 G'day mate 40 here so our friend poor talk made a recent video denouncing Godward podcast and he He denounced Godward podcast for all sorts of reasons That had nothing to do with anything that Godward podcast has said or stands for Yeah, I think he denounced Godward podcast for being authoritarian Maybe even being totalitarian For for wanting, you know, I guess massive big government interventions into our daily lives and and One of one of his critiques of Godward podcast was House mark and God would be if he was taken in by Luke Ford so Poor talk doesn't tend to make much sense to me So from from my perspective, he seems to be attacking people for things that they don't say he seems to Be reckless in the things he says he seems to feel no shame when he attributes All sorts of beliefs and statements to people who haven't said any such things It seems to me that he's frequently arguing it in bad faith He seems lacking in shame for when he attacks people for Inaccurate reasons, so I'm not someone who benefits from from poor talk But I at the same time I recognize that there's a power to what he says That I don't get but other people get and So just because someone doesn't really Provide me with with benefit that that doesn't mean that he's not out there You know providing a massive blessing to hundreds of other people just speaking in a way that I don't get so I Once had this roommate. So at the time I was living out of my car it was think it was like February of 1995 and I went to the Hubbard in Westwood for Friday night services and I met this Israeli guy shimon and We really hit it off and he thought that I had a very good nashama. That means a Jewish soul and He offered me the opportunity to move in with him for free in exchange for helping him with a script So I moved in with shimon and this guy was just Incredibly successful with the ladies and I didn't know why But he just had a power over women. He exerted Some force with regard to the female species that was a complete mystery to me and He once came along to my acting class and when he did his scene. I thought it was just a Mess I thought it was it was nothing. I thought it was like embarrassingly bad but every woman in the class was like For clumped. She was like moved by by shimon's performance. She was like so Lots of people communicate in ways that just don't speak to me So it doesn't mean they're not powerful and they're not effective and they're not providing a service so I was just looking at Twitter and I like this this thread from James Thompson. He's a psychologist and He says I balk at the idea. So this is my activator And this is my hand-strengthener. All right so James Thompson says I balk at the idea that an attitude must be a pre-judgment if one comes to one conclusion such as against immigration but Indicates tolerance if it comes to another conclusion such as in favor of immigration. It's like yes. Yes. Yes. Yes This is a great point And then he adds most of us most of the time Make judgments on the basis of only a few of the possibly available facts. I think yes. So so Paul talk Was attacking my friend Godward for you know collaborating or being friends with me and I was thinking you know, have I been that reckless with the things that I say on here? I'm thinking like am I a bad person like God was getting attacked just for making some some videos With me is this is this because I'm a bad person Have I been rushing to judgment on you? Have I been irresponsible? So most of us most of the time make judgments on the basis of only a few of the possibly available facts So am I coming on here and ranting and Raving and passing judgments on the basis of just a tiny number of the possibly available facts Well, James Thompson says in my view, this is natural. We use rules of thumb heuristics Which make us smart. So heuristics are like self-learning Mechanisms that are really perfect But they're usually good enough Part ways of making decisions So we use rules of thumb to make the best decisions we can in the time available, right? We all have finite resources finite resources of time energy inclination Right, so more knowledge might make us change our minds But it does not have to because it may confirm our initial observations Yeah, this is my experience so long as we take in new facts and we don't get too precious About old hypotheses we should be able to update our views and make better decisions Yeah, but most of us guys, it's okay All right, this is a safe space to acknowledge that most of us most of the time make judgments on the basis of only a few Of the possibly available facts So I'm coming on here talking about covert or the 2020 elections or Judaism or Christianity and I'm sharing thoughts with you based on only a few of the possibly available facts So we use rules of thumb to make the best decisions we can in the time available And that's it Yes, so the Bible says that Noah was a moral man in his time But in other times he wouldn't have been considered such a moral man So at that point the world was so evil that just by extension basic morality was enough to to say that hey Noah was a moral man, so 40 was a moral man in his context So I know what's on the top of your mind this morning. You want me to talk about Jews in the American historical profession It is true that the bar is very low right now So I think was a Rabbi Hillel who said where there is no man be a man I've never heard of Dr. Christiane Northrop. She's a physician She's in a step stick tricks and gynecology and she's an author who's embraced pseudo scientific alternative medicine and anti-vaccine conspiracy theories she has a history of opposing vaccination and has embraced QAnon ideology during the COVID-19 pandemic well Let's just say she doesn't sound like someone that I want to put a great deal of faith in but all I know about her is what I just I've just read So you're saying 40 get back to Jews in the American historical profession, so it's interesting that of American historians writing about populism meaning William Jennings Bryan So how would we how would we define populism in America? So we're talking about people like Andrew Jackson the People's Party in the 19th century Populism is an approach to politics which views the people as being opposed to the elite It is often used as a synonym of anti-establishment thinking as an ideology it transcends the typical divisions of left and right It's become more prevalent in the United States with the rise of disenfranchisement and apathy to the establishment So populism tends to be mercurial It's been defined by many different scholars with different focuses including political economic social and discursive The populism is often split into two variants in the US one with a focus on culture and one that focuses on economics Well American historians who write about populism and Jewish intellectuals who discuss populism tend to a negative perspective on populism and so What is it about Jewish intellectuals who seem to have a knee-jerk fear and opposition towards mass Enthusiasm's whether those mass and through the enthusiasm's populist political movements or spiritualism or Other things like what is it about two Jewish intellectuals in particular that makes them skeptical and fearful of mass excitements Fearful of the unhinged mob and so my instinctive thought is that Jews have not tended to be popular and They have generally relied for their safety and for their prosperity on strong central government But their strong central government means a king whether it means royalty whether it means a parliamentary system whether it means a Liberal democracy with with natural rights and the rule of law Jews have tended to depend for their prosperity and for their safety on strong central government and therefore have