 All right, let's start over. Hey everybody, welcome to your Unbrook show on this Saturday night. I hope everybody's doing well I think it's Saturday. I have to say that my whole conception of time and dates and what our it is during the day and what's going on has been completely messed up by the by jet lag by the you know, I left I left Seoul South Korea at 10 a.m. I think it was around 10 a.m. Thursday morning and I arrived in New York at 9 a.m. Thursday morning So it was actually time travel. I actually gained an hour By traveling 12 hours anyway, it's It's very confusing But and then of course I flew into the past as Katharine says and then of course I had a layover in In New York for I don't know six hours. I think and then got on another flight From New York to Brazil. The whole thing is over 30 hours. So I'm a little Discombobulated is that a word something like that. Anyway, I am in Sao Paulo It's the first thing you notice when you step out of the plane in Brazil is Nobody's wearing masks Which is so different than Korea and In Japan where everybody is wearing masks I mean everybody and and where everybody's wearing masks and they're wearing masks indoors and outdoors. So Mask wearing is ubiquitous. It's everywhere. Even people just walking in the street, even if they're alone Is is it's quite striking here and of course in the net once you land in the US you walk out Very few people are wearing masks in the airport Once you get to Brazil almost nobody is wearing masks anywhere in the airport outdoors indoors anyway, so It is It is interesting, you know, it's it's one I guess aspect of the the many differences between Brazil and Brazil and in Asia In many respects one can't think of cultures that are more different Brazil and Asia So it is it is interesting I got a lot of comments when I posted this on on on Twitter asking well How does you know I wonder where people died more of covert? Well, I mean, that's pretty Pretty clear that Brazil had more excess deaths from covert than Asia as you had very few particularly South Korea and Japan that did a very good job of tracing Contact tracing in the early days of the pandemic. So they really shut down the disease without locking down without locking on the societies They really shut down The disease in terms of effecting large numbers So they got control of this much better than people did in the West without the kind of draconian measures They were done in the West and they wear masks and at the margin masks reduce Reduce getting getting covert. So far fewer deaths in in in Japan and in South Korea then in Brazil for whatever that's worth and South Korea and Brazil because they didn't really shut down during covert Didn't suffer the kind of economic consequences that many countries in the West did from lockdowns They didn't lock down. They were much better about You know isolating pockets where the infection was Being transmitted and and in a sense isolating them from from the rest are locking down only the people who seem to have It there were better testing and they were better than isolating and in Japan and I think the stroke Korea, but certainly in Japan vaccination rates are very very high. So Covert is really You know, very few people have had covert in Japan and Korea There's very little natural immunity from actually having it But you know, the fact that they wear masks today is is absurd and ridiculous the variants of covert right now are not like threatening for almost anybody and Outdoors it never made any sense to wear masks outdoors and and it was interesting it was interesting that in in There was a thing where everybody's getting a picture taken and I was there and I was not wearing a mask and everybody else was standing around We have masks and I said take your masks off and They were so embarrassed to take their mask off. It's almost like the mask has become a way particularly I think for the for the girls for the women to To to hide behind right so this one girl took off the mask and she had braces on and she kept covering her mouth So, you know, you couldn't see the braces and it was like it the mask has now become a tool of Almost fashion or a tool of concealment or a tool of if you don't have the mask on they feel a little embarrassed It's kind of Jennifer's is kind of a security blanket and I think it is and it particularly for for teenagers I think it's a way of of of covering up So it's Yeah, it in that sense, it's spooky on the other hand, you know if you compare So Brazil doesn't have any of that Brazil everybody's none of that exists you know, but Brazil of course I was I was After my event yesterday, I'll talk about the event in a minute I was after the event I was out calling an Uber and I had my phone in my hand and I was In in a main street in Sao Paulo and I was kind of, you know, putting in this stuff that you put in an uber And another people came up to me people from the conference people I know and said don't do that You know, yeah, hold on to that phone really really tight Because in Sao Paulo, it's known that if they can see your phone Somebody will jump out of the car grab your phone run into the car and in escape. So And this I know this from from years ago when I was in put a leg at a hotel And I've you know in what looks like a very affluent area a very safe area But everybody says don't take your phone out. Keep your phone deep in your pocket Keep your phone somewhere where they can't see it. They will grab your phone and they will run away. They will steal your phone. So Brazil is a place where Phone jacking is that a term phone jacking But generally crime is very very high. So so now, you know in Brazil when I have my phone and I'm calling an Uber and everything I'm holding it very very tight and I'm very very careful But people don't grab and take your phone in London not nowhere near the rates I've seen I've never seen people really pickpocketed in London where's I've seen people pickpocketed in Rio de Janeiro Literally kids pickpocket and run run away, you know crime is if you look at the statistics Brazil has a very very high level of both property crimes in terms of theft and violent crimes You know the story in Japan and Korea is you could basically put your iPhone You could put your iPhone on the pavement and walk away and come back an hour later, and it'll be exactly where you left it So, you know stuff is completely and utterly safe Completely and utterly safe in in in Asia. So that is that is pretty It's pretty amazing. It's a it's a Yeah, I talked to a lot of Americans who live particularly in South Korea attracts a lot of Americans Australians Brits Canadians who go there to teach English and then like it and they stay and you ask them Why did they stay and a big reason is that that life there is So comfortable, you know the place is a clean the public transportation runs on time In and is efficient and effective you can get everywhere You know, you live at a pretty high standard of living the technology is good I mean the quality of the internet for example in Korea was was outstanding and And it's super safe you can walk around any time of night or any place or anywhere You don't have to think about the neighborhood you're in or anything like that and And you are and you are fine And I think a lot of people that sense of safety that sense of calmness that sense of you know the Wealth is all very attractive and while somebody mentions traffic while traffic is really bad in those cities a lot of the people don't drive so If you avoid driving and given that the subway system particularly in Japan is super efficient You can get anyway You can get anywhere without Without Without any problem James says I recommend a book called the future is Asia by Pamang Parang Khanna He makes great references on why the future we Asian and population is one reason but Population is exact reason why Asia's in deep deep trouble Asian population generally is gonna start shrinking if it hasn't already shrunk Korea has the lowest birth rates in the world At under 1.85 it has the oldest population on the planet. Japan is a little better I think 1.2 birth rates and and their shrinking China Might see a reduction in population between 30 to focus 40 percent in the next decade or two You know you might have I'm not sure what the situation is in places like the Philippines or Indonesia and Malaysia, but at least The more advanced countries the wealthier countries Taiwan China Japan South Korea have massively shrinking population even India even India is seeing birth rates tumble dramatically and with the potential of those birth rates Going below replacements. So you've got a massively aging population in In Asia, so, you know just on the on the basis of population I would say that it's going to be hard for them to be the future and then of course you do have these challenges of collectivism the mask is I think I think an illustration of that collectivism and conformity you do have the challenges of authoritarianism in in China and You start really really Being challenged around Around Asia being what Asia really being the future, you know, I'm I used to think that but the more The more Yeah, anyway I'm sorry. I'm distracted by where some of the questions coming in. So, yeah, so I Doubt that you're going to see a significant You know huge growth in Asia because of that again unless there are countries out there that have populations increasing but those are not the countries that have been at the forefront of of Asia of Asian economic and political growth Jennifer asks These are just Asian related questions. Do you think emotional repression is common in Japan? Do you think they have trouble forming intimate relationships? You know, I don't know again. I'm exposed to I'm exposed to I think the Japanese who are who don't I They don't give off a sense of emotional repression these are Japanese that That are more that are interested in objectivism and they tend to be, you know, quite quite good and Not necessarily Anyway, they're most of a passion doesn't seem to be there, but you do get a sense and this is this was certainly in Korea You don't get much response from them They were difficult audience when you lecture in front of them that there's not a lot of responses Not a lot of emotion. There's not a lot of asking questions But that is more they don't want to stand out if one person asked a question like in many places This is also true in the Midwest and in Scandinavia What's the first person question ask questions others do and then after the lecture that come up and say how much they enjoyed it And so on but you don't get a lot of emotion on their faces particularly with masks on