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00:01:48.000And they are doing what I believe is one of the most difficult things for a young person to do in America, which is to vocally state your beliefs against what is popular and what is considered to be the prevailing kind of wisdom of the age, or lack of wisdom, quite honestly.
00:03:26.000Maybe it's because there might be something.
00:03:29.000To our belief system that makes me want to actually fight for it.
00:03:32.000That I believe it so much because of what is good, true, and beautiful, and because of the facts and the evidence and the reason and the history behind it.
00:03:42.000I was traveling here with a friend of mine, Tom Lewis, who's here somewhere, and I asked him the question what I ask most people before I speak, which is, hey, what do you want me to talk about?0.72
00:03:50.000And he said, Charlie, I think it would be helpful if you laid out the differences between the wokies and conservatives.
00:03:58.000The wokies is like a catch all term, right?0.97
00:04:15.000I think that some divisions are actually healthy to actually see where each side stands and be able to draw those lines and be able to say, you know, that actually isn't my viewpoint.
00:04:25.000But there are five things that I've come with tonight that I think are really important to show the difference between what I, as a conservative, or we, as people that believe in the natural law, or people that believe in.
00:04:37.000What would be considered classical conservatism versus kind of this new phenomenon of postmodernism, poststructuralism, you call it leftism or liberalism.
00:04:46.000And the term woke, by the way, is a catch all term.
00:04:52.000It actually comes from a belief that you have now been able to wake up to all the systemic injustice and oppression around you.
00:05:00.000And now you are enlightened enough to be able to see that there's racism around everywhere and that at that moment you're woke.
00:05:07.000I honestly think it's somewhat helpful to now have a word other than liberal or left to describe the most insane things that are happening.
00:05:50.000The Toronto Raptors published that video and quickly were forced to take down that video and issue a multi-paragraph apology, groveling, that saying that this is not true, we're gonna be better, this is so, we're really learning that the idea that only women can procreate.
00:06:09.000Could you imagine the locker room after that?
00:06:13.000I mean, no better way to radicalize National Basketball Association players to being right-wingers than being like, no, no, actually you're too dumb to think that only women can become pregnant.
00:06:24.000And it's one thing to believe an insane thing, that's nothing new.
00:06:29.000What's different, though, is to force us to believe it and not be able to challenge it.
00:06:34.000And I'm not gonna put up with that, and you shouldn't either.
00:06:40.000This is how you know these ideas are so poisonous and awful, is that they could have let the video play, and then why don't we hear from all the experts that could tell us that what the basketball player said was wrong, where he literally just said, They're the only ones that can procreate.
00:07:00.000That's not true in the world of the woke because they believe men can become pregnant and birthing people and all that sort of thing, right?
00:07:07.000And that was so offensive, they had to then use force to take it down.
00:07:10.000And then, of course, you must then apologize.
00:07:12.000Even though you're not sorry, that's what's so interesting, I think if you actually are sorry in life, you should apologize.
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00:08:13.000Here's a good rule for life never apologize for if you did not do something wrong and someone is demanding an apology from you.
00:08:33.000Well, okay, but I said that only women can become pregnant.0.99
00:08:36.000I have so many examples of this, by the way.
00:08:38.000For example, Hershey's Chocolate in just the last couple weeks, which is, again, you know, not exactly, I would consider to be a company at the top of the list of, you know, political activism, but Hershey's comes out with a dude that, Is appropriating womanhood and is like dancing around and frolicking and says, you know, what being a woman to me means this.
00:09:01.000It's like a man with long hair telling us, and he's like, go buy Hershey's chocolate.
00:09:06.000And I have a deeper theory about this that I think is really important, which is the NBA example aside, but certainly with Hershey's and definitely with the NFL and definitely with some other companies.
00:09:16.000I think these companies use the woke stuff as a way to distract us from the bad stuff these companies are actually doing.
00:09:24.000For example, maybe it's not a good thing to give eight year olds. chocolate and corn syrup.
00:09:29.000But Hershey's doesn't want you talking about that because they're cool because they have men frolicking around as women.
