Ep. 209 - America’s Favorite Pagan Orgy
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Summary
This week, 70,000 weirdos will descend on the Nevada desert to bump uglies, roll around in filth, and worship Moloch. We ll analyze how millennials' favorite pagan orgy became America's most popular religious event, then we will explore why everybody is suddenly transgender. And we will blame our debauched sexual culture on British royalty, as seems fitting. Finally, a primary night recap as CNN fills our leftist tumblers to the brim.
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This week, 70,000 weirdos will descend on the Nevada desert to bump uglies, roll around in filth, and worship Moloch.
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We will analyze how millennials' favorite pagan orgy became America's most popular religious event.
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Then we will explore why everybody is suddenly transgender.
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And we will blame our debauched sexual culture on British royalty, as seems fitting, historically speaking.
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Finally, a primary night recap as CNN fills our leftist-tears tumblers to the brim.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Dirty hippie girls at Burning Man the next day.
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Today, tomorrow, and then you go to Burning Man the next day.
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I was actually hoping, you know, they give me really terrible assignments here.
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I've got to watch the movie about Barack Obama.
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I just said, can you please send me to the weird millennial hippie sex ritual?
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Because I realized that Burning Man is not just a weird festival, electronic music, druggie, dance, have sex with dirty people thing.
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They basically admit it themselves, and they get a lot of people to show up.
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What they do is indistinguishable from ancient pagan rituals, from even modern pagan rituals.
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We will analyze all of those things, because I think basically the people who are participating in it don't really know what they're doing, which is often the case.
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For those who are not familiar with it, and also because I want to see very misguided, hot, young millennial girls dance, can we see a clip of the live stream from Burning Man?
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You know, this is sort of true of all perversion.
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But when you look at this, for those of you who couldn't see the clip, you should subscribe to Daily Wire so you could.
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It's this electronic dance music, oomba, oomba.
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It's got this weird, vaguely Middle Eastern, Indian-sounding music.
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And it's got what appear to be hot women wearing weird clothes and, like, skull masks and animal masks and weird chains and stuff.
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And like all perversion, when you hear about it in theory, it sounds kind of titillating.
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You think, oh, that might be kind of interesting.
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Then you look at it, and it's just mostly horrifying.
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But when you look at it, if this were displaced, if this were in some ancient druidic compound somewhere,
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and you saw people jumping around to these weird beats in strange sensual attire and, like, big animal heads on their head,
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you'd say, oh, yeah, that's a pagan ritual, of course.
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But for some reason, when we see it at Burning Man, we say, wow, how modern, how new.
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If anything, the only new thing was Christianity, which managed to persist throughout the culture for, I don't know, what, 1,500 years or so?
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And now we're seeing what happens when you pull that back.
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So, just a little background on what Burning Man is.
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It was founded by these hippie artist types over in San Francisco.
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And it was a summer solstice festival where, and this is where it gets weird,
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the founders say they spontaneously burned an eight-foot-tall wicker man and a smaller wicker dog.
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And I don't know where you spontaneously come across gigantic wicker people and then, you know,
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just naturally have the idea that they have to set them on fire or incinerate them or something.
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So, it already has a kind of ritualistic aspect to it, a vaguely religious or spiritual aspect to it.
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And then they started doing bigger and bigger ones.
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And eventually, by 2014, I think, the statue became 105 feet tall.
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And they did it in Nevada, in the Nevada desert.
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And it's taken on this decidedly spiritual tone.
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So, this, I just went to the Burning Man website.
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I mean, every person I talk to, I say, have you been to Burning Man?
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But, oh, man, a friend of mine, he's, like, religious about it.
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So, like, I know he's religious about it because it's a religious experience.
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Because I actually don't really blame the very misguided millennials who are going to this.
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They're going because there's an absence of meaning in their lives.
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They're talking about participating in ritual, participatory ritual.
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And this is the quotes that they have at the top of this page.
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Quote, each year the recreation of Black Rock City from the empty desert is celebrated by driving a gold-painted length of steel into the playa at the spot where the Burning Man will stand, and from which point the entire city is surveyed.
