Valuetainment - The Biggest Threats To America

00:00:00.000 So we started going through a list of the biggest threat to America, and we have a list of maybe 40 or 50 different things, and we narrowed it down to two things.

00:00:07.920 The obvious threat, and the not-so-obvious threat, and we're going to cover that with you today in the video.

00:00:17.960 So let's go through the obvious first. You know how when people say the biggest threat to America is itself, I have met the enemy of his eye.

00:00:23.080 Great, we know that. China, of course, modern warfare, bio, cyber, nuclear, EMP, those are very likely to happen in the next 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 years. 0.98

00:00:32.180 Debt, taxes, social media, common sense, AI, virtual governments, fear-mongering. These are the obvious.

00:00:38.040 Some may even say these are not the obvious, but we're putting these as the obvious.

00:00:41.140 I want to focus on the not-so-obvious today, with the first one being hyper-anything, but specifically hypersensitive.

00:00:47.760 Today, we are so much about walking on X-shows. Anything you say, you've got to be so careful, because God forbid you say the wrong thing.

00:00:57.100 You know how in the world of business, they would tell you two things you should never talk about.

00:01:00.160 You should never talk about religion and politics. You should focus on sports and others, but not religion and politics.

00:01:05.420 Yesterday, I have a family. One of my neighbors came over for our kids to hang out to get a hedge fund manager worth a couple hundred million dollars,

00:01:11.220 and his wife is sitting in front of me, husband here, and my wife's here. We're having a conversation together. Our kids are playing.

00:01:15.400 You know what we talked about? What do you think we talked about? Religion and politics is what we talked about.

00:01:20.800 Because most people at that level want to have those types of conversations, but today, we're forced to be so hypersensitive,

00:01:28.020 walking on X-shows, that you're forced to be fake. And who the hell likes fake people?

00:01:33.280 You don't even like it when you have to be fake, but we can no longer talk, because it's so hypersensitive.

00:01:38.520 Few have the courage to still do it, but most people are afraid of it.

00:01:41.000 Number two, forced diversity over meritocracy.

00:01:45.220 Forced diversity over meritocracy.

00:01:48.880 I had one of my folks that came to the home office, and they were looking at the company, and they said,

00:01:55.020 Hey, why is it that the majority of the employees here are a certain ethnicity?

00:02:00.280 You have so many African Americans working here. Why is that? 1.00

00:02:03.580 I said, What does that have to do with anything? The job gets done.

00:02:06.760 You know, we have more women than men. I look for people that can get the job done. 1.00

00:02:11.060 It's meritocracy. We don't look for, and in a specific position, we focus on recruiting people from a certain area.

00:02:17.580 Why? Because meritocracy.

00:02:19.140 But today, today, it's about forced diversity.

00:02:23.460 You know, you should be, you know, like the Delta Airlines just announced, forced diversity over meritocracy.

00:02:29.080 Why? We have to announce that such and such percentage is this, and such and such percentage is this,

00:02:34.720 because we have to be inclusive. No, it's meritocracy.

00:02:37.580 Who can get the job done the most?

00:02:39.600 I am from Iran. I'm Middle Eastern.

00:02:42.220 I don't have a four-year. I don't have a two-year degree, okay?

00:02:45.120 You probably shouldn't hire me as an engineer just to meet your guidelines.

00:02:50.560 I am not a good engineer.

00:02:52.080 You probably shouldn't hire me to do a lot of jobs.

00:02:54.500 But when I came up, because capitalism is a meritocracy type of an environment,

00:02:58.760 even without anything on my resume, I moved up simply because meritocracy.

00:03:03.260 We're kind of getting away from that, and it's a little concerning.

00:03:06.120 Number three, extreme ideology.

00:03:08.180 And on both sides, by the way, left and right, extreme, extreme ideology is what gets a nation to be divided.

00:03:15.720 A little bit more in the center, but we got a lot of extreme ideologies today.

00:03:18.880 Again, that's one of the bigger threats.

00:03:20.020 Number four, educational system, okay, that we have today.

00:03:22.860 Professors, they have so much influence over the kids, so much influence over the kids.

00:03:26.700 I had a guy that I was talking to.

00:03:28.600 He says, you know, my daughter and I were best friends.

