CCCOOOOllllll , someone who knows about the topic, about science about the reality....

More false beliefs the upper class oppress the poor with. Man made climate change The Great Reset Electric Vehicles replacing ICEVs Gender is a social construct Feminist Patriarchy Theory Orange Man Bad Russia bad

@Triggernometry On Rob's comment in a lot of societies marriage restricted womans ability to sleep around but not the mans. Look at how many kings in the bible had multiple wives. Marriage historically was not the same as marriage today.

Rob K Henderson would almost certainly have more potential if he had a slightly more open mind and listened carefully to alternative points of view. As it stands, it's not a good look when he blocks people that respectfully disagree with him. One wonders how he opined so much on anti-fragility only to reactively and emotionally respond to differing ideas. Frankly I'd probably have been content to ignore the guy, but it's not helpful to our dialectic when inquiry-driven human beings can't communicate with each other thoughtfully.

Baizuo (pronounced "bye-tswaw) is a Chinese epithet meaning white leftist, naive western elitist snobbish so-called educated person who advocates for peace and equality only to satisfy their own sanctimonious and hypocritical feelings of moral superiority. A baizuo only cares about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environment while being obsessed with political correctness to the extent that they import backwards Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism. The Chinese see the baizuo as ignorant and arrogant westerners who pity the rest of the world and think they are saviours. They believe in the welfare state that only benefits the idle and free riders.

Absolutely. And in my country it was the people who worked throughout the pandemic who were the first to be thrown under the bus by mandates and lost their jobs.

Spot On !!!!!!

It was always selfish virtue signalling, they really don’t care about lower class people, they might feel shame, which they overcompensate for

Right? I love how they used protecting the elderly and vulnerable to lock everything down, yet they do squat about medicaid and nursing home standards aren't enforced for crap. We really just can't take these people seriously.

And nothing changed for working classes and squeezed middle except higher prices. Covid was a scam.

Makes me think of James O’Brien

Ha ha ha ha correct, Grauniad to a tee, Polly Toynbee, Jon Harris, Owen Jones etc etc and Mr O'Brian oh yes patronising beyond belief

Fk elites try being inter generationally poor, Neurodiverse a woman a white in a woke society

@@SeattleMartin We have a name for those kind: Rockefeller Republicans and many if not most are actually RINOs who have a skewed party loyalty, but no loyalty to conservative principles or moral values. If you note a lot of hypocrisy among those types then my point is reinforced.

@@SeattleMartin You're 60, Martin. Now think about people in their 30s and 40s.

Same. And furthermore they have barely interacted with other races, let alone been the minority themselves in any situation. Yet feel quite confident in dictating to others, in a condescending tone, how everyone else should act and feel - including other races.

@@SeattleMartin Growing up, I met MANY Republicans and did not understand them. However, it's a fallicy that they didn't work hard -- they did come from money, and their parents also worked hard, they were held to a higher standard and top grades were demanded of them -- which they earned. Intellectually I admired them, but was nowhere near as driven (though we were in similar advanced classes). I wasn't driven because I grew up poor and we still weren't truly financially stable, so I didn't believe college was really in the picture for me. I was raised Democrat and didn't really question that, but I was also raised with values, although true abuse took place by one parent. We survived. If you are being constantly abused and fighting for your lives...THAT becomes your focus. I went to a more humble school after we moved. My classmates barely cared about voting, we never said the pledge of allegiance, but if they did vote...it was Democrat. My family was dirt poor again. The technological revolution wizzed by us. It affected us tremendously, none the less. Not one college visited our school except for Heald (and they just wanted our money). And my life stayed that way. I worked HARD (and was resented for it). I tried to play hard (with nerds & geeks). I was treated like garbage by too many lazy, whiney, entitled coworkers. Including bosses. I watched a lot of sexism & harassment. Brazen drug abuse. Etc. Gee, they were all liberals. As it turns out. I went to Heald. Waste of time. A lot has changed since then. I've reflected a great deal and healed. Thanks, in good part, to educational KZfaq videos. My family is Republican now. And we are not alone. Many are changing. Voices have been ignored for too long and your stereotypes aren't going to keep holding up...you're losing us and STILL lecturing. I miss nothing. Although at first it did feel like sleeping with the enemy. lol.

Thomas Sowell makes the same point regularly.

I don't trust anyone who will not be the change they wish to see in the world.

@@JeffThePoustman Add Milton Friedman. He was talking about politicians and "nomenklatura", but the idea still applies

"Vanity Morals". Yep. Like it. Also, we are in, Narcissist Overwhelm.

A lot of the ideals of the left have been commercialized. It's not about being free of tyranny. It's about signaling to your customers that you share the same beliefs. It's the same as when the right-wing politicians talk about religion in their election campaign. "Elect me. I think like you do!"

It,s a ideology. It,s a cult

This is such a great comment section, I've been so rewarded by choosing to scroll down. I love what you wrote, you're spot on.

