The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 138 - Germany： The Worst Country In History


Summary

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, a new survey by the Claims Conference finds that many Americans are forgetting the Holocaust. Then, a mailbag from listeners on why Germany is the single worst country in the history of the world.


Transcript

00:00:00.040 On Holocaust Remembrance Day, a new survey by Claims Conference finds that many Americans are forgetting the Holocaust.
00:00:07.560 31% of Americans and 41% of millennials believe that fewer than 2 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust,
00:00:14.900 when the actual number is around 6 million.
00:00:17.160 41% of Americans and 66% of millennials have no idea what Auschwitz was.
00:00:22.380 And 61% of all Americans don't know that Hitler was democratically elected.
00:00:26.240 We will take a moment today, in a very covfefe show, to recall not just the history of that terrible event,
00:00:33.280 but the 2,000-year record of Germany being the worst country in the history of the world.
00:00:38.420 Then, the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:49.120 So much to get to today. We have 2,000 years of history that we have to get to
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00:03:12.880 Let's get into this country.
00:03:15.100 So a really terrifying report that people are just forgetting about the Holocaust.
00:03:18.480 This wasn't that long ago.
00:03:19.680 I guess in a sense, it's not all that surprising.
00:03:22.480 It's been now 70 years since World War II.
00:03:25.340 There aren't a lot of survivors left, either of the Holocaust or of that war, really.
00:03:30.260 And of course, Americans don't learn history.
00:03:32.680 Nevertheless, I have been saying this for a long time, that people talk about all these
00:03:37.480 terrible countries in the world and these threats and all that, that Germany is the worst,
00:03:41.460 most evil, most dangerous country in the history of the world.
00:03:44.540 And Norm MacDonald did a great bit on a specific part of this on Dave Letterman's, I think on his
00:03:49.720 last show.
00:03:50.660 Here's Norm.
00:03:52.240 There is one country that worries me, though.
00:03:54.420 Not Iraq, not Iran, not North Korea.
00:03:57.140 The only country that really worries me is the country of Germany.
00:04:02.440 I don't know if you guys are history buffs or not, but...
00:04:05.420 In the early part of the previous century, Germany decided to go to war.
00:04:16.760 And who did they go to war with?
00:04:19.700 The world!
00:04:23.480 That had never been tried before.
00:04:27.360 And so you figure that would take about five seconds for the world to win, but no, it was
00:04:33.020 actually close.
00:04:34.020 Then, about 30 years passed, and Germany decides again to go to war, and again, it chooses as
00:04:49.340 its enemy, the world.
00:04:50.960 And this time, they have that guy, scrankly, scrankly, that guy, and I'm not even going
00:05:00.060 to dignify him by saying his name, but I think you know I'm done.
00:05:03.960 So Norm, as always, is right, and he's just talking about this one little segment of German
00:05:09.720 history.
00:05:10.280 It actually wasn't just the two world wars.
00:05:12.760 That is not the only reason that Germany is the worst country in the history of the world.
00:05:16.600 Let's take a quick look at the scoreboard.
00:05:19.300 Germany destroyed the Roman Empire.
00:05:22.200 Germany cracked Christendom and caused the Thirty Years' War, in which over 8 million people
00:05:27.400 died.
00:05:28.060 Germany gave the world communism.
00:05:29.820 Germany destroyed Russia by starting the Russian Revolution.
00:05:33.340 Germany then sent Vladimir Lenin on a sealed boxcar to make sure that Russia could never recover
00:05:38.900 from that revolution.
00:05:40.280 Germany then declared war on the world once, killing or wounding 41 some odd million people.
00:05:45.360 Then Germany declared war on the world again, killing 80 million people and wounding many
00:05:49.740 others.
00:05:50.280 And finally, Germany succeeded in taking over Europe and flooded the West with millions
00:05:54.800 of unvetted, overwhelmingly young, male, Muslim immigrants from the Middle East and North
00:06:00.100 Africa, which has caused a radical surge in violent crime on that continent.
00:06:04.360 That is Germany in a nutshell.
00:06:06.020 That is German history in a nutshell.
00:06:08.680 Let's start at the very beginning.
00:06:10.340 We'll take a quick tour through 2,000 years of German history to remind ourselves what we keep
00:06:14.920 forgetting that Germany is the worst country in the history of the world.
00:06:17.500 In 297 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantius Cloris allowed the Germanic tribe of Salian
00:06:25.180 Franks to settle within the empire.
00:06:27.600 And to be fair to the Salians, they were actually a pretty good tribe.
00:06:31.480 They didn't try to invade.
00:06:32.880 They were mostly loyal to Caesar and to Rome.
00:06:36.080 They were actually largely forced into Rome by other tribes.
00:06:39.560 I guess you could call them refugees.
00:06:41.480 And Rome reached agreements with the tribes and accepted them.
00:06:45.440 The other Germanic tribes were not so nice.
00:06:47.920 They were on the outskirts of the Roman Empire.
00:06:49.920 They started to get a little rambunctious there.
00:06:52.520 They were seeking a better life, I guess you could say.
00:06:55.380 And while they were seeking that better life, they invaded whole regions of the empire against
00:06:59.880 Rome's will.
00:07:00.940 Fast forward a little bit.
00:07:02.120 In 410, the Visigoths, a Germanic tribe led by Alaric, finally broke through the walls of
00:07:07.620 the city of Rome itself.
00:07:09.580 So in not that long a period of time, they made it all the way into Rome itself.
00:07:12.700 They sacked the capital.
00:07:13.840 They raped, killed, pillaged, and burned.
00:07:15.720 They torched the entire city.
00:07:17.200 And they kept on plundering the city for three full days.
00:07:20.020 Germany managed to destroy the eternal city.
00:07:22.760 It took them three days.
00:07:24.620 That was actually the first time when the Visigoths got there to Rome.
00:07:27.520 That was the first time in a millennium, almost a thousand years, that someone other than
00:07:31.960 Romans ran the city of Rome.
00:07:33.480 Thank you, Germany.
00:07:34.800 Over this period of time, some of the other German tribes were converted to Christianity.
00:07:39.680 And it was actually for that reason that the pagan German tribes brutally persecuted them.
00:07:44.940 And even this caused some trouble.
00:07:46.600 Even German tribes converting to Christianity caused trouble because they were largely converted
00:07:50.980 to Arianism, which was an early Christian heresy.
00:07:53.760 It's the heresy for which the guy Arius, for whom Arianism is named, it denies the divinity
00:07:59.840 of Christ.
00:08:00.780 At the first council of Nicaea, he was preaching this heresy.
00:08:03.720 And Saint Nicholas, Santa Claus, went up and punched him right in his face.
00:08:07.560 That's how bad this heresy was.
00:08:09.120 So Christians from now sacked Rome actually had to go back and reconvert all the Germans
00:08:14.240 because they had been converted to heresy.
00:08:15.920 So we had to convert them to real Christianity.
00:08:17.940 This seems like a minor point, I know.
00:08:19.560 But heresy and schism will play a very important role in the rest of our history of Germany
00:08:24.480 as the worst country in the history of the world.
00:08:26.680 So keep that in mind.
00:08:28.240 That covers the fall of Rome.
00:08:29.880 That covers plunging all of ancient civilization into chaos and disorder.
00:08:33.560 Thank you, Germany.
00:08:34.420 By the grace of God, Europe managed to recover a little bit and grow a pretty nice civilization
00:08:39.600 for a thousand years or so.
00:08:43.020 Just Germany was itching to screw it all up again.
00:08:46.660 They just couldn't take it.
00:08:48.060 So a thousand years was okay.
00:08:49.880 That brings us to the 16th century and to a corpulent German heretic named Martin Luther.
