00:00:02.000Think of Hillary Clinton walking around talking about hot sauce or Kamala Harris changing her accent depending on where she is.0.79
00:00:09.000It's rare that a Democrat wins, particularly in a red or a purple area, by preaching openly weakness on foreign policy or say transing the kids or raising your taxes.
00:00:18.000Cause honesty doesn't tend to work out too well for people who push this kind of stuff.
00:00:22.000So instead, Democrats frequently put on costumes and they pretend and they lie.
00:00:26.000What's really fascinating is how they decide to pretend.
00:01:05.000That if you were a terror supporting radical Muslim, you had to cosplay as a mainstream American, or at least get the media to do your dirty work for you.0.80
00:01:13.000Now, Democrats are cosplaying as Muslims or as fellow travelers to radicals.0.81
00:01:19.000Because here's the thing the radical Islamists in America aren't cosplaying anymore.
00:01:27.000Neither does Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, Abdul El Sayed.
00:01:31.000They may sometimes pretend to weigh some of their more radical Islamist edges, but they're not really trying to hide the ball very hard.
00:01:38.000And AOC is now cosplaying as one of those types.
00:01:41.000We'll explain why that is important in a moment.0.80
00:01:44.000And of course, we'll get to some other Democrats playing dress up.
00:01:46.000You got Graham Plattner, the Senate Democratic candidate in Maine, who is wearing a Trump voter costume, at least what the left thinks Trump voters are like.0.53
00:01:53.000Or James Tallarico, the Senate Democratic candidate in Texas, who's pretending to be a Bible thumping Christian who loves ribs, when actually he just loves transing the kids.0.51
00:02:07.000The New York governor bricking a dunk.
00:02:09.000On Donald Trump and the Pope going after AI.
00:02:11.000All of that on today's Ben Shapiro show.
00:02:22.000So, yesterday marked the conclusion of Ramadan that is in Islamic culture, signaled by a celebration and a feast and some services called Ayid.
00:02:34.000It's also a time when, if any sort of military activity takes place, then radical Muslims pretend that that is not allowed because of Ayid.0.84
00:02:41.000Well, it's a Jewish holiday, mandatory that there's a war launched on it.0.78
00:02:44.000In any case, Alexander Ocasio Cortez showed up to an Ayid dinner with Zorhan Mamdani.0.98
00:04:44.000And she wore the scarf kind of like a regular scarf, right?
00:04:47.000That just looks like your grandma going out in the rain to go down to the local market.0.55
00:04:51.000That is not looking, no one would look at a woman like Nancy Pelosi wearing that head covering and imagine that she was in an Islamic country wearing hijab.
00:05:00.000No one would look at AOC dressed as she is dressed, wearing what she is wearing, and not think hijab.0.97
00:05:06.000And that matters because there has been sort of a long standing policy in the United States, bipartisan policy, by the way, that when women even go to the Middle East in the United States in politics, they don't wear hijab.
00:05:18.000Laura Bush in 2007 went to Saudi Arabia, no hijab.
00:05:44.000The reason that that matters is because when Western women go to the Islamic world, they are making a point very often, which is I am not going to be forced into a traditional Islamic hair covering that has been used for hundreds of years as a way to treat women as second class citizens.
00:07:44.000Also, as an Orthodox Jew, I have never, never seen an Orthodox Jew ask a woman to wear what's called a shetal, right, which is the most religious hair covering.1.00
00:07:54.000It's essentially a wig to cover your hair, or a tichel, which is another sort of very religious hair covering.
00:08:00.000If Nancy Pelosi came to my synagogue, I mean, first of all, she wouldn't be very popular, but if she did, not a single woman at the synagogue would come up to her and say, Here is a tichel or a shaitel, you need to put it on.
00:08:13.000I've never heard anybody doing something like that.
00:08:16.000Okay, there's a category here that's like generic hair covering at a religious site.
00:08:20.000Again, that would be like theoretically Nancy Pelosi putting on a normal scarf in 2007, or the fact that lots of women will put on a veil to cover their hair.
00:08:55.000And so we should ask what that reason is.0.99
00:08:57.000Because again, hijab is a different thing.0.98
00:08:59.000All over the world, it is a sign of submission of women.0.98
00:09:02.000That's a reason why France has banned particular types of head coverings in public spaces because France sees certain types of head coverings as submission to radicalism.0.99
00:09:26.000She's not covering her hair in some sort of perfunctory fashion as a sign of religious respect, which, again, is cross religious and happens all the time.