You've pretty much summed up the sheer cynicism of 'Pride Month'. I was walking down Tottenham Court Road the other day and noticed every shopfront was full of 'rainbow stuff', including Paperchase with rainbow coloured pencil cases in its front window.

And women and children’s rights are being erased by T

Emperors new clothes

"An idea so absurd that only an intellectual would believe it." -Thomas Sowell.

@@TheRisky9 The difference between an engineer and a sociologist if you follow your values and feelings the bridge collapses people die and you never work again, in sociology you can do the same an go on fat dumb and happy for the rest of your life.

@@madguruJ You beat me to it

Wise

I wouldn't object to having another interview in the future with this chap to follow up on this.

I felt he gave examples of damaging ideas. You can very clearly see the how those groups are paying the price.

All they do destroy our lives

It is not soul building to just be against something (some oppressor)…our souls yearn to be more than sum-zero beings.

A guy named Ryan Carson just did a video about this called “When luxury beliefs meet reality”

Interesting take on the subject.

Wasn’t a “take on the subject “! It was lived experience not an essay.

@@stevenlafleur8474 Exactly. And what’s cool is that all of these same people that were making me feel like there was something deeply wrong with me for wanting to get married and have a family… well they all got married and hired surrogates to give them families. That’s when it hit me that they never actually believed this stuff. They simply wanted to let everyone know that they weren’t going to be happy with regular folk going about their business. Once they got there’s they stopped and moved on to destroying other peoples lives.

A lot of it had to do with the introduction of The Pill and the legalization of birth control in general, but yeah, family breakdown has been the worst.

@@chrishoff402 The effects were just as toxic on young men, in different ways. Make things too easy on us, and we won't change. We won't increase our value to society (the real solution to the world's ills), if we don't have to. We can be content doing sports and outdoor rec or video games into our 30s, without ever really buckling down and building a practical skill set. We all think we're The Last Starfighter, just waiting to be discovered for our preternatural skill with a PS3.

@@harrymills2770 I disagree, most of the behavior changes you are seeing in young men is the consequence of toxic feminism. Young boys are literally being indoctrinated starting in kindergarten that they were born 'the bad gender', the schools literally have uniformed police come in and tell them that, and every day the seeposters in their schools of transitioned boys with slogans like 'he deserves respect' or 'he deserves to be loved' while heterosexual boys are addressed by posters directly modeled on the 'Achtung Juden' poster from Nazi Germany with the accusatory 'Only YOU can prevent domestic violence' Boys know for a fact they are marked down an entire grade by female teachers and marked equally with girls by male teachers or test results where the teacher cannot identify the student or the students gender. The state encourages, enables and financially incentivises the divorce rape of young men . Over 90% of all prison inmates are young men raised in fatherless homes. Feminist patriarchy theory is exactly modeled on 'The World Wide Jewish Conspiracy', with man replacing Jew and woman replacing feminist being the only real difference.

@@harrymills2770 That is a lot of young men but not all. The ones who are not like that will dominate your life. Get used to that idea.

@@jamescollins3647 The tech and movie industry has disproven your statement, although it should be that way.

I know someone very much like this, yes everything thing is minimal BUT very, very costly, for example her one knit cap was knitted by a Norwegian artisan who raised the special sheep for their wool, the cost was $350 USD.

As far as the cleaning products go, some people really do have sensitive respiratory, allergies, etc., and can't be around those.

The luxury of dressing like a homeless person. 😂 I remember when that was a trend. It might still be a thing. Reminds me of minimalism

The 'forcing others' behavior indicates a sense of entitlement / privilege / lack of compassion for others that defines the root ethos of elitism. An ethos that HAS trickled down, while budgetary trickles have not trickled or flowed; quite the opposite. Poverty, by America w Matthew Desmond and Andrea Elliott. OUTSTANDING Systemic Analysis of Elite Domination in the Rise and Conditions of Poverty kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qdCPobejsNPGgac.html

I disagree, the majority of them have plenty skin in the game. They didn't earn it for themselves, don't know it's worth and don't understand how hard you have to work to get that skin in the first place.

There's a lot to be said for the military in this regard. There really is. It's just discipline, really, and routine, I suppose. You can get that in the home from good parenting but it makes sense that if you don't get that, you may need it from elsewhere to readjust.

Poor boy from Georgia joins the USAF, has much success. Story of my life.

I had a rough upbringing, came within an inch of real success, and then I blew it. I’m okay with the failure (most people do), but I’m glad some people defeat the demons.

The military has always been a tool for promoting social mobility This cat has seen the differences between stability and instability and how such things are destructive for children and how lived experience varies wildly from the views we're often forced to conform with.

Same for me, Marine Corps made a huge difference in my life. Semper Fi!

Spot on. I've seen a KZfaq video with him explaining this (I think it's a reading from that book).

