00:06:34.700Iran overthrew, the Mullahs overthrew the CIA-backed regime, the U.S.-backed regime, the Shah, and then immediately took a bunch of Americans hostage.
00:06:43.620They killed hundreds of Americans in the Beirut barracks bombings.
00:06:46.320They killed hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans during the war on terror.
00:06:50.760And so, and they were developing a nuclear weapon, which the United States, as the hegemon said,
00:06:55.480they can't do. Okay, fine. Fair enough. I agree in principle. I don't think that line of argument,
00:07:03.020though, is going to work if this war really takes a negative turn. If you start to see a lot of
00:07:09.800American casualties, if you start to see really awful images on the TV, if it drags on past six
00:07:16.080months, maybe a year, maybe two years. I don't think that line is really going to work because
00:07:20.780there was a new start of the conflict, which began about five months ago, that was after a
00:07:29.360discrete conflict to destroy the nuclear facilities a year prior. So it is a vulnerability
00:07:34.740for the administration, and nobody's going to benefit by pretending otherwise. I mean, this was
00:07:39.220why I said, had I been on the NSC, nobody invited me, but had I been on the NSC,
00:07:42.820I would have made the arguments against the war, against the latest war.
00:09:31.060And so he is weakening a lot of the Dem arguments, but nevertheless, Iran is the vulnerability for the administration.
00:09:40.400I don't envy the administration because they had this impossible choice, which was the vast majority of Americans do not want to allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon, and the vast majority of Americans don't want war with Iran, and those two things were in conflict.
00:09:54.080I don't envy the administration, but this was always going to be the most complex thing the administration was getting into.
00:10:18.240And it's the wisdom of Machiavelli in his Florentine Histories when he points out wars begin at the will of any man, but they don't end at the will of any man.
00:10:40.440That doesn't mean, but it just means you have to keep that issue at bay as a top priority.
00:10:44.080Okay, speaking of never-ending inconveniences, I want to talk about modern therapy because there's a really important article in the Wall Street Journal about the horrible damage that therapists are doing to their patients and how the therapists are destroying families.
00:11:03.560And the article doesn't get into this, but I think the conclusion, if you have any familiarity,
00:11:09.780if you have any historical context with what psychology is, the conclusion we have to come
00:11:14.660to is the psychologists are doing this damage because the psychologists don't even understand
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00:13:03.880Distributors, LLC. Really, really good article in the Wall Street Journal. Are therapists to blame
00:13:10.120for the rise of adults cutting off their parents? Many moms and dads believe that their adult
00:13:14.440children are getting bad advice, and a growing number of researchers agree everything becomes
00:13:18.520trauma, we hear. This is from Elizabeth Bernstein. Really, really good article. I'll just give you
00:13:23.140the top line of it. Shoshana Rubley was shocked by her therapist's advice given in her second
00:13:29.840session. So she signs up with this shrink, gives him 300 bucks, and the shrink says, hey,
00:13:36.860you need to cut off your parents. But the counselor was recommended by someone she knew
00:13:41.860and had impressive credentials, so she did as she was told. She cut off all ties with her mother.
00:13:48.320The article asks, is it really good therapy to break your mother's heart?
00:13:51.420listen to these statistics one in four americans is estranged from or has cut ties with a close
00:14:01.200relative at any given time so i either had the ties cut by the other guy or has has actively
00:14:07.200cut ties with a relative one in four americans ten percent one in ten americans is estranged
00:14:15.260from a parent or a child. Can you imagine? Well, statistically, maybe you can imagine.
00:14:21.840This is according to research by Carl Pillemer, a family sociologist and professor of human
00:14:26.760development at Cornell. He thinks one of the driving factors here, the reason why these
00:14:31.900numbers are increasing, is because of tensions over politics and social issues continuing to
00:14:36.860rise. I've seen this firsthand. I've seen it up close. Among some 7,000 estranged parents surveyed
00:14:43.960April, a third of them believe their adult child's therapist had influenced or recommended the
00:14:49.840decision to end the relationship. So is that good therapy? In some cases, you have the parents'
00:15:00.160money going to the children who use the money to pay the therapist to tell the kid to cut off
00:15:07.820ties with the parent. Is that really good therapy? Is that good for the human person? Is that good
00:15:12.920psychiatry and psychology. What are the negative consequences? The journal mentions a few.
