 Let me begin by kind of giving you my quick run of the state of the world. A one that I think, I think that most of these writers would agree with. BAP, Anton, and everybody who commented on them. The state of the world is that our culture, our educational institutions, and almost an entire political dialogue and debate. A rule today by the left, by, in a sense, a lunacy on the left. And that lunacy is primarily expressed through, I think, what on the extremes of the left could view as a radical form of egalitarianism. And what Leonard Picoff in DIMM talks about egalitarianism is as the most evil idea possible. The idea of the equality of all people, equality of outcome, that we're all the same, equal, metaphysically, morally, in spite of reality, as an negation of reality, that the purpose of the state, or the purpose of education, or the purpose of culture is to show us that equality, to bring about that equality as a moral, political, cultural ideal. And that this is what drives the left's view of sexuality. There is no such thing as male or female or differences between male or female. It's all just fluid. It's all just whatever it is. And it's all just the same. It's all just because there are no differences. Because differences mean inequality in some thing. Well, men might be stronger than women. Well, that's no right, so there can't be such things in men and women. Now, granted, only kind of the wacky left believes this, but most people who want to challenge this are afraid, are silent. I mean, egalitarianism, economically. Let's destroy the fantastic health care that most Americans have, the amazing health care that they have by having insurance. And let's destroy that by giving everybody a pathetic, weak form of national health care that in every other place in the world that's used it has resulted in nothing by mediocrity and people dying, waiting, waiting, waiting, because that's what mediocrity does. It waits. It sits and waits and can't do anything. Egalitarianism is the destruction of life. Best represented, as Don Watkins and I describe in Equal is Unfair, Equal is Unfair, a book I recommend that if you haven't read, you should read. It's available on Amazon. Best represented by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge by death and destruction. Everybody who's ever spied to equality of outcome in any form has only resulted in death and destruction and death and destruction of the able above all else. So we have a lunacy of the left in pretty much everything from postmodernism to the negation of sexual identity to economic suicide and nuttiness and destruction to identity politics which raises up races and organizes them based on who oppresses whom, when and tries to flip it all around. So we've talked about several times about intersectionality on the show. All of that, all of that is today the dominant on the intellectual left, on the academic left. Now, granted, most leftists don't buy into most of this garbage but nobody has anything to say against it. Very little to say against it. And certainly on the statism part of it everybody agrees. Everybody agrees about Ben Kiffler. Well, maybe not tomorrow. Maybe not in one step. Maybe we do it the Biden way and do it slowly. But everybody knows that the ultimate goal is Medicare for all. And ultimately, what does the right have to say about that? Well, nothing. The right, the traditional right, the conservative right agrees with the left on almost everything. They don't challenge them. They're afraid to challenge them. They cower before them. And on economic political issues they adopt their programs. I've often said the Republican Party today is the Democratic Party 30, 50 years ago and the Democratic Party today is the Socialist Party 30, 50 years ago. The whole map has moved to the left politically. And you saw that in Marco Rubio's speech yesterday. So the right has failed in everything, in challenging the left. And indeed, even on those things where the left is right on, you know, gay marriage, you know, the treatments of gays, the right from their perspective, from the perspective of the right has failed. So even when the left is right or when the left is wrong, it's the left that sets the agenda. The right has basically been impotent. It's been unsuccessful in almost everything that it's done. I mean, as BAP writes, whether out of loyalty to the general left or social sphere in which the conservative intellectuals establishment lives or out of simple fear, mainstream and traditional conservatives have completely discredited themselves by failing to oppose the violent radical hatred and other forms of unprecedented insanity coming from the new left. And he's right. He's right. The Marco Rubio's of the world, the people who represent conventional right, the people who represent conservatism have failed and they know it. They've been unsuccessful in challenging what the left has done and they bought into it and we know why. We as objectivists know exactly why because the right has bought into the altruism, has bought into the collectivism and if you buy into the altruism and you buy into the collectivism and ultimately, you're more subjectivist because you're religious after all and you get your morality from another dimension, from some God, you have nothing. You have no leg to stand on. You have no standard. You can preach the founding fathers but they have zero understanding of the founding fathers. They have no knowledge