00:08:55.040 Now, I know I'm going to get a lot of mailbag questions about this because people like Martin
00:08:59.980 Luther's ideas or they say Martin Luther's ideas led to good ideas and to better things
00:09:06.040 and freedom and blah, blah, blah.
00:09:07.460 Okay, fine.
00:09:08.260 That's fine.
00:09:09.120 I'm actually not saying that you have to hate Protestantism or something.
00:09:15.440 I'm just pointing to the historical record.
00:09:17.360 In 1517, Martin Luther printed copies of disagreements with the church and certain aspects of Catholic
00:09:24.900 orthodoxy.
00:09:26.060 Regardless of what you think about his ideas, this guy, this German guy alone, virtually
00:09:32.460 alone, cracked Western Christendom and created modernity.
00:09:36.440 Luther and the printing press that allowed him to spread his 95 theses permanently cracked
00:09:41.180 the unity of Western Christendom.
00:09:42.500 He didn't just argue over some minor points or take issue with this doctrine or this doctrine
00:09:47.480 or this idea.
00:09:48.420 That had been happening for well over a thousand years.
00:09:51.060 And, you know, Santa Claus punched the heretic in the face that a disagreement among bishops
00:09:55.040 is a factor and a facet of Christianity.
00:09:58.700 What Martin Luther did is he claimed that the church did not have authority to teach, did not
00:10:03.420 have the universal authority that it claimed to have.
00:10:06.100 This is where relativism crept into Europe.
00:10:09.280 We all talk about how awful relativism is and facts don't care about your feelings and,
00:10:14.140 you know, there is objective truth and there's not your truth and my truth and my truth and
00:10:17.920 this truth.
00:10:18.940 It begins here.
00:10:20.000 It begins here in modern Europe.
00:10:22.320 Martin Luther, some people say Martin Luther made Christianity reasonable, that the Catholics
00:10:27.260 were really unreasonable and the Pope was unreasonable.
00:10:30.380 And Martin Luther brought reason into this.
00:10:31.840 The exact opposite is true.
00:10:34.160 Martin Luther hated reason.
00:10:35.880 He hated Aristotle and he hated reason.
00:10:38.400 He called reason the whore of the devil, reason itself.
00:10:41.800 He said, quote, you must abandon your reason, know nothing of it, annihilate it completely
00:10:47.620 or you will never enter heaven.
00:10:49.880 This was a major break from traditional Christianity because in traditional Christianity, in Orthodox
00:10:55.440 Christianity, reason leads you to God.
00:10:58.900 Reason is one way to come to God.
00:11:01.840 Martin Luther went on.
00:11:02.740 He said, reason is a prostitute.
00:11:05.000 The devil's appointed whore, whore eaten by scab and leprosy, who ought to be trodden
00:11:10.400 underfoot and destroyed.
00:11:12.020 She and her wisdom throw dung in her face to make her ugly.
00:11:16.120 You know, he had a way with words, that guy.
00:11:17.780 He did really.
00:11:18.660 It's so, how inspiring, how beautiful.
00:11:20.920 On a more practical front, that's just the doctrinal front.
00:11:23.480 On a more practical front, Luther fully embraced two aspects of the German national character
00:11:29.700 that would come back to destroy the 20th century.
00:11:32.040 Hatred of Jews and cozying up to Muslim invaders.
00:11:35.360 And he also caused major wars.
00:11:37.040 Now this, I want to be fair to Martin Luther.
00:11:38.920 I want to be fair to the Germans here.
00:11:40.360 He probably didn't want to start those wars.
00:11:43.160 One of the wars that he started was the Peasants' Revolt in 1524.
00:11:48.180 And he didn't like this.
00:11:49.440 He published a great tract on this called Against the Murderous Thieving Hordes of Peasants.
00:11:54.920 One of the most beautifully titled tracts probably in political history.
00:11:59.880 But back to those other two German national tendencies,
00:12:03.020 Hatred of Jews and the Strange Embrace of Muslim Invaders.
00:12:07.020 Luther, on the former, published a tract titled On the Jews and Their Lies.
00:12:12.280 And he said of the Muslim invaders, quote,
00:12:14.880 I would rather be ruled by a wise Turk than a foolish Christian.
00:12:18.900 He also wrote that war against the Ottoman Muslims would be absolutely contrary
00:12:23.360 to Christ's doctrine and name.
00:12:26.120 So, as I mentioned, he cracks the authority of the European Christendom.
00:12:33.100 He cracks that central authority, that premise of truth.
00:12:36.600 You get the Peasants' War out of that.
00:12:38.820 This led to war between the German Lutherans and the Catholics.
00:12:42.200 This eventually built into the Thirty Years' War,
00:12:44.500 which was, in modern history, we just think of our wars as destructive.
00:12:48.600 The Thirty Years' War was one of the deadliest and most destructive conflicts in human history.
00:12:53.360 Enough about Luther. Thank you, Luther. Thank you, Germany.
00:12:56.120 Let's skip forward again to the 19th century,
00:12:58.500 when Germany gave us the single most destructive political ideology in history, communism.
00:13:03.880 Now, you might object to say other philosophers had worked out
00:13:07.720 various versions of communism and arrangements.
00:13:11.340 Dupe in France, and there were some communal arrangements in antiquity.
00:13:15.580 The Acts of the Apostles refers to early Christians
00:13:18.880 keeping all of their goods in common, that sort of thing.
00:13:21.600 Sure, the German Karl Marx unleashed communism on the world.
00:13:27.920 He is the singular figure in communism.
00:13:30.200 He mocked God.
00:13:31.420 He instituted, to borrow Churchill's words,
00:13:34.040 the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.
00:13:39.220 This distinctly German philosophy went on to kill 94 million people in the 20th century.
00:13:45.320 Just the 20th century.
00:13:46.460 There were still communist outposts all around the world.
00:13:48.820 Also, in the 19th century, Germany gave us the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche,
00:13:53.360 who said that God is dead.
00:13:55.240 Nietzsche assailed traditional morality,
00:13:57.920 and he described the philosophy of the future as being beyond good and evil.
00:14:01.460 People object to this.
00:14:02.300 They say, oh, Nietzsche, he was just observing things.
00:14:04.320 He said our culture just got rid of God.
00:14:06.040 He wasn't calling for anything like that.
00:14:08.120 That's both true and false.
00:14:11.300 Nietzsche is proclaiming that God is dead.
00:14:13.940 He's confronting nihilism with the premise that God is dead,
00:14:17.340 and he describes beyond good and evil.
00:14:19.580 He calls it the philosophy of the future.
00:14:21.580 To this end, in this philosophy,
00:14:24.160 man would not follow conscience or reason,
00:14:26.760 but will to power.
00:14:28.340 Again, throw reason out the window.
00:14:29.880 It's the will to power.
00:14:31.300 My will against your will,
00:14:33.040 and I will myself up.
00:14:34.960 This idea would eventually be carried to its logical conclusion by this guy.
00:14:40.520 Not Norm, by the guy that Norm is imitating.
00:14:45.140 It would be followed to its logical conclusion by the Nazis.
00:14:48.160 We'll get to that in short time.
00:14:50.860 Also in that same century, in the 19th century,
00:14:53.700 German scholars and academics gave us new theories of textual criticism
00:14:57.880 that treated the Bible not as a source of revelation and wisdom,
00:15:02.440 as it had always been treated in the West,
00:15:04.440 but rather as a dead scientific document
00:15:07.520 that was of more interest as a historical curiosity
00:15:10.760 to be parsed for contradictions.
00:15:12.820 Oh, that doesn't agree with that,
00:15:14.140 and that doesn't agree with that,
00:15:15.300 rather than as a source of devotional and divine inspiration.