instinctively been afraid of populist uprisings and mass Enthusiasm's now I don't believe this is an inherent feature of being Jewish I don't believe that being Jewish or being Christian or being Muslim Has inherent qualities All right. I believe that this Jewish response is Contingent it depends upon historical circumstances. It depends upon situations So you have a disproportionate number of libertarian thinkers who are Jewish and Do not want strong central government so you find a disproportionate number of Jews in every Major intellectual movement except those movements that are explicitly anti Jewish and That's just the the default hypothesis from from Nathan Coffness, but I do find it interesting that Jews Do tend to have a knee jerk? fear skepticism and opposition to movements of mass excitement Did Jews worship Napoleon? No Hasidic Jews Tended were opposed to Napoleon and were in favor of the Tsar of Russia and More modern Jews at the time were much more positive towards Napoleon The different Jews have different reactions to Napoleon So it's just interesting though of American historians of the populace With minor exceptions those who are critical of populace were Jews and from the Northeast And those defending the populace were non-Jews and from the south or the Midwest so ethnic identity I think plays a role in how we respond to history and how we respond to current events Geography where we were raised early imprinting environment and Religion or lack thereof so this feature of the controversy over populism is well known to The participants and to the observers of the controversy, but it was almost never mentioned explicitly is only mentioned obliquely if at all because it would it raises questions of Perspectivism, so how much of what we see is simply a matter of perspective or There are such things as you know universal objective truths so the historical profession did not like to discuss why was it that the The fiercest critics of populism were Jews from the Northeast and the defenders of populace and were non-Jews from the south and the Midwest And there was there was a bloke named Daniel Bell, you know who Daniel Bell was so he was an American sociologist and It's one of the leading American intellectuals of the post-war era write a book on the cultural contradictions of capitalism and He had a conversation with Richard Hofstadter Who I believe was half Jewish? he was an American historian and public intellectual in the mid 20th century So he had a Jewish father and a Lutheran mother Okay, so Daniel Bell talked to Richard Hofstadter in the early 1940s and Daniel Bell recalled what arose in our conversations shaped a lot about subsequent work It was a fear of mass action a fear of passions let loose This is a very Jewish fear of mass excitements mass passions the mob running wild and This is a particularly Jewish fear so in traditional Jewish life There's tremendous fear of what happens when man is let loose because Judaism does not believe that people are inherently good So if you don't believe that people are inherently good And you're gonna have some fear of mass excitements of what happens when man is let loose You can have some skepticism of fear of populism And and the mob so The the traditional Jewish perspective is when man does not abide by God's law He becomes an animal. I think that is at the root of even secular Jewish fears of mass enthusiasm so Peter Novick wrote a great book on Objectivity in the American historical profession and He notes nobody has advanced what seems to me the most compelling reason why a group of people like Richard Hofstadter Daniel Bell Lipset and their friends should have taken such a uniformly and exaggeratedly Bleak view of the populace Because they were all only one generation removed from the Eastern European stettle or insurgent Gentile peasants spelled of pogrom. So I think that's That's a tendency among Jews to fear mass excitement and mass enthusiasm because they may be in the Generation two generations three generations removed from the Eastern European stettle or insurgent Gentile peasants spelled of pogrom So in Eastern Europe for hundreds and hundreds of years Jews and non-Jews feared and loathed each other now Jews from Western Europe tend to come from a background of respect and Amiability towards non-Jews because Jews from Western Europe have appreciated the accomplishments of non-Jews have admired the Accomplishments of non-Jews have wanted to emulate non-Jews in many ways while Jews from Eastern European backgrounds have tended to Feel enmity towards non-Jews and fear towards non-Jews So it's it's a pretty big distinction that still plays out in American life today most radical Jews with their radical Zionists Or with their radical leftists Whatever the the political radicalism they tend to come from an Eastern European heritage Or Jews who come from a Western European heritage tend to be much more middle of the road And to have much more positive views of non-Jews. So this is why I don't think it's inherent in being Jewish to Therefore have any particular ideology or any inherent trait Right, I don't think there are any inherent traits in Jews non-Jews Christians Muslims And it all depends on time circumstance So Jews with the background in Western Europe They they tend to like and respect non-Jews Jews who come from a background in Eastern Europe tend to fear non-Jews So Jews who have risen to prominence in the American historical profession Rarely ventured into writing about Jewish history And they never tried to define a Jewish perspective but All the leading figures in developing the consensus interpretation of American history were a Jewish background Is that completely coincidental? No, I don't think it is. I think many Jews felt that America is the golden land and They they feel safer when there is some kind of consensus about American history that that we have now values and a shared story that Brings us together as Americans And they were less likely to be singled out as Jews and set in opposition to non-Jews So therefore Jews will feel safer with say a consensus interpretation of American history Now when Jews poured into the American historical profession in the 1950s and 60s It was understood as a fulfillment of universalist norms But when blacks and women poured into the profession from the late 60s onward They presented a new assertive particularist consciousness They claim to define themselves not as historians who happen to be women or black but They said, you know, we are women. We are feminists. We are black You know, we've got an overriding loyalty to our brothers and sisters and we have agendas Which call for a thoroughgoing transformation of historical consciousness So when Jews poured into the American historical profession, they insisted. Hey, we're just like everyone else only more so When blacks and women poured in in the 1960s and 70s according to Peter Novik They were they were committed to a particularist understanding Of history the Jews poured in and they were integrationist universalist objectivist seeking consensus and assimilationist so Here's a great saying those who can Glowed right if you're a winner You revel in being a winner All right, those who can gloat so Before I was able to accomplish my conversion to orthodox Judaism. I What's not gloating Okay, I was Annoyed I was fearful. I was frustrated at anxiety And I was hurt And how do we usually deal with our hurt? We usually mask it. We usually wrap it in anger So I was angry at the rabbis the rabbinic establishment Then once I accomplished my conversion to orthodox Judaism Then I thought oh all those who failed to make it through the conversion to to orthodox Judaism Oh, just a bunch of losers just I'm willing to get with the program, right? So I'm