Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - Lick the Abs, Bigot

All Episodes

Previous Next

Oct. 9, 2021 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

40:36

Lick the Abs, Bigot

Large

Audio Only |

Scroll

Time	Text
	I think we're live.
	Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
	We'll leave it a few minutes before we get started.
	Even though it's past my bedtime, 11 o'clock nearly on a Saturday night.
	What am I doing up?
	That's the question.
	Well, I'm going to be responding to a drama I got roped into, even though I wasn't really involved in it.
	But we may as well explore it a bit, I think, because there's a lot of sensitivity on all sides of this.
	And I think that both sides are speaking past one another.
	And like the radical centrist that I am, I think I can at least try and bring these two to an understanding, perhaps.
	Because it involves a bunch of people who I really like on all sides.
	And I can see sort of bad blood forming in certain ways because there's a lack of understanding of each other's position.
	And it doesn't have to be that this is the case.
	And so I'm going to do my part to try and merely explain what I think is happening.
	And I will try to make it concise.
	At least I can see that things are working.
	Let me sorry.
	Got to make sure I don't boomer the whole thing because you know that I don't do my own tech stuff now for good reason and for everyone else's benefit.
	So this began a few weeks ago when a YouTuber who I'm friends with, I'm friends with all of these people, that's the thing.
	And I like all of their content.
	I watch all of their content on a regular basis.
	So I don't want anyone to feel called out or anything like that because this is not what I intend to do here.
	So there's a YouTuber called Academic Agent and he made a video because he's transitioned somewhat from being free market capitalist to traditionalist, shall we say.
	And he, in this traditionist mold, through this traditionist lens, is looking at the state of modernity and is not very impressed with what he finds.
	And you can hardly blame him because modernity is pretty gross and quite unimpressive compared to, well, anything in the past, which at least had some dignity about it.
	But anyway.
	So it begins with this picture.
	Now, I don't know how well you can see that, but this was in response to someone posting a girl, a woman, posting a picture of their abs on Twitter.
	And someone had obviously drawn this, and he took exception to this.
	And that's funny.
	That's very, very funny.
	But his exception wasn't wrong.
	And so, as you can see, you have some sock puppet thing licking a woman's abs, and a bunch of young men on Twitter posting this and cooming over it.
	And this sent him into something of an apoplectic rage.
	And this lasted for days and days and days.
	And then this went on into weeks.
	And somehow I got dragged into this.
	And I was like, right, okay.
	Because I watched his video on this.
	And I was on the toilet, as I watch most YouTube videos these days.
	And this, in the first couple of minutes, before the video had started, before I knew anything about the video, he'd said something like, you know, we're a civilization in steep decline.
	And so I had posted just the thing saying you're underselling the total collapse quite significantly.
	Because we are in a total collapse of our civilization at the moment.
	And it's not fun to say, it's not good news, it's just happening and we're doing nothing about it.
	If you're okay with the collapsed civilization, then you're probably like, hey, great, this allows me to coom even more, whatever it is.
	And I mean, you know, there are so many examples of this.
	But one of the examples that I've linked in the description is this video talking about women and sugar daddies, which is really sad.
	I'll summarize it by just saying, essentially Generation Z have been taught by the millennials who were totally subverted by the social justice warriors into being purely materialist psychopaths who are unable to form proper emotional and romantic connections.
	And also, they've been taught to hate men.
	And so there are millions of young women using various apps and stuff covered in this article by Zoe Strimple, where they just hate men and see them as transactional jobs, basically.
	They view everything through the lens of what do I have to do for how much time to get X amount of money out of a man that I hate.
	And the men are sad and lonely, really sad and lonely, and just want some female company.
	They just want a woman to listen to them for a bit.
	And they're like, okay, fine.
	X amount of, you know, $5,000 or whatever.
	And so the women are making out like bandits.
	This, of course, means that young men in the sort of age bracket that they would have usually dated have got very difficult dating prospects.
	It's very, very difficult for them not to be incels because the women, and again, millions of them in America and Britain are apparently using these dating sites.
