The Charlie Kirk Show - Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition

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00:01:08.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:02:08.000 Here's a story that I want to get into.

00:02:10.000 Before I get into it, the question is, is America ready for what's about to happen on the world stage? 0.90

00:02:18.000 We were just made for fools in Afghanistan with the Biden regime and their strategy or lack thereof to hand weapons to the Taliban.

00:02:32.000 Most likely because of a deal that was done with the Chinese Communist Party and a deal that was done with the Afghan neighbors in China that are now one and the same. 0.92

00:02:45.000 The Taliban has actually come out and they said, well, we're disappointed with the weapons that were left for us by America.

00:02:54.000 Now, that should be a big pause.

00:02:55.000 Wait, what do you mean, left for you?

00:02:57.000 You were expecting weapons being left for you.

00:03:00.000 Was there some sort of deal that was brokered here?

00:03:05.000 This is something that we need a massive investigation into immediately that every single Republican in Congress needs to launch an investigation into why were these left weapons left behind?

00:03:20.000 Who are they left to?

00:03:22.000 What was the deal that was brokered?

00:03:27.000 Now, the Chinese Communist Party, they're not joking around.

00:03:32.000 And I've said for quite some time, our country is not prepared for the confrontation that is looming against China.

00:03:41.000 China has just come out today and they have banned effeminate feminine men from going on television. 0.84

00:03:48.000 Broadcasters ordered to, quote, resolutely put an end to sissy men and other abnormal aesthetics by the communist broadcast regulator, sissy men. 0.99

00:04:00.000 So basically, Chris Hayes out of a job.

00:04:06.000 Basically, every single man on MSNBC, they would be unemployed in the Wuhan broadcast operation.

00:04:17.000 Rachel Maddow, gotta go.

00:04:20.000 Brian Stelter, we got plenty of other work for you to do in China.

00:04:28.000 Now, the question is, why are they doing this?

00:04:30.000 Well, a society that wants to be great, like China does, even though they're sinister and they're evil and they're malevolent, you need strong men in order to do so. 0.99

00:04:42.000 And the Chinese Communist Party knows that American males have become incredibly weak.

00:04:49.000 Testosterone levels are plummeting.

00:04:52.000 American males spend more time staring at screens playing video games than actually doing meaningful activities. 0.92

00:05:01.000 So the Chinese party, the Chinese Communist Party has come out and they've said, we are now banning children under 18 from playing video games Monday to Thursday.

00:05:11.000 Gaming is now limited for one hour on Friday and Saturday.

00:05:15.000 This is a nation that's getting serious.

00:05:18.000 This is a nation that wants your children dead and they want Americans imprisoned and they're on pace to do it.

00:05:26.000 While American males see testosterone rates plummet, our birth rate decline, our screen time increase, China's doing the opposite. 0.99

00:05:35.000 China's saying we want less people staring at screens.

00:05:38.000 Let's play CUT 86.

00:05:39.000 Report on how the Chinese authorities have banned children from under 18 from playing video games.

00:05:44.000 Cut 86.

00:05:45.000 Regulators in China have imposed restrictions on online video gaming.

00:05:50.000 They're stopping anybody under the age of 18 from playing more than three hours a week.

00:05:54.000 Under 18s have been told they'll only be allowed to access the games between 8 and 9 in the evenings on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, as well as on public holidays.

00:06:03.000 The authorities in Beijing say they want to protect the physical and mental health of young people.

00:06:09.000 They want to protect the physical and mental health of young people.

00:06:14.000 Are our leaders at all concerned about that?

00:06:17.000 Well, Tucker Carlson had some very wise commentary, as he often does.

00:06:22.000 Cut 87 Tucker on China banning kids from under 18 having video games, limiting to three hours a week, and how the average American kid plays 15 hours a week.

00:06:32.000 I'll never forget that my parents refused to get video games for me until I was in high school, and there was a very limited window of time that I was allowed to play video games.

00:06:42.000 Instead, it said, go play sports, go make friends, go do something active.

00:06:47.000 Instead, parents today don't actually want a parent.

00:06:50.000 When I go out to eat, I see children staring at iPads and screens and almost no one talking to one another.

00:06:56.000 It's almost we're inviting China to come conquer our country. 0.99

00:07:01.000 Cut 87.

