 Good day, May 40 here being a little under the weather this week, so I've Got sick Monday night. So Tuesday. I was down for the count I couldn't even watch Netflix for more than an hour that I have to like go back lie down again but by by Wednesday and today I've just been after watch unlimited amounts of Netflix or movies anything else and so I'm like too sick to be productive Uh So I've just been watching secrets of playboy It's this I think it's a ten-part A&E series and it's really good. It's really good the secrets of playboy and and As I'm watching it. Here's what I'm experiencing So I don't like feminism feminism is not a happy fit with my personality I don't find feminists to be happy joyful You know free ebullient larger-than-life funny Flexible tolerant pleasant people to be around all right Feminism and feminists don't connect any of those things to me. I don't have This this world spring of wonderful experiences with with feminists. I just don't have that So pretty much my every experience with feminism And with feminists has been negative But When you when you take feminism on the one hand with which I've never had a positive experience Then natural male sexual nature on the other hand I I realized that feminists Have some important things to say even though I don't buy say the the argument that you know men and women are basically the same Uh, it's just a society that has programmed them them differently So I don't subscribe to almost any of the the tenets of the feminism to the extent that I understand it but When you compare it with just raw male sexual predatory nature when when it gets unleashed Society will collapse. All right, so I don't like the arguments of feminism I don't like the philosophy of feminism. I don't like the effects of feminism on women. It doesn't seem to make them happier More pleasant to be around more joyful more more tolerant more more easy going but you can't have men just trying to hit and screw everything they can and so College campuses for example, they have been you know a hotbed of sexual experimentation Since I presume the 1960s and so now we've got this this feminist led backlash That it is requiring consent for you know every step you make that you know apparently if you try to If you kiss someone against her consent that's sexual assault right and I'm not sure I probably kiss some women with or I mean in in every sexual interaction I've ever had or physical interaction I've had 90 percent I've had to be the The instigator and so I have put my hands on women and there have been times when they did not appreciate it and so realizing that if I touch a woman Against their consent that that's like sexual assault. I mean that's really hard for me to hear But maybe I need to hear it like maybe This is what I've experienced. This is what I've found out at age 55 that there all sorts of really painful Disagreeable distasteful Truths about life that go completely against my nature Completely go against everything that I believe in and everything that I feel and everything that I experience But nevertheless have powerful elements of truth So I don't like feminism. It's not congenial to me. It doesn't seem to make people better But when you you compare it to the world of playboy or just college campuses until the backlash of feminism and the me too movement like The me too movement has certainly got its extremes and it seems to have gone too far But like how did someone like bill cosby just get away with drugging and raping women for five decades And and still be known as america's dad. So with feminists leading the me too movement feminist leading the backlash against Playboy culture leading the backlash against pornography or leading the the backlash against, you know, sexual experimentation on college campuses and hookup culture and they're doing They're doing something that's inevitable because society simply cannot continue where where men They're just allowed to you know, just have a crack at you know, any any woman that they You know, just at least have a go. All right. I mean think how highly distasteful that's going to be for women And so yeah, I'm watching secrets of playboy and recognizing that this is series so far It's making many trenchant criticisms of playboy and playboy has generally had a really polished You know false front put forward by the media and I wrote about this like I wrote about the You know, the weird relationship between Hugh Hefter and his daughter who was running the the playboy empire, right? There's no There's no surprise on my part that there's an enormous downside to the sex industry Hey, Luke. What's happening? You're coming back to Oz from Jim Bowden. I don't know. I've been sick all week. So I'm not Not making any big decisions right now This is my I think this is about my first video in a week. I've just been being down for the count but I I watched this series and and And that's always the arguments that you know, I'm doing this for the girls and I'm doing this for the women and so you hear this special pleading on behalf of women and I don't like that that feminist approach whereby if a woman regrets sex afterwards that she Consented to as an adult that somehow that that's that that's rape all right or this this You know really prevalent notion among many women that that Essentially, they're not responsible for their choices But if they've done something wrong that that's that there's a man