from it now The lack of marriage the lack of romantic relationships the lack of sex that That supposedly exists in this country might suggest that there is a lot of emotional repression there. There was that movie About the guy who the Japanese guy is married But on the way back from work. He starts taking dance lessons and that helps him Come come out of a shell and get out of this emotional repressive. It was an excellent movie I thought it was really well done and really powerful and could apply to a lot of different cultures, not just Japanese So there is some emotional repression in that part of Asia not just in Japan suddenly in Korea is very similar I could tell just in kind of the interacting I had with young people in Korea that Again, there was there's just you talk to them and some of them are nodding and but there's very little emotion They don't ask questions So there is this there certainly is a level of emotional repression In in both cultures on the other hand, you know, they'll come up to you. They'll say how much they enjoyed something They'll they'll engage So like every way it's it depends on the person but also it depends on on the context and I don't know enough about Kind of their intimate lives their personal lives, you know, the way in which they live their lives to be able to really tell you How how repressed how repressed it all is At that level right in terms of intimate relationships. I just don't know I just don't know that the reality is that they're not getting married When they get married they get married very late they're not having kids and Again based on survey data based on all this research and this is generally globally not just in in Asia But particularly I think in Asia. They're not having that much sex. So I Also read somewhere that You know in both countries Korea and Japan are the Japan it's more on the surface and in Korea. It's more suppressed prostitution is very prevalent that is Korean men and Japanese men use Sex workers Quite frequently. I don't know how that relates to Western countries, but the numbers seemed very very high and that would fit into repression and not Not kind of Really committing to intimate relationships So so Using using prostitutes as a as a replacement for intimacy Anyway, you know, there's a lot, you know, we've talked about we've talked about this Daniel says prostitution should be legal in many respects. I think it is legal in Japan or at least aspects of prostitution, maybe not full-on prostitution, but but but Where it is not in Korea. That's why I said in Japan. It's more on the surface in Korea. It's more underground All right, so Yeah, we can talk a lot more about Asia and I'm sure we will in the future There's you know, Asia is an important part of the world and a lot of stuff is going to be happening there Particularly because of China and we'll be talking about China a lot. We could talk a lot about the culture We can talk a lot about the culture in In Asia as as opportunity As we have opportunity to do so quickly an update on on Puerto Rico as you know Puerto Rico is hit by Hurricane my wife was there alone Which was not the plan Lesson learned don't leave home during hurricane season Or the peak of hurricane season, which is September But it's it's been rough as you know, you probably from the news probably Puerto Rico Significant portion of Puerto Rico does not have electricity. Suddenly our neighborhood does not have electricity So we are running off of a generator You know that is always risky With the generator the generator can break there is now potentially a shortage in in of Of diesel to run generators The internet has been in and out because the internet company relies of course on electricity And also it has substations that got hurt by the wind. So they're trying to Fix their system. So the internet has been surprisingly good given the hurricane but Still in and out You know the elevators in our building broke down. It's just been it's been a You know rough ride for Puerto Rico and and from a wife in Puerto Rico, so Yeah, September is not a good time for me to be traveling Probably a good time not to be in Puerto Rico, so maybe maybe both of us should not be in Puerto Rico during September We will see also so Yeah, it's it's it's it's rough. It's rough Let's see, what else do we have In terms of just catching up Yeah, so let's see yesterday yesterday, we had an all-day conference in well, it was two days. It was Thursday and Friday We had a two-day conference in San Paolo on Objectivism I was there Talsfani the CEO of the Ironman Institute was there and Aaron Smith and some others were there and We Yeah, so so You know, we had a good attendance. I think it was over a hundred people Who were there? Brazilians in Sao Paulo came from a number of different places around Brazil It was a lot of fun. Brazil is you know, if if Asians have repressed Brazilians are the other way around Wow Vadim, thank you. That is That is amazing Vadim just gave three hundred dollars. I really really appreciate that With a question, so we'll get to the question in a little bit. So Brazilians are very vibrant very warm. You know, it's very easy to Lecture in front of Brazilians. It's very easy to do Q&As with Brazilians. They always have questions. They jumping up and down they get excited It's it's it's a lot of fun Brazil generally is a fun place to be in spite of the high levels of crime and that you have to grasp your Your cell phone really really hard and you have to watch it But the conference was fantastic. It was a lot of fun. You know, I think there's a lot of energy in Brazil around I ran there always has been I've been coming here for now. What over 10 year about 10 years and and it's it There seems to be a real vibrancy. It's also true that in Brazil. There's a I ran is quite popular a lot of the Businessmen in Brazil both both the very successful ones the Very very wealthy ones and the younger ones have all read at the shrug There were a number of businessmen organizations all over Brazil in different cities around Brazil Where fountain and al shrug the kind of required reading and everybody reads them and they have study groups that they talk about it. So There's there's a real energy around I ran and around objectivism in Brazil that it's That is unmatched really in any other country in the world. I think and just in terms of the extent the prevalence Yeah Sorry, but I'll be traveling to two more cities in Brazil on Monday. I be I will be in Curitiba I think I'm pronouncing that right and then in Porta Lega. I'll be doing a talk in Curitiba I'll be doing probably two talks at a high school and then a more major event For college students, but also for some of the business community In the evening in in Porta Lega, and then I go to Buenos Aires where we have another two-day conference on objectivism in Buenos Aires so it's It's been it's been from the perspective of lectures and engagement and so on Both Japan and Korea and now here have been have been very positive So I'm excited for all of those. All right, let's let's jump to to Vadim's question just because it's a $300 question, so I'm going to give him priority If Vadim asks before we get to kind of Putin and all that stuff buddy mask I have a harder time could I have a hard time convincing my wife that a photo picture is not art The way I understand it is art is a concretization of an abstraction a Seen through a lens of human consciousness the reverse process of concept formation Versus a photo where portrait where portrayal Portrait a reflection of light Yes, the the so so a a Artist is a recreation of reality It's a recreation of a reality that allows the artist Or that in a sense necessitate whether the artist intends it or not necessitates the artist bring his A view of the world into the recreation. It's a it's a manifestation of their view of the world Their sense of life there what I'm going to call metaphysical value judgment the value judgments about the most The most fundamental questions The questions about the nature of reality the questions about the the relationship between you as a human being and reality That gets reflected into the process of recreation when he snapped a photo You Would what the photographer is doing is is choosing the frame but in terms of the content of the frame There's there's little in his control at least that's true of of I'd say You know old-style photography there was some control obviously you could do the setting you can set the lighting You you can also you could also in development make changes But today With photoshop, you can actually make significant changes to a photograph and you can embed it with your Value and value judgments You can make photos more like art. So I would say the photography Has become in in the hands of Really really You know creative And and and and good photographers Photography is becoming more like art than it was and you know than it was of you just take, you know snapping a photo The more control the photographer Manifest in the photo it both in setting the the the frame in terms of setting the scene and in terms of what they do What they do post-production in in photoshop Then The more art like it becomes Where is that border when it shifts from one to the other? I think that's very hard to tell and And you would have to you would have to evaluate The photographer and the photographs Um To assess that some photographs are more reflective of of an artist's metaphysical value judgments And some photographs are more recreation than they are just representation So it has to be a recreation of reality not just reality a photograph typically is just Here's a copy of reality But the more We're changing that The more we're controlling that the more it becomes a recreation of reality So I think the lines are blurring with some Photographers and some photographs And it's hard. I think always to draw a clear line of of of okay. This is art and this is not when it comes to photographs All right, let me also answer this quick this uh 50 question from west because it's on the topic We just discussed do you think it's too late for the rest of the world to do anything about north korea? Do we just have to wait for it to collapse on the inside? Well, I mean, I I don't think it's too late. I think it's too late because I think the rest of the world is weak and and uh Indecisive and and pragmatic and inconsistent. I think, you know, trump illustrated this well with with his is is groveling and his courtship of You know best buddies was it, uh, you know best buddies with with the buddha dictator of north korea But a world that was committed to it I absolutely think they they could