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Another quote that they have out there is, this may be the essential genius of Burning Man.
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And if that, obviously, if that isn't religious talk, then nothing is.
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I mean, that's the first lines of Genesis, or out of nothing we create something.
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Obviously, they're not creating something out of nothing.
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They're taking a bunch of hippies and getting weird and dirty around a desert for a few days and then leaving.
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And leaving a lot of exhaust and pollution in the air.
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They go on in this blog post because they have these different rituals that have developed over time.
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That was where I requested to go for my assignment.
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This year the Burning Man will reside in a temple that is dedicated to the golden spike.
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Every space and turning, the entire grid of our collective home, derives from this singular point in space.
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We will mark this spot with an omphalos, a sculpture that will represent the navel of our world.
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Aligning with the spine of Burning Man, this will create an axis that continues upward,
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emerging high above the temple as a gilded spire.
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The sculpture of the man will stand directly on the ground and it will be like every one of us.
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And should you wish to visit him, you must get up close and personal.
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Participants will witness the figure in intimate detail,
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including every beveled edge and compound joint our man crew has employed in fashioning its body.
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Now, for those of you in my audience who are not very high on drugs already, this might not make a lot of sense.
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Fortunately, I assume most of you are on a lot of drugs, you know, psychedelics or something like that.
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And a lot of it sounds vaguely Christian or vaguely Jewish.
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There's any of the temples and the man being the sort of avatar of spirituality.
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And, you know, you see these kind of religious parallels, but everything's a little off.
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So, where it actually comes from, the founders don't grant this, but it's obviously true,
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is from this ancient druidic ritual, which was the wicker man ritual.
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The ancient druids would create a giant man out of wicker and they would burn him and set him on fire as a sacrifice every year.
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Julius Caesar wrote about this in his commentaries on the Gallic War.
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It had fallen into disuse until modern paganism came around.
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What they call this is an act of radical self-expression.
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So, you're saying they build this 100-foot tall man.
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Every year it changes, 40-foot, 20-foot, 100-foot.
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And he's in different positions during the year.
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There was one where they were in a real sensual position where it's clearly people about to, you know, get down and bump some uglies.
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I mean, when we read the Bible, when we read ancient texts, Gilgamesh, whatever,
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you see plenty of people going out into deserts and burning idols and having weird rituals around them.
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But for some reason when they do it, we look at it and we say,
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And then people do this exact same thing on an even larger scale.
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Oh, it's, you know, it's just a bunch of hippies going out and whatever.
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So it's not, it doesn't just stop there though.
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They have 10 principles, a doctrine of Burning Man.
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It's kind of interesting because they seem similar to principles that we would have.
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You can't use money when you're in Burning Man.
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We don't want to turn anything into a commodity.
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But yeah, but man, after that, it's totally, there's no money.
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These tickets cost anywhere from $200 to $1,200.
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You'll hear people say, I'm sure the vast majority, if not all of the people who go there would say,
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Then they talk about radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, communal effort, civic responsibility, leaving no trace.
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Because so much of this is about nature worship.
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So much of the modern lefty mindset is environmentalism, nature worship.
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You have 70,000 people coming out there on airplanes, planes, trains, and automobiles, driving, doing a bunch of drugs.
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They say no idea can substitute for this experience.
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And even here is a very important religious point.
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Someone asked the other day in the mailbag about Gnosticism, the idea that there's a secret knowledge that leads to salvation.
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And Gnosticism is a heresy because you have to do things.
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They say you need to participate in the ritual.
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Practically speaking, what this means is sex, drugs, and bizarre spirituality.
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This brings us to the most titillating part of Burning Man, which is something called the Orgy Dome.
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The Orgy Dome is not the only place at which to have an orgy at Burning Man, but it is the most famous place.
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I had to try to find a PG, family-friendly clip about the Orgy Dome, which took up most of my mourning.
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But here is the most PG-rated one I could find to explain and give you a little bit of a tour of what the Orgy Dome looked like.
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This was a number of years ago, but what the Orgy Dome looks like at Burning Man.
