Gen Z Culture Warriors Aren’t Cut Out for Civil War - Rudyard Lynch

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[00:00:01]The ideology of the French Revolution is the same ideology or really religion of uh the current crisis. And I just discovered one of my favorite new historians who's a Catholic historian named Chris Dawson. And so he rewrites all of world history through the lens of sort of Catholic apologia, but he's very good about it where he puts it in the Catholic frame, but he's not propagandistic about it. And so he has a book called the gods of the revolution looking at these different ideologies from the enlightenment forward. And so he says that the French Revolution was a sort and Dtoqueville says this too. It was sort of new religion that had specific precepts. And a lot of people like to blame the leftism on the Jews but when you go back to the first generation of thinkers they were by and large Frenchmen >> in the 18th century. And so St. Simone is a great example. He was a thinker who said um in 18th century France, we need to get rid of sort of normal human things like masculine and feminine or ethnicity or social class and replace them with a new man. He talks about ideas that sound very similar to trans.

[00:01:14]He said or his buddies and his so sort of social cohort said we need to import migrants from the third world to destroy the first world in the early 19th century. Um and they talked about making a new priesthood of the science and priesthood of rationality where they have scientific materialist rituals. And so if you were to go back to the French Revolution, it's an ideology that in many ways is very similar to the current one. It's just they keep on rehashing it as new.

[00:01:44]I it's funny because I just came across his name for the first time because I was trying to understand like how far back does the idea of global government go.

[00:01:53]>> Yeah.

[00:01:54]>> And I asked >> I think I asked like Gemini or something, you know, I I spawn all the all the robots to do do research and then compare their outputs and then try to verify that they're not making stuff up. And he came up as one of the earliest globalists and then I think he had his name is escaping me now. Is it Compe? I forget. But he had a disciple that is considered the father of sociology. Are you familiar with this guy? He was similar. There's multiple people who are called the father of sociology. Durkheim, Max Vber, um there was a probably French guys.

[00:02:33]>> Yeah. But he he he was also similarly like a kind of global utopian blank slate jackaben kind of guy.

[00:02:41]>> Yeah.

[00:02:42]>> Um you mentioned that there's this there's a notion that leftism comes from the Jews. What is that? because I I um obviously we're not going to go into some rabbit hole about all of the factionalism on the right, but I have found as somebody who's very I like Judaism. I have close Jewish friends. I came out of New York and entertainment, so that's kind of part for the course in a certain sense. But I find the kind of like blame the Jews for everything stuff that's going on right now to be pretty scary. What's your understanding of that narrative? Like >> I agree. I've come to see anti-semitism more as like a biological switch where it it fills a very primal archetypal function inside the human mind that it once the switch gets hit um basically people suspend rationality. And that doesn't say if you want to push back there are every evolutionary switch involves growing up in a certain context where certain things are justified and other things are not justified. I don't want to look at that angle for it. But it's clear that this takes a very deep part of people's psyche. And the thing that I I I was just writing about um the political shifts of the last few years because I was trying to rewrite what was it like for me to perceive how the internet's changed in the time since Elon bought Twitter.

[00:04:10]>> Mh.

[00:04:10]>> And uh the thing that really struck out to me as I was writing and I I had to add an extra chapter in because I thought, oh, I'll just talk about the the Israel Gaza conflict as a side theater. And I thought, wait, this was the dominant political current of a two-year period, and I had never processed it because I I largely do not care about this conflict. It it's uh entirety of Israel is the size of New Jersey and Gaza is the size of Cape May and Gaza is smaller than Chester County and by a significant margin.

[00:04:46]>> These are these are shared these are shared collar county, Philadelphia roots that you understand. And I, you know, I understand.