00:07:02.000 Can they stop the youth from worshiping celebrities?

00:07:05.000 Probably not, but at least they're worried about it, and that's a start.

00:07:09.000 They're also, by the way, worried about video games in China.

00:07:11.000 Online gaming for children in China will now be limited to three hours a week on the weekends.

00:07:17.000 This is being done, the government says, quote, to prevent the addiction to online games.

00:07:23.000 Is that a crazy idea?

00:07:25.000 Well, according to a recent study in this country, the average American kid plays video games for more than 15 hours a week.

00:07:33.000 A poll from the University of Michigan found that 86% of parents believed their children spent too much time playing video games.

00:07:39.000 Apparently the other 14% were paying attention.

00:07:42.000 So it's a legitimate problem.

00:07:44.000 This is what happens when you do not have structured order or a correct framework in place to be able to develop children to pursue virtue with strong character.

00:07:57.000 This is the excess of liberalism.

00:08:00.000 This is the downfall of modernity.

00:08:04.000 China is saying, who cares if you can stare at a screen all day long?

00:08:07.000 That doesn't make your country strong.

00:08:10.000 That doesn't make you more likely to have something that can last and be passed down.

00:08:18.000 You see, we are always told by our politicians, we just need to give people liberty and they'll figure the rest out.

00:08:26.000 But liberty is the pursuit of virtue.

00:08:28.000 There's no virtue in staring at a screen for 15 hours a day.

00:08:33.000 There's no virtue in watching feminine men on television like Biden had that dress-wearing person parade throughout the White House like that's some sort of broadcast of strength. 1.00

00:08:49.000 Deep down, Americans want a revival back towards traditional gender norms, towards a nation that believes in something that is greater than just momentary materialistic gratification.

00:09:05.000 Tucker continues by saying, when was the last time politicians should mention one of these problems?

00:09:09.000 And before you say that they should not be making those decisions in our personal lives, remember that they very much are.

00:09:13.000 Tucker is so spot on here.

00:09:15.000 Politicians don't mention things that matter because they actually don't think deeply about what's happening in the country.

00:09:21.000 Most Republicans go to DC, they talk about tax cuts, or I'm going to go fight socialism, even though they're willful participants in making America more collectivistic.

00:09:29.000 When I could list 15 things that are much more damaging to our nation than the corporate tax rate.

00:09:37.000 For example, screen time, obesity rates, drug overdoses, a porous southern border, the Chinese Communist Party propaganding us through TikTok. 0.97

00:09:47.000 Cut 88.

00:09:48.000 What's interesting is when was the last time you heard one of our political leaders even mention video games or housing market speculation or celebrity worship as a problem?

00:10:02.000 Now, before you respond by saying that politicians shouldn't be involved in our personal lives, remember that the CDC already very much is involved in our personal lives.

00:10:11.000 So maybe our government could take just a moment from bossing us around to improve our actual lives once in a while.

00:10:18.000 Just go ahead and try.

00:10:19.000 Even if you fail, it will be an improvement.

00:10:22.000 At least you know you noticed.

00:10:24.000 And the Chinese Communist Party is recognizing this.

00:10:26.000 In fact, the Chinese Communist Party is now going to soon lift the one child policy.

00:10:31.000 They know that if they are going to be serious about taking over the world, which is their ambition, they can't have feminine men waltzing on television, making it seem as if that is the norm. 1.00

00:10:41.000 And they can't have people staring at screens all day long.

00:10:44.000 So what are they going to do with their time is what people say.

00:10:47.000 They got plenty of land that they want to conquer.

00:10:50.000 They want a racial ethno-state where they control the entire planet. 0.67

00:10:57.000 And this really is the debate that's happening in the conservative movement that people don't want to talk about, which is what is the balance between antiquity and modernity?

00:11:07.000 This is what the founding fathers wrestled with as well.

00:11:10.000 We're not the first people to say this.

00:11:12.000 The problem is that the way that we teach the founding is if they were all enlightenment, all modernity, no respect to antiquity.

00:11:19.000 And that is a lie.

00:11:20.000 In fact, it was this tension.

00:11:21.000 It was that the things that lasted, religion, tradition, order, custom, they're incredibly important.

00:11:30.000 But tradition, order, and custom give you the mandate from heaven, divine right of kings, which is why we're so unhappy under King George.