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Our Burning Man theme camp has been heating up the playa with the hot sex fire jam and our famous 24-hour air-conditioned orgy dome for 10 years.
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We have been providing an intimate place for lovers in Black Rock City for a decade.
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The Dome is open to couples and Morsems looking for a safe place to love.
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Let's face it, tents get messy and dirty, far from romantic.
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And if you are sharing an RV, somehow a dome full of sexy strangers is easier than trying to be intimate with roommates around.
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When you and your partner enter the Dome, you're greeted by us and we make sure you know simple safety rules and given a sanitary towel.
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You remove your dusty shoes before entering the Orgy Dome space, where you will find soft lighting, mattresses and couches on soft carpet, and lovely drapery along the walls.
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That, just that voice, just that voice alone makes you think like, ah, get out of here, you, get out, go away.
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That lady sounds like she's been rode hard and put away wet.
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That is a reference, but that is an old farm analogy that is not a dirty analogy.
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I know that you were just watching a clip about an Orgy Dome, so I forgive you for your gutter thinking.
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But there really is this, you hear that voice, you're like, yeah, I've been having a great time at the Orgy Dome.
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There is, it's been estimated, and this estimate comes from four or five years ago, that 5,000 people, over 5,000 people have gone into the Orgy Dome.
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Can you even imagine how disgusting that place is?
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For those of you who can't watch, maybe you shouldn't subscribe.
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Maybe this is a great argument for listening to the show on audio.
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But for those who couldn't see it, it's just filthy mattresses underneath a tent with a lady who sounds like she's smoked six packs of cigarettes a day for 30 years,
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telling you how lovely and wholesome and enjoyable it is.
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But the aspect here that really makes me not want this assignment, even if I could have gotten it, is that everybody is filthy.
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When you get there, you're encouraged to kind of just roll around in the dirt, because there aren't a lot of showers.
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If there are any showers at all, people clean off with a little bit of water or soapy water or something.
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And just people lying around doing drugs in sweltering heat in the Nevada desert for days and days and days,
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and then frolicking around a filthy orgy dome where 5,000 people have been before you.
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If that is not enough to get you to run to church right now, get down on your knees, beg forgiveness, and never leave, I don't know what is.
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The promise of Burning Man is that you're entering another world.
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In this world, you have to clean yourself, and work, and read books, and wake up on time, and take care of people, and have accountability, and cook dinner, and all these things.
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Presumably, you have to get a chick to like you, but I don't know.
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If everybody's hopped up on ecstasy, I don't know how hard that is.
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Even that aspect, it's not like you're listening to Brahms and Beethoven.
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You're listening to music that speaks to what Aristotle and Plato would call the bass passions.
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It's all speaking to that part of you, which is rhythmic and tribal.
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So you're just kind of moving and going with the flow of man.
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Now we can get really into why I don't feel bad.
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I actually sort of feel bad and I don't really judge these hippies because they're in a culture
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that encourages this and where they think they don't have any other choice.
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It's people who, everyone who has ever taken acid or mushrooms or even, I guess,
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They're looking for an experience that is not of this world.
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And the reason for that is all human beings long for another world.
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We are made for another world, which is heaven.
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C.S. Lewis basically translating Thomas Aquinas for modernity.
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All of mankind has a desire for God, a desire for transcendence.
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And therefore, there must be a satisfaction to that longing.
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Unless the world is one cruel joke, as cynics think it is, as nihilists think it is,
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That's what the people are looking for at Burning Man.
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They do the afterburn report over who goes to this thing and who is showing up.
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It's millennials, slightly on the older end of millennial,
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but it's people who have been working day jobs and don't feel fulfilled in that.
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They're looking for some way to regress into childhood,
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You'd think it's like all just homeless people showing up, right,
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to be irresponsible and to screw around and do a lot of drugs.
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What they actually found is that people are disproportionately educated at Burning Man.
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They're people who disproportionately have college degrees or even graduate degrees.
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I think the majority of people who attend Burning Man,
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looking for something that is not being satisfied in their daily lives.
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The breakdown of their religious views is pretty interesting.
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15.9% of people who go to Burning Man say that they're religious.