00:09:34.000I think the woke thing serves as almost a smokescreen and a veneer and a camouflage from us actually criticizing some of these companies and organizations from the legitimate damage they're doing to, I don't know, contribute to childhood obesity.
00:09:47.000I mean, again, Hershey's, I love chocolate, you probably love chocolate, but of all the things I would think that Hershey would be very worried about, I didn't think it would be their gender politics.
00:09:56.000I just don't think they would weigh in on that.
00:09:58.000But they do that because they think they can be immune to the pressure from the activist class.
00:10:03.000If they put out those sort of weird infomercials.
00:10:05.000The NFL is the same thing, by the way.
00:10:07.000These nauseating end zones end racism, like all this stuff.
00:10:10.000The NFL just doesn't want you to talk about concussions.
00:10:25.000I think we've got to figure out a way to try to limit concussions and actually have players not be penalized for actually sitting weeks out, like Tua was totally mistreated with the Miami Dolphins this last season.
00:10:35.000But the NFL doesn't want you talking about that.
00:10:36.000Because the NFL instead would say, well, we're enlightened because we have the gay flag or whatever in our end zone and we're going to end racism.
00:10:44.000Okay, ending racism is a very virtuous thing, obviously, to try to do.
00:10:48.000Probably going to take more than a decal on the back of a helmet.
00:11:00.000Okay, so I have five differences, and you guys can disagree on this, but I actually think these, even if you disagree with everything I stand for and everything that.
00:11:18.000You might be a libertarian, you might be a socialist, you might be, you know, so these are general kind of categories of five things that I think are differences between someone who thinks more on the conservative side or someone who would self identify on the American left.
00:11:33.000And the first of which is really important do you believe that there is or an ability to believe?
00:11:50.000I think the further we've gotten away from our Christian roots, the more unhappy, less joyful, more miserable, and violent our country has become.1.00
00:11:58.000It's not a popular thing to say in America, but it's true, so you could take it for whatever it's worth.1.00
00:12:03.000But in secular society, in the Bible, it says, very famous verse, and man did whatever is right in his own eyes, right?
00:12:09.000Basically saying, you want moral chaos, you have.
00:12:22.000Instead, the more traditional way, which I think is more healthy and actually anchored in wisdom, is that, okay, I do exist, but I'm made in the image of a creator that is much more powerful and is actually divine, and I am not, and I should first care about my obligations and my duty and my service more so than my own personal feelings or my own personal opinions.
00:12:48.000That's a lot more important than thinking you're the most important thing in the world.
00:12:51.000In fact, I think it actually creates unhappier people.
00:12:56.000And I will hear all the time people will say, Charlie, there is no such thing as absolute truth.
00:13:00.000The only thing is your own personal perspective andor power dynamics.
00:13:06.000Not only is this a problem when you play it out in kind of just utilitarian ways, because eventually somebody's gonna be in charge, okay?
00:13:14.000Eventually somebody's truth is gonna reign supreme.
00:13:16.000And history shows us that if you believe that there's no absolute truth, you're gonna get a Stalin who's willing to use Brutal power to eventually get to the top of that hierarchy, and nobody wants to live in that country.
00:13:31.000The idea of having absolute truth is basic in speech.
00:13:37.000If you do not have agreed upon terms or vocabulary where we can have discussion, then what exactly are we ever supposed to remedy our differences?
00:13:46.000This is why I am so, at times I get accused as being obtuse, which I consider to be a compliment, so firm.
00:13:55.000About language precision when it comes to sex and gender.
00:13:59.000Because if you all of a sudden are allowing words to mean whatever those words want them to mean, then you no longer have the ability to be able to remedy your differences with somebody you disagree with.
00:14:10.000You're talking on different planets, and boy, is that not the case in America today.
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00:15:42.000For half the country, they see what happened on January 6th, and they say, that is a violent overthrow of our government.
00:15:49.000When reviewing the 45,000 hours of footage, I don't think it was a noble thing, obviously, to go smash windows and to try to harm police officers, but largely it was a bunch of buffoons that were kind of like, Amateurville, USA, that had really some planning to no planning whatsoever.
