 Good day mate, here Silah Manly listening to Athenian stranger talk here with Alex Koshuta. So apparently everyone's taking the knee guys Everyone's bowed the knee. Everyone's Everyone's accepted the mark of the beast, but you and me. We are the last two stalwarts We're standing strong against the globulus. Just you and me bro. I mean this guy is a professor of classics apparently and He's just like such a cliche You know, just the right thinkers. It's it's kind of painful You need to take seriously the business of reading good books because in a world filled of bad things of evil people and monsters really You're not going to find the heroes you want looking around you've already seen everyone Yeah, you can find the heroes you want looking around. You know, maybe start with your family then move to your friends And maybe move to your clergy your religious community People you go to school with people in your profession. Yeah, you can find people who are heroic in different aspects But this idea that anyone who's heroic as a totality is a delusion Right, we are situationally heroic We all have situations where we can be heroic But even the biggest hero in certain situations and other situations, they're going to be weak And pathetic and awkward and dishonest right Or we can be our heroes in different situations and try to put ourselves in those situations that are most conducive to bring you out the best in us Everyone literally has bowed the knee, right? I mean you watch all the football players You know take a knee for the national anthem and you know hold up a fist for Black Lives Matters Everyone's bowed the knee bro, but you and me We're the last of the truth seekers We're the last of the good guys We're the last of the brave people but Taking a knee is performative Right, everyone's taken a knee in church Right when people take the knee in church Are they Truly turning over their life to jesus christ? No Overwhelmingly the lives of american christians are no different from the lives of american non-christians of the same social class and education so Taking a knee in church usually doesn't signify anything about someone right, it's just Something that you're socially supposed to do Doesn't necessarily have any meaning It's just what everyone around you is doing is what's expected and so too in certain sporting events with certain teams They're socially expected that you take a knee doesn't actually mean anything. It's Performative you're going along to get along All right, you're not going to break out the unity of your team And so you take a knee All right, we all do all sorts of things just go along with the crowd You just do what's socially expected. It doesn't necessarily mean anything greater than that What kinds of crap so these people are not heroes the cowards So where can we find real heroes in a world that doesn't have any? Well, guess what? we're all cowards in some things And we all have the potential to be heroic in other things right no one is all hero And no one's all coward Right, we have situations that bring out the best in us the situations that bring out the worst in us They have situations in between depending on the situation we find ourselves That will behave better or worse Well, you're gonna have to go back to books sort of plain and simple Yeah, yeah, I mean this is are all very uh fears that that I have for my son and you know, whatever maybe future children I'll have um the idea that um, I think you know just knowing whatever genetic material I've Right, we all have what our fears for our children Parents 10 000 years ago had fears for their children Right, we're in uncharted territory guys. Yeah Why are we in uncharted territory because we're different today than we were yesterday And the territory is a little different today than it was yesterday So the world's constantly changing and so there are things that are new And there are things that are continuous. There is the discontinuous and the continuous It has always been thus it will ever be thus We are evolved to worry and care and be concerned about our kids All right, it was the same 5 000 years ago 500 years ago and 50 years ago You can always come up with reasons why the world's going to hell You can also come up with reasons why the world's getting better Right teenage pregnancy is way down compared to 20 30 40 years ago Right, there are medical advances And we have the internet We have blockchain technology so we can speak freely on places like Odyssey Right, there's always some ways that things are getting better some ways that things are getting worse And there'll always be reason to worry about the people you care about All right, when I'd have a girlfriend and she liked to bike down Santa Monica Boulevard I worried about that I had a girlfriend and she took vacations to Mexico. I worried about that The more you love someone the more you're likely to worry about them It's not because the world's going to hell in a handbasket Add it to the combination. He'll probably be someone who's a bit Please contrarian. He's probably gonna question whatever whatever comes his way That doesn't really fit the pattern or whatever he's noticing around him