do a lot with north korea for example You could eviscerate the nuclear program That is this this idea that uh nuclear north korea is inevitable that we just have to accept it that we can do anything You know, why aren't we sabotaging it? Why aren't we uh making it clear the consequences to north korea? Why aren't we Doing everything we can to destroy the capacity to launch nuclear weapons Why are we waiting for them just to have it and and I'm not talking about I'm not talking about Economic sanctions, which we have that's not enough and it's not good enough What we need is is to undermine them, you know, the Israelis do a pretty good job of undermining the uranium nuclear program I don't get the same sense that the us or the south koreans are doing the same thing To the north korean program. So I think the world needs to be and should be and can be Much more aggressive about this. I think I've talked about this before We could be knocking down their missiles when they do these tests Um, we could be use our anti missile technology Which I hope south korea has uh, I know the us has I know israel has I hope the Israelis have sold The south koreans the iron dome If not then shame on them And certainly the south koreans should be buying it but Knocked down every time they put up a missile try to knock it down or shoot it down or show them that We're not afraid of them and we won't tolerate it. So it is a lot. There's a lot That uh, the united states and the world could do to undermine um North korea and in a north korean regime But but we won't do it, right because because we're scared. We're we're we don't believe in intervention We don't believe in assassinating foreign leaders. We We've lost our moral courage. We're afraid what will happen if they start bombing soul You know, so fear is is is dominant and lack of confidence and lack of self-assuredness is dominant I mean The most ridiculous part of this is um Is uh, the fact that south korea doesn't do it south korea has this massive incentive to do it and uh And it just you know, it it just basically accepts the existence of north korea it accepts The fact that they've got missiles aiming at soul. They've accept the artillery. They they don't invest I think enough in their own military. They don't enough invest enough in undermining the south korea in the north koreans any way they can So Yeah All right, tomas just again because it's on topic and it's a hundred Well, it's only I guess it's only 20. It's a hundred a brazilian reass, but we'll do it because it's on topic Tomas asks How do you see the future of brazil if lule is elected? And how do you see the future of the country if bolson always elected? I mean look lulu lule is a is a Is a socialist and so I think that his election would be unbelievably destructive Uh to brazil, I think it undermined Under mine, uh, prosperity in brazil it will reverse whatever positive economic positives Uh legislation and positive things were done during the bolson our first Bolsonaro's administration not much was done But what was the the the little bit that was good will be reversed But lule is also a populist. He's not gonna be I don't think he's gonna be You know completely destructive to the brazil economy wasn't the first term Because I mean he he knows that in order to maintain his support He's gonna have to he's gonna have to You know Allow business enough freedom to be able to milk them For for the for the for the benefits that he gains from them so he can redistribute their wealth So I think he's enough of a realist to do that. I don't think he puts brazil on the path of venezuela But he variable mates. I mean, uh, you're playing with fire. You really are Now I think there's a real difference between Um Latin america broadly including brazil and the united states. I you know the Brazil the likelihood Uh, the likelihood is that there's a much higher likelihood that brazil gets taken over by Rabbit socialists just like venezuela Um, and the rest of latin america gets taken over by rabbit socialist Uh, then uh, then there is that they get taken over by um You know, I a right wing authoritarianism. I think the dynamics latin america is prime for socialism has been prime for socialism forever primarily because of its, um You know, it's continental philosophy. It's cantean cantean Leftist German philosophy it it never had You know latin america never had uh the benefit of if you will anglo-saxon philosophy the liberal philosophy um There was more free markets that they never got the enlightenment from england and from scotland They got they they went straight to the french and the british French and the germans and as a consequence of prime much more prime towards Um, uh socialism in the left. So I think both I think I think lulo would be a disaster And and I think bossa now will now be good, right? So the the sad thing is That uh, it's it's a terrible choice that brazil is facing bossa now strikes me as is pretty much of a A kind of a bubbling idiot Um You know with all the wrong instincts. He's a statist Uh, he's uh, again, he's a populist. He's a religionist um But he has Put if you will the right place the right people in Um in economic in the economic positions in the government Oh, the other thing about bossa now is just super corrupt So is lula right lula went to jail for corruption and it still might win the election So they're both super corrupt Um But bossa now has some good people kind of running the economy It's a brazil will probably do much better economically under lula Uh, sorry under bossa now and um But I don't see the prospects of the country very positive either way because neither lula nor bossa now Uh, you know a good in in in a significant way and neither of them will in bossa now will not let The better elements in this government actually Do the things that brazil needs to get done in order for brazil to become Wealthy and successful Prosperous it has all the Potential for that, but it cannot do it because it's got a corrupt status political system and economy All right, uh, we'll get to the other 20 dollar questions Which are not on topic. We'll get to them. Um get to them later um Okay, let me just do one other one james chi because it's on brazil And this will be the last one before we get to talk about putain and then iran How do you view brazil in terms of its future? Do you like sa paolo? Do you feel it has potential to keep evolving to a better city? Uh, so again, you know brazil's future is I think unfortunately bleak right now because uh, both bossa now and lula are corrupt Both of them are statist Both of them are going to be bad for brazil um I think brazil has immense potential always has had the people amazing. Uh, it has incredible natural resources Um, it has some very successful businessman. It has a very entrepreneurial young people like every country really if if you liberated economically it would be it would do amazing It has a large population has a relatively young population So it doesn't suffer from the demographic problems that much of the world Suffers from it's still relatively young um, and it it it could do amazing things If the status got out of the way and and again, paolo gets who is the economy minister in brazil Is a good guy. He has the right ideas. He's influenced by ain rand He's influenced by the austrian economist by milton freedman He if he was given a free hand he could do amazing things, but hasn't so far So i'm i'm i'm skeptical about, uh brazil's prospects um It doesn't so paolo so paolo is not my favorite city. It's it's a big city It's it's not a particularly pretty city You know where my hotel is right now a lot of tall buildings a lot of very modern buildings Which are pretty cool and and it's it's a very nice part of town We were at a restaurant earlier today also to kind of a more expensive nice part of town But sampaolo's us are full of favela favela to the other slums full of slums full of poverty Again crime is is relatively high And You know sampaolo is it's just massive. It's just massive in the traffic. Oh my god It it took an an hour and 40 minutes to get from the hotel to my My hotel that shouldn't be more than 30 to 40 minutes without traffic But traffic is horrific. They don't have the infrastructure to deal with the traffic. We don't have the highway system Uh, they're just too many cars for the infrastructure that exists Um, it's it's just not a city. It's a city that needs a lot of infrastructure to improve Um, so I don't know how the city becomes better without massive investments in infrastructure Now looking on my window at the hotel, you can see some infrastructure going up, but uh, but is it enough? Um, it's it's questionable Could I say when on the chat it says 12 million people live in sampaolo? I thought it was more than that But yes 12 million. I mean my favorite city in in uh In brazil is by far Rio de Janeiro, which is a which is probably the most beautiful city in the world But it's also got problems, you know crime Um favelas poverty all of that is is really is really, uh, difficult Um But uh, you know sampaolo Has great restaurants. It's it's got a vibrant business community There's a lot of wealth. There's a lot of wealthy people who live and work in sampaolo. So, um It's just a it's just a tough place to be because you know, because of the the crime and because of the The lack of infrastructure. So the the traffic and and all of that all right, um Let's see All right, so just just some news items quickly. We'll go over the news including russia and iran Um, just a quick news item. That's just just kind of funny. Um, so uh this week, um The head of the world bank, uh, david malp mal pass david malpass um Was on a panel discussion Uh, and he was asked about climate change and he was asked, uh um, you know something about, uh, about, uh I don't know the science of climate change and he kind of hedged himself and he and he kind of beat around the bush And he wouldn't quite commit himself and he wouldn't quite say um exactly, uh Wouldn't commit to the science. So like he was asked about these things and he said look i'm not a scientist About human caused global warming. So he hedged himself about not being a scientist and so on The outcry was unbelievable. You think the guy had just denied the holocaust or actually, uh, proposed genocide somewhere um and uh you know, but uh So there were demands by al go and others to have him, uh, to have him Fired from the world bank and uh, anyway, just people flipped out over this comet by uh by malpass Anyway, as a consequence of all the the noise and everything he came out and said no, no, no, you misunderstood me I i i'm not a climate denier