[00:04:52]>> Yes. And uh and so I'm I'm Celtic and I know how honor disputes work. And this is so clearly to me a sort of like hereditary honor dispute like North and South Ireland. And no one looks at North and South Ireland and thinks, "Oh, what if we just dropped UN peacekeepers to stop this 400year-old blood feud?" That would just be seen as staggeringly delusional. But also I can look at the Israel war conflict and think none of the people involved are my kin. This is a different continent. I am not part of this honor dispute and I am grateful for that. And then I see everyone else hop along to this this sort of like clan honor dispute depict like the morally right and wrong faction. I thought that's not what this is about. The people in the Middle East do not share this frame with you. Um, but it really struck me that the the Israel Gaza conflict, it was basically used to invalidate sort of public figures where everyone was had their position. Are you for or against it? And it it's crazy that it was used to sort of divide up the public. And furthermore, we wasted 2 years of what could have been valuable discourse on this. We could have talked about the demographic issues or the economic issues about the mental health crisis, China, and yet we chose to talk about a country the size of New Jersey and it's war in an area the size of Cape May.

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[00:08:21]Well, and it's I know it's always a little bit like there's multiple conversations going on, although frankly the all the issues you talked about don't get enough airtime or consideration to be so I think you're right in principle. Um, it is also strange and seems almost on purpose that you have sort of Trump come in and be reelected with a lot of energy behind him and what should be functionally like a unified American right behind this in an interesting way.

[00:08:56]And then this issue which had been sort of festering on the like omni ideology intersectional left where it's like oh well the Jews are rich therefore they're oppressors and now we can just all be whatever they're whatever that blob sticky sticky thing they have that attaches everything to everything else.

[00:09:17]it it's it comes back on the right now in the past year in particular and just creates even more splintering.

[00:09:28]So how do you understand why that is not not again again like the particular players Candace Fuentes are kind of less interesting that's all they're all varying flavors of shock jock.

[00:09:38]>> Yeah. So the fact that we have spent so much time in like serious political environments talking about them is kind of goofy. It's like obsessing about Howard Stern in the '9s when considering whether NAFTA should be passed. It's like, >> yeah, but but like it does seem deeper.

[00:09:55]How do you how do you think about that?

[00:09:57]>> That that's a that's a good point or a good question and I'll say two things.

[00:10:02]The first is I think this is a way to avoid responsibility or seriousness. I think the public is actively picking issues where they won't have to look at their own problems. And I think Israel is a useful psychological projection because it's sort of so religiously and culturally loaded, but it's also totally away from any of our issues. So everyone can point at it and say, "This is what we care about." And that can allow them to abdicate responsibility over their own country and their own lives. And where we I I've said before that the core of leftism is the abdication of responsibility. And because the left has controlled all of our institutions of basically teaching people and cultivating them, you end up with this hyperleist victim narrative that spills into the right. And this is one of the things I really hate about I I I've been thinking a lot about the different parts of the right and um the the two elements I think are really holding the right back now are the boomers and the sort of uh like degenerate online zoomers. Um and I think these two demographics are bad in different ways. the boomer cons are sort of complacent and willing to see their society die if it if they can still take in the six figure check um and they're blinds to the issues while the degenerate zoomercons uh they just try to attack anyone who actually tries to solve the problems.

[00:11:32]They focus on silly things and the only thing they really care about is the most petty and stupid status games, >> hanging out with looks maxers, etc. >> Yeah, I was I was talking with my dad.

[00:11:44]What would my what would my I was saying what would my great grandpa who grew up in the Irish ghetto think about looks maxing if he heard about it? He serve he he he guarded German PS in World War I.

[00:11:57]If you talked to this guy about looks maxing, what would his reaction be?

[00:12:04]>> Let's think about that for a second. Did you play it out? What do you think it would be?

[00:12:07]>> So, I talked to my dad and we inherited two cudgels from this guy because he was a policeman. And so, he passed on two giant cudgels.

[00:12:15]>> The literal cudgil?

[00:12:16]>> Yes.

[00:12:17]>> Not not not the not cudel as a kind of use like like a rhetorical term.

[00:12:22]>> No, because he was a policeman. So he he he kept cudgil in the house and he didn't have a challe though. Um which is a failure for an Irish family. Um but uh he he he had he had a policeman's Billy Cub club club and then he had his own personal Billy like club. Um so he could beat you up in your free time and uh his work time. Um and uh no school like the old school.