not proud and I'm not ashamed of My changing perspectives. I just noticed there was this like dramatic emotional sea change within me And it came across very clearly on my blog There was no longer a chip on my shoulder towards, you know, the the orthodox rabbinic establishment. It just dropped away So those who can gloat And those who can't brood So winners are born gloaters Englishmen are born gloaters Now Irishmen are born brooders. This is this is a quote So a reformed gloater say an English liberal or a Swedish liberal They still identify with the master race their race Now the brooder inherently makes the opposite identification and he feels no sense of guilt Right for his brooding and rage against gloaters and he feels a sense of outrage so perspective is Informs how we see the world right our particular experience and where we're sitting So those who've written the most influential studies of white attitudes and behavior towards black have been almost all gentiles Those who have written the most influential studies of blacks as subjects of whites have been overwhelming with Jewish so There's been a disproportionate number of Jews who've written about blacks who've written about Aborigines from the black and aborigine point of view So though white These people prided themselves on thinking black being the reverse of orios vanilla wafers with chocolate filling And this the generalization of these differences between non-jewish and Jewish historians applies with greatest force to those that came with scholarly age in the 1960s and 70s So You have these non-jews writing the history of racism and oppression from the white side Then you have these Jews writing about racism and oppression from the black side and emphasizing black agency And also the Jewish historians tend to are far more likely than the non-jewish historians to have a background in left-wing Politics and therefore to be pre-socialized to identify with the oppressed So if you are on the left You saw capitalism as inhuman and destructive Therefore its victims must have been psychologically maimed and brutalized On the other hand if if workers And and the oppressed and blacks and slaves were as noble and stalwart as they were in left-wing depictions Then could the system Within which they had developed really been or that oppressive So this had many many parallels to the way Jewish historians discussed the behavior of Jews during World War II so Resistance came to be equated with endurance and survival So Jewish historians writing about Jewish Holocaust survivors Essentially Eckerd, Lucy Davidowitz The survivors they learned not only to invent but to circumvent not only to obey but to evade Not only to submit but to outwit Their tradition of defiance was devious rather than direct employing nerve instead of force So you had largely non-Jewish historians who frequently portrayed Slaves and blacks and oppressed minorities as you know maimed And brutalized by their oppression and then you had another another group of historians who who I who Rejected that perspective and said look these oppressed people They learned not only to invent but to circumvent not only to obey but to evade not only to submit but to outwit and then and then you had Historians and sociologists like Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan in their famous report on the pathologies of the black family In the 1960s who claim that black America has no values and no culture to guard and protect Which obviously most people were going to stalwartly reject So most of the young white historians who read the history of blacks in the 1970s Came from left-wing backgrounds and were involved with the civil rights movement and they were disproportionately Jewish so in the words I previously described they were much more likely to be brooders rather than gloaters You know, you know who michael waltzer is. He's a professor emeritus at Princeton university's institute for advanced study And he explained why anti immigrant populism is more a european phenomena than an american one So this is what waltzer says. There's one Decisive moment in american history, which is not much written about But which is important and it sets up a contrast between America and europe That is the moment when the anglo-american settlers who thought that they were establishing an anglo-american state Allowed themselves to become a minority and what they thought was their country So that happened in the course of the 19th century A lot of resistance resentment nativist movements hostility to immigrants, but it happened instead of america becoming an anglo-american nation state america became what harris kailyn the jewish intellectual called a nation of nationalities without a majority nation And with an ongoing immigration That's michael waltzer Okay, so I've been reading this book Jews and the american soul Jews and the american soul It's by andrew r. Heinz a professor of jewish studies So i'm up to chapter eight It's called the specter of the mob Jews and the battle The american unconscious It's a good book. I recommend it So this guy is left of center So he says between the 1890s and the 1940s jewish interpreters of the psyche Added a new dimension to public conversation about the mind and its Unconscious or subconscious regions so This is a highly highly reviewed highly recommended book So talks about america's culture politics and civic religion have been powerfully influenced by jewish contributions This is a shrewd and unsettling account of the influence of some surprising jewish figures on contemporary popular culture in the united states Why do americans worry so much about their souls? in this book sketches A dialogue among modern american jewish writers and figures about the essence of humanity the soul It explores american jewish writing on psychology, neurosis, self-help, humanism and the holocaust So this book explains how jewish intellectuals uncovered and explained the marrow of american identity. So The american dream according to some was invented by jews in hollywood Neil gabler wrote that book on jews in hollywood called an empire of their own and He claims that jews in hollywood invented and it may popular the american dream So this book says that jewish intellectuals uncovered and explained the marrow of american identity Even as they sought to secure their place in america that did did not always want them so much of the Analysis from these jewish intellectuals was of course self-interested. They wanted to create an america. There was a safe place for jews so now how would uh How would jews in general react to non jews? uncovering and explaining the essence of jewish identity So let's just say they would tend to be somewhat skeptical and not necessarily thrilled So this book says that jewish ways of thinking about the soul about human personality and the meaning of life has spread to millions of americans So how do you think about the american soul? So why did these jewish intellectuals see danger in the popular idea of a spiritualized psyche? Why did they campaign against it? Insisting instead that the mind contained no mystical or spiritual elements. Now, I don't think it's inherent in being jewish to campaign against spiritualism Or to campaign against behaviorism. So do you know what uh behaviorism means in psychology So it's a school of thought that says essentially we just respond to stimulus All right, so it's a way of understanding behavior of people and animals that assumes that behavior is either a reflex Evoked by the pairing of certain antecedent stimuli in a particular environment Or it's simply a consequence of an individual's history, especially reinforcement and punishment Experiences together with the individual's current motivational state and controlling stimuli