00:16:08.000And if that's an insurrection, it's the first insurrection in American history where the guards are showing the insurrectionists around the place they're trying to take over.
00:17:19.000We're actually not that racist of a country.
00:17:21.000We're actually the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:17:24.000We're actually rather decent to each other.
00:17:26.000Considering we have every nation represented on the planet, every language spoken, we've let more people into our country than any other country ever to exist in the history of the world, and we largely get along, that's a big deal.
00:17:37.000In fact, we have a supply and demand problem with racism.
00:17:40.000That if you are a famous, soon to be failed actor in Chicago, you have to fake your own hate crime.
00:17:47.000There's so little racism that you gotta go all of a sudden put like a noose around your neck and act as if, oh my goodness, they're hunting me down in the streets and screaming, this is MAGA country.
00:17:56.000That's how you know you don't live in a racist country.
00:17:58.000You have to fake your own hate crimes.
00:18:00.000And by the way, you do it really sloppily and you think people are gonna believe you.
00:18:34.000It's like, don't you think you'd take it off?
00:18:37.000Like, that's, you're wearing it like it's a costume because it was a costume, okay?
00:18:42.000So, when words start to mean something that they don't actually mean, then you get into power dynamics, and that's really bad.
00:18:48.000So, but deeper than that, my challenge to you, even if you don't think there is absolute truth, I challenge you to at least entertain the idea that there is absolute truth.
00:19:00.000Because otherwise, you actually then self contradict your own viewpoint.
00:19:05.000Which one of my favorite dialogues I've ever had with a student is they say, Charlie, there is no such thing as absolute truth.
00:20:50.000So, for example, you know, when I will go on a college campus and they'll say, you know, Charlie, you cannot be a black person and walk down the street without the police coming and gunning you down.
00:20:59.000It's super frequent, it's super common.
00:21:01.000But then you use your reason, you say, well, how common is it?
00:21:03.000How many unarmed black men are killed by the police every single year?
00:21:07.000And estimates, they'll say 1,000, 2,000, 5,000, 10,000, 50,000.
00:21:28.000Out of millions of police interactions every single year and a very, very difficult job that keeps us all safe, are we really supposed to disassemble modern society because of 15 examples that are very subject to error when emotions are heightened and you're in the heat of the moment?
00:21:46.000See, that's using your reason against emotion to actually come to a conclusion.
00:21:51.000And the summer of 2020, Floyd-a-Palooza, we decided.
00:21:56.000To allow our emotion to literally burn down our civilization.
00:22:00.000We should never let that happen again.
00:22:02.000Because the reason should have been actually, we're not a racist country.
00:22:05.000There's no excuse for what happened in Minneapolis.
00:22:49.000Which is constantly trying to tell people that there is something that you have a disadvantage against you, that you have a barrier, that you have a limitation based on something you can't change.
00:22:59.000I think this is one of the most immoral and evil things that you can tell a young black person in America or a young Hispanic person or anyone in ethnic minority.
00:23:08.000If you're telling them out of the gate that there are these boogeyman barriers that might prevent them from flourishing in success and prosperity, by definition, that student will be less likely to take a risk.
00:23:21.000To engage in self discipline and to try to get to a higher place of flourishing.
00:23:24.000You're basically telling them the game is so rigged against you, the white man, the structure against you, that you shouldn't do that.
00:23:34.000You might get gypped here and there by a jerk, but we actually largely live in a decent country and you're going to find some decent people.
00:23:39.000And if you don't like that decent person, quit and find a decent person.
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00:25:27.000Okay, I could talk about that one forever, but I'm gonna go quick.
00:25:29.000Number four, which is probably one of my favorites, and it should be, honestly, if I was king for a day, that would be really something, I gotta tell you.
00:25:38.000If I was king for a day, I would make it a requirement that every class in college or high school at least debates, thinks, and reads on the topic of whether or not man is basically good or basically evil.
00:25:55.000This is one of the most fundamental questions.
00:25:57.000When you talk about politics and life, it informs almost every other question when it comes to politics.
