Christian Civilization And Liberalism Are Incompatible!

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:02]Alpha Pro here. For those of you who do not know me, I am the founder and president of an academy called City Tutoring and we focus on pure mathematics, but we also teach other subjects as well.

[00:00:12]Uh including theology, logic, and rhetoric, uh history properly understood, and all of the the major subjects. But anyway, uh the reason I'm making this video is well, first I'll start with an announcement. Those of you who have um ordered books, uh as I as I mentioned before, they will be start to ship out uh in during the month of June.

[00:00:31]Uh we will start shipping out in the order in which they were received. I want to take a moment, by the way, to thank once again from my heart.

[00:00:40]Deeply appreciative of those of you who have uh placed your trust uh in us and you've ordered the book, the the math book. Uh you not only are you supporting uh the mission of City Tutoring, but you are also indirectly supporting small-town producers, small-town printers, because I only work with local people. I do not work with Amazon.

[00:01:03]Uh this is not something that There were Two of my books are on Amazon, but that was sort of by accident, but I no longer collaborate with Amazon. So, together, we can make our society a better place by not collaborating with these major corporations. The downside, of course, is that they sell the the the shipping uh times take a a little bit longer than you would ordinarily because everything is sort of more off the grid, but uh you are directly ordering from people you know.

[00:01:31]Uh everybody is uh involved in a process the old-fashioned way. So, I think most of our audience will very much appreciate that because I think the vast majority of you are very supportive of small-town local people, small-town endeavors and projects.

[00:01:48]But anyway, the reason I'm making this video is because there are certain ideas which, by repetition alone, acquire the appearance of self-evident truth.

[00:02:00]And they are no longer argued for, they are merely assumed. And one of these ideas, perhaps the reigning dogma of the modern decadent West in which we live unfortunately we live in unfortunately is the belief that the highest good of a civilization is the unrestricted expression of the individual will. And we are told incessantly and from every direction that the purpose of society is not to shape man, uh not to elevate man, not to bind him to a common inheritance, but merely to provide some kind of neutral, and I use their term, they are the ones who use the term neutral even though there is no such thing as neutrality. They are the enemies of our faith. They are the the enemies of the church and of God. They are not neutral in any way. It is impossible to be neutral, but I'm using their terminology. Uh and they they they say that they provide a neutral arena. They often call it either democracy or the marketplace of ideas in which each person may assert himself as he pleases.

[00:03:04]Uh and the individual, uh we we are told, we are informed, uh must somehow stand above tradition, above custom, above inherited standards, above even the accumulated wisdom of centuries. And any force which attempts to restrain him, whether it would be moral, social, religious, or cultural, is immediately denounced as oppressive. So, we live in an age that speaks endlessly of freedom, and yet understands less and less what makes freedom livable.

[00:03:40]And we are told that the highest good is the unrestricted expression of the individual mind, unchecked, unformed, and unbound. And yet, we are surrounded by a curious contradiction. Because societies that prize absolute expressive liberty often find themselves dissolving into fragmentation, mistrust, and cultural incoherence, which is what we have today. Because a society is not held together by declarations of freedom alone. It is held together by something quieter, something older, and something that is rarely named with precision in our time.

[00:04:22]And that is called shared judgment.

[00:04:26]It's not merely law.

[00:04:28]It's not merely opinion. It is the invisible agreement, often unspoken, about what is admirable, what is tolerable, and what cannot be integrated into the common life without consequences. And this mentality has become so deeply embedded in modern consciousness that many people can scarcely imagine an alternative. Many of you watching this channel, you cannot imagine any other world. And to because to question radical individualism and individual rights is treated not merely as an intellectual error, at best, but almost as a moral crime. And they call us fascist. They call us totalitarian.

[00:05:10]They call us controlling. Well, let me assure our critics and remove all doubt.

[00:05:17]We do not reject your critique. We are not ashamed of what every civilization has always required. And we are entirely comfortable with the language our critics use. Because enduring order has always been called oppressive by those who cannot live within it. And let's face the reality. You are simply misfits. And that's why you have to cling to artificial fake notions of so-called individual rights so that your perversion can be accepted in society.

[00:05:47]You know, in a healthy society, you'd know you'd be called out, shamed, shunned, and asked to repent under the bosom of the Holy Mother Church. And one need only observe the condition of modern Western society with clear eyes to notice that something is profoundly wrong in our societies.

[00:06:06]For what has this so-called individualism, this absolutist worship of individuality produced? Has it produced stronger communities? Do we have greater beauty? Look at the even the construction today is atrocious. Do we have higher trust? Do we have deeper solidarity among our communities and more meaningful public life? Has it produced men and women who feel rooted, stable, and secure in a common moral world? Quite the opposite, and you know it. What we've got It's It has produced fragmentation, mass undesirable immigration, it has produced exhaustion.

