The Ben Shapiro Show - Why Are Men In Crisis?

00:00:00.000 Well, for a long time, the media have treated American men as sort of an afterthought.

00:00:03.000 In fact, anybody who spoke to American men, writ large, was considered bad.

00:00:07.000 My friend Jordan Peterson, for example, he speaks to men all over the world, young men who feel lost, and the media hate him for it.

00:00:14.000 They treat him as though he's a very bad person for speaking to young men.

00:00:18.000 But suddenly the media have realized, wait a second, Young men, men generally represent, you know, 50% of the American population, and men are falling behind by every single metric.

00:00:26.000 Men are falling behind women when it comes to college degrees.

00:00:28.000 Men are falling behind women when it comes to job performance. 0.99

00:00:31.000 Men are falling behind women when it comes to life satisfaction in some measures.

00:00:34.000 Men are falling behind women when it comes to, for example, opioid use, overdose deaths.

00:00:40.000 All of these are areas where men are falling behind.

00:00:42.000 And this has raised the question, what exactly is happening to American men?

00:00:46.000 Now, that question cannot be answered in a vacuum without explaining what also happened to American women. 1.00

00:00:51.000 Because the Bible has a lot of wisdom embedded in it.

00:00:55.000 One of the pieces of wisdom in the Bible is the beginning of Genesis, chapter 2.

00:00:58.000 It talks about the formation of women. 0.86

00:01:01.000 And what God says is that man should not be alone.

00:01:03.000 He needs a helpmeet.

00:01:05.000 The word in Hebrew, the words in Hebrew for helpmeet are ezer konegda, which literally means a helper against him.

00:01:10.000 A helper against him.

00:01:11.000 In other words, men and women are two halves of the same whole. 0.98

00:01:15.000 And that's also expressed in that same chapter where it says that a man shall leave his father and mother, and he shall join his wife, and he shall cleave to her, and they shall become one flesh.

00:01:22.000 The basic idea here is that men are incomplete without women, women are incomplete without men.

00:01:25.000 So when you're explaining the shortcomings of modern American men, you also have to link that with their roles vis-a-vis women, because they do not exist in a vacuum.

00:01:33.000 People do not exist on desert islands, and men were created complementarily by either evolution or God or both, depending on your point of view.

00:01:41.000 In order so that men and women can be two halves of one whole. 0.99

00:01:44.000 So if there's something wrong with men writ large, there's also something wrong with women writ large. 0.82

00:01:48.000 And you can see that in pieces like this one from the Wall Street Journal today.

00:01:51.000 And the reason that I'm bringing this up is because there's a whole issue in Politico about what's wrong with American men.

00:01:56.000 Every single piece in that issue is written by a woman. 0.65

00:01:59.000 Every single piece is written by a woman.

00:02:01.000 Which is a weird way to ask what's wrong with American men.

00:02:05.000 The fact is that you should presumably have a diversity of viewpoints about what exactly is happening with American men.

00:02:09.000 That might include, you know, some males, but Politico is beginning to notice.

00:02:13.000 Why?

00:02:13.000 Because men are turning away from the Democratic Party in droves.

00:02:17.000 And it's not just Politico.

00:02:17.000 It's happening at the Washington Post.

00:02:19.000 It's happening at the Wall Street Journal.

00:02:20.000 Many people in the media are suddenly realizing, apparently for the first time in a while, that when American men fall off the train, that is very bad for America, writ large.

00:02:30.000 Now, traditionally speaking, the role of men was pretty simple.

00:02:33.000 The role of men was, you protect your family.

00:02:36.000 You defend your country, your values, your community, your family.

00:02:39.000 You provide.

00:02:40.000 These were the roles of men.

00:02:42.000 Protect, defend, provide.

00:02:44.000 These were the basic roles.

00:02:46.000 And there are a bunch of different things that you did within each one of those roles, but those roles were sort of immutable and unchanging.

00:02:54.000 They started in a time when physical protection was actually what was necessary of men.

00:02:58.000 But it continued into a time when basically the monopoly on use of force had now been delegated to the government.

00:03:03.000 Men were still expected to provide. 0.95

00:03:04.000 They were still expected to defend their families.

00:03:05.000 They were still expected to protect their children.

00:03:09.000 And that is still true for large swaths of the American population.

00:03:12.000 But there are a bunch of men who no longer do this.

00:03:15.000 And the reason they no longer do this is because we have a culture that shames them for doing exactly this.

00:03:19.000 And instead, has decided not to treat men and women as potentially two halves of a greater whole that is united in marriage.

00:03:26.000 But instead, we're supposed to treat men atomistically and women atomistically. 0.77

00:03:29.000 And then we're supposed to celebrate the atomism.

00:03:32.000 We're supposed to celebrate the falling apart.

00:03:33.000 Which is presumably why you have a piece in the Wall Street Journal today titled, Divorce Parties Are a New Hot Invite.

00:03:39.000 After Brandy Stellars finalized her divorce, she invited close friends to a soiree in May.

00:03:44.000 She mixed signature cocktails, hung a Bye Felicia banner, and handed out fake rose petals to toss in the air. 0.81

00:03:48.000 Party decorations included a photo of a pair of penguins torn down the middle.

00:03:52.000 I ripped the penguins in half, because penguins are monogamous birds who are supposed to mate for life, she says, while I'm not your penguin anymore.

00:03:59.000 The newly uncoupled are throwing themselves blowout bashes to mark their liberation from unhappy marriages, almost like reverse bachelorette parties.

00:04:05.000 I wanted to celebrate not a divorce, but a new chapter with people whom I love, who want the best for me, says Stellars, who works at a cloud computing company in Columbus, Ohio.

00:04:13.000 For most of history, divorce hasn't been an event touted to the world.

00:04:15.000 Now a culture shift is underway.

00:04:17.000 The U.S.

00:04:17.000 divorce rate has been dipping, but those who get them feel freer to trumpet their breakups.

00:04:21.000 The number of American adults who consider divorce to be morally acceptable has hit historic highs, according to Gallup polls.

00:04:27.000 Nicole Sodoma, divorced lawyer, wrote the book, Please Don't Say You're Sorry.

00:04:30.000 a quote, divorce used to be something to be ashamed of due to societal pressures and stereotypes.

00:04:34.000 But today, people have really decided to nip that societal shame

00:04:36.000 and instead embrace being divorced as another stage of life that some of us experience.

00:04:40.000 Now, is that a good thing or is that a bad thing?

00:04:42.000 I would argue that it's a very bad thing.

00:04:44.000 That divorce is a tragedy.

00:04:46.000 It means that a marriage has ended, sometimes for bad reasons and sometimes for good reasons.

00:04:50.000 But it means that that potential fulfillment of male and female in monogamous marriage has been broken up.

00:04:56.000 That the basic predicate, the foundation for the formation of a family, which is the building block of society, has fallen apart.

00:05:02.000 That men lose themselves when they are not part of this institution.

00:05:06.000 That women lose themselves when they're not part of this institution. 0.99

00:05:08.000 Because the countervailing part of what men are supposed to do, protect, defend, provide, is provided by females in the context of a marriage. 1.00

00:05:17.000 Comfort, provide in a different way emotionally, and defend in a different way.

00:05:24.000 All of those things have their roles and they are complementary.

00:05:28.000 And removing one half of a whole means the other half is going to seem insufficient.

00:05:32.000 And that's particularly true of men. 0.74

00:05:34.000 When they are deprived of their goals, when they are deprived of their duty, when their aggressive instincts are not channeled in the most positive possible direction, what you end up with is true toxic masculinity.

00:05:43.000 Because men in the wild are terrible.

00:05:46.000 Men in the wild act just like any other aggressive male of any species in the wild.

00:05:50.000 Meaning rapacious, violent, aggressive, territorial.

00:05:55.000 When all of those instincts are channeled toward protect Defend, provide, then those instincts can be

00:06:02.000 Sublimated to a higher goal.

00:06:04.000 When the higher goal goes away, men end up being incredibly destructive either to others or to themselves.

00:06:08.000 And that's exactly what we are seeing right now.

00:06:11.000 But the media refused to acknowledge that because what they like is the moral status that they have built in which we are supposed to pretend that all acts of sexual union are equally morally praiseworthy and equal societally useful.

00:06:22.000 We're supposed to pretend that everybody's individual decision-making with regard to relationships is equally good and equally valid.

00:06:28.000 We're supposed to pretend that the liberated woman who no longer is expected to get married is somehow better off than the woman who got married at 20 and then had kids with a husband and maybe had a part-time job and then maybe had a full-time job?

00:06:39.000 We valorize people for making decisions that are contra the traditional patterns of life, even though the traditional patterns of life provide the actual framework for success for both men and women.

00:06:50.000 Doesn't mean that every marriage from 1930 is better than every marriage from 2020.

00:06:53.000 Nothing like that.

00:06:54.000 But it does mean that a society that expects men and women to become complementary parts of a fuller whole is a better society and a more healthy society than a society that says, we are completely apathetic about this.

00:07:03.000 Because here's the truth.

00:07:04.000 There is no thing as apathy.

00:07:05.000 When you say that you are apathetic about a moral standard, what you really mean is that you are against the moral standard.

00:07:11.000 Because the standard actually makes demands of you.