00:03:30.800 He says, and then I sent my kids to my daughter to UC Berkeley, and all of a sudden, while she's going to school, she started hating me.

00:03:40.240 I've never heard my daughter talk to me this way before.

00:03:42.980 We were talking, and it was a fight.

00:03:44.960 It was as if she despised me.

00:03:47.560 And four years later, she doesn't even want to come back home.

00:03:50.940 She doesn't even want to see us. 0.65

00:03:52.260 She doesn't even want to be at Thanksgiving.

00:03:53.920 My daughter and I were like this together.

00:03:56.700 We were best of friends.

00:03:58.120 Now she doesn't want to see me.

00:03:59.100 How the hell did that happen?

00:04:01.300 Educational system and professors.

00:04:03.020 When you go to school, they're demonizing so many.

00:04:05.720 They're job creators, rich people, capitalists.

00:04:08.940 All these other people confuse, confuse, confuse.

00:04:11.700 The educational system right now needs, and by the way, even if we talk about the educational system on the math side,

00:04:16.720 America's not one of the highest ranking on math.

00:04:18.900 It's more about, well, let's not hurt each other's feelings.

00:04:21.480 New York City the other day, de Blasio just announced that they're getting away with the AP program and the honor program

00:04:27.540 because it makes people feel inferior.

00:04:29.740 Listen, I've never once taken AP, and I've never once taken honors, and I never deserve to have taken AP or honors

00:04:36.940 because I sucked in school and they gave me the right classes.

00:04:39.460 Never in my life have I taken English 101. 0.89

00:04:41.440 Do you know why?

00:04:42.100 Because I was not good in English.

00:04:43.980 Not because I was offended by it.

00:04:45.880 I was simply not good for it.

00:04:47.140 Today it's all about we cannot hurt kids' feelings.

00:04:49.860 No, if you don't do the work, you don't deserve to go there.

00:04:51.680 So, again, the educational system, professors, one of the biggest threats we have.

00:04:55.460 Number five, demonizing success and wealth.

00:04:58.140 So, you know, when you see somebody who is becoming successful, back in the days, it was the life of the rich and famous.

00:05:04.560 People were so curious.

00:05:06.080 Let me see the life of the rich and famous.

00:05:07.380 What is it like to be the life of the rich and famous?

00:05:10.000 Today, you almost don't want to tell people you're rich.

00:05:12.880 Today, you almost don't want to tell people you have money.

00:05:15.100 Today, you almost want to be like, well, no, we're really struggling.

00:05:17.400 You know, it's not really that good, family, because if you do, God forbid, you're rich and famous, demonizing, demonizing, demonizing,

00:05:25.240 where it's almost flipping what the American dream is today.

00:05:29.800 You used to say, you're such a, you're the American dream.

00:05:32.640 This is the American dream.

00:05:34.140 Today, the American dream is a very confusing American dream because they're redefining it.

00:05:37.900 So, we've gotten away from elevating people who are winning and we're demonizing them today.

00:05:43.420 Number six, redefining role models, heroes, which kind of goes with number five.

00:05:47.400 So, imagine when you were a kid growing up, your mom, dad, we used to say, you know, look at such and such.

00:05:51.860 He's such a role model.

00:05:53.460 Look at this cousin of yours.

00:05:55.380 Our grandfather was this.

00:05:57.500 And look at your brother or look at this friend.

00:05:59.640 And it was annoying.

00:06:00.380 You know what I'm talking about when that whole thing was taking place?

00:06:02.140 It was kind of annoying, right, whenever your parents do it.

00:06:04.320 But who was that role model?

00:06:05.820 You, as a kid, you kind of were like, man, one day, let me be that person to impress my mom.

00:06:10.840 Let me one day be like that, man, to make my dad, like, proud of me, right?

00:06:14.200 Those magical words we want to hear from our parents as kids.

00:06:16.440 You know what I'm talking about, right?

00:06:17.400 Okay, today the media is redefining heroes, okay?

00:06:21.580 Today the hero is a person that doesn't want to work anymore.

00:06:24.380 And they're sitting home and saying, well, it's not all about money.

00:06:26.700 I'd rather home, stay home, and take the entitlements from the government.

