WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:10.279 A lot of them, fundamental principals of widow, little cells 2 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:22.879 and individual lots. This is the show. Oh right, everybody, 3 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:28.359 welcome to you on book show on this Wednesday, June 4 00:00:28.359 --> 00:00:32.840 twenty fifth. I hope everybody's having a fantastic week. Uh 5 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:36.439 and yeah in in in the middle of the week. 6 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:39.359 I've got ocon next week, looking forward to that. Hopefully 7 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:43.039 I'll see many many of you there. I know some 8 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:47.159 of you are practicing day and night at poker to 9 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:49.679 try to beat me, and I look forward to uh 10 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:57.520 to you trying. All right, it is, it is. It 11 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:01.560 is amazing how when there's war owjew political crisis out 12 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:04.519 there in the world, the Iran Book Show becomes such 13 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:07.640 a hub for people. I mean, my viewership goes through 14 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:13.840 the roof when Ukraine war starts October seventh, Ian Israel 15 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:17.560 through the roof and then comes comes come down afterwards. 16 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:22.120 But I appreciate that, you know, people come to hear 17 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:26.280 a voice of reason and rationality, I think, during these 18 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:30.599 times of great uncertainty, and they come and here it live, 19 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:34.799 They hear it in podcast form, they hear they watched 20 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:37.560 the video afterwards, and I appreciate all of that. So 21 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:39.040 thank you, Thank you, Thank you for all of you 22 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:44.760 who come and get your Jew politics from the Iran 23 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:48.439 book show. All right, today we are going to talk 24 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:55.200 about socialism. We're going to talk about we'll talk about really, 25 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:59.640 you know, assessment of the Israeli Iran War as it 26 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:04.359 is now in a cease fire, although Trump does say 27 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:06.680 today that it might start up again, So who knows 28 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:10.280 after yesterday where he said it was for a long, long, 29 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:14.039 long forever. Maybe this cease fine, So, you know, Trump 30 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:15.439 changing his mind, what a thought? 31 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:17.439 How bizarre is that? 32 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:20.639 And we're talking about Trump, we'll talk about Trump being 33 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:25.759 in NATO. Really interesting, really interesting, uh in uh in 34 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:31.199 Nato that he's uh in NATO, and uh yeah, we'll 35 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:33.520 see what else. We'll see what else comes up. But 36 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:36.479 let's start with the election yesterday in New York City. 37 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:40.960 It was the primary. Wasn't an actual election, just a primary. Uh. 38 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:44.360 The actual election is in November. So we've got a 39 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:48.319 long time. It's just June. Now, we've got a long 40 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:54.479 time until the election actually happens. So don't get too depressed. 41 00:02:55.199 --> 00:03:00.479 Don't get too depressed. Uh, you know, we will see. 42 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:05.159 I mean, obviously the front runner right now is the 43 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:11.560 socialist candidate who represents the Democratic Party that almost always 44 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:14.360 wins in New York, but not always. Remember Giuliani, Remember 45 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:16.680 Bloomberg Grant as an independent or Republican. 46 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:17.240 He won. 47 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:23.840 So don't get too you know, too depressed. Mamdannie is 48 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:25.719 not guaranteed to be the Man of New York a 49 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:27.879 though he's highly likely to be. 50 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:32.360 But he's going to run. 51 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:36.280 He's going to face for other candidates, which is a 52 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:39.680 problem probably, you know, because because the opposition to him 53 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:40.360 will be split. 54 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:43.199 But maybe maybe they won't all be on the ballot. 