00:04:27.500Uh, one of the things that you said that I found really helpful was just saying that
00:04:30.920one of the reasons why our overlords can get away and our culture just at large can get
00:04:36.060away with being so fake is because of the accrued capital that's come from like the industrial
00:04:43.180revolution or, you know, just the last hundred years of accruing just as a massive amount of
00:04:50.940wealth. Like Doug Wilson says it like this. He says like, you know, the prodigal, when he took
00:04:55.220his father's money, he didn't, he didn't spend it all, you know, overnight. It took a while for him
00:04:59.660to actually, cause his, his dad worked hard. His dad was wealthy. So it's, it's a lot of wealth
00:05:04.540that you got to burn through. And one of those things is it's not just the capital and the wealth,
00:05:08.560but it's also when you think about how people work today, how they produce, because of innovations
00:05:14.800and technology and all these kinds of things, it allows for us to pretend, especially when we think
00:05:20.000about gender, it allows us to pretend that there really is no difference between male and female,
00:05:24.760because once upon a time, in order to produce, in order to work, you actually require physical
00:05:31.040strength in a way that we don't necessarily require it today. And so I thought that that
00:05:35.260would be interesting to talk about the dynamics between men and women and those kinds of things
00:05:39.060and how, you know, so. Yeah, no, I was just, I was just, when I, when I read that first chapter,
00:05:43.960it reminded me of something I've had conversations many times with people and they've been thanking
00:05:48.740me for the videos I do or whatever. And one of the things they'll often say is it was nice to
00:05:53.760know that I wasn't crazy. Yeah. Right. And, and that, and that is people because, because your,
00:05:59.120your your families are real your kids are really like you're you know especially christians they've
00:06:04.040got a a lot of times a connection with reality but then they see how fake everything is and they
00:06:10.220start to wonder maybe i'm crazy right yeah when they see others that are like that well i guess
00:06:15.060i'm not yeah that's where the fakeness comes in here right yeah yeah absolutely i mean and that
00:06:19.860that's part of the design too is um they want people to be isolated and alone so that when
00:06:25.580when you notice, oh, things are not right. Everybody else is still, you know, plugged
00:06:31.180into the matrix and you're not, and you feel like you're the one that's taking crazy pills
00:06:36.640and, and you, you're completely alone, right? You have nobody alongside you that says,
00:06:42.520no, things are really bad. So yeah, when, when you read, when you discover that, you know,
00:06:47.140there are other people that think like you do that see these things are this way, it's a huge
00:06:51.140boost you know you're not you're not alone you you aren't they want you think you are but but
00:06:56.040you're not and um that's that's part of it and and to one of the things joel said um it isn't it
00:07:03.500isn't just the the material wealth that that was accrued over the last 100 or 200 years that were
00:07:09.960uh you know the equity were were quickly burning through um but it's also it's also every other
00:07:15.860form of wealth like social capital um and and just um inherited a virtue uh across an entire
00:07:24.680society and civilization um that took you know decades centuries millennia to accrue and to
00:07:32.560build up like the idea uh and you would see this um i remember you know like when i was in college
00:07:38.600that's when the the new atheists like uh were doing their thing like christopher hitchens and
00:07:43.200and daniel dennett and james lindsey yeah that's right oh yeah oh yeah like he was he's the young
00:07:48.060guy like these are all the old guys but yeah they they were doing their thing and saying you know
00:07:52.380they were always arguing that oh like i remember christopher hitchens was always like oh no man
00:07:56.800man can be good without god we we can have virtue without god and in in those days in the early
00:08:03.8402000s you you could say stuff like that right you could say uh because you could you could just be
00:08:10.160naive and think, oh no, we got, we got all of this social capital and a fairly virtuous, stable,
00:08:15.760well-ordered society just randomly. It just, it just appeared out of nowhere because that's how
00:08:20.760human beings are. And today, you know, in year of our Lord, 2023, um, they can't make that same
00:08:27.940argument anymore, uh, that the world is actually very brutal, brutal place. Um, you know, even just
00:08:34.080the idea of being able to have a a society where i come from very small town and growing up at least
00:08:42.280nobody would lock their doors a lot of people still don't they don't lock their car doors and
00:08:46.100and when i went and lived in bigger cities you know i tell people this that's where that's what
00:08:51.460people do there uh they couldn't they couldn't fathom that like how could you not lock your home
00:08:56.300when you leave like you're gonna get robbed um and uh and that's that's that's what's happened
00:09:02.000across our entire civilization. You used to be able to have very safe communities where people
00:09:09.480could live in peace. And that didn't happen by accident. That kind of world was built across a
00:09:15.340millennia of Christian discipleship. And we've burned through that very quickly, especially in
00:09:19.940the last 20 years. And so this idea that man could be good without God, well, that's a much
00:09:29.960harder argument for these people to make and and people are beginning to see this now that you you
00:09:35.380actually need the the capital that's been built up over generations to um to be able to have a
00:09:42.020functioning stable society and and it's gone right gone and and so the question is and this is this
00:09:47.560stuff we'll get into over you know all of these episodes that we're doing is how do you how do you
00:09:53.560as an individual right what can what can one man do you know in a world that's gone insane right
00:09:59.540What can one man do in a world that is, you know, burns down cathedrals that took us, you know, two centuries to build, right?
00:10:06.440I think that, like, the burning of Notre Dame is kind of a, almost like a visual symbol of what has occurred, where here's this cathedral, you know, hundreds of years to finally complete, and most of it burns down in a single day.
00:12:21.180And it certainly seems like that's happening, you know, where we're over time we've been engineered into this fakeness and all that capital that you're talking about is kind of, you know, been, you know, we've been taking it out, not depositing anything back in.
00:12:34.260And now it's like we got almost nothing.
00:12:49.100Like I've told, you know, people, and I know you guys have probably said the same, but like 2020 was a mercy from the Lord in the sense that things got worse, but they got worse finally bad enough and quick enough to where, you know, maybe somebody would notice.