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A Mark Steyn Show Special
July 14, 2022
Thank you to all who dialed up The Mark Steyn Show on Ulster’s Glorious Twelfth. Despite the usual technical “glitches”, Mark yet again thrashed Piers Morgan in the Tuesday ratings, despite all the bus sides that generous Mr Murdoch has bought his star signing.
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Dutch Farmer Protests â our sociopathic globalist overlords strike again
Dr. Swain: Black And White America Want Same Thing, To Take Care Of Family And Claim American Dream
Source: Dr. Swain: Black And White America Want Same Thing, To Take Care Of Family And Claim American Dream
This statement should not actually be controversial. To many on the Left, however, immigration is either some intrinsically inherent and pure good, or a cudgel with which to batter American culture and identity. For globalists, mass migration must be embraced, as a means to cheap labor and free votes, but now also as a matter of âsocial justiceâ. Because nothing says âequityâ like stripping impoverished nations of their labor force and working them to the bone before sending them back to their American ghettoes.
This folly drives the present, dangerous rush for America to welcome hundreds of thousands of Afghans fleeing the ongoing civil war in their country as the Taliban takes over most of that land. After two decades, thousands of deaths, and trillions of dollars expended by America in Afghanistan, what debts do we owe that country and its people?
For those who took material risk to assist American operations there, surely our country can assist their safe removal from immediate danger. We have many bases in the region, plus allies nearby who share cultural and religious traits with these migrants and can provide refuge. But not one of these Afghans should be coming to America. That was never the deal.
In a time of pandemic and a fast-rising economic anxiety, the present is no time to welcome vast amounts of refugees into America, many of whom will require enormous resources from taxpayers.
When I tweeted out a picture of a record-setting American airlift jam-packed with Afghanis, making the point that no American town should be burdened with this influx of largely unskilled and unvetted young men from the other side of the world, blue-check Twitter was predictably aghast.
Raise your hand if you want this plane landing in your town?
America paid unimaginable costs in Afghanistan because of uniparty globalists who dominated the Bush & Obama administrations.
No more⊠pic.twitter.com/OBIUapUmMK
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) August 18, 2021
A simple (and widely-held) opinion earned condemnation from the likes of former CIA Chief Michael Hayden, anti-gun activist David Hogg, and CNNâs Jake Tapper who used a Bible reference from the Gospel of Matthew in response to me. Strange times when a host of that network, who is married to a former operative for Planned Parenthood, uses Christian scripture to try to shame others.
MUST READ: CORTES: Welcome to Joe Biden’s American Carnage.
No one, though, addressed what the picture makes clear: the plane is packed with young, Afghani men. The best thing for that country would be for these young men to stay and save their homeland, to fight the Taliban and establish civil society. But if they choose to leave, settlement here in America should not be offered.
One huge reason: we cannot be blind to the awful experience of Europe in recent years trying to deal with a massive influx of Afghan refugees who have created enormous costs for citizens there and committed heinous crimes against Europeans. Just this summer, a 13-year-old girl was raped and murdered in Austria. Three Afghan immigrant men are charged with that horrific crime, creating a national scandal in Austria.
Speaking about this issue, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz observed, âWe cannot solve Afghanistanâs problems by taking in large numbers of people into Germany and Austria, as in 2015. We have to improve the situation on the ground. If people have to flee, then I consider neighboring countries, Turkey, or safe parts of Afghanistan, to be definitely the more suitable.â Just this weekend, he reiterated his sensible stance that Austria will not accept new Afghan migrants.
The shocking crime against the 13-year-old was not out of character regarding the Austrian experience with Afghan men. Cheryl Benard is a former Rand Corporation analyst who is married to the former US Ambassador to Afghanistan. She wrote a revealing article on the Afghan migrants in Austria, titled: âIâve Worked with Refugees for Decades. Europeâs Afghan Crime Wave Is Mind-Boggling.â
She describes âthe large and growing incidence of sexual assaults committed by refugees against local women.â
The ongoing crimes are âvicious, no-preamble attacks on random girls and women, often committed by gangs or packs of young men. At first, the incidents were downplayed or hushed upâno one wanted to provide the right wing with fodder for nationalist agitationâŠ[but] with the official acknowledgment and public reporting, a weird and puzzling footnote emerged. Most of the assaults were being committed by refugees of one particular nationality: by Afghans.â
Benard cites that the relatively small Afghan population of Austria commits a staggering half of all sexual assaults there, according to police statistics. According to Hoover Institution research, between 2015 and 2018, during the wave of refugee settlement in Austria, sexual assaults there climbed 53 percent. Next door in Germany, in 2017 and 2018 one third of all sex crime suspects were foreign-born.
Beyond the critical need to defend American women, the issue of potential for terrorism must also be considered. The sad reality of âgreen on blueâ attacks in Afghanistan, wherein trusted Afghan partners turn on Americans or their fellow Afghan soldiers, proves that even the carefully-vetted can present dire risks.
Just last year, two American soldiers were killed and six wounded when a supposed Afghan army ally turned on them with a hail of machine gunfire. In total, over 150 American and coalition lives have been lost in such attacks. The death toll has been much worse for the Afghans. In 2019, insider attacks killed a stunning 172 Afghan armed forces fighters, slain by their own allegedly-vetted fellow servicemen.
Given these risks, we simply should not allow the globalists to, once again, inflict the costs of their disastrous war and mindless nation-building upon the citizens of America. This pattern of invading a country, massively destabilizing it, creating a refugee crisis, and then settling those migrants in America is not a sustainable path to security and prosperity. But then again, the globalists know that all too well.
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Source: The Wars of Wars Part I
While it will take time to weave together the many threads of the stories I’m writing at Rounding the Earth, ultimately, they do all fit together into a cogent story of how and why we are traveling through a portal of change, and whether the results will be freedom or slavery for humanity on the other side. Understanding this story of mass global change is important, and frankly difficult. I find myself forming new insights every day as I research so many topics. I do not pretend to be able to make sense of all of it, but filtering so many thousands of pages of reading into connected frameworks certainly helps. Let’s make sense of it all together.
Like it or not, a world war is underway, and it has been underway for longer than most people realize. It is the World Civil War, pitting an increasingly tyrannical ruling class against everyone else. Its development is slow at least partially because the collapse of the world’s reserve currency, the U.S. dollar, is slow. Right now major players are setting up more overt moves while making subtler plays. This could change.
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The Bitcoin Wars
I am still working on initial articles in this series. The Bitcoin Wars will cover topics in cryptocurrency, but also the potential resolution of the Triffin Paradox should a cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin supplant the rapidly failing dollar. This series will involve immediate interplay with The Monetary Wars.
Cryptocurrency Trivia/Education
The China Wars
Making sense of the world is impossible without understanding China and its history.
The Chloroquine Wars
This is the series that spurred me to start this substack as I found myself banned from social media time and time again for talking through facts about medicine during the pandemic. Many of these articles are likely to be wrapped into a book at some point.
Methods of Medical Tyranny
How to Rig Research
Medicine during the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic
Efficacy of the Chloroquines and other therapeutics
Hear No Good, See No Good, Speak No Good (Pandemic Health Policy Treatment Alternatives)
India Treats Medical Staff Prophylactically and Early, and It Makes a Difference
Dr. Peter McCullough’s Common Sense Breakdown of the Pandemic
The Propaganda Campaigns
COVID-19 Vaccines
Interviews
The Culture Wars
Politics is downstream of culture, so it makes sense that much of the world civil war starts here.
Psychological underpinnings of the Woke.
The Education Wars
How most children are raised into submission and how to avoid it.
A Path to Statistics follows the story of a high school dropout starting over with math with the goal of working as a math professional. This is an example of how quickly things go right when the wrong circumstances and methods are discarded.
Game Theory
The mathematical (more logic than computation) framework for evaluating economics and civilization. Learning about game theory will help you better understand many of the harder topics among these articles.
The Kunlangeta
Kunlangeta is the eskimo word for psychopaths.
The Information Wars
Stories of propaganda in context with the current world war. Under development.
Propaganda Campaigns
Media Evolution
The Monetary Wars
Money makes the world go ’round.
Technology as Wealth Creation
Authoritarianism as Wealth Control
Reality Show Politics
Does this all look entirely natural, or often scripted? What are the implications?
The Religion Wars
Because war sometimes comes down to cohesion.
The Wars of Wars
Putting the pieces together to make sense of the World Civil War
Engineering Dependence
Engineering Independence
Kassam: Concern And Worry Has Turned To Rage
Source: Kassam: Concern And Worry Has Turned To Rage
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Source: Episode 1,123 â Massive Revolts Against Covid Restrictions
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Watch Now: Exclusive: Victor Davis Hanson on the Assault on Meritocracy, Politicization of the Virus, and the & Platonic Noble Lie“When you don’t speak up, you get the Robespierre brothers in the French RevolutionâŠyou get Mao [Zedong]âŠYou get the Salem witch trials on a continental scaleâŠa return to the Dark Ages.”
