600 uh, mindset, the generational mindset will continue and nothing will get better. And that's really

00:55:25.100 the point I was trying to make is just at some point we have to be the generation that takes 1.00

00:55:29.120 ownership and makes the change because if we don't do it, it just doesn't happen. Uh, perspicacious

00:55:35.100 heretic says, does the greatest generation have any blame in this? It seems like a lot of moral decay 1.00

00:55:39.120 from their boomer children was just allowed unabated. And yes, of course, right? Like that's a good 0.94

00:55:44.240 point. And one that many people have made is a, you know, this generation didn't come from nowhere

00:55:48.420 at just as many people pointed out the gen X or the millennials didn't come from nowhere.

00:55:52.520 So if your problem with those, you should probably look to previous generations. And of course you're

00:55:55.700 right that the greatest generation does have a certain level of ownership that they have to take

00:56:00.760 over the route that their children, uh, kind of traced. And again, I think a lot of that comes from

00:56:06.540 not knowing how to deal with the massification and affluence of society post baby boom. They just

00:56:13.100 didn't know what to restrict. We didn't know what a lot of this stuff would do to people.

00:56:18.240 We didn't know, uh, how much of a civilizational asset it would be. And you can, you know, we,

00:56:24.060 and yeah, so we can just blame it all on ignorance and maybe they, maybe they're not, uh, liable

00:56:28.860 because of the kind of the, the ignorance that they had. However, uh, they certainly have to have

00:56:33.440 some level of blame, right? Because they, those kids did not arrive at this understanding without

00:56:38.080 it. Uh, and maybe they should have instilled more thoroughly into their own children that there's

00:56:43.440 a generational duty, uh, to each other, uh, that had to be passed down. And if you don't do it,

00:56:48.900 uh, serious portions of your society will start coming apart. Cooper weirdo again. Thank you very

00:56:54.340 much, sir. Okay. Honest question. Do millennials even want power? It's so much easier to blame the 0.74

00:56:59.080 boomers and make no effort. Zoomers can do great things, but they're too depressed. Irony is always, 0.99

00:57:03.820 is always way easier. Yeah. I agree with you that that is a real issue, right? There's, um,

00:57:08.600 something that blows people away repeatedly, but isn't too shocking to me mainly because

00:57:12.900 I was a teacher. So I had to regularly interface that that's kind of one advantage I've had

00:57:18.000 is I've, I've, I've had to regularly interface with multiple generations of people when they're

00:57:23.020 younger and older. I taught when I first came out of college, I was teaching up until just a few years

00:57:27.780 ago. I took some breaks in between to do journalism and politics and things, but I have taught multiple

00:57:32.940 generations of students. And so I've seen this effect over the years and it really is true. A lot of

00:57:37.380 people get surprised that the fact that, uh, that, uh, for instance, zoomers or gen alpha kids,

00:57:42.860 we're not interested in getting their driver's license. And that kind of blows people's minds

00:57:46.780 because they're like, of course I went independent. Of course I, of course I want control. That was the

00:57:50.600 thing I wanted the most when I was a kid. And it didn't really exist with younger millennials and

00:57:55.920 then, or sorry, uh, younger, uh, uh, zoomers and, uh, kind of the current generation coming up 0.99

00:58:02.520 and it blows a lot of people's mind away. But, uh, but I think that there, there is a real truth

00:58:09.940 that people who there's a learned helplessness, right? When you don't think that you're going to

00:58:14.360 have a future, when you, when you look at the future and say, okay, I can't get the rates.

00:58:18.880 I can't get the job. I can't get the girl. I can't get the house. I can't get the family.

00:58:24.000 When you look at that, then at some point you just say, okay, well, I don't want to be any part

00:58:27.540 of the system. And again, like, it's just easier to dive into the hedonism. It's easier to, to heap

00:58:33.520 on the irony. There's a very real reason that you can sell people this kind of Netflix, uh, you know,

00:58:40.280 Grubhub, uh, you know, uh, uh, virtual reality type, uh, existence because the real world they've

00:58:48.820 always looked at just never had an opportunity for them. And the answer is going to be really,

00:58:53.160 uh, most millennials won't want power and most zoomers won't either, but the ones who will 0.92

00:58:57.980 take action, the ones who do take action and accountability will be the ones that leave.

00:59:03.220 Because again, the boomers won't be here forever, guys. They just won't. 1.00

00:59:06.820 And in many Gen Xers felt like they were already passed over and their time has already come and gone.

00:59:11.880 And so, you know, there will be a real moment of transition. Uh, and the people who are willing to,

00:59:16.880 to kind of step up, uh, will be the ones who shape the future. Uh, creeper weirdo here,

00:59:22.600 read that in a green text. Uh, okay. Thank you. Uh, tiny Rick says the number one thing

00:59:27.960 millennials can do is reestablish IRL organization and zoomers who want to be a part of it. If nothing 0.98

00:59:33.220 else, we have each other. That's exactly right. That's exactly the mentality that you should have.