So behaviorists generally accept the importance of heredity and genes in determining behavior, but they focus primarily on environmental events So behaviorism Contains philosophy methodology and theory Emerge in the early 1900s as a reaction to depth psychology Another traditional forms of psychology so It was a reaction in part to Freud So have you read michael law's book the undoing? project a friendship That changed our minds Those book came out in 2016 and he noted that In the middle of the 20th century all of the leading behaviorist psychologists were wasps white anglo-saxon protestants So it seemed like at that time Psychology consisted of two entirely unrelated disciplines. There was wasp psychology and jewish psychology. So there was Wasp understandings of the soul and jewish understandings of the soul and the psyche So the wasp marched around in white lab coats carrying clipboards and thinking up new ways to torture rats And they avoided the great wet mess of human experience So the jews embraced the wet mess even the jews who disdained Freud and his methods and who longed for objectivity Wish to search for truth that might be tested according to the rules of science So any jews longed for objectivity and Is ideology a word and a concept invented by jews I don't think so Ideology means a set of beliefs or philosophies attributed to a person or group of person So well in a tradition going back to Karl Marx Term was coined by a french enlightenment aristocrat and philosopher Antoine de Stout de Tracy who I do not believe was jewish His family was of scott scottish origin So now it doesn't come from the jews. So it was first used in 1796 as the science of ideas To develop a rational system of ideas to oppose the irrational impulses of the mob So in political science ideologies used in a descriptive sense to refer to political belief systems So as she says Kenneth Brown Destroyed Keith Woods in a recent response video he challenged Keith Woods to a debate He uploaded a Keith Brown uploaded a psychoanalysis video about the social phenomenon of milk great challenge going on in the african-american community There are no bad people just bad choices except Luke Ford. He's a bad person Did I see the video where the kid kicks over the crates when a cop is trying to do it? Yeah, it does seem that uh, not all groups commit identical rates of of crime And uh, Kenneth Brown said it was a myth that wasp with no longer ruling america. Oh the cop landed on his head That's no fun Guys, don't take the milk crate challenge. It's not healthy Never relax. Well, you can relax in here. This is a safe space for you to to relax Okay, so why did jews see a danger? In the idea of a spiritualized psyche and why did they campaign against it? So I don't think that's Inherent in being jewish. I believe that's a reaction to a certain set of circumstances particularly Coming from eastern europe and and being afraid of non-jewish pogroms So I wonder if jews from western europe would have the same fear of mass excitements So jews also were opposed to the behaviorist Paul of popular thought so behaviorism essentially depicts the mind as a machine that can be programmed So both the transcendentalist perspective and the behaviorist perspective Promised euphoric transformations of the human nature that jews considered unrealistic And potentially chaotic and dangerous. What is my opinion on tattoos? I hate tattoos. I loathe tattoos. I fear tattoos What is the prohibition about? Well I'm sure there are various theories about what the prohibition is about but There is a strong prohibition in the jewish tradition against getting tattoos Now various people will have various theories about why the the prohibition is there So on the one hand the jewish tradition commands the right of circumcision the removal of the foreskin for for boys But in general jews are opposed to any kind of tattooing Or messing with the body cutting Disrupting Marrying Deforming the body jews tend to have an instinctive negative reaction to that So why would the jews jewish intellectuals in this book want to guide the public toward a more restrained interpretation of the human psyche? What about piercings? What about piercings? The jewish tradition is strongly opposed to piercings for men and I think there are different opinions about the validity of piercings for women So the jewish tradition understands men and women as two different creatures with some different responsibilities and obligations So these jewish intellectuals wanted to guide the public toward a more restrained interpretation of the human psyche They feared mass excitement They they wanted the interpretation that reflected the rationalist moralism in which they were raised so Many jews tend to think of their own tradition as very rationalist and they often think of Non- jewish traditions such as christianity is like romantic or irrationalist or non-rationalist So I think everyone tends to think of their own way of viewing the world as rational and contrary ways of viewing the world as irrational so these jewish intellectuals wanted a middle path because they were concerned about a particular kind of evil Right. They were concerned about the destructive potential of the irrational mob So I think due to historical circumstance This is deeply ingrained in jews a great fear of the destructive potential of the irrational mob so By contrast with the generally cheerful american appraisal of human nature Which did not share the darker european views of the crowd jews introduced a more somber approach So these jewish intellectuals says you have to be aware of the danger of mass excitement of mass irrationalism irrationalism of mass spiritualism of mass populism So only by following the middle road would americans be properly equipped to produce an open and democratic society So I've been learning about john lock. Have you even read john lock bro? so john lock denied the existence of innate ideas He says you know people are not born with ideas that are implanted in their minds by god So c.s. Lewis The christian thinker argued that we were born with an impulse towards The north meaning an impulse towards god Now apparently greg kanter his announced he has converted to islam and pledged his allegiance to mass Uh, I think he's trolling So I got I got a strike On this youtube channel for linking to two new york times articles about about porn hub But youtube reversed their strike fairly fairly quickly so We're back in in the good graces Yet do jews from spain and portugal counters western jews? I would think so yes so Is there a spirit at work in the consciousness of human beings? So much of the excitement of modern intellectual life Has come from a succession of thinkers who believe they have unlocked the mysteries of consciousness and I haven't watched duvet shows with jen, but aren't they talking a lot about consciousness And quantum mechanics and quantum this and quantum that Hey, have you guys watched james jenny? I really like his his youtube channel. He does some great shows on new age thinkers. Hey There's jen. She's in the chat so James jenny's done some great videos on the lore of attraction on new age gurus On people selling online courses. It's uh, I think it's really good stuff So I had a friend recommend james jenny to me. I really like it So jen correct me, but haven't you and duvet talked a great deal about consciousness and quantum things quantum mechanics On your weekly show together So is there a spirit at work in the consciousness of human beings? I assume that jen would say yes So in america popular discussions of consciousness severe towards transcendentalism on the one hand and behaviorism on the other So transcendentalism says, uh The human soul Leaves in in the human soul and that there are