00:09:33.000And I wouldn't be talking about this if she had just put a scarf on the way that Nancy Pelosi put a scarf on.
00:10:28.000AOC is the most practiced actress slash politician of her era.
00:10:33.000If you truly believe she got up that morning and just grabbed a scarf from the shelf and decided that she was going to wear it and it just coincidentally looked like hijab, you're wrong.1.00
00:10:41.000You're wrong and you're ignorant and you're being deliberately ignorant.0.99
00:10:45.000It is a virtue signal to the people who believe that America is responsible for all the problems of the world, that third world cultures all over the world have been put upon by the United States, and she is signaling her solidarity with that.0.50
00:11:01.000And that's what's fascinating the left increasingly thinks that it is not worth cosplaying as sort of normie Americans.
00:11:08.000Instead, it is worth cosplaying as something else.0.68
00:11:12.000In fact, if you're going to make a Nancy Pelosi comparison, the better Nancy Pelosi comparison here would be the time that she decided to wear a Kensing cloth.0.87
00:11:19.000At that time, after George Floyd's death, when she decided to kneel in the Capitol building while wearing a kente cloth, because the idea was submission to a particular way of thought.0.94
00:11:47.000AOC is not going to walk out of her house wearing an American flag t shirt.
00:11:51.000It is not a thing that she is going to do.0.89
00:11:52.000She's going to dress in particular ways.
00:11:54.000And she's going to do that in order to signal particular ideas.
00:11:57.000And what's fascinating again is that inside the Democratic Party, there is a deliberate attempt now to steer toward a third worldist ideology.
00:12:05.000Third worldism is the concept that there is a third world because the first world screwed the third world.0.57
00:12:10.000That basically people are poor in other cultures and other cultures are what they are because America is responsible for their problems.0.75
00:12:16.000And the only way to break that cycle is for America to subjugate itself to the desires of people from those cultures.
00:12:23.000That is the basic concept of anti colonialism and third worldism.0.77
00:12:26.000And AOC is in full solidarity with that.
00:12:28.000The fact that she is willing to put on particular costumes in order to demonstrate that is fascinating.
00:12:34.000Because again, there's nothing new about the costuming, there's nothing new about the cosplay.0.69
00:12:39.000But it's how people are trying to cosplay that's really, really fascinating.
00:12:42.000Because again, AOC is not running a local campaign.
00:12:46.000AOC is clearly preparing for a presidential run.0.94
00:12:49.000She wants to run nationally on this ticket.
00:12:51.000And she believes that there is a rising majority in the country.
00:12:55.000Of people who despise the country, think the country is responsible for all the ills of the world, and that she can activate the most passionate base in primaries in order to get her over the top, and that's why she's doing what she's doing.
00:13:14.000I mean, to some people, maybe it's shocking because they've ignored the fact that he is a religious Muslim with extraordinarily radical leanings when it comes to terrorism.
00:13:43.000If you go in for an interview at a big business firm and you put on a really nice suit, you're doing so because you are demonstrating your aspiration to be part of that culture.
00:13:52.000And if you do it, AOC is doing it for a reason.
00:13:55.000Coming up, we'll get into other cosplaying Democrats.
00:13:58.000AOC is cosplaying as a Third worldist, but other Democrats are cosplaying as blue collar oyster farmers and Bible thumping gentlemen from Texas.
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00:20:36.000I think Graham Platner lashes out against these other veterans, against a hero like Chris Kyle, because Graham Platner knows deep down that he, Graham Platner, is a complete and total failure, a ne'er do well who has never done anything.0.65
00:20:52.000Anything meaningful with his life whatsoever.0.90
00:21:33.000And Democrats continue to gather around him.
00:21:37.000Now, the New York Post says that there are some Democrats who are trying to break with him.
00:21:41.000I'm not seeing a ton of it, to be honest with you.
00:21:44.000Now, they're going a little quieter because it turns out every day there is a worse headline about Graham Platner, ranging from his peculiar habits in porta potties to terrible things he said about.
00:21:55.000People who have been shot while serving in the military.
00:21:58.000But Democrats are not going to disown him.