00:15:18.880For one, there is no scientific evidence that separating from a close relative is inherently
00:15:25.980beneficial. So right off the bat, hey, hey, yeah, stop talking to your mom or stop talking to your
00:15:33.020kid or whatever it is, says the therapist. There is no scientific evidence that that
00:15:38.200is beneficial at all. There is long-term damage, broken relationships with siblings,
00:15:45.600grandchildren, parents as they age. That is unexpected. As Christine Droney, who's a
00:15:51.080clinical social worker in Pennsylvania, says, you can have somebody die during the estrangement.
00:15:55.720And there are lifelong consequences. So your stupid shrink tells you to stop talking to your
00:16:00.780mom or your dad. Then your mom or your dad dies during your selfish and idiotic estrangement.
00:16:06.440And then you come to regret that later in life, and you can blame the psychologist, but the psychologist has moved on to another patient.
00:16:15.580What are some other negative consequences?
00:16:19.260The Cornell research, or Pillimer, shows that while people who start a cutoff often feel a temporary sense of relief, they also experience, quote, significantly higher rates of chronic unhappiness and depression over time.
00:16:31.640So, not only is there no scientific—I shouldn't laugh, this is very sad.
00:16:36.440Not only is there no scientific evidence that cutting off your family, for whatever reason, makes you happier, there is evidence that it makes you less happy.
00:17:01.060As long as you're paying the shrink's bills, the shrink will hear you out and tell you you're right about everything and nothing's your fault.
00:23:46.960What about the people who actually did get divorced?
00:23:50.100They were no happier after the divorce.
00:23:52.200so our our our modern science especially social sciences especially psychology
00:24:00.980appear to be totally wrong about people they're they're good about dentistry modern science is
00:24:10.520really good about dentistry it's good about electronics it's good about computing it's
00:24:13.460good about transportation it's like very impressive on those things but when it comes
00:24:16.960to people, how people actually work, modern science totally sucks. It gets everything wrong.
00:24:24.040And even it's gotten things so wrong that some modern scientists are beginning to question
00:24:29.320what has been orthodoxy for a long time when it comes to marriage, when it comes to
00:24:33.280relationships, when it comes to family, parents, siblings, whatever. Why is that?
00:24:39.380It is because engineers are actually good at engineering, and it's because mechanics are good at mechanics, and astrophysicists are good at physics and the sky and jet propulsion.
00:24:57.340They're actually good at that stuff. But psychologists really have no competence at
00:25:04.920the thing that they're ostensibly doing, which is understanding the psyche, the soul.
00:25:11.400They neglect the soul outright. A lot of modern anthropologists don't really understand human
00:25:17.380nature because they're writing off so much of human nature at the beginning, the immaterial
00:25:20.000part, the soulful part, the moral part. You can't do that. You just don't understand what man is.
00:25:24.800If you reduce man to some mere bag of chemicals or something, you are not dealing with man.
00:25:29.960Okay, speaking of nature, I want to get to the bizarro world, unethical, deceived, scientific futurists like Brian Johnson, who is cloning himself so he can harvest organs from the baby.
00:31:19.180one of the reasons the prostitution probably should be illegal,
00:31:22.640If that is wrong, how much more so, how much wronger would it be to make a baby that is genetically the same, make a twin of yourself and then harvest it for blood and organs?
00:31:34.620this is this is the theme of modernity this is this is where a lot of the dystopian
00:31:41.540science fiction novels and and movies come from is at least at a deep level a recognition
00:31:49.520that the scientists are not qualified for the work that they're doing
00:31:54.620and so what is the response to that even many conservatives will say well the response to this
00:32:00.700misunderstanding and dearth of education is, we just need more people to study STEM.
00:32:05.540You know, we need more people to study engineering and the hard sciences and this, that.