The world is changing, and when the next big thing hits, we won t be able to function in it because we haven t even prepared ourselves for it. Glenn Beck explains why this is a problem, and why we should be worried about it.
00:06:45.100I think I know where I stand, but let's have that conversation.
00:06:48.320But the whole that nobody's talking about is when the robot does hit a point to where it claims consciousness and that will come when you won't be able to tell the difference between a real human being and, you know, some sort of silicon life form.
00:07:09.420In its thinking, don't you become a slave master that is abusing these robots?
00:07:17.780Do you think if it claims to be human or life, if it says, please don't do that and you're doing it anyway because you own it?
00:07:27.600Aren't you a modern day slave trader, slave master?
00:07:31.640Even if you're not, a lot of people will start to think that, of course, think of the attachment to inanimate objects that people have already when they're not showing human characteristics.
00:07:42.180You know, I mean, it's something that's going to be a real question, I will say.
00:07:47.280And when it comes to, you know, sex, child sex robots and all of this stuff, there's a limit into which how many issues you can master in your life.
00:07:58.300And that might be a debate I just completely avoid.
00:08:49.340It's like, let's look at the facts and really have a deep conversation without somebody saying, yeah, but they're in bed with the Trump administration.
00:09:28.840I mean, you have the you have the you have the best minds on Earth split.
00:09:34.360Some of them are saying it is the end of the human race, which I could make a very passionate case that would stand up that, yes, the human race is over by 2050.
00:11:27.960I mean, unless you go and it's like, you know, six thousand dollars.
00:11:31.380But you don't freak out when the check engine light goes on or when you have to get an oil change and you're like, oh, I don't have the money for an oil change.
00:38:46.200Well, we all know the feminist is in the right.
00:38:51.300Ronel, quite publicly, has been accused of sexually harassing Nimrod Reitman, 34 years old, graduate student and currently a visiting fellow at Harvard.
00:39:02.260Now, Ronel is an academic rock star, as one colleague described him, one of the very few philosopher stars of the world.
00:39:10.740But the investigation concluded that the teacher, the professor, was the one responsible for sexual harassment, both physical and verbal,
00:39:21.300to the extent that her behavior was sufficiently pervasive to alter the terms and conditions of the student's learning environment.
00:40:50.340Most starting, uh, startingly, uh, uh, is the one from 50 of her colleagues.
00:40:56.600All the educators from around the globe, quote, although we have no access to the confidential dossier, we have worked many years in close proximity to the professor and have accumulated collectively years of experience to support our view of her capacity as a teacher and a scholar.
00:41:14.240But also someone who has served as a chair of both the departments of German and comparative literature at New York University.
00:41:20.760We've all seen her relationship with students and some of us know the individual who has waged this malicious campaign against her, end quote.
00:41:43.500Uh, she says, I take it as a regular rigorously necessary that Trump's mouth hole be the flapping aperture to funnel floods of, uh, racially unleashed aggression, the toxic spill, uh, of his language, part of the recourse, uh, to crucial intersection where Twitter meets.
00:42:09.480So here we have somebody who is too important to the cause, sexually assaulting someone, a young gay man, and she gets a pass because, well, she's in the right, she's in the right club.
00:42:25.940She's absolutely in the right club and she's too important to lose.
00:42:41.480So, um, we have somebody on the phone and I haven't talked about her yet because I just want to ask her myself one last time before I introduce her, um, uh, give her the opportunity to back out.
00:42:55.440Um, because I don't think this is going to go well for her career, uh, unless we change her name.
00:43:03.020Uh, this is, I mean, this is how crazy things are, uh, have gotten.
00:43:10.160Uh, are you sure you want to have this conversation on the air?
00:43:13.060I know the rules of not saying where you work, but you're willing to put your name out there, which I mean, you know, there's this private eye called Google.
00:43:26.440I want to tell your story, but are you sure?
00:43:30.720I have been praying for a couple of days about it.
00:43:33.580And I really feel like I'm supposed to be here giving hope to other conservative professors, giving hope to conservative parents who are worried about sending their kids off to college that I'm here to speak truth, but I also need to be respectful of the place that I work and the people I work with.
00:43:51.560And so it is a very difficult decision.
00:44:12.980And you have been an adjunct professor at a, at a good college and you're looking for full-time work and you don't think it's going to happen because of what colleges are like right now.
00:44:29.940Yes, because there's a very clearly documented hiring bias, both an anti-conservative hiring bias and an anti-Christian hiring bias, particularly in the humanities and social sciences, which is where psychology falls.
00:45:01.400When I first started teaching, it was exactly what I pictured as far as the dynamic between the professor and the students, where there was a clear distinction in roles, there was respect.