spiritual powers that are submerged in the depths of human consciousness and the behaviorist camp Has a completely different perspective For them biology and environment is everything Our most intimate and deepest of thoughts can be explained in physical terms and can be altered by mechanical changes in the environment So jen says yes, I have a quantum model of consciousness I don't talk about soul in my model or spirit. I just talk about consciousness I feel that soul and spirit are the domain of religion And they're not really science So i'm sharing from this excellent book Jews and the american soul human nature in the 20th century So after the death of william james who wrote the varieties the religious experience. So he died in 1910 The idea of a spiritualized psyche virtually disappeared among academic psychologists Rustin says if jews are concerned about their safety as a minority community Why don't they move to a country where they are the majority? These claims always seem to be disingenuous, especially after 1948 Well, rustin, why don't you move to a country where you are the majority? All right, everyone who wants to pursue their self-interest Why doesn't every group who pursues their self-interest move to a country where they are the majority? So the reason that jews don't automatically up and move to a country where they are the majority The same reasons why you don't up and move to a country where you are the majority Right because you have enough attachments. You have enough things that you like about where you are right now that Even being part of the majority is not compelling enough for you to up stakes it's uh people Usually operate on inertia people don't Often up stakes and move to a completely new country, particularly if they they don't speak the language So the united states of america has by and large been a golden medina. It's been a golden land for jews It's been a golden land for non-jews. It's a great country to live in And just because you want to secure a certain rights or to feel safer in a particular environment uh does not mean that You're willing to just give up everything you have in in the united states to move to another country where you are the majority so All the people who complain about white dispossession and the great replacement Very few of them actually move to Countries where they can be part of the majority Where they can be part of the overwhelming majority why don't people up and and move according to the things they say because Being part of the majority is not the only consideration people have stakes people have friends People have interests people have jobs people have professions people have a way of life That is much more conducive to living in america pastor rick wiles is demanding one million dollars from michael indale of my pillow for defamation against true news Seems like jews from brazil and argentina mirror jews from united states. Well, guess what jews from eastern europe who who shares an evolutionary and Social and cultural background over hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years Would tend to demonstrate similar trades where they're living in argentina brazil the united states canada, australia, new zealand or england just like People who come from africa and their ancestors live for thousands of years in africa Tend to demonstrate similar life outcomes where they're living in europe or the united states or australia or south america And people who come from thousands of years of ancestry in japan And then move to argentina or brazil or the united states or canada or australia also tend to demonstrate the same life outcomes so this is not something that's unique to jews and I think most people Make their safety a top priority right, whether you're jewish or non- jewish A normal person will think about his safety and will take all prudent steps that he can to maximize his safety the World outside of this cozy group we've got going here. It's far more dangerous than we consciously think about right the world outside of this this space Is is far more dangerous than we can handle thinking about so when we leave this cozy warm safe space You know i've created this space for you So that you can be safe to share what you feel but when you leave this safe space The world outside is so dangerous that you impose upon it all sorts of structures That are not there These structures only exist in your mind So you think the world outside of this safe space has certain reliable safe Structures that are simply not there. They only exist in your imagination in your mind because the confusing and dangerous Reality outside of this safe space is too disconcerting to think about or even to be conscious about so instead we impose We impose an order on reality that is not there If america is safe for jews, which it is then why do some jews seem to view america as potentially unsafe? Well With these type of questions always see How the question sounds when you When you substitute jews When you substitute non-jews for jews or christians for jews Ruston if america is a safe place for christians, which it is Why do some christians seem to view america as potentially unsafe If america is a safe place for blacks, which it is why do some blacks seem to view america as potentially unsafe? America is a safe place for non jews. Why do some non jews seem to view america as potentially unsafe? be Evolved to have a heightened awareness and consciousness and fear of threats to our safety. So that's just part of the human condition. It's not something that's unique to Jews. Everybody has a concern for safety and everybody who is rational takes all prudent steps to make themselves as safe as possible, even though consciously we rarely acknowledge how dangerous the world outside is and how chaotic the world outside is and how the world outside of this safe lovely little chat is far more random than what we acknowledge. Jews from Western Europe and Eastern Europe act the same. Not true. So Jews who are radical overwhelmingly come from backgrounds from Eastern Europe and Jews who are much more moderate politically, religiously, socially, culturally tend to come from backgrounds in Western Europe. So by and large Jews who vote for the left tend to come from backgrounds in Eastern Europe. Jews who vote for the center or the center right tend to come from backgrounds in Western Europe. Yeah, there are parts of Los Angeles that are as dangerous any place in the world. Right, because they are populated by people who have a disproportionate number of those who act in very dangerous ways. Vihu says, I don't think there are many Eastern Jews in South America. Well, you need to do some research because there are. In fact, there were so many there were so many Jews in the sex trade in South America that they had their own that they had their own synagogues. Right, it was known as white slavery. So I would wager that most Jews in South America come from Eastern European origins. Ashie knows Kenneth Brown lists a top 50 list of minor minoritarians that rule over the masses. He says appealing to the masses never leads to power and the populism is a failed political strategy. Well, I would say that appealing to the masses does not always lead to power. