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Speaker 1: This is actually one of the funniest things about this

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event is all these people and a lot of Christians

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going online saying it's actually not the Last Supper, you know,

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it's the feast of Dionysus. Why are all the Christians

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getting so annoyed and why are the Christians getting so mad?

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You know, I am educated. I understand that this is

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the feast of Dionysus. It's like the capacity of people

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to easily accept gaslighting is hilarious, you know. I mean,

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it's like, are we still are we back in COVID

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once again? Is that what's going on? Or you know,

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I guess so. I guess it doesn't take much. You know,

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people don't learn their lesson. This is Jonathan Peshel Welcome

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to the Symbolic world. So hello everyone. As most of

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you noticed, the Olympic opening has created quite a stir

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a lot of people reacting online. It seems like everyone

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is talking about it for some reason. On Facebook, it's

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like my entire feed with people commenting on the Olympic

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opening ceremony. To be honest, I did not have the

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intention of making a video on this, but people close

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to me that I care about and that I trust

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have said that it would be a good idea to

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make a video about it, mostly because yeah, maybe to

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help people understand what is going on and why things

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look the way they do. And so here we are.

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I'm going to talk about the Olympics opening ceremony. So

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so the first thing I have to say before I

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start giving my critique is that it is all very

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tedious to me. You know, the whole thing is just oh,

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it just makes me want to go to sleep. It's

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like this super obvious, super boring. Everything is so obvious,

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and you know, I mean, I understand that it's shocking

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to some people, but I don't know why people are shocked.

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There's people shouldn't be shocked at this point, because you know, basically,

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this is just a continuation of what has been happening

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for the past five years, ten years, twenty years, more

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than that possibly, And you know, as the image of

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what has been happening in our culture is becoming more

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and more and maybe more and more transparent, you know,

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in some ways, I'm happy that more people are noticing,

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but this is just a continuation of what is going on,

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and so what are we talking about most of you know,

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the Paris Olympics opened up a few days ago, and

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there are several elements in the opening that were disturbing

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to some and the culmination of that disturbance came with

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a representation of the Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci,

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in which was full of drag queens and you know,

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kind of LGBT icons and in the middle of the scene,

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you know, because it was the Last Supper, so obviously

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it's a meal, and then the meal gets opened up.

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So this plate comes up to the scene and the

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meal gets opened up, and inside is a strange blue

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man wearing almost nothing who starts to sing very sensuously

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and strangely, and then everybody in the scene of the

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Last Supper begins to kind of frolic very orgiastically in

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a very disturbing manner, made even more disturbing by the

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fact that in the group was what seemed to be

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a prepbescent young girl who then get taken by one

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of the men, you know, in his arms, kind of

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in a dance move, as all these other people are

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starting to kind of frolic and caress each other and

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rub up against each other. And so the first thing

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we have to dispel is this is actually one of

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the funniest things about this event is all these people

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and a lot of Christians going online saying it's actually

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not the Last Supper, you know, it's the Feast of Dionysus.

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Why are all the Christians getting so annoyed and why

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are the Christians getting so mad? You know, I am educated.

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I understand that this is the feast of Dionysus. It's

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like the capacity of people to easily accept gaslighting is hilarious,

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you know, I mean, it's like, are we still are

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we back in it once again? Is that what's going on?

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Or you know, I guess so, I guess it doesn't

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take much. You know, people don't learn their lesson the

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scene is clearly referencing the Last Supper. The name of

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the tableau was a wordplay in French, which is which

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was Lassanne, where I forget how exactly it goes. It's

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something like lasanne de Lasanne at Paris or Lasanne, which

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means you can't really translate it into French because there's

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a word play in it, which basically, if he translated

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into English, he means the scene of the Last Supper

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on the Seine River, because in French one of the

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words for the last supper is lasagne, and so lasagne

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de lasane, so lasgne, right, and so the name of

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the tableau was referencing the Last Supper. The head of

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the event said that he was referencing the Last Supper.

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The main person in the middle, the DJ, the kind

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of fat lesbian DJ that was in the center. She

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posted on insect Graham saying that it was the new

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gay Testament, right, and that this is what they were doing.

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She deleted, of course the post later and changed it

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by saying no, no, no, it is Dionysus. And so,

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first of all, clearly it was referencing Leonardo da Vinci's

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Last Supper. But you know this is The thing is

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that you have to just understand what it's about, is

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that they're saying, no, what we want to do is

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we're emphasizing openness, we're emphasizing diversity, we're emphasizing inclusion. And

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that's exactly what they're doing. Now. The problem, there's nothing

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wrong with diversity and there's nothing wrong with inclusion. We

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mentioned this several times. It's necessary for a society to

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exist to have diversity and inclusion, but societies do not

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celebrate diversity. The only way to celebrate diversity is by carnival.

