Joe Biden's poll numbers continue to swirl the drain, the U.S. Surgeon General warns of a mental health crisis among young Americans, and we talk about the true causes of our civilizational malaise. The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by Express VPN. Protect your online privacy today at ExpressVPN.com/ProtectYourDigitalSpace. You can also get 10% off your first purchase of $10 or more when you text BBILL to 474747. That's $10 off your purchase of a BILLION DOLLAR or more! Protect your savings today! Go check them out right now by texting BBILLION at 555 1111. The BILLIAMS Poll asked, who do you want to see run for President in 2024? Joe Biden was named by 22% of those asked. Meanwhile, 6% of all those who answered preferred someone other than those on the list. Meanwhile, the rest of the Democrats rose above single digits. According to a new Wall Street Journal poll, according to the WSJ, a set of danger signs for the Democratic Party as it prepares to defend narrow majorities in the House and Senate in the mid-term elections. More voters would back a Republican than a Democrat for Congress, 44% to 41% if the election were held today. And the numbers are really bad for the Democrats? I buy mine from Birchgold by Birchgold. It s the only company I trust and recommend and recommend, and they will send you free gold for every 10 grand you purchase by December 23rd, by checking me out. I can trust Birchgold to protect your savings by texting Ben to 474847. I ve got a rating of A plus rating with the Better Business Bureau. Ben Shapiro: That s a +1 + 1 + 2 + 3 +3 + 4 + 5 + 5_4 + 5+ +5 + 6 + 6 . And when you buy mine, I ll send you a $10 grand you can trust me to send me a $100 bet that I can help me send me $50 or a $5 or a discount of $5 + $5 & I get $5 and I can receive $50 and I get a better rate of $25 or $5, I get it like that? I ll say it. I ll tell you what you can do it, I won t get it, right like that.
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00:01:55.000Meanwhile, 6% of all those who answered preferred someone other than those on the list.
00:01:58.000rest of the Democrats rose above single digits. The much beloved Pete Buttigieg garnered 4%.
00:02:02.000AOC, Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Representative Joe Kennedy for some reason, and Stacey Abrams each attracted 3% support. Meanwhile, 6% of all those who answered preferred someone other than those on the list. 31% said they were unsure.
00:02:20.000Only 37% of Democrats say they are enthused about Joe Biden holding the top spot, and only 16% say they want Kamala Harris, and no one even gets more than low single-digit support after that.
00:02:31.000The numbers for Joe Biden continue to decline.
00:02:34.000There's another poll out today, and it shows voters pessimistic about the economy.
00:02:38.000Biden's leadership is according to a new Wall Street Journal poll.
00:02:42.000The survey, according to the Wall Street Journal, reveals a set of danger signs for the Democratic Party as it prepares to defend narrow majorities in the House and Senate.
00:02:49.000Voters by a large margin see economic and fiscal issues, including inflation, as top priorities for Washington, and they view the GOP as better able to handle them.
00:02:57.000Joe Biden's overall approval rating right now is at 41%.
00:03:04.000What's much worse for Joe Biden, his strongly approve of Joe Biden number is 19%.
00:03:07.000His strongly disapprove of Joe Biden number is 46%.
00:03:14.000You got 22% of the American public saying they somewhat approve of Joe Biden, and 10% saying they somewhat disapprove.
00:03:19.000But people hate him much more than they love him, for sure.
00:03:22.000More voters apparently say they would back a Republican than a Democrat for Congress, 44% to 41% if the election were held today.
00:03:29.000That is within the poll's margin of error.
00:03:31.000But again, most of these polls tend to underestimate Republican support and Republican turnout.
00:03:38.000So these numbers are really, really bad for the Democrats right now.
00:03:44.000And as far as whether the country is on the right track or on the wrong track, according to that Wall Street Journal poll, 63% of Americans say the country is on the wrong track.
00:03:54.000Only 27% say the country is on the right track.
00:03:58.000Some 61% of Americans say the economy is headed in the wrong direction.
00:04:02.000Some 46% of Americans expect the economy to get worse next year, compared with 30% who expect it to get better.
00:04:09.00029% margin in favor of the proposition that inflation is going to get worse rather than better.
00:04:15.000People have really bad expectations with regard to crime.