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AMERICAN THOUGHT LEADERS
JAN JEKIELEK
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Exclusive: Victor Davis Hanson on the Assault on Meritocracy, Politicization of the Virus, and the âPlatonic Noble Lieâ
There will be âno safe space, no sanctuary from wokeism until the system starts to erode the safety and the security of the elite that created it,â says classicist and historian Victor Davis Hanson.
In this episode, Hanson breaks down the problems he sees plaguing American society today, from the assault on meritocracy to the âFrankenstein monsterâ of moral relativism.
Throughout society today, elites justify their control of or manipulation of information as for the good of the people, Hanson says. Itâs the ânoble lieâ: âIâm smarter than you. Iâm your platonic guardian. I can lie for your own goodâŠJust donât dare suggest Iâm lying,â Hanson says.
Jan Jekielek: Victor Davis Hanson, so great to have you back on American Thought Leaders.
Victor Davis Hanson: Thank you.
Mr. Jekielek: Victor, Iâve been thinking a lot lately about how some people call us living in a post-truth world. Others Iâve spoken with on this show describe it as an epistemic crisis.
I want to talk about this, but Iâve been watching this play outâyou and I have both been watching this play out: how this story of the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus has changed over the last year and a bit. Itâs pretty fascinating.
Mr. Hanson: Well, remember what happened. The Chinese government said that this was some kind of bat or pangolin jump from nature to human transmission. We had the utmost confidence in the WHO, World Health Organization, and they confirmed that. Dr. Tedros said that it was non-transmissible between humans and it originated in a wet market.
There had been little rumors that there was a Level 4 virology lab in Wuhan, so that was the narrative. Donald Trump, remember, was doing trade deals at the time with China, so he actually accepted all of this.
Dr. [Anthony] Fauci was telling us, as the head of the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, that we shouldnât worry and it wonât be a pandemic. For the first January and February, that was the narrative. Then when it started to spread, people started to notice that people in Wuhan had been locked down from other parts of China, but they were perfectly able or maybe encouraged to go to European ports of entry or LAX or JFK.
I think we had about a million people in that 11- or 12-day period when the Chinese communist government said, âNobody from Wuhan is going to get near us, but youâre all going to go to the United States, if you wish.â So that was starting to break down this narrative that it was just a benign infectious coronavirus, and then suddenly people started to whisper there was a Chinese military presence in the lab.
There were dissident voices who said that the Chinese government was not telling you the truth about the severity or the transmissibility or the infectiousness of the virus, and then there were people, dissident voices who said, âWe donât have an animal species with the virus. We only have the human species, so weâve got to find the animal.â
Then all of a sudden, this was hit with huge pushbackâDr. [Peter] Daszak, Dr. Fauci, WHO. How dare you try to be such a racist? Then the Chinese communist government was giving us propaganda talking points, which the left eagerly [used].
Then Donald Trump, in late April, excuse me, late March, started to say that was the virus and that thing came from the lab, and they were experimenting on gain-of-function, and he had probably seen intelligence reports. In fact, I think he said he did, and that became taboo because Donald Trump had said something.
This time, it wasnât just, âThere is no Russian collusion,â or âHydroxychloroquine has efficacy,â but it was, âThe Wuhan lab is connected with the origins of the virus.â So anything that Donald Trump said was true had to be false.
It was an election year, after all. Then the scientific community createdâwe created this word, âthe science.â The science says, the genome says, the virologist said. Beneath this entire façade, there were motivations. Dr. Fauci had subsidized Echo Health, Dr. Daszak, with sizable grants who then had rechanneled some of that money into the virology lab to conduct gain-of-function research that was banned in the United States.
So then people reacted accordingly. We would not want American public to think that we encouraged a gain-of-function ability of a virus that was otherwise confined originally to a bat or pangolin, but we took that virus and changed it and it got out of this lab. That was about a yearâs narrative.
My interest in all of this is not that it became politically incorrect to question the wet market thesis and to suggest the lab, but if you think about it rationally, a lot of people died. Just think if in January or February, the Chinese government had come out and said, âWe were engaged in research, and we are not solely culpable because American public health officials gave us some money, so weâre jointly culpable, and weâll jointly solve this problem. But this thing is really scary because itâs a gain-of-function, unnatural, engineered virus.â
The whole world would have just panicked, and we would have had lockdowns, and we would have had quarantines early. We might have stopped it.
But instead, anybody who suggested this was demonized, ostracized, canceled. Nobody cared about the truth. The truth was [evaluated by] are the aims or the ends to hurt Donald Trump? If it is, any means necessary are justified.
Mr. Jekielek: This wasnât just the politicians and the bureaucrats that were holding this line, but there were major scientific periodicals. Iâm thinking of âNature,â one of the preeminent biology journals in the world, at least one of them, that were also very much holding this line, shockingly so, I think.
Mr. Hanson: Yes, I think one of the most egregious examples was âLancetâ in Britain where Dr. Daszak had actually encouraged a group of preeminent virologists and epidemiologists to speak with one voice and condemn anybody who would dare connect the lab with the origins of COVID, even though they were in the same city, very logical connection to be made.
What he didnât tell us, under the guise of âthe science,â was that he was engaged, as we said, in transferring funding to this lab, and more importantly, some of the people that he was organizing to sign that letter had conflicts of interest as well. The letter was not: letâs open a debate and investigation. The letter was that this is anti-scientific, or nonscientific, or how dare you?
Because looming behind all these discussions is the unmentionable, the unfathomable, the thing that terrifies us, and what would that be? That would be that an American preeminent scientist, doctor, medical professional, architect of national health policyâa Dr. Fauci, for exampleâknowingly channeled gain-of-function research money through a third party to China, and that that had something to do with an enhanced virus that then leaked when that laboratory was under suspicion prior of having lax security measures.
If that were true, then if you reduce it down to its essence, the United States had some culpability and did not tell the world that they had subsidized the creation of this satanic virus.
Mr. Jekielek: So you think this is all a political construct then or is there something deeper here?
Mr. Hanson: The lesson of all of this is multi-faceted. It has shaken the confidence in professionals with letters after their nameâso BA, MA, PhD, JD, whatever the particular rubric is. We donât believe that the World Health Organization is immune from Chinese propaganda.
We donât believe, after we read the emails from Dr. Fauci, that because heâs an eminent MD and researcher that he deserves utmost respect, especially when he said that he deliberately mislead us about masks, so that people wouldnât have a run on masks.
He deliberately mislead us about herd immunity so that people would get vaccinated. In other words, he used what we in classics call the Platonic noble lie. Iâm smarter than you, Iâm your platonic guardian. I can lie for your own good. You, the deplorables, are ignorant. Youâll benefit from my lie. Just donât dare suggest Iâm lying.
It really shook our confidence in that and then all of these organs of liberal expression in the media, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, The Network News. We all thought that they were in the civil liberties tradition. The more light, remember, democracy dies in darkness, so to speak, bring the light out. But they were actually collaborating with the establishment scientific community and the progressive political movement to squash any mention of a lab.
And then they did something that was, I think, unconscionable. When Donald Trump tried to irritate the Chinese, and he called it the Chinese virus, he was doing what we do by calling it the Spanish flu of 1918, or the Ebola virus because, or Lyme disease in Connecticut.
Weâre speaking in the San Joaquin Valley. I grew up with something called Valley fever. I went to Stanford University and people say, âYou live in the valley? Whatâs that Valley fever you guys all die of?â The point is that you always have a geographical connotation, and all Trump was doing is trying to needle them or troll them, but he was not being racist.
But then they fabricated this enormous narrative that Donald Trump was a racist, and therefore, nothing he said could be valuable. This would be later on very valuable in this post-truth world to say that even though data showed that overwhelmingly on a per capita basis, African-American male youth were overrepresented, if I can use that term, in attacks on Asians, and these were hate crimes that were not commensurate with their percentages of population, it didnât matter.
People said, âWeâre not going to report that crime,â or âweâre going to get a member of the Asian-American community to say that itâs still white people doing this because Donald Trump created the climate by using the word China or Wuhan virus.â So all of this was not connected with reality. It was not fact-based.
Mr. Jekielek: I think weâve been talking about this idea that reality, what actually happened in a situation, seems to in past years become a lot less relevant or a lot less important to the general discourse. That of course can be used for political expediency. Thereâs an ideological bent to this.
Mr. Hanson: Yes. Well, in the Western empirical tradition, the Socratic tradition, the Aristotelian tradition, there were always dissidents. We call them the sophists. Sophist was not a bad word in antiquity. It just meant somebody who was wise like a sophist.
