 Hey, you're on it's Andrew. Hey, Andrew. How's it going? Pretty good. How are you? Good. Good. The conservatives. Yep, they talk they're talking a lot these days about masculinity. Yep, and Don't you think their concept of masculinity is rooted in fear, you know when Josh Hawley talks about it and they associate it with fear of immigrants and fear of you know. Yeah, I think it's I think it's that but I think it's deeper I think and this is this is you know if you look at BAP it's interesting that they're going for masculinity because that's the big critique of bondage perverts and others against the conservatives is that they're not masculine enough that you know and his version of masculinity is anti-mind and that's I think the essence of the view of masculinity the essence of the view of masculinity is anti-thinking anti-mind ultimately thinking evaluating judging is feminine to them and it is the physical action oriented passion driven violence emoting which is what to them is the essence of masculinity and of course that means you view one of things according to their view of masculinity one of the things you learn about the world if you're in the bronze age right in the bronze age the world is zero some game you know this is not capitalism this is the bronze age everything land is finite women are finite it's all a struggle for resources and struggle for women and therefore you kill or get killed and the whole mentality that they have which come which which which partially comes from the view of masculinity or maybe the view of masculinity comes from this is a zero sum world and that's where the fear comes from that is immigrants are taking our jobs they're taking our women they're taking our resources you know it's fear of look at CRT and everything like that they're feminine why they're feminine because they're intellectual the the the thinkers they should be denounced and and rejected not because of their bad ideas but because of of the way they are you know Tucker Carlson applauded when Chinese government made it illegal for effeminate men to be on television what does it mean to be an effeminate man it's it's a man that's not physical it's not muscular it's not in physical in the world so it's it's it's the zero sum mentality of the middle ages of of knights in shining armor who are fighting over again a given supply of land and a given supply of women that that that from which their view of masculinity has evolved and in that sense they're barbarians and and and they're primitive and and and and ultimately they're weak they're weak because what drives is ideas the problem is that even though they're weak ultimately their ideas when combined with religion and you have to combine it with religion because otherwise they have no nothing to stand on is once you combine it with religion they can provide a pretty powerful stance historically from which to oppress and suppress people and from which to to to you know to control so you know that is a follow-up yep sure what do you think what how do you or what do you think of the the adage better to be feared than loved well I think it's barbaric I think it's absolutely ridiculous right better to be feared than love is again is is all about a zero sum fight for resources right in a in a in a life or death battle for resources and in that world women are viewed as resources then yeah you better be feared than love love doesn't give you anything but fear will allow you to gain resources without having to exert too much effort but that's that's a sick world that is a sick world you want to be loved and to be feared is in a in a capitalist society to be feared is meaningless that's what freedom is about freedom is one of the things that freedom this is why I always say objectivism is the philosophy of love it's because it's because capitalism is the system of love it's a system that allows us to love it a system that you know in a sense leaves you free to pursue your values to pursue your loves to to engage in love you're not constantly struggling to survive you have time for love and you have the ability to manifest that love so no fear is a negative emotion love is a positive emotion few of you why should you be feared I don't want to be feared I want to be respected I want to be only somebody people want to trade with they don't trade with people they fear yeah it all presupposes power struggle between people yeah so now it comes on zero some view of the world my gain is your loss that yeah Conan the barbarian thank his political philosophy thanks Andrew thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show if you'd like to support the show we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me you get value from listening you get value from watching show your appreciation you can do that by going to Iran book show dot com slash support by going to patreon subscribe star locals and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those 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 you those of you who already subscribers and those of you who already supporters of the show thank you I very much appreciate it