00:15:18.840 Further, just chipping away at the spiritual foundations of Europe and the West.
00:15:24.740 Thank you, Germany.
00:15:25.300 Now, in the 20th century, events move a lot faster.
00:15:28.980 They really pick up pace here.
00:15:30.520 In 1914, Germany declared war on the world.
00:15:33.560 They declared war on the world for the first time.
00:15:35.560 Some people pretend that Germany isn't responsible for World War I.
00:15:39.160 They say, oh no, actually it was Serbia
00:15:41.740 because some Serbian dude killed Franz Ferdinand
00:15:45.540 and this and that and yada, yada, yada.
00:15:48.240 No, the historical consensus places blame
00:15:51.600 at the feet of Germany and Austria.
00:15:53.260 The historical facts clearly point to German militarism as the cause.
00:15:58.080 Austria-Hungary was looking for an excuse to aggress against Serbia.
00:16:01.860 Germany supported Austria wholeheartedly.
00:16:04.280 They gave them a blank check.
00:16:06.140 They urged Austria-Hungary to invade Serbia.
00:16:09.340 Germany alone had the power to stop the war from escalating in July of 1914.
00:16:14.300 When all of this is happening and Franz Ferdinand gets killed
00:16:16.680 and it seems like all these crazy little agreements and treaties are going to effect,
00:16:20.120 it could have been stopped.
00:16:21.900 The war actually could have stopped in July of 1914.
00:16:24.760 Germany didn't want to stop it.
00:16:25.960 Germany wanted the war.
00:16:27.060 Didn't do it.
00:16:27.840 Once again, thank you Germany.
00:16:29.480 Now we go back to communism.
00:16:31.060 This is within just a matter of years,
00:16:32.900 but we're going back to the most destructive political ideology ever invented.
00:16:36.680 At the same time that Germany is waging war on the world,
00:16:40.160 Germany also decided to unleash the horrors of communism on everybody.
00:16:43.680 The first step to doing this was using communism to destroy Russia.
00:16:48.480 And how did it do that?
00:16:50.040 International Women's Day.
00:16:52.040 International Women's Day.
00:16:52.940 How on earth could that?
00:16:54.040 International Women's Day is responsible for this.
00:16:57.160 International Women's Day was invented by German communists,
00:17:00.640 Clara Zetkin and Kate Dunker, among other people.
00:17:03.840 And that was the first one.
00:17:05.460 It was invented in 1910.
00:17:08.060 Those German communists created it at the International Socialist Women's Conference.
00:17:13.120 When we think of International Women's Day today,
00:17:15.580 we think of it as like a hashtag on Twitter.
00:17:18.120 And it's, you know, little pictures and stuff on Facebook and whatever.
00:17:22.020 But it actually began with these German communists.
00:17:25.360 It was then used to launch the Russian Revolution.
00:17:27.640 On March 8th in 1917,
00:17:30.420 women textile workers held an International Women's Day protest.
00:17:34.840 Now with the hashtags and on Twitter,
00:17:36.560 they went out into the streets and they protested.
00:17:38.280 That one protest launched the Russian Revolution.
00:17:41.180 Leon Trotsky, the Russian revolutionary, wrote of it,
00:17:44.640 Revolutionary actions were foreseen,
00:17:47.280 but we did not imagine that this Women's Day would inaugurate the revolution.
00:17:52.360 Those German communists set in motion the events that would destroy Russia.
00:17:56.760 But they didn't just leave it at that.
00:17:58.240 They didn't just say,
00:17:58.860 Oh, wow, that was a pretty good one.
00:17:59.940 We just set in motion the events to topple the Russian monarchy
00:18:03.280 and to plunge that country into chaos.
00:18:06.240 They had to make sure that it would be plunged into chaos.
00:18:09.340 So a month after that, Germany sent Vladimir Lenin himself,
00:18:13.940 the leader of the Soviet Union, the eventual leader of the Soviet Union,
00:18:17.280 who was then in exile in Switzerland.
00:18:19.400 The German government sent Lenin back into Russia on a sealed train.
00:18:24.040 They arranged this, the German high command arranged this,
00:18:26.800 to get Lenin out of Switzerland through Germany into Russia on a completely sealed train.
00:18:31.400 Germany was then at war with Russia in the first time Germany declared war in the world.
00:18:36.560 And they knew that it could destabilize the country by sending Lenin back in there.
00:18:40.540 It's pretty interesting that they did it on a sealed train, too.
00:18:43.080 Like, he couldn't get off to go to the bathroom or to get a sandwich or something.
00:18:46.540 It was completely sealed because Germany knew that this ideology and this man were so poisonous
00:18:52.780 that it shouldn't infect anything outside of their enemy.
00:18:56.780 So they sent it in there like a heat-seeking missile right into Russia.
00:19:00.380 And guess what happened?
00:19:01.620 It worked.
00:19:02.540 So they go in there.
00:19:04.400 Within a matter of months, the October Revolution happens.
00:19:07.400 There's a total overthrow.
00:19:08.600 The Bolsheviks rise to power.
00:19:10.320 The Soviet Union then, and Vladimir Lenin became its first leader,
00:19:14.660 the Soviet Union would bring the world to the brink of nuclear war
00:19:18.480 and kill tens of millions of people in the 20th century.
00:19:21.760 Thank you, Germany.
00:19:22.500 Germany literally sent the beginning of that into the country in a two-prong attack.
00:19:27.680 So now about 20 years goes by.
00:19:29.160 Okay, the war's over.
00:19:30.580 They've destroyed Russia.
00:19:31.800 They've destroyed a lot of the world.
00:19:33.800 Europeans at this point, by the way, have gotten the gist of how Germany behaves.
00:19:37.660 They kind of say, okay, you know, I've been doing this for a long time.
00:19:40.180 Everybody knows that Germany is going to aggress again.
00:19:43.360 And yet, they give Germany this Treaty of Versailles.
00:19:47.360 They don't mind when Germany is clearly violating the Treaty of Versailles,
00:19:51.600 that it's untenable, that it's peace without victory.
00:19:54.380 No, you need victory.
00:19:56.540 You need clear victors.
00:19:57.740 When somebody's in the wrong, you need to beat them down.
00:19:59.940 There's an amazing painting from this era right after the First World War.
00:20:04.500 There's a painting of all the leaders of World War I,
00:20:07.040 and they're there signing the Treaty of Versailles,
00:20:09.080 and they're so happy, and they're talking, and they're all looking at each other.
00:20:11.680 And then in the center of the painting is Winston Churchill.
00:20:14.580 He's got his head like this, and there's a light on him.
00:20:17.720 He's the only one that's really lit, and he's just looking out at the audience,
00:20:21.760 at the viewer of the painting, and just thinking, this is a terrible idea.
00:20:25.940 This is not going to last.
00:20:27.560 It's amazing that that painting was begun in 1919, long before the Second World War.
00:20:32.260 And you saw this in political cartoons, too.
00:20:34.420 It wasn't the consensus view that war was inevitable,
00:20:38.620 but there were some political cartoons that said, oh, the class of 1940,
00:20:42.140 it was a little baby at the time,
00:20:44.000 so the class of 1940 is going to have to go fight Germany again,
00:20:46.620 so shocked.
00:20:47.700 Wouldn't you know?
00:20:48.500 Wouldn't you be shocked to hear?
00:20:50.400 In 1939, Germany declares war on the world again.
00:20:54.480 Now, this was a war declared by scientific barbarism against Christian civilization.
00:21:00.440 That's an important phrase to use.
00:21:02.220 Winston Churchill observed that dichotomy in the war,
00:21:06.060 in the First World War and the Second World War.
00:21:08.140 It's scientific barbarism against the Christian civilization of Europe.