It could be a deprecatory word, but basically they challenged facts and reality. They said, âIf I can prove an argument to you that you can be persuaded by words, then itâs true, or otherwise you wouldnât be able to be persuaded,â and so the sophists began saying that there were things that were relative. You say honey is sweet. Thatâs only because you think itâs sweet. And then this person doesnât like honey. Therefore, itâs not sweetârather than, letâs systematically, empirically, in the inductive mood, get 100 people, poll them, and 99 percent will say, âHoney is sweeter than salt.â Therefore, itâs sweet.
But you see, they always take the exception to destroy the function or the foundation of empiricism. So that wasnât new.
In the 19th century, Marxismâbased on, there was Hegel and Nietzsche who were contributors to itâbut it said, âThese norms, these traditions, these laws, these canons are artificially constructed, and theyâre constructed by a power class, people who inherited wealth or influence or got it through ill-gotten gains.â
And theyâve set up an arbitrary system of rules. They call this shoplifting, so they put you in jail when you go into a store and take something thatâs not yours, but who says that they didnât commit a crime to have the money to have that store?
So it was a method of being relativist and say that every single crime or every single thought, there was a class struggle behind it. Take that idea from Marx, and over the next century, it was going to be translated in the Frankfurt School, but especially by people in Italy like Gramsci and then back here in the United States, by Herbert Marcuse.
I was a student of Norman O. Brownâs at UC Santa Cruz. They said that this relativism is not just Marxist class struggle because after all, we donât really have a class struggle in the United States. Free market capitalism can make a guy on Monday whoâs middle class on Tuesday wealthy, and vice versa.
But they said, âItâs racist,â and race is immutable, itâll never change. LeBron will be a victim the rest of his life, so will Oprah, so will Meghan Markle. It doesnât matter how much money they have. This was a very valuable tool for the left because it said, âYou donât have to worry about losing your constituency.â LeBron is always going to be a victim because heâs black, and heâs always suffering from an oppressor class that have set up arbitrary rules, and so now when we look at this woke movement, this anti-empirical movement youâre talking about, CNN, Don Lemon can be a multi-millionaire, it doesnât matter. He is a victim because heâs black, because the society is systemically racist.
Then notice how the vocabulary came in from the postmodernists. If you canât see it, and itâs not fact-based, then itâs systemic, itâs insidious, or itâs a micro-aggression. So they had to come up with words to create a reality that otherwise wasnât observable to the senses, and that was an untruth.
But basically, weâre in a climate that started on campus with academics, and itâs now permeated the larger culture that says crimes, laws, SAT scores, ACTs, GPAs, these are all constructs that are used to discriminate against people that donât have access to power, and these people in our modern American society are more likely to be oppressed because of race.
Weâre speaking in Fresno County. I can go right out my door and find 10 white people that are 20 years old that have no privilege. Theyâre either without BAs or high school degrees, and theyâre working as welders, forklift drivers, long haul truckers. But according to this critical racial theory, they have a privilege that Oprah, the $2 billion worth Oprah, lacks because theyâre white, and they exercise that privilege every day when they drive their forklift around.
Thatâs where we are. Itâs like Alice through the looking glass. Everythingâs upside down.
Mr. Jekielek: This is something Iâve been thinking about. Why this apparent war on merit, or war on even talent, I suppose?
Mr. Hanson: When you mention talent, you just mentioned a hierarchy. So if I was a sophist of the ancient or modern brand, I would say to you, âWell, what does talent mean? Define talent for me.â
Youâre going to say, âWell, Victor, when you want to see if youâre going to be first chair violin, or second chair violin, or third chair in an orchestra. Weâre going to put one person behind a wall and the other person behind a wall so you donât know their identities, and youâre going to listen to the music.â
Iâm going to say, âOh yes,â but one person brought up in a particular cultural environment knows the technique of pleasing a particular violin strain to that particular audience thatâs also privileged, and who to say is that strain is not as or more or less engaging than the person who happens to be a person of color?
Iâm not making this up. This is now an attack on blind merit, so to speak, and this applies to everything. The danger of it is that thereâs no end to it, itâs nihilistic, and it starts to impair the safety of society.
Iâve been to a lot of places in the world, and one of the things I always say to myself: why does the bathroom not work? Why is there trash outside? Why is the bus broken down? Why when somebody pulls out in front of somebody, they get out and fight?
I always come with the same conclusion: because they hire their first cousin. In other words, when I go to the Middle East, itâs a tribal society, and merit is not a criterion that people respect. Itâs got a higher cronyism than the United States. We all have that, but itâs the aberration, not the norm.
Once you get rid of merit, and you start to use deductive qualifications, then youâre going to have an insidious decline. You can see it, if you think over the last 50 years in the age of affirmative action. What was the joke that everybody said? I think it was Cassius Clay, later, Muhammad Ali, when he was flying once, he said, âI want to make sure this pilot is of a particular race.â He was trying to say that he didnât want affirmative action. They used to say nuclear plant operator.
The reason I mention that is that now we know that United Airlines is going to have pilot training thatâs going to be based on racial criteria on who is going to be accepted, not prior skills or requisites.
So there will be no sacrosanct, no safe space, no sanctuary from wokeism until the system starts to erode the safety and the security of the elite that created it, and weâre starting to see that a little bit already.
Mr. Jekielek: For example, in Portland, the Antifa protests have turned into a whole lawless sector in the middle of Portland, presumably. So how is it that this just wasnât dealt with for such a long time?
Mr. Hanson: Well, you remember the mayor, as I recall, of Portland said it was going to be a summer of love, I think. We had all of these mayorsâI get them confusedâthe Seattle mayor, the Portland mayor, and the Minneapolis mayor.
Basically, if I could conflate them, they said that brick and mortar didnât matter. If you burn down a precinct or a federal courthouse, it didnât matter because these were symbols of authority that was unearned or ill-gotten, and that this natural exuberance would play itself out if we appeased it.
In other words, the laws of human nature no longer apply, that somebody will do something until thereâs a deterrent to stop them. What stops them? What ultimately stops them? Society reaches a critical tipping point when peopleâthe majority of the people, whether theyâre vigilantes in San Francisco in 1850, or whether theyâre the community of Salem, Massachusetts, when theyâre starting to burn witches on charges of witchcraftâat some point, somebody says, âThe society can no longer exist if this continues.â
What would be some of the things Iâm talking about? If you have areas in Portland, or Seattle, or Minneapolis where the downtown is barricaded, where people have died there, where itâs filthy, then thatâs something that people are going to be worried about.
If you go to Venice Beach on the way to Santa Monica, and you see people living like theyâre out of the 8th centuryâfeces, poor people, violence, tribalism.
Or if youâre in San Francisco, and you see a video of a person who rides his bike into a Walgreens and then in front of the security guard, fills up a trash bag with things, steals them unapologetically, is let go because he feels that itâs less than $1,000, so the lunatic district attorney will not charge him.
Well, thatâs a breakdown in the order of society. Weâre not talking about elite squabbles on who gets into Princeton and who doesnât. Weâre talking about getting up in the morning and being able to survive one more day.
When that is questionedâand weâre getting close in the major citiesâthen youâre going to have a gut check time. People are either going to say, âYou know what? Itâs lost. Iâm heading out toward the rural areas. Iâm going to find a community in Utah, or Nevada, or something, or Iâm going to stay and fight.â
I donât have an answer because, as an American, I think this is a collective madness that happened with George Floyd, the pandemic, the scares of the coronavirus, the lockdown, the quarantine, the self-induced recession, the George Floyd protests, the election year, the weird early voting mail-in ballotsâall of those were forced multipliers of the madness.
Locked in, people were watching TV or computers and not interacting. I think thatâs collective madness. I have to hope itâll wane now, but maybe the virus is so deeply embedded now, it canât be exiled.
Mr. Jekielek: What virus exactly are you talking about here?
Mr. Hanson: Well, Iâm not talking about the recession virus, all those viruses, or the George Floyd reaction viruses, or the quarantine virus, or the election virus, but the woke virus.
That is the idea that somewhere in this annus horribilis of 2020, we collectively lost our mind, and we said that weâre going to adopt the culture and the code and the values of the Salem Witch Trials, the Reign of Terror in 1793 in France, and the McCarthyite period in the United States, where weâre going to cancel a person out if we find one incorrect thought or utterance. And weâre going to completely reject the civil rights movement and the visions of Martin Luther King, so the color of our skins is a very critical requisite of who we are, and not the content of our character.
Thatâs where we are, and we know from Iraq, Rwanda, and the Balkans where that leads. It leads to nihilism, deadly nihilism.
Mr. Jekielek: This is interesting. Thereâs been a lot of discussion about critical race theory. Of course, this is one of the ideologies behind what youâre talking about. Thereâs this element where the people who are advocates will say, âWell, you donât really understand what it is,â and so forth.