00:07:13.000 If you oppose the demands, that's not apathy, that's opposition.

00:07:16.000 And that's what we've seen.

00:07:18.000 The sort of opposite of the traditional moral standard is not apathy.

00:07:24.000 It is absolute chaos.

00:07:25.000 And that's what we are seeing right now.

00:07:26.000 We'll get to more of this in a moment.

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00:08:32.000 Okay, so.

00:08:33.000 One of the things that has happened, because we refuse to acknowledge the complete restructuring of society, is that men and women have been broken into groups, like two separate groups, that were not expected to come together over marriage.

00:08:44.000 They've now become reactionary and oppositional.

00:08:47.000 Any two groups, when they become so reactionary and oppositional, that they never look inward as to, what can I do to fix the problem?

00:08:53.000 Instead, they look outward at, that person is doing this, that means I'm going to do the precise opposite.

00:08:58.000 That is a recipe for complete breakdown.

00:09:00.000 It's true in politics.

00:09:01.000 If you have one political side that sees the other side as completely evil, so whatever the other side does, it means that I am justified in doing whatever I can to stop them. 0.97

00:09:09.000 The Democratic Party, for example, believing that they can do whatever is necessary, true or false, to stop Donald Trump because Donald Trump is a man of evil.

00:09:15.000 Or people inside the Republican Party, who sometimes will justify bad behavior because the Democrats are so bad and so terrible and so evil, that means we can do whatever we have to do in order to stop them.

00:09:24.000 Once that happens, you can't live together.

00:09:26.000 Okay, well, that's much, much worse when you're talking about men and women, which is the basis for all thriving society and all growth in society. 0.99

00:09:35.000 And so the media are now noticing that men are falling behind.

00:09:37.000 And they think it has nothing to do with the recapitulation of what women ought to do.

00:09:41.000 And when you degrade femininity, you also degrade masculinity.

00:09:45.000 And what you end up with is both toxic femininity and toxic masculinity, which is what you are now seeing.

00:09:50.000 What you are now seeing, for example, is the valorization of a lifestyle that says abortion is an active good for women.

00:09:57.000 And meanwhile, a valorization on the other side, in reaction, that says the men should treat women like pieces of meat.

00:10:02.000 And the true mark of a man's success is how toxically aggressive he is.

00:10:06.000 Right?

00:10:06.000 This is what you get.

00:10:07.000 Get rid of the institution and people go back to their basest instincts.

00:10:11.000 Especially basest instincts that have now been shielded from biology.

00:10:14.000 That's the other factor here.

00:10:16.000 Is that it used to be that if people tried to make the argument that men and women, they should just engage in sort of sexual congress without any sort of overlying structure, without any sort of societal support, that would actually be clocked back into place by reality because women would get pregnant, then there would be babies, you'd have to figure out what to do with those babies since the family structure was still necessary.

00:10:34.000 After birth control, that's no longer true.

00:10:36.000 So you end up with is people's basest instincts now being indulged and people unhappier.

00:10:40.000 Okay, they're not happier than they were.

00:10:43.000 So the media are completely bamboozled about this.

00:10:44.000 They don't understand it at all.

00:10:46.000 So Christina Emba, who writes for the Washington Post, Which has a piece called Men Are Lost.

00:10:50.000 Here's a map out of the wilderness.

00:10:52.000 It's a very, very long piece.

00:10:53.000 It says, I started noticing it a few years ago.

00:10:55.000 Men, especially young men, were getting weird.

00:10:57.000 It may have been the incels who first caught my attention, spewing self-pitying venom online, sometimes venturing out to attack the women they believed had done them wrong.

00:11:03.000 It might have been the complaints from the women around me. 1.00

00:11:06.000 Men are in their flop era, one lamented, sick of trying to date in a pool that seems shallower than it should be.

00:11:10.000 It might have been the new ways companies were trying to reach men.

00:11:12.000 The average hoodie made these days is weak and flimsy, growls a YouTube ad for a tactical hoodie.

00:11:16.000 You're not a child, you're a man, so stop wearing so many layers to go outside.

00:11:20.000 Once my curiosity was piqued, I could see a bit of curdling in some of the men around me too.

00:11:23.000 They struggled to relate to women. 1.00

00:11:24.000 They didn't have enough friends.

00:11:26.000 They lacked long-term goals.

00:11:27.000 Some guys, including ones I once knew, just quietly disappeared, subsumed into video games and porn, or sucked into the alt-right and the web of misogynistic communities known as the manosphere.

00:11:36.000 It felt like a widespread identity crisis as if they didn't know how to be.

00:11:41.000 Well, I mean, yes, men don't know how to be because all of the structures that were supposed to channel them toward the sublimation of those baser aggressive instincts into building.

00:11:50.000 You can use your aggressive instincts to destroy or to build.

00:11:52.000 Society used to encourage you to build and you would have male role models who taught you to build.

00:11:56.000 You'd have fathers, you'd have preachers, you'd have members of your community, you'd have rabbis in my community, you'd have people who are there to teach you how to sublimate those bad instincts, or those baser instincts, and to turn them into something good.

00:12:06.000 That was the alchemy of institutional health, was turning the bad into good, taking aggressive instincts and making them worthwhile, just as aggressive instincts in the military context are excellent, and aggressive instincts inside a gang context are awful.

00:12:20.000 It's not the instinct that's the problem, it's how we channel them culturally.

00:12:22.000 But we've decided to get rid of all of those institutions, and then we are totally shocked about all of this.

00:12:26.000 So Christina Emba is shocked by the fact that Jordan Peterson is famous.

00:12:29.000 In 2018, curious about a YouTube personality who had seemingly become famous overnight,

00:12:33.000 I got tickets to a sold-out lecture in DC by Jordan Peterson.

00:12:36.000 It was one of dozens of stops on the Canadian psychology professor-turned-anti-woke-juggernauts

00:12:40.000 book tour for his surprise bestseller, 12 Rules for Life and Antidotes to Chaos.

00:12:44.000 Surrounded by men on a Tuesday night, I wondered aloud what the fuss was about.

00:12:47.000 In my opinion, Peterson serves up fairly banal advice.

00:12:50.000 Stand up straight.

00:12:50.000 Delay gratification.

00:12:51.000 His evolutionary biology-informed takes range from amusingly weird to mildly insulting.

00:12:55.000 Female lobsters are irresistibly attracted to the top lobster, as are human women. 0.99

00:12:59.000 His three-piece suit seemed gimmicky.

00:13:02.000 Suddenly, the twenty-something in front of me swung around.

00:13:04.000 Jordan Peterson, he said without a hint of irony in his voice, taught me how to live.

00:13:07.000 If there's a vacuum in modeling manhood today, Peterson has been one of the boldest in stepping in to fill it.

00:13:11.000 He's gained fame, notoriety, and millions of book sales in the process.

00:13:15.000 But then she cites other people, like Bronze Age Pervert. 1.00

00:13:18.000 And we'll get to Bronze Age Pervert in a sec, because there's a very, very long piece about Bronze Age Pervert and Bronze Age Mindset, which is actually a former Yale philosophy student named Kostin Alomiru, who has a long feature piece about him in Politico.

00:13:33.000 And while Christine Emba, I mean, she gets it a little bit more than some of these other columnists does, but she essentially makes the argument that masculinity has been betrayed and that the only way that masculinity is going to come back is by a rethinking of what masculinity actually is.

00:13:51.000 She says, progressives want to preserve the major gains made for women over the past several decades, gains that are still fragile.

00:13:56.000 It's easy to mistake attention and zero sum, to fear that putting effort toward helping men might mean we won't have space for women anymore.

00:14:01.000 There's something appealing to you about the idea of gender neutrality, or at least rejecting gender essentialism as a social ethos.

00:14:07.000 After all, attaching specific traits to men wore down to women too.

00:14:10.000 If we say real men are strong, does that mean real women must be weak? 0.76

00:14:13.000 I'm convinced that men are in crisis, and I strongly suspect that ending it will require a positive vision of what masculinity entails that is particular, that is neither neutral nor interchangeable with femininity.

00:14:22.000 Still, I find myself reluctant to fully articulate one.

00:14:27.000 Well, why?

00:14:28.000 The diagnosis actually isn't all that tough.

00:14:32.000 The conversation isn't all that difficult, is the truth.

00:14:36.000 So, Christina Emba then talked to a bunch of sort of more left-wing 0.70

00:14:42.000 leaning people, quote, the essentialist view that it's in men's nature to be brave,

00:14:45.000 stoic, and in charge, while women remain docile, nurturing, and submissive would 0.99

00:14:48.000 be dire news for social equality and for the vast numbers of individuals who don't fit those

00:14:52.000 stereotypes. Biology isn't destiny.

00:14:54.000 There's no one script for how to be a woman or a man. But despite a push by some advocates to make

00:14:57.000 everything from bathrooms to birthing gender neutral, most people don't actually want a 0.81

00:15:01.000 completely androgynous society. What would creating a positive vision of masculinity look like?

00:15:06.000 Recognizing distinctiveness, but not pathologizing it.

00:15:08.000 Finding new ways to valorize it and tell a story that's appealing to young men and socially beneficial, rather than seating around to those who would warp a perceived difference into something ugly and destructive.