00:21:12.040 This new science, this will to power,
00:21:14.880 these ideas that had been concocted by Friedrich Nietzsche
00:21:18.200 and expounded on by others of supermen and master races
00:21:22.220 and the idea that our biology is really all that matters
00:21:25.340 and we're going to be in this brutal struggle.
00:21:27.520 Scientific barbarism, a science that doesn't make any sense,
00:21:31.640 an unreasonable science, a science that's opposed to reason,
00:21:35.040 versus traditional Christian civilization,
00:21:36.900 the civilization that built Europe,
00:21:39.420 the civilization that comes directly out of Christianity,
00:21:43.160 of Athens and Jerusalem.
00:21:45.120 Don't take my word for it.
00:21:46.560 Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels wrote about this in 1928.
00:21:49.980 In his diary that year, he wrote,
00:21:52.140 What does Christianity mean today?
00:21:55.100 National socialism is a religion.
00:21:57.320 All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting
00:22:00.440 outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place.
00:22:04.600 We lack traditions and ritual.
00:22:06.500 One day soon, national socialism will be the religion of all Germans.
00:22:10.580 My party is my church and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will
00:22:15.580 and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery.
00:22:19.560 That is my gospel.
00:22:20.940 That's Joseph Goebbels, 11 years before the outbreak of World War II.
00:22:25.960 Then, fast forward, 1939, the year it's all happening,
00:22:29.180 Goebbels wrote then of Hitler,
00:22:31.640 The Fuhrer is deeply religious, though completely anti-Christian.
00:22:35.360 He views Christianity as a symptom of decay.
00:22:38.320 Rightly so.
00:22:39.360 It is a branch of the Jewish race.
00:22:41.680 And you can see here, in this Nazi hatred of Christianity
00:22:44.560 and Christian civilization,
00:22:46.460 the Nazis' particular hatred of the Jews
00:22:48.700 and the Jewish problem, Jewish question,
00:22:51.220 and the final solution.
00:22:52.540 This is their hatred.
00:22:53.620 On the metaphysical level, it is a hatred of God.
00:22:56.140 On the physical level, it is a hatred of Jews,
00:22:58.960 the chosen people of God.
00:23:00.300 It's a hatred of priests.
00:23:01.880 It's a hatred of the church.
00:23:03.720 And on a metaphysical level, it's a hatred of God.
00:23:06.540 The Holocaust alone took 6 million Jews,
00:23:10.820 killed 6 million Jews,
00:23:12.000 around 5.7 million, I think,
00:23:14.800 is the best estimate of Europe.
00:23:17.500 7.3 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
00:23:20.520 The Holocaust also killed gypsies and Poles
00:23:22.640 and gays and priests.
00:23:24.260 Lots of people.
00:23:25.620 But almost all of European Jewry.
00:23:27.600 Around 80 million people died in that war.
00:23:30.260 And luckily, finally, Germany was defeated.
00:23:33.140 Ah, so we've made it from, what was that,
00:23:36.860 the 3rd century all the way to the 20th century.
00:23:40.220 Germany constantly trying to destroy civilization,
00:23:43.100 usually pretty successfully.
00:23:45.420 So then what does Europe do?
00:23:46.900 It's the end of 1940s, you know, mid-20th century.
00:23:50.480 What does Europe do?
00:23:51.160 Not 50 years after Germany twice declared war on the world
00:23:55.140 and tried to take over the world
00:23:56.280 and tried to run the European continent,
00:23:58.420 what did Europe do?
00:23:59.400 It let Germany run the European continent.
00:24:01.480 It let Germany do it.
00:24:02.460 They tried it in 1914, we beat them back.
00:24:05.880 They tried it in 1940, we beat them back.
00:24:08.200 Then we said, oh, you can have it.
00:24:09.960 That's fine.
00:24:10.340 Ah, you can take it.
00:24:11.020 What could go wrong?
00:24:11.980 What could go wrong?
00:24:13.020 Germany is the leader of Europe.
00:24:14.600 There is no question about that.
00:24:16.520 Germany has the largest population in the EU.
00:24:19.020 It has the strongest economy in Europe.
00:24:21.420 It's the strongest contributor to the EU.
00:24:23.780 It's got certainly the most stable government.
00:24:25.700 All the other governments collapse constantly.
00:24:27.760 Italy has had about 750 million governments
00:24:29.960 since World War II.
00:24:31.080 Germany is centrally located.
00:24:33.540 Germany crafts policy that affects all of Europe.
00:24:36.960 And the particular policy that that has implied
00:24:40.040 is the flooding of Europe in just the last few years
00:24:43.120 with unvetted Muslim migrants from the Middle East
00:24:45.940 and North Africa.
00:24:47.260 Groups that skew overwhelmingly young and male
00:24:50.620 and alone, unaccompanied.
00:24:52.900 No family.
00:24:53.640 No, they just come in here.
00:24:54.780 A lot of young men from war-torn countries
00:24:56.960 who don't come from the culture of Europe
00:24:58.600 and don't worship the god that Europe once worshipped.
00:25:02.140 More than 20% of migrants are teenagers.
00:25:05.380 Half of them are unaccompanied.
00:25:06.820 90% of those are male.
00:25:08.940 90%.
00:25:09.920 So as a result of this,
00:25:11.740 you've seen the headlines.
00:25:12.760 You may have read the book,
00:25:14.760 The Strange Death of Europe,
00:25:15.860 which we've talked about on the show a bit.
00:25:17.640 Crime has skyrocketed in Europe.
00:25:19.440 Places that used to be these little wonderlands
00:25:21.420 with basically no crime at all.
00:25:23.300 Just a little snowy paradise.
00:25:24.920 A lot of alcoholism.
00:25:26.200 You know, it gets cold up there.
00:25:27.340 But otherwise, not a lot of violent crime.
00:25:29.180 Now you see huge rises in gang rape, assault,
00:25:31.920 you name it.
00:25:33.840 That's just the latest from Germany.
00:25:36.020 Now, there will be an objection.
00:25:38.000 I know what you're thinking.
00:25:38.600 You're going to say,
00:25:39.120 I can see it now in the YouTube comment section.
00:25:41.580 I know you're writing it right now, I bet.
00:25:43.100 Stop writing it and hear me out.
00:25:44.440 You're saying, well, what about Bach?
00:25:46.180 What about Bach, Michael?
00:25:47.460 What about Beethoven or Leibniz or this?
00:25:49.680 All these great German cultural geniuses
00:25:52.700 and mathematicians and yeah.
00:25:54.720 Okay, right.
00:25:55.540 I'm not saying that there haven't been good Germans.
00:25:58.760 That isn't my argument.
00:25:59.980 My argument is that Germany is the worst country
00:26:02.220 in the history of the world.
00:26:03.780 And as a political entity
00:26:05.400 from the third century to the 21st century,
00:26:09.080 Germany has incontrovertibly
00:26:11.080 been the most uniformly terrible country
00:26:14.540 in the history of the world.
00:26:17.180 Now it's trying to control Europe.
00:26:18.640 That is just unbelievable.
00:26:20.300 It is insane that we now gave them control of Europe
00:26:23.400 after giving up tens of millions of lives
00:26:26.200 to stop them from doing it
00:26:27.380 on two occasions within 20 years.
00:26:29.440 Germany also, by the way,
00:26:30.340 is building a giant army.
00:26:32.120 So I don't know.
00:26:33.160 That's never a good sign in history
00:26:34.700 when Germany starts building a giant army,
00:26:36.580 especially when it does it quietly.
00:26:38.600 The EU, the European Union,
00:26:40.140 has never built its own army
00:26:41.340 because that's a terrible idea.
00:26:43.420 Europeans and everyone else in the world knows,
00:26:45.180 hmm, maybe we don't want
00:26:46.140 some giant military force
00:26:47.800 to occupy the entire European continent.