00:45:11.400And over the last, say, three to four years, I've noticed a shift where progressively students are becoming more emboldened.
00:45:19.000They see a blurring between the lines.
00:45:21.120There's less respect for me as an authority figure, and they feel like they can just challenge me.
00:45:32.160So they'll send me an email or they'll post something in the end of class survey, which is supposed to be anonymous.
00:45:37.980But they're, and some of them have gone to the administration behind my back to try to, you know, complain or what have you, because they feel that I'm too strict or they want to have accommodations where accommodations aren't due.
00:45:51.760So it's become more of a place of incivility on the student's part.
00:45:56.840Luckily, I've been able to manage it pretty well, and it hasn't escalated to the point where some professors, say, like the professor at Berkeley who had students disrupt the final exam to protest it, or Brett Weinstein, who had his class, you know, disrupted by protesters.
00:46:10.840I haven't experienced anything like that.
00:46:12.900Most of the time, the students are good in the classroom.
00:46:15.460It's outside of the classroom, especially when they feel emboldened by being able to post online or, you know, do something anonymous.
00:46:21.620You were teaching an undergraduate course on research methods, and you said, okay, let's look at the campus assault study, the campus climate survey that came out in 2015, and let's look at this.
00:46:39.260And what did you have the students do?
00:46:41.840It was, the point of the class and the lecture was talking about research validity.
00:46:47.200So looking at research studies and saying, is this actually valid?
00:46:50.500Does the results indicate what people are saying the results indicate?
00:46:55.100And I decided to take a risk and be bold and have them analyze the campus sexual assault study and look to see, one, does it have, like, can it be generalized?
00:47:07.900And also, does it have internal validity?
00:47:10.520Do the way that they define the terms hold up to construct validity?
00:47:14.280And it was amazing to watch the class just become shocked because they've all heard the statistics cited, but when they actually dug into the study, they started to see its limitations very quickly.
00:47:26.260And to be honest, I've never been more terrified in a class than when I was standing there and openly challenging this study and guiding my students to think critically and analyze what the study actually said.
00:47:38.800When you say you have never been more terrified, what were you terrified of?
00:47:43.740I was terrified that I would have a student or students in the class that would react poorly to having that cognitive dissonance because clearly that's what they were experiencing.
00:47:57.040I was terrified that some would march out of the class and go and tell the administration.
00:48:01.860And I probably waited about a week or two thinking that the other shoe was going to drop, that somewhere, someway, I offended a student that, you know, having their worldview or having this information challenged was going to create enough dissonance that they were going to react negatively.
00:48:19.980In this instance, it didn't happen, but it's definitely a risk every time I do it.
00:48:25.540I also had them challenge the wage gap study.
00:48:27.800I also had them challenge the climate change study that everybody quotes the 97 percent degree.
00:48:33.220I took a lot of risks in order to teach my students that they need to think for themselves.
00:48:38.060They need to actually analyze these studies rather than, you know, citing the talking points that the media and others have pulled from it.
00:48:46.520When you ask your class for counter arguments to things like microaggression, what happens?
00:48:53.900Most of the time, they don't understand what I'm saying.
00:48:59.000They think that there's just one position out there.
00:49:01.940They've never heard that there's anything else.
00:49:04.360They've never heard an alternative position.
00:49:06.520So there was an assignment that I had to use.
00:49:12.340But there was a question in there about microaggressions.
00:49:14.680So I told them the way I want you to answer it is to present me both sides.
00:49:18.680I want you to make an argument that microaggressions exist and are detrimental.
00:49:23.580And then I want you to make an argument against it.
00:49:25.920And I had to provide all of the resources for them to make the counter argument because they didn't know that a counter position existed.
00:49:34.300They had no idea how to start looking for that.
00:49:37.120It was pretty amazing to to see that, that they they weren't even aware that there's alternative positions to some of these things that have just been fed to them through their education.
00:49:51.620How do we expect to have a free people and a free press if people are being churned out in colleges and universities who don't even know how to look for the other side of the story?
00:50:05.720Um, but I have found that, um, many times the students are hungry to see the other side.
00:50:15.960They're they're excited when they see, wait a minute, I haven't heard that.
00:50:19.380Even if it doesn't change their mind, they're excited about it.
00:50:25.340I would say for the most part that I've seen, uh, most students when they get exposed to this information, when they get exposed to alternative, uh, let's say worldviews, something other than postmodernism, other something other than critical theory.
00:50:42.400When they get exposed to alternatives, it's, it's exciting to see because they realize that they aren't critical theorists.
00:50:50.760They realize that they aren't postmodernists.