00:15:15.000 So, Christine Emba is closer than most other members of the media.

00:15:17.000 But, Politico is not.

00:15:19.000 Right?

00:15:19.000 Because Democrats can't actually acknowledge... Christine Emba, I mean, good for her.

00:15:22.000 She's actually starting to acknowledge.

00:15:23.000 It's funny.

00:15:24.000 Christine Emba's column is very largely a rediscovery of institutions that many of us have known about for, you know, Thousands of years.

00:15:30.000 But we have to rediscover them.

00:15:32.000 Politico, which is attempting to stump for the Democratic Party, is stuck because they say Democrats have a man problem, but then they refuse to define the word man.

00:15:39.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:16:41.000 Okay, so as I said, there's a spate of media articles about what's happening with men.

00:16:45.000 Politico has a piece.

00:16:47.000 That is titled, Democrats have a man problem.

00:16:49.000 These experts have ideas for fixing it.

00:16:51.000 And so they did a roundtable with a wide variety of, quote unquote, democratic geniuses.

00:16:57.000 And these democratic geniuses spend their time basically arguing that the problem is, in fact, with men.

00:17:03.000 That men are falling behind because the world has changed around them and there's really not all that much that you can do.

00:17:08.000 And so the only way to reach out to men is to convince them that manhood is kind of bad.

00:17:13.000 That manhood needs to be left behind.

00:17:15.000 Joan Williams says, There's one measure on gender called hostile sexism. 0.92

00:17:19.000 It's kind of men should be men, women should be women. 1.00

00:17:21.000 And it is actually more powerful than anything other than political orientation of predicting Trump voting.

00:17:24.000 There are really cool experiments where they threaten men's masculinity in subtle or not so subtle ways.

00:17:29.000 They find that a man whose masculinity has been threatened has higher support for war, more homophobic attitudes, and is more interested in buying an SUV.

00:17:35.000 Precarious masculinity was incredibly predictive of voting Trump in 2016 and voting Republican in 2018.

00:17:39.000 What Republicans have done is taken this threatened masculinity and taken masculine anxieties and forged them into a weapon for the far right.

00:17:46.000 The move for people who are anti-Trump is to push back.

00:17:49.000 They're really to abiding themes in masculinity.

00:17:51.000 The macho man, Trump's got that covered, and the good man.

00:17:53.000 And what Democrats need to do, Josh Shapiro did this, is enact the good man, the decent, it's-a-wonderful-life man.

00:17:58.000 Okay, there's only one problem with that.

00:18:00.000 The it's-a-wonderful-life man, the man who provides and defends and protects in the context of marriage, is not loved by Democrats.

00:18:06.000 Democrats do not love that model.

00:18:07.000 Their entire idea is that family can be formed under any circumstances, that family is just an aggregation of interests rather than a core societal institution.

00:18:16.000 You cannot say that you guys are modeling the ought when you don't believe in the ought.

00:18:21.000 You can't say that you're modeling the way of life that we should all aspire to be if you refuse to say that that's a way of life that we aspire to be.

00:18:28.000 And Democrats can't do that because they believe in the sexual revolution and the complete destruction of all of these societal standards. 1.00

00:18:34.000 Sure, some people can choose to do it, but it's a matter, as they say, of moral apathy.

00:18:40.000 Joan Williams says, When we start telling CEOs they should become school

00:18:43.000 librarians, we can start telling blue-collar guys they should be nurses' aides.

00:18:45.000 You have a situation where part of what's driving American politics is precarious masculinity

00:18:49.000 in the sense you have been deprived of what is rightfully yours, and telling a man to

00:18:52.000 take a dead-end, low-paid, traditionally feminine pink-collar job is one of the many gifts the 1.00

00:18:55.000 left gives to the right.

00:18:58.000 To tell men now their path to economic stability is to become a nurses' aide, with friends

00:19:01.000 They think that it's an economic solution, that you have to let men weld. 0.96

00:19:05.000 That's not the problem.

00:19:06.000 The problem is not the jobs.

00:19:07.000 Okay, so, here's what happens.

00:19:09.000 The left provides no solution for this.

00:19:10.000 In fact, the left exacerbates the problem by generally arguing that societal institutions are the problem.

00:19:16.000 That the patriarchy is responsible for marriage, even though the reality is that marriage, by any economic standard, benefited women far more than men over the course of time.

00:19:24.000 Why?

00:19:25.000 Because for a man, it was much easier to be footloose and fancy-free.

00:19:29.000 And for a woman, who was saddled with the baby, because obviously she bore it and had to nurse it and raise it, she needed someone to provide.

00:19:36.000 Marriage was a solution to this problem. 0.78

00:19:38.000 Again, I keep focusing on marriage because it is the left that has perverted the definition of marriage and said that marriage is basically just two people who love each other.

00:19:44.000 That is not what marriage is. 0.96

00:19:45.000 Marriage is man, woman, child. 0.85

00:19:48.000 Men and women are complementary.

00:19:50.000 They are meant to be together.

00:19:52.000 That is not heteronormative, that is evolutionary biology.

00:19:55.000 There are real reasons for this.

00:19:57.000 And a culture that denigrates that sort of stuff is bound to collapse.

00:20:01.000 It's bound to make women unhappier and men unhappier. 1.00

00:20:03.000 And what you end up with that, after that, is the reaction.

00:20:06.000 We're gonna get to the reactionary right in just one second.

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00:21:19.000 Okay, so we've seen the left's response, which is to basically throw up their hands and pretend that, yeah, you know, the societal institutions that made everything better.

00:21:27.000 And then, you know, We should probably model some of that but you know if we don't it's not really a big deal because moral apathy and the truth is those institutions were patriarchal and they were heteronormative and they were cis-normative and all the rest of this.

00:21:39.000 Well that's not a solution.

00:21:40.000 But the right has reacted to that, the destruction of these institutions, in precisely the way that you would suppose.

00:21:46.000 So George Gilder, who's an economist and a really good thinker, he had a book back in the 1980s called Men and Marriage and his basic premise Is one of the things I've been suggesting here, which is that men have this wild, aggressive instinct.

00:21:57.000 And these wild, aggressive instincts must be put to work for building or they will be put to work on behalf of destruction.

00:22:03.000 And you are seeing that as women have treated men as superfluous, men have started to treat women, in some circles, as the enemy.

00:22:10.000 They've started to treat women as though women are something to be treated as chattel, or women should be treated without the full respect that women deserve.

00:22:19.000 They say, well, women aren't treating themselves with respect, why should I respect women? 1.00

00:22:22.000 Women don't want me to open the door for them, so I'm not going to open the door for them. 1.00

00:22:24.000 Women say they want to be independent, that women don't want a man. 1.00

00:22:28.000 Okay, well, I'm not going to treat them like they do.

00:22:30.000 I'm going to take my aggressive instincts and I'm going to use them to their best available effects.

00:22:35.000 Or worst available effects is the actual case.

00:22:37.000 Maybe.

00:22:37.000 So I would say example 1A here would be Andrew Tate.

00:22:41.000 So I've been discussing Andrew Tate a lot because he's back in the news a lot.

00:22:43.000 Did a two and a half hour interview with Tucker Carlson that had a lot of interesting moments to it.

00:22:46.000 And the thing I've always said about Andrew Tate is that Andrew Tate's diagnosis is very often correct and his prognosis, his actual His actual recommendations for what we ought to do are almost entirely wrong.

00:22:57.000 And many of the things that he says about the feminist movement are totally right. 1.00

00:23:00.000 He's critiquing the left's wrecking of these institutions.

00:23:03.000 But instead of trying to reinforce the institutions and rebuild the institutions, his response is the toxically masculine responses.

00:23:10.000 Well, if this is a new world, then what I'm going to model, the behavior I'm going to model is not getting married, having kids, building a home, supporting my community.

00:23:17.000 The behavior that I'm going to model is instead being as toxically masculine as using women. 0.98

00:23:24.000 If women are still driven toward that top achiever, I'm going to be the top G. I'm going to be the guy who's the top achiever, and then I'm going to sleep with as many women as possible for sexual access. 1.00

00:23:32.000 I'm going to have Lamborghinis. 0.90

00:23:33.000 I'm going to have really nice cars.

00:23:34.000 I'm going to have a nice house.

00:23:35.000 I'm going to live in Romania. 0.90

00:23:37.000 I'm going to do whatever I want to do, because that's what the male aggressive instinct, unchained, looks like.

00:23:43.000 And we've been basically barred from the societal institutions by women. 1.00

00:23:46.000 So what you should aspire to is this.

00:23:49.000 Well, this leads many on the right because they look at his diagnosis and they're like, a lot of what he's saying about feminism is right. 0.85

00:23:55.000 It leads many people on the right to look at the diagnosis and say, well, he's one of us.

00:23:58.000 Here's the thing.

00:24:00.000 Andrew Tate's solutions are not along those lines.

00:24:02.000 Some of the stuff that he says to Tucker Carlson, for example, is not the way he actually lives his life.

00:24:06.000 So tape has now emerged of Andrew Tate talking about the way that he treats women.

00:24:10.000 So Andrew Tate made a lot of money off Quote-unquote cam girls.