But at the same time my fear is that he can't Yeah, almost all human traits are substantially heritable genetic So you're describing someone who's moderate to low in agreeableness Which sounds like it's also true for the host of the podcast Alex Koshuta So yeah, different people have different personality traits He's already kind of living in this world and he will have so much contact with technology And he will be living in this essentially space where he's been robbed of the possibility of an imagination Yeah, I didn't know I use the internet. I use technology I don't feel like I'm robbed of the possibility of having an imagination Uh, but if people start feeling stifled by technology, they'll they'll rebel against it All right, I'm not being forced to speak to you right now. I'm you too I'm not being forced right now to use technology I'm not being strangled because when I go for a walk the beautiful mainly the split bridge walk I'm listening to a podcast as I go podcast by Alex Koshuta I don't feel like my imagination has been stifled because of this technology I don't feel like my humanity has been taken away from me No, I don't feel you know gullible. So I'm just buying everything that's being said on these podcasts Completely different kind of human I feel like they're my fears that he'll be changed in an essence where he and what I've noticed about people who are of That generation are younger people even maybe my generation bit younger who fall and really into the internet They tend to fall in on themselves They tend to just end up searching their inner world for some answers and then just walking in a circle Just not knowing what's wrong with them, you know, because yeah, that's not generally true of people who are younger than you Or people who grow up with the internet That's an exaggerated Perspective So what you get from from tv is this essentially, you know therapy culture the idea that um, you know You have to go on some sort of internal vision quest and if you You didn't just get therapy culture from tv or from movies or from books or radio Like psychology is as pervaded our culture in many different ways And there's a lot more on tv than just therapy culture People aren't born yesterday. They're not gullible. They're not just going to mindlessly Act out the programming that they see on tv. We're not programmed by netflix netflix hasn't taken over our internal programming It's an entertainment respite from reality that people may, you know, indulge in an hour a day And then they go on and they make decisions They're not just programmed by netflix You know, don't buy the zombie bite theory of information that once netflix gets his paws into you Then you're just some hopeless automaton Find what you know sparks your bliss, you know find your calling, uh, whatever find the best career for you or just Man, that's really secular liberal perspective. All right a traditionalist perspective It's not follow your bliss, but find your appropriate place in the wider order find your Responsibilities Do your duty, right? That's a trad approach to life Let's just follow your bliss. That's that's some kind of secular liberal perspective Customize your personal experience in such a way You're gonna hit that that sweet spot and everything's gonna be perfect. Um, and I've you know, I've had people of my generation who I see Walking in that circle, there's no way out of it. I personally know that the way out of it is out of it You need to get out of it. You need to do things in the reality. You need to engage with Call them in body practice instead of canning. Yeah, so yeah, alex casciutto and Phineas stranger, they know the way out of this circle All these other people. They're just pathetic just mindlessly acting out what netflix has programmed into them I suspect that the reality of these lies that she's observing a little more complicated complex and rich than she is describing Going outside digging around your garden playing with your children if you know if you have them So stuff like this. Um, but if I yeah, revolutionary perspective, you should play with your kids I'm glad I heard that They're probably thinking 40 this this t-shirt. It's very disrespectful. Let's see your man boobs. I don't like it This to to my friends. They're like Ah, that's not it. You know, that'd be that'd be too easy. Um, so I'm still I'm going on a retreat I'm gonna, you know, have this I have to be alone for two weeks. I'm gonna figure this out No, you're not you have to get out of it Yeah, no, I mean that's that's another just an excellent point and that's yeah, luckily we've got these conversations to save civilization Did you realize you're stuck in the matrix and you have to get out? That's why The number of us at least among my friends, uh, we emphasize things like exercise athletics. Um Oh, wow I didn't know that Exercise and athletics was a good and important thing Sure, glad I tuned into this podcast man. This really is saving civilization Fan of uh, well, I mean I can sort of run down the list of all the things But I mean that's the point though is that uh, what happens when you're in this world of being plugged in all the time You're literally