55 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:45.719 We'll see, maybe some of them will drop off just 56 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:47.479 to defeat him, just to try to defeat him. 57 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:48.919 He did not get over fifty percent of. 58 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:54.240 The vote he got he got forty two percent. I 59 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:56.840 think she didn't get over fifty percent of the vote. 60 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:03.039 And he is likely to face both. Uh, you're right now. 61 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:06.400 As of now, Eric Adams, the current Mayor of New York, 62 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:10.560 will probably run again as an independent. This time there 63 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:13.479 will be a Republican candidate and some other candidates, and 64 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:16.439 then there'll be and then there's a good chance Como 65 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:19.360 will run as an independent as well. Now, hopefully people 66 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:23.079 can convince Como not to run, so that Adams gets 67 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:23.600 all the votes. 68 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:25.759 So if Como runs, convinced. 69 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:29.360 Adams not to run, and that the opposition and maybe 70 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:31.519 convinced the Republican not to run, so that all the 71 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:36.639 opposition is in one guy, uh, you know, in contrast 72 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:39.199 to Mum Donnie. But we will see. That's kind of 73 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:44.160 strategic thinking that our politics is really very good at, 74 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:48.759 particularly on the right. So we'll see if that actually happens. 75 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:52.800 But it's not a done deal, is my point. And 76 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:57.560 Mum Dannie now has five months to four and a 77 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:01.240 half months to say really dumb things and to convince 78 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:05.680 people actually not to vote for him, convince people actually not. 79 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:09.120 To vote for him or or to vote for something else. So, uh, 80 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:11.319 we will see. 81 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:13.720 But I think the bigger, the bigger question, I mean, 82 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:17.439 there are two questions, uh that that are important here 83 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:22.319 that I think we need to address. One is, you know, 84 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:25.240 what is what is the Democratic Party going to do? 85 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:29.240 If if this is what it's a Democratic base wants, Uh, 86 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:34.160 how how is it gonna How is it gonna be 87 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:39.120 able to be an effective opposition party to to MAGA 88 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:43.680 and to Donald Trump if they are embracing the fall left, 89 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:46.839 that is the fall left. We know, on a national 90 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:51.240 basis and on a state probably wide level basis is 91 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:55.279 a disaster. It cannot win, it will not win, right So, 92 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:00.720 but this is what the grassroots, just like in the 93 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:05.800 Republican Party, the grass roots one Mega the grass roots 94 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:09.399 and the left one socialism. And we're going to hopefully 95 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:13.519 not but we might be stuck with constant elections where 96 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:17.160 we have to choose between a crazy nutty right wing 97 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:22.600 in a crazy nutty left wing. So, you know, the 98 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:25.279 Democratic Party is going to have to figure this out. 99 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:28.879 I think a lot of Democrats are pretty depressed right now. 100 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:34.160 I mean Larry Summers, the former president of Harvard, a 101 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:39.879 very much essentrist democrat, uh an economist. 102 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:44.680 You know, has said you know, he said, He wrote. 103 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:47.720 Today, I'm profoundly alarmed by the at the future of 104 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:51.680 the DNC and the country by yesterday's New York City 105 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:56.639 anointment of a candidate who failed to disavow a globalized 106 00:06:56.639 --> 00:07:01.519 need to fought US slogan and advocated Trotsky economic policies. 107 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:04.720 I fear its evidence that our party is following the 108 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:08.160 same problematic aspects of the British Labor Party. It didn't 109 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:12.040 work there and it won't work here. And then he 110 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:14.480 goes on at Harvard, he was a big critic of 111 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:20.160 the Harvard administration for tolerating the po Haamas demonstrations. He says, 112 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:23.920 to Harvard and other universities, moral weakness after October seventh, 113 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:27.800 in condoning hateful anti Israeli and even anti Semitic rhetoric 114 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:31.920 and activity, opened the Overton window in ways that contributed 