Leftwing Infallibility

That's a great saying Nathan.

So true. I see it amongst the outwardly left wing parents of my kid’s friends. It’s almost as if they don’t really want to engage for real so this is like their outer shield.

Rob Henderson coined "luxury beliefs". Nathan Miller coined "preach left live right". Credit where credit is due.

Working Class people voting Brexit ergo The Conservatives.

I was a foster father for many years. I noticed a very similar thing here in Los Angeles.

What is an "anti-birth father stuff"??

@@emmalouie1663 yes, commonly poverty and ineptitude. ‘Management’ is the word that demonstrates the problem. When I started in child protection, ‘supporting’ the family was the objective, various budget cuts, and cultural changes in the systems management, coupled with some practice pattern changes resulted in the mess I described. It may have been unique to the jurisdiction I worked in but I think not. One of the great unmentionable statistics (then as now) was that natural fathers were much less likely to abuse children (sexually and physically) than were step ‘fathers’. That’s not so say many step fathers do a great job, just that children are more likely to be abused by men unrelated to them.

@@tablescissors it is when the courts or social workers have a bias against fathers in general, but especially father's having custody of their kids, just because they are male.

@@tablescissors I suspect that refers to the belief that biological fathers are an un-needed inconvenience to be disposed of from the child's life at the mother's behest. A common theme in gynocentric social worker circles.

Although of course they are destabilizing society when a majority of children grow up with instability. It seems to be one of the obvious reasons for the huge increase in depression and anxiety in young people in the past few decades but especially the past 10 years as we reach 2 or 3 generations of instability across virtually all working class communities.

This makes so much sense. I listen to a lot of advice about filmmaking (a very privileged elite industry), but know from my own filmmaking experience, what they're saying isn't helpful at all - it's like they're not trying to help whilst appearing helpful...

Ima read this book now, thanks

The well off are busy being well off. Why would that conjure a conspiracy in one’s mind?

Having a brain and using it critically and concisely is not a privilege it is an evolutionary trait. Some abuse their opportunities and fall by the wayside. The fittest and most coherent survive and thrive and no amount of levelling out will alter that!

White privelege wasnt a problem atall as it didnt exist as a concept.

How right you are..... but the so-called Elites do their best to fade that out, and in its place put "their White privilege" which is exactly that "Theirs not Ours"....

People listened too much to celebrities, people who could afford to get married, have children and divorce frequently. These single mothers who “worked” had plenty of money and paid staff to look after the house and the children.

The vast majority of political hatred in the past two centuries is born out of Marxist ideology. The oppressed/oppressor narrative is what you are pointing out. During the industrial revolution the economic elites were the oppressor and the working man was the oppressed. Today, that paradigm has been proven to be bullshit in free market economies. The Marxists have taken a different tack now. White people are the problem, and there are a lot more white people to hate in this world than there are rich people and Marxism has never been more popular. It's an evil tyrannical ideology based on manipulating the masses to install the regime so the academic elites can rule.

@@DarkAngel2512 Because it is born out of Marxist critical theory. More commonly known as scapegoating through propaganda. Hitler was a master of this concept. Privileges are born out of your culture not your skin color. Just because people with cultural privileges share common features like skin color does not mean that skin color is how those privileges came to be. That has got to be the most ridiculously lazy and biased assessment of world history and the struggle against oppression that I have ever heard. Essentially make white people subservient and all the problems in the world go away. Absurdly racist not to mention dangerously genocidal.

Read lots of Thomas Sowell while you’re working your way through that PhD program. And Robert Nisbet, Roger Kimball, Theodore Dalrymple (aka Anthony Daniels), Walter E. Williams, James Q. Wilson, Roger Scruton.

He is likely to rent the house to grad students as a source of income after he graduates, I used to work for a management company that would help individuals in my town rent their houses and took a percent of rent for payments.

How about following our expectations with regards how women and girls are treated in society? How does she come down on that? There are some cultures/ ideologies that we are welcoming into the mix here that have a far lower view on women and girls, and roles appropriate to their gender. We even have people who view those with no religious beliefs as abhorrent/ intolerable (i.e. atheists/ agnostics)

Oh yes we should. There's a reason why our culture dominated the world for the last 200 years.

@@ms-jl6dl ????????????????????????????????? our? who is we

There are more than two options. A third option is to respect other cultures' ideas about timeliness while also being truthful with them about the downsides of a culture where no one can be relied on to be on time, and to reject any expectations that we should bail them out when their rejection of punctuality causes them problems. Likewise respecting the attitudes of foreign cultures does not mean that we should accept those attitudes in our own country, and we should also distinguish between the punctuality expectations of different cultures. In this latter respect, for example, some cultures have a five minute grace period, and I'm told that the French have a ten minute grace period, whereas some missionary kid friends of mine once told me that in rural Colombia the grace period could be two weeks and hosts would actually take offense if a visitor showed up at the announced time of an event. No one was expected to arrive until at least three hours after the announced time. (In fairness, with seasonal rains that flooded rivers people were frequently delayed by up to two weeks through no fault of their own.) An expectation of a five or ten minute grace period seems to work reasonably well and may even promote a more sociable and relaxed atmosphere - whereas grace periods measured in hours tend to do very poorly.