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The only way to celebrate diversity is by turning unity

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upside down, by emphasisizing the fringe, the margin, and the

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imagery of the carnival. Now, the imagery of the carnival

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goes even further than the imagery of the carnival. We

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have carnivals in the West, of course, you know, we

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have Halloween and Feast of Fools, we have Marty Grass,

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we have all these traditions of carnival in the West,

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which are moments of inversion and scandal and chaos, which

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is usually then followed by some kind of return to normalcy.

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Either it's the Fast in Christianity, the the whether it's

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lent or different ways of doing it, but it usually

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references it usually moved into return to normalcy. And these

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festivals are important and they're part of the yearly cycle.

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The idea of kind of showing the chaos or showing

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the inversion as a limit of order. But that is

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the only way to celebrate diversity. And so that this

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is why there's an absolute coherence in everything about this imagery,

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the rainbow flag, where it's multiplicity of color, you know,

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the rainbow as an image of multiplicity, not unity. The

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image of the drag queen as ambiguity, as a man

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who's dressed as a woman but also has a beard

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and is showing their ambiguity. All of this is there

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was there obviously in the ceremony, but it is part

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of the culture, and so you don't there's nothing hidden

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about it, you know. And it's also what I'm saying

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is not a gloss on top of what's going on.

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This is the discourse of the people engaged in this themselves.

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There's a pastor in the United States, a pastor, a

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Methodist pastor who does his sermons in drag and he

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says it clearly in his speeches. In his sermons, he

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says that the best ways to.

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Speaker 2: Enact systemic change is through joy and Carnival is carnival.

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Speaker 1: It is over the.

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Speaker 2: Top, It is loud, it is joyous, it is laugh filled,

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and it is in moments where people on the margins

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are handled just a little bit of power, and when

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they hold onto that power for longer than it was intended,

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things happen.

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Speaker 1: Drag is carnival, and carnival is a manner to bring

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about change, to bring about transformation. Now, what is the

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transformation that is happening. The transformation that is happening is

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the dissolution of normal identities in order to reconstitute them

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at higher levels. You could understand it as a revolutionary trope.

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We want to destroy, We want to destroy identities in

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order to reconstitute them into a new identity. What is

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this new identity? You know, it's a transhuman identity, it's

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a post human identity. It is a universalist image where

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all the distinctions kind of disappear into a you know,

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kind of chaotic, amorphous being. And this is what was

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happening in the event. Now, a good way to do

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that is to do it exactly the way that they did,

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because the Last Supper is an image of the cohesion

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of the West for the past two thousand years. It

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is the way in which it is one of the

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central images of how the West communes together, brings multiplicity

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into one, into the Holy Meal. That is the center

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of the Church, that is the center of the community,

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that is the center of the Western nations, and has

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been now for millennia. And so the best way to

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undo that, in order to bring about a new identity

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is of course, to undo communion, is to mock the

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things that are sacred, and you know, and it's not

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like this is the first time this happens. That the

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entire kind of drive, like one of the of the

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drag Queen and a lot of the rainbow stuff, is

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of course to replace the sacred with a new sacred,

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which is the sacred of ambiguity, a sacred of multiplicity,

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you know, the sacred of difference. And these are all

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things that the people involved in these events and in

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this way of thinking are saying that they're doing themselves.

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So we have to just be aware that that's what's

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going on now. I do believe that it is destructive,

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like you know, it is really in some ways undermining, right,

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literally inverting twisting. They use the word queering, it's queering

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Christianity in order to bring it into this new vision

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of reality. And so a good way to do it,

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for example, is to take the Last Supper and then

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replace it with an orgy, replace it with a Bacchanalian festival.

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Because it's not like there aren't certain analogies that you

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can make between the image of the you know, the

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image of the feasts, for example, the banquets of Dionysus

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and the Holy Communion. There are certain types of analogies

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that are there, of course, in Christianity. It is in

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some ways it kind of bringing in of multiplicity into one.

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There is an aspect of the scandal in communion that

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I've mentioned before, which is this idea of eating the

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body of the God. But it is sublimated, right, It's

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transformed into a you know, a vector of unity where

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all things are kind of collected together. Now, a good

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way to subvert that is, of course, to bring back

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these kind of Dionysian party instead of a true communion.