00:04:19.000By a 33-point margin, people think that crime is going to get worse, not better.
00:04:22.00026% more Americans think that the border is going to get worse, not better.
00:04:47.000On making healthcare affordable, Democrats have an advantage.
00:04:49.000But the issues Americans care most about, rebuilding the economy and getting inflation under control, Republicans have massive advantages.
00:04:56.000So Democrats have a real problem on their hands.
00:04:58.000But the bigger issue here is that Americans just seem consumed with the idea that the future is going to suck.
00:05:05.000And I think one of the reasons that they feel consumed with the idea the future is going to suck Because we as a country seem to have lost purpose.
00:05:12.000The Surgeon General of the United States came out yesterday and he announced that we have a mental health crisis among young Americans.
00:05:19.000Which, again, if you watch TikTok for any length of time at all, you know is true.
00:05:23.000You can view my review videos over at YouTube where I go through some of what goes on on TikTok and it is basically just a mental asylum in full public view for the walls.
00:05:31.000It's a bunch of people who are signifying their real mental disorders and doing so for people to cheer them.
00:05:40.000The Surgeon General had to put out this 53-page report today, talking about how children are in real trouble.
00:05:47.000According to the Surgeon General, he says, recent national surveys of young people have shown alarming increases in the prevalence of certain mental health challenges.
00:05:55.000In 2019, one in three high school students and half of all female students reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, an overall increase of 40% from 2009.
00:06:20.000But that doesn't go to any of the real underlying issues that are innervating the society.
00:06:24.000According to the government, quote, we know that mental health is shaped by many factors from our genes and brain chemistry to our relationships with family and friends, neighborhood conditions and larger social forces and policies.
00:06:33.000We also know that too often young people are bombarded with messages through the media and popular culture that erodes their sense of self-worth, telling them they are not good looking enough, popular enough, smart enough or rich enough.
00:06:42.000That comes as progress on legitimate and distressing issues like climate change, income inequality, racial injustice, the opioid epidemic and gun violence feels too slow.
00:06:51.000Surgeon General is saying the reason that kids are now suicidal is because we haven't done enough on climate change or income inequality or racial justice.
00:07:06.000That is not going to be filled by your bullcrap excuses for motivation on a daily basis.
00:07:14.000The government is also blaming technology platforms.
00:07:16.000They say when not deployed responsibly and safely, these tools can pit us against each other, reinforce negative behaviors like bullying and exclusion, and undermine the safe and supportive environments young people need and deserve.
00:07:26.000All of that was true before COVID-19 dramatically altered young people's experiences at home, at school, and in the community.
00:07:31.000The pandemic era's unfathomable number of deaths, pervasive sense of fear, economic instability, and forced physical distancing from loved ones, friends, and communities have exacerbated the unprecedented stresses young people already face.
00:07:43.000Our obligation to act is not just medical, it's moral, says Vivek Murthy, the Surgeon General of the United States.
00:07:49.000We're going to go through more of this advisory from the Surgeon General on the mental health of young people because I think it goes to a far deeper cultural and civilizational malaise that is now set in and really is cancerous.
00:08:01.000We're going to get to that in just one second.
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00:09:17.000OK, so according to the Surgeon General, the reason that we're having a mental health crisis is because we're not doing all the things that the left wants you to do via the government.
00:09:26.000So first, they try to claim that mental health conditions that have gotten much more grave among America's young people, that that is due to biological factors.
00:09:35.000In order to assume that it's due to biological factors, you would have to assume that over the last 12 years there has been a major change in the biology of human minds.
00:09:42.000Which, not a lot of evidence to suggest that.
00:09:47.000According to Vivek Murthy, some mental health disorders seem to cluster in families.
00:09:51.000They are often shaped by multiple genes.
00:09:53.000Whether an individual develops symptoms can be further modified by experiences and surrounding environment.
00:09:57.000Environmental factors can range from exposure to alcohol or drugs during pregnancy, to birth complications, to discrimination and racism.
00:10:04.000Okay, some of these are well substantiated.
00:10:13.000The notion that if you suffer from discrimination, that this leads to massive mental health crises.
00:10:21.000The suicidal ideation stats don't really back that up.
00:10:23.000In fact, it tends to be middle-upper class white people who have higher levels of suicidal ideation than, for example, impoverished black people.