@@ms-jl6dl 200 years ? Western culture has dominated since the 1600s

The ❤️ is on the left , but the wallet is on the right is a phrase here in Germany..

Hard truth over a soft lie is what humans need.

I'd like to see why you think all Bolsheviks were upper or middle class. For one, they were from an empire which had "social estates" - their place, duties and privileges in society - codified in laws, as opposed to a society where actual classes exist. Next, let's look at some prominent party leaders: Beria was from a poor family; Stalin was from a poor family; Kamenev was from a poor family; Kaganovich was from a poor family; Khrushchev was from a poor family. Among the ranks of the party, being from a peasant or laborer descent was a mark of prestige, and a lot of low-mid ranks were from peasantry.

First time I saw it put this way. Spot on!

Indeed. They key word here is 'purpose'. We all find purpose in different things (some people are quite happy without a family, but with a vocation, some people's purpose lies entirely in their family etc. etc.) but a combo or selection of all the above will satisfy most people. but you're right, these things are now hard to attain. Especially the community and stability.

​@@hayleylongster4698"but a combo or selection of all the above will satisfy most people" I would say all people - I have yet to meet anyone who has devoted their entire life to a career not live to regret it later on at some point for example. People pay a price for their dedications

I don't know anyone who is happy without a family of some kind. The lack of is why so many people are obsessed with their dogs to a very demented extent.

I know the thing I need in life is purpose, and it's the one thing I cannot acquire. Quite cruel if you ask me.

@@emmalouie1663 Oh, they are right out with all their garbage. Pushing it through the state and everything. It's not stealth at all. I guess so many parents are weak, and putting up with it, so not sure if it's any use asking, "Why are so many parents putting up with this"?

Great job idiot. You raised a stupid person.

@@davidcook680 such a kind reply. Thank you so much.

​@@serpentines6356 a lot of these activist kids' parents have identical beliefs.

@@thedemonnemo Oh, sure some do, but a lot of them don't. A lot of "kids" get very influenced through school, and the parents are busy working, and then even more influenced when going off to college. The kids think of themselves as brilliant. There's no getting through to youth when they have become so influenced are are convinced they are right. There's always trying though.

Do working class people really listen to rich people and do as they say? Doubt it. This guy just has a chip on his shoulder, yet he is a prime example of how if you are intelligent and hard working you can go to university, no matter your background.

@@Queen-of-Swords They do not listen to them in a direct manor. But look at popular culture. Celebration of the nuclear family is out, and in is single motherhood and when farthers are there they are often portrayed as a little bit bafoonish.

@@Queen-of-Swords rich people's ideas trickle down just like their fashion. What you see on runways may look outlandish or ugly, but a modified version ends up in affordable clothing stores every season and then gets worn by the masses. Similar thing with ideas. When you hear the millions of black people undone over white privilege, and insisting on it being a real thing, that is what has happened.

@@Queen-of-Swords the people with money are the influencers. They make things popular. It's also the people with money who are more likely to become celebrities and pap "journalists."

@@Queen-of-Swords The elite are ones that drive culture. I'm old , so I have seen over time the shift in media on what behaviours and values are promoted. So you're right the lower classes are not listening to the elite, but they have been watching all the sitcoms, for the last 50 years. Children are the collateral damage. Aside from the inhuman treatment of kids, in itself, the elite and those like you who discount the effects should be concerned for yourself. The level of random violence is increasing. Wasn't it just a day or so ago in upper class area of NY a mother walking her baby & was killed. That's what he is getting at, more kids are growing up in neglect, chaos and outright abuse. This has consequences for everyone.

How can the truth be at odds with empathy ?

What you're talking about is actually other regarding yet self referential. Philanthropy is a slippery slope to nowhere.

Avoid being a rescuer, lest you drown along with them.

In a nutshell being “nice” should never be put above being honest. But they don’t need to be entirely mutually exclusive. That’s why diversity, inclusion and equity and indeed compassion needs to be seen as subordinate to competence, merit, discipline, resilience but still relevant. Nature is not fair, life is not fair. Humanity would have already failed many times if that fairness was an expectation. “The obstacle is the way”. I also think that history and in particular the lack of a middle class until relatively recently is not appreciated by the “woke” liberals and the vast majority of feminists who have digested a mistaken highly abbreviated and self serving black/while, male/female, master/servant narrative. We live in times where both history and science is denied and twisted to suit the narrative of the truly privileged.