to blame for it Somewhere. Okay. So that that victim culture of feminism I'm I'm not a fan of whereby, you know adult women go out and have consensual affairs with, you know powerful men and And then they want to play the victim and they don't want to take any responsibilities. So like Holly Madison was was quite interesting in this series and I photographed her many times And so she she makes a really good case, but uh, you know, no one forced her to To be a playboy playmate, right? She she signed up for that and so You know, to what extent do do women have to take responsibility for their own choices The woman wants to kiss from you. She doesn't want you to ask her for permission to give her a kiss She'll expect you to know when it's okay and not okay to kiss her a good point So what about what about much of my non neurotypical audience? That's that's very confusing what really helped me It's something I I learned from the the pickup artists IOIs indicators of interest So once you get like three IOIs Then you can move in for a kiss or you can ask a woman out and you're not going to get knocked back And so I found that particularly sweet just That that that wonderful clarity that I learned from from the pickup artists You know look for those indicators of interest and then once you get like at least three of them Then you can you can make a move and if you don't make a move that you know One was going to be disappointed and she she may feel bad But if you make a move when she doesn't want it then she's going to feel really angry. So anyway So I'm watching secrets of playboy and I'm thinking Compared to predatory male nature like feminism is an essential course corrective And it doesn't really matter that I if I don't like a philosophy And I don't like the adherence of a philosophy And it feels unpleasant to me And it also doesn't matter if I can philosophically pick it apart And I can see all sorts of moral problems with it if it's inherent in life, right? If it's an inherent backlash to predatory male nature without this backlash society will not Perpetuate itself. You won't have civilization. Then then you know feminism may be Woven into reality and so there are all sorts of parts of reality that I may not be thrilled with So for example the pornography industry, you know, I have to admit from interviewing hundreds of people in the pornography industry There were quite a few people who I interviewed who I objectively to the extent of my knowledge I could not see that they'd suffered harm from being in the pornography industry I'm someone who believes in God but I find a tremendous amount of wisdom and and Necessary correctives to a religious perspective from atheists And I'm someone who's right wing like all my tendencies are right wing I believe that different people have different gifts that hierarchy is no more natural and healthy I'm at ease with you know an unequal distribution of wealth and power Of all these right wing tendencies, but I have to admit I often find you know very thought provoking and cogent rebuttals to To to life that are often very uncomfortable and unpleasant to me But coming from the left and I've think wow, this is this is real and this is making a good point even though I don't like it and uh And then you know various times in my life. I've been very rah rah one particular religion, but At at any time there are all sorts of religions have different gifts Right the gifts of christians and christianity are not identical to the gifts of jews and of muslims That I don't really know much about islam and I don't you know I can't speak about how wonderful segments of it are but There are various forms of christianity that it produced, you know beautiful gifts and so Watching this series the secrets of playboy and like this idyllic Playboy existence for for some people All right for for other people or the very people who experienced as idyllic later experienced as an oppressive cult so just Humble as me to understand that you know when people go through Different phases of their life or different people experience the same thing it can be a completely different Uh different experience two people go through exactly identical experience But because they're different people they they experience it completely differently and so Yeah, just opening my mind up to I don't want to say the wisdom of feminism, but I don't know I'd have greater empathy for for their arguments against the say the predatory sexual nature of men to Have greater sympathy for the for the for the skeptics, right? There's a big, you know, atheist skeptic movement michael schomer the what Decoding the gurus podcast How much I'm learning from the skeptics movement and the the atheist movement? I'm rar rar about my orthodox Judaism that I converted to but yet there's so much beauty and profundity and wisdom that I learned from christians I I got to admit I didn't spend a lot of time thinking about arab suffering or muslim suffering, but I've had some wonderful interactions with muslims and And they were funny and they were pretty and they were female and and we got along so well and You know, I didn't really picture islam as this faith this this way of life that creates, you know great cutting-edge humor, but But I I'm getting to experience it. So so many things that are kind of antithetical to to Where I'm at in life now or to my philosophy or to my nature As I'm just sitting here sick and