 G'day mate 40 here. So in the 1960s there was a saying don't trust anyone over 30 So there was this youth revolution and goodness and and wisdom was supposed to reside with the youth and they wanted the power to completely remake their own educational systems to completely remake their own, you know curriculum at university to completely remake society and Obviously that was you know foolishness now It makes me think the kind of the opposite that when it comes to Questions of wisdom questions of politics questions of you know deeper significance Don't trust anyone over 25 car rental companies won't rent a car to anyone over Under the age of 25 why because the prefrontal cortex, right that that self-regulating mechanism Doesn't really come online properly until we're 25. So you'll notice with people in their teens and early 20s have exuberant and exorbitant belief in themselves like above and beyond all evidence that Teens and early 20s they have have these delusions are going to change the world that they have all sorts of talents and abilities that they don't have to the degree that they think they have that they are confident that you know, everything's going to go great for them and It's only until about age 25 that this prefrontal cortex really comes online and people get a stronger sense of reality So people tend to sober up by their Late 20s, right people don't tend to have the same delusions that they've they've carried, you know through their teens and into their early early 20s And so I've been live streaming here on YouTube since 2015 I think since 2017 people have been talking about Nick Fuentes as this amazing political commentator and my reaction always was I'm not gonna seek political wisdom from you know some 17 18 year old kid now 18 year old kids 22 year old kids can provide high entertainment value and people like Nick Fuentes and what James Alsop and Ken Brown Deep Left Jerkel, I mean these guys can provide entertainment value And so occasionally I've checked them out for the entertainment value now What's happened is that they've amassed substantial following because they are entertaining But they've misunderstood that as Confirmation of their deep-life wisdom and so with Ken Brown in particular He's got this delusion that all these people are asking him for life advice and whenever he He talks about what other people are saying to him at least in his latest video doesn't correspond to reality Nobody is saying to him any of the things that that he alleges in this in this video and What makes young people in their lead teens early 20s? particularly wacky is when they don't have a community when they don't have friends to bounce things off so when you listen to Ken Brown or Nick Fuentes or even a rigid Spencer You notice that friendship doesn't seem to play a significant role in their lives that there's no Community like Nick doesn't go to church. I suspect that Ken Brown doesn't go to church that there's not a community that keeps An eye on on them. So for me I would I could never get away with with saying many of the things that Ken and Nick Richard have said because I got friends in a community. He would like call me up and say, you know What the hell 40 if you lost your mind that that's that's completely That's completely deranged. I Mean I couldn't go into shawl, right if I was saying crazy things on here I couldn't then go into shawl and see people face to face I couldn't walk down the street when I run into people on the street who watch my show they either have no reaction mild reaction or You know gratitude and respect Because you know, I'm not saying these crazy things such as what Ken Brown saying in his latest video that if you don't agree With me your mentally ill if you don't share my certain metaphysical certitudes That there's something wrong with you but That just shows that you are, you know narcissistic and solipsistic if you if you don't share my particular theology There's something wrong with you. So There's there's a lack of balance like in people under 25 they they seize on You know some idea that they have chanced upon and then pursue it to some absurd ends Without any greater sense of context, right? We should live Within a constellation of values like truth is a value but also being prosocial is a value and preserving relationships is a value and laughter is a value but also preserving life and minimizing harm is a value and justice is a value But also we're trying to increase tranquility and peace is a value and these values are constantly clashing and So what you see with with people under 25 is they all choose one or two good values and then just pursue them to an absurd degree without respect to Other values in in a normal constellation. So I Think it's wonderful that Ken Brown wants to dedicate his life to serving God But his dedication to a life-serving guide seems to be completely bereft of community and friendship and family like Friendship family community play played seem to play virtually no role in his videos I know he went on a trip where he was trying to connect with people. So good for you But overall in his in his videos He doesn't seem to events, you know any sense of family any sense of community any sense of developing a career any sense of studying with people wiser than himself at a particularly either informal or a formal educational setting and So when you're just going off on your own half cocked pursuing, you know an idea, I'm gonna serve God, right? I remember I was like this. I was listening to Dennis Prager and about age 23 in in the summer of 1989 Towards the end of 1989. I said I want to dedicate my life to God and One day Dennis Prager called me and he said look you've called me many times because I