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So the vast majority, over 84% of people at Burning Man say they're not religious.
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which is very funny because agnostic means I don't know.
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It's like 24%, almost a quarter of people there are agnostic.
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almost half of the people who go to Burning Man.
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And this is something that is really pernicious.
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I've talked about, there was a great book on this,
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An Immovable Feast, which I recommend you read.
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It's on this problem of spiritual, but not religious.
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Spiritual, but not religious defines our generation.
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It's people who want the nice aspects of religion.
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They want that natural human longing for God to be fulfilled.
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But they don't want to have to do anything about it.
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They don't want to have to do anything that they don't want to do.
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You read the Bible, and you see the Jews wandering in the desert.
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And then Moses goes away for five seconds, and they immediately start worshipping a golden calf.
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And they say, yeah, but I don't want to do any of the rules.
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I'm very interested in me, and I want transcendence.
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Spiritual but not religious, that's the lion's share of them.
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So another interesting question, they say, do you belong to a religion or a religious denomination?
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So all of the people who say any religion, paganism, thisism, thatism, Unitarian, whatever,
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about a quarter of people say, yes, we belong to some religion.
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So clearly there's a misunderstanding here with regard to religion.
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We've got to wrap this up, but I really want to get to this point.
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I think some of you might still be looking at me and saying, Michael, you're just, you're
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It's just kids, stupid kids going out and having fun.
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And second of all, they're probably not stupid.
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They're actually disproportionately overeducated or at least overcredentialed.
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It's not, I think that people are misunderstanding paganism here.
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It's not that we're misunderstanding Burning Man or that we're misunderstanding the nature
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It's that people are misunderstanding the nature of paganism.
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They always pretend it's something other, like that they would never do.
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If you read about paganism in any of the ancient myths or any of the ancient histories or the
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Bible or whatever, it's this very different thing.
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You say, I can't, what is, what is, oh come on, that's what old people did before they
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Now we have science, so we can't have paganism.
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In many ways, scientific naturalism has created a new paganism.
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It's the same idol worship of nature that the Hittites engaged in.
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It's the same idol worship of nature that pre-Christian, non-Jewish people engaged in.
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And the main religious right here is the main religious right of those ancient people.
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The weirdo, dirty hippies at Burning Man are engaging in the same central religious right,
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Even that phrase, people are unfamiliar with that.
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The sacred prostitute, Shamhat, is largely responsible for creating civilized man,
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for civilizing this wild man and making him a member of society.
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Judah has sex with a sacred prostitute in Genesis, the sacred prostitute Tamar.
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Herodotus describes the ancient Babylonians as requiring their women to undergo a sacred
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prostitute ritual where they go to the kingdoms of the, or to temples of the love goddess
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and have sex with men willingly for money or not with money.
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The Code of Hammurabi, the oldest legal code in the world, protects sacred prostitutes.
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Specifically, the ancient Hittites, the ancient Sumerians, the Corinthians,
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everybody had sacred prostitutes as a central aspect of their society.
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And actually, the Phoenician cities, multiple Phoenician cities,
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had these sacred prostitutes within the Roman Empire
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Does anyone remember where Constantine comes into play?
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Constantine is the emperor who broadens the appeal of Christianity throughout the Roman Empire,
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decriminalizes Christianity throughout the empire.
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It's only at that point, it's only at the advent of Christianity on a wide scale
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that these ideas of sacred prostitution, these ancient rites, go away.
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Is it just that all of these ancient peoples were weird and bizarre and crazy,
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and these hippies in the desert are just weird and bizarre and crazy?
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What I'm saying is there is something essential in human nature
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that tends toward these things, that tends toward paganism,
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that tends toward nature worship, that tends toward sacred prostitution,
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and the idolatry of sensuality, and the idolatry of sensuality.
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And there is something different in religion that comes into place,
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in Christian religion, in Judaism, which says no to that.
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It says do not follow your basest instincts, your base passions, and your human nature.
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Use your will to aim toward something higher, which is the true God.
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Not these nature spirits that you're worshiping, but the true God.
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And the people constantly revert back to their old ways, their natural ways.