00:11:38.000 So how do we honor that which is beautiful and embrace the new thinking of the Enlightenment, the fruits of the Enlightenment that are positive, freedom of speech, association, religious liberty, private property rights, commerce, and create a society where those two things are in tension, where you can have a productive society, but you are not progressing past the anchor that keeps you from descending into chaos.

00:12:07.000 China is wrestling with this, and China is able to wrestle with it easier because they're an authoritarian regime.

00:12:13.000 So they just say something and then it gets done.

00:12:15.000 This is one of the difficulties with dealing with the democratic processes and that in order to get rid of video games in America, which would never happen, of course, it'd be actual riots in the streets.

00:12:27.000 It would make Floyd a Palooza look like a little hiccup.

00:12:31.000 If we got rid of video games, the country would burn.

00:12:35.000 And I'm not even recommending or suggesting we get rid of all video games.

00:12:39.000 That's not what I'm contending.

00:12:40.000 I'm saying it's damaging to the degree it has dominated American life and especially the development of young people.

00:12:51.000 But if we as a conservative movement are nothing more than the defenders of everything in modernity and never trying to preserve the tradition of antiquity, then we're just liberals who call ourselves conservatives.

00:13:09.000 And China recognizes this.

00:13:11.000 China knows that the law is the wise restraint that can keep them dominant. 0.82

00:13:18.000 And by the way, I want to be very clear.

00:13:20.000 I'm not praising China, okay?

00:13:23.000 I just find it very interesting that a country that wants world domination is willing to all of a sudden say, you know what?

00:13:29.000 Allowing kids to have the freedom, have as much screen time as they want, that's not good for our country.

00:13:34.000 We're not doing that.

00:13:35.000 To allow people to have the freedom to kind of waltz on television and wear dresses as men, we're not doing that.

00:13:46.000 Also out today, China is our most important partner, says Taliban spokesperson Zabu Allah Mujadid on the prospect of Afghanistan becoming the new Silk Road initiative.

00:13:59.000 In fact, Israel has just announced that the Israeli government is doing a partnership with the Chinese Communist Party and opening up a new port.

00:14:09.000 China's on pace to take over the world, not to mention they released the bioweapon from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, either intentionally or unintentionally, and they will never be held accountable to that. 0.97

00:14:20.000 They'll never be held accountable because they successfully infiltrated every single level of business in America, academia, so on and so forth.

00:14:31.000 But China's not there yet.

00:14:32.000 China has a problem with their youth. 1.00

00:14:34.000 Their youth are playing video games too much.

00:14:37.000 So what do they say?

00:14:38.000 We're not going to allow that to happen.

00:14:42.000 This is a provocative take, but it's something worth wrestling for.

00:14:47.000 If you allow people to do whatever they want, whenever they want to do it with no restraints or being anchored to moral goods, you get the opposite of freedom.

00:14:56.000 You get tyranny.

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00:15:51.000 Education comes from the Latin word to lead forth, which comes from the allegory of the cave, where Socrates told a story in Plato's Republic, I'm pretty sure, of people that were captive in a cave watching a simulation and leading them forth out of confusion and into this out of the simulation and into enlightenment.

00:16:13.000 Education is supposed to lead people towards strong character.

00:16:18.000 And education is not doing that.

00:16:20.000 So we've been calling on this program for quite some time for a homeschooling revolution, saying that we need to double the homeschooling population in America and we need to do it quickly.

00:16:32.000 Well, Axios had just come out with an article saying homeschooling reaches critical mass.

00:16:37.000 The number of U.S. kids who are homeschooled has nearly doubled during the pandemic.

00:16:43.000 I can just see the headline in 2050.

00:16:48.000 America's surprising right turn attributed to homeschooling influx during Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

00:16:56.000 30 years from now, America's surprising and shocking right turn will be attributable to parents pulling their kids out of the government-run system and into their homes to educate them.

00:17:09.000 This is why we've partnered with Hillsdale College, Charlie F.O.R. Hillsdale.com, if you guys want to check it out.

00:17:14.000 And what's amazing is that 2.6 million kids have switched from traditional school to homeschooling.

00:17:21.000 And if you have not pulled your kids out of the school system, I encourage you to do it.

00:17:26.000 There are resources available.

00:17:28.000 There are ways that you can be supported.