just staring at screens all day for your entertainment You know, I received that notification what 9 9 a.m. Every sunday. It tells me how much time I've spent on my phone Really people just plug into their screens all day for entertainment. I suspect most people have jobs And uh, those who weren't Plugged into their screens. Now a few decades ago. They were they were reading comic books You can always criticize the entertainment choices of people that are less intelligent than you Doesn't take a lot of brains or brilliance or insight to you have to do that I can only imagine what these young kids how much time they spend on theirs We're playing video games, which for the life of me, I'll never understand. Um, but that's that's the thing, right? And so we have this kind of yeah, he doesn't understand the appeal of video games There's nothing inherently bad about playing video games. They can be adaptive or maladaptive Just like you can use religion in adaptive or maladaptive way or exercise You can do too much exercise. You can drink too much water. You can do too much meditating. You can do too much prayer You can eat too much sugar There's nothing inherently bad about playing video games And you're not a better person because you don't know about how to play video games There's nothing inherently superior about not knowing anything about video games uh By all standards You look at the youth today versus the youth a few decades ago and the youth of today is simply feminine They're not they're not these kind of athletes who we love. Yeah the thousands of years Older people have been complaining that the youth of today, they're just You know, they're just no good. They're not like the youth of my childhood Just kind of get off my lawn caricature To the gym and working out. I mean even even the physique competitors when you look at a lot of these physique competitors In the fitness world, they're kind of they're mostly like metrosexual These are not the kind of people who would have been for instance like a sylvester Stallone movie or something of the 80s, right? Even if the hope For men who don't look like they'd be in a sylvester Stallone movie of the 1980s I guess there's just no hope for these blugs Oh, no, man. It's kind of suspicious. Is it looks like you have eye shadow on man? It's like, you know, great physique, but dude, you're a man. You got eye shadow on But but that's and all these things are problematic, right? But I think that's another thing That's just important as to always, you know, just the same way you got to look at Yeah, and if a man wears eye shadow, that's that's just the death of him, right? That's just the death knell of western civilization blokes wearing eye shadow Mind and the body are or they're not separate. These things are unified The healthy mind is not the one that even in my case would sit around and read books all day, right? I mean you have to make time to do some kind of exercise, you know to to find that harmony It's got a revolutionary perspective, right? You find many people on the left Plenty of worksters who say it's a good idea to get some exercise and to play with your kid There's nothing inherently revolutionary or reactionary about getting some exercise or playing with your kids Make you more of a complete person in a sense, a complete human being, a complete man These these kinds of things But yeah, I worry about that because you know, they've they found a way to really monetize Yeah, he worries about that because he's smarter and wiser and sharper and more moral More morally sensitive more ethical than we are. So he's worrying about all these things Worrying about the decline of western civilization because he sees the signs He's more attuned to these fault lines at western civilization than you are Having kids and everyone really plugged into social media 24 seven So it already is in many respects. Yeah, I actually I don't think there are any kids who are plugged into social media 24 seven The pod world right where everyone sort of in their pod and stuff like that You know, he sounds like David Brooks who just makes things up and states them as facts So you fact check, you know, David Brooks articles or columns And it's filled with sociological analysis that he's just making up much of the time, right? There's no facts behind what he's saying It's just like making stuff up to try to make a dramatic point to try to sound wise And there's like, oh, you can't then you can't spend over 20 dollars at a restaurant in a red state Well, actually you can I kind of get off my lawn caricature Is pretty pathetic here by a bloke called Athenian stranger talking to alex the shoot-off and and the I think that the effeminacy seems like like a symptom that is everywhere But it feels like it's it's psychological on the one hand, but it also feels like there's something in the water And I mean depending on who you believe it's literally something in the water Yeah, it's a conspiracy the globalist elites man. They're feeling a soy. They're turning us effeminate You know, I bet many of these effeminate people that they're complaining about could absolutely kick their ass Art Bell, what's up, bro? What is up