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The people at Burning Man think that they're forming a new society, a new city out of nothing,
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creating a new thing out of nothing, with this novel idea of a barter system,
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as though the barter system didn't predate the modern financial institutions,
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as though it didn't predate our modern system of currency and finance.
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This new spirituality, this new sensuality, there's nothing new about it.
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It is simply the base instincts, even the new music.
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We think this is a new music, like Bach is old and dubstep is new.
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There is nothing in the world that is older than dubstep or EDM or modern electronic percussion music.
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That's the oldest form of music in the entire world.
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The newest form of music is the music that goes higher than that,
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that has harmony, that has melody, that has sophistication.
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It might be 300 years old, it's still the newest music in the entire world.
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Then I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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This is having practical effects throughout our culture.
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It's not confined to a random desert in Nevada.
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This year, Americans are diagnosed with a record number of sexually transmitted diseases.
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I don't want to sound like a prude on all of this, okay?
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There's a time and a place for everything, and that place is college or Burning Man, I guess.
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But this is really becoming a social problem, and you have to call it out for what it is.
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We have a record number of STDs diagnosed in the U.S.
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2.3 million people will be diagnosed with an STD this year.
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That's the fourth year in a row that we've broken a record.
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We're talking about chlamydia, we're talking about gonorrhea, we're talking about syphilis.
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Specifically in the gay community, gay guys are spreading syphilis.
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Didn't we get rid of syphilis a hundred years ago?
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Paganism, our base instincts, are making a comeback, baby, along with syphilis.
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They're having unprotected sex with multiple partners.
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They're having unprotected sex with multiple partners at the same time.
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In the orgy dome, in the middle of the desert in Nevada.
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The madman is not the guy who loses his reason.
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He's the guy who loses everything except for his reason.
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People in that desert are using their reason, but they're not using anything else.
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They're not grounding it in traditions and faith and culture.
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They're going with their base passions and where their illogic leads them in that.
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And this has led to some absurdity in the Me Too movement.
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You've now got a porn actress, Jenny Bly, hardcore porn actress, who is complaining because she
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was treated like a piece of meat on a porn set.
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We'll get into the transgender social contagion, how all of this social stuff plays a role in
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We've got to talk about last night's big primary night.
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I can't get to any of that before I say goodbye to you on Facebook and YouTube.
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There was another wave of censorship that came out this morning.
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You help keep the lights on and covfefe in my cup.
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You get me, the Andrew Klavan Show, the Ben Shapiro Show.
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And you also get to ask questions in the conversation.
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This is the only way, especially if you're going to that orgy dome in the middle of Nevada.
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You're going to want to, you're going to have to take the leftist, leave the Leftist Tears in.
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The salt will help scrub and clean you off before you go into the orgy dome.
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So Leftist Tears, they have so many uses, don't they?
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And she's got a Me Too complaint when she was on a porn set, which is that she said she was treated like a piece of meat.
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Now, is there even a joke to be made about that?
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That is the definition of a porn set, is you're treating your body as a piece of meat.
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She says, by the way, that the director of the porn movie, who she says groped her, came up and grabbed her while he was filming, copped a little feel.
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You know, this guy has the name John Stalliano, and she said that he didn't know.
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He didn't know that he wasn't supposed to do that, but he should have asked my permission.
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But she's an actress in a porno movie, and, you know, last time I checked, those movies don't, that's not like asking permission every step of the way.
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This is a real social contagion because, in this case, porn is a fantasy, right?
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Porn is creating a fantasy and marketing it to people who are desiring a fantasy.
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They're desiring a longing for sexuality, and that outlet is a cheap and easy way out, but it's probably not the most gratifying one.
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This is a fantasy, and other sexual fantasies are spreading as well.
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There was a study at a Brown University that transgender identification is a social contagion, that this spreads around socially.
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The study identified groups of young adults who said that they had 50%, or the majority of them had trans-identifying people within their small group of friends.
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This is 70 times the expected average here of people who have the legitimate social confusion, or psychological confusion, about their biological sex.
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So, clearly, this is spreading in a social way.