[00:06:45]You are merely a consumer of the global corporate elites. And it has produced a society in which every person is encouraged to become his own miniature world, inventing fake identities, private moralities, private truths, private aesthetics, private realities, until at last there remains almost nothing genuinely shared at all.

[00:07:09]And we have been told for decades that freedom consists in liberation from all common standards. And yet a society in which nothing is held in common cannot remain coherent for long. Human beings do not merely require rights, and they require They actually require orientation. And they require continuity, and they require recognizable forms of life through which they can understand both themselves and one another.

[00:07:38]The old civilizations understood this instinctively. They did They They didn't imagine They did not imagine that every generation had to reinvent the moral order from the beginning. And they understood that stability depends upon inheritance and not merely biological inheritance, though that is that is very important, but cultural inheritance, which comes from in many in the vast majority of cases from biological inheritance until we squandered it by giving up our spirituality. And we have inherited manners, inherited expectations, inherited duties, inherited boundaries.

[00:08:16]And among the greatest mistakes of the modern age has been the belief that civilization can survive while simultaneously dissolving all of the invisible restraints which makes civilization possible.

[00:08:32]The modern liberal imagination treats restraint as inherently suspicious.

[00:08:38]And it assumes that the absence of restraint is synonymous with freedom.

[00:08:42]But this is a childish understanding of freedom because a man entirely without restraint is not free. He is merely disordered.

[00:08:51]And a civilization entirely without shared restraints does not become enlightened. It becomes incoherent.

[00:08:57]And this error appears most clearly in the modern absolutist understanding of so-called free speech and of the press.

[00:09:06]We are constantly told that unlimited expressive freedom is the foundation of civilization itself. And yet historically very few serious statesmen actually believed this. Indeed, many of the men who built stable political orders regarded unrestricted press freedom with profound suspicion and rightfully so.

[00:09:27]Look at the state of the United States of America today, to name one example.

[00:09:32]In the past several decades, look at how the press has operated under the excuse of freedom of the press.

[00:09:38]The press is never an innocent vehicle for information, but rather a force capable of inflaming passions, dissolving loyalties, and destabilizing entire societies. They started doing doing this in the 1950s and 1960s with the so-called they used to call the civil rights movement. And you had agitators, paid actors, and subversives all convened to transform our formerly healthy Christian Western nation into what it is today.

[00:10:07]And over the years, I have repeatedly warned against the dangers of an unrestrained press, untethered from responsibility or national cohesion. And we must understand that newspapers do not merely report public opinion, they manufacture it. And they amplify agitation, and they reward scandal to bring down righteous governments, and they transform every satanic grievance into spectacle, and every disagreement into permanent conflict. The The modern media system thrives not upon order, but upon perpetual emotional stimulation.

[00:10:44]And disorder has become profitable. A population that is in constant agitation is easier to manipulate, easier to polarize, easier to keep psychologically unstable. That's why you have doom scrolling in America today. Thousands upon thousands of young people just doom scroll, and older people, too.

[00:11:04]And I have no problem saying I'm going to say this right now. If you're watching, take note.

[00:11:09]I have no problem saying that in a righteous civil order, many of those agitator journalists would face jail time.

[00:11:17]And the older statesman understood something which modern liberal societies have forgotten entirely.

[00:11:23]And it is that speech is never merely speech. Speech shapes imagination, imagination shapes conduct, and conduct shapes institutions, and institutions shape civilization. And no serious civilization has ever treated language as morally neutral. You know, the medieval church certainly did not, and nor did the classical world, nor did the early modern monarchies of Europe. They understood that words possess formative power, and to allow every impulse, every provocation, every destabilizing force to circulate without restraint was not regarded as enlightened. It was regarded as socially reckless.

[00:12:10]And yet today, we are expected to believe that every inherited limit upon freedom of expression was simply primitive superstition. And we are told that societies become healthier the more they desacralize themselves, the more they permit every sacred institution to be mocked, every holy authority undermined, every tradition relativized.

[00:12:33]Of course, the irony in all of this is that there has never been uh today, those of us who have the these views are the ones who are censored. There is no such thing as true freedom of expression, and that is why we must pick a side.

[00:12:46]And if you observe the actual psychological consequences of this mentality, you will see that the modern world, they speak constantly of this freedom of expression, and yet they almost never ask the prior question, "Speech ordered toward what end?"

[00:13:03]Because no civilization in history ever treated speech as an abstract and limitless good that was detached from moral consequence.

[00:13:11]And I as I said And as I said before, every single of the of the the greatest statesmen in in in the world understood perfectly well that if you have a press that is entirely liberated from restraint and restrictions, it does not become noble merely it is free. More often, it becomes what we have today, theatrical, inflammatory, and corrosive. It learns to profit, as I said earlier, from agitation. And it's a it survives because it dissolves trust.