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. And populism is sometimes a winning political strategy in certain times and circumstances and sometimes it's a loser strategy. Everything is contingent contingent means depends upon. Look, can you play this clip of Dennis Prager commenting on being Jewish on the Rubin report? I'm not sure. I'm not I'm not using OBS right now. I'm just talking to my phone sitting on my desk. Just a relaxed, cozy, comfy, spontaneous stream. But I'm going to leave this in all likelihood unless something very naughty happens. I'm going to leave this video up on edited on censored on YouTube and people will be able to watch the replay of the chat and they'll be able to click on your link and they'll be able to read Dennis Prager commenting on being Jewish on the Rubin report. So there was a steady trend in academic psychology away from a belief in the spiritualized psyche and it reached its peak in Watson's behaviorism. So behaviorism looked at John Watson, founder of behaviorism looked at people who simply as the animals responding to stimuli. Do I have a local's account? No, I do not. I don't have enough social media in my life. I should get with the program. So many psychologists were put off by John Watson's utter rejection of consciousness. I just believe that people acted like machines. So that's the behaviorist perspective in psychology that people simply people basically operate like machines and simply respond to stimulus. But they leaned in his direction. They leaned towards laboratory rather than the seance chamber. Okay, it's a decent streaming platform. Okay, do I have any transcendentalists watching right now? You value spirituality, but you've given up for more religion. So by and large, the way Christianity is experienced by Christians in the way Judaism is experienced by Jews, Christianity is a much more romantic and spiritual religion than Judaism. By and large, as its practice, Judaism is the most this life centered of the world's religions. It's the most physical of the world's religions. Okay, it's the least romantic of the world's religions. And therefore spirituality is not generally speaking as easy to to experience in Judaism as it is in other religions. Like you have to do a ton of work to experience spirituality in Judaism. So generally speaking, the way Judaism is practiced today and the way Christianity is practiced today, Christians have much quicker and easier access to spirituality than the Jews. And the Christian life is generally speaking more, you know, quickly spiritual than the Jewish life because the focus of Christianity is on individual salvation to the next world. That's inherently going to be more spiritual. So Jews are going to come across as more blunt, as more at ease with the natural passions, and more this worldly focused and therefore less spiritual. So spiritualism, Jewish intellectuals have tended towards great great skepticism of spiritualism, claims of Shirley MacLean, etc. So the mind cure movement of the 19th century, positive thinking movement of the 20th century, these come out of the American tradition of transcendentalism. So there was a prolific inspirational non Jewish writer, Emmett Fox, who described all this in his 1932 book, The Power of Constructive Thinking. So that book predated Norman Vincent Peel's blockbuster, The Power of Positive Thinking by two decades. And these books were very influential upon Donald Trump. So these books took took the perspective of the subconscious mind is active all the time. And it's like this spiritual force inside of us that we need to unleash. So people like Emmett Fox appeared to millions of Americans who resisted the efforts of scientists to eliminate spirituality from interpretations of the human psyche. So people wanted to be able to mine the psyche in a way that combined the aura of science with the simplicity of faith. If safety is a concern for the people in power, both Jew and Gentile alike, then why did they promote mass importation of various groups, which may be maybe a threat to their safety? I think one answer is that the people who promote this importation of minority groups, they're an elite. They're a tiny, tiny number of Americans. So they're an elite. And so the importation of these groups is not a threat to them. Because by and large, they live in gated communities. They have their own security, they have their own protection, and they're not generally going to be as affected by the importation of minority groups as regular Americans. So also, they get cheaper help. They get cheaper servants and workers through mass importation. While for regular Americans, mass immigration reduces their wages, reduces their sense of comfort in life, and makes them feel less safe. That's just one answer. I'm sure there are many. So people can simultaneously promote some ideology and conduct their own life in a way completely contrary to that ideology. So someone can, it's very common for people to promote racial integration, but in their own lives, lead a very non-racially integrated life. So plenty of people who promote racial integration live in areas that are largely homogeneous. And they live lives that are largely homogeneous. So most people choose to work among their own kind, live among their own kind, worship among their own kind and play among their own kind. At the same time, they may give lip service or even vote for the type of racial and religious integration that they do not practice in their own life. So interesting book, Jews and the American soul, human nature in the 20th century. So Jews were not impervious to the allure of spiritualism. But there's not really a Holy ghost in Judaism. The Holy Spirit doesn't play as prominent a role in the lives of American Jews as it does in the lives of American Christians. So Christians tend to be nurtured in the idea of the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit. And it says in the New Testament that one sin that can never be forgiven is a sin against the Holy Spirit. So Jews by and large, don't have backgrounds that leads them to think in terms of infusions from an external source of spiritual power. So some Hasidic Jews may have backgrounds, but they're not going to go into psychology by and large. So there are all these non Jewish thinkers who develop these theories of reserve energy in our unconscious that we just have to, you know, tap into the latent spiritual powers of our unconscious. And once we do that, we can instantiate, you know, tremendous power and energy. So you have these non Jews analyzing humor and saying that true humor taps into subconscious reservoirs of energy that put the individual in touch with the infinite, right? That's not generally the way that Jewish intellectuals talk. So the infinite depth of the soul and the very failures, faults, defects and imperfections that gave rise to humor. Yeah, Ron Owens reposted an article on Andrew Anglin on the Ashley Abbabit shooter's identity story. So if you support law enforcement and law and order, then you have to support that carp who shot Ashley Abbabit, right? You've got, you've got the vice president of the United States and many of America's leading politicians, just a few feet away from a howling, raging mob that's threatening to break through and possibly do violence to America's leading politicians. And so come on, guys, don't we love our cops, our law enforcement? We love our military too, because they're important. If you support law enforcement, orderly support the cops, if you support the rule of law, then you have to support the cop who shot Ashley Abbabit. Couldn't the elite pushing mass immigration couldn't that lead to some kind of revolutionary conflict between the masses and the elite? Yes, it led in part to the 2016 Donald Trump election. So right now we have more suspicion and alienation between the elite and the masses than, than we've had ever before in American history. I don't think we're on the verge of a civil war, however. So you had Jewish intellectuals and writers exhorting Americans to tap into their reserves of power, but they don't generally wander into transcendentalism. So you had Jews like Herbert Kaufman, who had a syndicated Sunday column called Vim Vigor Victory, filled with high-pitched self-help exhortations and aphorisms. It's