my man? Pointing at Art Bell. So here I am in Manly, Australia. It is 641 p.m I believe it's January 12th Thursday evening Looking out at the Great Sydney Harbor Listening to alex Koshuta Posting a podcast and the guest is Athenian stranger getting some reactionary classicism So apparently this bloke is a professor of the classics Um, I don't know it feels like it's just like we're we're evolving very fast in that direction And uh, yeah, I don't know. I feel like thomas 777 as usual said at best that these these zoomers are just not horny enough They'd they'd rather they'd rather screw the snorlax pokemon or Yeah, that's the problem with kids these days. They're just They're just not horny enough, right? Remember the problem used to be they were too horny right And uh, people were worrying they couldn't sleep at night because the kids were too horny And it was going to bring down western civilization because the kids were too horny and they had astronomical rates of teenage births Now we have crushed The teenage birth rate, right? We have kids having less sex than than before And I think that's probably good for western civilization for kids not to have sex outside of marriage and Something not to give birth outside of marriage. So we've got these great trends in our civilization But these caricatures of distant right thinkers all they can do is bewail this this trend that the kids are having You know less unprotected sex Like that. So yeah, that's that's that's like one of my friends met uh on On square he's always saying you know increase the fuck rate increase the fuck rate Yeah, that's the solution to western civilization. We uh, we really need to increase the fuck rate. Wow Such a brilliant insights. Thank god. We've got the distant right around to uh Share this wisdom with us man. This is why I turn into the podcast We've got to increase the fuck rate among kids so that now we can increase that out of birthlock out of wedlock birth rate Yeah, that'll be really good for western civilization I mean he's got a point. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I mean At least even I would have in the early 2000s when I was in high school It did seem like teenagers were predatory but now I wouldn't I wouldn't even imagine these teenagers doing anything This just seemed like oh, so those are the better times when teenagers are more predatory That's what we need. We need more sexual predators among teenagers That will really save western civ Remember those good old days when teenagers were predatory I don't know despondent whenever you know because I I lived very close to the high school that I went to And maybe just my memory, you know, everyone seemed cooler and more hardcore when I was a teenager Especially because metal was really on a very popular back then so people were interesting very hardcore. Um, but yeah It's just doesn't doesn't feel like doesn't feel like the same caliber of person. Um, yeah, I know it's it's a bit it's a bit scary I don't even want to imagine just modeling another put another whatever 60. Yeah, you can always find reasons to be scared You can always find reasons why your generation is superior to, you know, the new generation And you don't have to work very hard to think about how your cohort's better than the cohort coming down the pike Oh, I'm so worried because I'm so wise. I see the fault lines and the death of western civilization It's on top and seeing, you know, what my what my son would be like as a high school senior because at the same time, you know I obviously am going to what's primarily going to shape your son is his genetics It's not going to be netflix right netflix. It's not going to take over his internal programming My darnness to keep him Maybe not away, but at least very much aware of what's going on and try Parenting doesn't make that much of a difference in how kids turn out presuming you're not awful to your kids So you can have some effect On choosing their peer group by choosing Where you live where you send your kids to school But your peer their peer group is going to affect them much more than you are You know create a wonderful environment where he has access to all these wonderful things that we talk about At the same time, he's his own man and he will be living, you know, maybe here or maybe in new zealand We're not sure some hazards from zealand, but he'll be in in the world and that's that's always a big a big question for a parent Especially, you know, uh at the at the turning of regimes It's going to be interesting Yes, son's independent human being will make his own way in life and Probably not going to take instruction from his mother Yeah, you know, I mean this this whole thing with the regimes and everything like that I mean, that's why I've been doing this this kind of a series on regime change in general Because I mean again, this is uh, and I think these two things are related the technological revolutions that we're living through um Going hand in hand at the same time with these Just amazing political transformations that are happening before our eyes that you know, of course every everyone is saying they're not really happening Right, which is so funny