watching all these documentaries. It's like, oh, wow There's a lot of wisdom in that Well, that's just woven into reality. However much I don't like it And I don't have to like something to recognize that it's it's part of reality And so yeah getting sick is humbling. All right, you know, my whole agenda for this for this week is just, you know Has to be set aside haven't been after accomplish anything. This is the first video I've made in in in about 10 days and so You know getting sick humbles you not being after accomplish anything humbles you Watching these documentaries with points of view that are not philosophically congenial to me but still I recognize as an important part of reality so Humility is accepting reality and when you refuse to accept reality you get humiliated and so I would much rather Go through a lack without So much humiliation shouldn't have taken the back swap the the vaccines for covid You know, do not promise that you'll never get sick. All right What they they do promise is to cut down the amount of hospitalization and death and There is very strong evidence That if you if you're vaccinated and boosted That you're about 1 40th 1 50th It's likely to go to hospital or to die So living with the virus for Australians is taking some getting used to the article in the new york times today Australia once stamped out every covid outbreak now It's done with all that the policy you turn and the soaring case numbers caught many off guard Well, look, there's an appropriate response to a pandemic at one point And then when the facts change you change afterwards in australia public opinion has usually been ahead of policy And I assume that's how it's been throughout most of the western world So I know that most of my audience are dissidents But the fact is the majority of people in america and in europe and australia are supportive of even tougher measures against covid than what we've had So you may not like that, but those are the facts on the ground generally speaking politicians Have been following Popular opinion a popular opinion has been for stricter Crackdowns stricter Lockdowns Than what you've had So melbourne australian so 95 percent of adults in australia are vaccinated So that doesn't mean you're going to be immune from getting covid Does mean you are substantially less likely to be hospitalized or to die The coronavirus is now milder. This is the new york times It's the heart of summer After a long year and a half of snap lockdowns and closed borders Australia the government says is ready to live with the coronavirus ready for the authorities to get out of people's lives And let them make their own health decisions Hit the pub enjoy life spend some monies Some money, but many australians that seem weren't ready. Yeah, so the the majority of the population has been quite supportive of strict lockdown measures And so now that the government is opening things up a lot of australians are lagging behind And just because the government was for lockdowns at one point doesn't mean that it's going to be for lockdowns forever All right, there seems to be pretty substantial evidence that lockdowns were prudent health policy and prudent economic policy at times with regard to an influenza like like covid So when one state south australia announced that it was ending extensive intensive contact tracing a facebook group popped up so people could do their own well The enthusiasm for that has has diminished So after australia's prime minister scott morrison declared lockdowns the thing of the past So many residents of its two bigger cities stayed inside anyway It's a macron spike that was labeled a shadow lockdown. Yeah, so Whether the government officially pronounced lockdown policies Or not people generally speaking abided by lockdowns whether or not it was stated government policy Okay, look are you going to ottawa canada in support of the trucker? So the truckers are protesting vaccine mandates And I don't have a position on vaccine mandates But i'm not in support of the the truckers So i'm not on board with the truckers like yay freedom So I noticed with my conservative friends I asked them, you know, why they're so skeptical of the conventional wisdom with regard to covid and they say And they say look freedom is more important than than saving lives so I point out that policies in australia probably played a significant role in In reducing the covid death rate in australia to 150th of the per capita death rate of the united states so I That seems to me a pretty strong argument for australian policies And their response is there are things more important than human life like freedom And I think there are sometimes things that are more important than freedom There's no one value that is always preeminently more important than all other values So freedom is one value safety is another value Responsibilities another value the economies of value You know human flourishing is a value There's no one moral value that is always transcendent above all other moral values all moral values are in constant conflict They're always existing in a constellation with other values in different situations Will determine, you know, which value should be preeminent Luke will be reading the new york times in his hospice bed hooked up to a ventilator receiving his sixth booster telling us the vaccine is safe and effective So there are no there are no guarantees in life All right So