of the founding fathers. They can't comprehend the founding fathers because they are not. Modern conservatives are not men of enlightenment. They are men of post-enlightenment, anti-enlightenment or pre-enlightenment in their religiosity at least, pre-enlightenment, but in their collectivism, in their tribalism, in their altruism, in their altruism, they are post-enlightenment Kantians just like everybody else, just like the left. They share their philosophical foundations with the left. So we have a situation in America today. We have a nutty, nutty, lunatic left that ultimately succeeds step by step. Doesn't think it succeeds because they're so out there that they haven't gotten to the way out there stuff that they'd like to do. But they are moving in that direction and have been for 100 years systematically with almost no stopping. And you've got a right that's impotent in stopping them. Now that creates a huge opportunity. A huge opportunity for somebody on the right or even on the left but predominantly on the right to say, well you guys are impotent. You have nothing to offer. You can't solve our problems. This is what they're saying to the conventional right. You have given up and your strategy is required. And your approach to fighting the left. And look, unites the right today is their hatred of the left more than anything else. So you have failed. You have failed in what you've done. And what is going to rise up are now new alternatives to how to defeat the left and how to create a new and better world. One of those alternatives I think that basically two alternatives to conventional to conventional to the conventional right two alternatives to conventional right that are rising as we speak. And I have a clear view on which one of them will win which one of them will become dominant but there are two of them. The one is a nihilistic right and we'll talk about that because that is clearly where BAP and BAM fall and the nihilistic right where the alt-right ultimately falls where the groipers and the and the whole alt-right ideology falls and a second I think more powerful ultimately more dangerous and ultimately successful is the nationalists particularly the religious nationalists who will oppose both the nihilists and the impotent and lead the right wing towards its promised future so there to me is where the right is three pieces of the right the establishment right the conventional right the right that dominates politics is impotent it's nothing it's no way it's failed it's licking its wounds it has no way to go the nihilist right is on the rise particularly among young people it's inspiring it's if you read everything written about it it's fun it's interesting it's action-oriented it's about doing stuff smashing things making fun of people doing memes online protesting and finally there is where I think the more intellectual right where I think the thinkers on the right are gravitating towards and that is the nationalist right the much more explicitly fascist right the right that is going to take elements from the nihilists take elements of the alt but rally them around a real cause not a cause of just smashing things they'll take advantage of that the fascists always do they rally the nihilist behind them use them as the stormtroopers but rally them towards a cause rally them towards something towards a mission, towards an ideal towards a future because nihilism presents no future and of course you know you can see elements of both in each right you can see elements of nihilism in the nationalists and you can definitely see elements of the nationalist fascist in the alt right they will unite in the end they will serve one purpose and again the nihilists will become the stormtroopers for the fascists they always do they always do the nihilist of the Weimar Republic became the stormtroopers became the SS became the most adamant of the fascist nationalist Nazis so that is the sad state of the right that's where we are today a dead establishment and a more vibrant portion among young people is the alt and the intellectuals are gravitating towards nationalism now what is this BAP BAM stuff now first nobody knows who this guy actually is BAP bronze age pervert he uses that as a pseudo name again hiding his true identity somebody said that the biggest secret right now on the right is people are hiding his true identity I don't know I guess fear of appraisals from I don't know from the left from the conventional right I'm not sure who exactly would go after him he is clearly well educated he is clearly immersed himself in writers like and certainly in the Greeks in Greek mythology in Greek philosophy or at least certain aspects and certain parts of Greek philosophy he has immersed himself in Nietzsche and you can see much of Nietzsche in him in Schopenhauer in many respects in the most fundamental respect he adopts Schopenhauer's called Kantianism and in that sense again he is no different than the left and no different than the conventional right and that's why the outcome will be no different than the outcomes of being throughout the 20th and 21st century what does BAP advocate for? well first for the fact that the world that we live in today is horrific we are you know we are ruled by incompetent nothings our big corporations our businesses our big tech, our big finance are all dominated by the same people who rule our political life by the same type of leftism by the same type of mediocrity