[00:13:40]And it transforms every institution into objects of suspicion.

[00:13:45]And a civilization that does that, when nothing is sacred, then nothing is binding. And when nothing is binding, then nothing commands loyalty. And if nothing commands loyalty, then society fragments into competing appetites held together only by administrative force, which is what we have today. We have also inherited the curious dogma that church and state must remain entirely separate, severed, as though morality itself could somehow survive in public life while detached from any conception of truth. And this doctrine would have appeared incomprehensible to most civilizations throughout history. The older societies understood that law does not emerge from a vacuum. Every legal order rests upon moral assumptions, and every moral order rests upon some conception of the sacred. And so, the question, therefore, is not whether society will possess an established moral vision, but merely which moral vision shall govern it.

[00:14:48]And modern secularist societies, they flatter themselves that they are neutral, and yet they impose moral orthodoxies constantly through schools, media systems, professional institutions, and cultural pressures that are no less real for being unofficial.

[00:15:03]And the difference is only this.

[00:15:05]The older civilizations openly acknowledged their moral foundations, whereas the modern societies attempt to disguise theirs beneath the language of procedure, neutrality, and so-called, what they like to call these days, human rights. And in Europe, you see this even more. You have restrictions on speech.

[00:15:23]It's just that the value systems has has changed. So the medieval world, whatever its imperfections, possessed at least the honesty to recognize that a civilization cannot remain spiritually directionless forever.

[00:15:37]And it understood that public order depends not merely upon policing crime, but upon you have cultivating a shared moral imagination. And that imagination cannot survive indefinitely. If every sacred authority is reduced to private preference and every transcendent standard dissolved into individual opinion. And nowhere is this fragmentation more visible than among the young people. Modern youth culture has become not everyone, but there are there are there's a growing number of young people that are depressed, more and more, because they have become obsessed with differentiation for its own sake. And young people, if you're young and you're watching me, you know this is true. You You are constantly encouraged now to construct identities through opposition. In other words, to distinguish yourselves endlessly from the surrounding world even in the smallest details of your dress, the speech, presentation, and taste. I notice this especially among young people, young men in particular.

[00:16:39]There was once an understanding, and admittedly this is going to be unfashionable to modern ears, but the idea was that belonging to a civilization involved learning how to inhabit shared forms. And so a young man did not feel compelled to transform every element of his appearance into a declaration of radical uniqueness. He understood instinctively that there is dignity in participating in a common aesthetic language. It just came to my mind. I was watching a documentary the other day from the 1950s, black and white, when America was still America.

[00:17:13]And the there's a young man, he's talking to his father.

[00:17:18]And the young man is complaining in the in the in the video in the in the reporting that he's being that his classmates are picking on him.

[00:17:26]And the father asked why? Why are you why are they making fun of you? Why are they bullying you? He said, well, because they're all wearing sweaters and not and I'm not. And the father just looked at him naturally and gave the best response possible. Well, wear a sweater then.

[00:17:41]Very simple. So, it was because differences up until the 1950s were considered to be incompatible with a growing sense of civilization of a shared civilization. And today, however, [clears throat] you have many young men have that you've been taught to resent to that to resemble others is humiliating. And that to participate in a common style is weakness and that personal distinction must be pursued at all costs. Now, not everyone. I am speaking specifically of the people who of the young people who wish to always look as odd as possible. But this mentality produces not freedom, it produces your anxiety. And if you observe the sheer psychological exhaustion of modern youth culture, the endless performance of uniqueness, the constant pressure to curate identity, and the the inability to rest, you cannot rest within stable norms.

[00:18:35]And even clothing, which once served as a visible sign of social continuity, has become transformed into a permanent identity negotiation in many cases. And yet, paradoxically, you notice that many of the healthiest social environments still operate through imitation.

[00:18:53]Look at sportsmanship. You could not have a successful sports team without imitation and shared beliefs and shared aesthetic. If everyone in a church, for example, dresses with modesty and seriousness, newcomers naturally imitate it. We see that all the time.

[00:19:08]And if everyone within a disciplined institution behaves with with dignity, newcomers also absorb the tone. And if everyone within a community speaks respectfully, newcomers will adjust themselves accordingly. And that is not oppression, it is called civilization.

[00:19:25]And the irony is extraordinary. The same civilization which spent generations declaring all social restraint oppressive, now finds its own youth instinctively rebuilding moral boundaries in new forms. They understand, the young people are beginning to understand, however imperfectly, that perpetual debate, perpetual antagonism, corrodes communities, and that constant irreverence weakens trust, and that no shared culture can survive if every value is subjected endlessly to hostility and deconstruction.