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And you know, this presenting of the god Dionysus as

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the meal that we will enjoy in order to celebrate

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our diversity. Now, remember that in the stories of Bacchus

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and in the stories of Dionysus, there is this image, right,

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we see it in the back eye of the sparagmus. Right,

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this idea of the ripping a part of the character. Right,

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the the the back celebrants that take the person and

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rip them into into pieces. Right, And that's what is

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being celebrated. I don't know what to tell you. That

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is what is that is what is being celebrated in

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this thing, because it is a celebration of diversity. It

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is a celebration of multiplicity and of inclusion. Where you

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know that it is the opposite of communion, but it's

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so much the opposite that there is a man in

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which you can see that they're related. And it all

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has to do with, of course, this kind of the

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kind of orgy culture, of the bacchanalia, which is trying

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to come back, which is being reinstated in the image.

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And so it's hilarious to watch Christians say, oh, it's

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not the Last Supper, it's it's just the bacchanalia. It's

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just basically a cannibalistic image and an orgy that is

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being presented to us with a hint of pedophilia. And

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people are saying, oh, you know, why are you getting

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offended that this is the image that is being represented

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as you know, one of the images that's being represented

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to inaugurate an international celebration of excellence in sports, you know.

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And the answer is, you know, we are so now

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becomes so jaded and so used to seeing this kind

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of insanity that we just see it and we watch it.

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Now a lot of people maybe aren't aware of what

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the guy was singing and what he was singing. He

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was singing basically about inclusion and about you know, you know,

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removing all our differences and seeing each other like we're

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all naked. And then he starts saying and it's as

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if and we have to celebrate each other like we're

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all naked. And he kept repeating naked and naked, And

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then the music bec came like very white bedroom music,

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and everybody started to rub themselves against each other in

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the background, and and and then you have these Christians going,

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I'm an educated person, I'm not offended by a reference

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to Dionysus in the Olympics. My goodness, is that really

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where we are like, is that really the level that

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where we are? And so you know, I mean, but

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that is where we are, and that is what is happening,

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and therefore what you know, because that the whole image

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is so was clearly sexual, was clearly orgiastic in its references,

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you know, and it's a celebration of diversity, you know,

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if you look at what happened right after that part

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of the section, the which is wild. I don't know

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if they do this on purpose, it's like if it's

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just accidental. But then the naked Dionysus, he gives it

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off to the next show, which is called Darkness. Yes,

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and then there's this dance, kind of phrenetic dance, so

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it's a continuation of the other dances that were there before,

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but it's called Darkness, and that's the next dance, and

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then we cut straight into Imagined by John Lennon. It's like,

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if you want to know what's going on, it's just

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pretty clear what's going on. Imagine there's no heaven, there's

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no hell, there's no difference, and we're all together as

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one in a big, backing, alien, orgiastic feast, you know,

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and how can I say this. It's like we're so

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far down the line that although the people then gaslight

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and lie and say, no, that's not what's reference, that's

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not what's rench, but that is what's referenced. And they

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know that's what's referenced, because that's really what they really

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believe that that is a good thing. If we could

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all just you know, like we could all just let

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go of our differences and all bee and a big

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in a big party, then that is an image of

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a transcendent unity. And so you know, and so what

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we're seeing is the return of Dionysus. And it makes

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sense because that is what Dionysus is. It is the

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extreme of the natural world. We're watching, civilization be undone.

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We're watching and it's not like the Dinysian or the

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kind of ecstatic, frenetic aspect of the world isn't integrated

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into Christianity. It actually is, and it is some ways

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integrated into the Last Supper. There is a Dionysian element

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to the Last Supper. We can't deny that. But the

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reason why it actually holds society together is because it's

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not just that, right, communion brings together the kind of

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ecstatic Dionysian excess with a reasonable communion in holy love

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brings all of those extremes together into one. And so

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a good way to undo it as post Christian is

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to tease out those parts again, is to kind of

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tease out all those those different things. And so you'll see, right,

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this emphasis on I've mentioned it in many videos, this

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emphasis on extreme reason and extreme order, that is image

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and technology and the modern state and the modern bureaucracy,

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which now becomes opposed to the kind of Dionysian chaotic,

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you know, let's say, hybrid and ambiguous identity. And now

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these two play with each other, right, I've mentioned it.