You know, you can call america a representative democracy all you want, but that's not what we have The the the teaching of classical political philosophy my area of expertise It's they're always emphatic that once you lose the institutions of education. That's what your regime is. You've lost your regime when you Oh, we've lost our regime. We've lost our representative democracy I know I saw a lot about representative democracy in the news recently I think uh kevin mccarthy was elected to be the house of representatives majority speaker So it seems like we still got representative democracy going. That's not the only thing going. Yes We are a representative democracy And we have characteristics of oligarchy and we have characteristics of aristocracy And we have characteristics of dictatorship and we have characteristics of socialism And we have characteristics of capitalism, right? We're not just a representative democracy. We're not just an oligarchy We're not just a dictatorship We're a complicated system, along with every other functioning democracy. We have elements of dictatorship where the government can step in, take away all your rights in the name of a real or putative emergency. The President of the United States has all the foreign policy power of King George III. He can start a worldwide nuclear conflagration. And at the same time we have those dictatorial elements, and we have oligarchic elements, the aristocratic elements, and democratic elements, and socialist elements. The United States is a complicated country, as is Australia, and England, and France, and Germany. Please, education. It doesn't matter what else is going on anywhere else in the regime, on anything. You now have a new regime, and if you want to know what to... I don't know. When I was a kid, education trends with fads would seem to change every day. Every day there seemed to be some new educational fad. So education is being controlled by the left for a long time. I don't think that's something that's new. Somehow we've survived in the United States of America with the left controlling education. So we've survived for 60, 70 years with the left dominating the field of education. I think we're going to keep going. But yeah, every day is a new day. Every day we're charting a new path, because there are continuities and discontinuities with yesterday. Dean, as that you're living in, just look to the institutions of education, because there's a reason people say kids are our future, because they literally are. And so if you want to know the status of your nation, of your people, just look what's going on, in particular, at the secondary schools. But I mean, all of them. Guess what? When you account for race, you know, American schools are really, really good. Pretty close to the best in the world when you look at test scores. So when you divide them up by race, like Asians in America pretty much do better than Asians anywhere else in the world. Blacks in America do pretty much do better than blacks elsewhere in the world. And schools doing a pretty dug on good job educating our kids. Now, public schools, with the public school teacher unions, they're still doing a good job overall educating our kids, right? Public school teachers aren't usually just what you see on Libs of TikTok, right? Those are a few psychos, right? There are a few freaks in every profession. But those public school teachers aren't Libs of TikTok teachers. Everyone likes to point at the universities lately because they stand out the most because they can get away with saying the most, as if they're not somehow funded by the government or something like that. Rest in peace, Jeff Beck. All right, so I know he was a very prestigious guitarist. So I've heard a lot of positive things said about Jeff Beck. He's high status. So no one appreciates Jeff Beck. He's high status. All the cool people know and appreciate Jeff Beck. I just don't know enough about him. I don't think he ever did anything for air supply, did he? Rare rock guitarist to improve with age. Yeah, I only hear wonderful things about Jeff Beck. But did he ever play with air supply? I tell you, I don't think he did. But secondary education is really where all that indoctrination is taking place. And if you were to look at any, you know, elementary school... Yeah, so in China, all right, you go to university. The third of your education is going to be in the works of Chairman Mao. I mean, that's hardcore indoctrination. So what American kids get at university and secondary school and primary school, you know, pales comparison to the indoctrination Chinese kids get. So you go to a Christian school, you get a Christian indoctrination. You go to a secular school, you'll get a secular indoctrination. You go to a Jewish school, you get a Jewish indoctrination. But in the final analysis, people aren't born gullible. People will choose their own way in life. We're not like automatons that the teachers just get their hands on us. So the Jesuits have a saying, give me a child until he's nine and I'll give you the man. Well, it's not true. It sounds good in certain circumstances. When you have a unitary society that the Roman Catholic Church