00:50:52.340They actually do believe in objective reality and objective truth.
00:50:55.220And there's almost a relief for a lot of them that there's something out there that more closely aligns with the way that they do think of the way that they were raised.
00:51:05.740But I always have a group in there that resists, that they are just so dead set in what they've been taught that anything that brings that cognitive dissonance, uh, they attack.
00:51:18.900You know, one of the things I specialize in is actually teaching about, uh, marriage and relationships.
00:51:24.780And so I talk about gender differences and I always have at least one student who yes, buts me all the way through that lecture because they want to deny the fact that there's anything, um, either biologically based or neurologically based that distinguishes the genders and distinguishes how men and women experience life and filter information and how we communicate.
00:51:48.280Which clearly there is, but I always have somebody in there that will push back, but the majority, uh, seems to really, like you said, be excited and hungry for it.
00:51:58.400Uh, in the 1990s, I read a quote from Emmanuel Kant and he said, uh, there are many things that I believe that I shall never say, but I shall never say the things that I do not believe.
00:52:22.060That's at least in the environment in which I work, but I would say also in social media, that's why I've gotten off social media because that's a risk to my career.
00:52:32.040Um, that's why I'm very guarded and very calculated about, you know, what I choose to say and bring up, uh, in class with my students, but also the way that I conduct myself around colleagues.
00:52:44.120I want to take a quick break and then when I come back and I, uh, you found, uh, I think an unlikely friend, um, a strange bedfellow that, uh, gave you some advice.
00:52:52.820I want to kind of talk about that when we come back with a, uh, professor of psychology, uh, that is going to remain nameless.
00:53:02.920This should tell you where we are as a nation.
00:53:05.440This person, I think if they gave their name, they would be out by the end of the day.
00:53:11.220Um, just for saying what she just said to you more in just a second, by the way, more speech, not less sticks and stones can break your bones, but words will never hurt you.
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00:54:45.840We're talking to a, uh, a woman who is a, uh, a Christian, a conservative and a university professor.
00:54:52.760Uh, uh, she is a, uh, uh, an adjunct professor of psychology.
00:54:58.820Um, and, uh, she currently is working at a, uh, a more conservative or Christian, uh, uh, college, but is, um, looking for, you know, another placement and is little concerned about it.
00:55:13.140And I have, uh, I am not going to tell you her name.
00:55:16.300She is more than free to, uh, volunteer that if she wishes.
00:55:20.040Um, but I think she's incredibly brave for, for coming on the program and saying what it's really like, um, in the university, uh, system, especially if you're a teacher.
00:55:28.840And you mentioned, uh, postmodern, postmodernism earlier and how students, uh, don't react, uh, positively to it when given an alternative.
00:55:38.500Um, and I think, isn't that though, the, the reason why you're not going to be allowed to succeed as a professor?
00:55:45.240Because if they're the whole premise of postmodernism is that there can't be another option because if there's another option, I mean, human beings are going to go towards an objective truth.
00:56:57.180And that's exactly how I try to approach it.
00:56:59.100So you, um, uh, you, you met with, uh, Eric, uh, Weinstein, uh, Stein, and, um, and he was from Evergreen College.
00:57:11.320And if people don't know what he went through, uh, he is a, he's not a guy who's actually, you know, probably agrees with you on very much, uh, personally.
00:57:22.420Um, but he was pushed up at Evergreen College, which is more radical than Berkeley and went through hell.
00:57:30.300I'd like you to talk about, um, meeting with him and what you guys talked about and, and how that all went, what advice he gave to you when we come back.
00:57:41.880We're talking to an adjunct professor of psychology who will remain nameless, uh, and, uh, we're not going to say where she works either, uh, due to fear of, uh, reprisals.
00:57:56.220Um, she'd like to have a job, uh, but she is, uh, she's talking about what it's like to be a conservative and a, uh, and a Christian and a professor at the same time.
00:58:06.820Those things don't seem to go hand in hand anymore, uh, and, uh, and now you know why she's not going to be, uh, named here.
00:58:15.720Um, you, when you started, um, looking for another job, uh, and you realized I'm, everything is a trigger.
00:58:27.040Everything on my resume is a trigger to say no to, um, you actually sought out and, and met, uh, Eric Weinstein.
00:58:36.820Can you tell me a little bit about that?
00:58:53.380And I got to briefly encounter him a couple of months ago and I decided to ask for his advice because yes, I am preparing to start looking for full-time employment.
00:59:36.820You're going to basically have to market yourself as this particular approach in order to stand out.
00:59:43.260But he very much confirmed my fears that those are two strikes against me and that I have an uphill climb in order to find full-time employment.