00:24:14.000 Cam girls are women who undress and perform provocative acts for the lust of men on webcams. 1.00

00:24:22.000 Apparently you pay these women and you can tell them what you want them to do online and then, you know, pleasure yourself is apparently, I suppose, the way this industry works. 0.99

00:24:30.000 Well Andrew Tate was deeply involved in this industry.

00:24:32.000 That's how he made a lot of money and he bragged about it like a lot.

00:24:35.000 Okay, so, Andrew Tate's solution to the problem of feminism, and particularly third-wave feminism, and the complete dissolution of sexual ethos, is to participate in it, but go back to sort of the way that it was in cavemen days, right?

00:24:49.000 Men use women as you will, and this is now justifiable. 0.99

00:24:52.000 That's the only way you can explain the fact that Andrew Tate is simultaneously critiquing the feminist sexual ethos of the sexual revolution and full atomistic hedonism.

00:25:02.000 Well, simultaneously participating in it.

00:25:03.000 So here is Andrew Tate.

00:25:05.000 Okay, this is a clip that was going around.

00:25:07.000 It's actually a fairly long compendium that was going around of Andrew Tate talking about what he actually did with women over the course of years.

00:25:14.000 And me talking about it, I don't know his case.

00:25:15.000 I don't know whether this is criminal behavior.

00:25:17.000 I don't know whether it's not criminal behavior.

00:25:18.000 I know I would never talk like this.

00:25:19.000 I know no good man that you know would ever talk like this.

00:25:21.000 I know that any man who says this kind of stuff has a serious moral problem.

00:25:26.000 Here's Andrew Tate talking about women in a way that I don't think any good man should ever talk about women.

00:25:31.000 What are you charged with?

00:25:33.000 That's a really good question.

00:25:33.000 I'm charged with being the head of an organized criminal group, which is in charge of recruiting girls to make TikTok videos.

00:25:41.000 They face charges which include human trafficking, rape, and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit.

00:25:47.000 OnlyFans is the best hustle in the world.

00:25:49.000 Are they accusing you of using violence?

00:25:52.000 No.

00:25:52.000 They're accusing me of using the loverboy method, coercing them by being nice.

00:25:57.000 I don't mention webcam. 0.88

00:26:00.000 Until after I've had sex with the girl. 0.98

00:26:02.000 If you're on dates and you're trying to mention it and s**t, it just doesn't work. 1.00

00:26:06.000 It puts them off.

00:26:07.000 I'd never do that.

00:26:08.000 That's disgusting.

00:26:09.000 I'm not a wh**e. It's just not gonna work. 0.98

00:26:13.000 You continue as normal.

00:26:15.000 No mention of webcam. 1.00

00:26:17.000 You f**k the girl. 1.00

00:26:18.000 After you f**k the girl, you do the Ph.D. 1.00

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00:26:21.000 So yeah, on CoverTake.com I have my Ph.D.

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00:26:29.000 Clever.

00:26:30.000 That teaches basically how I got girls, how I met girls, how I got girls to like me, how I got girls to fall in love with me to work on webcam for me.

00:26:41.000 Okay, so that's disgusting.

00:26:44.000 That is actually evil. 0.99

00:26:46.000 The idea that you seduce a girl, make her fall in love with you, have sex with you, and then get her to pose nude and perform act in front of a camera so you can take a piece of her money. 0.99

00:26:57.000 A pimping hose degree. 1.00

00:26:58.000 That's disgusting.

00:27:00.000 It's also not wildly unpredictable in a culture that has basically liberated men from the institutions that used to bind them to building a society.

00:27:07.000 Again, the response to a society that shuns traditional notions of masculinity is, in fact, toxic masculinity.

00:27:14.000 You can't have one without the other.

00:27:16.000 If men's aggressive instinct was a caged animal, and then you blow up the cage, because the cage you say was actually not restricting men's aggressive instincts, instead was actually hemming in women, what you end up with is men and women liberated to be the worst of themselves.

00:27:30.000 And this is exactly what you have seen.

00:27:32.000 That's what the androtate phenomenon largely is.

00:27:35.000 It's why, again, I'm not going to pretend that I'm a quote-unquote model man because I think that that would be arrogant.

00:27:42.000 However, I will say that if you are trying to lead a model lifestyle in terms of how you channel your aggressive male instinct, I'm married for 15 years.

00:27:51.000 I have four children.

00:27:52.000 I have a nice house.

00:27:54.000 I protect my family.

00:27:55.000 I provide for my family.

00:27:56.000 These are actually things that pretty much everybody can do.

00:27:58.000 You don't have to have an amazingly nice house.

00:28:00.000 You don't have to have like a great car.

00:28:02.000 You too, every man can find a woman Every man can make a home with a woman. 0.99

00:28:08.000 Every man can have children with a woman. 0.59

00:28:10.000 Every man can protect those children, defend those children, protect their innocence.

00:28:13.000 Every man can do this, and every man must do this.

00:28:16.000 Not just can, must.

00:28:18.000 Should.

00:28:20.000 I'm not apathetic about this and you shouldn't be either.

00:28:22.000 If you want men to actually have a path towards success, by the way, this actually happens to be true in terms of even income.

00:28:27.000 Married men make more money than non-married men. 0.53

00:28:29.000 Why?

00:28:29.000 Because they have something they're committed to.

00:28:30.000 There's a reason now that they're working.

00:28:32.000 Unmarried men tend to be like, I just need enough money so I can pay for... 1.00

00:28:36.000 You know, my futon and my Chinese takeout and maybe an occasional movie or whatever it is that you want.

00:28:43.000 But once men settle down, they become more productive members of society.

00:28:47.000 It's just a reality.

00:28:48.000 We should not be apathetic about whether men engage in this institution.

00:28:51.000 That means women. 1.00

00:28:52.000 You should help men engage in this institution. 1.00

00:28:55.000 Why?

00:28:55.000 Because it's good for you too.

00:28:58.000 It is good for a woman to be a wife. 1.00

00:28:59.000 It is good for a woman to be a mother. 0.98

00:29:01.000 These are active goods.

00:29:03.000 It is not a matter of societal apathy or moral apathy, whether you become a wife or a mother.

00:29:08.000 And that does not mean, as the feminist movement has taught you, that you have to subjugate yourself, you have to be a slave to your husband. 0.99

00:29:13.000 You're a partner with your husband.

00:29:14.000 You're aesir connecto.

00:29:15.000 You're a helper against him.

00:29:18.000 It is your job to work on him.

00:29:20.000 It is his job to work on you.

00:29:22.000 And it is both of your job to build a family unit that provides the basis for the society.

00:29:27.000 You will be happier.

00:29:28.000 He will be happier.

00:29:29.000 You will find a partner who's actually worth having because he has now committed his entire life and his entire male aggressive instinct toward protecting and defending you.

00:29:37.000 That is of benefit to you because you know what's worse?

00:29:40.000 A liberated world in which the only men who are interested in getting involved with you are men who are seeking to prey on you.

00:29:45.000 Those are the choices.

00:29:47.000 Now there are these famous memes, these kind of Which Way Western Man memes.

00:29:51.000 Okay, Which Way Western Man, the real meme, ought to be traditional family lifestyles Moral chaos.

00:29:56.000 There is no in-between.

00:29:58.000 Moral apathy is moral chaos.

00:30:00.000 Pretending that whatever floats your boat, divorce parties, or being married for 15 years, it's all the same.

00:30:06.000 No, it 100% is not.

00:30:07.000 It 100% is not.

00:30:11.000 Now, it is also clear that men sort of, you know, collapsing as half of the species in terms of performance, suicidal ideation, in terms of income, in terms of education.

00:30:20.000 All of that is going to be clearer than it happening to women. 1.00

00:30:23.000 Because just generally speaking, when women fall apart, Women tend to be self-destructive. 1.00

00:30:28.000 Men tend to be destructive of others. 0.50

00:30:29.000 They tend to be destructive of the society around them.

00:30:31.000 Because again, males, their aggressive instinct is unchained and it tends to be directed outward.

00:30:35.000 Women, when they're very hard on themselves or when they're having a really tough time, they tend to direct it inward, right? 0.99

00:30:40.000 Talk to a teenage girl versus a teenage boy, you can see this.

00:30:42.000 Teenage boys who go bad join gangs.

00:30:43.000 Teenage girls who go bad start working on themselves and breaking themselves down.

00:30:49.000 Well, if you wish to cure all of that, then you need a society that gives people a thing to do, the most important thing that has yet to be done ever.

00:30:58.000 But again, get rid of it.

00:31:00.000 Once it becomes reaction, once it becomes women versus men, the feminist instinct versus the aggressive male instinct, well, there's no end to it.

00:31:06.000 It's just spiraling down.

00:31:08.000 This is my critique also of so-called Bronze Age pervert. 0.73

00:31:11.000 So there is this very famous book that is called Bronze Age Mindset.

00:31:15.000 It's basically sort of a warmed-over version of Nietzsche.

00:31:20.000 It's written by a Yale PhD named Kasten Alomariu, who's apparently a brilliant guy.

00:31:26.000 I've read Bronze Age Mindset, and it's very interestingly written.

00:31:30.000 It's written in sort of internet meme-speak.

00:31:32.000 It's got some very bizarre points of view.