00:22:01.000But again, this is what it is fascinating.0.59
00:22:03.000Democrats believe that Trump voters are either Nazis with beards or Bible thumpers, like true Bible thumpers, not people who actually have a biblical worldview, but Bible thumpers.0.54
00:22:14.000And so if you just hold up a Bible and cosplay as a biblical believer, then magically they will resonate to you.0.99
00:22:19.000If you play a Sunday school teacher, then suddenly all the dumb Trump voters will just go, oh, that guy, he's holding a Bible.0.79
00:22:27.000Sure, he's pushing the transing of the kids, but he's holding a Bible, which brings us to James Tallarico.0.96
00:22:31.000This is the Senate Democrat candidate in Texas.
00:22:34.000Again, I think that Ken Paxton is a worse candidate than John Cornyn on a statewide level.
00:22:38.000Ken Paxton is going to swamp Tellerico in Texas.
00:22:41.000The Democrats are going to spend extraordinary cash in Texas.
00:22:44.000Tellerico is so far outside the mainstream of what Texans actually believe because the projection that Democrats have of Republicans is so wildly wrong.
00:22:53.000So Ken Paxton put out his first ad against Tellerico yesterday.
00:22:56.000Here's what that looked like This is Texas.
00:23:56.000Okay, Tellerico, again, is going to have such serious problems here.
00:24:02.000And it is fun to watch left wing political strategists trying to say that he's just going to be able to hold up a Bible and say a bunch of left wing crap and that this will somehow work out for them.0.54
00:24:11.000On MS Now, one political strategist was saying just he's wearing a cowboy hat badly, by the way, really, really poorly.0.60
00:24:19.000But since he's wearing a cowboy hat and looks like he's in a trailer, this political strategist must know Texas.
00:24:26.000I think a really unpopular Republican nominee in Ken Paxton.
00:24:30.000This is going to be a good versus evil.
00:24:32.000And I think that Talarico is just a different kind of candidate.
00:24:35.000He talks about values and he can outbible the Republicans.
00:24:44.000Well, That might be a little bit difficult when you go to a church that actually distributes God is queer books.0.71
00:24:51.000According to the Daily Wire, the Texas church, where Democrat James Tellerico has delivered his radical sermons, is pushing radical gender ideology on children, featuring books filled with sexually explicit content and transgender ideology.
00:25:03.000Tellerico, the Democrat nominee for the crucial Senate election in November, attends a church called St. Andrew's Presbyterian in Austin.0.92
00:25:10.000And there, children have access to a library stocked with banned books that promote ideas rejected by most Christians, including books that contain descriptions of anal rape, incest, and oral sex.0.88
00:25:20.000Books include Gender Queer and All Boys Aren't Blue.0.95
00:25:25.000Also, this book is Gay and Becoming Nicole and The Courage to Be Queer, in which the author claims that God is queer, which is going to come as a gigantic surprise to God, among others.
00:25:37.000So, Taylorico is trying to fight back against this by putting out a tweet of himself eating ribs.
00:25:42.000So, yesterday, because there was an ad going around pointing out that he said he would have a non meat campaign, which is about the worst thing you could say in Texas.
00:25:51.000So, here he is again, the cosplay is so straw.
00:25:54.000So he's wearing a Lone Star shirt that he bought at the local Army Navy Surplus or something.
00:27:04.000Then tweeted out, the Democrats made history in Texas by nominating their first transgender Senate candidate, which is not a nice thing to tweet.1.00
00:27:13.000And the Democrats responded by putting out a tweet saying, Shut up, you ugly F.0.99
00:27:19.000Yes, folks, we have reached the heights of American politics, a land that once blessed us with Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Ronald Reagan, has been reduced to your candidate looks like a transgender and shut up, you ugly F. Slow clap for America and social media.1.00
00:27:40.000Social media has not rotted us at all.0.98
00:27:44.000Well, Republicans are getting behind Paxton.
00:27:46.000They understand that he's got a problem in terms of some of the allegations around corruption, but they also recognize that they can't let James Tallarico win that Senate seat.
00:27:55.000John Thune, the Senate Majority Leader who had backed John Cornyn, he spoke to Paxton on the phone, apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, and publicly backed him.
00:28:06.000He said, Ken Paxton is our nominee heading into November.
00:28:09.000We've got to pivot and go all in to make sure we keep Texas red, that he wins.
00:28:12.000That would keep a far left liberal out of the United States Senate.
00:28:15.000And then he called on donors to defend Texas.
00:28:18.000And so, again, it is just funny to watch as Democrats cosplay.