00:26:50.060 So in 2017, just last year,
00:26:52.120 Germany quietly started to integrate
00:26:54.060 the armies of the Czech Republic
00:26:55.460 and Romania into its own forces,
00:26:58.060 into the Bundeswehr.
00:26:59.380 That just doesn't even sound good.
00:27:01.280 I don't want there to be like a big Bundeswehr.
00:27:03.720 I don't even speak German.
00:27:05.200 That just doesn't sound good.
00:27:06.700 So what it looks like now we're getting
00:27:09.360 is something that looks like
00:27:11.080 a European Union army.
00:27:12.960 But of course, no one's going to vote on this
00:27:14.480 or talk about that's just going to kind of happen
00:27:16.160 and they're going to do it quietly
00:27:17.760 without treaties
00:27:19.280 and without international cooperation.
00:27:22.560 Hmm, probably not good.
00:27:23.860 What is that that they say
00:27:25.100 about how those who cannot remember
00:27:26.540 the past are condemned to repeat it?
00:27:29.500 Hmm, good question.
00:27:30.880 Good question to remember.
00:27:32.600 Okay, enough about the worst country
00:27:33.940 in the history of the world.
00:27:34.980 It is time for the mailbag.
00:27:36.980 Do we have to say,
00:27:37.500 we have to say goodbye, don't we?
00:27:40.480 Well, I'm glad we could make it
00:27:42.580 through 2,000 years.
00:27:43.360 That's not, 2,000 years
00:27:44.460 in like half an hour is not too bad.
00:27:46.460 I have got to say goodbye.
00:27:48.240 We have excellent mailbag questions today.
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00:28:46.000 First question comes from Andy.
00:29:00.160 Andy writes,
00:29:01.280 Hey, Michael.
00:29:01.960 In one of my college classes,
00:29:03.140 I am constantly being reminded
00:29:04.680 of how poorly colonists
00:29:06.500 treated Native Americans.
00:29:08.580 It seems like they want me
00:29:10.040 to feel personally responsible for it
00:29:11.960 because of my skin color and heritage.
00:29:14.020 I do not disagree with them
00:29:15.460 that the treatment was bad
00:29:16.600 and oftentimes evil.
00:29:18.000 For example,
00:29:18.600 the Trail of Tears was absolutely awful.
00:29:21.000 They conveniently leave out the fact
00:29:22.260 it happened under Democrats.
00:29:24.060 However,
00:29:24.800 it is also my understanding
00:29:25.980 that indigenous tribes
00:29:27.260 did not necessarily live
00:29:28.600 under this purified utopia
00:29:30.780 that leftists depict
00:29:32.380 before the arrival of Europeans.
00:29:34.680 How do I respond to this
00:29:35.720 as a conservative,
00:29:36.780 a future high school history teacher,
00:29:38.900 and someone that firmly believes
00:29:41.100 in American exceptionalism?
00:29:42.480 Thanks, Andy.
00:29:44.000 I'll help you out.
00:29:45.460 Yeah, they use that as just a slogan.
00:29:47.680 The Trail of Tears was terrible.
00:29:49.900 They don't talk about the Indian Wars.
00:29:51.220 They don't talk about the border wars.
00:29:52.380 They don't talk about
00:29:52.840 how this is a country
00:29:53.620 and a country can't tolerate
00:29:54.620 other little countries
00:29:55.460 living within its country.
00:29:56.760 They don't talk about those things.
00:29:58.600 It's just a slogan.
00:29:59.280 It's just terrible.
00:30:00.000 They don't really get
00:30:01.060 into the specifics of it.
00:30:02.380 And we kind of let them
00:30:03.360 get away with it
00:30:04.040 because we enjoy
00:30:04.840 that Jackson was a Democrat,
00:30:06.360 so we kind of throw it back on them.
00:30:07.920 But it's ridiculous sloganeering.
00:30:11.140 Of course,
00:30:11.880 let's go back to Columbus,
00:30:13.220 a favorite subject of mine.
00:30:15.560 When Christopher Columbus
00:30:16.620 arrived in the Americas,
00:30:18.220 there were really nice Indians
00:30:19.520 that he met.
00:30:20.080 He writes about it.
00:30:20.880 His fellow,
00:30:22.140 his Spaniard compatriots
00:30:24.580 wrote about this,
00:30:25.600 and they said,
00:30:26.200 oh, they were really peaceful.
00:30:26.960 They gave us a lot of nice stuff.
00:30:28.200 How lovely of them, you know,
00:30:29.560 and they were beautiful people.
00:30:31.400 A lot of them had cuts
00:30:33.020 and marks all over their body.
00:30:34.620 Where did that come from?
00:30:36.560 That came from the Isla de Caribe
00:30:38.940 and other belligerent Indians
00:30:40.900 in the area
00:30:41.500 who would chop them up
00:30:42.620 and eat them,
00:30:43.220 who would attack them,
00:30:44.600 who were belligerent,
00:30:45.400 and there was cannibalism.
00:30:47.100 There was cannibalism
00:30:48.220 all over the Americas.
00:30:49.720 The word cannibal
00:30:50.580 only came into
00:30:51.820 our Western understanding
00:30:53.300 and our parlance
00:30:54.140 after Columbus arrived
00:30:55.980 and discovered cannibalism.
00:30:57.480 It comes from Carribe,
00:30:58.840 from Caribbean.
00:30:59.640 Carribe became cannibal.
00:31:01.580 And so there was cannibalism
00:31:03.000 all over the Americas.
00:31:04.340 On some of the natives
00:31:05.740 that Christopher Columbus
00:31:06.580 met when he arrived,
00:31:07.800 the Iroquois in the Northeast
00:31:09.180 were cannibals.
00:31:10.600 Indians in the American Southwest
00:31:11.840 were cannibals.
00:31:12.620 It was all over the Americas.
00:31:14.120 Even the New York Times
00:31:15.060 admitted this
00:31:15.660 in an article quoting
00:31:16.900 archaeologists
00:31:18.080 in like around the year 2000
00:31:19.780 or something.
00:31:20.800 The New York Times
00:31:21.780 admitted that this was
00:31:22.780 until,
00:31:23.560 until,
00:31:24.380 what's it called?
00:31:26.600 Intersectionality.
00:31:27.360 Until intersectionality
00:31:28.440 poisoned all of academia,
00:31:30.020 people could acknowledge
00:31:30.780 these obvious facts.
00:31:32.140 Nature published a piece
00:31:33.220 on this called
00:31:33.780 Incontrovertible Evidence
00:31:35.720 of Cannibalism.
00:31:37.340 Now,
00:31:37.940 certainly,
00:31:38.680 some of the natives
00:31:39.540 had a primitive form
00:31:41.260 of writing in the Americas.
00:31:42.680 They had hieroglyphics.
00:31:44.000 Nothing terribly sophisticated.
00:31:45.380 Nothing that we would
00:31:46.000 consider
00:31:46.680 like normal writing.
00:31:49.340 And human sacrifice
00:31:50.280 ran rampant
00:31:51.420 throughout the Americas.
00:31:52.740 Human sacrifice
00:31:53.420 was rampant here,
00:31:54.640 particularly among the Aztecs.
00:31:56.580 Spanish explorers
00:31:57.540 wrote about this
00:31:58.120 after observing it
00:31:59.080 in the Aztec capital.
00:32:00.100 In the year 1487,
00:32:02.600 which was five years
00:32:03.960 before Columbus,
00:32:04.660 this wasn't in the
00:32:05.380 ancient, ancient past,
00:32:06.660 this was five years
00:32:07.340 before Christopher Columbus
00:32:08.260 sailed the ocean blue,
00:32:09.480 the Aztecs slaughtered
00:32:10.740 80,400 prisoners
00:32:12.340 over the course
00:32:13.300 of four days.