00:31:35.000 I would say that, again, it reads more like Worms over Nietzsche than anything else.

00:31:39.000 It's all about the powerful man regaining his power through strength and will, a disdain for Judeo-Christian morality in favor of an older Greek morality that prizes beauty and strength, and we have to regain the beauty and the strength.

00:31:53.000 Again, the beauty and strength morality is, again, closer to the unchained toxic masculine ideal than it is chained to institutions that actually build things.

00:32:02.000 But Bronze Age Mindset has become a sort of handbook for a bunch of young dudes because it gives them something to do, right?

00:32:07.000 Go to the gym, work out, be better looking, become successful.

00:32:13.000 It doesn't actually give them a society to build, it gives them a thing to work on with themselves.

00:32:16.000 So if you can't actually build that society, instead what you should do is you should go work out a lot, You should eat healthier, and you should be very aggressive in your pursuit of success, and you should be... A lot of people have accused Bronze Age Mindset, just, again, in the same way that they accused Nietzsche of essentially being the predecessor to a fascist mentality.

00:32:32.000 It basically says that the triumph of the will is going to reign supreme.

00:32:37.000 The word, this started to be sort of inculcated in meme culture online.

00:32:41.000 This is why you see a lot of right-wingers who suddenly are into bodybuilding. 0.99

00:32:45.000 Now I think, listen, if the left wants to cede being in good shape to the right, that's an idiotic move. 0.96

00:32:50.000 I think all men should attempt to be in good shape. 0.98

00:32:52.000 I think all women should attempt to be in good shape. 1.00

00:32:53.000 It's a good thing for your body.

00:32:54.000 It's a good thing for you.

00:32:55.000 It's a good thing for your mental health.

00:32:56.000 There are a lot of reasons why you should stay healthy and go to the gym.

00:32:58.000 Bronze Age Mindset turned it into a sort of political statement to go to the gym because now you are saying that the thing that knows to be prized above all other things is beauty.

00:33:08.000 That's the thing that really matters.

00:33:10.000 But beauty isn't an actual moral standard, per se.

00:33:12.000 Beauty is just an observation about the world.

00:33:15.000 And the idea that will itself drives you toward a goal is untrue.

00:33:18.000 It's a point that G.K.

00:33:19.000 Chesterton made about Nietzsche.

00:33:20.000 He says the problem with Nietzsche is that Nietzsche refuses to express a goal.

00:33:23.000 He distains Judeo-Christian goals, but then he refuses to set up another goal.

00:33:27.000 He just says will.

00:33:28.000 Well, will is a means.

00:33:28.000 Will is not an end.

00:33:30.000 And the same thing applies to Bronze Age mindset.

00:33:33.000 But BAP or BAM, right? 0.87

00:33:35.000 It's alternatively called.

00:33:37.000 The Bronze Age Pervert. 0.99

00:33:38.000 That sort of mentality, again, because it's bringing back some sort of... it infuses Nietzscheism with, again, a sense of classicism.

00:33:45.000 It's a reversion.

00:33:47.000 There is no such thing as... it's not progress.

00:33:50.000 What we're watching right now is not progress.

00:33:51.000 What we're watching is reversion.

00:33:52.000 We're watching a reversion to paganism.

00:33:53.000 That reversion to paganism destroys all the old institutions and what you end up with is a man that is chaotic. 0.93

00:33:59.000 And women, who are chaotic. 1.00

00:34:01.000 So political, I think, does not do justice to the actual genius.

00:34:04.000 I mean, I think it's actually quite brilliant, much of Bronze Age mindset and bronze, as much as I disagree with a lot of it, and I think a lot of it is offensive and terrible and gross.

00:34:11.000 You can't you can't deny that it's incredibly well structured and well written like that.

00:34:16.000 The guy who wrote it is a very, very smart person.

00:34:19.000 But here's how political characterizes this.

00:34:21.000 For BAP, the elevation of this vision of masculinity in society comports with his ideal social order,

00:34:26.000 where the strongest rule, there are no curbs on their dominance,

00:34:28.000 no efforts to protect those who have less power, certainly no attempt to equalize groups.

00:34:32.000 BAP believes in natural differences between humans along racial, ethnic, and gender lines,

00:34:35.000 and compares non-Western societies to yeast, mindlessly perpetuating themselves.

00:34:39.000 BAP argues that equality itself, even democracy, is a dead end.

00:34:42.000 He believes in eugenic breeding to preserve what he views as superior stock.

00:34:45.000 Now, again, I think that readers of Bronze Age Pervert or Bronze Age Mindset would say

00:34:48.000 that some of this is meant, you know, parodically in the same way

00:34:51.000 that Straussian readers of Plato say that some of this is meant, you know, parodically.

00:34:55.000 Plato wasn't actually in favor of fascist society, he was critiquing it,

00:34:58.000 but one of the things that you can say is that this is a political response

00:35:03.000 to a feminine instinct that says that we have to equalize all of society 1.00

00:35:07.000 along redistributionist lines.

00:35:08.000 So the reactivity on the male end is, well, what if we just do it about power?

00:35:12.000 What if we, again, what made societies work?

00:35:15.000 Is the conjugal relationship between those two things,

00:35:19.000 the feminine desire for equality and mercy and the masculine desire for justice and skill, right? 0.99

00:35:26.000 You put those two things together and what you end up with is a meritocracy.

00:35:30.000 What you end up with is the belief that every human has inherent value and that merit should win.

00:35:34.000 Right, that and combined with mercy for those who haven't made it.

00:35:38.000 Right, that's what that's a working society.

00:35:40.000 You get rid of either half of that equation and what you end up with on the one hand

00:35:43.000 is sort of the equity nonsense that you see on the left today or the or the bronze age mindset,

00:35:48.000 tyrannical, you can say, exoteric perspective that Politico is talking about right there.

00:35:55.000 None of that is good for American society.

00:35:57.000 None of it is good.

00:35:58.000 And again, you can see it manifesting in reactionary ways on both sides.

00:36:01.000 We'll get to that on the left in just one second, because the way that they now talk about abortion, you wonder why men are falling behind?

00:36:06.000 The way the left talks about abortion is in fact one reason for this.

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00:38:27.000 Okay, meanwhile...

00:38:28.000 So when we talk about that thing to which Andrew Tate or Bronze Age Pervert or the Incel Movement, that which they are responding to in I think toxic and not true ways, you have to look at what the left has been doing.

00:38:38.000 So what the left has been doing with regard to femininity and masculinity is suggesting the apotheosis of femininity is literally destroying the thing that makes women the most women.

00:38:47.000 Having babies.

00:38:49.000 I'm sorry to break it to the ladies in the audience.

00:38:50.000 I shouldn't be sorry because it's an amazing skill.

00:38:52.000 It's like an amazing gift from God, from nature.

00:38:55.000 I don't understand why women disdain this gift. 0.99

00:38:57.000 It's literally the most amazing thing that human beings are capable of doing, is producing a child and then nurturing that child.

00:39:02.000 It's like the most incredible thing.

00:39:03.000 I'm watching my wife do it right now. 1.00

00:39:05.000 I have a two-month-old boy, beautiful baby boy, and my wife is with the baby like all the time.

00:39:09.000 Watching her actually grow a baby inside her and then have the baby and then nurse the baby is like... 0.93

00:39:14.000 It's a superpower.

00:39:15.000 It's an actual, honest-to-God superpower.

00:39:17.000 And yet, what the left has said is that the best thing a woman can do is cut that part out of them. 1.00

00:39:21.000 The best thing for a woman is to make sure that the baby, an independent human created from you that is half you, can be killed. 1.00

00:39:29.000 In fact, it is a sacred duty.

00:39:30.000 There's actual holiness to it.

00:39:34.000 So, John Kirby, who's the national security spokesperson for the Biden administration yesterday, he was talking about this big debate that has now erupted over the National Defense Authorization Act.

00:39:42.000 In the National Defense Authorization Act, the current Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, put in a couple of provisions that are just wild left-wing social policy.

00:39:50.000 One of those provisions is That the military is going to pay for a member of the military, a female member of the military, to be able to go to another state on leave to get an abortion. 0.94

00:40:01.000 So you will be paying for the abortion, effectively speaking.

00:40:04.000 And Republicans said, hold up a second.

00:40:05.000 This is not what taxpayers are in it for.

00:40:07.000 You want to do it?

00:40:08.000 Do it on your own time.

00:40:08.000 You want to do it?

00:40:09.000 Do it with your own buck.

00:40:10.000 I mean, put aside the pro-life value that says you shouldn't be killing your baby.

00:40:13.000 If you're going to do it, we certainly shouldn't be paying for it.

00:40:15.000 But John Kirby says it is a sacred duty for you and for me to pay for a woman to have an abortion because the highest aspiration of a woman should be to not be subjected to the rigors of, you know, the thing that makes a woman most womanly.

00:40:28.000 Is the new DOD policy on abortion critical to military readiness?

00:40:35.000 I'm really glad you asked that question.

00:40:38.000 No, I mean, I really am.

00:40:40.000 policies, whether they're diversity, inclusion, and equity, or whether they're about transgender

00:40:46.000 individuals who qualify physically and mentally to serve to be able to do it with dignity,

00:40:51.000 or whether it's about female service members, one in five, or female family members being

00:40:58.000 able to count on the kinds of health care and reproductive care specifically that they

00:41:02.000 need to serve.