00:17:32.000 Your students and your kids still have the opportunity and the ability to meet other kids, to socialize.

00:17:41.000 And it's not just white families.

00:17:43.000 9.1% of white families have pulled their kids out of traditional education, but 12.1% of Hispanic families have pulled their kids out.

00:17:54.000 And 8.8% of Asian families and 16.1% of black families.

00:18:01.000 That's going to create a more conservative black population. 0.53

00:18:06.000 And the reasons they're giving are somewhat varied, but mostly they're fed up.

00:18:11.000 They're fed up with critical race theory, fed up with vaccine mandates, wearing a mask all day long.

00:18:18.000 On top of this, families who have pivoted to homeschooling, reading from axios.com, there are millions more who have moved their kids from public school to private school.

00:18:28.000 And this trend is only increasing.

00:18:30.000 And so if we as conservatives are serious about saving the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world, if we're serious about pushing back against the Chinese Communist Party that is basically outlawing video games and outlawing sissy men on television, their term, then we need to double the homeschooling population again and we need to make it financially easier to do so. 0.61

00:18:54.000 You want to know a reason why to pull your kids out of government schools?

00:18:56.000 Cut 90. 0.51

00:18:57.000 Video from the Virginia Department of Education.

00:19:01.000 He also said that the hijackers to need to be called, the 9-11 hijackers need to be called extremists instead of terrorists.

00:19:07.000 But listen to this.

00:19:08.000 This is the Virginia Department of Education.

00:19:11.000 Listen to this, playtape.

00:19:12.000 And we're also not going to reproduce what's understood as American exceptionalism.

00:19:17.000 This understanding that America is a land at the top of a beautiful mountain and that all other countries, nations, and people are less than America.

00:19:28.000 We're not going to reproduce notions that American history and American experiences are more significant than the experiences or histories of other people.

00:19:37.000 Do you hear that?

00:19:38.000 So if you go to Virginia Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Education, we're not going to teach you that America is a great country and an exceptional country.

00:19:46.000 We're going to say we're just as evil as rotten as everyone else.

00:19:49.000 There's nothing exceptional about the United States of America that made a 5,000-year leap to be able to say that we are going to have self-government based on natural rights, independent judiciary, checks and balances, and consent to the government.

00:20:00.000 There's nothing exceptional about that.

00:20:03.000 Take your kids out of the government school system.

00:20:06.000 If you can't do that, then just take an hour a week with charlieforhillsdale.com and teach your kids in addition to the garbage they're getting in the government schools.

00:20:14.000 There are resources available for you to make this happen.

00:20:18.000 Nothing is more important than your relationship with God than the future of your children.

00:20:23.000 And I'm happy to say that trend is heading in the right direction and it has the other side nervous.

00:20:29.000 A lot of people ask me, Charlie, how do you know so much about American history?

00:20:33.000 The answer is not from school.

00:20:36.000 As many of you know, I did not go to formal college.

00:20:38.000 Actually, I didn't go to college at all.

00:20:40.000 So my education has been a process.

00:20:44.000 I've always been committed to learning and diving deep into ideas.

00:20:48.000 And one source of truth and knowledge has been the greatest partner in that pursuit of learning.

00:20:56.000 And that is Hillsdale College.

00:20:59.000 American history and civics education.

00:21:01.000 They're quite honestly at a turning point.

00:21:04.000 And the Hillsdale 1776 curriculum, they are teaching the truth.

00:21:09.000 And they have downloadable curriculum for you and your children for free at k12.hillsdale.edu.

00:21:18.000 That's k12.hillsdale.edu.

00:21:20.000 And you could take online courses.

00:21:23.000 So I, every single day, I do my best to try to schedule at least 30 minutes to an hour to take some online courses.

00:21:31.000 So I have my certificate.

00:21:33.000 I have passed the course in Constitution 101, the intro to the Constitution.

00:21:39.000 I'm about to finish the introduction to Western Philosophy.

00:21:42.000 I finished the introduction to Aristotle, How to Live a Good Life.

00:21:45.000 And they have a new one called The Great American Story that I'm taking, and it's phenomenal.

00:21:50.000 If you say, Charlie, how do I get my kids to know history?

00:21:53.000 Literally pay them to take these courses.

00:21:54.000 It's that good.

00:21:55.000 The Great American Story, it's charlieforhillsdale.com.