and absolutely we need to allocate funds to alternative energy Because he's been accused of not allocating enough of the world bank funds To developing countries to deal with climate change and so on Uh, so now he's he says i'm not a denier Uh, you know, uh, i i'm not good at conveying the message I I didn't I I spoke out of turn all this stuff. He's backtracking like crazy Um sad to see, you know, david malpass who's a you know decent economist and and well respected in the field of economics It's just sad to see these people cower before the you know, the climate change fascists and and just and just silence themselves and and Refuse to even ask questions and refuse to accept challenges to the conventional wisdom around climate change um Even somebody smart like him it just completely gives in to the the the kind of the Zeitgeist the the the prevailing views about about climate change and everything else. So Sad to see it. Uh, I wish I wish these guys had a little bit of a backbone Wouldn't that be refreshing and and amazing so Sad sad, I mean, uh, I mean look it's sad on the one hand on the other hand He's president of the world bank. Why would anybody take a position like that? It's a position of a status. It's a position of a of a There shouldn't be a world bank. The world bank should be dissolved. They shouldn't be Uh, redistributing wealth to third world countries. They shouldn't be trying to manipulate these countries by giving them loans below market prices Uh, so the whole conception of the world bank and the imf those organizations shouldn't exist so the fact that he is president Of the world bank is is says a lot about about him The fact that he backtracked the way he did and the fact that he is that he folded the way he did Just I guess reinforces that perception all right, um All right, let's get to some of the media news All right, so as you know, uh, we've been following the war in, uh, Ukraine The the the big news uh following The significant ukrainian victories in russia the significant pushback Uh, where the ukrainian the russians basically had a fold and an exit The whole providence of kovkiv Uh, where the ukrainians in a matter of days reoccupied that territory Uh very quickly and for devastating results for the russians. I mean not only were thousands of of russians killed Tens of thousands were captured or thousands were captured and uh, probably tens of thousands basically taken out of the fight but also Hundreds of weapons were captured from tanks to All kinds of uh You know all kinds of mobile You know transportation vehicles And uh, not to mention weapons and shells and tank shells and and just and just ammunition and everything else All of that were captured by the ukrainian set set back to russian significantly Um, and um, and and I think it's emboldened the ukrainians ukrainians are still kind of chipping away very very slowly At russian positions in the south It's not clear when the ukrainians or if the ukrainians can launch a significant push in the south the ukrainians are also trying to push against Uh The russians uh in the northeast and around liman. I think it's called layman layman Uh and and trying to uh, basically get away the russians have held it till since 2014 really And they're really well established and they're really well dug in But other than that You know it was it was a it was a great few weeks for the ukrainians in terms of just humiliating The mighty russian army the mighty russian army. I mean if anybody has any delusions about the russian army I think they're gone now Putin's response to this uh last week was uh to announce a mobilization of forces Uh 300 000 reserves Uh that are not being mobilized at them although I'm reading in some places that that uh the way the russian authorities have taken putin's thing It's not 300 000 they're actually trying to trying to enlist somewhere around 1.2 million people um The consequence of this announcement that they were gonna enlist a whole bunch of people and call up the reserves Has been panic uh in uh in in russia um A massive attempt at exodus men just trying to men who are uh eligible to be called up through this Through this call up of the reserves Trying to exit the country whether to places like finland Every ticket out of moscow in an airplane was booked up airplanes full of mails just trying to get out of the city out of the country But beyond that um We're just seeing also demonstrations in the streets demonstrations in moscow and st. petersburg and in many other cities around russia Also in the caucuses or in some of the independent Autonomous regions of russia where i think minorities uh where i think minorities control it and um They are there trying to uh Uh, you know refusing in a sense to cooperate with the moscow authorities In terms of uh in terms of listing people Uh, they're saying, you know, what is moscow? What are these russians have done for us lately as i predicted the there's more and more talk about Some of these uh ethnic groups trying to Establish autonomy the chetchins for example Our chetchins afford two wars with russia lost them But afford two bloody wars against russia to try to establish the independence for which they will ask the chetchins Who are led by a guy who is very very much a An ally of putin, but this guy's basically said We're not going to pay any attention to this call up. We're not going to enlist people Um, we're not going to play ball with the with the with the people in moscow Uh, we're holding back for now. We want to see we want to see if if the kremlin is serious about this And again, I think what could happen is you could have See an internal breakup of russia from the inside You can see the chetchins trying to fight for their independence You can see some of these other ethnic groups trying to fight for their independence and russia kind of imploding from the inside But putin is obviously in a in an unbelievably weak position Everything he has Argued everything he has claimed everything he has stood for is really is really collapsed The the regime thought that they could take out the ukrainians in three days They thought they would be able to take care of and replace olinsky with a pro russian President to just get on with life I don't think russia thought they would have to Permanently occupy vast territories in order to in order to for them to Succeed in this war. I don't think the russians expected to lose anywhere between 50 to 80 thousand soldiers either By through death or through just injury I don't think the russians thought they would be humiliated on the battlefield I don't think they thought they would lose as many tanks And as many armored vehicles as they have In many airplanes. I mean at every in every sense. This has been devastating for russia But beyond that, I don't think the russians thought that is a consequence of this of this war Finland and sweden would join NATO, which I think is probably the most devastating of all the consequences For for russia. I mean the fact is that they went into ukraine to prevent ukraine from joining NATO. Well They got a lot worse than that They got they got you know much more powerful enemies now In finland and sweden now committed to NATO Long long border with russia two countries that have militaries that are far more powerful than the ukrainian military So this has been a devastating and and of course the the russian economies that have been devastated They've had a massive brain drain and now they're losing even more You know primarily men Leaving russia. So it's a it's a it's an even greater brain drain on the russian economies to russia russia's uh Struggling uh, putin is struggling All of his actions now out of desperation Of course, uh as part of the mobilization putin is threatened to use nuclear weapons That again is an act of uh ultimate desperation I hope I don't know this for fact, but I certainly hope Uh that the generals within the russian army and others surrounding putin Will refuse to launch nuclear weapons even if putin is crazy and suicidal enough to actually do it Uh, I think there are probably people around him who will stop him Maybe not which is kind of spooky and scary, but but I guess it is possible That uh, we will see the use of a tactical nuclear bomb in russia So You know all we're seeing is A desperate regime A regime desperate for attention a regime desperate for some form of victory A regime desperate for soldiers for weapons for for anything Uh, this is a regime of course buying weapons from the iranians and the north koreans of all people That's the allies now. That's how isolated russia has become the chinese While somewhat sympathetic to the russians won't give them weapons and are not sharing You know military technology with them The indians are not giving them weapons and military technology both countries are buying oil and gas primarily oil from russia, but they're not Militarily supporting them. So what you're seeing is russia further isolated further desperate putin Not knowing where to turn to not willing to give up Not cannot he can't admit defeat So just becoming more and more desperate. Of course the fear is and the and the The real risk is that as he becomes more and more and more desperate That he becomes that he becomes uh, uh more and more of a risk of actually launching You know actually launching a new nuclear attack Um Jeff asks and again, i'm jumping to jeff just because he's asking a question about the topic we're talking about right now Should jeff asks, uh says uh, putin and everyone is evil for initiating conscription Zalinsky did the same thing. It was terrible watching ukrainian men fighting age having to leave their families at the border And go back to defend their country It was although although those pictures many of them were doing it voluntarily some of them obviously were not But yes conscription is awful. It's horrific. It's anti-individual rights. It's evil But again, I I wouldn't can compare A country doing it out of a sense of desperation and self-defense and a country doing it in order to Invade another country. So conscription is evil and bad. It's evil and bad in ukraine. It's evil and bad in israel I served three years under conscription So I know personally the evil of it and the damage it does to and the wasted time and life The only good thing to come out of my army service is that I might my wife there But it's evil in israel. It's horrible in israel and and uh, One of the things we do in israel is is uh, boz arad who runs the ayn man center israel and who is a good friend of mine Has been a friend of mine since the early 80s One of his programs as part of the ayn man center Is a program about