00:41:05.000 That is a foundational, sacred obligation of military leaders across the river.

00:41:15.000 That's what sacred means.

00:41:17.000 Foundational thing to military leadership that women be treated as though abortion is an active good and the highest aspiration of a woman is apparently abortion.

00:41:26.000 It's a sacred duty for us to pay for a woman's abortion. 1.00

00:41:29.000 Of course you're gonna get toxic masculinity. 1.00

00:41:30.000 What do you think the natural response to that is?

00:41:32.000 Of course you are.

00:41:34.000 They're deeply related.

00:41:35.000 Toxic femininity, the ripping away of what is most feminine about women is going to result in toxic masculinity. 1.00

00:41:41.000 The removal of all boundaries on the male aggressive instinct

00:41:44.000 that damages women. 1.00

00:41:45.000 These two things aren't working against each other.

00:41:47.000 They are working in complete coordination with each other.

00:41:49.000 They're bouncing off of each other.

00:41:51.000 Like that pendulum toy that people have on their desks with the steel spheres,

00:41:56.000 they're bouncing off of each other, right?

00:41:57.000 That's the entire idea.

00:41:58.000 And then you wonder why it seems that the spheres are bouncing further and further apart.

00:42:03.000 Because of you.

00:42:05.000 Okay, stop reacting to the other side so much and start building.

00:42:08.000 That would be the key.

00:42:09.000 By the way, I think that's true politically also.

00:42:11.000 Stop reacting so much, start building.

00:42:13.000 I think we spend a lot of time reacting to each other, but not enough time talking about the actual solutions that are going to make life better for anybody.

00:42:20.000 But the left is not interested in that when it comes to abortion.

00:42:23.000 So yesterday they had a bunch of abortion experts who were testifying on the Hill.

00:42:26.000 That included a person named Love Holt.

00:42:31.000 Ironically named Love Holt, the Democrats Community Engagement Director.

00:42:36.000 And she talked about why we ought to be subsidizing abortions in the United States.

00:42:42.000 And here we go.

00:42:43.000 Here we are, 400 years after slavery in America and what some would deem a successful book-breaking of our male counterparts. 0.70

00:42:54.000 I look at this as an attempt to dethrone the original matriarch and furthermore cause bodily restrictions on black bodies, therefore making it harder for us to make Normal decisions, therefore perverting our quality of life in a place that we should be free for choice in whatever direction we'd like to go in. 1.00

00:43:21.000 Who the hell is the original matriarch? 1.00

00:43:23.000 Apparently the original matriarch is a woman who's able to dispense with her children, which kind of defeats the purpose of the word matriarch, right? 1.00

00:43:29.000 Mother.

00:43:30.000 That's what matriarch means. 1.00

00:43:32.000 The mother of many, the mother of the nation.

00:43:34.000 That's what a matriarch is. 1.00

00:43:36.000 But apparently, true matriarchy is where women kill their babies, and are funded by the government to do so. 1.00

00:43:43.000 Right?

00:43:43.000 The same abortion expert, by the way, says that the real qualm here, and again, this is what it comes down to, for the sexual revolutionaries on the left, atomistic individual expression of sexual desire is the only goal, that is the only thing that is worthwhile.

00:43:54.000 Building is not part of this.

00:43:56.000 So whatever consequences happen next are of no concern.

00:43:58.000 Here's again, the ironically named Love Holt.

00:44:00.000 I say ironically because this has nothing to do with love and everything to do with selfishness.

00:44:03.000 Here's Love Holt.

00:44:04.000 As black women, like the beautiful woman at the end said, a lot of our communities are miseducated. 1.00

00:44:08.000 The real issue is that we need abortions that teens can screw each other. 1.00

00:44:11.000 That's the really important thing. 0.90

00:44:14.000 As black women, like the beautiful woman at the end said, a lot of our communities are 1.00

00:44:19.000 miseducated.

00:44:20.000 Missouri is an abstinence only state.

00:44:24.000 It's illegal to educate your youth about their body, contraceptives, signs of pubescence, 0.91

00:44:30.000 what to do when they're hot and heavy.

00:44:32.000 And then we thrust them out into a world that has a ban on their choice.

00:44:38.000 That's ripping away their bodily autonomy.

00:44:40.000 And the only way we'll be able to successfully see people survive unwanted pregnancies Fetal anomalies, maternal and birthing person mortality rates is through communication, aggregating this information, and reaching out to local organizations who support choice.

00:45:05.000 Why are men so toxic, says the feminist who calls women birthing persons.

00:45:09.000 Why are men so toxic to women? 0.99

00:45:11.000 Amazing.

00:45:12.000 Okay, well, again, the reaction to all this, the reaction to the stripping away of what it means to be a woman is the stripping away of what it means to be a responsible man.

00:45:18.000 That's what we're watching.

00:45:20.000 I don't know why men are failing, that's why. 1.00

00:45:21.000 And there's only one way to restore that, and that is to restore the fundamental building blocks of any civilization that have been torn asunder by the feminist left and by the reactionary right in response.

00:45:31.000 It's none of... Build.

00:45:33.000 Stop destroying, build.

00:45:36.000 Okay, speaking of this, well, it's no surprise that as femininity and masculinity decline, as the institutions of marriage decline, as demographics fall away in the West, you're starting to see receding rates of growth in the West.

00:45:46.000 Because as it turns out, despite all of the talk about how capitalism is inherently based on the uprooting of family, it's not true.

00:45:52.000 Family provides the basis for capitalistic success.

00:45:56.000 Because otherwise there's nothing to provide for.

00:45:58.000 This idea that capitalism inherently treats people individually as opposed to as family units, that part is true. 0.97

00:46:03.000 But capitalism is not in the family building business.

00:46:05.000 Capitalism is in the ability to alienate your labor business.

00:46:09.000 It is your job to bring your values to capitalism.

00:46:11.000 This is why I always get sort of irritated when people say things like, two cheers for capitalism.

00:46:16.000 You hear this a lot from the Integralist Right.

00:46:18.000 Two cheers for capitalism.

00:46:19.000 Well, or one cheer for capitalism.

00:46:21.000 Here's the thing. 1.00

00:46:22.000 Treating capitalism as though it is supposed to be a moral system, as opposed to a tool for prosperity that is an outgrowth of human control over our own labor, that's really stupid. 0.99

00:46:31.000 It's like saying, two cheers for this hammer because this hammer is not a screwdriver. 0.99

00:46:36.000 Well, I mean, right, it's a hammer.

00:46:37.000 So like, as a hammer, three cheers for the hammer.

00:46:39.000 I wouldn't expect this hammer to solve all of my nutritional deficits.

00:46:42.000 It'd be weird.

00:46:43.000 Well, same thing for capitalism.

00:46:45.000 Capitalism makes products cheaper and better and safer and more useful.

00:46:49.000 And that's what capitalism does.

00:46:51.000 It provides a place for you to alienate your labor and make money while doing it

00:46:54.000 that you can then use to provide for your family.

00:46:56.000 But the reason that capitalism is dependent on family is because again, if there's no reason

00:47:01.000 for you to provide for a wife or children, for example, if you are a man, then why go out and earn all that much?

00:47:07.000 What is the point?

00:47:08.000 And one of the reasons that people try to earn a lot of money

00:47:10.000 is to pass it down to their kids and to their grandkids.

00:47:11.000 There's always a future orientation to the economy that if you strip away, you end up with basically subsistence economics.

00:47:17.000 And subsistence economics doesn't amount to any sort of advancement.

00:47:21.000 It's consume the future on behalf of the present.

00:47:23.000 I mean, there are really only two types of economic systems.

00:47:27.000 There are economic systems that try to build things now for the future, and then there are economic systems that consume the future for the present.

00:47:35.000 Those would be debt-led systems, or communistic systems that assume that if we just reshape man in the here and now by sucking resources out of the economy, and by damning people to hell, then we will somehow build a better world right now.

00:47:46.000 As opposed to the idea that a better world emerges when you look to tomorrow.

00:47:50.000 Meaning, you're thinking about, how do I build a business?

00:47:52.000 You're thinking about planting a tree that you're not going to get to see come to fruition.

00:47:56.000 Capitalism is, it must be based in what Adam Smith's first book, A Theory of Moral Sentiment, talked about.

00:48:02.000 A theory of moral sentiment.

00:48:04.000 There's a future orientation to economics, and when you get rid of it, you end up with Keynesianism, which is the redistributionism of income that ends in economic stagnation, effectively speaking.

00:48:13.000 And that's what you are seeing over in Europe.

00:48:14.000 So there's an article in the Wall Street Journal today, So again, one of the reasons that Americans historically have worked really hard, like lots of long hours, is because we want our kids to be richer than we are.

00:48:33.000 We want our kids to be better off than we are.

00:48:35.000 That's the whole goal.

00:48:36.000 Right?

00:48:36.000 Well, what happens if you don't have kids?

00:48:38.000 Then you basically make enough money so you can go on vacation, go to Cancun a little bit.

00:48:43.000 Europeans, according to the Wall Street Journal, are facing a new economic reality, one they haven't experienced in decades.