@@timwilson2920 when its not paired with solutions, tact, patience and situational awareness. You're both right, and you're both wrong. Telling someone you love a brutal truth, is something to be thoughtful about. It should always involve examining the right time and place, context, who SHOULDN'T be present (if anyone), public or private, and what they are doing AFTER that in the next 24 hours (do they need to focus on their kob as an air traffic controller tonight? Yeah maybe don't give them something big to think about today) After that, we must assess the best way to convey this hard truth: Is the person a straight shooter? Bring whiskey and tell it straight. Be prepared for pushback. Be calm, be warm, and speak less, but be logical for the most part Or is the person sensitive, or avoidant? Better to hint at the truth in context of several conversations, and be very careful to frequently affirm that you are here for them and believe in them as a person, and their ability to turn things around/fix things/move on to better times...rather than wrongly pandering to a delusional depression-induced alternative "perspective" out if the reflexive fear of hurting feelings. Be prepared for tears, and there may or may NOT be a follow up "therapy" session where they NEED to talk. And I could go on. Truth without empathy and some measure of Mindfulness and tact, is just being a lazy jerk. Motivated enough to harshly spit out the truth to feel superior in telling the truth... happy to stroke their OWN ego, but too lazy to do it in a way that benefits both parties. Nope, just truth bomb and leave, because its all about them. Lame.

What is very much missing from the current identity politics involving biological sex, gender and ethnical/racial background is CLASS. Without acknowledging class we can get the most ridiculous claims from the truly privileged such as the daughter of a surgeon.

@@viviennedunbar3374 The left tried dividing us by class--pitting the proletariat against the bourgeois--and that failed to bring about the global revolution they wanted. So now they hate class issues, and instead divide us along lines of sex, sexual preference, race etc. They refuse to address issues--such as immigration--that disproportionally effect the working class.

that sort of behavior ticks me off to no end, and frankly, I would have let her have it with a lecture of my own.

I enjoyed when some lower class guys reply with "Wanna trade that for my white male privilege card?"

Me too. My sub-cultural background is the anti-establishment DIY underground music, fashion and art scene and to think that I'm now seen as 'right wing' and all those other disgusting meaningless lazy pejoratives by the younger generation (and my dopier peers) is UNBELIEVABLE to me.

It's simple, upper/middle class have overtaken the discourse on the left. It's in their very interest to end discussion on class (as this would put the spotlight on their own kind) but identity markers like sex, gender or race!

@@Sly_404 Good observation!

It's odd. Definitely, there are a handful of subjects where my views haven't changed in the slightest, but are suddenly 'unacceptable' to the same people who didn't bat an eyelid 20 years ago. None of them has anything to with economics, so how they can place someone on 'the left' or 'the right' is mind-boggling. What is a 'left-winger' who never talks about redistribution of wealth, or affordable education, or healthcare, or pensions etc? (Except a massive hypocrite, as you say!) They rail against things like 'colonialism' - a truly appalling system of course which, however, ended in the mid-20th century - whilst ignoring the extinction of normal jobs in the west, and the simultaneous exploitation of foreign workers *today*, taken to extremes which genuinely resemble (another talking point) slavery. I don't see them attacking the CEOs responsible, but they'll give us all a long and incomprehensible lecture about why a statue is offensive, or why we need new pronouns and so on. And a suspiciously recurrent factor is that it's always the well-off who are offended, and always on *someone else's behalf*. (Could we not let them speak for themselves? Are they too poor and stupid to do so?) Long story short, if your wealth is the cause of someone else's poverty, I suppose it *is* a neat trick to reduce every conversation to a question of attitudes, never anything so vulgar as money. What are they going to do: protect our 'feelings', including new ones they make up, or allow people to feed themselves? The second one would be really expensive...

I'd say I was somewhere on the left and it was those same types who made me wonder whether I had moved to the right....or had they moved to the extreme left? I'm very happy with a welfare state, I'm really happy with a colourblind approach to race, I'm really happy for women to do whatever they want in life, I'm mostly tolerant of religions as long as they don't change our culture or force their opinions onto me.... Yet according my old friends on this new left, race is a problem, religion (mostly Christianity) is a problem, sex and biology and women's rights is hushed up, the working class and welfare state is hardly ever talked about, the idea of nationalisation of utilities (an idea where I'm not even sure where I stand nowadays) is largely forgotten. The left also don't understand how damaging it is for Britain to be selfishly nicking the best from other countries and stealing all their talent just because "immigration is nice". I have become a somewhere where they've become an anywhere. They began to use new words. They started to hate old films and music we all used to like. The 1990s/early 00s was dirty to them when it was a joy to me growing up. They became less tolerant of debate. I became more tolerant of debate. They wanted more authoritarianism via the state and had more distrust in people when it came to voting (Brexit, General Elections etc). I had more trust in people and wanted more democracy via the people to develop (Liquid Democracy advocate, voted Brexit for a mixture of left/right and centrist reasons including less layers of politics and more sovereignty to the people). It's all changed. But who actually made the change?