privatization of the of the israeli military and ending the draft And ending the draft and And embracing a private professional army for israel. He's got some former generals on his side He is testified in in that the knesset and everywhere else. So I do not think israel is an exception absolutely I think I think israel should eliminate the draft I've said this many many many many times. So this is not something new Um, if you know anything about me, you know, I'm against a draft everywhere So it's just a another knock against some people on the chat Who are trying to attribute to me ideas that I don't have I've always said that a country that cannot raise a voluntary army to defend itself is a country that does not deserve to exist I think that is true of Ukraine I think that is true of israel. I think that is true of every country so It is evil of all these countries, but it is if you were more evil When you're raising that army in order to invade another country in order to initiate force the initiation of force Is is is just horrific because then you're not only doing damage to your own people by initiating force against them and conscripting them Then you're putting them in real harm's way And you're initiating that and you're putting everybody else in harm's way. You you you're putting everybody you're attacking in harm's way as well So the real evil here is on the russian side. Although. Yes conscription Is evil no question about it. Um, all right, let's um Let's keep going. Um, yes, so I'm I'm encouraged to see and I keep getting more encouraged to see More and more the the resistance in russia to um the mobilization to the conscription to Uh, you know bringing uh forcing people to join the military. I don't know if you know this, but some of the anti-war protesters Um, uh, you know, it's like in england in I think the 18th century You know, sometimes the the sailors would kidnap people and enlist them in the army and they would be part of the navy Um, if you were drunk or something like this, they would enlist you Uh, what's happening right now in russia is is some of these anti-war demonstrations They're literally taking people off the streets And and forcing them into military uniforms. They're forcing them into the into the military um as punishment for being anti-war, of course, um These are not going to be motivated soldiers. These are not going to be successful soldiers These are going to be just cannon fodder. So it's horrible and tragic But it's not going to solve putin's problem putin's problems are far deeper than having more bodies He doesn't have enough trained soldiers. He doesn't have enough motivated soldiers He doesn't have enough people who actually motivate to win. He has lousy strategy. He has lousy generals He has lousy weapon systems. I mean the russian military is incompetent and having another 300 000 troops Is not going to change the fact that they're incompetent Russian soldiers are unmotivated to fight having 300 000 additional unmotivated soldiers Is not going to change the outcome russia is in trouble You know through and through in every aspect of this russia is in uh in in uh is in a disaster zone for itself Troy, thank you Troy waiting in To get us over the uh 650 target really appreciate it. Troy with 500 australian dollars. Uh, that's great Thank you, and you can ask a question sometime Um, but it's it's great to have your support so, you know just Disaster for russia. What can we say disaster for putin? Um, but putin's in a corner. He's becoming more and more desperate Which uh, which is not bowed well for anybody particularly for the russians The russians are going to be the biggest victims of all of this and the russians are really suffering Um, I wish I wish uh countries like america Opened doors to anybody fleeing russia right now Imagine the brain drain out. I was just talking to somebody here in brazil Who is living in tbilisi for a few months and he said he had to leave leave tbilisi Because so many russians had moved to tbilisi To get away from russia and away from putin and away from the devastating economic consequence of what putin's doing Uh, they moved to tbilisi and they've doing rents so high that nobody else can afford rents in tbilisi. So, uh Russians are going to places like tbilisi georgia. They're going to places Like turkey But what would be great is if western europe and the united states opened its doors to fleeing russians And brought that talent To where it can best manifest itself But you know immigration policy is so pathetic and ridiculous. That's not going to happen uh, all right, so uh So that's a kind of putin's mobilization and it's devastating effect The other big story I think of the last, uh Week has been what's going on in iran. I don't know if you've been following this but again Horrible and inspiring at the same time You know, uh Last week, uh, or maybe it's more than a week ago now Uh, you know in in iran. They're these religious commandments. They're the religious laws The women in public have to be covered. They have to cover their hair. They have to cover their face But the hair has to be covered. I think the face can be Revealed so they don't have to literally wear her job But the hair has to be covered completely and it's against the law and if you if the women doesn't don't cover the hair They can get arrested And uh, this this uh young woman 22 years old Uh was a Kurdish woman. So from the uh North west of iran the Kurdish section of iran was visiting Tehran And uh and had her hair covering but supposedly didn't cover enough of the hair According to the religious police in Tehran. She was arrested And it it turns out that she at the police station was beaten and ultimately beaten to death The iranians claimed that she had some kind of heart attack or This was a healthy young woman. Uh, no reason for her to have a heart attack Maybe she did die of a heart attack but because she was beaten basically into into death Um into a body basically failing or because she didn't cover a few strands of hair Uh the response started out uh in the Kurdish area of iran the Kurds of course a minority within iran It's an oppressed minority pretty much everywhere in the middle east. There's a massive Kurdish population in uh, you know, I thought we'll do a one when the fans and and and the in the English divvied up the middle east The one ethnic group They didn't allocate a country to The one big ethnic group tens of millions of people. They didn't allocate a country to with the Kurds And there was a very large population of Kurds in iran a very very large population of Kurds in tokyi and a very large population of Kurds in syria and in iraq and uh In iraq they have some autonomy. Um that they are basically won through battle But uh in in tokyi they've been trying to carve out their own states and uh tokyi has declared them terrorists the the the the Kurdish independence movement and of course You know about the Kurds in syria because uh because trump betrayed them They were the ones who helped americans defeat isis and then trump basically said to ogre one The the the authoritarian in tokyi. Yeah, you can come into iraq syria and and and take and take the Kurds and kill the Kurds. But anyway, um The Kurds have a real presence in in in iran. Um, and uh I did a whole show on how we betrayed them. So you can go back and find the show On on just horrible. I mean, oh, you could read. You could read What's his name? His uh his advisors national security advisors Uh account of how we betrayed the Kurds in his in in in his book. I forget the name now again of Um bolton john bolton who I saw in korea john bolton has a great account of how Trump on a phone call Randomly in spite of bolton arguing against it. Uh, Trump just stabbed the Kurds in the back. But Again, I'm putting that aside. Um, I did a whole show on it when it happened Anyway, the Kurds in northwest iran There were massive demonstrations about this woman who had been killed and and and and had family in that area and uh, and uh, they were obviously super upset and and you know incensed about the fact that she had been murdered Well, those demonstrations of now those demonstrations now, uh, spread Initially to tehran and out to a lot of the other major cities in iran and beyond so they've spread Beyond the major cities to smaller cities. These are some of the largest demonstrations Probably larger than the ones in 2019 And maybe even as large or larger than the ones in 2009 in 2019 the demonstrations were primarily economic About the economic hardships, uh, that that were placed on iran because of the sanctions um Nothing came of that the 2009 demonstrations Were massive That was around a stolen election that people thought felt that this election was stolen That a moderate should have won instead of amin ajad who was a who is a much more, you know consistent religionist hard right religionist and um In 2009 there was a real I think opportunity to have overthrown the regime and really to make a dent in the regime's power And and the obama administration just Just was pathetic. Uh, it could have supported it could have supported both with marl Uh courage it could have smuggled weapons and it could have done a lot of things But they did very little if anything they were too busy negotiating a a nuclear deal With the iranians and and they didn't pay attention to this real pro At least to some extent pro Freedom at least to some extent freedom in in iran an anti the clerical regime Anyway, that opportunity was lost maybe lost forever But there might be an opportunity right now. I mean the demonstrations right now are unique. They're about freedom They're about the treatment of women Um, you're seeing things that you've never seen before in iran. You're seeing a you're seeing people fighting back against the police You're seeing them beating up the police. You're seeing women burning their hijabs You're seeing them taking out and and and putting them in the street and burning them and being cheered on by men for doing that so, um You know, these are not the same conservative men of of the past. This is a a different generation This is the generation from the last 20 years who've grown up under these this Theocratic regime don't believe in this theocracy and are finally fighting back You're seeing women. There was a there was a some video of a woman in the middle of these demonstrations cutting her hair Which is short which is against illegal and You know without hair covering in in public And that being cheered on by men You're seeing the demonstrations spread. You're seeing it being led by women You know in 2019 they're estimating that the regime killed 