00:06:29.420 What a hero.

00:06:30.280 You're standing up for what you believe in.

00:06:32.020 We are so confusing kids what a true hero is today that the younger generation has no clue what a real hero is.

00:06:41.060 They're so confused on who to look up to like they used to back in the days.

00:06:45.580 It's redefining the role models that we once used to have.

00:06:49.540 Number seven, opioid epidemic escaping reality.

00:06:53.140 Everybody years ago in the 70s, the Shah of Iran was being interviewed by BBC, and he said that what he thinks the challenge with the West, he says the West is solving problems by taking one too many sleeping pills.

00:07:05.900 Your entire generation is in the sleeping pill generation. 0.90

00:07:08.880 He was saying this in the 70s.

00:07:10.400 Think about 2021.

00:07:12.400 They showed statistics on opioid suicide last year, record-breaking year.

00:07:16.680 And you know what it's looked like since 2010?

00:07:18.540 It's like this.

00:07:19.560 It's like this.

00:07:20.200 96,000 give or take people committed suicide.

00:07:23.920 Opioid, linked to opioid.

00:07:25.420 It is an epidemic that's taking place.

00:07:27.900 And it's another one of those.

00:07:29.000 Oh, you're too much pain?

00:07:30.680 Here, take this.

00:07:31.520 Oh, you're trying to escape this?

00:07:32.460 Take this.

00:07:33.280 Everything's about solving.

00:07:34.500 These doctors are solving any.

00:07:35.880 You send a kid to go see a psychologist or a psychiatrist, one of those guys that can give the prescription.

00:07:42.200 Say, oh, you're going through this?

00:07:43.500 Here, go.

00:07:44.200 Get this.

00:07:44.960 I'm sorry.

00:07:45.640 I'm trying to talk to you.

00:07:46.460 No, no.

00:07:46.780 Just go take this.

00:07:47.760 Take two of these a day.

00:07:48.880 Everything is immediate there.

00:07:50.240 We're not paying a lot of attention to it.

00:07:51.840 This is emotional to me because I lost a friend over this simply because he went with, life is too painful.

00:07:57.220 Take one Vicodin.

00:07:58.220 Take two Vicodin.

00:07:59.140 Take 10 Vicodin.

00:08:00.060 Take 50 Vicodin.

00:08:01.180 Boom.

00:08:01.860 Guy, we lose him years ago, and that was due to opioids.

00:08:04.220 So this is gradually coming up, and the younger generation is being linked to this a lot lately.

00:08:09.360 Number eight, open borders.

00:08:11.460 You're seeing what's going on.

00:08:12.460 It's like, ah, you know, it is what it is.

00:08:14.560 Nah, it's an issue, but it's not that big of an issue.

00:08:17.060 You know who comes up through the borders?

00:08:18.920 Who do you think comes up through the borders?

00:08:20.260 And I'm not endorsing a wall or any of that stuff, although the wall is not a bad idea.

00:08:23.540 But not paying attention to the borders, what do you think happens if there's no borders?

00:08:27.940 When you eventually don't have borders, who comes in?

00:08:29.860 Anybody and everybody.

00:08:31.400 And it's not Latinos I'm talking about. 1.00

00:08:33.600 But Middle East doesn't come straight here.

00:08:36.200 Middle East goes here. 1.00

00:08:37.340 Then they come up.

00:08:38.440 They see the borders, and it's so easy to come to America. 0.94

00:08:40.840 Just go like this.

00:08:42.060 It's a piece of cake for us to do this.

00:08:44.000 Go like this.

00:08:44.600 And we're not paying attention to it too much.

00:08:46.760 As a person who lived in Iran and see a lot of this stuff taking place, and then all of 0.99

00:08:50.620 a sudden the place went into shambles, some of that stuff is taking place in America

00:08:53.940 today.

00:08:54.380 Number nine, inability to entertain opposing ideas.

00:08:57.540 We have a hard time doing that today.

00:08:58.680 We used to be able to do it.

00:08:59.540 We have a hard time doing it today because we get offended so easily.

00:09:01.780 There's no way I'm even going to let you talk about that.

00:09:05.380 It's an opposing idea.