00:26:04.000Now, spoiler alert if you're a Christian, you cannot believe man is basically good, okay?0.73
00:27:04.000In fact, in Genesis 3, not to talk too much about the Bible because some of you might find it unpersuasive, even though it built the civilization you're in, but that's a separate issue.
00:27:13.000Cain, one of the most amazing dialogues, is Cain talking to God, where God asked him, What happened to your brother?
00:27:21.000And Cain did not immediately say, Well, I murdered him, of course.
00:27:26.000Instead, his answer, and I'm just paraphrasing from memory, was actually somewhat defensive.
00:27:31.000Basically, it was like, What am I, my brother's keeper?
00:27:34.000And there's a lot of different ways to read that verse, but basically, that's playing defense.
00:27:41.000Because I believe God did put an element of conscience in every single human being.
00:28:34.000If people are naturally good, then you can excuse all the injustice in the world.
00:28:42.000If people are naturally not good, then the problem is very simple make them better, understand their nature.
00:28:48.000You see, When a college student believes they're naturally good and they know they're not, it actually can be very tormenting to them.
00:28:55.000Instead, we should say, your nature is rather crummy, and if you work hard at it enough, you can actually become a pretty good person.
00:29:03.000Instead, if you tell a 19-year-old your nature is perfect, they become an activist because they think everything wrong about the world is outside of them.
00:29:16.000Instead, you should say the biggest problem and the biggest challenge you have every single day is the person you see in the mirror.
00:29:30.000How about you make your bed, shave, and stop smelling like a mess before you tell me that America is systemically racist?
00:29:38.000We used to tell our children in America, we used to tell our children, you got a lot of problems and America is great.
00:29:48.000Now we tell our children, America has a lot of problems and you are great.
00:29:53.000And the result is the most miserable, suicidal, depressed, confused generation in American history.
00:30:01.000Because we've taught them that their past is crummy, no ability to improve their current life unless they tear everything down around them.
00:30:09.000That creates activists and arsonists, not good people.
00:30:12.000Okay, finally, one that I could go on at some length here, which I think is really important, which is what is man's relationship with nature?
00:30:20.000And this is one that is going to just be the number one issue that I don't know tonight.
00:30:31.000But you cannot even begin to get into that debate until you could tell me on moral terms what you believe man versus nature and how they should coexist.
00:30:43.000I believe in a hierarchy of man and nature.
00:30:45.000I believe nature is there for us as human beings to be able to use to put human beings first.
00:30:51.000I do not believe we're here to worship nature.
00:30:53.000I do not believe we are here to get some sort of Let's say, religious kick out of nature.
00:31:00.000I think nature is made by God, who is outside of nature, for man, who is above nature, to be able to flourish.
00:31:09.000Well, if you believe that nature and man are equals, or even worse, if you believe that nature is above man, well, then all of a sudden, you then have an argument to shut down industrial production, to limit human population.
00:31:24.000You see, earth worship is nothing new.
00:31:27.000It is coming back, though, in great detail.
00:31:31.000The question in front of us should be, and this is what I always ask of the climate change people, is would you believe the same policy prescriptions that you have to, you know, some of them, there's some nuances here, right?
00:31:43.000But get rid of fossil fuels, you know, widespread electric vehicles, all this stuff.
00:31:48.000Would you still believe that if you believe that human beings actually have a hierarchy over nature?
00:31:54.000And you might say, well, that's insignificant because I want to save the environment to be able to save human beings.
00:31:59.000Okay, so that's actually a good argument if it was true.
00:32:05.000If you can get me to buy into quote unquote scientific consensus after everything I've been told by the scientific elites over the last three years has been proven to be a synthetic fabricated lie.
00:32:17.000Whether it be the virus came from a bat in the Himalayan mountains and kicking me off Twitter for mentioning it, shutting down kids and putting on masks, of which epidemiologically was one of the worst, stupidest things we could ever do to young teenagers.
00:32:31.000And then to force on an mRNA gene altering shot onto a younger generation and tell them, if you don't get this, you don't go to college, you can't go to the military, you can't get a job, and then not even an apology from Fauci or Walensky or the people in charge?
00:32:45.000Yeah, excuse me while I say, yeah, you probably haven't earned my trust the last couple years.