00:10:30.000So if it's really about class issues or race issues, that really doesn't explain it.
00:10:37.000They say that adverse childhood experiences can undermine a child's sense of safety, stability, bonding, and well-being.
00:10:43.000Moreover, ACEs, again, those are adverse childhood experiences, may lead to the development of toxic stress, which can cause long-lasting change.
00:10:50.000And of course, the answer to all of this is the government getting involved in everything.
00:10:53.000So they put together a graphic, adopted from the WHO, talking about factors that can shape the mental health of young people.
00:10:59.000And here is what your government says.
00:11:01.000Social and economic inequalities, discrimination, racism, migration, media and technology, popular culture and government policies, all can exacerbate mental health problems.
00:11:11.000Neighborhood safety, access to green spaces like parks, healthy food, housing, healthcare pollution, natural disasters, and climate change.
00:11:18.000This is going to affect your mental health.
00:11:19.000Climate change is going to affect your mental health.
00:11:22.000Relationship with peers, teachers, and mentors.
00:11:24.000Faith communities, school climate, academic pressure, community support.
00:11:37.000According to the Surgeon General Report, from 2009 to 2019, the proportion of high school students reporting persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness increased by 40%.
00:11:46.000The share seriously considering attempting suicide increased by 36%.
00:11:52.000The share creating a suicide plan increased by 44% between 2011 and 2015.
00:11:58.000Youth psychiatric visits to emergency departments for depression, anxiety, and behavioral challenges increased by 28%.
00:12:04.000Between 2007 and 2018, suicide rates among youth aged 10 to 24 in the United States increased by 57%.
00:12:11.000Early estimates from the National Center for Health Statistics suggest there were more than 6,600 deaths by suicide among the 10 to 24 age group in 2020 alone.
00:12:22.000Scientists proposed various hypotheses to explain all of this.
00:12:27.000They say that it might be more people discussing mental health concerns, but they also are blaming digital media, increasing academic pressure.
00:12:33.000I'm going to have to hear why increasing academic pressure is causing this, considering that our schools are underperforming and there is less academic pressure to perform in modern America than at any time in recent American history.
00:12:45.000They talk about income inequality exacerbating this sort of stuff, which is weird because we didn't have this sort of spiking depression and suicide rate during the, you know, Great Depression.
00:12:54.000They talk about racism and gun violence and climate change as factors.
00:12:57.000Again, it all comes back to there's a problem in society and it must be our favored solutions that are the actual solutions.
00:13:04.000Now, if you are going to examine what is wrong with the youth, what exactly is happening with the youth, you would have to go a little bit deeper than this.
00:13:14.000They talk about some of the things that have been exacerbated during the pandemic.
00:13:19.000They say that if you've lived in an urban area or an area with more severe COVID-19 outbreaks, this has exacerbated mental health problems.
00:13:25.000If you are worried about COVID-19, if you experience disruptions in routine, which, by the way, would suggest that the lockdowns did much more damage to kids than actual COVID-19, because the number, again, of people under the age of 18 in the United States who are healthy, who've died of COVID-19 across the entirety of the pandemic is somewhere between 10 and 20, according to Marty McCary of Johns Hopkins University.
00:13:44.000So, when you're talking about why young people are depressed because of COVID, it isn't because they're scared of COVID.
00:13:49.000Or if they are scared of COVID, it's because the adults are idiots.
00:13:51.000And the reason is because they've been locked in their homes and told that they cannot see other human beings.
00:13:57.000But the bigger problem here is that, again, the government's suggestions as to why we are seeing mental health problems across young people in the United States are always geared toward what can the government do to fix it.
00:14:10.000And the problem is that this is not predominantly a governmental issue.
00:14:14.000This is predominantly a philosophical issue that has now boiled down to how we raise our children, or if we even have children at all.
00:14:22.000Some of the most durable statistics in mental well-being show that, for example, religious people tend to be less suicidal.
00:14:29.000They tend to have less suicidal ideation than people who are less religious.
00:14:36.000That class has very little to do with it.
00:14:39.000There's good evidence to suggest that race has very little to do with it.
00:14:42.000And certainly climate change has very little to do with it.