Mr. Hanson: Well, critical means that itâs critical of the norm, and theory means that it canât be proved, so itâs not a fact. Itâs a suspicion.
It started inâthere were elements of Marx in Freud. Think of that. Those are the two pernicious thinkers of the 19th century. Marx said that all of human experience can be defined as oppressor versus oppressed, or victim versus victimizer. There is no middle class. If there is a middle class, itâs only the deluded who think theyâre middle class. So thereâs this tension. Anybody who has things got them, ill-gotten gains, what we call now under critical race theory, honor and privilege, and then there are the people who have a right to take it from them and redistribute it.
Okay, that was the Marxist end. Then Freud came along and said, âWhat you and I are doing right now is not who we are. These are just superficial manifestations of deep-seated urges. If we were under psychoanalysis, or we got drunk, the real us would come out. The hang ups that we use to suppress our inner self cannot be taken seriously.â And that was very important because critical theory then adopted the idea that norms are not only to be termed them versus us, but what people say cannot be trusted.
If you say, âIâm not racist, Iâve never said the N-word.â They said, âYes, but you said colored people instead of people of color. That suggests to me that deep down inside you really wanted to say the N-word. Or you live in a certain way that is systemically racist. You donât know it, but Iâm trained to fathom it.â
So a critical racial theory workshop specialist can, in Freudian fashion, can find your symptoms and say, âTa da, heâs a racist. Itâs insidious, itâs systemic.â
Those were the two fountainheads of critical theory. And then when you add the third necessary componentâWorld War I and World War II, where Europe committed collective suicideâyou saw it in painting, poetry. After World War I, they took something like Impressionism, which was a take off on classical reality, and then they went into Dadaism and Surrealism and got into Jackson Pollack.
Well, art never looked like anything the eyes saw. Poetry didnât rhyme, it had no particular vocabulary. T.S. Eliot had seemed radical, and he would be, what, conservative. He was very soon compared to what was called poetry. You could throw anything on a page, just like you could with paint, and it was a poem. Then there were certain schools that grew up in that general period of depression.
Then this accelerated in World War II. When the French army, the bulwark of the West, with Churchillâs great faith that stopped Nazism, the very country that said, âThey shall not passâ collapsed in six weeks in 1940 in May and June, how do you explain that to future generations? You donât, so you come up with this French post-structuralism, post-modernism that you really either didnât collapse or that it believed in fake laws or traditions.
You say anything other than what an empiricist would say, âWell, it was inevitable because you were teaching in the 1920s it was illegal to mention Verdun in a positive sense.â You just said it was a nihilistic bloodbath, whether then the French army saved France from Germany. Socialism was deeply embedded, and this is the net logical fruition.
What Iâm getting at is that a lot of people, to explain reality that they did not like or they could not accept, took earlier Freudism, Marxism, and then critical theory was born in the Frankfurt School and Gramsci, and then that became critical legal theory.
We saw that in the 1980s in what people said. Originally, there were elements of truth in it. If you snort cocaine and youâre wealthy, you go five years to prison. If you cook it, and itâs crack cocaine, you got 20, because youâre black. Well, there may have been some truth to that.
But they expanded that to all of Western jurisprudence, that you donât look at the law and you donât look at the manner in which the law was made. You look at who benefits and who suffers from the law, and then therefore, you adjudicate itâwhether it has any moral or legal authority.
And that was very important because the whole sanctuary city movement where you nullify federal laws based on a racist, oppressive, federal immigration law. Notice what was ironic about it was nullification of law was always a right-wing concept, so the left told us. It was what Andrew Jackson tried to fight with South Carolina in 1832. It was what caused the Civil War.
It was what George Wallace said in the door at the University of Alabama when he said, âI donât have to follow federal law. This is the stateâs rights.â Suddenly, stateâs rights became great. You can nullify federal law because itâs for a noble purpose, so it was relativism par excellence.
Thatâs where we are, where every single idea is not factually based. Iâm not exaggerating. Iâm getting back to that earlier point. So if you have data that, letâs take an example, that non-white minority groups commit hate crimes against whites and each other at higher rates than in their percentages of the population than whites, thatâs a data point.
It doesnât matter. Whites are responsible for that because they have set up arbitrary norms of assessing that data, and they donât tell you that a 22-year-old African-American male in New York walked up, took a hammer, and hit an Asian because he felt depressed or that he was exploited or that the larger society created him is responsible. Thatâs what critical race theory tends to do.
Mr. Jekielek: You mentioned the education in France in the 1920s, thatâs interesting. Thereâs been some pushback that you talked about that youâve started seeing. Weâre seeing, for example, parents pushing back in K-12 education against critical race theory being taught, or the world being taught or whatever subject being taught, through the lens of one of these critical theories.
At the same time, we have people pushing back against that, sayingâthere are people pushing for legislation, and there are people saying, âHey, wait a sec. The government shouldnât be legislating what can be taught and not taught in schools.â Thereâs an interesting microcosm here.
Mr. Hanson: I think there are two things going on there, and one is that there are enough people who realize that every totalitarian movement, whether itâs national socialist, or communist, or Marxist, has to eventually address K-12 education because thatâs where the future generations come from.
If you can take the child away from the home, and you can create a new man or a new woman, then that becomes an extremely valuable resource because if theyâre trained right, that the higher morality is to stamp out racism, and they go home and hear their parents talkâwell, their parents are not going to say anything racist, 99.9 percent. But theyâre going to say things, which according to critical race theory could be interpreted that way.
The parents understand that, and they know what had happened in the Soviet Union, North Korea, and other places, so theyâre saying, âDo not take my children, brainwash them, and ultimately turn them against me, because thatâs what youâre doing.â
Thatâs very important because thatâs the strongest bond in natureâbetween a child and his parents or her parentsâand so I think that explains why people say, âWe wonât have a society if these leftists turn the youth of America against us.â
The second thing is, very quickly, they understand that none of these woke issues have a 50 percent constituencyânot open borders, not critical race theory, not the New Green Deal, not the cancel culture, not identity politics, none of it. So in a calm environment, people are not willingly going to embrace this wokeism.
But given a pandemicâHillary said that. She said, âThank God for the pandemic; it changed everything.â Without a pandemic, without a lockdown, without a recession, without George Floyd, without riots, without Trump, we wouldnât have this state of hysteria. Weâve got to make it last. You never let a plague go to waste, and thatâs where they are.
Finally, what people are worried about in the era of untruth, is that the people who are supposed to police the police, as the poet Juvenal said, âThe experts versed in science are supposed to audit the scientists. They are the ones that are most suspicious.â
By that, I mean you can say that a person under 60 has a 99.97 percent chance of not becoming seriouslyâor dying, I should sayâfrom COVID, or under, say 16, 99.99 percent of not dying, and therefore they donât need to be vaccinated. If they have antibodies, especially, they donât have to be. Thatâs a scientific fact.
But if that goes against a particular creed, or a government idea, or a lockdown, or something, or a mask wearing, then it will be discarded. So thatâs whatâs scary on matters of vaccination.
Iâll just give you one example. A person called me the other day, a pretty prominent person, doesnât matter. Heâs not somebody who is just a paranoid conspiracist. I mean prominent in the sense he reads widely.
He says to me, âI have high antibodies. I got a bad case of COVID. This organization will not let me attend unless I get vaccinated. My doctor has told me that people with my 90 plus titer, whatever that means, if they get a vaccination they have a larger, much greater chance of having a bad reaction, and my naturally acquired immunity at that level is superior, at least equal to a vaccination. I have proof of it, three. I have the test. Why can I not go to this organization without getting a vaccination thatâs going to imperil my health?â
Somewhere behind all of this is Fauciâs ânoble lieâ. Somebody is thinking, either Fauci or somebody like him, is thinking, âAh, but if we say that he does not have a, he has an excuse, he doesnât have an excuse, heâs immune from the virus, then weâll loosen the requirement, or weâll need to have authenticity, so weâll just lie and say, âYou donât have immunity. You have to be vaccinated.â
Only people with two shots, Moderna or Pfizer, maybe one, they have real immunity. Acquired immunity is counterfeit, and thatâs pretty much where we are. You see people that will say, âI got a really bad case of COVID.â Weâll say, âWhy didnât you get vaccinated?â Theyâll say, âI donât want to get a bad reaction. I got better immunity than you.â Says who? We think theyâre renegades.
This is a pretty conservative area and itâs kind of isolated, but if you and I get in the car right now and backroad in central California, I think about one out of every three people will drive by alone in a car, half of them vaccinated according to statistics, with a mask on.
There is zero chance that when youâre driving down Mountainview Avenue with a mask on inside your car, youâre going to be better or worse protected. Youâre not going to be protected from anything because youâre vaccinated. Thereâs no pathogen anywhere in your car. Why wear a mask?