00:21:59.000 That's charlieforhillsdale.com.

00:22:01.000 Maybe you're more of a World War II fan.

00:22:04.000 They have a whole course on that called the Second World Wars.

00:22:07.000 Maybe you're a fan of Shakespeare.

00:22:09.000 They have a course on that, Hamlet and the Temptest.

00:22:12.000 Maybe you're a fan of theology.

00:22:13.000 They have a whole course on theology 101.

00:22:16.000 How about on the Greek wars, Athens and Sparta, Winston Churchill and statesmanship?

00:22:21.000 These are free of charge, amazingly rigorous courses that will get you to appreciate the country, what it means to be a human being, where our rights come from at k12.hillsdale.edu.

00:22:35.000 That's k12.hillsdale.edu.

00:22:38.000 Hillsdale, we are so honored to partner with them on the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:22:42.000 Our children deserve to be taught the truth through a sound curriculum created by teachers, not bureaucrats, and uphold the dignity of each individual.

00:22:51.000 So download the 1776 curriculum right now, and you yourself should at least carve out 20 minutes a day to try and learn something new.

00:22:59.000 These courses can be downloaded.

00:23:01.000 They could be podcasts, and there's little tests after them to make sure that you are comprehending what you are learning.

00:23:07.000 And about after 10 courses, you get your certificate.

00:23:10.000 It's one of the coolest feelings in the world.

00:23:12.000 You feel like you are retaining that knowledge and you have a better understanding of what's happening in America.

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00:23:25.000 Phenomenal partners.

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00:23:31.000 Okay, I want to get to some calls here.

00:23:34.000 701-271-1100.

00:23:39.000 We'll go to Kenny in Denton, Texas.

00:23:42.000 Line two.

00:23:43.000 Hey, Kenny, how you doing?

00:23:45.000 How are you doing, Charlie?

00:23:45.000 Hey, good.

00:23:46.000 Good.

00:23:46.000 What's on your mind?

00:23:47.000 You know, I'm a veteran.

00:23:49.000 I just got out of the military.

00:23:50.000 I worked on the C-17s.

00:23:52.000 I was a flying crew chief.

00:23:54.000 And a lot of my brothers and sisters were over there in Afghanistan withdrawing all these troops and Afghans.

00:24:00.000 What's next?

00:24:01.000 Because I look on the news and I see this and it just makes me sick.

00:24:05.000 I don't know, like, what's next for Afghanistan?

00:24:08.000 What are we going to do?

00:24:09.000 Kenny, thank you for your call.

00:24:10.000 And so I want to dive into this.

00:24:12.000 It's a great question.

00:24:13.000 Thank you for your service to our great country.

00:24:16.000 Look, the problem with what's happening in Afghanistan is the way we got out with no conditions at all whatsoever.

00:24:25.000 And the strategy of the current government and the regime of the United States is somehow putting forward a moral equivalent of the Taliban who kill Christians and rip out their tongues, subjugate women, marry teenagers with any of our other allies or partners around the world.

00:24:45.000 This was not done with prudence.

00:24:46.000 This was done ideologically.

00:24:48.000 This was done because Joe Biden wanted to say on September 11th that he ended the war.

00:24:54.000 Now, that sounds good, but anyone who has ever been in consequential decision-making knows that you do not start with this desired object of the photo op and work backwards.

00:25:05.000 You see, Joe Biden had photo op foreign policy.

00:25:09.000 He wanted to be able to have a photo op at 9-11 and hang a wreath there and say, I ended the war.

00:25:15.000 I think, my president, I don't know.

00:25:19.000 The point is that he started with what he thought was the political win and then tried to craft the circumstances on the ground to fit that political win.

00:25:29.000 And in reality, it should be the exact opposite.

00:25:31.000 He said, what's happening on the ground?

00:25:32.000 And so now I'm watching video of people wearing American fatigues and uniforms with our weapons that are Taliban with our night vision goggles walking through airports, walking down the street.

00:25:46.000 And we gave these weapons voluntarily.

00:25:48.000 That will come out.

00:25:50.000 I have that on high intelligence.

00:25:51.000 And so, Kenny, I'm sorry to say that we're not going back at all into Afghanistan.

00:25:56.000 I'm not saying I'm sorry to say that.