00:14:44.000So in a second, I want to get to why I think that young people are more depressed, more suicidal, what our culture has taught young people, why we have prepared them for a life of misery, why we have set up expectations that simply cannot be fulfilled, and yes, that are exacerbated by the culture that surrounds them from social media, but why they are not robust enough to withstand that.
00:15:05.000I mean, you have to remember that young people, their grandparents, when they were 18, they were jumping off boats at Normandy, headed into the face of certain death.
00:15:14.000And today, young people are suicidal because of Instagram.
00:15:16.000So we're going to have to decide why we think that is happening to this extent.
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00:16:52.000What exactly is the achievement meant to fulfill?
00:16:54.000If it's just about making money, that ain't gonna do it because you can make a lot of money and you can be very successful, but if you actually have not fulfilled your role in life, That doesn't mean you're not going to be miserable.
00:17:06.000As I've said before, again, people who are middle to upper income tend to have higher suicidal ideation as teenagers than many people who are impoverished.
00:17:14.000So the question becomes, what exactly are you aiming at?
00:17:18.000What is the achievement geared toward?
00:17:20.000Well, when you remove the idea, particularly from successful young men and women, that there is any purpose to their lives, when you tell them that the purpose of your life is authenticity, you are always going to fall short.
00:17:32.000So we have sold our kids a bill of goods.
00:17:34.000The bill of goods that we have sold our kids is that they are completely autonomous spirits resting in biologically constraining bodies.
00:17:41.000We have told them that authenticity is the only thing that matters.
00:17:45.000And this is a radical shift in how we bring up our children.
00:17:48.000Because instead of suggesting to them that there are expectations that you must fulfill, that there are roles that if you successfully fill them will make you happy in life, we have told them that the only thing that you should be concerned about is pleasing yourself.
00:18:01.000The only thing you should be concerned about is finding your true self and then having the rest of the world adapt to you.
00:18:08.000You're setting up your own kids for failure.
00:18:11.000And when you set up a fake reality in which everybody online is bragging about how they've achieved a level of happiness through a method that really makes it impossible to achieve happiness, and when people inevitably fall short, they aren't happy.
00:18:25.000So the reason I'm connecting this to government is because I think that one of the reasons that Americans have such a cynical view of the future of the country is because they have been told for more than a century at this point that American government can solve all of their problems.
00:18:37.000As I have said over and over and over, American government cannot solve 90% of your problems.
00:18:41.000American government can solve the problem of whether your neighbor is going to try to kill you.
00:18:45.000American government might be able to solve the problem of how to mobilize in the face of foreign invasion.
00:18:51.000American government cannot solve your problem of happiness.
00:18:55.000All the American government can do is protect you from the predations of your neighbors.
00:18:59.000That's all government really was designed to do.
00:19:02.000But if you've been promised that the government can solve all your problems and then the government falls short, you're going to be disappointed with whoever is the head of the government, no matter who it is.
00:19:10.000And the same thing holds true when it comes to bringing up kids.
00:19:14.000If you teach your kids that the path to enlightenment and happiness is the search within, you're searching in the wrong place, Indy.
00:19:25.000Now, traditional religious viewpoints as to how to bring up children suggest that there are certain things that are expected of kids.
00:19:30.000And what is expected of kids is that we are going to civilize you into a role in a community, in a society, in which you are expected to not only better yourself as a character and cultivate virtue, but to better the community around you and to become a full-fledged part of that community.
00:19:47.000You know, whenever there is a baby born in the Jewish community, there are blessings that are given to the kid.
00:19:54.000And some of those blessings are that they should reach bar mitzvah and they should become, when you are bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah, then you become an adult and now that comes with obligation.
00:20:36.000If authenticity is about throwing off the shackles of a society that demands things of you, and if the only thing that can make you happy is fulfillment of traditional roles, And I'm not talking traditional roles like women subservient to men or something.
00:20:49.000I'm talking about traditional roles like wife or mother for a woman or father and protector for a man.
00:20:55.000If you throw away those traditional roles, There is nothing that can supplant that.
00:20:59.000The search for authenticity is going to be ongoing because there's no point at which you quote unquote reach authenticity.
00:21:05.000It turns out that when you reach authenticity, people may disapprove of your behavior or your authentic choices may redound not to your benefit, but to your detriment.