115 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:36.759 to yesterday's outcome. Yes, they normalized, globalized the Intafada, normalized 116 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:40.720 anti Semitism, normalized hatred of Israel. He goes on, I 117 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:44.279 hope candidate Mamdani, who showed great ability to learn and 118 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:47.199 adapt during his campaign, will continue to evolve in ways 119 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:50.759 that provide much needed reassurance to people committed to a 120 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:55.480 free from prejudice market economy as an American ideal. An 121 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:59.279 important task for Mamdani now is to provide reassurance that 122 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:04.800 his moral energy and formidable political skills can be productively 123 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:08.040 directed for the City of New York at this difficult moment. 124 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:12.480 So yeah, I mean Somemers is panicking, and I think 125 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:15.920 the Democratic Party overall is panicking. Where does the Democratic 126 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:20.959 Where does the Democratic Party go? And where does America go? 127 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:23.319 If this is what the youth of America is demanding. 128 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:31.120 We uh so, it's uh uh, it is interesting that 129 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:36.120 Larbie Summer's points to Amdani's moral energy. I like that, 130 00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:39.080 and I think that's absolutely right. The the and this 131 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:41.200 is the next topic I want to talk about, is 132 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:44.320 is why socialism? Why people are so attracted to socialism? 133 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:46.720 What is it about this that is so attractive? Why 134 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:50.480 did he win? I want to talk about that, but uh, 135 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:54.120 you know, before that, let me just see so I 136 00:08:54.159 --> 00:09:03.639 wanted to that is that that's not interesting, that's uninteresting. Huh. 137 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:05.440 I thought I saved a bunch of these things, and 138 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:12.200 they've all disappeared on me. That's fine. You know, the 139 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:20.039 Mega wright was very quick to assign blame here, very quick. 140 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:22.279 You know. 141 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:29.120 They immediately put out tweets that were the equivalent of well, 142 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:31.879 I thought I had the tweet saved, but I guess 143 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:37.440 I didn't save it. Basically, the tweet said, well, what 144 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:40.399 do you expect New York City, which used to be 145 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:45.879 an American city, is now majority fallen Born. 146 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:48.960 And the fact that it's a majority faun Born. 147 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:51.039 Yeah, they would have liked a socialist. This is all 148 00:09:51.799 --> 00:09:54.679 a consequence about lacks immigration policies. This is all a 149 00:09:54.720 --> 00:10:01.320 consequence of immigration, too many foreigners, and foreigners are driving 150 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:07.799 in this country towards socialism. Now, of course, what's fascinating 151 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:12.679 about that statement is that New York City for most 152 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:16.200 of the last one hundred and seventy years or so 153 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:21.120 has been majority Fougner born. Now, there was a period 154 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:24.759 between nineteen thirty and nineteen seventy something where it was 155 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:28.159 majority American born, and those are some of the worst 156 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:31.039 years of New York City. Particularly if you go in 157 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:33.519 the sixties and seventies, it's when New York City was 158 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:39.519 being destroyed, and that's all by American born people. But 159 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:44.399 New York City was always a city of immigrants. It 160 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:47.240 was always This is where Ellis Island was, This is 161 00:10:47.279 --> 00:10:52.279 where people landed. You can identify New York City neighborhoods 162 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:58.679 and burrows based on which immigrant group settled where. But 163 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:02.600 this is the Nee York react of the rights, the racist, 164 00:11:02.679 --> 00:11:10.720 xenophobic Maga Wright. It's the immigrants fault. They must have 165 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:18.279 done it. Now, of course, this goes completely against the 166 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:23.279 actual data. The data shows that the people who voted 167 00:11:23.399 --> 00:11:32.279 from Mamdani overwhelmingly white and educated, no an Asian and educated. 168 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:34.919 Maybe some of those Asians are immigrants, I don't know, 169 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:38.480 or maybe the second or third generation Asians, but the 170 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:50.159 key is educated, not far onborn and whites and overwhelmed. 