Statistically its not even close. Single parenthood is the #1 predictor of poverty and its associated pathologies.

I very much doubt Stoneage women would have faired very well as single mums. 😉

@@winstonsmith8240 Its almost like men and women are designed to be complementary to one another. Almost. lol

@@winstonsmith8240 no, imagine having to fight a sabre tooth right after giving birth! Man's work.

He literally IS an example of people being a success with a "bad" background.

I can say I have had the same experience as you! Rob just nails the concept of 'luxury beliefs' in a cohesive way!

@@SATULAL Yes, I think 'luxury beliefs' should take over from 'virtue-signalling' as the term of choice for the woke potpourri, not least because it pinpoints the self-serving nature of the whole thing.

He has already said he won't be staying in academia when he graduates with his Ph.d because of how hostile it is to facts that contradict the dominant narrative. Once he is no longer needing approval to get through school hopefully the gloves will come off.

Agreed, but I would add “keeping themselves powerful.” Wealth brings power & power brings wealth. Hard to separate those, particularly in politicians.

I often mention how I don't always hate the rich or powerful for being rich or powerful. I hate them for finding ways of taking away the ladder after they climb it.

The last days of an empire is not something to wish for if you took into account what the repercussions would be on most of people.

@@rid.h.tom.4296 When two factions each buy into a different and openly corrupt ideology - which can incidentally never be wrong about anything - and elects to openly despise the other, with no attempt at mutual understanding - then both sides deserve what befalls them. Sadly, those “elites” (financial aristocracy) which have studiously engineered the current situation, will probably survive better than most. But even they WILL catch a cold, world-wide - which is way overdue. Obama was in a UNIQUE position to break that mould in 2009 - but instead voted for the Library and the home in Martha’s Vineyard. Sadly predictable. Any democracy which is inspired by Lobby culture rather than Representation deserves to fail, and those who choose not to see it, do not deserve to be exempted from the fallout. Hopefully a 21st Century democracy, more fitting and more noble, may arise from the ashes.

@@rid.h.tom.4296 mos def, the best reason for gun ownership is that at least when things fall apart you've got a painless way to game over yourself

@@jamesgornall5731 if that’s your plan…. Personally I do my best to train and always prepare to give myself and my fam a chance at making it. But I am also a realist….

Thank you for taking the time to leave this comment. You're stronger than many and definitely wiser and more useful than most of our pompous talking head politicians.

Thank you for your comment. So many who support drug decriminalization & legalization constantly minimize the destructive impact on the people around the users/addicts. What's always omitted in debates is the horrific abuse of children by drug abusing parents/caregivers. The discussion focuses on giving adults their "freedoms" whilst sacrificing the society's future... children.

@@rosiegomez5809 The children are definitely the losers in this situation. And all to often, grow up repeating the cycle. There has to be a better way!

Yes, thank you so much for your post here. I recently talked briefly with an EMT, and we were talking about that problem of throwing tons of money at the homeless situation, enabling them without making many of these people responsible, and requiring them to be in rehabilitation, etc. He mentioned how all these people will OD, and just expect the EMT to come along with the Narcan, and walla - bring them back to life again. Over, and over again. I also think NOT doing much to help these people recover makes the politicos that constantly ask for more money to "help" these people feel relevant, and strokes their ego. These politicos can keep promoting themselves as "caring" by talking about it, look all "concerned" about it, drag that on whenever it suits them, and keep taxing the cr*p out of us. It's despicable. Keeps all these bureaucratic jobs, money, blobby thing going. I got so sick of seeing the paid petitioners at a petition table - asking people to sign up for more tax money to get spent on "helping" the homeless. Our governor already got tons of money - billions from the feds to throw at this, and I said that to the people signing the darn things. Many people are bleeding heart suckers. I can be too. What we think of as compassion, isn't always real compassion. I also recently was reading an article series about the problem of suicides in the fields of EMT/Firemen/Police professionals. Was very heartbreaking. You take care! And I want you to run for office and actually do something to change these things for the better. 😁

@@serpentines6356 "What we think of as compassion, isn't always real compassion." I agree with this statement so much! I think you are spot on. There is no real incentive to fix the problem as long as the problem is making money for the people taxed with finding solutions. The EMT you spoke with is spot on. The expectation now is that Narcan makes drug use "safe". No, it perpetuates the problem and gives people a false sense of security. The government subsidizing Narcan availability is making the narcotic crisis worse.

Dr Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) used to write about this.

On his web page Rob has links to many Theodore articles and acknowledges his contribution to the commentary on this topic.

Killing the competition .

I love when people are ordered to be the change they wish to see in the world.

I get the sense that young people do not have any or few older role models. It does not help that there is a high divorce level so a lot do not have any couple to look up to. Moreover, there is a huge hook up culture which does not help. Even online there is a lot of toxic masculinity encouraged by older/young men that encourages young men to hook up or to not get married.