called him on his show He said I thought I'd call you because I had also written him letters and At the time I was reading the brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky and I've been reading about the Grand Inquisitor And I talked, you know, I told Dennis, you know, I want to dedicate my life to God I'm gonna dedicate myself to serving the Almighty and Dennis said be moderate about it, right? so when you have friends when you have community when you have family when you have these interlocking human connections, they will tend to make you more moderate and more pro-social and they'll help you to To make better decisions than you would if you just went off on your own When we when we just go off on our own So serving God as as you know, we think best Usually doesn't work out too well because serving God can mean absolutely anything Right unless you have a community to whom you're accountable You can go off and do anything like some have been lied in an al-Qaeda thought they were serving God by Taking down the twin towers towers. There are plenty of Christian terrorists who thought they were serving God by by killing people so Just you and God, I don't trust that I don't trust people his morality is based on their own thinking and you see with it the Nick Fuentes and a Ken Brown and and Richard Spencer that they're so disconnected from other people that they seem to overwhelmingly rely on the Of their own thinking right that they're going to be able to think things through and they're going to find the flaws in their Own arguments and we're just not evolutionarily adapted that way All right, we evolved to think socially like we evolved to be very good at pointing Finding the flaws in other people's arguments so that would be less likely to be manipulated By by other people, but we're terrible at seeing the flaws in our own argument So that's why we need to think socially. That's why we need to be You know connected we will we were born into a tribe. We were born into families a tribe a nation right and We weren't born to think you know metaphysical questions philosophical questions just all out on our own Right, we need other people challenging us and you know often face-to-face looking as looking us in the eye and That way we develop empathy for other people for their experiences and We often see the limits and the shortcomings and the failures of our own thinking And with the Nick Fuentes and the Ken Brown. I'm kind of surprised at how similar they are And how they they both go off kind of half cocked completely Assured of their own thinking that they can they can they're confident They can spot the flaws in their own thinking and they're just going to serve God on their own And they don't need community to mediate anything. They don't need Mentors they don't need, you know priest ministers rabbis. They don't need Guidance that they can just figure it out on their own and it's absurd it leads to the absurd results that we're seeing in the work of Nick Fuentes and Ken Brown and Richard Spencer and other people who don't live life Interlocked and immersed with with others If I had a dollar for every time Luke Ford quoted Dennis Prager, I would be wealthy or Dennis Prager played a huge role in my life and one of the things that Being being connected to Dennis Prager did is it also connected me with with a wider Jewish community and The people may come and people may go But the Jewish community has played a huge role in my life And unless one is accountable to community one is very likely to go off in you know, all sorts of bizarre directions Simply an individualist society like America today That you can just start going downhill and there's there's no longer any automatic stops As you become degenerate as you start, you know Morally declining. There are no automatic stops in our society anymore. You can just keep going right into the gutter Unless you're immersed In invaluable connections with other people and they will say hey You got to cut this out or I can't have anything to do with you so The prefrontal cortex doesn't come online till 25 You know, we can expect entertainment value from people under 25, but we can't expect life wisdom Political wisdom, right? And so just because someone listens to you for entertainment value That doesn't mean that you have life wisdom cultural wisdom political wisdom Religious wisdom, right Nick and ken, you know chose niches that are underserved So there's a great thirst for alt-right commentary That is not provided by the mainstream And so you can very quickly build up an audience if you talk about these these alt-right topics Because there are so few people of substance talking about them So you get an audience far in proportion to what your talents would otherwise deliver for you and then out of that disproportionate audience it's very easy to to get the sense that That your insights are far more valuable than they are I mean we used to call people You know who are autistic didn't didn't we used to call them mentally retarded? And now we just say not not neurotypical or differently differently abled and so There's autistic and schizophrenic, right these are opposite sides of the spectrum. So the autistic Don't really read other people and what's going on with other people. They're not in touch with their own emotions They're not in touch with the emotions of other people. They have no sense of Of the inner life of other people. They have very little sense of their own inner life They're just kind of emotionally barren right, which which seems seems to characterize Much of ken brown's work and then on the other side There are the people of schizophrenic who read way too much into what's going on in the lives of people around