dominates, then yeah, you can have more influence than a multicultural society like today. Send the kid to Jewish Christian secular school in the end, right? He's going to choose his own way. Yeah, Jeff Beck needed Luke's wise words. He may have been born gullible and to avoid SFI, right? You can lecture kids. Kids are like rubber balls. You can push and push on kids and you think like you're shaping them. But as soon as you're gone, they're just going to resume their natural orientation, the orientation from their genetics and from their peer group, right? Kids code switch. They speak one way to parents in the house and then as soon as they get out of the house, they start speaking differently. I would always behave completely different outside the house than I did when I was at home, right? So kids these days, I think they're going to be all right. Let's say what kind of regime are we living under? It would be a kind of leftist tyranny, you know, run by a bunch of women. Yeah, so this is so typical with the alt-right. They want to convince us that we're living in a leftist tyranny that's as bad as the Soviet Union and North Korea and communist China, right? They're living in like one of the freest regimes that history has ever seen with incredible opportunities. There are so many great things going on right now in addition to a lot of bad things going on right now. But you have an opportunity to make a difference in the world and get married to our kids, to live in community with people with similar values to you. You can form like a safety patrol in your community. You can volunteer. You can write a book. You can read a book. You can go live on YouTube. There's so many great things available in the world today and all these alt-right types, they're all like, oh, we're living in leftist tyranny that's just as bad as North Korea and communist China, bro. So bad. We're living with blue hair. Telling all the kids that you can have as many genitalia or lack thereof as you want. 99.9% of schoolteachers don't have blue hair. Don't tell kids they can have as many genitalia as they want. This is a caricature. It's a tired, alt-right caricature of public schoolteachers. Johnny Depp revealed Jeff Beck helped keep me alive. Oh, now we get to hear from all the celebrities who knew the real Jeff Beck. How cool is that? You don't like your penis? Well, okay, we can lop it off for you. Yeah. I'm going to wage the 99.99% of public schoolteachers. Don't tell kids if you don't like your penis, we can lop it off for you. This guy is completely detached from reality, which is not a traditional value. This is just a tired, old, get off my lawn, kids. Kind of ranting by someone who apparently stopped thinking many years ago. vagina. I fully expect at any point, at any day now, there's going to be a kid, because again, this is the blessing and the curse of children is that they're daring. There will be someone, there will be some young kid who's going to drop trowel in front of his class and say, look, I got two. I don't have just one penis, I've got two. And look, there's one in front, there's one in back. I can do all kinds of stuff that you can't do. Yeah. Okay, I'm going to bet that having genitalia in the front and the back is not going to become the latest fashion. I don't think kids, by and large, are going to be dropping trowel in front of class and boasting about their multi-genitalia. Most public schoolteachers are not like the teachers on Libs of TikTok. It's a problem. Yeah, that's, I mean, anything's possible at the moment. We're all limited by reality. You know, who's the boss? It's not the public schoolteachers. It's not the public schoolteacher unions. It's not Joe Biden. The situation's the boss. Since 1945, the UK has 83 military interventions. Who knew? How blessed. Just making the world better. One military intervention at a time. I mean, it feels to me in many ways that it kind of has to be a tyranny because it really doesn't, doesn't really self-propagate leftism and just in terms of the actual ideas. Look, leftism and rightism are both evolutionary adaptions and they've both proven themselves. There are 7,000 men in Israel that have neither touched their hand nor kissed the knee of Baal. Ah-ha. Half completion, quoting from the Bible. Okay, so left and right. All right, these are just evolutionary adaptations to a changing world. In some circumstances, left-wing adaptations are more adaptive. In some circumstances, right-wing adaptations are more adaptive. Sometimes it pays off to be highly suspicious of strangers and other situations it pays off to be much more open to strangers. Some situations, you're better off operating under a strict hierarchy which is kind of a traditional thing. In other situations, you're better off with a marine approach, which is a more left-wing thing. So left and right, they're just ways that human beings have learned to adapt to changing, painful, difficult, challenging situations. Right, and we're going to have left and right adaptations to reality. Left and right forms of politics for hundreds of years to come. Right, we've had them for thousands of years because they've proven to be evolutionarily