171 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:53.440 A majority of whites voted from ma'm donnie, and a 172 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:56.919 majority of Asians vote from Dunni minority of Hispanics. So 173 00:11:57.039 --> 00:11:59.720 those immigrants didn't vote from Ma'm done. They voted for Como, 174 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:03.240 and majority of blacks voted for Como. 175 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:05.480 Those I guess America borne they're considered. 176 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:14.480 So I mean, they're just lying, they're just making stuff up, 177 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:22.279 and it's disgusting. This is the other. This is the 178 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:26.159 source of anti Semitism. This is the sort of hatred 179 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:30.279 you you, there's a phenomenon that's bad. Blame it on 180 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:33.320 the other. Let's go after the other. Those immigrants, they 181 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:36.919 did it. Economy is doing badly because they're immigrants or 182 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:40.399 because of the Chinese who stole our jobs. As long 183 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:42.960 as it's the other, right, we get into wars and 184 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:47.960 we lose wars because of well, the Jews. They control 185 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:52.159 Donald Trump and control the Republican Party, and and and 186 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:56.679 they have them, they have them by the balls, and 187 00:12:56.720 --> 00:13:02.120 that's why we're getting into wars, and of course Wall 188 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:07.840 Street financial crisis, Jews, bankers, Jews, bankers, Jews, same thing. 189 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:11.480 It's all their fault, it's the other. 190 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:16.039 And again I've said this since twenty sixteen, when Trump 191 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:20.159 was first elected, or when you ran this campaign. You 192 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:25.600 can't say it's the Jew's fault, so you blame. But 193 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:29.639 you still you still need another, you still need an other, 194 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:37.240 so that other becomes immigrants, Chinese foreigners generally fill in 195 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:41.360 the blank. It's disgusting, it's despicable. This is maga. This 196 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:45.600 is why I think MAGA is a horrible, disgusting movement, 197 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:51.159 and it kind of it matches up well with the crazy, 198 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:58.600 other horrible disgusting movement on the left. But they are great. 199 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:03.480 You know, they go great together. They're both horrific, racist, 200 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:12.039 disgusting movements. Now the more interesting question, I think, and 201 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:15.799 this is the question over the years we've discussed many times, 202 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:20.480 but it's an important question, and given mom Donnie's explicit ideology, 203 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:25.159 I think we should consider it. What is the appeal 204 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:32.200 of socialism? Why are young people so attracted to socialism? 205 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:37.080 And you know, I want to read you Peter Teal's 206 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:41.120 answer to this, because this is interesting because Peter til 207 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:44.600 answered this in twenty twenty. Suppose that this is an 208 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:47.120 email that he was writing in the Mark Zuckerberg and 209 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:51.039 some other people Sheryl Sandberg or Facebook, and Mark and 210 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:54.720 Dresen were on this email at least, and for some 211 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:56.279 reason it's public. 212 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:56.919 I don't know why. 213 00:14:57.840 --> 00:15:00.840 But and Nick Klegg and Antonio lucioid on who those 214 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:03.840 guys are. But Mark Zuckerbug you know, Mark and Dreesen, 215 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:10.840 you know. And the question is why are millennials so left? 216 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:13.080 Why are they so socialist? 217 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:14.559 What is going on? 218 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:17.840 I wanted to give you Peter Thiel's answer, and then 219 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:23.519 I'll give you my answer. And he says that many 220 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:26.720 themes that could be developed more here. Let me make 221 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:29.360 a few quick points for now. Nick I certainly would 222 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:32.120 not suggest that our policy should be to embrace millennial 223 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:36.240 attitudes unreflectively. I would be the last person to advocate 224 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:40.720 for socialism. But when seventy percent of millennials say they're 225 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:44.240 pro socialist, we need to do better than simply dismiss 