00:59:53.060What did you think when you saw what his brother went through at Evergreen?
00:59:55.740It was scary because, if you recall, that was the same time period that Milo Yiannopoulos experienced the protesters at Berkeley.
01:00:05.100So it was almost like this weird moment in history where the shift was very obvious and very clear.
01:00:11.560And it was happening at two different universities where these students felt so emboldened that they could behave this way.
01:00:18.400I mean, they held him against his will in the library for several hours for a mock trial.
01:00:25.180And several of the professors that were there were almost testifying against him in this kangaroo court.
01:00:35.360And those same students held the, I think it was either the dean or the president of the university, held him hostage, wouldn't even let him go to the restroom by himself.
01:00:43.500And then the security on campus told Brett Weinstein, don't come to campus because they're going car by car looking for you.
01:00:55.100That's actually a pretty small college in Washington.
01:00:57.840And the idea that students were getting away with this behavior, it definitely is scary to think about what might happen because he's actually a liberal.
01:01:26.540I, you know, let's, let's use the age of enlightenment.
01:01:29.780But that is what postmodernism and I think universities are trying to crush right now is the, the, the modern world, the, the world that was created through the enlightenment.
01:02:31.300It doesn't mean that I now have to go in with your delusion.
01:02:34.740There's an X and Y let's talk science.
01:02:36.360That made him have to have police protection and actually start to teach his class out in the public square because they said, we're not going to be able to protect you in the university.
01:03:16.780But if they do, do I even want to work there?
01:03:19.340Because, you know, less than 8% of psychology professors identify as conservative.
01:03:24.720And many universities don't have a single conservative on staff, period.
01:03:28.260So that's another thing I have to think about is not just, well, they hire me, but is that an environment that I'm going to even be able to be successful?
01:04:37.920Have you thought about doing a class online?
01:04:42.120I have been asked to do classes online and I've tried it.
01:04:46.120The problem with being a professor online, at least with the way that it's been given to me by this university, I don't know how other universities do it, is I basically just grade.
01:05:19.460Or maybe I'll ask him and see if he'll come on and the two of you can have a conversation.
01:05:23.660So I think it would be helpful for a lot of people who are in your situation, whether they're at a university level or not, just trying to find their way through this madness of this world and and how to navigate it.
01:06:36.640I remember when I had to go on tour for the Christmas sweater, and that was the hardest thing I've ever done because it was a personal story.
01:06:45.920I remember that of my of my mother's death.
01:12:54.440There are many times, in fact, almost all of the time, what you hear is my opinion and nothing more.
01:13:07.240There are other times that I feel that there is more to it than than that.
01:13:15.840And what I just said just a few minutes ago is one of those times, and I haven't felt that in a while, that that is more than just my opinion.
01:13:28.440It is a warning and a plea to not go over the cliff with the rest of humanity.
01:13:36.220So, if you know what that means, you know what I'm talking about, please go back and review that.
01:14:31.640I collected several examples of we support free speech, but style statements with the point being that the speakers don't actually support free speech.
01:14:41.940Writing in the Boston Globe on Monday, Harvard economics economist Danny Roderick follows the similar template.
01:14:50.180Quote, the Trump administration confronts universities with a serious dilemma, he says.
01:14:55.120On one hand, universities must be open to diverse viewpoints.
01:15:43.560And and so they put him up in a tower.
01:15:46.580And because they couldn't have him teaching something that wasn't the agreed upon science, because at the time, the political power was the church.
01:16:12.280What happens when you start to have a church state, a state church, a state religion, whether that religion is Catholicism or environmentalism or progressivism or postmodernism.
01:16:29.720So they fail to see that the reason why people have tenure is to avoid the Galileo issue.
01:16:40.540They fail to to see that when the Nazis came in, the first thing they did was start getting rid of all of the teachers that disagreed with them, all the professors.
01:19:48.800In fact, it's what Jefferson and Adam said would be the reason we would probably break down because they didn't do it the way it says in the Bible, which stakes mean when there's 50 people or 500 people, doesn't matter.
01:20:03.000That's a stake and it's just a square.
01:20:04.880And when there's more than that, then you split that stake and you grow it to another 5,000 people.
01:20:12.100And then when that square is full of 5,000 people and there's more, you split it again.
01:21:37.940They have forgotten about the purges, the university purges in Germany.
01:21:43.700And in everywhere else where a dictator takes control.
01:21:48.600They have forgotten about the blacklist.
01:21:51.220Do you remember when a blacklist was a bad thing?
01:21:53.380Hey, we don't want to create a blacklist.
01:21:55.280Is there some sort of a blacklist going on here?