00:21:13.000You might be making choices that are inherently damaging to you.
00:21:17.000It turns out that sometimes you're not the best judge of your own interest.
00:21:20.000In fact, a huge percentage of the time.
00:21:22.000You're not the best judge of what it is that is going to make you happy in the absence of any sort of societal guidance.
00:21:28.000This is particularly true if children are completely incapable of making good decisions.
00:21:32.000And yet we have told kids from the time they are very, very young, quote unquote, you can be whatever you want to be.
00:21:37.000Now, if what you mean by that is if you try really hard in any particular field, then you can have the possibility of success.
00:21:43.000But if you mean that you can be a girl, if you're a boy, or you can act in any way that you want and have it all, none of that is true.
00:21:52.000And then when we reinforce that perception with a social media milieu that has people taking selfies and bragging about their own levels of happiness and having achieved this chimera of a vision, people are going to be unhappy.
00:22:06.000You've also destroyed the sense of roles that are necessary in order to promulgate community.
00:22:17.000In just a second, we're going to get to the issue of roles and why the left fights so strongly against them and why it's completely emptying out young people.
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00:24:48.000But we have decided that that's not true.
00:24:51.000We have decided, because we are so fixated on this idea that all autonomy is sort of in your head, that children ought to be granted autonomy they are not capable of having.
00:25:01.000Children ought to be making decisions about, for example, their own gender when they're five years old, which is totally insane.
00:25:06.000My son is not even capable of deciding what to eat in the evenings.
00:25:10.000He's not capable of deciding whether he should go to school.
00:25:12.000If he had his way, he would never go to school.
00:25:14.000But we have told kids that they are to be treated like little adults, which they are not.
00:25:19.000Instead, there are roles that we play over the course of our life.
00:25:21.000Some of those roles have to do with aging.
00:26:11.000That role is not to abdicate the responsibility for bringing up your kids.
00:26:15.000It's the role of cultivating yourself virtuously so you can bring up your kids properly and inculcate in them certain values.
00:26:21.000You have a role as a husband or as a wife.
00:26:24.000And that role as a husband or a wife is to cultivate yourself, become a better, more caring human being.
00:26:31.000And yes, to be the other half of the person of the opposite sex to whom you're going to commit your life and then produce children within that marriage.
00:26:39.000These are historically approved roles.
00:26:42.000And when people look at the wisdom of the past and they scoff at it, so why can't we just remake the world today?
00:26:54.000Now, that doesn't mean there can't be incremental changes.
00:26:57.000It doesn't mean that certain conflicts of the past don't crop up and force us to rectify them.
00:27:02.000This is not a Hegelian notion that everything that was, was meant to be.
00:27:07.000But it is true that if something has lasted the test of time, thousands and thousands of years, there probably is something to it beyond what your pea brain thinks there is.
00:27:15.000The way that most people are inculcated in a culture is not even that you are sat down and taught that marriage is an inherent good.
00:27:20.000It's that you watch your parents being married and you realize that it's an inherent good.
00:27:24.000It's not that you look around and you think, okay, well, freedom is a good thing and I've rationalized it out of my brain.
00:27:30.000As Michael Oakeshott, the philosopher, has suggested, most politics is not rationalism.
00:27:34.000Most politics is inculcated in the water and in the air we breathe.
00:27:37.000I was once sitting with Sam Harris, who of course is a famous atheist, and we were talking about values, and I was pointing out that he gets his values from the same place that I do, namely a Judeo-Christian culture in which he was raised.
00:27:48.000Because he was saying, well, I came up with these values myself, and I've thought them through.
00:27:52.000And I'm sure he has thought them through.
00:27:53.000But the reality is that Sam Harris and I share 80% of values, 90% of values.
00:27:57.000That's because we grew up like 10 miles from each other in California, in a society that was built on several thousand years of common history.
00:28:05.000Being a part of that stream, being a person who fulfills roles, that is a fulfilling thing.
00:28:11.000It's a thing you're supposed to be teaching your kids.
00:28:13.000Because you cultivate virtue within each of these roles, right?
00:28:15.000Each of these roles requires you to follow certain rules and also to exercise certain liberties.
00:28:20.000In order to be a good parent, you have to stick and move.
