 G'day mate, Forty here. Vouch Nationalism comes to San Diego. It's a movement that's sweeping the country most elite circles. Ah, it's good to get out of LA. But I'm dealing with a little bit of anxiety. I think I probably operate with a fairly high level of anxiety. But I dense it and then when certain events come up it just jumps out at me. So I bought something about a month ago, and it didn't work. And so the guy I bought it from spent 150 bucks. He said he said just mail it back to me and just going to the post office gave me anxiety. I tried to avoid the post office. But first time I packaged it up, I tried to send it off. I figured it was about six ounces. I figured I'll just put about three dollars worth of postage on it. Got return for insufficient postage. So now my anxiety is increasing. Now one thing I do know about anxiety, the more I put off something that I need to do, the worse my anxiety gets. So I got back to the post office yesterday and then I got this machine. Where it essentially measures your package, it weighs your package, you put in where you want it to send. It tells you how much postage you need. You can get the return receipt requested for just like a dollar eighty for the electronic return receipt requested. And so I managed to send off the package for about ten dollars eighty, but it wasn't a big deal. It wasn't like tremendously anxiety-promoting. So my trip to the post office wasn't as bad as I feared. I don't know much about anxiety. I do know that I operate with probably an abnormal amount of anxiety and this generally doesn't serve me. So one thing I do know is that if I put off doing what needs to be done, the anxiety ramps up because I'm getting a dopamine reward for putting it off for tiptoeing up to the edge of danger and then retreating. So I don't know much about anxiety. I do know that when there are things I need to tackle, I need to tackle them. If I put them off, the anxiety is just going to build. So I think I've I've internalized the lockdown during COVID because it probably exacerbates some some trends that I have towards more isolation that is good for me. So gosh, that water looks good. Doesn't that look good? But I got an important appointment in about 40 minutes to need to look my best. So maybe I won't go out into the into the ocean this morning. Went and rented a car today. Man, I know a bloke the last time he rented a car. He got so much anxiety that he accidentally triggered the the warning lights. And then he couldn't figure out how to turn them off. So he drove back to the car rental and he was so anxious. He drove over the curve for the car rental place and blew a tire. And he's jolly lucky that he didn't get charged for that. Now should get the the rental insurance when you when you rent a car it's like $20 a day for everything. Now I know on my credit card there's a considerable amount of insurance that they offer you when you rent a car with your credit card. You should probably investigate that. Probably have less anxiety driving. Oh, it's about it's about 68 degrees right now. So I normally I like to wear a t-shirt underneath to soak up the sweat and then a college shirt. No, and then my seat seat. So I just got some new seat seat. All right, so I got brand new Mesh Seat Seat. Got six pair for about 50 bucks. A Mesh Seat Seat. Those are the fringes that are commanded in the book of Ayikra, Leviticus. And then I got a nice colored shirt on top to try to look like a professional. And I want to be a good representative for the vouch nationalism. Here we find Hero Luke storming the Rikola beaches. Yeah, I'm storming the beaches to plant the flag for vouch nationalism. I hope I am not a contributor to said anxiety. Don't aim to be just sad as. No, you're not. The causes of my anxiety are entirely internal, right? They're entirely unhelpful mental patterns that I formed in childhood and in adulthood in combination with some probably some biological predispositions to too much alarm. But what's the best way to get the root cause of anxiety? Because I've got money in the bank. So when I don't have money in the bank, I get terribly anxious about that. And that anxiety just bleeds over into everything. So I've got money in the bank. I got health insurance. I got stable income. I keep getting my savings every month. So I'm sleeping well. I'm leaving my CPAP on every night. When I wake up, they're like these big CPAP strap creases on my face. Float, bro. So float. No. See, I think that's just palliating symptoms. You have to get to the underlying thinking to the learned behaviors that that give rise to the anxiety. So I can exhaust myself through exercise, right? And and wow, that seems like a great solution to anxiety. But again, I think that's only palliating the symptoms, which has its uses. But how do we get down to root causes of high anxiety? Asking for a friend. So I'm sleeping well. I'm exercising about five to ten miles a day with walking and biking, working out. I'm in good shape. I'm getting a good night's sleep. But still have way too high levels of anxiety at times. So what happens is I'm just kind of floating through the day and just gliding along through my day. Thinking is for the loopy ones. Anxiety lives in the body. Yes. But the brain also lives in the body. Thinking comes from the body. There's no body, mind, dichotomy. The mind exists in the body. The brain is a bodily organ, right? You can't separate the body and the brain. The brain is in the body. So what goes on in the brain affects the body and what