01:21:58.860Now they're saying the Trump administration poses a serious dilemma for universities.
01:22:06.840We have to have open and diverse viewpoints, but because those officials are tainted, we should never grant them faculty appointments or even university-sponsored engagements.
01:22:20.180So, in other words, let's put together a blacklist.
01:22:26.380And these are the people teaching our children?
01:22:28.860I mean, I'm, they cause me no fear because in the long run, they always lose.
01:22:48.660I mean, it may take us a hundred years, but they will lose.
01:25:23.080But I have, while I'm not afraid of you, I am you.
01:25:27.720It makes it difficult for me as a human being not to be pissed as hell at you because you are so arrogant you don't even see your own hypocrisy.
01:25:42.000Oh, we can't have the blessed university tainted by people except you hired Bernadine Dorn.
01:26:52.840That didn't even bring me to people like Ward Churchill.
01:26:56.860It doesn't even bring me to people like Peter Singer, who says, I'm sorry, I said you could kill your, your born child until they were two.
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01:29:50.260Um, I just want to tell you, man, um, you know, you earlier, you were talking about how, you know, people wondering what they would stand up for, what they would die for and what they believe in and couple that with courage.
01:30:01.200You know, uh, lately, uh, you know, I, I hear that frustration in your voice, man.
01:30:07.100And, uh, I just want to let you know for people like me, you are impacting other people in a really positive way and really helping people like me answer those questions, man.
01:30:18.620You know, uh, a little personal thing about me really quick.
01:30:21.520I'm going through some really hard personal times right now.
01:30:24.180And, uh, I've been listening to you for about a handful of years now, man.
01:30:27.720And again, you have really helped me to figure out who I truly am.
01:30:33.320And when I kind of answered those questions for myself, who am I, what I would die for that really affected me in really positive ways.
01:30:40.620Like tell me to be a better father and a better, you know, partner.
01:30:43.740And I'm just wanting to let you know, man, you, you, you really help a lot of people out and it's, it's really, it means a lot, man.
01:30:53.180You know, and again, I hear frustration in your voice sometimes like, how can this be happening?
01:30:58.320It's, but as bad as everything is getting and, and everybody knows that things are heading in a very negative way.
01:31:05.480That is also making people like me, uh, lean us in the positive way.
01:31:10.380You know, all the, all the P all the good guys are going in their groups, all the lines are being drawn, you know, and, and people are really answering those questions.
01:31:18.100Like everything's going on with Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin and everything like that.
01:31:22.340People are waking up to what they believe in and, and what they stand for.
01:31:26.620You know, like every time you talk about all these bad things that are happening, all these negative things are happening to us.
01:31:31.860Well, it's also very positive things that are happening as well.
01:31:34.940People, unfortunately lines are being drawn, people are going into their corners, but for the good guys.
01:31:40.380For the people who really, you know, stand on sincerity and truth and love and compassion, you for me have been very, very influential in that.
01:31:49.600And again, man, just keep always remember that.
01:32:11.360As soon as you start becoming those that you would stand against, it consumes you.
01:32:16.320The anger, the, the, the, the frustration, all of that consumes you.
01:32:20.900And you turn into this thing that you were just trying to fight.
01:32:23.460And I know that's so hard, especially for guys like, like me, you know, who are the veterans and, and, and, and the alcoholics and the people, all the broken guys.
01:32:32.000Like that's the hardest thing to swallow, you know, but you really, and I'm a, I'm an older millennial, man.
01:33:27.480Uh, and sincerely, uh, I, I will tell you as a personal note that, um, uh, I, uh, this is probably too much to say here in about a minute.
01:33:43.420So I'm going to, I've got 30 seconds, so I'm not going to even start it.
01:33:47.840Um, I'm going to save it for another day, but perhaps tomorrow, a longer conversation of, uh, of where I think we are, um, and where I think we're going.
01:34:02.820And I only say that as a, we, because that's where I'm at and where I'm going.
01:34:09.300And I would like to invite you to come along the journey with me.
01:34:21.300Uh, there's a new poll out and it's causing, um, uh, a slight disturbance here in the studio of, uh, of how warmly Americans feel towards Donald Trump.
01:34:33.160And not just, they specifically, uh, they specifically surveyed Republicans who voted for him.
01:34:39.260In fact, they even went to the trouble and I don't know a survey that's done this before.
01:34:42.620They actually went to the trouble of verifying that these people voted for him.
01:34:46.780So they surveyed Trump fans to find out whether or not they're still Trump fans.
01:34:51.980And, you know, probably won't surprise you to know that 82% of them are, they still have warm feelings or very warm feelings for him.