00:28:22.000In order to be a child who's properly learning, you have to have the freedom to learn.
00:28:26.000In order to be somebody who acts as a good American citizen, you have to exercise your freedom to produce.
00:28:32.000You have to exercise your freedom to be creative.
00:28:36.000All these things are inherent goods, but they don't exist in the absence of roles for which they are designed.
00:28:41.000They're instrumental goods, in other words.
00:28:43.000Most of the things we think of in life as inherent goods are not inherent goods, they're instrumental goods.
00:28:48.000They're directed toward a higher good, toward a larger purpose.
00:28:53.000And when we sort of make the morally relativistic point that no, these are inherent goods, freedom is inherent good, not freedom directed, sort of higher purpose, freedom just itself.
00:29:02.000Well, then you've created no limits for people.
00:29:42.000Now, as a society, we've decided that these roles are not only no longer necessary, they're repressive and bad, and they ought to be fought.
00:30:29.000And the ones that matter typically are the ones that have to do with historically tried and true rules that have provided fulfillment to people across cultures for all of human history.
00:30:39.000But here in the United States, in our pursuit of this bizarro world, complete autonomy and complete libertinism is the solution to all your ills.
00:30:49.000Authenticity is what we ought to be searching for and we will raise our kids to search for authenticity.
00:30:56.000They've lost what makes people authentically human, which is human roles.
00:31:02.000Otherwise, you're just a really smart animal.
00:31:06.000So, the reason that I bring all of this up, of course, is because we see indicators of how we've undermined the raising of our children all over our culture.
00:31:13.000There's an article in the Washington Post today, for example, entitled, A White Teacher Taught White Students About White Privilege.
00:31:21.000And the idea is that we should be very much pro our teachers teaching kids about racial essentialism, teaching kids about the evils of their country, teaching them essentially to be bad Americans.
00:31:31.000And that it is good for teachers to teach kids.
00:31:33.000If you, by the way, if you're teaching your kids about racial essentialism, you're teaching your kid to be a bad American.
00:31:38.000You're teaching them to fundamentally reject basic notions of Western civilization, about the inherent rights of human beings.
00:31:46.000And about the fact that human beings ought not be boiled down to immutable skin color characteristics.
00:31:53.000But the Washington Post says that they want kids to be freed of the role of good American citizen.
00:31:59.000To even say, by the way, that you should play the role of good American citizen is now considered intolerant.
00:32:03.000These sorts of words are considered coded dog whistles to say something like good American citizen.
00:32:10.000According to the Washington Post, Matthew Hahn checked his phone to see if the wait was finally over.
00:32:15.000It had been five months since he was fired for teaching about white privilege at a high school in rural Tennessee.
00:32:19.000Two months since he had fought to regain his job at an emotional three-day hearing, becoming a symbol of the acrimonious debate over the way race, racism, and history should be taught in America's schools.
00:32:29.000No announcements from the school district about his appeal effort, no messages from his lawyer, no texts from friends and former colleagues, but sustained him through a lonely half-year of jobless limbo.
00:32:37.000Could he return to teaching in his hometown?
00:32:44.000Marlow, his German shepherd, started to whine.
00:32:46.000Han grabbed the leash because no matter what, he still had to walk the dog.
00:32:49.000Shrugging on a gray hoodie against the fall chill, he walked out his front door and down the long, sloped driveway of the house he had grown up in, Marlow tugging at every step.
00:32:57.000A lifelong resident of Kingsport, Tennessee, Han was well aware his liberal views made him an outlier in his overwhelmingly white, mostly conservative community.
00:33:51.000And of course, it's very bad, very bad, that Han lost his job.
00:33:55.000Because after all, we have to have teachers indoctrinating kids into the idea That America is inherently bad, all of its institutions shot through with racism and bigotry.
00:34:05.000Now again, teaching kids these sorts of ideas when they are 19, 20, is a different thing as one view among many in college.
00:34:15.000Even there, I think that there's a serious question as to whether we ought to be sponsoring anti-citizenship sentiments like the idea that racial essentialism is at the root of all of America's institutions.
00:34:25.000But certainly when you're teaching kids, high school kids, Are you raising kids to have a purpose as Americans when you do this sort of stuff?