00:25:57.000 I don't actually support that.

00:25:59.000 But what a disaster and a humiliation for what just happened in Afghanistan of so many Americans that sacrificed so much.

00:26:08.000 And then we hand over weapons and money, $85 billion in weapons to the Taliban who killed Americans and that we were at war with for many years.

00:26:25.000 So thank you for your call, Kenny.

00:26:26.000 Let's get to Kelly in Ingleside, Texas.

00:26:30.000 And she has some words to share from her pastor.

00:26:32.000 Kelly, how you doing?

00:26:34.000 How are you, Charlie?

00:26:34.000 I'm good.

00:26:35.000 Doing great.

00:26:36.000 Tell me about your pastor.

00:26:38.000 Yes, sir.

00:26:39.000 First, I wanted to thank you for your work and dedicate John 9, 4 to you.

00:26:43.000 I must do the work of him who sent me night is coming when no one can work.

00:26:47.000 Thank you so much.

00:26:48.000 So my, yeah, my church is not Calvary Chapel by any means.

00:26:53.000 But my plant pastor made a call to action a month ago and said, we need volunteers to do community prayer and outreach.

00:27:01.000 And then he put the brakes on it.

00:27:02.000 When that month was up, he put the brakes on and said, oh, no, we can't do any of that because of COVID.

00:27:09.000 And I just wanted to get your take on that.

00:27:12.000 Well, first, thank you so much for your call and thank you for that verse.

00:27:15.000 And so, look, I use the model for the pastors of how you should run a church.

00:27:22.000 Rob McCoy, Jack Hibbs, James Cadiz, Joe Pettick, Pastor Juergen, Pastor Frank Ramseur from Chattanooga, Ken Graves, Pastor Cody from Grand Rapids.

00:27:33.000 These are amazing pastors that have been engaged in the community and they have been feeding the hungry.

00:27:40.000 They have been caring for the sick.

00:27:42.000 They have been tenderly looking after the disadvantaged in their community while also proclaiming moral truth from the scriptures and not allowing secular narratives to seep into the church and also saying to their congregation, here is what is right and here's what is wrong.

00:27:57.000 It says in the scriptures to love what is good and hate what is evil.

00:28:01.000 You see, Friedrich Nietzsche, who basically was the beginning of the postmodern movement, he wrote a book called Beyond Good and Evil.

00:28:12.000 Now, Nietzsche was a trickster.

00:28:13.000 He was a German who literally lost his mind later in life.

00:28:17.000 If you do not know who Friedrich Nietzsche is, do not send your child to college because your child will know who Nietzsche is.

00:28:24.000 Now, Nietzsche wasn't wrong about everything.

00:28:27.000 Some of his conclusions were horrific.

00:28:30.000 But where Nietzsche went terribly wrong was where he said, he famously, he didn't proclaim this, but he stated in one of his writings, it was actually a fictional narrative, that God is dead.

00:28:42.000 That's where that phrase came from, from Friedrich Nietzsche.

00:28:45.000 Now, he wasn't actually celebrating it.

00:28:48.000 Actually, a lot of people think that Nietzsche wanted God to be dead.

00:28:50.000 He said, the West is not going to know what to do with itself as soon as it removes God and it removes the purpose that it gives for people's existence.

00:28:59.000 And so he said, therefore, we need to replace that with the idea of creating the Superman.

00:29:06.000 The idea of the Superman came from Friedrich Nietzsche.

00:29:08.000 It's called the Übermensch, Das Übermensch in German.

00:29:13.000 And he had this belief that we cannot know objectively what is good or what is evil.

00:29:18.000 That's what he wrote in the book, Beyond Good and Evil.

00:29:20.000 And so if pastors are silent and churches are not involved in that, who is going to be proclaiming what is good and evil?

00:29:28.000 You're going to all of a sudden trust the CDC?

00:29:30.000 You see, if you trust scientists to give you the idea of morality, you will end up with eugenics. 0.99

00:29:37.000 You see, science is a helpful tool to be able to understand how to navigate the natural world.

00:29:43.000 Science is unhelpful when it comes to what to do with the tools in the natural world.

00:29:49.000 Who do we save?

00:29:50.000 Who do we give care to?

00:29:52.000 A great example is this.

00:29:53.000 Doctors left their own devices do not have a moral compass on how to help the disadvantaged.