I could get up here and be very pompous about any particular public policy or any particular health Health policy. So for example, I was raised a vegetarian. I was raised as something at venus and so Two-thirds of something at venus like observance of the advent of vegetarian As a result of being a vegetarian for 55 years, I have had extensive struggles with fatigue and depression and cognitive fuzziness fogginess All right, and according to my understanding of the studies, this is most likely related to the vegetarian diet That those academic studies about the effects of vegetarianism those studies that aren't carried out by people with an agendas and support vegetarianism Now it shows that they're very significant health downsides to being vegetarian so From where I sit from the way I understand my life experience once I started taking the beef organ capsules had a tremendous return to health like my life was crushed by by The vegetarianism that I was raised with and developed as a habit. So You know some study could come out that could completely invalidate my position tomorrow but that's my understanding of my both my life experience and my my understanding of the scientific literature as being synthesized and presented by people like Nathan Coffness Luke, have you considered that you were sick for a week? Well, I got I got vaccinated in March of 2021 and then I got boosted in September or October and I've had many COVID tests, but I've never never tested positive So death is a guarantee to life. We did ask to be We didn't ask to be born, but we're sure to die. Yes, we're all gonna We're all gonna die. So You have an opportunity to live as fully and freely and as healthily as possible, right? Don't we all want that? Right, so but we're all raised with you know in all likelihood We've all been raised with the equivalent of the affliction of vegetarianism like we all have You know some some burden that we were raised with some some way of understanding the world that we took for granted is right and and then upon reflection we realized that This thing that we took for granted as being right and true and good and wholesome Has constrained and crushed our life in in some way So I think about all the people who were raised religious and just hated it and just couldn't wait to get away And you know, they've often gone on to live, you know, very morally upstanding, you know, great lives And other people who were raised secular and then in midlife. This is quite rare But still some people who have been nothing but secular in midlife realize. Oh, I really need to embrace religion So life is constantly humbling You know, some people seem to benefit from some religion other people seem to benefit from less religion So it's not it's not shocking to me that Australia has shifted its policies on omicron or the united states has shifted its policies with with regard to Covid when when the facts on the ground change I would expect the the governments would would change too So Simon Benson is a doctor in melbourne He's been inundated with Calls from patients unsure what to do after testing positive You do realize the chat says that The vax is at the experimental stage. It's not an experimental stage It's been thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly tested We have no evidence for any vaccine that after people take it and there are no negative results that suddenly negative results happen Years down the line. We have no evidence for that ever. There have been any negative results to any vaccination They've happened immediately So hundreds of millions of people have taken covid vaccines without any negative results And we have no evidence to believe that there could be any negative results down the line So the covid vaccines approved for use in australia in the united kingdom in The united states have been extensively extensively vetted It's it's just absolutely insane to be opposed to to covid vaccination so This doctor in australia says that shift from covid is the worst thing imaginable to suddenly it's okay We just opened the floodgates now. I think that's caused a lot of insecurity in people What life causes insecurity in people like the incentives that we operate under constantly shifting and changing Like you may get a job which restricts your freedom of speech on social media You may get a relationship that restricts your freedom of speech You may lose a relationship and gain a whole new level of freedom of speech We're all operating under constantly changing incentives Take a look around at the state of human health in the 21st century Yeah, we have doubled our lifespan in the last 120 years. Thanks to the globalist elites All right, the globalist elites have given us vaccination fluoridation chlorination Increased sanitation. All right, we have dramatically increased lifespan so it used to be the people died young of You know very easily transmitted diseases from things like filth and sewers and people would Were dying young for thousands and thousands of years from contagious diseases. We have largely restricted that so now people primarily die from things Like heart disease and cancer that take decades and decades and decades to to kill you So used to be 120 years ago that the average life expectancy in In the west was was about 35 40 years. Right now. We've doubled that thanks to those globalist elites Is that the injection site you just wrote? I don't think