Mr. Jekielek: Itâs interesting. It goes back to this question thatâs been on my mind, which is basically, so thereâs these noble, letâs say, noble lies that people may want to perpetrate for the good of society, ostensibly.
But that exists independently. It can exist independently of this, letâs say, the woke ideology or these Marxian ideologies. But itâs the intersection of these is what I find, I guess, fascinating because thatâs what this year, in a way, has been that.
Mr. Hanson: I think so. I think the value of the Trump presidency was it was a catalyst, or maybe some kind of elixir that people drank, and it showed out what the pathologies were of America. He had that ability to scrape off the scab and show the putrid wound beneath, and so it was very clear, I think, to all of us by the first eight months, to take the example of Russian collusion, that Christopher Steele was a faker, that he had no sources, and he would later admit to that in a British court, that he had no evidence.
But people who were very supposedly well-versed in journalism or academia or political science kept saying, âcollusion,â âindictment,â âbombshell,â âwalls are closing on Trumpâ because they felt that the Russian collusion narrative was valuable.
It was a noble lie because it would weaken Donald Trump, and if it weakened Donald Trump, poor people, or people of color, or people of the underclass would have a better shot at life. Therefore, it really didnât matter that you lied, and lied, and lied.
Same thing about hydroxychloroquine. When that drug was mentioned as a cheap, seven-cents-a-dose drug, proven anti-malarial. If you go on the website of the United Nations, youâll find that itâs one of the United Nationsâ safe drugs for inflammation like lupus, but especially for malaria. Itâs been around for, in rare cases at high dosages per body weight, it may cause arrhythmias, but very rarely.
But Donald Trump said, âWhat do you have to lose? You might want to try it.â As soon as he said that, then all of a sudden it became a very dangerous drug. Many states barred doctors who prescribed it.
When you started to search, the number of hits for hydroxychloroquine were almost the same as COVID. So we took that drug that had efficacy in India, Brazil, all over the world, at least if it was used early and at the right dosage per body weight, and we demonized it.
Now we learn that actually, it did have efficacy. How many people died? I donât know, a lot of them did. Dr. Steve Smith said 100 million may have died, 100,000, excuse me.
But the point Iâm getting at, these are examples of, for the greater good of society, I, an elite, have determined what those people down there do not know, will never know, and just canât possibly know. But for me to convince them whatâs good for them, I have to lie to scare them, and Iâm perfectly willing to do that, and I know when Iâm lying and when Iâm not.
They donât realize that finally they donât know when theyâre lying, or when theyâre not, or what theyâre doing. Itâs the argument of authority. I am a network news person. Therefore, I can lie.
I think itâs also a larger pathology of this whole American culture where weâre raising children of the upper classes to think that thereâs a certain paradigm. You go to a city or a suburb around a city. You enjoy the cultural dynamism of New York, or Minneapolis, or Seattle, or Portland, San Francisco.
You completely divorce yourself from poor people or working class people, or nature. You get in this rat race to excel, and then you go to an Ivy League. It doesnât really matter if Brown, or Dartmouth, or Stanford, or Harvard is teaching you anything, but like a cow, youâre branded with that BA.
âI have a BA from Brown.â âOh, I have a BA from Yale,â and then youâve got entrĂ©e into the society where you get these professional jobs. Nobody ever says to the person, âAre you well-rounded? Do you know, if the wind comes from the north or south, is it more likely to rain? Have you ever seen somebody thatâs poor? Do you ever have to get along with somebody who doesnât share your background? Do you feel guilty about that, or not?â
So I think a lot of our problems are that a lot of this, especially white culture of the upper classes, has divorced themselves from poverty, from race, and associates with people of white kind, and they feel guilty about it.
They want us, society, to give them exemption, and how do they get that exemption? By claiming thereâs a racist under every bed, or theyâre somebody who stinks up Walmart, or is a deplorable, an irredeemable, a clinger, a dregs, a chump, or a Neanderthal to quote Biden and Clinton and Obama.
That gives them psychological recompense for living, in an empirical fashion, it would be called a segregated life.
Mr. Jekielek: So now weâve come a bit full circle here back to an epistemic crisis, but also, a fundamental doubt, as you already articulated, in what are supposed to be the credible authorities because tons of people that Iâve spoken with say, âHey, these people are letting us down. We canât trust them anymore,â Where can we go from here in this sort of a situation? How is that trust earned back?
Mr. Hanson: Yes, where do we go from here is I think weâre going to see certain trends, insidious, slow, but trends nonetheless. I think people are going to say to themselves, âIf that person went to the public schools and, say, from five years from now or six years, that person is likely not as well educated as someone who went to a private school, parochial school, or was home-schooled.â
If a person applies for a job with a Harvard or Yale or Stanford degree, it doesnât mean much anymore. Youâd be better off privately hiring somebody from St. Johnâs, or Thomas Aquinas, or Hillsdale College because we know that in the Ivy League, that degree means nothing now.
It used to be an employer who was cynical would tell you, âYeah, I hired a guy for my business with a BA from Stanford. I know they donât teach anything and theyâre indoctrinated there, but at least they have SAT scores and GPAs so they did the selection bit for me. They have natural talent, so Iâll just use them, and then Iâll train them the way they should be trained that they never learn because they were woke or whatever.â
Now they donât even believe that, because they believe that the admissions are no longer meritocratic, that thereâs no longer a test score required like an ACT, or SAT, or GPA. Itâs just arbitrary. And so I think theyâre losing credibility.
The doctors are losing credibility. Where did we have doctors? Where did we have the idea of PhDs? Where did the MD [come from]? It was all a reaction to a mess of free for all thinking and frontierism in the 19th century. People said, âLetâs be systematic and make a meritocracy,â and now weâre in a whole cyclical pattern where weâre saying, âYou know what? We didnât have any police to police our police.â
I really resent a lot of these people, bureaucrats at the highest level of the U.S. government with degrees that were used for arguments from authority, college presidents.
Think of all the bizarre things weâve heard the last year. How many college presidents have been on a YouTube cut who said, âI just want to say right now that I suffer from honor and white privilege.â Youâre thinking, âhonor and white privilege.â
Or theyâll say, âI think we live in a racist society here, and itâs here at Stanford. Itâs here at Princeton. Donât think it isnât.â Youâre thinking, okay. If you experience honor and white privilege, why in the hell are you have that job? We can get all kinds of people to take it from you because you didnât earn it, or we can say, âWell, the government says they canât give money to places that have racist tendencies. Since you just admitted that Stanford, or Princeton, or Harvard is racist, then donât take any federal money until you solve the problem.â
This is a lot of virtue signaling and performancing from the wealthy classes because again, it gets back to this fundamental crisis in Western society that these elites then are sort of like Marie Antoinette dressed up as peasants playing around at Versaille because they have lost all authenticity.
They donât know anything about nature. They donât know anything about the physical world. They donât know anything about human nature, and they compensate for it by all of these critical race theories, wokeness, all of this stuff.
We could have survived the virus. We couldâve survived the lockdown. We couldâve survived the first self-induced recession. We may have survived 120 days of coerced riots in U.S. history. Weâre not told [it was coerced], but itâs true. We might have survived 100 million people voting without showing up on Election Day. We might have survived the controversy of Don[ald Trump], but not all of them together.
That was a perfect storm. It unleashed a madness within us and every pathology that we had struggled for, the restraints were off. I donât know if weâre going to get out of it or not.
Mr. Jekielek: So Victor, why in this ideology is there such an inordinate focus on the victim or maybe absolution of apparent victims of accountability? Thatâs at least what Iâm seeing.
Mr. Hanson: Thatâs a complex question, and I think thereâs an old or ancient explanation, and thereâs a modern one.
Start with the ancient one. If we were to look at novels, historians, biographers, Suetonius, Petronius, all the way back to Thucydides, thereâs a certain recognition that, in the West, when you have a consensual society, and you allow personal expression, and you draw on all members of society contribute, and you have a protection of private property, and you have a legal code thatâs not just arbitraryâthe whole Western menuâthen you start to do two things. You give people security and affluence, and this grows, and grows, and grows, and grows.
People then are no longer worried about dying at night from a marauding tribe crossing the Danube. Theyâre no longer worried of starving to death. Theyâre no longer worried that somebodyâs going to knock on their door and slit their throat, and they start to do great things. They build the Parthenon, or the Pantheon, or they write Tacitusâ âHistories,â and that was the Western paradigm.
But there were a lot of voices, not just the crazy people like Nietzsche and Hegel and Spengler, but ancient people as well. They said, âYou got to be very careful because weâre not programmed to be that way. We have certain instinctual needs. Weâre pretty savage people,â Thucydides especially, the thin veneer of civilization.
You start allowing people to be wealthy and leisured, and you take off the constraints, and the constraints are your family, or your traditions, or your religion that say [although] itâs legal to do that and you have physical and material ability to do it, but donât do itâthen youâve got chaos.