Hmmm yes and no, bad marriages can be way more traumatizing than some divorces... Yes father and mother together - and happy - is the ideal but we need to admit that the probability for something to go awry is too high. Many full functional adults have survived divorce so...

@@elsafralves Are you a divorced mother?

@@MathildaFlow my personal life is not relevant at all to debate the problem

@@MathildaFlow a shitty reply to a sensible post.

Yes! This is one interview that I find SO important!

The fact is that everyone is playing the survival game, which is not actually a game but a necessity. Some understand that, and what it actually takes, far better than others.

Narcissists are never wrong. Remember that. And...they are vengeful.

@@tablescissors I couldn't agree more. I've been on the receiving end of narcissistic behaviour far too many times.

White working class men and boys are the most criminally underrepresented demos in all UK institutions right now. Even the white wealthy guys are getting an ass kicking via their 'privelege' but at least that's real. The 'privelege' of the working class (of any colour or gender or sexuality) is a myth.

I was in care ,you are right aswell, I found it best not to tell people because you get bullied, I also ended up homeless and went through the hostel system, had various drug issues aswell ,I wouldn't want anyone to go through the system, it messes you up. Also the hostel system is a massive money maker ,now landlords have cottund on ,they charge council exuberant rents. The support network you have to fight for,they have shut so many vital services. The ellegal migrants are looked after so better than British homeless, its aspeciely bad for male homeless, if you don't have mental health issues, then good luck your living in a tent , the drug services are rubbish. It's not for the benefit of us addicts it for society benefit, hence giving you stuff to get addicted to wich is worse than the drug.but it stop all of society suffering the add on problems of addiction, rehab is nearly non existence unless you have money. I've found people like to virtue signal that they care about alot of issues but its all for show to satiate there entrenched white guilt. Its like look at me I'm a good person

Another thing when I was younger if you talked alot or were hyper they would just put you in isolation and lock the door ,I spent my last couple of years at high school locked in isolation, 😂they even welded the windows shut because I used to clime out, it turns out as an adult I had adhd, if only they worked out what I liked and was good at and encouraged it. In the end I had sod all gcses never went to college or out, that effected the trajectory of my whole life .

Not only that I was put in care from the age of 3 onwards and moved about loads , so never had a loving connection with family or friends, so now find it hard to connect with people, it's sad because I've always been able to drop people and relationships and not really bother about it , I'm not sure I even know what love is,

At a state university in Ohio it was the middle class white guy room-mates who were clean and conscientious and the aristocratic now billionaire Arab foreign student “distinguished alumni” who was a dysfunctional slob who had to be asked to leave owing to his poor behavior. He told me that Omar Sharif played his real life great uncle in the film LAWRENCE OF ARABIA but then later while making a study of this film I learned that that character was actually fictional. I met the foreign student at a Halloween party where I attended dressed as TE Lawrence. I found him fascinating though and was opposed to kicking him out of the apartment. He had a WASP girlfriend from an elite background but is now happily married to a member of his own tribe and has a large family.

@@marcmeinzer8859 interesting. Thanks.

Financial stress is to keep the mainstream out of the conversation and out of places where you can make a difference in the world.

Backwards. Destroyed families cause financial stress. Two working together are always stronger than one.

Plenty of financial stress in pre1960s but many intact poor families.

There's no harm in repackaging and bringing awareness to other people's ideas. I imagine a lot of people, myself included, learned a lot from this.

@@WillyJunior I wasn't implying there was harm, but just giving a quick survey of the history of the problems with elites screwing up people's lives. It's not a new thing.

And if you check out Rob's web page he recommends many of the previous book such as Charles Murray. I do think his term "Luxury Beliefs" is very helpful however. Its easy to explain and so can be used as a sledgehammer against many of the ridiculous ideas and ideologies promoted by the upper class who don't practice what they preach.

@@viviennedunbar3374 That's helpful

It is ok to have more than one person expounding upon a concept. He's young. He has time to expand his thoughts on these topics.

Whenever people are in the majority, they seem to develop a complete inability to judge whether their actions are good or bad. Results don't matter, only social pressures. As long as they get that feedback convincing them that they're a good person, they don't care what harm is done in their name. Just look at all the suddenly pro-war leftists that support sending $40 billion to Ukraine to buy US made weapons, half of which are going to end up on the black market because we KNOW Ukraine is a deeply corrupt country that sells arms to terrorists and Nazis. But that's okay because everyone has Ukraine flags on their cars.

Agree 100%

Another luxury belief: Just pull up those bootstraps, bro!

Then you don't have kids. Being single isn't the main societal harm, it's single mother households.

Indeed. One reason I like the blackpill is that it is full of people who never got an ROI on doing what is considered "The right thing."

Sure, but I think the point is that it is statistically more likely.