00:09:06.400 Let's just have a talk about it, whether you agree or not.

00:09:08.460 We have a hard time with that today.

00:09:09.540 Number 10, demonizing faith in a higher power.

00:09:12.640 It's almost like thinking about somebody as a higher power.

00:09:15.760 It's like, no, no, no.

00:09:16.540 It's not good for people to have faith.

00:09:18.580 You know, God doesn't exist. 1.00

00:09:20.240 No, you guys are fools. 1.00

00:09:21.760 You're naive if you think God exists. 1.00

00:09:23.560 Let's say you're right.

00:09:24.580 God doesn't exist.

00:09:25.860 Let's say they're right.

00:09:26.880 God does exist.

00:09:27.680 But the reality part of it is the following.

00:09:30.280 You know what happens when a populist loses faith?

00:09:32.720 They no longer think they can stand up to a larger government organization.

00:09:36.920 If you look at Dietrich Bonhoeffer, if you look at any of the communistic regimes, the

00:09:42.000 first rule is to get people to stop believing in a God.

00:09:46.320 The more you stop believing in a God, the less faith you have to stand up because you think

00:09:51.280 you're helpless.

00:09:51.760 Some of the greatest leaders of our time that started a great, where they could stand up

00:09:56.040 to the bigger, powerful people, is they had faith in a higher power.

00:09:59.160 So we're gradually kind of, and by the way, this is not a religion plug.

00:10:02.520 This is just faith, period.

00:10:04.120 We're demonizing faith in a higher power.

00:10:05.880 Number 11, destruction of strong family values.

00:10:08.400 You know, what it means to have strong family values, fatherless homes, you know, what marriage

00:10:12.920 means, what parenting means, what kids, all of that stuff.

00:10:15.600 We're losing some of those values.

00:10:16.940 Number 12 is restructuring incentive models.

00:10:18.920 So meaning, back in the days, in my house, if you read books, you get what you want.

00:10:23.700 That's my currency in my house, right?

00:10:25.500 In a different person's house, the incentive model may be different.

00:10:29.040 Incentive in America, you start a business, here's the tax benefits you get.

00:10:32.900 You do this, you get these tax write-ups.

00:10:34.620 You get this, you create jobs, you get this.

00:10:36.580 We're changing the incentive model.

00:10:38.640 What the incentive is, you stay home and don't work, we'll send you money.

00:10:42.420 Oh, so if I don't work, I get money?

00:10:44.340 Yes, that's redefining and restructuring the incentive model to make you more,

00:10:48.920 you're more liability, you're more relying on the government to take care of you,

00:10:52.860 you have to subtly pay attention to this, because this is changing.

00:10:55.900 This changes behavior.

00:10:56.800 Number 13, censorship, freedom of speech.

00:10:59.820 People are, the fear of, God forbid, I use a certain word.

00:11:04.500 YouTube, the other day, took like 10 of our videos down, just because one word was in it.

00:11:09.060 And what do you think that one word is?

00:11:10.780 10 videos were just taken down.

00:11:12.280 Because simple word being talked about, censorship, freedom of speech, you can't talk about this.

00:11:17.680 That is a very big threat that's facing America today.

00:11:20.540 But again, if you're censoring that, what happens?

00:11:24.380 There's no opposing ideas.

00:11:25.920 If there's no inability to oppose ideas, then how do we learn?

00:11:29.060 We learn through debate.

00:11:30.060 We learn through clash of ideas.

00:11:31.380 We're kind of getting away from that.

00:11:32.420 Number 14, lack of competition, fear of losing.

00:11:36.120 By far one of the best things that helps all of us improve ideas, companies, products, sale, price point, all of it is competition.

00:11:45.520 If there's no competition, nobody has to lower their prices.

00:11:48.560 If there's no competition, nobody has to offer better customer service.

00:11:51.680 If there's no competition, nobody has to pay their employees better.

00:11:54.660 If there's no competition, nobody has to give their employees better benefits.

00:11:58.620 If there's no competition, why would I give you a retirement plan?

00:12:00.760 If there's no competition, why would I give you equity?

00:12:02.720 I don't have to give it to you.

00:12:03.420 There is no competition.

00:12:04.680 Competition is the best for people, for employees, for people that want to do big things.