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It's something like the horror sitting on the back of

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the beast that we've seen in Revelation, that there's these

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two extremes kind of playing off each other. And that

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is of course what we saw during the thing. And

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because it was so degenerate and so decadent, then it's

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not surprising that other elements of the thing, which maybe

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are are not as offensive or wouldn't have been as

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offensive on their own, are now interpreted in that way,

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you know, And there's not much to say about the

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the the Marie Antoinette, if so they've seen it, you know,

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there's an there was one scene with a heavy metal

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band with Marieontoinette with her head cut off, you know,

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holding her head in her hand and then her hand

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and her head saying all will be well, as some

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heavy metal band starts to play, and then there's like

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these these explosions of blood, you know, out onto the

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out onto the field, and it's like, yeah, you know,

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that's it. And and it's interesting because the head of

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the the one who orchestrated it, he said, you know,

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it's the republican values. It's the values of the republic.

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It's the values of the revolution. And the answer is

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my reacting to that is that, yeah, that's what it is.

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You know, hopefully people will start to understand that that

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is what the that is what all of the revolution

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leads to, is this type of kind of chaos and madness.

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you know. Of course, this one of the strange image

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was this kind of image of the torch bearer on

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a horse kind of riding on the waters with wings

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behind him, and he has this hood which looks. He

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looks kind of like a strange, grim reaper figure. Is

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that on purpose? Is that what it is? I don't know,

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you know, at this point, anything is possible. But also

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we shouldn't attribute too much intent to these people. They

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are in some ways, many of them are in some

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ways unconscious vehicles for things that they don't totally understand.

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Their their pardon. We have to be careful in thinking

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that this is some completely planned thing and it's mostly

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you know, it's mostly people aligning themselves with certain virtues,

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certain vices and certain values, let's say, and then those

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playing themselves out in different ways. And that seems to

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be the case of what we saw. But what I

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hope is that for most people, you know, people can

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just wake up and realize that that's happening, and that

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the fact that it's been happening in our culture now

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for a few generations, maybe six to sixties, actually that

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all of this is happening, and that this kind of

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inverted upside down subversive and you know, and a lot

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of people are branding the word satanic around and I

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think that it's okay to use that word if we

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kind of understand it, you know, on the one hand,

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you have the Satanists who say, oh, we're just being ironic,

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We're just we're just being cynical. You know, we don't

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really believe in Satan, we don't really believe in the devil.

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All of this is just it's just a play, right,

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It's all irony and joking. And the answer is, yeah,

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we know, that's what it is, you know, And that's

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what part of the problem is that if you celebrate

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the irony, if you celebrate the upside down, if in

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an event that is there to kind of bring nations

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together and celebrate excellence in humans, and everything about your

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celebration is ironic and mocking and degenerate. It's like, yeah,

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that is Satanism, That's what it is. And I'm fine

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with believing in thinking that people aren't sincere in their Satanism,

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because that's what we're talking about. We're talking about not

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being sincere and being dismissive and queering and turning things

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upside down and making fun of them and mocking them.

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And you know, that's where we are. But at some

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point that will run out. And what is at the

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same time being installed our new taboos and new systems

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of control and you know, new moral taboos, like I said,

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And so we have to remain attentive and and not

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be distracted, you know, by the little blips of this.

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We need to look at the long arc and see

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what is happening, and and attach ourselves to that which

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is important, to the things that actually do unify us,

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to the virtues that we have in common, to the

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stories that we have in common. And as Christians, when

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you see this and you notice that they're mocking the

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story of Christ, and that they're mocking the image not

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only of Christ, but of the center of Western unity

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for the past, that was the center of unity of

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the Western world for the past few millennia, which is

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which is the Holy Eucharist, which is communion. Then you know,

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we have to attach ourselves even more to that unity

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and understand that inversion and mocking is empty and it

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will run out, you know. And the true seed, the

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things that are true and that are good and that

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are beautiful, they will win in the end. But it's

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up to us to foster them and to make them

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the priority in our lives. It's a lot easier to

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get offended at something like this and to get annoyed

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than it is to actually foster those things that are

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important and valuable for the future of our children and

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for whatever future our civilizations have. And so hopefully this

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was helpful to help you understand what is going on,

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and hopefully you know, I would say, you know, don't

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freak out. This has been going on for a while,

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this part for the course, and I just have to

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warn you things are going to get crazier. Twenty twenty

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four is not over yet. Folks. You haven't seen Pete crazy.

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I warned you at the outset that twenty twenty four

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is going to be mad with the Trump shooting and

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everything that's happening in the United States on this of course,

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but it's not over. So, like I mentioned on Twitter

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on X basically, you know, cross yourself and then put

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your hands up and it's the ride. The ride isn't

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over yet. So thanks everybody, thanks for attention, and I'll

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talk to you very soon. Bye bye,