00:30:00.000 What is a good example of that?

00:30:02.000 Doctors turning away unvaccinated patients.

00:30:05.000 That's an immoral thing to do.

00:30:07.000 That is why there are ethics boards that govern doctors to say, you know what, you're actually not allowed to turn away smokers.

00:30:13.000 Even though you might not like the decisions they're making, you have to accept everybody.

00:30:17.000 But doctors, because we've designed our entire current political system and medical establishment around this idea of yielding to the credentialocracy, the credentialocracy, or if you have a credential, you're somehow more self-you're more important than just anybody else.

00:30:35.000 It lends itself to this idea that we are now allowed to be the moral referees of the entire society.

00:30:45.000 So the significance of that is without the church, without the word, or without scriptures saying what is good and what is evil, saying, you know what?

00:30:56.000 No, no one should be turned away from a doctor's office.

00:31:00.000 That is the first principle, by the way, of if you go to a hospital, you go to a doctor's office, they know that and they repeat it time and time again.

00:31:07.000 Yet we're seeing that change.

00:31:08.000 Why are we seeing that change?

00:31:09.000 We're seeing that change because not only have we engaged in a hyper-scientific way of governing ourselves, we have now embraced scientific morality, which is if you don't take the medicine we like, we're not going to treat you.

00:31:22.000 That if you don't, if you don't make the lifestyle choices that we choose, you're not going to have your life saved.

00:31:28.000 Ezekiel Emmanuel, one of the original architects of Obamacare, he argued for this.

00:31:33.000 He argued that we need to have death panels to determine whether or not you made good decisions in your life.

00:31:40.000 And if you made good decisions, then we might give you some care.

00:31:43.000 And if not, we're going to kind of put you out to pass.

00:31:46.000 Cass Sunstein wrote this in the book called Nudge, famous Harvard Malthusian philosopher and professor who was embraced by the Obama regime.

00:31:56.000 We're taking your calls here.

00:31:57.000 And so what would you say to that pastor?

00:31:59.000 Kelly, tell your pastor to have a spirit of courage, not a fear.

00:32:03.000 God does not give you a spirit of fear.

00:32:06.000 Instead of, he gives you a spirit of love and that of a sound mind.

00:32:12.000 Listen up, Patriots.

00:32:13.000 One of the most radical plans to reshape the future of America is happening right now, and we need to stop it.

00:32:20.000 President Biden's plan to pack the U.S. Supreme Court back in April, the president launched a special judicial commission to what he calls reform the court.

00:32:28.000 But the real plan is to install four more liberal justices to gain a, quote, automatic majority and ensure favorable rulings for his most radical policies.

00:32:37.000 And once the court is packed, it will end the rule of law as we know it, which is exactly what happened in Venezuela and Argentina.

00:32:44.000 Let's be clear.

00:32:44.000 America is not a banana republic.

00:32:47.000 Thankfully, my good friends at First Liberty Institute are taking a stand.

00:32:50.000 They've issued a letter to the commission asking them to reject this radical court packing scheme, and they're not alone.

00:32:55.000 Franklin Graham, Ed Meese, James Dobson, Tony Perkins, and many more, plus 60,000 others have joined their coalition.

00:33:02.000 But we need one million.

00:33:04.000 Add your name now.

00:33:05.000 Go to supremecoup.com.

00:33:07.000 That's C-O-U-P.com to sign First Liberty's letter.

00:33:10.000 That's supremecou.com.

00:33:12.000 God bless America.

00:33:15.000 The 2020 Texas exit poll, abortion should be always legal, 18%. 0.90

00:33:21.000 Somewhat legal, 30%.

00:33:24.000 Almost always illegal, 30%.

00:33:26.000 So 61% of Texas voters agree with this new Texas voter law that restricts abortion to six weeks.

00:33:32.000 And every single legislature across the country, including in this wonderful state of Fargo, North Dakota, you betcha, we're here.

00:33:40.000 They need to pass that in the law. 0.57

00:33:42.000 We're going to be talking that tonight at the North Dakota Conservative Advocates.

00:33:45.000 Okay.

00:33:45.000 Waiting very patiently, Kenny in Battle Lake, Minnesota.

00:33:50.000 How we doing?

00:33:52.000 It's an honor, Charlie.