00:12:09.300 We're kind of getting away from that.

00:12:10.960 And it's all about, no, no, no, we can't have competition.

00:12:13.440 It's more, let one organization have a lot of power.

00:12:16.580 We need a lot of competition today.

00:12:17.940 Number 15 is cancel culture, tied to censorship.

00:12:20.360 God forbid you say the wrong thing or you said something 11 years ago right now.

00:12:24.020 Football coaches going through it today.

00:12:26.240 We don't agree with the comments, but it was said 11 years ago.

00:12:28.500 If you and I got judged based on what we did 20, 30, 10 years ago, all of us would probably

00:12:33.180 lose our jobs today.

00:12:34.200 If everything you ever said was recorded, if everything you ever said was recorded, and

00:12:38.840 something you said 10 years ago you regret, you could lose your job today.

00:12:41.260 That's cancel culture. 0.99

00:12:42.100 That's a little slippery slope for a lot of people.

00:12:44.780 Number 16, pinning people against each other.

00:12:47.000 Men against women. 0.82

00:12:48.220 Whites against blacks. 0.72

00:12:50.280 You know, religious against non-religious. 0.99

00:12:52.180 Parents against kids.

00:12:53.320 Employer against employee.

00:12:54.680 Pin, pin, pin.

00:12:55.660 Man, look, we're in a very competitive culture in America, right?

00:12:59.860 We like UFC.

00:13:01.300 We like boxing.

00:13:02.960 Wilder against Fury.

00:13:04.060 We like competition, right?

00:13:05.840 But that competition is for entertainment.

00:13:08.220 This competition is for division.

00:13:10.080 There's a very big difference between the two.

00:13:12.480 Very, very big difference between the two.

00:13:13.900 17, lack of statesmen.

00:13:16.040 Politicians who stand up.

00:13:17.620 People who get into politics who really don't want to get into politics.

00:13:20.840 Unfortunately, too many people go into politics because they're driven by power.

00:13:23.820 Not enough people go into politics because they want to save this country.

00:13:27.680 And so a statesman's not going in to make friends.

00:13:30.000 A statesman's not going in because he needs to make money on the side like many of these,

00:13:33.260 you know, speakers of houses and governors and congressmen that all of a sudden go in

00:13:37.160 broke and next year they're worth $100 million.

00:13:39.260 A statesman's going in because they want to save this country and they love America.

00:13:43.060 We don't have enough statesmen.

00:13:44.400 We have way too many politicians.

00:13:45.620 And last but not least is gaslighting.

00:13:46.960 You know what gaslighting is like?

00:13:48.540 Misinformation confusing you.

00:13:50.620 Roses are not red.

00:13:51.620 Roses are really green.

00:13:53.120 You just can't see it.

00:13:54.600 3 times 3 is not 9.

00:13:56.180 Why can't it be 8?

00:13:57.620 Maybe it's 8.

00:13:58.800 Maybe in a different dimension 3 times 3 is 3.

00:14:01.520 And you sit there and you're like, maybe he's right.

00:14:04.100 Maybe in a different dimension 3 times 3 is 8. 0.97

00:14:06.820 Confusing the living crap out of you to question common sense, right?

00:14:10.000 Which goes back here. 0.96

00:14:10.760 So these are some of the ones that we have here as well as the obvious ones.

00:14:14.780 I'm curious to know what else you would add to the list of what I just covered here today.

00:14:18.220 Okay, so if you enjoyed today's video, I've got two other videos I want to recommend to you.

00:14:21.240 One of them is an interview I did with John Perkins, former economic hitman.

00:14:25.100 He would go to governments and say, hey, if you don't do this, here's what we're going to do to you if you've never watched this video.

00:14:30.340 Fascinating.

00:14:30.860 And the other one is history of taxes and war.

00:14:33.980 If you want to find out taxes, you know all these different stories that we hear about taxes, well, they've been around forever.

00:14:40.280 You will be very surprised on how some temporary taxes became permanent if you've never watched that before.

00:14:47.380 I would probably highly recommend this over this one here.

00:14:50.080 But you pick and choose which one you want to watch.

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Valuetainment - October 12, 2021

The Biggest Threats To America

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