00:59:37.820 One thing you need to remember guys is that the institutions around you are failing. Sorry. I know

00:59:43.020 that's a black pill, but there's a white pill wrapped inside that black pill. The institutions

00:59:47.580 inside you are failing as much as you might feel, Oh, the boomers, Oh, the boomers. Once the boomers 0.98

00:59:52.300 and you know, and some of the older Gen X people phase out of what is left of the workplace and

00:59:57.320 other social organizations, we're in serious trouble. What's left of social fabric. Those,

01:00:02.440 those churches that are still standing, those civic organizations that are still standing,

01:00:07.480 those kinds of, uh, cultural institutions that are still standing. The families, the intergenerational

01:00:13.600 families are held together by the boomers. They're the only ones left that care. Not because maybe 1.00

01:00:20.440 they did their best to cultivate it when they were young, but they're the only ones that remember

01:00:23.980 what was like to even have that stuff. They're the ones who are, you know, retired and putting

01:00:28.780 their time in. They're the ones volunteering at the rotary club and the Kiwanis. They're the ones

01:00:33.920 who are making your church's food pantry run and that kind of stuff. They're the ones who still

01:00:38.360 remember how to repair all those critical systems that we need. And they're going to be gone at some

01:00:43.540 point. Okay. And so that means that we're going to need people to take up that slack, which means

01:00:49.220 you can be these people. You can reestablish those IRL connections. Think of all the fraternal orders

01:00:54.900 that are dying right now. Think of the moose lodges that are dying right now. Think of all of the

01:01:00.400 rotary clubs, all of the Kiwanises, all the places that used to be the pillars of the community that held

01:01:06.360 things up. Think of all of those things that are going to go away when the boomers are gone. Okay. 0.99

01:01:12.020 You can step into those roles now. They're desperate. They're looking for young people 0.99

01:01:16.420 to pick up those clubs and run with them. You can be those people. You can do this. You can take the

01:01:21.360 action. But I think Tiny Rick's exactly right that you have to reinvest in this.

01:01:27.600 Matt Grenier says, did you see Buckele's victory speech last week? I showed it to my whole family

01:01:34.960 now and they love the president of El Salvador. You see him as a white pill or mostly relevant

01:01:39.360 to us in the US. Yeah. For those who didn't know, it was a very powerful speech. He was reelected by

01:01:44.580 a massive landslide, understandably so. He has transformed El Salvador from the most dangerous

01:01:50.400 country in the world to one of the safest in the Western Hemisphere. El Salvador is frankly safer than

01:01:56.560 large parts of America. So here's the thing. I'm always careful about praising foreign leaders who I

01:02:04.780 don't know well enough. I've learned about Buckele. John Slaughter, I believe, was the guy

01:02:11.380 who actually just did a great piece on his sub stack. So shout out to him if you want to look at

01:02:16.600 some of Buckele. I think also over at maybe it was IM1776. Ben Braddock also did a piece on him recently

01:02:27.640 so you can learn some more about him. But as somebody who has only known, I only know what's

01:02:32.100 in those pieces. I really don't know enough. I try not to give unqualified support to people because,

01:02:38.460 you know, who knows? They turn on something, something terrible happens. Now you've been

01:02:42.600 cheering on some crazy thing. But as far as I can tell, it looks like this is a guy who has

01:02:48.020 transformed El Salvador, done so for the better. I think it is a white pill because it shows people

01:02:53.720 that the decline we're in is a choice. If El Salvador can clean up its streets, America can 1.00

01:02:59.580 do the same if it has the political will. But it needs to have the political will. If you look at

01:03:04.300 Buckele, the speech he gave specifically was people told us that our population had to die.

01:03:10.200 Our people had to die, had to be murdered by these massive narcotics gangs for human rights.

01:03:15.980 That was the argument. We can't we can't lock up the gangs because of human rights. And he said,

01:03:20.820 whatever, go pound sand. I'm going to value my people first. I don't care about your international 1.00

01:03:26.320 community. I don't care about your reputation. I don't care about your human rights ratings.

01:03:31.160 I'm going to save the lives of my people. And he did. And now it's a better place to live.

01:03:35.460 And that's a white pill. Now, the bad part is that most of that pressure comes from America and

01:03:41.120 its satellites and that we're the main reason that people don't make the choice to do this. And so it

01:03:46.720 makes it hard to do it in the United States. However, the more I think, again, the more we

01:03:52.740 see from red state governors driving this kind of stuff, the better. I don't think we're going to

01:03:56.900 see a nationwide transformation anytime soon. I mean, let's hope, man, let's hope that Donald

01:04:00.840 Trump just comes in and he really does come in. Day one dictator changes everything, you know,

01:04:05.040 fixes everything. That would be great. Right. That one day where he comes in and fixes everything

01:04:10.920 like he said he would. That'd be great. Right. But I'm kind of I'm kind of doubtful. Right.