adaptive. Both the right-wing and the left-wing. We need both. It really has to be forced through because it laughs in the face of lived reality. The more we go away from lived reality, the more we can distance ourselves. Okay, that was from 1 Kings 19, chapter 19 verse 18, apparently. So half-politions bring in Bible texts. From the actual facts of life, facts of nature, the easier it is to actually subtly force the stuff onto people. Remember when the old rite was exciting, when it was funny, when it was fresh, when it was amazing, when it was so much fun, when it was captivating and compelling, and it got your blood racing, and it was just such a joy. And now it's such tired old cliches by these prematurely old people doing the equivalent of, hey, kids, get up, my lawn. I mean, this is such a caricature of tired old rite thinking. You said, you know, who owns the institutions of education? I mean, there's nothing more educational than media in Hollywood. That's where I got my education. I didn't learn to speak English in school. I already spoke English by the time I went to school. Wait, so if she got her education from Hollywood, how come she's old rite? All right? Oh, because she was uniquely wise. She was just uniquely smart. She could see through the BS. The normies, they're just not smart enough. They're just so gullible. They evolve to be gullible. But I'm the exception. I'm so smart wise. I see the fault lines in western civilization. I know, you know, the hell that lies ahead, but she got her education through Hollywood and now she's right wing. Okay, so maybe she didn't get her education from Hollywood. Maybe she's not just uniquely smart and gifted and able to see through the nonsense. Manitoba card, not recognized as valid ID in liquor, maths, only humanity. What kind of crazy world is it where some indigenous identification card is not recognized as valid ID to purchase liquor? So aren't there a lot of indigenous reservations and communities where liquor is forbidden? I believe there are for our indigenous people here in Australia. Well, I've just watched a lot of Part 2 Network and that's how you get it. And I was educated at this very, very interesting institution coming all the way from the center of the empire. And this is an iron grip that I don't see America losing any time soon. Okay, so Americans in iron grip of the left and Alex Kashuta, the host, she was in this iron grip of the left. She was programmed, she was indoctrinated by Hollywood and somehow she turned out all right and all right. So if she could do it, you know, why couldn't everyone else? Like, the left has dominated education for many, many decades and yet people are still about as likely to vote for Republicans as they are for Democrats. So somehow the brainwashing hasn't really taken very strongly. And that's why I agree with you in a sense. I feel like the empire is much, much stronger in many ways than people get the credit for. Okay, so here's an all right person talking about how strong the empire is, how strong the indoctrination is, how strong the propaganda is. And yet she's living proof, she's all right, must not be very strong. She claims that she was indoctrinated brainwashed by Hollywood and yet she's all right. So how strong was this brainwash? How strong are these left-wing institutions? How strong is the empire? And she can see through the BS and she doesn't buy into this, you know, left-wing empire. You know, this is, you know, everyone watches Netflix. This is the software that people around me are running. Oh, so you watch Netflix and that turns out to be the software that you're running. That's nonsense, we didn't evolve to be gullible. Right, guess what, you can watch some Netflix and it's not going to have any discernible significant impact on your choices in life. It's not going to turn you into a homosexual if you're not already inclined in that direction. It's not going to turn you trans unless you're already inclined in that direction. It's not going to turn you an atheist unless you're already inclined in that direction. So I'm going to turn you into a participant of BDSM unless you're already inclined in that direction. This is like the zombie-bite theory of information that people just get bitten by a particular piece of information whether it's, you know, an alt-right podcast. That's what the left warns about and people get radicalized on YouTube. Now the right is warning how people are getting radicalized to the left on Netflix. And they're both biting into this zombie-bite theory of information where people just, you know, they just get the old Netflix, right? They just get a little bit of Netflix in them and they can't handle it. It just, you know, completely changes their brain. It, you know, just turns into some kind of a meber, starts eating their brain and no longer capable of independent thought. They're just helpless in the face of Netflix. Netflix just takes over their central nervous system, completely changes their life. Every year, this headline, including 2023, work of Golden Globes gets crushed in the Nielsen ratings. Remember when the alt-right, this isn't right, was fun and exciting and new and innovative