00:28:22.000Now, I will say it is more traditional cosplaying what Platner is doing in Maine.
00:28:26.000Cosplaying is the gruff oyster farmer, or James Tallarico, a Sunday school teacher.
00:28:36.000The AOC stuff is really telling because it shows you where Democrats think things are going, where AOC and the progressive wing think things are going.
00:28:42.000Already coming up, it turns out that Joe Biden knew the entire time that Joe Biden had brain problems.
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00:31:10.000Jill Biden, they were lying to you the whole time, gang.
00:31:13.000They were lying to you the entire time, the entire time.
00:31:16.000To understand just how badly they were lying to you, I want to point out that Jill Biden, right at you, remember that debate?
00:31:24.000We all remember the debate, the debate where the president of the United States literally went brain non functional in the middle of the debate and started staring off into the wings.
00:31:34.000As though the grim reaper was awaiting him.
00:33:45.000And just to note, again, people lie in politics all the time.
00:33:47.000This was, I think, truly, there have been many defining lies over the course of the last 10 years.
00:33:53.000It's one of the reasons why trust in our institutions and our political rivals is just gone.
00:33:57.000Between the lies of BLM and the lies surrounding COVID and the lies surrounding Russiagate, and then the biggest lie of all, which is that the president, who we could all see was falling apart mentally, was totally fine.
00:34:09.000You wonder why people have lost trust and faith in institutions and sometimes people who disagree with them.
00:34:51.000Here was Corinne Jean Pierre at the time blaming his debate performance on a cold because when you have a cold, you also go brain dead.
00:35:00.000There are growing calls from Democrats, including members of Congress, for the president to step aside for the 2024 election because he's not capable of serving another four years.
00:36:18.000You even write, Corrine, that you were on the plane with him going to the debate and you didn't see anything.
00:36:24.000Well, when we were on the air force one going to the debate, you got to remember his campaign people were on the team, his family was on the team.
00:36:31.000I actually was one of those rare trips that I didn't really see him.
00:36:36.000until after the debate, even though I was on the plane.
00:36:38.000So really, I take, I want everybody to know that I take this question incredibly seriously.
00:36:46.000I was his White House press secretary, which means I had a role that saw him practically every day and traveled with him for more than 95%.
00:36:53.000We've always said, we're not going to say, oh, he didn't age.
00:37:17.000I saw someone who understood policy, pushed us on the policy, and also understood history.
00:37:23.000And there were times, I'll tell you the story, there were times where he would call me into the Oval Office, and I would be like, oh no, oh no, because I knew whatever he was going to ask me was going to be direct, was going to be about a story he read, about how we're pushing back, how we're pushing a message forward.
00:37:48.000Sometimes in time because the American people could see through it.
00:37:51.000I will say it is funny when there is a cosplay that just goes wrong.
00:37:55.000So, Kathy Hochul is the governor of New York, and she does not know anything about basketball, like nothing about basketball.
00:38:00.000This is, it's reminiscent of that time that Barack Obama, one of my, there are many things that annoyed me about the former president, many, many things.
00:38:09.000Barack Obama tried to pretend he was a Chicago White Sox fan.
00:38:11.000Now, as a lifelong Chicago White Sox fan, which is, you know, something you don't do for fun, you don't become a Chicago White Sox fan for fun.
00:38:19.000Barack Obama did it because the Chicago White Sox play on the South side.
00:38:23.000Which is a largely black area of Chicago.
00:38:25.000And he pretended he was a White Sox fan.
00:38:26.000And one time he goes to a Chicago White Sox game and he's asked on the broadcast, Name your favorite White Sox player, present or past.
00:38:36.000If you ask me, I could name off the top of my head several dozen White Sox players, even players right now.
00:38:43.000Murakami having a massive season, by the way.
00:38:44.000But Barack Obama's answer at the time was all of them, which is the same answer my wife would give when asked her favorite Chicago White Sox player because she doesn't know how baseball works, no matter how many times I explain it to her.
00:38:57.000Okay, well, this is kind of what Kathy Hochul did yesterday.
00:38:59.000So, Kathy Hochul is the failed upward, inherited her position, governor of New York.1.00
00:39:04.000You gotta love politics, a game where you just get to climb the chain by the person above you getting caught in a sexual harassment scandal.
00:40:03.000By the way, you know who was at the 1994 finals?
00:40:06.000This is the best thing about President Trump.