1500 people in order to quell The demonstrations so far the regime has not been as violent. So only By official measures, maybe 30 40 50 people have been killed. We'll see if this spreads and becomes worse um, but You know, uh, we will see this is worth watching The president of iran who is a real conservative. We are a real Theocratic conservative iranian Mula has come out and said we're going to crush this So you can expect an escalation of violence in iran We'll see whether the demonstrators keep fighting back. We'll see whether this Gets outside of the control of the local police. We'll see if they have to bring in the military and troops and the national guard um, this could get ugly and horrific The good one of the one of the more positive things that have happened Is that iran shut down the internet? So they've they've blocked all the internet access in iran so what happened was, um The bite administration this is to their credit the bite administration said, okay We know we have sanctions against iran But anybody who wants to sell equipment into iran for them to get internet access So any connection with iranians for the purpose of giving them access to the internet Is we're releasing that from sanctions so we're eliminating the sanctions immediately and I think this was coordinated with ilan musk immediately ilan musk said That he is activating starlink over iran And and they're going to try to smuggle in and they're going to try to sell into iran The dishes right starlink dishes. So they're going to try to get internet access to the iranians and again This was facilitated by the bite administration releasing because musk couldn't have done it Without the bite administration saying You know, we won't we won't prosecute musk for providing services in iran because of the sanctions so Let's hope we can get a bunch of satellite equipment into the iranians into the demonstrators let them get dishes One of the things that's happening is the iranians now have Learned from the arab spring from other demonstrations around the world. They've learned how to use social media They've learned how to use their phones. That's part of the reason why the regime has shut down the internet But but they don't you don't need the internet. There are a lot of apps now That don't need the internet in order to communicate between apps. I forget how it works but it's phone to phone to phone to phone so they could they create networks of the phones without having to connect to a server to the internet itself So they're using those technologies to coordinate the demonstrations if they get starlink they can they can elevate that even better anyway To be watched, let's see if the bite administration rises to the challenge. Let's see if the west supports them Again, the bite administration is in this position where they're negotiating a nuclear treaty with iran. Maybe they don't want to upset the mullahs too much Maybe that's uh, they're silent about it. I guess it's a mesh network and rick. Yes So let's see what happens. But my hope is that somebody will stand up and and call this and actually and actually, uh, you know um emboldened The iranians not just to demonstrate in the street, but to overthrow the regime. I mean that is the you know, iran is an amazing country Uh, the iranian people amazing people. They've always been the intellectuals of the middle east Uh, you know when the when the arab's when uh, the arab's first conquered the entire middle east, uh The after muhammad and and spread islam everywhere. Well the the the people who ran the caliphats the people who ran, um, the You know the arab empire with the with the with the persians The the the caliph the caliph the top guy might have been in arab because he had it because he had to be a descendant of muhammad But the people who actually ran things with the persians Of course being intellectual also makes you open to bad ideas um So they also take their religion more seriously than others do But let's hope but there's also a strong secular Movement within iran there's a strong secular forces within iran who were established there by the shah And and there's a lot of iranians which has been exposed to the west And you can see that in the demonstrators and these women that have had enough of it If they could overthrow this regime I mean iran a You'd immediately have a dramatic decrease in the price of oil gas prices would tumble iran has vast You know reserves of of oil They can't get to because they don't have western technology to go and go and actually drill for it iran becoming a More westernized country would would change the middle east in such a dramatic fashion It would change the global situation. It would have you know global strategic implications That are massive and all positive so For all kinds of reasons for the sake of the people in iran and for all of our sake We should do whatever we can To promote liberty and freedom in iran sort of you know And my argument was We should We should bomb the hell out of every piece of this regime's You know Autocratic infrastructure so to help the demonstrators we should support the demonstrators explicitly that won't happen But given that won't happen. Maybe we can support them in covert ways or maybe we support them in Morally, I think it's this is the one regime where the United States is justified in and indeed should Should be actively Militarily covertly whatever way is most efficient Active in undermining the regime and destroying it whether it's assassinating the supreme leader Whether it's bombing the the the homes, which is the the the center of learning Um But but yes, you we should be actively helping the iranian people bring about regime change in iran Um, all right. So I think I think we're caught up on the big stories There are plenty of more stories going on. Trump is in big legal trouble. He's got at least Four I think it's four different legal cases Uh where he could be indicted in any one of them maybe in all of them Doesn't seem to prevent him from wanting to run for president. Maybe it's a good encourage him because he'll get immunity And it doesn't seem to prevent people from supporting him but But but it is interesting to watch The indictment, of course, he's got the big case in new york who is indicted for fraud For defrauding. It's a civil case against him for defrauding the banks by Um Mistating the value of his property to get cheap mortgages Um No, I don't think I don't think they digmine against trump an indictment of the justice system I think they digmine against the fact that trump is unbelievably corrupt I think the case in georgia Is completely legitimate. He tried to interfere tried to reverse the election He legally put pressure on election officials to try to reverse a legitimate election I think in new york, uh, he is uh, he committed fraud He basically pled the fifth everybody within his organization pled the fifth. Why? Because they don't have an answer because uh, it's well documented that he committed fraud against the banks there Uh, you know, I think he took classified material home for no good reason and the justice department is absolutely Within the uh, within the right to go after him for that. No, every and then of course, uh, january Uh sakes and and uh his inciting Um In the way he acted on that on every front. Uh, yes, absolutely. They should go after him. They're justifying going after him Um, he is uh, he is if if not the most corrupt president we've ever had Very close to it. Uh, so Yeah, every single one of these cases is uh, I think on solid ground All right, let's see Let's do some of these super chat. Wow at $930. So thank you everybody. Thank you. Troy again. Um, really Really appreciate everybody's support um, and uh Let's see you got a bunch of 20 dollar questions. I think yeah, thank you tomas and uh, Let's see. Um All right, uh Jupiter asks, um Do you think William F. Buckley was intimidated by Anne Rand? As far as I can tell he never had her as a guest on firing line No, he never had a guest on firing line. Um, he um, he generally, um He tried to In a sense he tried to, um Subvert any attempt to give her a platform. He tried to undermine her at every point he could He is the one who actually got um, uh Chamberlain uh to to to write the horrible review of ather shrugged That was probably that he published in the national review He basically tried to make sure that uh, as a good conservative that he was as a good religious conservative that he was That she was marginalized within the within the conservative movement And and he would never give her a platform So he wouldn't invite her on firing line for exactly that reason firing line would have given her a platform for her ideas And he tried to he was trying to undermine everything about her platform at the same time. He was fascinated by her Uh, he was super curious about her. He you could argue Semi-stalked her the evidence of that will come out one day. Um, and yes, I think he was very much intimidated by her Uh, he knew He knew that she was the enemy. She was the enemy of his form of conservatism And and and she was the real alternative to the left but uh He wouldn't embrace that because it it undermined she undermined everything he believed in So buckley was a wimp when it came to iron rand again There will be evidence to show that and it's funny because when she died He said he said something like With her death her ideas die everything dies. She will know she will not be remembered in the future Who do you think is going to be remembered more in the future even today? Who is more well-known today? William R. Buckley iron rand. I mean, it's no contest Her books sell gazillion times more than any any book he sells within a generation. He will be forgotten iron rand will be remembered for the ages for the ages so, um William R. Buckley is that was a pompous You know was it was a pompous uh fool as iron rand said He was super intelligent, but Too intelligent to be as religious as he was and he was not just religious. He was an advocate for religion So he you know, he in some sense created the modern conservative movement and Has destroyed it and handed it now, you know, his whole way of thinking handed it over to the to the National conservatives who by the way had their annual conference Last week on september. I think 1112 that weekend I will be talking about The videos that coming out from that conference So we'll be able to look at some of those videos and analyze them and I'll be talking about national conservatives in that context in the weeks to come Uh, Daniel says what is your view on jose mccarthy? He was a staunch anti-communist. He was he was a staunch