226 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:48.879 them by saying that they're stupid, entitled, brainwashed. We should 227 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:53.240 try and understand why, and from the perspective of a 228 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:57.240 broken generational compact. This seems to be a pretty straightforward 229 00:15:57.240 --> 00:16:00.879 answer to me, Laane, namely that when one has too 230 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:05.240 much student debt or if housing is too unaffordable, then 231 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:08.360 one will have negative capital for a long time, and 232 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:10.919 I'll find it very hard to start accumulating capital in 233 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:13.840 the form of real estate. And if one has no 234 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:17.720 stake in the capitalist system, then one may turn against it. 235 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:26.600 So you know, this is a This is a purely 236 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:37.039 materialistic explanation, an explanation focused entirely on the economic status 237 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:41.720 of young people, which, by the way to life stent. 238 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:44.720 As I've said many times on the show, it's just untrue. 239 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:47.120 If you look at the data, the data pretty much 240 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:51.200 supports the fact that on many many respects, including net wealth. 241 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:56.879 You know, this generation is as rich, actually richer for 242 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:02.679 their age than any generation before them. But they are convinced, 243 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:05.480 and the media and everybody else has indeed convinced them 244 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:07.160 that they are not, that they are struggling, that they 245 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:12.960 are poor. But why turns to socialism, Why not identify 246 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:13.720 their old culpits. 247 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:14.599 It's not really hard. 248 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:17.519 I mean, even among the left, there is a whole 249 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:21.559 abundance literature that chose that the real cost of housing 250 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:27.400 is a consequence of lack of supply. So what is 251 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:31.680 going on here? And while I agree with Peter Tier, 252 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:35.920 we shouldn't dismiss this as they have been brainwashed. We 253 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:42.400 should really consider what they've been studying in school. I mean, 254 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:46.319 and I mean school here, not just what this generation 255 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:50.319 have studied for school at the universities and in you 256 00:17:50.319 --> 00:17:52.920 know right now, But what are they studying at school 257 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:56.680 since they were little kids, since they were going to 258 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:04.200 pre kate? What has been the message schools convey to 259 00:18:04.359 --> 00:18:11.559 young people today about the world, about and about social 260 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:15.480 political issues, even if they don't address them directly. And suddenly, 261 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:20.319 as we saw, Larry Summers recognizes that what Memdani has 262 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:23.799 is moral energy. What have they learned in their schools 263 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:34.039 about morality? Well, what are they taught when they're little, 264 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:39.400 in pre k first through third grade? Well, they're taught 265 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:46.039 constantly that man is a destructive force destroying nature. Nature's beautiful, 266 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:49.680 nature's innocent, nature's amazing, and we human beings are killing 267 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:56.920 the penguins. The capitalism which is all around them, they 268 00:18:56.920 --> 00:19:05.039 are told, is really really really horriable and destructive and exploitative. 269 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:10.319 And those little fury cute animals that young kids love. 270 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:16.519 They were all gonna die because of basically doesn't it's 271 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:23.640 not put in these words necessarily because of capitalism. They're 272 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:28.559 taught that industrialization is dirty and wrong and bad, with 273 00:19:28.680 --> 00:19:32.640 no context, with no idea of how life was before 274 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:36.599 the industrial evolution. I mean, what do we teach about 275 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:38.279 the industrial evolution in school? 276 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:39.720 This is probably more high school. 277 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:47.279 All the negative child labor, pollution, poverty, capitalism created poverty, 278 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:52.880 did you not know? So? Really, from pre create, from 279 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:59.480 pre kate until high school and well into college unless 280 00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:03.799 they go to particular good colleges, which is rare, they're 281 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:09.559 taught the evils of capitalism almost systematically, constantly, without any stoppage. 