00:48:47.000 They are becoming actively poorer.

00:48:49.000 Life on a continent long envied by outsiders for its art de vive is rapidly losing its shine as Europeans see their purchasing power melt away. 0.60

00:48:56.000 The French are eating less foie gras and drinking less red wine.

00:48:58.000 Spaniards are stinting on olive oil.

00:49:00.000 Finns are being urged to use saunas on windy days when energy is less expensive.

00:49:03.000 Across Germany, meat and milk consumption has fallen to the lowest level in three decades, and the once booming market for organic food has tanked.

00:49:09.000 Italy's economic development minister, Adolfo Urso, convened a crisis meeting in May over prices for pasta, the country's favorite staple, after they jumped by more than double the national inflation rate.

00:49:18.000 With consumption spending in free fall, Europe tipped into recession at the start of the year, reinforcing a sense of relative economic, political, and military decline that kicked in at the start of the century.

00:49:27.000 Europe's current predicament, says the Wall Street Journal, has been long in the making.

00:49:30.000 An aging population with a preference for free time and job security over earnings, ushered in years of lackluster economic and productivity growth. 0.84

00:49:37.000 Again, lack of future orientation, living in the hedonistic now.

00:49:40.000 That is what is damning the European economy to sluggishness.

00:49:45.000 And by the way, it's also going to mean the collapse of all of these systems that they say that they really care about.

00:49:49.000 You're seeing that at the national health system in the UK.

00:49:52.000 Remember, it wasn't all that long ago when the left was touting the NHS as a model for the United States, and now the NHS, I mean, it has been for a while, but it's a complete hellscape.

00:50:00.000 It's the New York Times reporting that the NHS is in serious trouble.

00:50:03.000 Quote.

00:50:04.000 15 hours after she was taken out of an ambulance at Queen's Hospital with chest pains and pneumonia,

00:50:08.000 Marianne Patton was still in the emergency room waiting for a bed in a ward. Mrs. Patton, 78,

00:50:12.000 was luckier than others who arrived at the steaming hospital east of London.

00:50:15.000 She had not yet been wheeled into a hallway. That's 15 hours after she had chest pains and

00:50:19.000 pneumonia. For months, doctors at Queen's have been forced to treat people in a corridor because

00:50:23.000 of a lack of space.

00:50:24.000 As the ambulances kept pulling up outside, the doctor supervising the ER, Daryl Woods, said it was only a matter of time before nurses would begin diverting patients into the overflow space again.

00:50:32.000 Despite her ordeal, Mrs. Patton was sympathetic.

00:50:34.000 Decades ago, she said the NHS saved her husband's life when he had a heart attack.

00:50:37.000 It's got to cope with a lot more people, she said.

00:50:38.000 You can't be grumpy about it.

00:50:40.000 As it turns 75 this month, the NHS, a proud symbol of Britain's welfare state, is in the deepest crisis of its history, flooded by aging, enfeebled patients, starved of investment in equipment and facilities, understaffed by doctors and nurses, many of whom are so burned out they are either joining strikes or leaving for jobs abroad.

00:50:56.000 Yeah, no bleep, Sherlock.

00:50:57.000 Of course, because this is a system that is rooted in the today as opposed to in the tomorrow.

00:51:03.000 This is why whenever I hear people on both sides of the aisle now talking about, we don't need entitlement reform, who cares about entitlement reform?

00:51:08.000 It's that mentality.

00:51:09.000 Cannibalize tomorrow for today, and then when tomorrow comes, maybe we'll beat that already and we won't care.

00:51:15.000 That's the famous line that John Maynard Keynes suggested.

00:51:17.000 He was talking with another economist, apparently, and this economist was pointing out that your plans in the long run are bad.

00:51:23.000 And he said, in the long run, we're all dead.

00:51:25.000 That's a really, really bad way to build an economic system, and that's precisely what we've been seeing.

00:51:29.000 We've seen it in China, by the way.

00:51:30.000 China's about to collapse because, in the long run, we're all dead. 0.76

00:51:33.000 Do what you have to do today in order to get to tomorrow with your power still intact.

00:51:36.000 And by the way, it may not be in the long run. 0.92

00:51:38.000 It turns out one of the solutions to having aged and feeble people in your country is just to kill them, which presumably is one of the things that is now happening in Canada, in large measure. 0.99

00:51:47.000 According to Reuters, since 2016, over 30,000 people have been killed using euthanasia.

00:51:54.000 In Canada.

00:51:55.000 Those numbers are only going to go up.

00:51:56.000 The old are going to be dispensable. 1.00

00:51:57.000 See, here's the thing about a society that is future-oriented.

00:52:00.000 It cares about its elderly.

00:52:01.000 Why?

00:52:02.000 Because the elderly are the repositories of wisdom.

00:52:04.000 They have the knowledge that is going to get you to the next generation.

00:52:07.000 Not only that, caring for your elderly makes you a better person. 0.96

00:52:11.000 One of the unbelievably stupid aspects of our government overreach is the idea that it doesn't involve a crowding out. 0.95

00:52:17.000 Of course it involves a crowding out. 0.99

00:52:18.000 It involves a crowding out of ethics.

00:52:20.000 It's actually an outsourcing of empathy.

00:52:23.000 It's amazing when you hear people constantly talking about, you're more empathetic if you want to fund X government program.

00:52:28.000 Well, not really because it seems to me that many of the government programs that you actually want to fund are just a way for you to outsource your problems to a third party so you don't have to feel bad about it.

00:52:35.000 So to take an example, when people say, well, social security, you know, so we can't restructure social security.

00:52:40.000 Social security is the greatest thing since sliced bread and Medicare and Medicaid.

00:52:45.000 And this is how we are going to make sure that all these problems are taken care of.

00:52:47.000 Well, they haven't taken care of the problems.

00:52:48.000 What they really have done is just to outsource them.

00:52:50.000 So it used to be, 50, 60 years ago, if you had a parent who's getting elderly, what happened with your elderly parent?

00:52:56.000 You brought them into your house.

00:52:57.000 This is the thing that you did.

00:52:58.000 You brought them into your house, and your kids had to learn to deal with people who are elderly. 1.00

00:53:01.000 And you had to learn to deal with people who are elderly. 0.99

00:53:03.000 And you had to negotiate that, and it was a tremendous sacrifice, and it was really hard, and it was really difficult. 0.98

00:53:07.000 Instead, we decided, what if we just outsource that crap to the government, and then we just put all of our elderly people in nursing homes and maybe euthanize them? 0.99

00:53:14.000 Maybe that's the solution. 0.99

00:53:16.000 Has that made people happier or more fulfilled? 0.85

00:53:18.000 Or is it just meant to complete lack of respect for people as they get older other than our geriatric dotards who apparently still run the country?

00:53:25.000 The same thing has happened with regard to poverty.

00:53:27.000 Poverty programs don't make you responsible for the people with poverty.

00:53:30.000 They just allow you to say, I paid at the office already.

00:53:33.000 I've talked about this before in my religious community.

00:53:35.000 When somebody is going through a hard time, everybody in the community is expected to chip in.

00:53:39.000 We are all expected to take up a hand, figure out how we can help, try to do something.

00:53:44.000 You know what's a lot easier than that?

00:53:46.000 If there was some sort of, say, faraway body that just allowed me to sign a quick check

00:53:52.000 and then I would never have to worry about the problem again.

00:53:54.000 We could call that place the government.

00:53:56.000 And even if it didn't solve the problem, I'd feel good about myself.

00:53:58.000 And then I could yell at other people for not being in favor of this far away Anthony taking care of all the problems that I should actually be taking upon myself.

00:54:04.000 It turns out that empathy very often just means outsourcing.

00:54:08.000 And that outsourcing very often just means stealing from the future in order to outsource.

00:54:11.000 Make yourself more comfortable at the expense of the future.

00:54:14.000 And then you wonder why society is in serious trouble.

00:54:16.000 This would be one of the reasons why society is in serious trouble.

00:54:19.000 Future-oriented societies survive, present-oriented societies fail.

00:54:23.000 We are increasingly becoming a present-oriented society, which means removing all of the institutional frameworks that provide for a future entirely.

00:54:30.000 Okay, time for, um, you know, I'm not even gonna do things I like to do, I'm just gonna do a couple of quick things that I hate.

00:54:39.000 Alrighty.

00:54:40.000 Things that I hate today.

00:54:42.000 So, first of all, Barack Obama is one of the most irritating people in American public life.

00:54:46.000 I blame Barack Obama personally for many of the problems that American politics have entered into.

00:54:50.000 As I've said before, I think that his presidency basically polarized the country beyond all recognition.

00:54:56.000 Because he came in with this broad wave of public approval, and then he proposed a bunch of left-wing policies that were very alienating, and instead of just playing politics, he decided that he was going to actually racially polarize America.

00:55:08.000 In his own political interest, I'm not sure the country has recovered from it or will recover any time in the near future.

00:55:13.000 Well, now Barack Obama is sounding off on librarians.

00:55:16.000 And he is talking about the quote-unquote book bans in places like Florida.

00:55:20.000 Now, to be clear, the book bans in places like Florida, those are not book bans.

00:55:23.000 You can still get any of these books in Florida.