anti-communism That's to his credit But he but he took it way too far. You know, he was willing to violate people's freedom of speech He was willing to go after people not just for membership in the communist party Let's say but also for for for their ideas for what they stood for I think what congress did around the mccarthy hearing was witch-hunting I think it was bad for for again for freedom of speech for for the freedom to hold ideas um I think inrand testified but she testified reluctantly. She she was not in support of what they were doing Uh, but but she saw it as an opportunity to reveal to the world the extent to which Uh, communism had impacted hollywood and that was her motivation But she didn't think that it was right for the government to get involved in telling hollywood What ideas they should be projecting in their movies um Brie asks google won't let me send my message concerning the correct course of action for the u.s. Israel Concerning iran Use your imagination and comment. You know, I'm not sure why google is not letting you do it I just said what I think my my court my Lectures where I call for the bombing for giving iran the infrastructure its philosophy deserves which basically means the stone age All on youtube Nobody is nobody is uh restricted access to them You know, they're probably suppressed by the algorithm, but nobody has uh taken them down Nobody has stopped them. Um, but uh, so and I've been I've been talking about iran since september 11th A little peak office been talking about iran since 1989 since the salomon rush the affair in 1989 um Nobody's taken down any of those comments those videos those suggestions those articles It's all stood up on the web and all can be found and google has not suppressed any of that So maybe there's some algorithm that doesn't allow you to say certain things in a super chat, but um joe asks I thought you once mentioned a school in colorado That your friend runs what school in what city? Yeah, I spoke at a school in colorado. Um, but I can't remember the name of the school It's north of north of denver um God um, it's It's a charter school Which uh is run by a former congressman Who I know really well and whose name of course has escaped me and who has become More and more and more pro free markets as he's been exposed more and more to my talks in my lectures And is is very good on on most issues. He is religious, but the school is very good. It's got a classical Program a classical education focus and it's it gets the highest scores in tests in the state But I don't remember the name of the town or it's north of of denver or the name of the school Um, you can have to ask me again sometime and jog my memory um Or send me an email and I'll send me an email and I'll be able to find is find all the information I have it somewhere a thomas asks, uh Did you read in barry weiss a substack the article about paulina Noting about violent crime and gangs in sweden particularly involving immigrants from islamic countries. It was very depressing Yes, I did read it and and it is very depressing But what was interesting in the article was she never mentioned islam She never said they were immigrants of muslim countries It was all you if you know anything about sweden, you know that that's what she's talking about But she never actually says it and What's depressing about it? Other than of course the horror of Of these gangs and the horror of the fact that they uh, they are uh behaving in this way and they are as violent as they are What's depressing about it is that That she doesn't really discuss the causes of it And and I'd say the causes of it are Three one the barbaric culture from which they came but that can be overcome You can overcome the the the same muslims come to the united states don't behave in that way So what is sweden doing wrong? Well, the primary thing they're doing wrong is They're not allowing them. They're not assimilating them. They're not requiring them to work They're not requiring them to become productive members of swedish society. They're not they they hand them welfare checks Even if they don't work even if they don't try to find a job even if they're so a significant number of these muslim immigrants who live in these neighborhoods Don't have jobs and and yet the swedish government continues to send them checks so You cannot have The kind of swedish welfare system or the kind of german welfare system Where you encourage people not to integrate not to assimilate Not to become part of your workforce because a big part of the way people assimilate A big part of the way people become part of your culture is through work So they're not required to work So they're never going to assimilate So they keep their barbaric culture, but on top of that on top of that The police don't enforce the law. This is what happened in the uk with the pakistani muslim gangs that were there were raping young girls And the police didn't enforce the law They knew about this And they didn't do anything about it And it's mind-boggling. They didn't do anything about it because they were afraid to offend the muslims so this is a sense in which You can't judge muslim immigration today Because the west is so pathetic We won't enforce laws about rape. We won't enforce laws about raping young girls We won't enforce laws about violence about murder about bombings about intimidation about violent crime Because we're afraid to offend the muslims Well, of course they'll take over if that's your argument. It's it's not immigration. It's a problem It's that we won't live up to our own standards if we demanded that they live up That they become civilized Otherwise they will spend the rest of their life in jail Then they would have no choice If we demanded that they work Then they would work and they would become part of us part of their culture But if we don't let them work and we don't enforce our laws with regard to them Then we've accepted their barbarism as the starting point and the end point And therefore they will stay barbarian barbarians. So I believe that you can Change people And and you can assimilate people and you can integrate people But you have to do it You have to actively pursue that And you have to be aggressive about it And you have to start by declaring unequivocally the superiority of your culture and demand That they become civilized And if they don't That's okay. Every time they commit a crime they go to jail and they stay there and you have to Not just enforce the law, but enforce the law vigorously And as the crime increases become more brutal about enforcing the law and extend sentences and do whatever you can to to to Stop this, right? So that's what's missing In in sweden. That's what's missing was missing in the uk. I think they're better now That's what's missing in france Although the crime crime and and again, you know, it's funny Because as bad as the crime is in sweden Violent crime in sweden is still lower than violent crime in many many many u.s cities You know without bait muslim population so But it's sad what's happening in sweden It's it's it's very sad and uh, but it's a swede's fault Not for allowing immigrants, but for treating them the way they treat them with kit gloves and and by You know by basically Groveling before them and allowing them to get away with all this all right theme asked up How much do you think this revolution in uan would squash the term transphobic? God, I don't understand the question. How much do you think this revolution in uan would squash the term transphobic? I don't know what that means. You know Look, I I I don't think that this revolution in uan Is is You know is is a a um Is a revolution that would bring about the kind of culture we have in the west I I think they probably are still Probably uh, uh, you know Probably still don't like trans and reject trans and discriminate against trans even the people in the streets, but um so So I don't think this is a revolution that would embrace the trans Nuttiness that is going on in the west, but I do think this I think it's much healthier and it's a revolution that actually wants freedom You know healthy and unhealthy in the same time. I mean, I also think they'd probably discriminate against trans, which I don't believe we should Um Shawt about says speaking in posions Did you manage to get roomies kitsch to go to get to roomies kitsch and posion food in washington dc during ocon? They had fantastic about I did not unfortunately. I did not make it to that restaurant I wasn't that impressed with the restaurants. I did make it to In dc jeff asks I've pre-ordered freedoms furies by timothy sanford Looking forward to his insights on isabel paterson rose walk elaine and iron They were friends who disagreed at times. Do you have any comments about this? No? I mean, I don't know much about it, but it's not that they disagreed sometimes They had a falling out. They were friends who then had a schism They actually fell out and they stopped talking to one another. So It should be an interesting book. I don't know the history that well About everything, but suddenly there was a period in which they were quite close They communicated extensively and they influenced one another's thinking in significant ways So, yeah, it should be a good read Gail said all the best to your wife and home in porto rico. Thank you And in my wife's name, thank you gail. I appreciate it. We appreciate it All right, let's see. Those are 20 dollar questions We're at 979 dollars and 62 cents. How about we Go, well, we just got another two bucks. But how how how how about we go over a thousand? So we need another 20 bucks 19 dollars If anybody wants to ask a 20 dollar question, okay and ask What's the basis to say a conflict resolution process is cultish? Wasn't bonnie suggesting suggesting it for a right versus objectivism Have schisms hurt the movement Look, I don't want to discuss call bonnie on the show. So don't ask me about it. I don't want to discuss His idea by conflict resolution. So I'm not going to discuss it Have schisms hurt the movement. No, I I think I think I've said this before Uh, you know Bad people with bad ideas have hurt the movement People who have distorted ideas around objectivism have hurt the movement People who claim objectivism is an open system of hurt the movement People who don't present objectivism very well have hurt the movement Schisms help the movement schisms make it clear The differences between people schisms make it clear why some why some people are wrong schisms Define better help define what objectivism is and what objectivism can be and should be So I think schisms are a good thing not a bad thing for any movement