00:34:43.000Instead of teaching kids to pursue success, we are now teaching kids that if they fail, it must be the system that has failed because true authenticity is to be found within, not in fulfilling standards, not in attempting to achieve as part of a broader goal of becoming a more productive person who is capable of doing better things for family, friends, community, and country.
00:35:03.000According to USA Today, There are recommendations to make math more inclusive.
00:35:10.000Schools are collapsing math tracks to put kids of all abilities in the same classes, adding data science courses that carry the same prestige as calculus, long seen as a gateway to a career in STEM fields in elite colleges.
00:35:21.000Another heated issue, the extent to which math education should include real-world problems involving racial and social inequities.
00:35:27.000Fairly or not, that debate has landed in the murky soup of critical race theory digressions.
00:35:31.000The changes have pitted mathematicians and math educators against each other and sparked criticism.
00:35:36.000The attempts to dumb down math education are of course about teaching people that America sucks.
00:35:42.000over proposed changes to the state's K-12 math framework.
00:35:46.000The attempts to dumb down math education are of course about teaching people that America sucks because of inequalities of outcome and about teaching people that they don't actually need to fulfill standards in order to feel better But they're not going to feel better about themselves.
00:36:27.000That's a pretty great message for depressing kids.
00:36:30.000First of all, people who suffer from gender dysphoria, which is a real diagnosable mental disorder under the DSM-5, have extraordinarily high suicidal ideation rates.
00:36:40.000So the broader teaching of the lie that men can become women and girls can become boys, obviously is not tied to mental health concerns on a broad societal level.
00:36:50.000We're not talking about the treatment of people with gender dysphoria.
00:36:52.000We're talking about indoctrinating kids into confusing and stupid and anti-biological ideas.
00:36:58.000That we are now trying to mainstream in the real world to disastrously comic effect.
00:37:03.000Article from the UK Daily Mail today, furious transgender UPenSwimmer22, who used to compete as a man, smashes two US women's records in weekend competition and finishes one race 38 seconds ahead of her nearest rival.
00:37:20.000swimming records at an Akron, Ohio contest.
00:37:23.000Thomas won the 16.50 freestyle in a record time of 15 minutes, 59 seconds, beating her closest rival, Anna-Sophia Kalandazzi, by 38 seconds.
00:37:36.000She left rivals floundering in a 500 freestyle, beating them by 14 seconds.
00:37:41.000Thomas previously competed for the school men's team for three years before joining the women's team.
00:37:48.000NCAA rules dictate any trans female athlete can take part in women's events if they've completed a year of testosterone suppression treatment.
00:37:56.000So, um, either men are unbelievably good at becoming women, like, amazing.
00:38:02.000In other words, women can have to be women all their lives, but men, within five minutes of becoming women, are better at women than, like, nearly every athletic endeavor, or they're still men.
00:38:09.000And we as a society are lying in order to preserve the sense of authenticity of particular people.
00:38:15.000But question, is that sense of authenticity fulfilling?
00:38:20.000Is living in accordance with reality actually a rather fulfilling thing?
00:38:25.000Biblically speaking, when God places man in the Garden of Eden, and the reason I'm using the Bible here is not really for the religious commentary, although obviously I believe in the religious aspect of this, but because the Bible is the most popular book in world history and has some pretty wise things to say.
00:38:43.000The basic metaphor of God placing man in the Garden of Eden and telling him to cultivate the ground Is that the ground exists, reality exists.
00:38:52.000You don't get to remake reality in your own image because you in fact are not God.
00:38:56.000You are not a spirit floating above the waters.
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00:42:19.000So the case that I am making, which is that we need to re-institute social rules, not by law, obviously, but culturally, that we need to.
00:42:34.000Re-inculcate in our kids a feeling that they have obligations and responsibilities and that this is what makes us human.
00:42:39.000There's some pretty good scientific evidence to this.
00:42:42.000So in the 1960s, there was a scientist named John Calhoun, and he performed a bunch of mouse experiments.
00:42:49.000There was one particular experiment that became very, very famous.
00:42:53.000He set up an experiment that was designed to essentially create utopia.
00:42:59.000Okay, and this experiment for mice essentially amounted to, we are going to put a bunch of mice in a place where all of their needs are catered to, and they're basically like rich people today.