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It's spreading because it's being mainstreamed by the culture.
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The study also found that 62% of people identifying with gender dysphoria had some psychological disorder before they identified as a member of the other sex.
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So, before they got confused about their sex, they had some other mental illness going on,
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and almost 50%, 48% of these people had a traumatic event before they had gender confusion.
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That's bullying, that's sexual assault, and that's also divorce.
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They said in their note about this, they sent out a big note to everybody.
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They always come up, but, and then they say, we believe in academic freedom, but we don't really, ha, ha, ha.
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And then they pulled the study because it's politically incorrect.
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This is, I was mentioning this at the end of the show yesterday.
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The politically incorrect thing here is that we're not allowed to say that perhaps our physical ailments,
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our gender confusion, the high increase in suicide, the high increase in drug addictions, in alcohol abuse, in opioid abuse, in self-harm, in all of these things.
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Maybe that has something to do with our sick culture.
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Because that's what this Brown study is saying.
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It's saying people who experience abuse, who experience traumas, who experience the divorce of their parents,
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are more likely to have these mental problems, including gender confusion.
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This brings us down to this day in history, which was actually yesterday in history.
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In 1996, Prince Charles and Princess Diana got a divorce.
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People were so neurotic about the Princess Diana and whatever.
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And the effect of that was so mainstreaming of divorce.
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Now, look, the Church of England was founded because Henry VIII, you know,
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wanted to get a divorce and chop off the heads of his wives and have a male son or whatever.
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So, we can say that Charles and Diana were better spouses to one another than Henry VIII, perhaps.
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But, you've got to remember, Edward VIII abdicated in the early 20th century.
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He had to abdicate the throne because he wanted to marry a divorced woman.
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There was a real sense of seriousness about marriage in the early 20th century that fell apart at the end of the 1990s.
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All of this is connected because what Charles and Diana were just symbols on TV, in the aristocracy, in the royal palace,
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of what was happening around the world, which is that divorce was exploding, especially in the 90s.
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Because many, if not most, of my friends have parents who were divorced.
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And some people made it out just fine or relatively fine from divorce.
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It's an aspect of a sexually irresponsible culture.
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And again, I'm not talking about the time and a place for everything.
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You know, I'm not saying that, you know, when you're a kid you can't experiment or whatever, be a little loose.
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But when you're the prince of Wales, when you're British royalty, when you're on the throne, when you have children, don't do it.
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You have to put other people before yourselves.
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And that sexual selfishness really does seem to go hand in hand with all of these social problems,
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with all of these psychological problems, and all of these health problems.
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Speaking of bad parenting, I've got to go in a few minutes, so I do want to get through these political things.
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We can talk more about weird sex at another time.
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Speaking of bad parenting, there was a student who assaulted another student in class
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because he was wearing a Make America Great Again hat.
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You've got to listen to how the parent reacted to this.
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Video shows some of the tension inside this high school classroom.
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The teacher trying to subdue a fired up 17-year-old senior.
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I don't agree with, you know, grabbing someone's hat and verbally talking to him that way.
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But as far as the issue being brought up, that maybe this is something that needs to be brought up.
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They say one thing and then they negate what they just said because they use the word butt afterwards.
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Says, well, I didn't, you know, I didn't like that.
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But don't wear the hat or you're going to, you know, you're going to get in trouble.
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So in our last minutes here, I do want to cover the primaries last night because they do show very good signs for November for Republicans.
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Anything could happen, but these are pretty good signs.
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So in Arizona, Martha McSally beat out Kelly Ward and Joe Arpaio.
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Probably a safe candidate when we get into the general election.
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And then the real story for Donald Trump is in Florida where Ron DeSantis won his primary.
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Then Trump comes out and endorses Ron DeSantis.
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This shows us that even in a swing state, even in a place that really matters, Florida really, really matters in 2020,
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Everything is going very well under his presidency.
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I took the lid off my Tumblr and just put it underneath the faucet.
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Here is the mainstream media freaking out over Trump's popularity.
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Last week was a tidal wave of bad news for this presidency.
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And this president and his approval ratings stayed the same.