Uh, every movement has them. It is nothing about objectivism. That's special um That's special about, uh About objectivism I'm a personal because I I said this I said this early on I said If you expect me to march up a hill into battle and this is an intellectual battle that requires immense resources personal emotional intellectual energy wise If you expect me to to charge up the hill To take the enemy with people I don't like it ain't happening You know, it's demotivating. So let them go charge their hill and I'll charge my hill. That is this idea That you know, I have to sacrifice for the cause By associating myself with people I don't like people. I don't respect people who I think are harmful to me and to the movement Is absurd. So I am all for all kinds of schisms. I have no problem with them. I think they're good for a movement Uh, they again they better define objectivism, but they also are motivating right because now the people I am Fighting with are people I've chosen to fight with And and you know, maybe one day people will kick me out of some movement I don't know. You remember there's uh, the schisms go both ways, right? Both sides are schisming from one another and that's fine. There's certain people I don't want to be associated with I don't want to fight with I don't want to I don't want to be in battle with I they're not my teammates I don't want them on my team. They can go do their own thing They can fight the battle as they see fit But I I need to be motivated to do this job that I do it's hard It requires a lot of energy. It requires a lot of effort requires a lot of fighting with the world out there And I need to know that the team I have fighting with me is the team I You know the team that I trust I don't want people who are going to stab me in the back. I don't want people who are going to question Uh, you know in a in a destructive way everything that is being done I don't want people who are going to undermine the things that I'm doing That is demotivating So if schisms help motivate great So Leonard Peek I've told me years and years ago schisms are good for the movement and and I have over time come to agree with them and I think I think a or I wrote a paper about schisms and I basically agree with that paper, but I'm fine with Not working with people you don't like I'm fine with not working with people who you think are distorting the message of your philosophy I'm fine with people not working with people who have a different strategy than yours to make change They they can do their one thing. I'm fine with not working with people for a variety of different reasons That's what schism means And I'm fine with not working with people who think I'm a monster Why would I work with people who think I'm a bad guy? Why would I think why would I work with people? Why think oh bad guys? So it's it just it boggles my mind this idea that we all have to get along Kumbaya because we're fighting an enemy But if we're in the trenches fighting an enemy the people in the trench with you have to be people you trust After you people you want to fight with have to be people that are going to motivate you not demotivate you Anyway, I've answered this question a million times And I'm really sick of it. All right Al, thank you really appreciated Jeff. Thank you really appreciated you both have taken us over the thousand dollars Thank you for that And no reason to stop by the way we can keep going Okay, james asks Does it make sense for germany to take in so many refugees from russia germany has a lot of ukrainians Will these two refugee groups end up fighting? No, I think I think they'll get they'll end up getting along russians and ukrainians get along great Uh, you know, they have a very similar language. They have a very similar culture Individual russians and individual ukrainians You know, this attitude of russians and ukrainians and will they get along in germany Is a tribalist mentality, but but it's there's nothing tribal. It's not it's not about tribes It's about individuals and indeed as these people come to germany and if they work in germany They'll be integrated into german society. They become more german and who cares where they came from Who cares where they came from? So the the the challenge for germany is You know, just just just just collect welfare checks And that's true of muslim immigrants and that's true of ukrainian immigrants and that's true of russian immigrants right So the extent to which these groups fight it's because they have you know, the the the You know in the in the u.s The iberian italians used to fight all the time and and there's a period in which they still Immigrant groups still hold on to their tribal beliefs But you've got to break that up and you the way to break that up is by integrate them into your society And you shouldn't assume people are tribal. You should assume people are individual And and you should treat them as individuals and if they If they turned out to be uncivilized and then you deal with them as you deal with uncivilized people But no, I mean there's a vast history of ukrainians and russians getting along Daniel, thank you Apollo, thank you These are all contributions without questions. Thank you all right Why are most of us only attracted to the opposite sex when someone of the same sex could share our highest values? well, because There's a sense in which What it means to be masculine what means to be feminine is to be attracted to the opposite sex It's it's it's there's a sense in which that that at least that Inclination is wired into us the the and it's wired into us for obviously reasons because biologically We're geared towards reproduction The real question is why are some people You know attracted to the same sex That's the real question because sex is not about your highest, you know, your highest intellectual values Sex is about The other sex So the real question is why Do you have homosexuality? Why is that a thing and and to what extent is it a There is an element of bi by a lot biology there to what extent is it Choices that people make and why they make their choices by what standard they make those choices when they're young Before they're really conscious fully conscious of the the consequences of the choices that they make So we know That a majority of people are attracted to opposite sex That's completely understandable given the way we're Wired by evolution and evolution does wire us in in certain ways at least with potentialities um You know, you you become aware of the opposite sex and sexually Attracted to the opposite sex pretty early You know with with you know pretty early Part of it is that's a culture around you partially is It's it's biology and then the question the real question is and I don't know that we have an answer Why are some people not? so, um That's the best that's the best I can do on that one Frank asks if climate change is caused by man, then shouldn't activists blame Saddam Hussein for those oil fires that burned for weeks and made the sky black Yeah, but you see Saddam Hussein wouldn't have had the oil wells if not for western companies who dug them And if not for western countries who consume them So You know, you can't ever blame the primitive barbaric societies Blame is always has to be placed on the more advanced on and on the uh on On the west the successful always to blame that's what altruism demands So you can't blame Saddam for the unquenching First for oil that the west exhibits That's how altruism That's how it forces that's how it causes them to think Kath Catherine asks Did you try the kimchi and how was it? I had some kimchi. I I didn't have as much kimchi as I would have liked Um, I didn't go to any restaurants that like specialized in kimchi I would have liked to have gone to places that had more sophisticated kimchi and different variations Maybe next time I go to Korea. I'll try to find a place But I I got taken to the same steakhouse twice in you know Korean kind of barbecue way You order the meat and then you grill it in on a little thing in front of you on the table And that they had kimchi there and I ate all of it. I love kimchi. Um, and then The breakfast buffet had stuff like kimchi. It was Fermented like kimchi. It wasn't actually cabbage, but it was other stuff to ferment it. I love that stuff So, uh, you know pickled and fermented and all that kind of stuff. I love it. So I eat a lot of stuff Feng says with all that smoke when it did and and they they said it did cause Climate change, but they blamed the consumers of oil not the producers of oil theme master says I I meant to say slum of oh Islamophobic instead of transphobic and that question about Iran, but I still don't know what that means I still don't know what the question actually means Maybe if you want to clarify the question that would be good All right, this is the last question So if anybody wants to jump in with the super chat question now is the time This is the last question and then I we will go on just bought super abundance the story of population growth innovation and human flourishing On an infinitely bountiful planet looks very interesting. Yes. I know I know one of the authors um I'm going to try to get him on the show Interview him. I'm a huge supporter of the thesis Or at least a big chunk of the thesis. So it is exciting It's exciting to see more people advocating for super abundance Advocating for progress advocating for the huge success that we've had. So All good All right, thank you. Thanks, thomas. Um Um Let's see any parting words. No other than we'll have a show tomorrow It'll probably be around the same hour. Maybe an hour earlier But it'll be tomorrow at about the same hour in the same hotel. So I have a good internet connection here. It's decent It's not as good as korea, but it's decent So uh, so I'll I'll do a show after that. I'm not sure because I'm on the road I'll be in again in um korechiba and uh and uh Put that lego. We'll see what the internet connection is there and then in some power and then in uh bonus iris Uh, so I'll try to do as many shows as I can this week Tomorrow's show is going to be a uran's rules for life Um, uh, so I'll do a uran's rules for life. I I'm I'm behind behind in those I think I owe two this month. So I'll do one tomorrow. Um Sometime around this time sometime in the early in the early evening east coast time Uh, all right, uh Thanks, everything. So thanks everybody really appreciate it Uh, it's great that we got over well over our targets. So we've made up for some Lost days where we didn't have shows Uh, really really appreciate it. I will see you all tomorrow and Um, yeah, I have a great weekend everybody Bye