 The second driving force when it comes to the trans issue is more, I think, metaphysical and epistemological. It's got to do with this notion coming out of, I think, the postmodernists and the generally modern kind of monophilosophical thinking that reality isn't what it is. The facts are not what they are, reality's kind of fluid, there is no truth, there is no nature, there is no identity. And there's a sense in which trans kind of fits really, really neatly into this, a strong, you know, primacy of consciousness. You can be whatever you want to be. You're born a man, you can be a woman, whatever you feel like. Whatever your emotions dictate. So there's this strong push of this, you know, this fluid nature. You don't have to, you know, let's not let nature limit us. Let's not let biology limit us. Let's not let reason limit us. Whatever you feel like. A real, as I said, strong primacy of consciousness, which I think is very, very appealing. A rejection of reality, of facts, of truth, of nature, of the nature of things. And an embrace of anything goes. Anything goes. Complete subjectivism. And this is where, partially where, you know, this idea of 98 genders comes from or whatever. It's, you know, I might, that day's fluid, I feel like a man today, I might feel like a woman tomorrow. Or I might feel like neither on another day, like three quarters man, quarter woman, or something completely new. Maybe I feel like an alien tomorrow. You know, and then when it's applied to race, they kind of, they kind of worry about that. They're not too happy when somebody who's white skin declares that they feel like they're black and they feel they're black. They don't quite buy that. But, you know, they, and they don't like concepts. And they don't like concepts that are too rigid, right, that have actual definitions. That actually means something. They want that too, to be kind of subjective, kind of touchy-feely, kind of, so that, you know, there's the big, you know, debate about what is a woman, you know, they come up with different characterizations of biological women versus women who choose to be women for a day, for a month, for a year, forever. It's really fascinating to watch because it's, it may be more than in any other area, you know, in life, they have taken a real issue, which is these people who are really trans who really do have an issue, biological, if you will, what do you call it, borderline case, which is rare and unusual and at the fringe. They've taken something like that and they've used as an excuse to declare that they are no borders, that there is no clear definitions, that there is no reality, that everything's in flux, that everything is whatever you want it to be. And it's this, it is a manifestation of this dominant, this dominates the left, but is really throughout our culture. And that is this women worship and emotionalism and whatever I feel like, that's what goes. You know, as long as it's in the framework of altruism and collectivism. And all of this is kind of, it's kind of weird and we'll get to this when we talk about the right. It's kind of weird because on the one hand, it's the ultimate fragmentation. Indeed, every individual is a different species, maybe a different gender, maybe a different, because we're all different. So there's a complete fragmentation where, you know, we keep getting to smaller and smaller and smaller groups and more marginal groups and more marginal groups and we're fan-meaning everything. And there are no principles, there's no unifying factor in 99 genders and even those are fluid. So there's nothing solid. It's a complete disintegration, a complete disintegration of the mind. There's no absolutes other than the validity of disintegration. So it's a completely disintegrated philosophy. Well, philosophy is too strong of a completely disintegrated view of the world. And, you know, with anything like that, so on the one hand, they fragmented the smallest of pieces, right? Individuals who have all these different characteristics. And on the other hand, because that doesn't go anywhere, it doesn't leave them with anything, and it suddenly doesn't leave them with anything that is uniting, that drives them, they have to ultimately revert to some form of collectivism to gain all these crazy little individual feeling beings into groups and into collectives and they start categorizing them. So people are now categorized by all these different fragments, but they're still members of group and at the end of the day what really matters to them is the group identity. So you've got this complete deterioration epistemologically of people's ability to think. And the consequence of that are always tribalism and collectivism. And the left is, of course, massively tribal and collectivist. And you see that with the rise of racism in the kind of on the left, racism that demands the majority, those with white skin feel bad about it and those with black skin embrace their suffering as a virtuous thing and demand some form of justice. And you see it in the, you know, either you're with the trans or against the trans, it's all one big, one big, it's again, it's all about tribes. And the way they treat it, Jackie Rawlings, who's a leftist, right, but a feminist, is because she questions some of the tribalistic views regarding trans and it's not that she's against trans, she's not for discriminate against trans, she's quite the opposite. But she doesn't buy into this, you can be whatever you feel like being. And gender doesn't matter and gender doesn't exist and she argues, no, gender does exist. It's why we're fighting over gender and there's a difference between a man and a woman. That's why men tend to abuse women, not women abusing men. And that's why we have to, you know, the whole me too, that's why we have to fight against men abusing us. But if they're no genders and it's all fluid, then that, I mean, she's sane enough to recognize that that's insane. But that's unacceptable because the tribalism have dogma and collectivistic dogma and you either follow the dogma, you belong to the tribe or you don't count, you completely out. So this disintegration ultimately forces people into kind of a tribal mentality They're incapable of thinking, they're incapable of generalizing. They need a dogma in order to be able to survive. But it's a completely fragmented, disintegrated ideology. So the trans issue is perfect for the left. It's perfect for the left because it serves these two strong functions. It both has its core and oppressed group and it challenges and it's subjectivism on steroids. It's complete epistemological subjectivism on steroids that they can embrace and they can celebrate and they can run around and advocate for in absolutist terms. This isn't as amazing how subjectivists have their absolutes and have something that is unequivocal that they know exactly what it is. I'm just making an appropriate contribution on any one of those channels. Also, if you'd like to see The Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.