282 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:14.480 There just isn't, you know, in every context in which 283 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:18.480 history you cannot or some kind of sociology or whatever 284 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:22.519 they want to call it. They are taught the eels 285 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:27.000 of capitalism, you know, and environmentalism is religion to them. 286 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:35.640 They know nothing else but and what causes environmental problems capitalism. 287 00:20:35.880 --> 00:20:40.240 They are also, of course taught that capitalism is going 288 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:43.799 to destroy or we're gonna die global climate change or 289 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:47.039 pollution or whatever you want to define it, We're gonna 290 00:20:47.079 --> 00:20:50.480 die and if you know, if we don't die, the penguins, 291 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:53.160 those cute penguins, they're definitely gonna die. I had to 292 00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:56.319 go to one of my kids' schools and tell them, 293 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:02.279 you cannot teach this anymore. This is unfair, non objective, untrue, 294 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:08.039 and you know, and they actually actually stopped being as 295 00:21:08.079 --> 00:21:10.880 explicit as they had been before, because, I mean, us, 296 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:13.160 think about it. They were teaching the kids about climate 297 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:16.039 change and penguins dying, and I was like, you don't. 298 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:19.240 None of that is scientific, none of that is true. 299 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:23.680 Your brain. You're indocrinating them with an ideology and that's 300 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:29.279 not your job. And to their credit, they accepted at 301 00:21:29.319 --> 00:21:33.599 least part of that. I knew as parents should be 302 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:37.039 active and you should complain to the school even even 303 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:38.319 if they'll think you're nuts. 304 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:38.920 It doesn't matter. 305 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:43.799 You need to be active. So they've been. They've been 306 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:49.839 not brainwashed, but they have been indocrinated with an ideology 307 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:52.480 that capitalism is bad. And of course behind all that 308 00:21:54.200 --> 00:22:00.000 is a morality, a morality of altruism, a morality of sacrifice, 309 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:04.119 morality of other people matter, you don't, your life doesn't matter, 310 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:09.039 a morality of caring and sharing, which they get from 311 00:22:09.079 --> 00:22:11.160 their parents, and they get from their teachers, and they 312 00:22:11.160 --> 00:22:15.240 get from their preachers, and they get from everybody. If 313 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:18.559 you really want to be good, you have to just 314 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:23.039 care about other people. That's what morality means, and you 315 00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:27.200 need to be willing to sacrifice for them. So m'mdannie 316 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:30.720 is just Mmdannie is just the candidate of altruism. He's 317 00:22:30.759 --> 00:22:34.799 just the candidate of caring and sharing. He wants lower 318 00:22:34.839 --> 00:22:37.400 prices and he wants he wants the homeless to have 319 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:39.319 a roof on top of their head. So he's going 320 00:22:39.359 --> 00:22:42.400 to put them all in the subway system. You know, 321 00:22:42.839 --> 00:22:44.799 you're just using the subway to get to your greedy 322 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:47.839 job to try to make money for yourself. Think about 323 00:22:48.119 --> 00:22:52.039 think about all those homeless people. So it's going to 324 00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:54.680 stink the subway, So you'll have to suffer a little 325 00:22:54.680 --> 00:22:58.160 bit of smell in order to get to work. Big deal, 326 00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:04.559 grosspe sacrifice a little bit for your moral ideal, for 327 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:14.519 your explicit moral ideas. Socialism is the political manifestation of 328 00:23:14.680 --> 00:23:21.799 man hatred and altruism. Man hatred, we're destroying the planet, 329 00:23:22.079 --> 00:23:23.839 We're greedy, we're selfish, were bad. 330 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:27.799 Altruism got to take care of the poor. 331 00:23:27.880 --> 00:23:31.039 Gotta take care of those are there, and anything self 332 00:23:31.039 --> 00:23:34.440 interested is bad. And of course, people like some people 333 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:37.200 identifying this is all the consequence of envy. But where 334 00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:38.559 does that envy come from? America? 335 00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:41.319 You never used to be never used to be. 336 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:46.319 A land of envy. It used to be a land 337 00:23:46.319 --> 00:23:48.920 of ambition. Yeah, he's rich. I want to be rich 338 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:58.039 like him. But we've embraced envy because that's what altruism demands. 