kind of like the poor Richard's Almanac. The badges readers to waste no time and no opportunity to realize their potential for success and productivity. Guys, I'm here to help you unleash the giant within. Are you ready to cross the bridge to total freedom? What transcendentalism are we talking about here? Transcendentalism. What the heck is transcendentalism? Right, it emphasizes subjectivity over objectivity. It developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the Eastern United States. It believes in the inherent goodness of people and of nature. So that's very contrary to the Jewish perspective. The Jewish perspective is that nature must be tamed and controlled and that people are not inherently good. They needed to be governed by both law, internal law and by a strong central authority. So there's a Jewish prayer from 2000 years ago that Jews should always pray for the welfare of the government because without it, men will swallow each other alive. So transcendentalism saw society and its institutions as having corrupted the purity of the individual and that people are at their best when they're truly self-reliant and independent. This is like completely contrary to the Jewish perspective. So the traditional Jewish perspective is not that society corrupts individuals. The traditional Jewish perspective is that a good society like America makes individuals far better than they would be just on their own following their own natural inclinations. So the traditional Jewish perspective is that our institutions tend to make people better rather than to debauch them. And we don't think that people are at their best when they're truly self-reliant and independent. We think that people are their best when they're enmeshed with other people in community. So transcendentalism, this American philosophical movement is completely contrary to the traditional Jewish attitude. As she says, Richard Spencer went for Kantian metaphysics on the kill stream. He said, cause and effect don't exist outside of the human mind. Well, I would invite him to step off a ledge off a wall. And I would assure him that the laws of gravity will very much have an effect. I will assure him that if he walks down the street and punches someone, the odds are fairly good that they're going to be very negative consequences. I think Richard Spencer's career over the past five years is very strong argument for the idea that there are tendencies towards if not laws of cause and effect. So Jewish popularizers of psychology are not averse to American pep, but they were remarkably uniform in rejecting the idea of a spiritualized psyche. So again, I don't think this is inherent to Jews. I think this is a reaction to time and place. So when Jews live in a Christian country, one way that they maintain their separate Jewish identity is to emphasize amongst themselves how wonderful everything that is Jewish is and have a much more skeptical view of things that are Jewish, that are not Jewish. That's the way that Jews maintain their separate identity while living in the diaspora primarily for the past 2,500 years, an instinctive reaction to venerate that which is Jewish and to have skepticism towards that which is Goyesh. Is there a difference in how different groups of Jews use spirituality? Yes, acidic Jews tend to be the most spiritual. Orthodox Jews tend to be more favorably disposed towards spirituality than non orthodox Jews. Hasidic Jews tend to have a more favorable view of spirituality than non Hasidic orthodox Jews. Do European Jews view it differently than Middle Eastern Jews? Yes. So Middle Eastern Jews tend to have a much easier and more natural and more comfortable relationship to spirituality than European Jews. Is there a difference between Western and Eastern European Jews? Yes, Western Jews tend to like and admire non Jews. And Jews of Eastern European backgrounds tend to have much more fear and skepticism of non Jews. So by and large Jews from a Western European background tend to be more assimilated into Gentile culture. And Jews from an Eastern European background tend to be more skeptical and fearful and sometimes skeptical and hostile towards Gentile culture. So there was one historian of the psyche who observed the opposition, Joseph Jastrow. So Joseph Jastrow was the son of the inventor of the Jastrow Talmudic dictionary. So he went, he dropped Orthodox Judaism, went in a secular direction and became a psychologist. And then he carried on a crusade to demystify the psychological term most subject to abuse by the general public, the subconscious. Then there was another Jewish psychologist, Hugo Munsterberg. He says, the story of the subconscious mind can be told in three words. There is none. So one of the first American symposia on the subconscious published in 1910 had six leading psychological authorities. And they were just asked to confront the conflict between the metaphysical and the biological views of the subconscious. So none of the six accepted a mystical or transcendental psyche. But there was a big Jewish Christian difference. So the two Jewish contributors insisted more strenuously than the others on the purely physiological nature of subconscious activity. So they denied metaphysical qualities to the subconscious. They had an uncompromising physiological view of the mind. So they had no patience for the mystical view of the subconscious. So these Jewish intellectuals were also not Orthodox Jews. By and large, Orthodox Jews don't go into academia. By and large Orthodox Jews don't go into psychology. That's changed somewhat in the last 30 years. So Jews were much more likely to seek a purely physiological, biological understanding of the human psyche. And notions of a mind cure or mental health remained far into him. So there was a great essay in the Atlantic by Caitlin Flanagan about her experience with breast cancer. She was diagnosed with breast cancer about 20 years ago. And all these people told her that she needed to think positive to overcome breast cancer. And she had an appointment with her oncologist. I think that's a doctor of cancer or a doctor of disease. And she confessed to her doctor that she wasn't thinking very positive because she was on this very serious chemotherapy. And the doctor told it there's no evidence that thinking positive makes any difference in how you deal with cancer. So if you are someone who enjoys the unsolicited opinions and advice of strangers and acquaintances, well, I can't recommend cancer highly enough. You won't even have the first pathology report in your hands before the advice comes pouring in. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Get cancer and the world can't shut its trap. Stop eating sugar. Keep up your weight with milkshakes. Listen to a recent story on NPR. Do not read a recent story in Time Magazine. Exercise, but not too vigorously. Join a support group. Make a collage. Make a collage in a support group. Collage the shit out of your cancer. Do you live near a freeway? Do you drink tap water? Do you eat food microwaved on plastic plates? Well, that's what's caused it. Do you ever think about suing? Do you ever wonder if you just let some time pass? The cancer would have gone away on its side. So I was watching these James Jenny videos on The Secret and there's like this one woman in that famous 2006 film, The Secret, who talked about how she'd cured her breast cancer through the law of attraction. Well, she ended up dying of breast cancer. And like other people who are quoted as experts in the law of attraction, they met pretty grisly ends or their spouse met pretty grisly ends or they ended up getting arrested because one bloke was operating a sweat lodge where two people died. So Caitlyn Flanagan says, before I got cancer, I thought I