00:40:08.000President Trump is like the forest gump of politics, he's just everywhere.
00:40:11.000You go back in time and you're watching newsreels from 1923, and there's President Trump in the background just waving at you.
00:40:20.000Whether it is a Home Alone movie or whether it is a 1994 finals appearance, the President of the United States has been everywhere at all times, the most ubiquitous man in human history.
00:40:30.000There he was back in the 1994 finals, the much younger Marv Albert.
00:41:48.000This is the biggest controversy of the day is that I'm going to call the OKC team a bunch of floppers because they're flopping like nobody's business.
00:42:51.000In Park Slope, where the Park Slope Food Co op voted to ban all Israeli products from the shelves and then got rid of their five products because the grocery store.
00:43:47.000But the overall anti AI campaign or the idea that there should be significant Overall restrictions on AI, putting us way behind the Chinese, or that the best thing we can do for the economy is somehow a gigantic redistributionist scheme because of AI, that's foolish.0.73
00:44:04.000And it's foolish whether you are a left wing politician, or whether you are Tucker Carlson, or whether you're Publio.
00:44:13.000A bad political line pursued by anyone remains bad no matter what office you hold.
00:44:19.000And that is said with all due respect to the papacy.
00:44:22.000Again, as someone who gave the Pope a baseball and traveled to the Vatican to do so.
00:44:25.000I have a lot of respect for the office of the papacy because of the historic role of the papacy in preserving many of the pillars of Western civilization.
00:44:33.000With that said, that doesn't mean that the Pope knows what he is talking about when it comes to economics.
00:44:38.000I do not think that the Pope is coding on Claude.
00:44:41.000I do not think that the Pope is using ChatGPT.
00:44:43.000I do not think that the Pope has any idea how any of this stuff works, frankly.
00:44:48.000And religious knowledge and understanding, religious wisdom, that applies to human nature and the nature of things sinful.
00:44:57.000It does not mean you understand how economics works.
00:45:35.000Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed.
00:45:40.000The word is strong, I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.
00:45:55.000The church has long been working for nuclear disarmament, aware that every great technical power can affect people's lives and so must be accompanied by adequate moral discernment and public control.
00:46:10.000Nuclear disarmament remains a service to peace and the dignity of the human family.
00:46:16.000In a similar sense, artificial intelligence now demands to be disarmed, freed from logics that turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion, and death.
00:46:30.000Like nuclear energy, it must be at the service of all and of the common good.
00:46:36.000Decisions about technology must never be separated from conscience and responsibility.
00:47:00.000It is very important, actually, that we do that.
00:47:02.000Now, no, it's very easy to say, I don't want bad things to happen with AI.
00:47:05.000Nobody wants bad things to happen with AI.
00:47:07.000But this is where we get to the distinction between matters spiritual and matters practical.
00:47:13.000So, the Pope's encyclical is called Magnifica Humanitas.
00:47:16.000On safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.
00:47:21.000And in this encyclical, he says that he compares AI to the Tower of Babel.
00:47:30.000He says, in the abstract, technology in and of itself is not a solution to humanity's problems, just as it is not inherently evil.
00:47:36.000In practice, however, technology is never neutral because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate, and use it.
00:47:42.000Therefore, the primary choice is not between a yes or no to technology, but rather between constructing Babel or rebuilding Jerusalem.
00:47:48.000Now, again, I would prefer that good people with whom I agree build the AI.
00:47:51.000I get it, but that's not where he goes.
00:47:54.000And when it comes to sort of his general statements about how we have to remain human and how that's necessary to us, obviously that's true.
00:48:04.000When he says, in the era of artificial intelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human.
00:48:13.000We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity.
00:48:40.000That's going to be a big no from me, dog.
00:48:41.000Okay, so he says here in this encyclical it is necessary to establish adequate regulatory tools capable of upholding justice and curbing the distorting effects of technological power.
00:48:56.000In the past, it was largely up to the state to guide and direct innovation.
00:49:00.000Today, however, the main drivers of development are private, often transnational parties that are endowed with resources and the capacity to intervene that surpass those of many governments.
00:49:09.000For this reason, it is necessary to begin a shared discernment process for identifying the spiritual and cultural roots of ongoing transformations.
00:49:16.000And then, he says, that communities and intermediary organizations must be involved, and he calls for more diffuse technological property.
00:49:28.000Quote Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure, and data.
00:49:37.000In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods.