So there was a sense that these Western societies, as they get wealthier and more affluent, especiallyâwe have detours with wars, and plagues, and religious movements, but now weâre in a globalized post-war, postmodern society where the level of affluence and leisure is such that we donât have these appetites, and people are always going to the next level.
Thatâs part of it, that weâre just a confused, spoiled group. Weâre a collective. Remember the Affordable Care Act pajama boy commercial or the life of Julia where we get these two dysfunctional, prolonged adolescents advising us, a guy with pajamas thatâs drinking hot chocolate like a perennial boy whoâs like 19, or a young woman who says, âThanks to the government, and then from the moment I was born, the moment Iâve died, Iâve only been on the government teat,â and this is supposed to be something we all aspire for.
Anybody else in the world would think theyâre crazy. Columbus would say, âIâm not going to take a risk.â Charles Lindbergh said, âWhereâs my insurance policy? I canât fly to France. This is too dangerous.â So thatâs what weâve done. Weâve infantilized, made infants out of all of us.
Then it also creates guilt. As I said before, a lot of this is, why do I have so much money? Why do I have so much freedom? Look at that guy over in Africa. Look at that person in Oaxaca, Mexico. They donât have what I have. Why is that?
If you say, âTake a deep breath, here is something called the Enlightenment, the Renaissance, Classical Greece, and then this led to the Founding, and this is a system thatâs available to anybody, and certain people did it, and certain people didnât. It didnât have anything to do with race. Thatâs why youâre privileged and you should help people, but you have to understand that you were born lucky in the West.â
Thatâs a very hard thing for people to do, apparently. So thereâs this intrinsic guilt among Western elites.
What I get really angry, and I think you do, or all of our listeners do, is that this hijacking of success and a noble tradition. So Iâm sitting in a house in which my great-great-grandmother came out, northerners from Missouri, after the Civil War.
I never met them. In fact, my grandfather died here in 1976. He was born in the same room in 1890, but I heard stories that he heard from his grandfather about his grandmother. It was heroism how they got in wagons and came out here, how they finally found a railhead.
I just am not going to be prepared at the age of 67 to say, âThey were white, and these were non-white. Therefore, they were bad and these people were good.â I donât accept that infantile reductionism guilt.
I had a father, and his pictureâs around here a lot, who flew 40 times in a B29 over Tokyo. This was a racist, militaristic government that was killing 15,000 people a day in Asia and butchered 15 million Chinese. He was on some of the most severe raids there were.
He didnât wear a parachute when he was over Japan because war is war. They executed you when you bailed out anyway. Iâm not going to suddenly say to him, âYou did not stop that slaughter. You did not help us win World War II. You did not make it possible for me not to worry about, but youâre a racist because you were white, and you were bombing Asians.â
Iâm just not going to do that. I think if everybody just said, âRace is an important facet of all of our lives, but it does not define who we are.â The irony is when people start saying, âWell, World War II was based on segregation,â you think, well, that was something to be embarrassed about.
A democracy should not be hypocritical and not using their African-American populations as frontline soldiers although we did in some cases especially the Red Tail fighters in Italy.
But if you want to talk about racism as being a prime mover of World War II, then you better talk about Germans killing white people because they were âun-Aryan,â or ânon-Aryan,â 6 million Jews, 20 million Ukranians and Russians.
Or Japanese killing intersectionally, in intersectional fashion, Chinese because they were not Asians of the right particular race. So what I despise about all of this are these young, social justice branded BA students, or young people, and they want us to reduce the whole rich tapestry of history into one of melodrama, cheap melodrama, âThat guyâs bad, heâs good.â
Sherman may have gone all the way into Georgia, freed 30,000 slaves, crushed the Confederacy, went up through the Carolinas, helped Grantâs force lead a surrender, but he said the N-word once; therefore, heâs canceled out.
Finally, you think, okay. Have you ever noticed this? When they tear these statues, why donât new ones pop up? Iâm waiting for them. They say theyâre going to change the school name. Every time they take away a name, they give another name, and they take it away because they donât understand theyâve created this Frankensteinian monster of relativism that says there is no concession that weâre human.
You have to be 99.9999 percent pure, and none of them can make their own standards. So just think for a second. We tear down, I donât know, Columbusâs statue. Letâs put up Martin Luther Kingâs statue. Canât do that. He plagiarized his PhD thesis. He treated women in an awful manner, so his whole wonderful career is canceled out.
Well, how about Malcolm X, heâs more authentic as a racial frontline fighter. No, no, no, no, no. He used violence, he hurt people. We could go on, and on, and on.
But once you start to destroy hierarchy, rules, norms, traditions and say that somebody is going to be canceled because theyâre not perfect and therefore theyâre not good, then letâs see the people youâre going to replace.
Weâre starting to see this in the Biden administration because theyâre starting to nominate people as correctives for white supremacy, and guess what? Hunter Biden used the N-word. Joe Biden said, âYou ainât black.â Joe Biden has a whole litany of sexual harassment problems. We have people in the civil rights division of the Justice Department who have said a lot of racist things.
And so if we were to apply the same standards that they are censoring and ruining lives themselves, then they only have one out and thatâs critical race theory, and critical race theory says, âRacists cannot be racist,â and the only anecdote, according to Mr. Kennedy, for racists in the past are to be racist in the present, and to be racists in the future.
If thereâs a yang of racism, then you need a yang of racism. So therefore, we want people who say, like Sarah Jeong on The New York Times, that âI love treating white people like a dog. I consider them like a dog urinating.â
Or we had this graduation speaker that took on the Israelis and the Palestinians, and just full of hate, and thatâs the only way you can justify it. What Iâm getting at, in a very clumsy way, is this relativism matters because itâs essential to this woke movement, that they not be judged by the standards they judge others.
Mark Zuckerberg can be an authentic social justice champion of the underclass, pour $500 million into select precincts to alter the election, that he thinks heâs going to alter it, but heâs okay to build 57,000 square foot home in a pristine, identical white, and thatâs where we are.
You have to have exemption because this relativist movement can never meet its own standards.
Mr. Jekielek: One apparent exemption that has been a lot on my mind, my father-in-law being a Holocaust survivor, is this apparent pass for anti-Semitism that weâve been actually seeing in past weeks as if it was just there, and suddenly came up out of, well, I wonât say nowhere, but, what do you make of that?
Mr. Hanson: A lot of things. When I was in college and as a young adult, the left always said they hated Israel. Iâd always ask myself, why are almost half the resolutions at the UN aimed at Israel? Or if you are so worried about annexation, why donât people say, âWell, Turkeyâs taken half of Cyprus?â
Or if theyâre worried about refugees and displaced people, how about the 13 million East Prussians that walked back to Germany. Theyâre not saying, âI have the keys to my home in Danzig and these Poles call it the GdaĆsk and my German ancestors were there. That didnât happen.
Or the Volga? Nope. Do you and I worry about the Volga Germans that Stalin displaced? Why was it only the Palestinian? So then I said to myself, itâs because Israel is Jewish. They apply a particular standard to it.
I used to think that, and then they would always sayâthey meaning the left, the anti-Israeli leftâthey say, âWell, we just donât like Israel. Itâs nothing to do with Jews.â Then, I became, years ago, I said, âNo, itâs because you hate Jews that you hate Israel, not because you hate Israel, but you like Jews. You hate Jews for a variety of reasons, and therefore, you hate Israel, and you apply standards to it that you donât apply to any other society.â
Why do you hate Jews? It goes back to Roman times with the diaspora, but you could argue that Jews to survive when they were spread throughout with the destruction of the temple, under Vespasian, that they had to cling together.
They had a religion that did not accept that Jesus was the Messiah, so they were spread throughout Europe and they were denied land-owning. They were denied aristocratic titles, and they did not have opportunities to gain influence and social standing commensurate with their talent.
And so they turned to, I donât know, banking, or precious metals. So their names were suddenly Mr. Satin and Mr. Silver and Mr. Gold. That prejudice, generalization, and stereotyping was mostly by the right and it was opposed by the civil libertarian left, the enlightenment.
They would say, âWell, wait a minute, Mr. Silver, da, da, da, da, da on all the quantifiable data is actually a sterling citizen. This prejudice is stupid.â Thatâs what I grew up with. I had wonderful parents, and I never met somebody who was Jewish until I was 18 that I knew of.
I would come from, Iâd say, âWow, I met all these people who are Jewish.â My parents would say, âSo what?â There is an old anti-Semitism prejudice. I didnât know what it was. But then I noticed it switched. It wasnât some nutty guy telling me that the raisin market back East was fixed by a bunch of Jews in Rome and thatâs why we didnât get good money for raisins. Those guys were gone.