So? It's better to not be poor, but not if you're poor with good parents versus rich with psychopaths for parents. Hell, it's better to have no parents than psychopaths. These comments are just silly, OF COURSE we're talking two stable parents.

@@pat2562 far from "silly" this is a serious point that was not addressed at all in this interview. Families are complicated and it's all too easy to romanticize, referring to some undefined ideal. Families also need to be seen within the many contexts in which they are embedded.

Statistically its not even close. A 2-parent home is FAR more likely to produce successful children than a 1-parent home for myriad reasons. And although it's not politically correct to say, hetero version is statisticallu the best bet of any model. Men and women are equal but not the same and bring different value to the family and healthy child development.

This example would still fit into the category of unstable. There are lots of examples that were not specifically mentioned in the interview. Nothing is guaranteed, and I don't recall anyone in the interview stating so.

karen straughan's perspective was likely accurate: white middle-class women in the 60s were BORED. As for working outside the home i remember the late 70s where the middle class in murrica was losing and falling behind in per capita earning. to keep their comfy lifestyles there was the explosion in credit cards and lines of credit attached electronically to conveniently-sized little plastic cards you could carry in your wallet. those cards came with a price: you want the material wealth - the things - then you gotta pay: middle class women had little choice in the later 70s and throughout the 80s but to go to work. daycare exploded - most families were the nuclear type without elderly family members there in the home to look after kids while both parents were at work. at the end of the 80s it was typical for both parents to be working. their outlay of cash to make this happen and maintain it is subtly chiseled away by different means: the US suburbs are overwhelmingly built for cars and public transit is terribly done, stigmatised (idiotically) as something for people who can't afford better so families "needed" two cars. Insurance, fuel, maintenance and repair, taxes... Paid daycare so both parents can work jobs to pay for daycare... Mortgage/rent/property taxes... Changing technology just for personal entertainment and to keep a job (x 2?)... This equals treadmill. All the while feminists nattering away, demoralising and insulting men, helping make stress in marriages that could have been happy, demanding govt policy that takes away from poor people what little they have so middle class women and girls can now avail themselves of the single-mother approach to life where they "can have it all!" This is the one where 23 yr old teenaged mothers blink in the mirror in the shelter's can like deer caught in a semi's headlights wondering "What happened?" The jobs where a husband could support and educate a family, own a house, and retire securely are long gone. We allowed our leaders to permit corporations to ship those jobs to other countries where the corporation made much larger profits but left us impoverished, always sliding lower every year. We did this.

@@STScott-qo4pw There is only so much "we" did when politicians on all sides sell out to a few oligarchs.

I'm sorry about your experience. You make a great point. I know many unhappy people who were raised by two parents who should have never gotten together or at least should have divorced many years ago. I don't understand this obession with having two parents when in many cases the problem is the parents and the type of person that chooses to procreate when not ready.

The idea presupposes good parents, not any random coupling. Your mother alone would maybe be best for you, but your mother with another stable partner would have been best.

@@tangerinetangerine4400 I think people are simply pointing out that the ideal is two stable parents and then after that it comes one stable parent. Its not just two parents that they are after.

I think another factor today is the lack of social support for marriage. Before "no fault" divorce, who had broken the marriage contract was decided in court, and insanity was a valid reason. Today we give social acceptance for people ending a marriage with no reason at all.

Not all fathers are stable, supportive providers, and not all single parent mothers made the wrong, or immoral decision….

Oh yes, they're calling their theoretical 'bi' 'gay' but never had any same-sex encounter they just imagine they would. Pro-tip for them: Sexual attraction isn't theoretical. They would crumble if they actually got into it. EDIT: Then there are those who have had that experience but they've worked to achieve it. You can jerk another guy off but it's work not pleasure when it's 'helping a bro out'.

After my tour in Iraq without a single day off in six months straight I decided to go see Australia and New Zealand afterwards. While visiting there I encountered a couple young guys from Boston. We spent a few days together with a rental car, sharing hotel rooms etc. These two guys (one more than the other) were those kind of rich kids who downplayed their atire and it was pretty weird. What they casually spent on one night of drinks would have been enough to upgrade their wardrobe several times over via thrift stores - places they probably have never stepped into. I saw the most worn out credit card (not old just heavily used) ever in my life used by one of them. Point being that money and cost of things never crossed their minds like most people who ask themselves "can I afford it". Such a thought never crossed the minds of these guys I met. It was a weird experience for me as interacting with a military veteran was for them. Later on I learned that the seriously wealthy class have one major obligation. Oddly, it seems counter to my comments above but it really isn't. The obligation they have is to keep up appearances and a close relation is you don't share knowledge about your class with lower classes, you just look down on them if you are part of the wealthy. The only book I know of btw which tells about this keeping up appearances dynamic is Tolstoy's War and Peace. The dressing down thing is a newism which still doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but I think it makes sense in some weird way to the narrow perspective of a seriously rich young person.