goes on in the body affects the brain. So I want to get down to root causes of anxiety, which means probably I need to do some research. It's just, I just kind of ignore it, I think. And and then when it flares up, such as having to go to the the post office and that is my anxiety like clearing up and I was just so angry. I was just so annoyed. I was so ticked off that I spent $150 and this device didn't work. And then I knew I'd have to mail it back and then I'd have to pay for the postage. Then it took two trips. And it's like that just tapped into something that my father would often say that the more stuff you got Rambam says the longest distance between the mind and the brain. How do you experience anxiety? Does it make you a panic attacks or other incentives? I'm not aware of having a panic attack for forever. So don't have panic attacks. I just feel anxious. So I know it manifests in inferior decision-making as your mental training solved your anxiety problems so far. Yeah, just totally taking care of it, mate. So how does anxiety manifest for me? Inferior problem-solving abilities, right? Or inferior choice-making. So when I had high anxiety, when I went, oh, when my friend rented a car and he couldn't turn off the warning light. So he goes back to the rental place and he was so anxious he drove over the curb and got a flat. Well, that had never happened to him before. But his anxiety, of course, is reckless driving, which led to a flat tire. So that's how my anxiety manifests itself in inferior decision-making. So I no longer feel as in control of my life when I have anxiety. So loss of a sense of agency. Vouch nationalism would be tricky to decide on, but no fond sticks in heaven would vis a vow. So yeah, diminished loss of agency, inferior decision-making, heart speeds up a bit. I'm not as at ease, not as comfortable, and not as open. So my world just kind of shrinks down when I'm highly anxious. And I think people in general tend to make worse decisions when they're anxious. If it's important to you to be a good person, and it's important to me to be a good person. And so I don't like it if I were God forbid to drive over a curb and create a flat tire. Even if I didn't have to pay for it, I would feel bad about that. Particularly if I know it was my anxiety that caused that. And then interactions with people. I remember when I was feeling threatened in high school, and these people were making fun of me. I had an apple with me, and I went up to this one guy, and I just crunched the apple right in front of him. And that was kind of idiotic, and I'm a little bit embarrassed about that kind of behavior. Or when there was this girl I really liked in high school, and she went to the senior prom with some other guy. And then, oh no, why am I losing? Why am I losing? Okay, we're back, I think. Still learning how to use this new gimbal. So there's this girl I really liked, and because I was anxious, I was like spreading rumors about her that she had massive sex with this guy. Stay with me regarding anxiety, no panic attacks, just bad decision making, irritability, desire to self-isolate. Yeah, that's what I experienced. Desire to self-isolate, bad decision making, I get irritable and ticked off. I mean, think about my shows. Think about how I would yell at Dennis Dale if he didn't have his sound settings correct. Just yelling at people. Come on, man. For people and foibles and mechanical problems and audio problems. I have no patience for people's technological shortcomings. I get very irritated. So the more pressure I'm under, such as when I'm doing a show and there are 10 things I need to be paying attention to. Number one, my audio levels. Yeah, we remember the shows yelling at guests over small things. Yeah. So doing a show, there's a lot of pressure on. And so I would yell at guests over small things. I'd get really upset with people. Like, come on. I just noticed that I was yelling at Dennis Dale way too much. I'm not proud of that. And, you know, I'd get irritated with a whole bunch of people. Like, overly irritated. So yeah, that was an example of my... Boy, I really don't know how to use this... I really don't know how to use this gimbal. So I'm not proud of the way I was yelling at people because that would then increase their anxiety, which make them, like, more liable to say stupid things. So inferior decision making. Like, I often start a show such as yesterday. I want to talk about what seems to unite many of the people on the right, in particular who disdain nationalism, what seems to unite them is a disdain for individual dignity. So you see this with Richard Spencer. He loathes the Marjorie Taylor Green types. He loathes the Turks. He loathes those who oppose him on Charlottesville. He wants to destroy the Amish. He wants to destroy the old light. He wants to destroy the conservative movement. Bloody hell, why is my gimbal acting this way? I just charged it up, man. I couldn't be doing this. Okay. So much to learn about this gimbal. But at least I get to attach the Shura mic to it so we get higher quality audio than if I was just using my iPhone. So I love it when I encounter people who are at ease. Like they're high functioning, effective at life, and they're at ease. Like things start to go wrong and they don't spiral. So for me, often when things start to go wrong, there's often like a negative spiral that happens. So like one thing goes wrong, I get anxious about it. Then the more I'm anxious, the more other things tend to go wrong. Like our ladies, the