00:32:14.900 Four days.
00:32:15.620 That is 14 murders
00:32:17.100 per minute
00:32:18.200 just rolling by.
00:32:19.880 That's the idyllic paradise.
00:32:21.480 That's the noble savage.
00:32:23.000 One estimate
00:32:23.640 of human sacrifice
00:32:24.460 in 15th century Mexico
00:32:25.960 puts that number
00:32:26.820 as high as 250,000
00:32:28.180 per year.
00:32:29.440 Per year.
00:32:29.800 And these were largely
00:32:30.960 human sacrifices
00:32:32.100 to pagan gods.
00:32:33.800 Now, modern people
00:32:34.700 who don't know anything
00:32:35.560 about anything,
00:32:36.400 they want to tear down
00:32:37.440 statues of Christopher Columbus,
00:32:38.960 who was a great man,
00:32:40.000 and they want to erect
00:32:40.940 statues of the generic
00:32:42.520 indigenous person
00:32:43.760 for indigenous people's day.
00:32:46.420 The body counts
00:32:47.320 and the cultures
00:32:48.000 that we're talking about here
00:32:49.500 suggest maybe
00:32:50.300 they should reconsider.
00:32:52.360 From Dave.
00:32:53.260 Dear master
00:32:54.140 of written brevity,
00:32:55.080 I've always found
00:32:56.260 writing to be
00:32:56.860 a much easier
00:32:57.540 and clearer way
00:32:58.480 to express my thoughts
00:32:59.720 as opposed to
00:33:00.260 speaking spontaneously,
00:33:02.040 especially in front
00:33:02.660 of a group
00:33:03.180 as the group setting
00:33:04.460 makes me uncomfortable
00:33:05.260 enough that I start
00:33:06.440 to second guess
00:33:06.980 my choice of words.
00:33:07.920 Sure.
00:33:08.700 As someone whose
00:33:09.440 big break was in publishing,
00:33:12.000 did you find the transition
00:33:13.300 from writing blank books
00:33:14.880 to speaking,
00:33:15.840 broadcasting,
00:33:16.480 public Q&A
00:33:17.040 to be a challenge?
00:33:18.240 If so,
00:33:18.760 what tips do you have
00:33:19.960 for the rest of us?
00:33:21.340 That's a good question.
00:33:22.500 Going from doing nothing
00:33:23.700 to doing something
00:33:24.920 is a challenge.
00:33:26.460 That can be a real challenge.
00:33:27.580 Going from not writing a book
00:33:28.860 to doing anything
00:33:30.140 is a challenge.
00:33:32.200 But, you know,
00:33:33.080 in my past life,
00:33:35.100 before I'll never work
00:33:35.920 in Hollywood again,
00:33:36.960 I was trained as an actor
00:33:38.440 for a long time
00:33:39.740 and, you know,
00:33:40.900 been in acting training
00:33:42.120 for a long time.
00:33:42.860 And that does help.
00:33:43.680 I actually do suggest that
00:33:44.760 to a lot of people
00:33:45.460 taking an acting class
00:33:46.960 or maybe just reading a book.
00:33:49.000 There's a good book
00:33:49.460 called An Actor Prepares
00:33:50.620 by Konstantin Stanislavski.
00:33:52.880 It's kind of the beginning
00:33:53.680 of modern acting,
00:33:55.040 we would call it.
00:33:55.860 And it's important
00:33:56.580 to read that.
00:33:57.200 Even just the title
00:33:58.060 means An Actor Prepares.
00:33:59.480 If you're going to speak
00:34:00.300 extemporaneously,
00:34:01.900 if you're going to do Q&A
00:34:03.260 or give speeches
00:34:04.360 or whatever,
00:34:05.060 you need to prepare.
00:34:06.140 You need to read
00:34:07.020 a lot of books.
00:34:07.880 Then you need to write out
00:34:08.840 your speech
00:34:09.300 or write out your thoughts
00:34:10.140 and talk through them.
00:34:11.280 You need muscle memory.
00:34:12.300 When an actor memorizes
00:34:13.260 a script
00:34:13.780 or learns a part,
00:34:16.180 they don't,
00:34:17.420 you know,
00:34:17.660 it's not like you're
00:34:18.140 just learning lines.
00:34:18.900 You build a character
00:34:19.720 which helps.
00:34:20.760 But you also,
00:34:22.220 the way actors learn lines
00:34:23.520 effectively
00:34:23.980 is you read them
00:34:25.540 out loud with your mouth.
00:34:26.680 You don't just kind of
00:34:27.340 go in your head
00:34:27.860 and try to memorize.
00:34:28.740 You read them
00:34:29.260 because you have muscle memory.
00:34:30.560 So you make it
00:34:30.980 very exaggerated.
00:34:32.060 An actor prepares.
00:34:33.560 Co-fe-fe,
00:34:34.680 you know,
00:34:34.980 and then it goes
00:34:35.780 in your mouth.
00:34:37.020 So that's one thing
00:34:38.440 I would do.
00:34:39.300 All of these guys,
00:34:40.120 some of the great
00:34:40.800 public speakers
00:34:41.440 of our era,
00:34:42.260 Winston Churchill,
00:34:43.260 Ronald Reagan,
00:34:44.780 they practiced
00:34:45.820 their lines.
00:34:46.620 They had these lines
00:34:47.280 for 20 years
00:34:47.980 before we heard them
00:34:49.300 in a time for choosing
00:34:50.220 or before Winston Churchill
00:34:51.760 won the Second World War
00:34:52.780 with speeches.
00:34:53.640 He'd written a lot of these
00:34:54.740 for years and years
00:34:55.900 before that.
00:34:56.620 You've got to practice,
00:34:57.320 you've got to prepare,
00:34:58.340 and then it will come easy.
00:34:59.420 And you're going to make it
00:35:00.480 look effortless
00:35:01.060 and look easy,
00:35:01.620 but it's going to take
00:35:02.080 a lot of effort.
00:35:03.180 How much more time?
00:35:03.960 We had a little more time.
00:35:04.760 From James,
00:35:06.500 dear,
00:35:07.000 the most handsome man
00:35:08.440 at the Daily Wire.
00:35:10.100 That's a big compliment.
00:35:11.480 I'm about to be
00:35:12.700 just absolutely pummeled
00:35:15.260 by the big boss
00:35:16.680 and the leader
00:35:18.760 of the multiverse
00:35:19.420 after this
00:35:19.900 just for reading
00:35:20.460 that title.
00:35:21.700 Dear the most handsome man
00:35:22.680 at the Daily Wire,
00:35:23.880 what do you think
00:35:24.580 of the idea
00:35:25.340 about the rise
00:35:26.040 of the imperial presidency?
00:35:27.980 Does it undermine
00:35:28.940 what the founding fathers
00:35:30.360 had envisioned
00:35:30.920 for America?
00:35:32.080 Also,
00:35:32.520 would you ever consider
00:35:34.520 growing a mustache?
00:35:35.920 Thank you,
00:35:36.580 oh, handsome one.
00:35:37.320 I had to grow a mustache
00:35:38.440 for a part one time
00:35:39.440 in a play,
00:35:40.220 and there were probably
00:35:40.780 pictures of that
00:35:41.420 on the internet.
00:35:42.440 It was a lot.
00:35:44.040 Because I actually,
00:35:44.500 I can't really grow a beard.
00:35:46.480 I don't,
00:35:46.840 you know,
00:35:47.080 I'd look like I'm 16
00:35:48.180 or something,
00:35:48.840 and I'm not like
00:35:49.420 exactly the burliest
00:35:50.400 Adonis of a guy,
00:35:51.640 so I can't get a,
00:35:52.360 but I can grow a mustache
00:35:53.180 in like 15 minutes.