339 00:23:59.640 --> 00:24:03.440 How do you get rich by being self interested? What 340 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:06.839 do we know about self interest? It's morally corrupt. So 341 00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:11.359 how do you get rich by being morally corrupt? So yeah, 342 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:15.200 I hate those guys. They're morally corrupt and I want 343 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:18.920 to text the hell out of them. So envy is 344 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:23.079 not the source. Envy is the consequence of altruism, the 345 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:35.559 consequence of a decrepit, corrupt, evil, evil moral system. And 346 00:24:36.039 --> 00:24:42.559 it's that ideology, that morality, that ethics, that makes. 347 00:24:44.200 --> 00:24:46.720 Socialism palatable. 348 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:53.200 It is that morality, that ethics, which by the way, 349 00:24:53.319 --> 00:25:07.240 is basically Christian, which makes socialism popular. I mean the first, 350 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:14.039 it's all over a culture, it's everywhere, and you know, maga, 351 00:25:14.200 --> 00:25:16.920 if you look at discussions over the Big Beautiful Bill, 352 00:25:17.720 --> 00:25:21.440 it's amazing. Maga wants to redistribute wealth, and you know 353 00:25:21.559 --> 00:25:25.000 it focused on supposedly helping the poor and all this stuff. 354 00:25:25.240 --> 00:25:28.799 It's the exact same altruism on the right and on 355 00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:32.839 the left lead to exact same solution. Take from some, 356 00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:38.480 give to others, redistribute wealth, sacrifice, demand sacrifice for the 357 00:25:38.519 --> 00:25:52.799 sake of some higher purpose. So you know, socialism just 358 00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:57.480 doesn't come out of nowhere. Larry Summers can be surprised 359 00:25:57.480 --> 00:26:03.759 by it. But people don't vote economics, they don't vote pocketbook, 360 00:26:04.519 --> 00:26:07.119 they don't vote taxes. They won't taxes. 361 00:26:08.119 --> 00:26:09.279 People vote morality. 362 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:15.960 It was somebody like Mamdani who's articulate and smart and 363 00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:25.599 passionate and hard working and cool, goes out there and 364 00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:35.279 advocates and hooks into the moral issue. Then it shouldn't 365 00:26:35.359 --> 00:26:42.079 surprise anybody that he's going to win. He's he believes 366 00:26:42.119 --> 00:26:45.680 everything that everybody else believes. He's just more principled. You 367 00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:48.880 want to be an autist, okay, well, let's put the 368 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:53.559 homeless in the subway system, house them there. You want 369 00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:56.559 to be an outist, well, then obviously the Israel is 370 00:26:56.599 --> 00:26:59.680 bad because they're strong and and and the Palati need 371 00:26:59.720 --> 00:27:02.279 is a good so let's globalized need to fight and 372 00:27:02.359 --> 00:27:07.319 go live to all those people who are strong. You 373 00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:10.359 want to be an altruist, well, certainly we need to 374 00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:15.680 defund the police because the police don't act altruistically. They're 375 00:27:15.680 --> 00:27:20.079 trying to protect property rights. Property rights a greedy, selfaced 376 00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:27.440 thing that they're not consistent with altruism. And you can 377 00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:32.160 go on and on and on and on. Right, this 378 00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:39.680 is the consequence of altruism. This is the consequence of altruism. 379 00:27:43.440 --> 00:27:46.880 You know of a deep, deep, uh. 380 00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:50.920 Moral code that has been with us for two thousand 381 00:27:51.039 --> 00:27:57.559 years since acousufficient cruxifixion was elevated to moral status, to 382 00:27:57.640 --> 00:28:01.640 the epitome of morality. Uh, this is them all code 383 00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:03.759 do We have lived with it for two thousand years, 384 00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:06.400 and we try to battle against it and fight against it. 385 00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:12.799 And the Enlightenment did an amazing job at starting at 386 00:28:13.400 --> 00:28:17.519 creating a crack in it at you know, pursuit of happiness. 387 00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:23.359 But only I man gave us the ultimate answer in 388 00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:26.119 the pursuit of rational self interest, in the pursuit of 389 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:30.279 real happiness, in the pursuit of our own well being, 390 00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:35.039 in an egoistic model code. Short of that, there's no 391 00:28:35.079 --> 00:28:39.160 way to combat socialism. It keeps coming back and people saying. 392 00:28:39.319 --> 00:28:45.160 I've seen people tweet, oh, let's this is good because 393 00:28:45.160 --> 00:28:48.720 now people will see what socialism does and they'll never 394 00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:53.920 vote for socialist again. That's the funniest argument I've ever heard. 395 00:28:55.640 --> 00:28:58.200 Socialism we tried over and over and over again, arguably 396 00:28:59.079 --> 00:29:02.279 for at least two thousand years, and every time it's tried, 397 00:29:02.599 --> 00:29:08.160 it fails. Every time it's tried, it's a disaster. And 398 00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:11.279 that has not stopped people from thinking it is a 399 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:14.160 moral ideal. It does not stopped people from thinking this 400 00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:17.680 is amazing and we want it and voting again for it. 401 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:24.000