dating trope, Luke actually likes long walks on the beach. That's true. I actually like long walks on the beach. And like in work situations, like one thing would go wrong and then the more and more anxious I would get and then the more likely I would be to make mistakes and to yell at people. So I've noticed at work 90% of the time and I want to get angry with people, that doesn't really serve me. So I try to hold it. So occasionally it does serve you. Alright, because if you can deal with something, just like take care of it right away, then yeah, it serves you. But if your anger doesn't enable you to take care, take care of something right away, then it doesn't serve you. Bro, just lay down on those rocks, they will soothe your soul. Probably will, but I'm in a nice shirt and my nice jeans got a nice meeting coming up. I think I may wait on that until later. See my anxiety is pretty much gone now. This came up when I had to go to the bloody post office. And then that made me realize there's that underlying issue. So spending a lot of time around other people like quickly going to a dinner party where I'm not enjoying myself, that causes anxiety for me. So I usually try to bolt. Yeah, I don't want to paliate with shrooms. I want to deal with the thinking and the habits and rewire my central nervous system so that this is less likely to happen. I don't think I've done a good job balancing my iPhone on this new gimbal. It doesn't exactly look straight to me. Live and learn. So sometimes what I'll do when I need to be at a social engagement, let's say I'm volunteering in some capacity, after about three or four hours, I'll probably isolate with a book for a while, which comes first, the thoughts or the feelings. They often come together. They're often indistinguishable because thoughts create feelings and feelings create thoughts. They're all operating from the same body. Thoughts, feelings, bodily reactions, they all roll together. So the more free your body is, the more free and easy your mind will be and the more free and easy your emotions will be, the more free your emotions, the more free your body will be and your thinking will be. The more restrictive your body, the more restrictive your thinking and your emotions. Right? Kind of free and easy in the world. And I do feel that most of the time. Then I get those anxiety spikes and the point thinks me about the anxiety spikes, it's not the anxiety spikes, but I think they're indicative of a larger problem. Like when you get something like anxiety spikes, that's not the problem. They're indicative of a larger problem that you're probably walking around with a high level of anxiety and you're not even aware of it. It's just become endemic. It's just become like part of the background music in your life. And you're not even aware of what's really going on. You just kind of accepted it as normal. So I want to tie down the root causes. And one of them I take from 12 Step. Much of the anxiety comes from trying to just manage your own life rather than connect with your higher power and your higher purpose. So I do notice that when I connect to my higher power and higher purpose, I have less anxiety. Oh, what happened to my sunglasses? I don't know. I left them in the car. Turn, turn, turn around. I'm getting anxious. Think about the good old pre-coffin stream here. So I want to develop that thought more that nationalism breeds a sense of dignity, dignity of the individual. I want to do more research on that. Maria Greenfeld is a scholar of nationalism. And once people experience that feeling of dignity, they don't want to give it up. And I notice many opponents of nationalism. I'm not wearing some block because I'm only out here for 20 minutes or so and I got places to go, people to see things to do. But yeah, I do notice that with many of the opponents of nationalism is a tendency to have absolute disdain for their fellow citizens. So for Richard Spencer, it's the Amish and it's the Alt Light and it's the conservative movement and it's for Kenneth Brown, aka Deep Left Jocall, for those who don't share his metaphysical sortitudes. And I know we all have various identities, but I think it should be important to have a strong American identity. I think it's in America's interests and in the best interests of Americans that it should be socially frowned upon, put any other identity ahead and above your American identity. So that's the advantage of nationalism is that it connects you to your fellow citizens. Like we're all in this United States of America. We're all citizens. We have to live and work and love and walk on the beach together. And we share things in common. We have shared interests. So it should be socially unacceptable, for example, to put your Jewish identity ahead of your American identity, say, oh, you're voting because of Israel. That's your primary reason why you're voting. Or if you're black, to put your black identity ahead of being an American. Or if you're gay, you're gay identity, you're Christian, you're voting on Christian principles. America has a cultural problem due to not having a long history. Well, we used to be doing really well. Prior to the 1960s, there was much more of a shared American identity. Now, Americans never had the cohesiveness of the social capital and the social trust of an Australia or an England or a France or a Germany. But we were doing pretty well. So I think with the rise of American nationalism it should serve as a uniting force among Americans with many different