by the same time of nothingness generally BAP is very Nietzsche he divides people basically into two maybe three categories the nobody is the what is it called the yeast man or bug man just the average common person who doesn't think for himself who just follows the party line who doesn't care who doesn't live importantly doesn't really live and then there's the great men the men of science and technology but more importantly the men of battle the men of the sword the men of conquest BAP is very much about the physical world BAP is very much about lifting weights but having an amazing male body but emphasizing your masculine strength about being physical out there in the world and he admires physical heroes he admires the heroes of mythology the heroes that use muscle in order to achieve their aims he is he is a pessimist he says Americanism is dead there is no America and he says even when there was an America it was America of white supremacists it was an America that most people wouldn't want today or wouldn't recognize today so he worships a kind of a bronze age an age of heroes age of naked men running around with swords killing the bad guys that is his image of grandeur his image of I guess greatness of masculinity of what it means to be good so again like everything else in these things there is an element of truth it's true it's true that most men live mediocre lives that in the world in which we live most men most women are nothing they have no grand values they don't strive for any great virtue they don't they're not engaged in self perfection and there is a sense in which even taking care of their own bodies has been ignored the obesity epidemic I hate to call it epidemic the obesity phenomenon in America and in many of the western world it really is an expression of self-hatred an expression of resignation an expression of lack of self-interest lack of egoism lack of caring lack of thought lack of reason so there is a sense in which there is a vast majority of people today that don't know and don't strive to what is possible to man what is possible through virtue through great thought through reason to human beings but BAP reason is not important actually there is a section I was going to read you this quote if I can find it now because I've got so many windows open up let's see if I can find it this quote on reason it's somewhere here give me a second oh here here is a quote on reason right no great discovery has ever been made by the power of reason whoa all great discoveries were made by the power of reason no great discoveries have ever been made by the power of reason reason is a means of communicating imperfectly some discoveries to others and in the case of the sciences a method of trying to render this communication certain and precise but no one ever made a discovery through syllogism that's true but that's not what reason is through reason through this makeshift form of transmission but you see this is the problem of reason he doesn't know what reason is and this is the dead end that people get to when they don't know what reason is when they can't tie virtue and morality to reality to success to making your life your own to making your life a success to raising up from this mediocrity or below mediocrity this negation that is just a living death this is why suicide rates are so high in America because life is a living death for so many people it just is uninteresting it's boring it's worse than boring, it's a struggle, it's painful it has no purpose, it has no meaning this is why people like Jordan Peterson are so successful because so many people out there feel that there is no meaning in their life there is no purpose to what they're doing there is nothing noble there is nothing important to strive towards but instead of offering values real values moral values BAP offers weightlifting improving the body he says and I think he takes it seriously although it's hard to tell because of the nature of the alt-right when they're trolling kidding when they're actually being serious he says that beauty is the good the good is beautiful literally they are the same thing ugly people are bad people beautiful people are good people virtue is in beauty now that's pretty amazing because so much of beauty is outside of our control but again this is a Nietzschean a post-continent deterministic view of man a negation of free will a negation of what makes us human a negation of what makes us heroic a negation of what makes us good because good is the chosen good is the chosen good is not what you're born with or happen to be born with I mean read who go to understand that ugliness does not imply vice so what's amazing about this is how enamored these writers are with BAP I mean these conservatives find him fascinating stimulating interesting funny everything I read of him I mean he's a decent writer is pretty conventional filled with what seems to me clearly conspiracy theory paranoia clearly paranoid most of these old right are paranoid he lies he takes all kinds of stuff even on the left exaggerates the power of the left exaggerates the evil exaggerates the influence as most people do who are motivated by fear that's the other thing that's stunning that what drives BAP and BAM is fear what drives the whole old right phenomena is fear and yet they claim to be heroes they claim to be the the heroic characters big strong powerful that people should be afraid of them nobody's afraid of a bunch of