00:55:25.000 What they really are is saying that school libraries for 6th graders shouldn't have books like genderqueer in them.

00:55:30.000 You know, books with graphic depictions of gay sex, for example. 0.99

00:55:33.000 So Barack Obama, because he is a liar, put out on his Twitter feed the following statement, quote, 0.99

00:55:37.000 Today, some of the books that shaped my life and the lives of so many others are being 0.97

00:55:41.000 challenged by people who disagree with certain ideas or perspectives, and librarians are on

00:55:44.000 the front lines fighting every day to make the widest possible range of viewpoints,

00:55:48.000 opinions, and ideas available to everyone.

00:55:50.000 I really don't think that genderqueer shaped his life, and if it did, then we should know some more things about the former president of the United States. 0.97

00:55:58.000 Fairly certain that these are not the books that shaped Barack Obama's young life. 0.96

00:56:02.000 But, again, this is a stupid game that we play as we pretend that There's an attempt to shut down free speech when we say that a six-square shouldn't be reading genderqueer. 0.98

00:56:11.000 So again, points to Barack Obama for absolute falsehood. 1.00

00:56:15.000 Okay, other absolute falsehoods.

00:56:16.000 I have to say, it is amazing to watch as the left twists itself in knots over their intersectional coalition.

00:56:21.000 So again, Barack Obama was one of the founders of the left-wing intersectional coalition.

00:56:24.000 This idea that minority people plus college-educated white ladies were going to provide a durable coalition for the left, not just in the United States, but elsewhere. 1.00

00:56:31.000 And what this has meant is some really weird internal conflicts because it turns out a lot of minorities don't agree with each other.

00:56:36.000 It turns out, for example, that Muslims not super fond of the LGBTQ.

00:56:41.000 And now the left is noticing that, but their answer to this, because it's obviously that's a gap that's unbridgeable.

00:56:48.000 I mean, the Koran is not super hot, as I say, on LGBTQIA plus minus divided by sign politics.

00:56:54.000 And to the left, because they want them to be part of the same coalition, now they're saying that basically evil right-wingers are perverting Muslims to be socially conservative.

00:57:03.000 Uh, what?

00:57:04.000 So we saw, actually, Jen Psaki tried this routine the other day on MSNBC. 1.00

00:57:08.000 Now Justin Trudeau, handsome Bernie Sanders, and certainly not Fidel Castro's son.

00:57:13.000 100% not Fidel Castro.

00:57:15.000 He's Fidel Castro's son.

00:57:16.000 In any case, Justin Trudeau, he tried the same routine.

00:57:19.000 The reason Muslims are apparently opposed to LGBTQ plus minus divided by a sign, happy face, sad face emoji, crying emoji, laughing, crying emoji, clappy hands emoji.

00:57:28.000 The reason that the Muslims aren't super fond of that? 0.98

00:57:30.000 It's because of perverse Christian right-wingers who have somehow brainwashed the Muslims. 1.00

00:57:33.000 Which, um, no. 0.95

00:57:36.000 First of all, there is an awful lot of misinformation and disinformation out there.

00:57:41.000 People on social media... Ah, they're reporting misinformation at this hour.

00:57:47.000 ...the American right-wing are spreading a lot of untruths about what's actually in the Provincial Conferences.

00:57:54.000 If you look at the various curriculums, you'll see that there is not what is being said out there about aggressive teaching or conversion of kids to being LGBT.

00:58:06.000 That is something that is being weaponized by people who are not doing it because of their interest in supporting the Muslim community.

00:58:16.000 These are people in the far right who are consistent and stood against Muslim rights in the Muslim community. 0.98

00:58:23.000 Oh, you see, it's the far-right with their misinformation and disinformation who are trying to pervert the Muslims.

00:58:28.000 Uh-huh.

00:58:29.000 Uh-huh.

00:58:30.000 First of all, the Orwellian use of the words misinformation and disinformation to just mean stuff I don't like is really gross.

00:58:36.000 And when governmental leaders use it as the predicate to censorship, it's particularly gross.

00:58:40.000 But you know, this is the way that they work.

00:58:42.000 Okay, one final thing that I hate today.

00:58:45.000 So, I don't know what women have decided on this whole, we are going to just release text messages that are totally not for public consumption to make our boyfriends look bad when they're not really doing something bad. 0.58

00:58:57.000 Like, I understand that the desire for victimhood is now just the driving desire in a lot of celebrity hearts.

00:59:04.000 But I, for the life of me, do not understand why any of these things they're releasing are scandalous.

00:59:08.000 This is true of the Jonah Hill text where he's like, maybe you shouldn't pose, you know, in a bathing suit in this particular pose.

00:59:14.000 And like years later, his ex-girlfriend's like, this is terrible, and he was trying to control me.

00:59:19.000 Well then you break up with him.

00:59:20.000 I don't understand.

00:59:21.000 Why is that anybody else's business but yours?

00:59:23.000 It's your decision whether to be in a relationship.

00:59:25.000 Well now, we have Bebe Rexha.

00:59:27.000 Now, I'm not going to pretend I know who this person is because I have no idea who it is.

00:59:31.000 Every artist past about 1890 is a stranger to me.

00:59:36.000 But apparently Bebe Rexha is some sort of singer, an alleged singer.

00:59:40.000 And on her Instagram, she shared a text message she received criticizing her for gaining 35 pounds.

00:59:48.000 It appears to be from her boyfriend, which is a great way to build a relationship, is to take private text messages between you and your potential spouse, your boyfriend, and put those online.

00:59:58.000 It's a great way to build trust.

01:00:00.000 And here is the actual text message that we're supposed to feel super bad for her about quote,

01:00:04.000 Hey, I never said you weren't beautiful. I never said I didn't love you. In fact,

01:00:07.000 I said how beautiful you are and how much I loved you. I always said I would be honest with you and

01:00:11.000 your face was changing. So I told you it was that was the conversation we were having. And you asked

01:00:15.000 because I care. Would you rather I lied to you? You gained 35 pounds, obviously you gain weight

01:00:20.000 Should I just pretend it didn't happen, and that it's okay? 0.67

01:00:22.000 Come on, I gain 3 pounds, and you call me chubs and fat.

01:00:24.000 Doesn't mean you don't love me.

01:00:25.000 If you're trying to find reasons to break up, this makes sense.

01:00:27.000 But it's not the real reason.

01:00:29.000 If you're unhappy with me, or yourself, or with life, and don't see a future with us, that's okay, that's the reason.

01:00:33.000 Don't use something like that to weaponize your anger or anxiety, or any insecurity you may have.

01:00:37.000 You know, I always found you to be beautiful, and loved you no matter what.

01:00:39.000 I think it's important for you to think about things and write things down, speak to a therapist, and do this retreat thing to get to the root of the problem.

01:00:44.000 Let me know if you'd like to speak, if you need more clarity.

01:00:47.000 Love you.

01:00:48.000 Okay, so I have a question.

01:00:49.000 Is that supposed to be her boyfriend being a bad person?

01:00:52.000 Her boyfriend seems delightful.

01:00:55.000 I mean, truthfully, that's a nicer message than like 98% of dudes send to their spouses and or girlfriends.

01:01:04.000 That is a wildly nice message.

01:01:05.000 It sounds like she asked him, do I look fat in this dress?

01:01:08.000 And that was his answer, which was, you're beautiful and I love you.

01:01:10.000 But yeah, you look fat in the dress. 0.94

01:01:12.000 And you told me to tell you, to be honest.

01:01:13.000 So I'm being honest now.

01:01:14.000 So first of all, he violated the cardinal rule.

01:01:17.000 The cardinal rule is, if your wife asks if she looks fat in the dress, the answer is always no. 0.97

01:01:21.000 It doesn't matter if she looks like a hippopotamus stuffed into a tootsie roll. 0.96

01:01:25.000 Does not matter.

01:01:26.000 She's beautiful.

01:01:27.000 But he actually gave her the honest answer.

01:01:31.000 And that is a mistake apparently.

01:01:32.000 So egregious that she put that online.

01:01:35.000 How dare he answer a simple question?

01:01:40.000 This apparently was during a May appearance on the Jennifer Hudson show.

01:01:44.000 She talked about her weight gain and she's apparently been doing this kind of routine publicly about why people are being mean to her because of her weight gain. 0.98

01:01:53.000 Not everything makes you a victim.

01:01:54.000 Not everything in life makes you a victim.

01:01:55.000 In fact, thinking about yourself as a victim makes you a victim.

01:01:58.000 Of yourself.

01:01:59.000 Not of anybody else. 1.00

01:02:01.000 This sort of narcissistic garbage is so ridiculous. 1.00

01:02:04.000 And honestly, people with lives don't have time for this. 1.00

01:02:07.000 I gotta tell you, I'm covering it specifically because I'm saying don't do this in your life.

01:02:10.000 If you have a life and you have things to do, you don't have time for this.

01:02:13.000 And by the way, you should have a partner who is able to tell you honestly when something is wrong.

01:02:17.000 If you ask them if you have broccoli in your teeth, they should be able to tell you without fear that you're going to blow up on them and post it on Instagram. 0.97

01:02:24.000 Oh, so, so silly. 0.75

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The Ben Shapiro Show - July 18, 2023

Why Are Men In Crisis?

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