It was, Iâd walk across campus, and Iâd see PLO [Palestine Liberation Organization]. Iâd see a picture on the Berkeley campus of a hook-nosed Jew, or Iâd see people say, âF Israel.â Iâd say, âWell, this doesnât make any sense. Itâs a constitutional society. Why do they hate?â
So the left began to hate Jews. Then I noticed another thing, that many of the people who were voicing this hatred were people of color, or at least they identified that way.
They then say, âWe canât be anti-Semitic because we are victims ourselves.â But they were the most anti-Semitic, and they got exemption from the larger culture, and so right now the threat is, of anti-Semitism, is a respectable, academic, intellectual people of color as well movement, not exclusively, movement among the left-wing elite and thereâs no New York Times, Washington Post, NPR to audit it because they are part of it in their hatred of Israel.
The irony, who are the people who are objecting to this? They tend to be evangelical Christians. They tend to be conservatives. They tend to be the illiberal. But I can guarantee you if you wore a distinctive, orthodox garb or beard, and you went to a Trump rally, you would be treated much better than if you went to a Black Lives Matter rally. I would stake my life on that.
Iâm not trying to denigrate Black Lives Matter, but Iâm just saying that the so-called Christian or conservative movement will more closely police itself on matters of anti-Semitism now, and the woke, black, critical theory, whatever term we use for the black intellectual elite, they will be less so inclined.
Iâm telling you that every time we hear an anti-Semitic proclamation announcement, speech, it comes from people in Congress who either have a map with Israel or not on it, or itâs just the Benjaminâs baby. In almost every case, they will be from a protected minority group and they feel that they have no deterrent worries, and that they can say whatever they want. And theyâre correctâthey can.
Not only that, but the people who will say, âWait a minute, youâre applying a standard to Israel that you would never apply to any other society because you have a deep-seated dislike of the people who live in Israel because theyâre Jewish.â Theyâre going to say, âHow dare you, thatâs Islamophobic, thatâs racist,â and thatâs where we are. Nobody has the guts to say it, but itâs true.
Mr. Jekielek: A few people that Iâve spoken with had said that one of the causes of this is that Israel has been, I think, it was described to me as just remarkably successful against all odds and that itself, again, perhaps itâs this attack on merit.
Mr. Hanson: Yeah, weâre going back to what we discussed earlier, that the West, because of its unique combination of human freedom, constitutional government, meritocracy, and free market capitalism, creates a lot of leisure and wealth and becomes very powerful, and can project power, intellectual power, cultural power.
That can be everything from rap music to disco in my generation or Christopher Columbus. So the Aztecs are not going to sail up into a river in Spain, and youâre not going to, the Zulus are not going to mount an invasion of the United Kingdom, not that the Mongols didnât do it earlier.
But the point Iâm making is Western civilization, itâs not a moral question. It has a dynamism and people were guilty about that. They want to know why, and they want to apologize, some of them.
Remember, I think her name was Mrs. Jellyby in Bleak House, of Dickens. Sheâs a character in the novel and her kids are all sloppy, theyâre not washed, theyâre not literate, and yet sheâs a member of the Victorian upper class because sheâs always worried about the plight of a poor group suffering from British imperialism around 1850 in Africa or Asia.
Dickens is trying to show you that a person who cannot handle the concrete pathologies and their own myths because theyâre messy and dirty and theyâre hard to resolve, will find an excuse as an abstract, distant problem they canât solve, and that way they square the circle of their impotence and guilt. I think thatâs a lot of what the West does.
In the case of Israel, for me, itâs always 1967. Prior to 1967, it was surrounded by all of these hostile powers. There was pan-Arabism, was sweeping the globe. The Soviet Union had armed all of its enemies, and Nasserism. It was going to be extinct, and these were the children of the Holocaust, and so we were pro-Israeli, and France was too.
Britain less so because of the colonial direct interest in Jordan, and then suddenly they won the â67 war, and they said, âYou know what? This is the third war. Weâre not going to do it again, so weâre going to keep some of this land and use it to negotiate,â and then suddenly they became the oppressor.
They were too powerful, too successful, too Western. ⊠It used to be, we hate Israel because itâs successful. We hate Israel because itâs Western. Now itâs, we hate Israel because itâs white. Youâre seeing the woke movement saying, âThis is an outpost of white supremacy against people of color,â and this racial reductionism that is wokeism.
Mr. Jekielek: Yes, Iâve heard the term white-adjacent, which is, thatâs an interesting term.
Mr. Hanson: Yes. The one that scares me is âwhitenessâ because that has a pedigree with Jewishness. In the Third Reich, especially before World War II when Hitler created these crackpot theories, Alfred Rosenberg, etc., and they built on 19th century German anti-Semitism, they came up obviously with a problem, and that is everybody knew Jews that were wonderful people, and some people were half Jewish and a quarter Jewish.
Even when they got to the point with thinking that they were going to wear stars eventually, they said to themselves, âWhy did that come in practice?â Well, they said, âWell, when we go to Eastern Europe and the poor parts, theyâre going to be distinguished as Orthodox Jews.â
But here, itâs impossible to distinguish them. Therefore, weâre going to ostracize them. Weâre going to trace their lineage. Weâre going to go, and then certain people within the Nazi ranks said, âWell, wait a minute. If we canât tell who they are, then why are they any different? If we like them, why are they bad?â
That had to be suppressed, so that they came up with this thing called Jewishness because they suffered from Jewishness, not because they looked different, or not because theyâre Orthodox Jews, so we have to identify them through careful analysis of their genetic code, or their, not genetic code, but their lineage, or who they associate with, or weâre going to trace their nomenclature because we canât find out otherwise.
But we have to say that they suffer from Jewishness, and what was Jewishness? It was communism. It was pacifism. It was usury. It was these blood libels, and this whiteness now is, âWell, we canât, this white guy, my neighbor has been really nice to me, and Iâve never heard the N-word by these people, so weâre going to have to say they all suffer from whiteness and that is a pathological, genetic defect at birth.â
So if I were to say, âYou suffer from Hispanicness, or Latinoism, or black,â what would people think? It would be one of the most racist things in the world. This is the wages of what happens when we make race essential rather than incidental to who you are. Individuals vanish, and we become cookie cutter versions of our imagination and fears.
Mr. Jekielek: Victor, weâve talked a little bit about people pushing back after this very, very, I think anyone would agree, crazy year of 2020. As we finish up, what do you see happening now?
Mr. Hanson: I think weâre at a crossroads and people are afraid. In every workplace in America and every teacherâs lounge, every campus, every political caucus, we have people doing this.
Who is going to win? Which side is the greater threat? If I call this person a racist, will the people who hail me and applaud me, even though thereâs no evidence of it, be more advantageous to my career, to my safety, to my income.
Or will the people who say, âThatâs a false accusation, how dare you? Youâre a McCarthiacâ or this way, and they donât know the answer to it. Itâs like during the French Revolution: whoâs going to win, the Jacobins or the Thermadors, or the Trotskyites, or the Stalinites, or the Bolsheviks, or the Mensheviks, or the Czarists.
So itâs very important, if you believe in constitutional government and the unique exceptionalismâitâs a redundancy, but thatâs what it isâof the United States, that everybody pushed the needle a little bit, and how do you do that?
You have to speak out, and you have to use language thatâs graphic and empirical. So if somebody saysâand Iâm going to quote now indirectlyâif a writer in âThe Rootâ magazine says, âWhite people are responsible for every pathology from the melting of the ice caps, to environmental damage, to viruses, epidemics.â
Or if, I think his name is Mr. Mystal, a Harvard Law graduate, says, âWhen I come out of my quarantine, I really donât want to see white people. I got used to not seeing them. I just donât want to see them anymore.â
Or if youâre a professor at Barnard and you write a novel: can you imagine my dream is to have a room full of white people and say, âYouâre all going to be gassed.â
Or if Iâm going to be a professor, a psychiatrist, Iâm going to go to Yale. Iâm going to give a talk, and Iâm going to say, âI have dreams of taking a revolver and collectively shooting white people in the head.â
Thatâs pass for permissible discourse? Itâs a free country. I have no problem with them saying it if thatâs what they want to say, but they then have to deserve the wages and the wages are: you are a racist, and youâre a pathological racist, and youâre a cruel person, and Iâm going to tell you that.
I donât care what you say to me. You have no way, Iâm a free person. Iâm liberated. Thereâs nothing you can do to hurt me. Take my money away. Take my life away. Iâm not going to live on my knees. When 51 percent of the people say that, it will pass, and then weâll have a period of recriminations. People are going to say, âWait a minute, you were in that mob.â
Itâs kind of like out West when the entire mob comes up on Saturday night and Gary Cooper or John Wayne or somebody has got a shotgun. He said, âYou are not going to go lynch that guy in the jail.â They say, âa yea yea yea,â and then the sheriff comes out and says, âWell, you may get me but da, da, da, da, da,â and then it dissipates. The next day they see people at the store or on a horse, and they go like this. âI wasnât part of the mob.â You have to change the whole dynamic.