00:35:54.600 I get a mustache
00:35:55.340 just immediately.
00:35:56.540 So, yeah,
00:35:56.980 maybe I'll consider that.
00:35:57.840 I mean,
00:35:57.940 I'll do that for like
00:35:58.560 mustache march
00:35:59.400 or Movember or something
00:36:00.460 to the imperial presidency.
00:36:02.600 This is not something
00:36:03.680 totally new.
00:36:04.940 People say,
00:36:05.660 oh,
00:36:05.780 since George Bush,
00:36:06.780 we've had an imperial presidency.
00:36:08.340 Or,
00:36:08.760 oh,
00:36:08.940 since,
00:36:09.460 further back,
00:36:10.160 FDR or Wilson
00:36:11.480 or Obama or whatever.
00:36:13.820 This is not totally new.
00:36:15.180 This is one of these things
00:36:16.220 where it's much more complicated
00:36:17.240 than we all pretend it is.
00:36:18.500 In 1793,
00:36:19.760 George Washington
00:36:20.540 unilaterally decided
00:36:22.260 that the U.S.
00:36:23.320 would be neutral
00:36:24.020 in the war
00:36:24.860 between Britain and France.
00:36:26.180 He didn't consult anybody.
00:36:27.480 There wasn't like a vote.
00:36:28.460 It wasn't decided on by Congress.
00:36:30.160 He just did it himself.
00:36:31.840 And he prohibited people
00:36:32.880 from interfering.
00:36:35.020 That seems imperial to me.
00:36:36.400 That's probably not
00:36:38.940 in the spirit
00:36:40.040 of the Constitution.
00:36:41.600 People talk about
00:36:42.320 the illegal war of Iraq.
00:36:44.640 Oh,
00:36:44.840 it wasn't really illegal.
00:36:46.180 Congress gave
00:36:46.820 George W. Bush
00:36:47.840 the authority
00:36:48.460 to lead it.
00:36:49.900 But we've actually had
00:36:51.040 over 30 undeclared wars.
00:36:53.120 Well over 30 undeclared wars
00:36:54.360 going all the way back
00:36:55.160 to the First Barbary War.
00:36:57.320 The First Barbary War
00:36:58.240 in 1805,
00:36:59.020 that's not a declared war,
00:37:00.380 really.
00:37:01.500 We ended up getting
00:37:02.180 some treaties out of it.
00:37:03.540 We wouldn't call it...
00:37:04.180 And actually that war,
00:37:05.160 that gives us part
00:37:06.300 of the Marine Corps hymn.
00:37:07.980 From the halls of Montezuma
00:37:09.360 to the shores of Tripoli.
00:37:11.580 That's an undeclared war.
00:37:13.220 Hamilton,
00:37:13.980 Alexander Hamilton
00:37:14.720 preferred an elected monarchy.
00:37:16.380 That's fairly imperial probably.
00:37:18.780 So it isn't quite so simple
00:37:19.840 as we pretend.
00:37:20.860 In the spirit of freedom
00:37:21.800 in which America is founded,
00:37:23.460 we want government
00:37:24.400 to be closer to us.
00:37:25.580 We want the government
00:37:26.780 to be local.
00:37:27.400 We don't want the federal government
00:37:28.300 to do very much.
00:37:29.500 And in order to do that,
00:37:30.640 you need to be
00:37:31.120 a disciplined people,
00:37:32.080 a moral and religious people,
00:37:33.240 and you need to
00:37:33.960 have a common culture
00:37:35.080 so that you have a country.
00:37:36.120 You have something.
00:37:37.100 And when those things break down,
00:37:39.100 somebody is going
00:37:40.360 to maintain order.
00:37:41.360 Somebody is going
00:37:41.940 to come in there
00:37:42.400 and keep the peace.
00:37:43.680 And that's going to be
00:37:45.240 the federal government,
00:37:46.000 unfortunately,
00:37:46.720 if we don't get our lives
00:37:47.740 in order
00:37:48.080 and have a common culture.
00:37:50.580 Next question from Patty.
00:37:51.640 Not a question,
00:37:52.280 but an answer.
00:37:53.040 Why are so many
00:37:53.720 middle-aged white women
00:37:55.520 on antidepressants?
00:37:56.620 As a medicated
00:37:57.500 middle-aged white woman,
00:37:58.600 I feel qualified to respond.
00:38:00.360 Maybe because we feel
00:38:01.640 like we support
00:38:02.540 so many other people.
00:38:03.480 Like the world
00:38:04.380 would cave in
00:38:05.040 if we let our guard down
00:38:05.960 for one second.
00:38:07.120 I'm not sure
00:38:08.040 of the statistics,
00:38:08.920 but I suspect
00:38:09.400 we feel alone
00:38:10.400 in our responsibilities.
00:38:11.800 Many of us care for
00:38:12.720 and support
00:38:13.240 grown children,
00:38:14.420 grandchildren,
00:38:15.400 as well as aging parents.
00:38:16.820 Were we ever meant
00:38:17.800 to take on so much?
00:38:19.120 Your show
00:38:19.740 neglected to mention
00:38:21.220 how many grown children
00:38:22.600 still were quite dependent
00:38:23.800 on their parents,
00:38:24.680 or how few siblings
00:38:25.620 we have to share
00:38:26.200 responsibilities
00:38:26.880 for aging parents,
00:38:28.020 or how many fathers
00:38:29.120 have bailed
00:38:29.620 on their responsibilities.
00:38:30.520 It is tragic,
00:38:31.900 but suggesting
00:38:32.500 we take away the pill,
00:38:34.080 which makes it all tolerable
00:38:35.260 is hardly the answer.
00:38:36.300 Can you think of
00:38:36.800 a different solution?
00:38:37.740 Yes, I can.
00:38:38.440 Stop supporting
00:38:39.120 the grown kids.
00:38:40.660 I can think of it.
00:38:41.400 There is a solution
00:38:42.360 that involves
00:38:42.820 taking away that pill.
00:38:43.980 Stop supporting
00:38:44.600 the adult kids,
00:38:45.480 and demand that men
00:38:47.040 act like men.
00:38:48.440 I totally empathize
00:38:50.040 with what you're saying.
00:38:51.660 There's something like
00:38:52.460 75% of millennials
00:38:54.240 have their parents
00:38:55.520 pay at least
00:38:56.100 one of their bills
00:38:56.700 for them.
00:38:57.920 Millennials,
00:38:58.340 we're like 30 years old now.
00:38:59.560 It's completely insane.
00:39:01.740 And our culture
00:39:02.500 doesn't want men
00:39:03.240 to act like men.
00:39:04.100 We say,
00:39:04.360 oh, men should cry.
00:39:06.000 Men should be soft.
00:39:06.740 They don't need to work.
00:39:07.460 Maybe they'll be
00:39:07.740 stay at home dead.
00:39:08.580 Don't pick up the tab.
00:39:09.420 Don't open the door.
00:39:10.340 Don't act like a man.
00:39:11.160 If you act like a man,
00:39:12.040 that's toxic masculinity.
00:39:13.740 That's tough.
00:39:14.300 And by the way,
00:39:14.720 when they say
00:39:15.080 toxic masculinity,
00:39:16.140 that just means
00:39:16.800 men being men.
00:39:18.060 That just means manliness.
00:39:19.300 And they say,
00:39:19.880 oh, it means war and rape
00:39:21.260 and what you're really saying
00:39:22.700 at the end.
00:39:23.480 Nobody disagrees
00:39:24.660 we shouldn't have
00:39:25.320 violence and war and rape
00:39:26.680 and killing
00:39:27.020 and pillaging and burning.