cowards who think there's a conspiracy theory behind every action who are afraid of a bunch of lefties who have nothing to say who represents nothing in the world out there in one passage BAP writes I mean think about this he writes if you fail to see that you live in the Soviet Union of 1970s or 1980s or rather something even more oppressive than the eastern block of that time it may be you don't know about the threats financial ruin and mob violence the Trump supporters and anyone really who steps out of line has been subject to since at least 2016 but actually since some time before that really? are you nuts? do you know what the Soviet Union was like? he claims to be a big reader and that Solzhenitsyn is one of his heroes have you read Solzhenitsyn? have you read what the gulags were like? what was like in the Soviet oppression in Siberia? you compare that to anything anything happening today in America we have no gulags we have no concentration camps yeah you might get fired from your job politically incorrect things I thought you were a man have a spine would you want to work for a company that would fire you over your ideas? I mean assuming your ideas were semi-rational I wouldn't blame anybody for firing somebody like that are you really so afraid of Antifa that you have to make them into some kind of big conspiracy theory rather than a bunch of punks alt-left nihilists? but no according to BAP Antifa is the establishment's paramilitary force I mean this is paranoia this is fear this is the ultimate in fear and this is what you'd not expect from somebody advocating for heroism manly-less standing up to the left countering this world give me a break I've stood in front of Antifa there's nothing there's nothing to fear they're impotent alright been going on for a long time now so what we've got today in response to the left in response to the weakness of the conventional right is an alternative right an alternative right that BAP represents the nihilistic version of it oh he's the more intellectual nihilist he certainly is more intellectual than the other alt-right people that I've seen all at the end of the day stand for nothing really beauty is virtue virtue is beauty I mean there's teenage nonsense and indeed there's a reason why the alt-right is a young boy's ideology if you could even call it an ideology it's not there are no ideas there there are thoughts there it's pure emotionalism driven by an emotion of fear driven by a lack of purpose driven by a lack of understanding filled around them a lack of meaning in their lives an emptiness a real emptiness and of course into that void and it is a void into that void yeah somebody says this is Nazism yeah this is Nazism this is the kind of social realism that both the communists and the Nazis projected in their artwork soulless beauty empty empty strength characters and sculpture that have the beautiful masculine heroic supposedly but no soul no meaning no spirit just a body it's this kind of nihilism that led to Nazism and it's the alt-right has to ultimately lead to some form of fascism and of course the alt-right and Bap himself are racists the sexists they hate women they despise women they view women as sexual vehicles and nothing else they don't respect women's intellect women are there to serve men to serve men in what in sex and little else to breed it's a primitive ideology a primitive ideology a pre-enlightenment ideology and again the only outcome of the growth of these ideas and it is growing alt-right is growing kind of you don't notice it because it keeps growing in different places it used to be small and the internet and it's split it up into all kinds of little groups and it's and now when books come out they sell tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of copies authored by these alt-right nuts now the problem is that what the alt-right what the alt-left what generally the people at the fringes society identify is something real and the only solution that people have out there is a reversion to tribalism, collectivism fascism, nationalism to collectivism because all the alts have not broken the paradigm all the alts have just reverted back to an ancient philosophy I mean evil philosophy all the alts are just another version of Continism all the alts all these alternatives to the right and alternatives to the left and alternatives to the status quo they are all just variations on the status quo none of them reject collectivism none of them reject altruism none of them reject sacrifice I mean some of them like this BAP stuff they reject Christian altruism that they reject so they reject the idea of self-sacrifice by embracing the false dichotomy of if you don't believe in sacrificing yourself to others then you must believe in sacrificing others to yourself which is what BAP is ultimately calling for so the only alternative given to you the only alternative presented to you by the left, by the right by the alt-left, by the alt-right by all these people who think they are radical who think they are interesting, who think they are different who think they have invented something new all of what they are presenting to you is the same old altruistic garbage that the only choice in life is between sacrificing yourself and sacrificing others to you that the only choice in life is which group do you belong to and whether that group is strong or that group is weak reason is impotent that inductive knowledge is meaningless