knew how the world worked. When I got cancer, my body broke down so catastrophically that I stopped trusting what I thought and what I believed. I felt out to listen to people when they told me what to do because clearly I didn't know anything. I had cancer. The advice was bewildering. It was anxiety producing. People contradicted each other. But there was one warning I heard from a huge number of people almost every time every day. I had to stay positive. People who beat cancer have a great positive attitude. And there were books about how to develop the positive mental attitude that beats cancer. There are meditation tapes to help you visualize your tumors melting away. But after a terrible diagnosis, a failed surgery, a successful surgery in the beginning of chemotherapy, I just wasn't feeling very up. At the end of another terrible day, my husband would ask me to sit in the living room so that I could meditate and think positive thoughts. I was nauseated from the drugs. I was tired. I was terrified. All I wanted to do was take my out of van and sleep. But I couldn't do that because if I didn't change my attitude, I would die. I remember when I got chronic fatigue syndrome, one doctor recommended the works of Bernie Siegel. He's got the 1986 classic love medicine and miracles. And according to Dr. Siegel, to be exceptional, you have to tell your body that you want to live. You have to say no way to any doctor who says you have a fatal illness. You have to become a channel of perfect self-love. And remember the simple truth is, happy people don't get sick. Old anger and disappointment can yield into cancer. You need to get rid of those emotions or they will kill you. And in 1989, there was this Stanford psychiatrist, David Spiegel, who published a study of women with metastic breast cancer. And he created a support group for half of the women whom he taught self-hypnosis. The other women got no extra social support. The results were remarkable. Spiegel reported the women in the support group survived twice as long as the other women. And this study was hugely influential in modern beliefs about meditation and cancer survival. I keep showing up in these books that my husband read to me, filled with stories of miraculous healing, patients defying the odds through their own positive mental attitude. So she went to see a clinical psychologist at UCLA, the Center for Integrative Oncologist. And I confessed I wasn't doing the work of healing myself. I wasn't being positive. Why do you need to be positive? Ask the psychologist. Because I don't want to die. Psychologist says there's not a single bit of evidence that having a positive mental attitude helps heal cancer. They study it all the time. It's not true. Having a positive mental attitude is not going to cure cancer. There's no evidence for that. David Spiegel was never able to replicate his findings about breast cancer. The American Cancer Society and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health say there is no evidence that meditation or support groups increase survival rates. The cancer occurs in a group of cells divide in rapid and abnormal ways. Treatments are successful if they interfere with that process. And that is the whole equation. Wouldn't calmer improve your odds of surviving cancer? So many wonderful and generous women have died very quickly of cancer. Many women who have survived cancer have been a bitch, right? Some of the biggest bitches come in and they live. So plenty of bitches get healthy and plenty of wonderful kind people die quickly of cancer. As she knows, Kenneth Brown describes Keith Woods as a political only fans content creator. As he uploads political content then arouses his followers by posting provocative and controversial content. That's Kenneth Woods has so many interesting perspectives. He is a remarkable found of interesting ideas. Richard Spencer was accused on the kill stream of being a spoiled child of the elite desperately clawing for power and relevancy. Southern Dingo accuses and confronts Richard Spencer about being a glow-in-the-dark federal asset and accuses Spencer of working with Paul Neelan to dox and ruin the alt-right. What do you mean, PMA fixes everything? What is PMA? You referring to the Pacific Maritime Association? Positive mental attitude. Foolish me. Foolish me, I am in error. All right, you're saying 40. Get back to this great book, Jews and the American Soul, Women, Nature in the 20th Century. So Jewish followers of Freud and Adler guarded against spiritual incursions into their theory of the unconscious. So Freud and Adler differed from the third Gentile member of the psychoanalytic triumph for it. So Carl Jung was very much into spirituality. So the two secular Jewish thinkers anchored themselves in a pure rationalism. Jung took psychoanalysis in a vaguely Christian metaphysical direction. So the secular Jewish psychologists tended towards great distrust of mass enthousiasms of spiritualism and a great distrust of mysticism. So Jewish followers of Freud tended to reject mysticism and they did not want to reroute psychoanalysis in American transcendentalist ideas of the infinite. So there are many American non-Jewish interpreters of Freud who wanted to turn it into Freudianism into a spiritual channel leading to salvation. They wanted to kind of merge Freudian analysis with Christian inspired metaphysics. So the Jewish psychologists tended to dissent from that, from transcendentalism. They dissented from explicitly Christian versions of the unconscious. So they preferred physiological and biological interpretations. So they particularly hated this idea of a mental healing, that you can heal yourself through a positive mental attitude. So the Jewish psychologists stressed, look the body is real and its afflictions are not curable by wishful thinking. So they said you might as well try to defy the laws of physics and of gravitation and of gravity. This cures some organic nervous affliction by positive mental attitude. So the Jewish psychologists says psychotherapists must implement a rational practice. So Jews are like the last believers in the Enlightenment. So the Enlightenment holds that people are inherently good and capable of rational thought. So religious people tend to have a much more skeptical view of human nature and of the human potential for being rational. So these Jewish secular psychologists says that the psychotherapists should not dangle the fetish of any mysterious magnetic force or clothe any of our therapeutic procedures in a cloak of mystery. So do you guys believe in the law of attraction? Have you watched the secret or read the secret? Do you have any favorite New Age gurus? So there's a big difference between popular Jewish and Christian and elite Jewish and Christian writers on the subconscious or the unconscious. And you see it in the differences between two of the most popular inspirational books of the 20th century that Norman Vincent Peel's The Power of Positive Thinking which came out in 1952 and Rabbi Joshua Liebman's Piece of Mind book which came out in 1946. So Norman Vincent Peel wedded liberal Protestantism to the psychological idea of great hidden powers within the subconscious mind whereas Rabbi Liebman took a completely different tack. So consistent with other Jewish intellectuals he rejected a spiritualized unconscious, a spiritualized psyche. His unconscious was Freud's unconscious. It was a side of deep conflict. There are no hidden reserves of power for Liebman. There's no communion with the universal spirit. Piece of mind depended upon candid introspection and patient determination. So will the Israeli government absorb a small number of Afghan refugees as a symbolic and humanitarian gesture? So yeah possible but a very tiny number. Bye-bye.