 is not that they're stupid, these are not stupid people. They're not low IQ people, they're not dumb people, they're not simple people. They have decided in particular areas of their life to evade, to completely ignore reality, to ignore facts, and just be mindless. So it's not about, if they were just stupid then who cares? Then they're just stupid. That they're not stupid, that makes it so shocking. And so surprising still and will for a long time, I guess, surprise me, because I have a benevolent view of people, will continue to shock me and surprise me. And some of them are on our chat. So they're on here regularly or many of them have left because they were on, remember they were on in January 2021 telling me that Biden was never going to be president, he was never going to be, and I said, you know, if you're right I will say I was wrong and apologize, but if you're wrong I want you to come back on the show and on the chat and admit you were wrong and not a single one of them ever did that. They're all gone, they're all disappeared. And some of the Russian supporters have disappeared from our channel as well. And my guess is Russia has clearly defeated many more of them will disappear. And I guess they keep chatting among themselves trying to figure out what went wrong or why, you know, there is this alternative parallel universe in which they were right and why we were wrong. Anyway, it's truly, it's an interesting phenomena. Lack of thinking, lack of acceptance of facts of reality even at the most basic level is truly interesting. But this, you know, you shouldn't take anything. I say, I say seriously because ultimately all I am is a vehicle for the Ukrainian government propaganda machine. All I do is recite to you what I hear and what the Ukrainians ask me. I hope they pay me well. I really do hope they pay me well. Patriot Pete just posted something really good. So it's not a super chat. It should be a super chat. It's not a super chat. It's in the chat, but it's worthy of a petition because it's actually really good. He writes, the Russian army losing so badly that Putin is at risk of losing the support of the Republican Party. That's really good. I thought it would just be a conventional thing. Oh, Putin's losing support of the Russian people or losing support of the Kremlin or something like that. But no, he's at risk of losing the support of Taka Kalsen. He might actually lose Taka Kalsen and the rest of the Republican Party. What will he do then? All right. That was funny. Who is it? Who said that? Patriot Pete. Cool. All right. So as you know, I will do my spiel in 9-11 in a few minutes. But as you know, you guys get to dictate much of the program and what we talk about on the show. You can do so with the super chat. You can ask questions. You can ask big questions, small questions. You can ask questions on anything I see and a number of questions already on 9-11 that is great or in Russia. That would be great. So any of those kind of questions that relate to the topics we talked about on the show would be fantastic and appreciated. But you can really ask questions about anything. So feel free to jump in with those. And 9-11. So 9-11, I think we'll go down as one of those real moments in which history shifted, in which it will be one of those moments in the decline of America that is going to be noted and remembered and historians will study and try to understand what and how and explain it. It is, of course, we know and we've discussed often that ultimately ideas shape history. And there's no question, we'll talk about this, that ideas shaped America's response to 9-11. But existentially, what happens, things like wars, things like a terrorist attack on the scale of 9-11, things like particular elections or particular responses, they accelerate or slow down particular historical processes. They're not determining the rise or decline, but they are accelerates or they slow down the rise, the kind of inevitable rise and decline that is driven by ideas. So all ideas give you the broad framework of the direction a culture is heading in. The specifics, how it declines, the speed of its decline, the way in which, the particular way in which it declines, ultimately determined by the people, the facts, the events, if you will, on the ground, on the ground. And certainly this is the case of 9-11. Now America has been in decline for a long time, certainly by certain measures, economic freedom, certainly America's been in decline for about 100 years. That decline was slowed down a little bit, maybe by Ronald Reagan, but then accelerated later on by a compassionate conservative, George Bush. But of course, George Bush's whole term was dictated by the U.S. and the U.S. and the U.S. was the largest in the term by 9-11. But the economic decline of America, economic liberty is really being set in place by the progressives, by progressive ideas, with ideas of collectivism and altruism and socialism and just a rejection of the ideas of the founding fathers, the idea of individualism and of individual rights. In other funds, liberty and freedom are a certain period of time. But generally the ideas of intellectuals, the ideas of the forefront of our culture have been for the most part in decline with, I think, a slight reversal during the 1970s, 80s and 90s, but then a continuation of that decline. And those ideas are basically being shaped by the left, by ideas coming out of the left and manifest in the progressive movement, started in the mid-19th century and ongoing into the 20th century. That progressive movement has become more radicalized by postmodernism that has morphed, ultimately morphed into kind of the hippies of the new left, the rejection of traditional Marxism and basically an embrace of pure subjectivism, pure emotionalism, which has reverted into what we have today, which is critical race theory and DEI and ESG and Doomsday, climate change and all the rest of it. Those are the ideas of the forefront. And one of the great tragedies, one of the great, the fundamental tragedy of America is that the people who position themselves, the people who position themselves as the defenders of the ideas of the founding, which means the ideas of individualism, of individual rights, of capitalism, of freedom, of liberty. The people who position themselves as the defenders of that, as the lovers of our history and our founding fathers and our institutions and our documents and our constitution, the people who position themselves defending that have no clue what those ideas are based on. The great tragedy is that the people who position themselves to defend all that are not men of enlightenment, but are men of regression. They are conservatives. Conservatives have always opposed the radical nature of the formation of the United States of America. I mean real conservatives. America was radical. America was a big change. America was a big shift. And it didn't fit. So we're left with religious conservatives to defend a radical, fundamentally secular, fundamentally individualist revolution. We're left with the William F. Buckley's of the world, and he's the best among them, to defend a revolution that was completely foreign to William F. Buckley's mentality. So the right basically left open to the left to have influence over the culture and the policy, the fundamental policy issues of America. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran Brook show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to www.uranbrookshow.com slash support by going to Patreon, subscribe star locals, and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those, any one of those channels. 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