[00:12:48]My my dad just listed expletives as his as his response.

[00:12:53]Sounds about right. That's, you know, well, we we both have um our our our heritages are both sort of filled with expletives. Mine being southern Italy and yours being Irish. So, it's like we're both like the people that came to America or our great-grandparents were treated terribly, eventually found a place and never lost the potty mouth.

[00:13:14]>> Yeah.

[00:13:14]>> Even in polite company. Um well so there's there in a way you know it seems like there are kind of many civil wars happening in our culture and our discourse but but how does that how to come back to my original question about like where are we in your original thesis of a bigger civil war like a real one is that part of what's feeding this h how how what what's Why do you think it's still happening but hasn't yet happened yet? And have you updated the way you think this would happen actually? Is it like states versus the federal government like we're seeing in Minnesota? That seems like the hints of something plausible and not great.

[00:14:03]In my earlier predictions, I had divided this between the two different crises of the mouse utopia biological crisis versus the political crisis of the civil war. And I had spoken of an event called the psychological black death. And so it's similar to the crisis of the 14th century where you had the hundred years war, the GS and the Gibblines and uh the battle of Nikopoulos u where you have the these countries having civil wars and political crisis but the black death is a facilitating factor. Is this the pardon my bad history is this the war that ends with the treaty of Westfailia?

[00:14:44]>> That's the 30 years war. Okay. The hundred years war was the one that ended with Jon of Arc. Ah okay. Um and so the facilitating factor for the crisis of the 14th century is the black death which was a disease that killed half of Europe's population.

[00:15:01]And so for me I was always torn between does mouse utopia hit first or does the political crisis hit first? And my assumption was always that the political crisis would hit first because I did not think that this sort of level of denial was possible. And I've been studying Nichzche's age of the last men lately.

[00:15:24]And that's been the the key variable that sort of had this a lot of this locked into my mind. But um I think we're basically seeing internet-based psychological degeneration and atomization hit as the first layer and that's delaying political crisis. The underlying political issues are still there. I think sort of mouse utopia is delaying this though. So, mousetopia being this sort of um confined bizarre psychopathology that happens with in mice when you put them all together and they breed like crazy, right?

[00:16:03]>> Yeah.

[00:16:03]>> Uh >> why would that be what does that mean though? What what does that mean? What does that mean that mouse utopia is delaying? Are we just getting caught up in nonsense like looks maxing and stupid weekly news cycles and not looking at stuff like the population collapse or the fiscal the fiscal death situation or what?

[00:16:24]>> I want to state this for your the people in your audience who don't follow my work. But I I say I'm betting against God. That's one of the phrases I use.

[00:16:31]And what I mean by that is I think foretelling the future is an impossibly difficult task. So I operate in a place where I'll make a probabilistic guess and then each year I factor in new information into my assessment and then I rebuild my worldview. So I see I see the way I view the world as a sort of organic garden that I'll see the plants grow and then I'll drop some extra fertilizer. I'll cut out this plant if it's not growing right. So when I'm saying these things, I'm forming an idea that I can later work on. And most people sort of put out an idea say this is my identity. It's going to be correct. But I don't think that's actually like a fair or a reasonable sort of metric to use as a person because if you if you want to guess the future, you're betting against all of God's creation and there's always more variables going on. Um, so the reason I'm saying that is three variables showed up that I didn't really account for. And there the best paradigm that explains all of this is Nichzche's concept of the age of the last men. You can ask me about that if you'd like.

[00:17:33]Yeah. But those three variables are screen addiction, socialism, and mass utopia. And so those are the three variables that I think are delaying a political crisis because it's not like things are getting better. They are in fact getting worse. But people don't have the mental framework on how to deal with it. So they're sort of lost. And I think we're in a state of psychological limbo. Now, if you like this clip, you should check out the full video and all the other great content we've got at Dad Saves America. So, be sure to hit the like button, subscribe, and ring that bell so you won't miss our new stuff as it drops each week.