00:39:28.340 You're really saying
00:39:28.920 you don't like manliness.
00:39:30.000 Except we need manliness.
00:39:31.480 We need men to act like men.
00:39:33.380 You should demand
00:39:34.360 that the men in your life
00:39:35.340 act like men.
00:39:36.400 That's not easy.
00:39:38.040 But that's the answer.
00:39:40.000 You should recognize
00:39:40.960 that life and suffering
00:39:42.200 have a purpose.
00:39:44.080 This is not easy to say this.
00:39:45.940 These are hard things to say.
00:39:47.320 Suffering is not morally evil.
00:39:50.200 Suffering is morally neutral.
00:39:51.940 The moral component
00:39:53.140 is how we react to suffering.
00:39:54.600 You can react to suffering
00:39:55.920 in an ennobling and good way
00:39:57.340 or in a debasing way.
00:39:59.380 Those are simple answers.
00:40:00.520 Those are not easy answers.
00:40:01.680 But they're simple answers.
00:40:03.120 And this culture
00:40:04.120 makes it a lot harder.
00:40:05.360 And this culture,
00:40:05.860 there's a reason why
00:40:06.640 these antidepressants
00:40:07.600 have proliferated.
00:40:08.460 I don't think it's because
00:40:09.320 middle-aged white women
00:40:10.800 and all the other people
00:40:11.600 who are on them
00:40:12.220 are just suddenly
00:40:13.460 became depraved drug addicts.
00:40:14.900 It's a terrible culture
00:40:15.800 and that's one solution to it.
00:40:17.160 But it's not
00:40:17.800 the right solution.
00:40:19.560 I'm not telling you
00:40:20.240 to go off medication.
00:40:21.280 I'm not telling anyone
00:40:21.880 to go off medication.
00:40:22.540 I'm not giving
00:40:23.520 any medical advice.
00:40:24.460 I don't want to give
00:40:25.020 medical advice.
00:40:25.960 But looking at the numbers
00:40:27.280 overall,
00:40:28.100 only you and your doctor
00:40:29.540 and your family
00:40:30.980 knows your specific case.
00:40:33.020 But I do know
00:40:33.720 in the aggregate
00:40:34.540 these medications
00:40:35.540 are overprescribed.
00:40:36.820 They're way overprescribed
00:40:37.900 and there is a cultural
00:40:39.560 and a spiritual answer to that.
00:40:41.440 Do we have time for one more?
00:40:42.600 We'll do one more.
00:40:43.640 From Paula.
00:40:44.880 Michael,
00:40:45.580 you all appear
00:40:46.600 to take the assault
00:40:47.500 on decency,
00:40:49.200 democracy,
00:40:49.660 and the republic
00:40:50.920 in stride.
00:40:52.060 You even mentioned today
00:40:52.900 that politics
00:40:53.440 is not the main focus
00:40:54.440 in life.
00:40:55.380 Politics and government
00:40:56.240 will always be a pain.
00:40:57.580 How do you let it
00:40:58.260 roll off your back
00:40:59.160 when you hear
00:40:59.960 outrageous things,
00:41:01.240 unfair attacks
00:41:02.000 and outright lies
00:41:03.360 going on in this country?
00:41:04.960 It is like lightning
00:41:05.980 when I hear it
00:41:06.740 from Paula.
00:41:09.460 This is a good one
00:41:10.400 to end on.
00:41:11.040 We'll try to end
00:41:11.880 on a happy note,
00:41:13.680 on a happily tragic
00:41:15.160 comedic note.
00:41:16.900 It was ever thus.
00:41:18.500 Look at what the government
00:41:19.360 did to Jesus.
00:41:21.160 Look at what the local
00:41:21.940 government did to Jesus
00:41:23.160 and the imperial government.
00:41:24.540 Look at what it did
00:41:25.040 to Socrates.
00:41:26.660 The government
00:41:27.920 and politics
00:41:28.620 is always like this.
00:41:29.740 This is a permanent
00:41:30.380 fact of life.
00:41:31.820 You can't get too
00:41:32.760 wrapped up in it.
00:41:33.800 Politics is downstream
00:41:34.660 of culture.
00:41:35.240 Culture is downstream
00:41:35.940 of the cult,
00:41:37.460 of what the culture
00:41:38.180 worships,
00:41:38.800 of God.
00:41:39.860 And there are much
00:41:40.500 higher things in life.
00:41:41.740 Politics only exists
00:41:42.860 so that we can do
00:41:43.880 the higher things in life.
00:41:45.800 See our families,
00:41:46.960 have nice meals,
00:41:48.240 talk about things
00:41:48.980 that matter,
00:41:49.780 enjoy art and culture
00:41:50.820 and worship
00:41:51.300 and all those things.
00:41:52.700 That's, you know,
00:41:53.620 I think in America
00:41:55.200 in particular,
00:41:56.160 because we have
00:41:56.720 such a strong civic religion,
00:41:58.240 especially on the right
00:41:59.220 because we're patriotic,
00:42:00.280 we like the American flag,
00:42:01.460 it's a grand old flag,
00:42:02.720 you know,
00:42:02.860 that kind of thing.
00:42:04.100 Because we have that,
00:42:05.520 there's a temptation
00:42:06.200 to treat politics
00:42:07.140 as a religion
00:42:07.860 or the American
00:42:08.920 political idea
00:42:10.580 as a religion.
00:42:11.480 It's not a religion.
00:42:12.320 It's downstream
00:42:12.800 of religion.
00:42:14.020 And things that are
00:42:14.900 downstream of religion
00:42:15.760 are going to get corrupted
00:42:16.620 and they're going
00:42:17.280 to get kicked around
00:42:18.020 and they're going
00:42:18.400 to go bad
00:42:19.000 and they'll get
00:42:19.540 a little better sometimes.
00:42:21.020 Put not your trust
00:42:21.720 in princes.
00:42:22.440 You just don't do it.
00:42:23.660 You're going to end up
00:42:24.180 disappointed.
00:42:26.000 Jesus knew this
00:42:26.840 and Socrates knew this
00:42:27.920 and Jesus took to the cross
00:42:30.500 so that we don't have
00:42:31.360 to worry about all of this.
00:42:33.060 And Socrates,
00:42:34.120 in the time before
00:42:35.420 the first century,
00:42:37.420 drank the hemlock
00:42:38.400 because he understood
00:42:39.560 this too.
00:42:40.620 So, you know,
00:42:41.200 he didn't want to die
00:42:42.180 but he was given the choice
00:42:43.260 and he knew politics
00:42:44.020 was always this way
00:42:45.600 and there were higher things
00:42:46.860 than politics.
00:42:48.300 So, don't worry about it, man.
00:42:49.820 Politics is going to be like this.
00:42:51.380 Lower your political expectations.
00:42:53.240 Your expectations
00:42:53.820 for everything else
00:42:54.800 will increase
00:42:55.520 and your life will get better.
00:42:56.900 Okay, that's our show.
00:42:57.800 I'm going on the road next week.
00:42:58.960 I think I will be
00:42:59.580 in the studio on Monday.
00:43:01.080 Then I'm going to Alabama
00:43:02.140 and New York
00:43:03.500 and Philadelphia.
00:43:05.420 So, I will keep you posted
00:43:06.300 on all of that.
00:43:07.320 The first talk
00:43:07.900 is in Mobile, Alabama
00:43:08.960 on Tuesday
00:43:09.940 at the Alabama Policy Institute.
00:43:11.880 So, Google them
00:43:13.220 and get some tickets
00:43:13.880 if you're in the area.
00:43:15.340 In the meantime,
00:43:15.940 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:43:16.560 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:43:17.560 I'll see you on Monday.
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