00:49:50.000In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins.
00:49:56.000Okay, first of all, This is just rote Marxist nonsense.
00:50:29.000We're rather expensive, and the microwave today is very inexpensive.
00:50:33.000This is why the cell phone that you hold in your hand that has more technology than that which we use to put a man on the moon, that cell phone, far more sophisticated than any computer that was around at the time of Gordon Gekko, the really, really basic equivalent would have been Gordon Gekko on the beach in Wall Street holding a shoebox to his head, and only he would have had one.
00:50:56.000Every necessity starts off as a luxury, basically.
00:51:00.000That is the way that all of this works.
00:51:01.000And so the idea that you cut short the innovation for redistributionist purposes is just economic nonsense.
00:51:07.000And again, it doesn't matter who says it.
00:51:08.000If a proposition is wrong, it remains wrong regardless of the mouth from which it springs.
00:51:14.000The Pope says, today, he says, when it comes to decisions regarding economic flows and digital platforms, as well as the governance of data and algorithms, we cannot allow a handful of actors to dictate these processes on their own.
00:51:25.000Instead, we must build forms of cooperation that respect the various levels of the global community and make them jointly responsible for the common good.
00:51:41.000Should we take into account their deep thoughts on AI?
00:51:46.000In the digital age, a just social order guarantees everyone equal access to opportunities, protects the youngest and weakest members of society, combats hate and misinformation, and subjects the use of data and technology to public oversight so that the guiding principle is not solely profit, but the dignity of every person and the common good of all people.
00:52:02.000See, this is where you start to smuggle in a bunch of stuff that ends up actually being immoral.
00:52:07.000Very often, When people want a centralized tyranny, they never propose a centralized tyranny in the name of injustice.
00:52:14.000They always do it in the name of the common good of all people.
00:52:20.000I would rather have diffuse mechanisms in competition with one another than centralized government control under the auspices of any organization.
00:52:31.000I particularly bridle at some of this stuff because Pope Leo has refused to call out governments.
00:52:38.000He's big on government control and centralized oversight and all of this.
00:52:42.000But he has been reticent, shall we say, to criticize governments that have slaughtered Christians in Africa, that are slaughtering Christians in the Middle East right now.
00:52:52.000He has been extraordinarily shy in condemning Iranian aggression.
00:52:58.000He has traveled literally to countries that oppress Christians in order to, I don't even know, try to go along to get along.
00:53:08.000And it seems to me that if you are going to demand global rules, Then maybe we ought to articulate what those rules look like.
00:53:16.000Maybe we ought to articulate what your desired regime would be, as opposed to these sort of broad statements that private industry and diffuse dissemination of knowledge is unjust and we need centralized control.
00:53:27.000Centralized control always sounds more fun to people and more understandable to people than diffuse knowledge, than lots of people knowing things, or the ugliness of competition.
00:53:37.000It always sounds better to say, we'll just put this guy in charge and then he'll run it, or this group of people in charge.
00:53:41.000But that's precisely what you say you're fighting.
00:53:45.000And frankly, The lack of understanding of free market mechanisms and technological development here, I think, is a problem.
00:53:58.000I think it's a problem, regardless of whether you speak with the mantle of religious authority or not.
00:54:02.000And in some ways, worse if you're speaking with the mantle of religious authority but outside your area of expertise.
00:54:08.000I think there are lots of places where the Pope's wisdom is useful.
00:54:11.000I think when it comes to his questions about how human beings adjust to technological change, all of that is fine and dandy.
00:54:20.000But the Pope literally calls for gigantic redistributionist mechanisms here.
00:54:27.000He says in this encyclical While AI promises to boost productivity by taking over mundane tasks, it frequently forces workers to adapt to the speed and demands of machines.
00:54:35.000More than ever, in the age of AI and robotics, it is no longer possible to rely solely on the invisible hand of the market.
00:54:42.000Well, what are we supposed to rely on?
00:54:45.000A bunch of people in a closed room somewhere figuring it out for the rest of us?
00:54:49.000The free market, I will trust every single time on matters of technological development and innovation over the centralized control of anybody, no matter what mantle they claim to speak under.
00:55:00.000Because freedom remains a basic necessity for human innovation and development.
00:55:07.000And this is a broader conversation that requires, I think, explication inside the right, is a battle that is clearly emerging on the right between values of liberty and freedom and people who believe that virtue must be.