00:43:11.000All their needs are catered to, they don't have any obligations.
00:43:15.000According to iflscience.com, in this study, Which was called Universe 25.
00:43:20.000They set up all these different experiments with these mice.
00:43:22.000In this study, Calhoun took four breeding pairs of mice and placed them inside a utopia.
00:43:26.000The environment was designed to eliminate problems that would lead to mortality in the wild.
00:43:29.000They could access limitless food via food hoppers, access via tunnels, which would feed up to 25 mice at a time, as well as water bottles just above.
00:43:38.000The weather was kept at like perfect mouse temperature, which is about 68 degrees Fahrenheit apparently.
00:43:43.000The mice were chosen for their health.
00:43:44.000They were obtained from the NIH breeding colony.
00:43:46.000Extreme precautions were taken to prevent disease.
00:43:49.000There were no predators available anywhere in there, obviously.
00:43:52.000So, the mice, normally they spent a lot of time foraging for food, for shelter.
00:43:57.000Instead, they basically spent all of their time screwing, which is exactly what you'd expect.
00:44:02.000About every 55 days, the population doubled, as the mice filled the most desirable space within the pen, where access to the food tunnels was at ease.
00:44:08.000When the population hit 620, that slowed to doubling around every 145 days because male society began to hit problems, they were overcrowded, they might split off into groups, and those that could not find a role in the groups found themselves with no place to go.
00:44:24.000The excess could not go anywhere else because there was nowhere else to go.
00:44:31.000According to the paper, quote, males who failed withdrew physically and psychologically.
00:44:35.000They became very inactive, aggregated in large pools near the center of the floor of the universe.
00:44:39.000From this point on, they no longer initiated interaction with their established associates, nor did their behavior elicit attack by territorial males.
00:44:45.000Even so, they became characterized by many wounds and much scar tissue as a result of attacks by other withdrawn males.
00:44:50.000So basically, the mouse society striated as soon as all obligation was gone.
00:44:55.000There were these successful alphas, and then there was everybody else.
00:44:58.000The withdrawn males would not respond during attacks.
00:45:01.000Later, they would attack others in the same pattern.
00:45:03.000The female counterparts of the isolated males withdrew as well.
00:45:06.000Some mice spent their days preening themselves, shunning mating, never engaging in fighting, and basically the Instagram stars of the mouse world.
00:45:12.000Due to this, they had excellent fur coats and were dubbed, somewhat disconcertingly, the beautiful ones.
00:45:17.000The breakdown of usual mouse behavior was not limited to the outsiders.
00:45:19.000The alpha male mice became extremely aggressive, attacking others with no motivation or gain for themselves.
00:45:24.000They regularly raped both male and female mice.
00:45:27.000Violence encounters sometimes ended in mouse-on-mouse cannibalism.
00:45:31.000Because their every need was being catered for, mothers would abandon their young, or merely just forget about them entirely, leaving them to fend for themselves.
00:45:38.000The mother mice became aggressive toward trespassers to their nest, with males that would normally fill this role banished to other parts of the Utopia.
00:46:13.000The population peaked at 2,200, short of the actual 3,000 mouse capacity of the universe, and then came the decline.
00:46:19.000Many of the mice weren't interested in breeding.
00:46:21.000They retired to the upper decks of the enclosure.
00:46:23.000The others formed into violent gangs below, which regularly attack and cannibalize other groups as well as their own.
00:46:28.000The low birth rate and high infant mortality combined with the violence, soon the entire colony was extinct.
00:46:33.000Calhoun called this a behavioral sink, and here's what he concluded, quote, For an animal so simple as a mouse, the most complex behaviors involve the interrelated set of courtship, maternal care, territorial defense, and hierarchical intergroup and intragroup social organization.
00:46:48.000When behaviors related to these functions fail to mature, there is no development of social organization, no reproduction.
00:46:54.000As in the case of my study reported above, all members of the population will age and eventually die.
00:47:01.000And then he tried to apply this lesson to man.
00:47:02.000He said, For an animal so complex as man, there is no logical reason why a comparable sequence of events should not also lead to species extinction.
00:47:09.000If opportunities for role fulfillment fall far short of demand by those capable of filling roles and having expectancies to do so, only violence and disruption of social organization can follow.
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