01:04:16.340 Instead, I think what you're probably going to get is a lot more hamstring of the agenda from a lot

01:04:22.580 more of this bureaucracy. Hopefully they have to learn some less lessons. The 2025 team has some

01:04:28.820 ideas about how to clean out the bureaucracy, but it's probably going to take them a lot longer

01:04:32.260 than it did. That said, I really do hope that that is a wide scale change for the United States,

01:04:39.300 but I think it's more likely to be something that occurs on the individual state level where

01:04:45.200 you're more likely to win those victories. Again, I think guys like Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott

01:04:49.420 are great examples, but they themselves need to go further and other governors then need to follow

01:04:55.560 the example. I am excited that Ron DeSantis is back doing what he does best, which is being an

01:05:00.720 incredible governor of the state. I live in Florida. I hope he triples down on what he was doing before

01:05:06.540 when it comes to bettering the state. And I hope that he drives other people to do exactly that.

01:05:12.020 Creeper Weirder said, I hear that they put the woke away at the game. Is that true? Yes.

01:05:17.180 Again, I think that I am going to ultimately win my bet against academic agents. I don't think the

01:05:22.840 woke is being put away. I think the Black National Anthem is just one of many examples why this is here to

01:05:27.820 stay and will continue to be forced on people on a regular basis. I don't know. I don't watch a lot

01:05:34.640 network TV. However, the fact that or really, you know, in general, however, a little bit of

01:05:43.320 watching the football has reconnected me to how bad this trash is and how much is being pumped into

01:05:48.680 people. I'm not saying that because I'm saying, oh, it's great to watch trash. I'm just saying there

01:05:52.580 was some value. I was kind of isolated. I had forgotten how bad this had become. And now I'm like,

01:05:58.340 oh, wow. No, this is just a constant fire hose of propaganda. I don't think it's going anywhere,

01:06:02.520 guys. Sean Cosgrove says, last February, I went to a University of Minnesota hockey game. The Black 1.00

01:06:08.740 National Anthem was played out of AK fans in the arena before the game. Couldn't find a black person

01:06:13.020 outside of the student section. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of exactly what you would expect at a

01:06:18.340 hockey game, but that doesn't matter. The key is the division. The key is inserting this, breaking down

01:06:23.540 every ritual that used to bind people together, whether it's relevant or not, whether anyone in the

01:06:27.720 crowd would actually be the people who care. That doesn't really matter. Again, maybe most of this

01:06:33.400 is being pushed by radical leftists, you know, whites in many places. That's probably the case 0.98

01:06:37.940 and certainly is in a hockey game. So I think you're probably going to unfortunately expect to see that

01:06:43.860 continue even in places where there's no one who would even narratively at least expect or

01:06:49.900 appreciate the playing of that particular national anthem. Creepy Reader says, don't look at me. I used to

01:06:56.240 watch WrestleMania. Yeah, I was into wrestling when I was a kid. It's always a little weird for me

01:07:01.940 when adults are into it, but at the same time, you know, I like some things that maybe I should

01:07:08.240 have grown out of too. All of us probably have some level hang up of that, but you know, the wrestling

01:07:13.780 memes are fun. I have had fun doing the wrestling memes with academic agent that has been entertaining

01:07:18.920 if nothing else. House of Osborne says, democracy is the Athens-Greece battle of Argonus. Sorry,

01:07:26.980 I probably should be able to pronounce that, but I cannot at the moment. Thank you, sir.

01:07:31.600 Thuggo says, we've taken so many legislative L's at a federal level over the last 60 years.

01:07:37.680 Is there any overcoming this? Again, I think it's possible, but I think it probably does start

01:07:42.640 at the state level. It really is a federal government that fears that it's losing legitimacy

01:07:50.020 among the states because the states are being run better, might turn things around, might make changes,

01:07:55.880 might look for better legislative remedies. However, I think that that's probably a road that is long

01:08:04.100 in the building and starts at the state level. You have to make the federal government feel

01:08:09.240 like they actually have to do something of value. At the moment, both parties are desperately fighting

01:08:15.300 over what nation's borders they have to protect first. For the left, it's Ukraine and the Palestinians. 0.89

01:08:23.780 For the Republicans, it's Israel. But for neither party, is it America? And until you have politicians

01:08:31.080 who feel compelled to protect, say, I don't know, the borders of their own nation before stealing money

01:08:36.200 from the American people and sending it to nations that should never receive it, uh, until you have

01:08:42.380 that kind of shift, then I don't think you're probably going to get a lot of W's at the federal

01:08:47.000 level. And the fact that both parties are more than willing to do this, and it's really just a

01:08:51.820 question of what foreign country, not if, uh, really, really is a huge issue. And I don't think we're

01:08:57.360 going to see a lot of change until we see that change. All right, guys, I'm going to go ahead and wrap

01:09:03.040 this up, but I want to say thank you to everybody for stopping by. Lots of questions from the people

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01:09:45.120 go check it out. It's a great piece. I hope to have him talking about it later in this week,

01:09:49.520 but it was great to see you. And as always, I will talk to you next time.

01:09:59.940 Thank you.

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