identities, racial, religious, sexual, cultural. And that's the good thing about nationalism. An army movie, an army movie star for the hills. And so there's nothing in here than being an American that should discourage one from also being a Christian or pursuing one's Jewish or Muslim or cultural identity. But for healthy America, I think public displays of putting other identities ahead of your American identity should be frowned upon. Now, I have no doubt that many strongly identifying in-group members whether Jewish or Christian hasn't civic nationalism proven to be a failure? Well, there's certainly some problems with it. But there are also a lot of strong points to it. America is the most powerful nation on Earth. Billions of people want to move here. It offers parallel freedom and prosperity. I think there are a lot of good things in civic nationalism. Now, civic nationalism doesn't have to be your only sense of identity. People may well have ethnic identities in addition to that and religious identities and cultural identities in addition to that. So having some civic nationalism or having that as the social value for Americans, I think that's a pretty healthy way to go. And then people can build on that. June gloom. So yeah, it's probably about 70 degrees. The sun's just coming out. You need an elite citizen served in the army, came under fire. So the vote means more. So if one endorses civic nationalism, that doesn't mean that you don't seek other forms of group identity. You can also have an intensive commitment to your religious in-group or ethnic in-group or your cultural in-group. But you understand the social norms are we discourage you from publicly, ostentatiously throwing the face of your fellow citizens that your other in-group identity is more important to you. And that's the way it was. Probably until the late 1960s, it was heavily, heavily frowned upon that Americans would put any other national identity ahead of their American identity. And then we had the rise of pluralism. I'd say pluralism weakens the people. This would have to come from our elites. And the only time our elites try to increase patriotism is when they want to bomb another country. I'm not sure our elites have been driving us bombing other countries and in certain portions of our elites. So doctors generally speaking will have more practical in common with other doctors around the world than with their fellow citizens. So that's the nature of professions. Dentists have more in common with other dentists around the world. Lawyers will frequently have more in common with other lawyers around the world. So professors of history, professors of sociology, so that's the nature of professions is that it kind of tends against nationalism because you feel just much more in common when you go to conferences with other members of your profession. But I don't think it's our generalized elites who've driven foreign policy interventionism. It's part of our foreign policy blob that has driven this, both among the Democrats and the Republicans. But I think we need a stronger sense of identity that much of this mental illness epidemic that's sweeping our country is due to people having to make too many choices. And the more we multiply choices, such as choosing your own sexual identity, choosing your own religious identity, choosing your own ethnic identity, even though I've done that, right, I converted to Orthodox Judaism, but in general when you multiply these choices, it often exerts an enormous toll on people so you don't want to necessarily prohibit these choices, but probably want to encourage people to develop bonds such as vouch-nav-ism. If you depend for a working life on a minimum of 10 people vouching for you, that should solidify your sense of identity. You're probably going to be less likely to screw around and goof off and go explore new identities if you need a minimum of 10 people vouching for you. So I like American individualism, but I think we need to move more in a corporate direction so that if you do something wrong, if you're irresponsible with a gun or with a car, then the people who vouch for you should have to pay some of that price so that people are fairly selective about who they vouch for. So I think this would build a sense of community. Spencer may create an antifa party so he can see it fails spectacularly. So I think the stronger one sense of identity, the less one has to think about your identity, probably the more mentally strong you're going to be. So I notice people who stay in the places where they've lived a long time, people who stay in their profession, people who stay in their relationships, people who stay in their religion, people who stay in their community, they tend to be more mentally stable. I think there's nothing that builds mental stability about having an identity that you don't have to think about, you don't have to make choices with. So one thing I like about orthodox Judaism is that it precludes many choices in life for me. So I enjoy some degree of freedom to choose and so that's why I'm not just 100% all in with orthodox Judaism and nothing else. And Rustin says there's no benefit to being an ordinary American. I'm not sure but people are definitely drifting to the edges and so there are reasons for concern about America's future. There are reasons for concern about increasing fragmentation. 30 years here and you still don't understand my country. What can I say? Well, one thing I do understand is the importance of making money. So I am going to go make money. Bye-bye!