so. I I am itchy a lot I kind of noticed it maybe the last four months I get itchy a lot. I'm not sure it's hives. I'm wondering if it's my my crystal light Ah done. Well, it's good point 40. You must simply let that plastic bottle go if you need to reuse those containers They need to be changed out after a week third world sicknesses right there You're probably making a good point, but plastic bottles are so much more convenient than glass ones because you know, I drop this And you know, I throw this at the wall if I'm upset And that wouldn't work so well with with a glass bottle and you know, I've been using these for for decades and I've never noticed any Any any downside but Yeah, I have been really itchy So it could be the crystal light Citrus strengths that that I'm consuming or it could just be I'm I'm at an increased level of anxiety to the last four months so I didn't take much with me to Australia aside from my crystal light and my My chewing gum, but I did take my purea mother of all creams So as I start getting itchy often get itchy in the night, I just wake up and I just lather this purea mother of all creams. I found it on amazon to Reduce the itchiness, but uh Yeah, a lot of a lot of itchiness over the last four months. It must be must be psychological If your back's positive, what do I think about natural immunity? I'm all for natural immunity vaccine immunity Any way you can you can increase your immunization in ways that serve you I think is wonderful With every advancement in healthcare the human form will mutate itself to fill the new bizarre niche it allows for says bruce Luke is the poster child for frequent vaccination at least Thank you for not saying that I'm the poster child for frequent urination I mean, I'd much rather be the poster child for frequent vaccination but In in my family, we simply can't walk past a public bathroom like It's it's part of the illers donlos syndrome 30% of the population is obese. Yeah, I think it's more like 40% or 50% but still We've got obese people, you know living into their 80s. All right. We have doubled our lifespan In the last 120 years, you know, thanks to those globalist elites High sugar makes you itch dry skin streaming on youtube makes you itch too Morbidly obese with a heart condition diabetes. No problem. We have some injections for that. Well Obviously, it'd be better if people took better care of themselves so that they're not morbidly obese with a heart condition and diabetes But we don't really know that much about what causes heart disease So the recommendations of like heart surgeons and In various health societies are constantly changing, you know fat bad fat good Saturated fat bad. I'm saturated fat good. It's all constantly changing We don't really know that much about the mechanisms of heart disease and cancer And we're never going to eradicate cancer All right, so people are going to die. We may be after You know lift the the average, you know life expectancy a few years but It's hard to know definitively, you know what diets have what effect on health Because how are you going to test them over a long period of time? Or you can do is take the diets that people report But you can't just keep people in a laboratory so that you can have control of what people actually eat We have a public health industry now that has our best interests in mind The public health industry has our best interests in mind as much as the sports industry or the gambling industry or the religion industry, all right, but Where are people living longer than in first world industrialized countries? All right, so if we've doubled lifespan last 120 years to me, that seems fairly significant If we just do what they suggest, we should be fine. Well, the things they suggest are constantly changing as the evidence changes Eat with the grain of your ancestors and you'll be fine. That's that's an opinion, but there's no evidence for that You might have to live in medical slavery dependent on some kind of medication to string out miserable lives long. Well For example, diabetics, you could take away their insulin and they would die right so I know I know diabetics who've gotten to live decades and decades and decades of productive high quality lives because of medications like insulin So I I don't see, you know, what's what's wrong with insulin? There are certain people who need insulin every day Additives artificial colors prepackage junk. Yeah, but we don't have any strong evidence that that's killing people early You may Emotionally not like it. You may find it aesthetically displeasing and you may have theories that this is killing people early and making them really obese But we don't particularly have much evidence Okay, fine, we can't eradicate cancer, but what about eradicating feminism? No, we can't eradicate feminism either because different groups will have incentives to Seek out their own groups best interests So feminism wants to increase female choices and decrease male choices, particularly with regard to sexuality Maybe those people who are diabetic, maybe they should just eat healthier and exercise Yeah, but there are millions and millions and millions of people who are diabetic who even if they ate healthier and exercise They would still be diabetic and without insulin they would die so Many people their lives will significantly improve if they exercise but exercise is not getting to cure all health challenges Bye. Bye