and surprising? It's, I'm sure that, you know, probably Bulgaria is the same and whatever, Serbia is the same and, you know, these strange faraway places that probably most people in America not necessarily haven't heard of anything about, don't know one little fact about. It's just, yeah, we are running the same ideas. Yeah, I mean, this is the thing about tyranny that most people don't understand is that... So what ideas are you running from Netflix? I'm not conscious of running any ideas from Netflix that I've watched probably over a thousand hours of Netflix programming. I've been subscribing to Netflix since about 2007. I'm not aware of Netflix ideas running my operating system, but maybe I'm gullible, maybe you can point out to me, you know, which specific Netflix ideas are running my operating system, and then maybe you can point out to me, what are Netflix ideas? What's distinctive about Netflix ideas? Can you share with me specific Netflix ideas? It comes in many forms. Most people, when they think of tyranny, they're going to think of immediately something like North Korea or China or something. They have no idea that soft tyranny is actually far more powerful and effective. So we're living in a tyranny that is far more powerful and effective apparently than the Chinese Communist Party and North Korea. I mean, we have it so good. We have so many wonderful opportunities in addition to problems, right? We live in such freedom and affluence and all these people can do is complain and complain and talk about how what we got is worse than the Soviet Union, worse than Communist China, worse than North Korea. It's one thing to force somebody to do something. It's something else entirely if you can persuade them to do it without them realizing that they're agreeing to it. Yeah, well, guess what? Netflix and left-wing teachers aren't persuading people who aren't already persuaded in that direction. The zombie-bite theory of information doesn't hold up. You don't get a left-wing teacher and then turn into a raving homosexual or trans or a lefty or a work-activist unless you're already inclined in that direction. So, for instance, in America, you know, if Hollywood can pump out this movie or this TV series with great success called Modern Family where you've got gays, you've got all kinds of stuff, right? But one thing is common among all of them is that the men are weak. They're laughable, this kind of stuff, right? And then that becomes an amazing success. And so people just think that that's common. They're like, oh, yeah, of course, sure. I don't mind this. Yeah, so men just become weak because they watch Modern Family, right? Modern Family just takes over people's brains. Modern Family just reprograms people. Now, Modern Family just turns people gay, turns men effeminate, makes them weak because they have no defenses because they're just so gullible. They just believe everything they see on Modern Family and they think, oh, this is the way that I should be operating because they're not capable of independent thought except for this bloke, Athenian stranger and the host, Alex Cachuda, they see through the BS. They're capable of independent thought. But the norm is they're not capable of watching something like American Family without immediately getting infected by, you know, woke values. And everything for one moment that it could lead to something like the demand that children, you know, go see what is it, the training shows. I forget what they call those, whatever, the training. Drag Queen Story Hour? Yeah, yeah, yeah, like the Drag Queen Story Hour. Now, they never realize it could lead to that, right? I mean, the slippery slope is in fact real. But all of these things didn't happen overnight. Guess what? Kids can watch Drag Queen Story Hour and it's not going to turn them gay or turn them into a wokie. It's not going to... necessarily irreparably damage their lives. All right? Most kids can see Drag Queen Story Hour and have very little, if any, discernible effect. People did not evolve to be gullible and just be programmed by Drag Queen Story Hours and by, you know, liberal media and, you know, lefty public school teachers. These things have been around for a long time. And yet most people who are predisposed to be conservative are still conservative. That's what needs to be emphasized, sort of like what you were pointing out. You know, going back to the 60s, I mean, we could go back even further, really at least in America, we could go all the way back. Well, I mean, I guess we could go back to the late 1900s. Late 1800s, I mean. But really, I mean, this stuff has been going on for a very long time, even at the highest levels, right? I mean, we have these presidents who were former presidents of colleges, right? I mean, they were thoroughly Hegelian. Well, anyway, I want to... Oh, man, such a shame that we don't have thoroughly Hegelian presidents of the United States. I mean, if only we had more presidents of the United States who used to be presidents of colleges and universities and were all Hegelian and stuff. Man, then we would be so much better off. Oh, man, wish we were in the good old days. Hey, kids, get off my lawn.