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So I wonder, I mean, if that's not going to move the needle, is this John McCain thing going to move the needle?
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And forgive me for being skeptical because I was under the impression, as was most people, that when Donald Trump came out and said he was not a war hero,
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he likes the guys that don't get caught back in 2015, that people would care.
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And when I went out and I talked to Republican voters, they didn't care at all.
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But 43 percent is both a very high number when you realize that that many people are so deluded as to believe this guy's a good president.
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And a lot of independents have left Donald Trump.
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They have much more in common with John McCain.
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So you have to draw a distinction between hardcore Republicans who, as Trump said, he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue.
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And a much really larger group of people who go in different directions depending on the election.
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You know, nothing that Jonathan Alter said is true.
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According to his daily presidential tracking poll, he's doing better than Barack Obama, also a popular president during that time in his presidency.
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But then he says Trump has lost the independents.
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Because all of the awful predictions about Donald Trump's handling of the government have not come true.
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Just to use that one, we use it a lot because after Kanye West came out, people started tracking the vote among black voters who typically go for Democrats.
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Donald Trump's support among the black vote has more than doubled in just eight or nine months.
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The lady on MSNBC actually has it right at the top.
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Nobody cares about, well, he didn't do and he should have done this and he didn't hold his glass.
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They care about the economy and peace abroad and jobs and STFU.
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I mean, that is like, that's going to be the banner.
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I hate to be vulgar, but we're in a vulgar era, you know, and the left, especially the left is being vulgar.
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The right is being a little vulgar, too, because it's so shocking.
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Nobody cares about the things you're pretending to care about.
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Because Trump is still popular despite all the hit jobs.
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Let's be clear also about what's going on here.
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The theme here is I'm Donald Trump and I'll protect you from the scary black people.
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Antifa is widely perceived as an African-American organization.
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And this is just part of the same story of LeBron James and Don Lemon and Maxine Waters
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and the NFL players and the UCLA basketball players.
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And we never say it or we don't say it enough for what it is.
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He's the only person I've ever heard say that Antifa is a black organization is Jeffrey Toobin on CNN.
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There are all these whiny little white communists.
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There are all these shrimpy little cowardly white communists who put on napkins over their face.
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One, because they're too cowardly and they don't want to get arrested.
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And two, presumably because they're very ugly people.
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We've been doing this crooked investigation and all this insinuation and lying about stories.
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And now we know CNN was lying about a story because Lanny Davis admits it.
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Not 12 hours after Ron DeSantis wins his primary in Florida.
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He went out, he was talking about, he said, he was talking about how his opponent is like
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There is not a shred of evidence that race has anything to do with that.
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But I think this is the game that Americans are tired of.
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Because in the old days, if someone said, monkey it up or monkey around, nobody would
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And the right would pretend that it sounded racist.
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And then we'd all sort of, oh, he shouldn't have said that.
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Oh, he, no, he really, like, why shouldn't he have said that?
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And Trump comes along and smashes all that pretense.
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So now your major pitch to voters, this is your big pitch going into November, is racist,
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The final Democrat pitch going into the midterm elections.
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It says it right in the name, Antifa, anti-fascism, which is what they were there fighting.
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Listen, there's, you know, no organization is perfect.
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But there were different reasons for Antifa and for these neo-Nazis to be there.
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So just because something says something, just because the name purports to be one thing,
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doesn't mean that it's, that it is that, right?
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McDonald's could name itself like the, I don't know, health foods of America.
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They literally wear black shirts, like, like the original fascists, Mussolini's fascists,
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They beat up their political opponents in the street, and they stop them from speaking.
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So now you've got, Democrats have been smart on this so far.
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They haven't defended Antifa because Antifa are terrorists.
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Empty-headed Don Lemon goes out there and starts defending Antifa.
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So the argument going in, we've seen these polls last night.
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We can see very clearly that in important swing states, President Trump's still very popular.
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We also see that the Democrat argument is racist.
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Vote, vote for Democrats, or we'll club you on the head in the street.
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Get your mailbag questions in, because we've got the mailbag tomorrow.
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