[00:20:01]Unfortunately, it's an uphill battle, young people, because you've inherited a Western world that your that other generations destroyed. They allowed millions and millions of incompatible peoples to come into our societies. And there's That's why there's no sense of shared social trust. Social trust comes from two things: a shared religion and a shared origin, a broad similarity in cultural, ethnic, and racial background.

[00:20:27]This is a fact. And that is why the most successful society when when when the Western world was at its peak was when it had those characteristics.

[00:20:37]And what they have not yet fully understood, however, all of these young people, is that every civilization eventually chooses between unrestricted destabilization and some form of moral continuity. And there has never been a society that is entirely without limits, entirely without some kind of sacred principles, entirely without expectations governing public conduct.

[00:21:00]The only real question is whether those limits emerge consciously, coherently, and honestly, or chaotically, um inconsistently, and under the false pretense that no moral order uh will exist in any way at all.

[00:21:23]Human beings learn through imitation far more than through abstract argument.

[00:21:29]The healthy societies throughout history understood this perfectly well.

[00:21:33]And you didn't see them attempting to transform every social norm into an endlessly debated uh philosophical proposition. Rather, they cultivated habits, expectations, and patterns of conduct that ordinary people they could absorb almost unconsciously.

[00:21:51]And the modern world, or the world in which we live in now, has become deeply suspicious of imitation itself. We have been taught that every inherited custom must justify itself before the isolated individual, the the atomized individual, the alienated individual.

[00:22:08]And no civilization can survive like this. If every norm must be renegotiated from first principles by every generation. And at some point, a healthy society requires the humility to say, "This is how we do things here."

[00:22:22]And not because the customs are all perfect. They are not. Or not because tradition is infallible. It is not. But because continuity itself possesses civilizational value.

[00:22:34]And here we arrive at one of the greatest ironies of this contemporary system that we have.

[00:22:40]Dec- for decades, young people have been told uh by liberals, liberals of all parties. I'm not talking about liberals, you know, the blue-haired, pink-haired freaks. I'm talking about liberals of the the the che- the children of the Enlightenment.

[00:22:54]And they are told that all standards are oppressive, that all authority is suspect, that all social expectations are illegitimate. But increasingly, as I said before, many young people um um them they they you are beginning to to rediscover that that psychological, that mental necessity, that spiritual necessity, if you prefer, of boundaries.

[00:23:14]Uh you have the modern phenomenon of so-called uh safe spaces on university campuses. Now, the older uh liberal mentality mocks these developments as signs of weakness, but beneath the excesses and of course absurdities surrounding them, there lies a revealing instinct. And that is namely the recognition that environments shape consciousness. And young people are increasingly beginning to understand, maybe not perfectly, that constant exposure to hostility and ridicule and provocation in the name of freedom of ideas alters the emotional and spiritual atmosphere of a community. And in other words, they are rediscovering something pre-modern civilizations already knew.

[00:23:56]Culture matters. Your ideas matter. The environments matter.

[00:24:01]Uh the the moral atmosphere matters. Who is speaking to you matters. And that unrestricted antagonism uh it it's really that it eventually corrodes social trust.

[00:24:13]But many of these same young people, they remain trapped within liberal assumptions they do not fully yet understand. And so, because they wish simultaneously for unlimited expressive freedom and for protected moral environments, but the two principles inevitably collide. And if every expression must be permitted, regardless of consequence, then no shared moral um then no shared moral value uh or atmosphere is possible. And you cannot remain It cannot remain stable for long. Every civilization, therefore, faces the same question. What precisely is it willing to tolerate within itself?

[00:24:50]And this is not a question unique to religion or to politics. Every institution already answers it. A family answers it. A school answers it. A church answers it. A nation answers it.

[00:25:03]And even the modern corporations lecturing the public about openness and diversity, they answer it constantly.

[00:25:11]They have codes of conduct. They have speech restrictions and they have reputational controls and internal discipline. And so the illusion of neutrality collapses under its own weight. Every order enforces limits. The only question is whether those limits are acknowledged with honesty or disguised beneath the rhetoric. And the answer is clear. It's either their civil order or our Christian civil order. You have to choose wisely. And it's clear to me that when choosing between staying on God's holy side or the path to hell, I will always choose God's path. And young people take heed.

[00:25:48]Rise up and start demanding change all across your institution. Your faith was attacked? Call out that professor. Shun him. Demand an apology or retraction.

[00:25:59]And these clowns need to know that we will become a force to reckon with in the coming years because much to their dismay, the Christian movement is growing all across the world among young people, especially among men. And this is why you must seize the moment and recapture all the institutions for the glory of God and restore the civilization that our most recent, passive, and weak ancestors allowed to be stolen from us. Thank you all and God bless.