00:33:53.000 Actually, this is Rich from Battle Lake.

00:33:55.000 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:33:56.000 Well, I was wondering if you would share with your listeners what your parents did to prepare you so brilliantly for your current mission.

00:34:06.000 Well, you're very kind.

00:34:07.000 Thank you for saying that.

00:34:09.000 And wonderful, Battle Lake, Minnesota.

00:34:12.000 My parents are phenomenal, and they were never propagandists, and they were never pushing a specific political agenda, but there were a couple things that were always reinforced with how we talked about politics and matters of the eternal, which is always questioning, but saying that we are thankful to be American.

00:34:39.000 One of the first things my parents taught me was geography, understanding our physical place in the world.

00:34:44.000 That's a very important thing.

00:34:46.000 Once you can understand the size and scope of America in relation to the rest of the world, how big are we?

00:34:51.000 How small are we?

00:34:52.000 How much land do we actually have?

00:34:54.000 What are the other parts of the world?

00:34:55.000 What do they look like?

00:34:56.000 What are the most important rivers?

00:34:58.000 What are the capitals across the world?

00:35:00.000 Those things are very important for people to know.

00:35:04.000 Number two, my parents would always tell me that America is the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world, a nation that has embraced self-government, that understands natural rights, that has the independent judiciary, and then appreciating the history behind it.

00:35:17.000 But anytime that I would kind of spout out anything that would be conservative, my parents would say, well, why do you believe that?

00:35:24.000 Let's talk about that.

00:35:26.000 And then finally, I grew up in a country, I grew up in a culture that embraced and loved entrepreneurship, starting something from nothing, that knew that risk-taking should be rewarded and the creation of new things is what keeps a society vibrant.

00:35:44.000 It keeps the society ambitious in a good way and keeps a society full of life with vitality.

00:35:53.000 This is something that we have lost, I think, in some cities across the country in recent years.

00:35:58.000 And so, but the thing that I tell parents all the time, and that's why we've partnered with Hillsdale, charlieforhillsdale.com, charlieforhillsdale.com, is you need to know your stuff so that you can teach your children.

00:36:11.000 You have to know the difference between Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison.

00:36:15.000 Instead of spending three hours Netflix binging whatever latest show there is, spend an hour and go through two Hillsdale courses on the Federalist Papers.

00:36:24.000 Study them.

00:36:25.000 Write down what they're saying.

00:36:27.000 They're videos.

00:36:27.000 They're easy to go through.

00:36:29.000 And then you'll be able to challenge your children when they come back from a government school with some sort of line of propaganda about how the founders were all racist.

00:36:37.000 You say, hold on a second.

00:36:38.000 Tell me about the Northwest Ordinance.

00:36:40.000 I don't know about the North.

00:36:42.000 Let's talk about that.

00:36:43.000 Article 6 of the Northwest Ordinance was abolish slavery in the new territories, the first act of Congress that was passed unanimously by slaveholding states and free states.

00:36:52.000 That's not a country that's founded on slavery.

00:36:53.000 That's a country that's founded in the new territories of abolishing slavery.

00:36:58.000 When was the first ever anti-slavery convention ever held?

00:37:01.000 Answer, Philadelphia, 1775.

00:37:04.000 Chairman Benjamin Franklin, before the Declaration was even signed.

00:37:07.000 First state to abolish slavery, Vermont in 1776.

00:37:11.000 Nine out of 13 of all the states had independently abolished slavery in their states before the ratification of the Constitution on September 17th, 1787.

00:37:20.000 Know your stuff to pass it on to your children because they are being propagandized by things they're seeing on TikTok, on Instagram, on social media.

00:37:29.000 If you're a parent listening right now, it is incumbent on you to be the teacher, the explainer, and the defender of values that you hold near and dear.

00:37:39.000 And I want to be able to give you those tools.

00:37:41.000 And that's why when you guys subscribe to our podcast, it means so much and you listen to us, because we talk about all these different things.

00:37:47.000 We talk about the biggest lies of the day and how to navigate them and how to explain the truth in this sea of lies.

00:37:59.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:38:01.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:38:04.000 And if you want to support this podcast, you can do so at charliekirk.com/slash support.

00:38:10.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:38:12.000 God bless.

00:38:13.000 Speak to you soon.

00:38:16.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - September 03, 2021

Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition

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