them And the the motivation so this the schizophrenic and the paranoid Right, they believe that the whole world's conspiring against them they they over analyze they They believe all sorts of things that aren't there While the autistic Is just completely blind To all sorts of things that are there. So those are the two of the most prominent mental illnesses They they are opposite All right, so you want to have you know, a moderate amount of understanding of other people and being able to tune into them Right, there's no shared reality and there's no shared energy unless you can get on to the same page with other people and Younger people in particular tend to be incredibly self-absorbed. They don't tend to Have a great deal of empathy, but you'll notice by about age 25 to 30 People stop deliberately Shaming and humiliating other people publicly, right that almost never happens at the hands of people over age 30 Because as people age they grow in empathy. So I noticed that when I was going through my health problems in From 1988 to 1994 in particular, but actually nobody in the second half of life was cruel to me but Very few people my my own age displayed much empathy instead they they shied away because They couldn't understand what was happening to me. Therefore I had had to be some, you know, great mental illness on my part or You know, I had something contagious. They just like shied away While people in the second half of life just were overwhelmingly Compassionate and empathic because people in the second half of life they've had enough suffering that Their their understanding of life has expanded while people prior to age 20 they tend to have You know understanding about their own experience and they haven't devoted a great deal of attention to the lives of others and They haven't concerned themselves a great deal with, you know, other people's priorities They haven't internalized that other people are just as real as they are that other people have just many hopes and dreams And and feel things just as keenly as they do But when the prefrontal cortex comes online by about age 25, then you can start to Have more empathy for other people and empathy is a really good place to begin a worldview So that's why I don't trust the life wisdom religious wisdom political wisdom Or cultural wisdom of people under 25 because they're simply not uh Cognitively capable of sufficient amounts of empathy And if you begin from a place of empathy, you're in a place of reality All right, you're you're recognizing your obligations to others. You're recognizing The times that you've screwed up and that you've hurt innocent people you you recognize how your selfishness has wreaked harm on those around you And and from that perspective you're in reality while with Often, you know, the nick fuentes or the ken brown They're on a crusade because They are completely oblivious to the the extent that their selfishness has harmed the lives of people around them Like that doesn't even occur to them. It doesn't occur to them There might be something that they are missing that there is someplace that they've gone wrong Let's have a look at the chat Situational value these lads are in rooms by themselves shouting into a megaphone speaking at people Seeing other people as lesses yes So I shouldn't be trusted I was exaggerating but when it comes to life wisdom and political wisdom Yeah, people under 25 are not a good source of that now At age 19, I had an open microphone to the world Right, I was the weekend news anchor at k high news radio very exceptional for a 19 year old to have You know an open mic mic to the world But I demonstrated that I was a responsible person and I was working within a particular genre news and I never violated that trust so I would report the news for about two and a half years. I was weekend news anchor I did hundreds thousands of news broadcasts never violated that trust but very few 19 year olds have an open mic to the world very few 19 year olds a news anchor as it can just flip a switch and and talk to talk to the community Talk to anyone who's tuned in to am 950 ke hi news radio So generally speaking people don't get those kind of roles until they're at least 25 years of age Now that doesn't mean that you may know some exceptional young people who can be trusted right But generally speaking you don't give the keys to your car to someone under 25 Generally speaking you don't give the keys to your home to someone under 25 Now generally speaking you don't give you know $5,000 to someone under 25 for safekeeping There there are exceptional young people under age 25 who can be trusted in certain situations and It's often entertaining to exchange with them about their life religion politics culture but We all have limited time Why would we Why would we seek out the the perspectives of the 18 year old on politics? Generally speaking when there are so many wiser and more accomplished people to talk to And chat says well goes the opposite way to people over 80 shouldn't be Loud to vote because they barely have any life left They shouldn't have any decisions in voting because they have no skin in the game Well, they have a skin in the the game if they care about people Once you care about people whether it's your own children your grandchildren or your friends or your community You've got skin in the game Don't give the keys to your car to an 80 year old Generally speaking All right Between giving the keys to your car to an 80 year old and keys to your car to an 18 year old Generally speaking You're going to suffer less damage to your car if you give it to an 80 year old All right, generally speaking 80 year olds make far wiser decisions than 18 year olds Pro their flaws Bye. Bye