that what must rely on is the will is some kind of spirit to guide you some kind of intrinsic knowledge to tell you what is wrong, what you shouldn't do and where you should go and of course nihilism and hedonism are all that is left once you reject reality and once you reject the individual and once you reject morality all that is left is emptiness darkness nihilism there is only one alternative and that alternative requires us to return to the values and virtues of the enlightenment and the only way to return to the values and virtues of the enlightenment are to return to einrand or to discover einrand because it is only objectivism, only objectivism that offers an alternative offers an escape route from the altruism and collectivism and mysticism that dominate every aspect every corner, every part of our culture and indeed objectivism is the only philosophy that offers an alternative to the nihilism the hedonism the emptiness the darkness the meaninglessness the mediocrity of life not just a modern life of life forever of life since the beginning of man since the beginning of man we have been grappling to discover philosophy to discover the right way to live because we are not animals born with genetic instructions on how to live we have to discover it and for most of our existence as human beings we have screwed it up we have been ignorant of what it takes to live a good life what it takes to rise up and become a human being to become a man, to become a woman most of mankind we have been in BAPS terminology bug people we have been nothings, we have been barely surviving we have been somehow struggling to survive and sometimes luckily and through some geniuses own strength some of us have managed to live a good life Leonardo da Vinci comes to my mind and some certainly in the enlightenment the renaissance, the enlightenment and here and there there are characters who seem to live despite of the age in which they are born but mostly people just live with a small little L they survive but life is about more than just surviving it's about living it's about enjoying life it's about being a most in happiness in values in the struggle in the pursuit for values in self perfection in trying to make oneself the best that one can be in driving oneself to be a hero, a real hero a hero of the mind, a hero of value a hero of virtue, a hero of self perfection that's what heroism is about it's about using reason to guide one's life by using reason to make one's life the best life that it can be yes it's about being healthy yes it's about eating well it's about being fit which doesn't necessarily mean bodybuilding which I find to a large extent pretty vulgar pretty materialistic focused on the muscles when the most important muscle is our brain and you can't even see it but that is what shapes who we are and what we are and how heroic and how good and how virtuous we can be because it's the thinking we discover what health is so I have nothing against bodybuilding but the idea that virtue is bodybuilding, virtue is muscle that's the idea that leads to violence no I like the fact that BAP emphasizes beauty but not physical beauty although to be physically as beautiful as you can be as a virtue to be as healthy as you can be to take care of yourself is virtuous but the fact that you are born physically beautiful does not make you good it is the choices you make it is the striving towards surrounding your life with beauty and there primarily that is the purpose of art of aesthetics of architecture of just having an aesthetic view of the world beautiful flowers beautiful sculptures beautiful building beautiful space beautiful environment that's what life is about creating that but to do that first one wants to create your own soul one must understand what to you is beautiful what is heroic what kind of soul what kind of a life do you want to live on for an hour now on quite a rant but the only solution to this quagmire is a true set of virtues and values and that is Ayn Rand that is Objectivism if you want to be a hero and we should all want to be heroes overcoming great challenges to be better to be the best that we can be then yeah you got to take care of your body but more importantly you got to take care of your mind and to take care of your mind and your body properly you need to define your values you need to have a clear in your mind a higher care values what is important to you what do you love why do you love it you have to integrate those values using reason using your life and your happiness as a standard you need to learn how to fight for those values and not give in and not stand down to be the best pseudo name coward but stand up for what you believe in defend what you believe in but first define what you believe in what we need today what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason by the intellect not by feelings wishes or mystic revelations any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of the stare cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist brothers using the super chat and I noticed yesterday when I appealed for support for the show many of you step forward and actually supported the show for the first time so I'll do it again maybe we'll get some more today if you like what you're hearing if you appreciate what I'm doing then I appreciate your support those of you who don't yet support the show please take this 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