I think itâs going to happen because people are leaving a written and oral record of what theyâre saying, and theyâre so caught up in the frenzy and the madness. They have no idea what theyâre saying. I know what Iâm saying right now, and I think I can listen to this recording and not have to apologize for it because Iâm not being racist. Iâm not being cruel. Iâm not lying.
But they are doing these things, and itâs going to be with them forever. Itâs going to be a record of a period in 2020 to â21 when a small group of very cruel, careerist, selfish people tried to destroy the United Statesâ traditions and make life miserable for people who used to get along with each other.
Theyâre going to pay a price. I hope so, because they deserve it. Iâm going to speak up and people in my family are going to speak up, and you should speak up, and our audience should speak up because we know what happens when we donât.
When you donât speak up, you get the Robespierre brothers and the French Revolution. When you donât speak up, you get the Leninists taking over a movement from Korinsky to have a consensual society in Russia. When you donât speak up, you get something far worse than the nationalists in China, you get Mao. When you donât speak up, you get the McCarthyites running wild in Hollywood, and you get the Salem witch trial on a continental scale.
So we have no choice. Itâs a consensual society, a free society, and the abyss, a return to the Dark Ages. Thatâs where weâre headed if we donât have the courage to stop it. If we donât have the courage to stop it, we deserve it.
Mr. Jekielek: Well, Victor Davis Hanson, itâs so good to have you on.
Mr. Hanson: Thank you for having me again.
This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
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People make choices that they think will help them achieve an end
Humans Have Goals. And They Value Goods and Services Accordingly.
Kit Daniels
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 19:22:03 GMT
https://youtu.be/GpVZuJXxztM
June 24, 2011
By AL Whitney © copyround 2011 (revised January, 2015)
Permission is granted for redistribution if linked to original and the AntiCorruption Society is acknowledged.
Here are some of the reasons why humanity is amazing and wondrous and can never be replaced by The Corporationâs robots (machines) or any other bizarre âpseudo-formâ of Post-Human. [See Aaron Frantzâs documentary The Age of Transitions.]
1) Humans have an infinite capacity for love throughout their entire lives. The âlove listâ can be quite long: parents, siblings, spouses, children, friends, pets, nature, music, poetry, and art et cetera et cetera. It is our unlimited ability to love that saves us and brings us back to life when weâve suffered a severe loss. [See Love is Just a Series of Actions.] Since the globalists, like the Rockefellers and their corporations (who are funding Transhumanism) love money and power above all else, they have no clue what an infinite capacity for love is or even looks like.
2) Humans (who havenât been severely damaged) can easily empathize with others, including plants and animals. This ability to empathize is the basis of The Golden Rule and has been recognized by nearly all religions. Kindness grew out our ability to empathize and even the ârules of etiquetteâ were written as a way to make people feel valued and respected.
3) Humans are amazingly creative. We are continually inventing music, art, literature, and even advanced technology. In fact, humans are so creative it is very difficult to hold us back. There are literally millions of websites, blogs and facebook pages on the internet today; each one representing human creativity. This was a problem for the robber barons at the beginning of the industrial revolution, as Scott Nobleâs documentary Human Resources so brilliantly explains. They have put a lot of time and money into transforming humans into âhuman resourcesâ. But new ideas, including ones for free energy, are being invented all the time despite the fact the would-be global energy controllers keep suppressing them.
4) Humans can express extraordinary beauty with both their voices and their bodies. These qualities have been with us for millennia. Both song and dance âbubbleâ out of so many humans from within their spirit (soul), it is obvious they are innate qualities in our species. They are many times a direct expression of joy that comes from deep within our hearts. Have you ever watched a small child do a âhappy danceâ? It is obviously innate.
5) Humans are funny. Humor can just bubble up from our spirit (soul) and come out of our mouths in seconds. When humans gather together, laughter always accompanies us, even when it seems inappropriate. We canât help it, it is a part of who we are.
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6) Humans are both fascinating and dear due to our uniqueness, our inconsistencies, our idiosyncrasies, and our relative unpredictability. It fact, it is impossible to predict when human inconsistencies will surface. People can claim to dislike all things in a category, but there will almost always be an exception. And, how many times have we said: âI knew I shouldnât have done it, but I did it anyway.â How many times have we all missed the forest for the trees? How many times have we changed our minds? No matter how hard the âcontrollersâ try to depict humanity as the âmassesâ, we are all unique, both spiritually and physically.
7) Humans are capable of self-sacrifice . . . in fact we do it all of the time. Motherâs give up sleep to tend to their children, fathers work at jobs they hate to put a roof over their familyâs heads, people take in their elderly parents who can no longer care for themselves, firefighters risk their lives to save people in burning buildings, solders fight and risk death to protect their âcountriesâ [who, at the moment are not worth these soldierâs sacrifices], people with very little give money to aid others in need, and the list goes on and on.
8) Humans never stop learning, whether we want to or not. Each and every day we are exposed to new information and expand our knowledge, even if only in small ways. This process never stops as we all have an infinite ability to learn.
9) Humans have wisdom and common sense which grows exponentially over the course of our lives. Here is some evidence of extraordinary wisdom by Nicholas Gordon, author of the Poems for Free website:
Wisdom is Based in Human Nature
In 1970 a wise and intelligent Mom, Dorothy Law Nolte, created a relatively simple list of instructions for child rearing â which if followed would enhance the development of all of our childrenâs natural and innate qualities: Children Learn What They Live. Of course the global-controllers would hate for this to catch on; as Ms Nolteâs instructions would help return humankind to their natural state of creativity and empowerment.
10) Humans are capable of random acts of kindness and perform them daily. Many of these acts are done quite casually and get very little recognition. However, they can actually help transform someoneâs âbad dayâ into a good one. They are generally unpredictable and always welcome. In fact, random acts of kindness can actually undermine the controllerâs game plans, which are built on computerized behavior models and their âgame theoryâ. [See Part One of the BBC Documentary The Trap, title âF*** You Buddyâ.] These models are built on human selfishness, which they can predict, not individual human generosity which they cannot.
11) Human DNA and genes are brilliantly designed to adapt to Earthâs environment. This info was discovered during recent genome studies. Our genetic adaptation is linked to our belief systems. Unlike other species the survival of the âfittestâ does not mean the physically strongest. Our beliefs are far more complex than other species and far more important for our survival. [See microbiologist Bruce Liptonâs Biology of Belief.]
12) Humans are a part of an amazing biocommunication network that links them to other life forms on Earth.This phenomena was discovered by Cleve Backster in 1967. While his discoveries got very little recognition from academia and the media, they were astounding and based on solid science. Humans have the ability to communicate across the universal network some call the aether without wires, or any type of machine assistance. The hundred monkey syndrome applies to humans as well.
Quotes from Human DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies, by Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf, Russian DNA Discoveries
â . . . Human DNA is a biological internet and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. The latest Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques, unusual light/auras around people (namely spiritual masters), mindâs influence on weather patterns and much more. In addition, there is evidence for a whole new type of medicine in which DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies WITHOUT cutting out and replacing single genes.â
âHypercommunication in the new millennium means something quite different: Researchers think that if humans with full individuality would regain group consciousness, they would have a god-like power to create, alter and shape things on Earth! AND humanity is collectively moving toward such a group consciousness of the new kind. Fifty percent of todayâs children will be problem children as soon as the go to school. The system lumps everyone together and demands adjustment. But the individuality of todayâs children is so strong that that they refuse this adjustment and giving up their idiosyncrasies in the most diverse ways.â
Conclusion
Only the dimwitted or severely damaged cannot recognize that the attributes, qualities and capabilities of homo sapiens with Free Will cannot be replaced or duplicated by machines (robots). If the global-controllers (war mongers) had gotten out of our way â and ceased with their âsocial engineeringâ, Psywars and exploitation â can you imagine the fabulous and peaceful world we would have created?
Since âResearchers think that if humans with full individuality would regain group consciousness, they would have a god-like power to create, alter and shape things on Earth! And humanity is collectively moving toward such a group consciousness of the new kind.â we need to accept and understand that we can create the future we all want. We can do it by collective positive imaging. Letâs image families and their progeny â in perpetuity â enjoying Earthâs healthy meadows, forests, ocean beaches and mountains!
Final comment
I intentionally left God out of this discussion because he/she/it (the universe) is defined quite differently by humans across the globe. And even those that donât quite âgetâ God, should be able to recognize how truly amazing and wondrous humans are capable of being! Sadly many religions still teach the idea of âoriginal sinâ that was inserted into the bible by Emperor Constantine and his buddies of the Nicean Council. Original sin = toxic (unwarranted) guilt. It is much easier to manipulate humans who feel ashamed and inadequate than to manipulate those who know they are both biologically and spiritually amazing â truly wondrous!