Gender Ideology as a New Cult Religion & the Loss of the Family w⧸Marco Van Huigenbos
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about the growing influence of the far-right in American politics, the rise of the "gender ideology" movement, and the dangers of top-down political influence in the modern era.
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but what we need to acknowledge as well is that for every little step we take they're going to
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take 10 and we need to start moving at the speed or countering them at the speed that they're that
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the left is moving and this is not specifically the ndp this is this is just what's happening
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in north america around the world like um it's it's it's a it's a rot it's a it's seriously a
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rot in in politics and i think it needs to be addressed and stamped out and and i i hope over
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time it will it's kind of like cancel culture i think we've kind of seen the tail end of cancel
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culture people are starting to be able to be who they are say who they are without being completely
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canceled and effectively canceled right i mean for the stupidest shit so is this a trend let's hope
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it's a trend let's hope it's a trend that's on the tail end and i mean there's been a lot of hurt
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hurt and harm done i got too much but let's hope that the full uh cost is becoming uh you know
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public at least i hope it is anyways i think one of the terms you were looking for uh when you were
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describing this was it it definitely is anti-human um anti-human but it's yeah but it's um we we bring
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them up all the time on the channel but one of our favorite thinkers is a guy named peter bogosian
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and uh he's called he i think it was him who developed this term called um uh substitution
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hypothesis and and so the the sub his his definition of it is that uh as societies have become western
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societies have become uh less and less religious over uh recent decades they've substituted the place
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that religion normally carries in their lives with other things and then they start to behave
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uh in religious ways or in cult-like ways about those ideas and that is i think what you see
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uh with a lot of the the gender ideology now is that it feels like to me the way that people
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describe gender ideology is if you just replace some words and you and you you know you use the word
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like holy spirit or soul or things like that like it's all it really is is religious language sort of in
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the guise of a of a social movement you know and and cult-like behavior like that is very difficult
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to counter because the people who believe it believe that it's a part of them and it's not just a you
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know a temporary belief it's not just like a a preference of you know uh you know a beer over
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wine or something like it's something that's integral to somebody's own identity 100 100 and i think
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you know the classic example on a different level is is to some degree you know if you're if you're
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christian or uh of a religious religious background that believes in creation then the you you you step
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away from that you you gotta you gotta fill that vacuum well what what has what have we done right
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we've created this this ever-changing uh um ideology and thought of evolution that's i guess that's the
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word in and of itself and i'm not going to go into too much there but it's a vacuum it's a vacuum that
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they've had to fill and they've filled it with i mean currently gender ideology and i'm sure there's
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other things out there that is that are um that are more of a minority in in uh in in respect to the
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people that support that or or promote that in whatever part of the world but in the western
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hemisphere this this this gender ideology has become a religion it's it's it's been fanatical
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like it's crazy and thankfully it's being addressed because of the severe consequences of
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those who've been harmed the worst by it and they're them speaking out so the gender ideology
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is being addressed but it does reflect a greater shift um away from certain away from like communities
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families and religions seem to be the most resistant to top-down kind of political influence
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so if you fractionate people and obviously like if you look at this libertarian principle of like
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we've got to protect the individual the or like the institution of the individual is we've got to
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protect that but at the same time we can't throw out some of these core pillars of what society
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like what we've developed society with and we've had strong family units strong community units and
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the community through religion as well and if you look at early canada early united states
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the role of the government at the federal level was it was a little bit more hands-off
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on people's day-to-day activities and you'd have a shared purpose that people would volunteer effort
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for a common goal to improve their communities to improve their religious circle or their extended
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family and right now we're not seeing the same drive because we've eroded these institutions
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and i i feel like as you erode that down and unless we do something to either rebuild some of these
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communities which we're we're seeing a little little bit of right now but unless we really get these the
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communities and families strengthened what's like what's replacing it is top-down government control
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and ideologies weaponized through through governments too and there can be whatever selfish means
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but people are more easily controlled when these structures are not there oh 100 100 100