	The sugar daddy sites.
	I don't think we should call them dating sites because they're not.
	Because the intent is, of course, not to form a relationship and become a part of what we would have traditionally considered to be society.
	The goal is merely just to take advantage of an opportunity.
	And so you're stuck with this generation that just doesn't understand what it is to have a relationship, what it is to love someone.
	And as the women themselves say, as interviewed by Zoe, they hate men.
	They just hate men.
	They openly profess this hatred of men.
	It's like, right.
	And so when you realize, okay, you've got on this one dating site that does this, there are four million young women using it.
	It's like, wow, that's a lot.
	That's a lot of young women using it.
	Then you realize that's just the upper strata.
	That's just the ones who are attractive enough to do it.
	There is going to be a lower strata of ones who Callum points out in this video.
	They're not attractive to do it, but they are the ones at the protests.
	They are the ones at the women's marches.
	They still hate men.
	They still view their relationships with men as purely power interactions.
	And this is quite concerning, especially as it's not like the birth rates are doing very well as it is.
	We are in a demographic collapse.
	And you can say, well, why do you care about that?
	Well, I mean, I'd like a pension.
	I'd like, you know, I'd like to be able to go to an old folks' home and have it staffed when I'm older.
	But anyway, so the point is, I was not talking about licking abs because we haven't got to this point.
	But since that has been the position ascribed to me, let's talk about it because I think there is something more to this.
	So, I mean, this, you know, it was AA made the video, but I got all the memes.
	Okay, fine, fine, that's fine.
	And so let's talk about men and women, shall we?
	You know, this is a traditional woman.
	This is traditionally a Western interpretation of what a traditional female beauty is, an attractive woman with her husband and her family.
	It's quite wholesome looking, isn't it?
	Good luck getting that.
	You're in trouble.
	But this isn't, you know, unique.
	You know, you can look at an African depiction of what a beautiful woman is.
	Oh, she's feminine, graceful, not hyper-muscular.
	Weird, that, isn't it?
	You go all around the world.
	Women have a particular kind of idealized form.
	It's not this.
	That's not very womanly.
	That's actually very manly.
	What we traditionally and usually consider to be a man.
	Now, it's because, and this has been folded into the term tomboy.
	Now, this is not what a tomboy is.
	A tomboy is a traditional woman of some sort, you know, something that looks like a traditional woman that just dresses slightly less feminine than most other women.
	You know, they don't tend to wear makeup, they wear baggy clothes.
	It's not that they're bulked like they're steroid using psychos.
	Anyway, so this whole thing became very interesting to look at because if there's one thing you can say about the people doing this on Twitter, it's that they're not being manly.
	Whatever this sock puppet is, it's not an avatar of manliness.
	Now, you might not care about that, and you might say, Well, this is just Twitter, Twitter's not real life.
	I agree, Twitter isn't real life.
	Academic agent disagrees, he thinks Twitter is real life, but that's his prerogative.
	But he's not wrong about the declining standards of masculinity, and it is outside of the Twitter bubble quite sad to see, and it is concerning that our civilizations are being run by women who view masculinity as a pathology.
	You can see this over and over in anywhere in academia, practically.
	In the classrooms, young boys are just drugged now.
	Take your ADHD medication because you're not sitting still like a young girl does.
	It's like, well, as Christine Hoff Summers points out, boys are not defective young girls.
	They have different personalities.
	They have different biologies.
	They are something not the same.
	And essentially, trying to engineer them into becoming young girls from an early age, as well as going stretching on into their adulthood, is not good for the state of masculinity.
	And this is what AA is thinking of.
	Now, you can say, okay, well, using a Twitter meme to make that point when this is clearly a joke is not good form and it makes you look ridiculous.
	That's true.
	That's fair criticism.
	But the point is still true, even though he chose a really bizarre form in which to address it.
	But to be honest with you, if he hadn't chosen this meme-worthy format, I think it unlikely it would have caused the controversy that it did.
	And I think the fact that it did cause controversy is because it hit on a fundamental truth.
	And I think it is important that this is an object of discussion.
	Especially as I don't think it's as online as you think.
	Weirdly, this came across my Facebook feed today.
	It was today or yesterday.
	Cleavage is over.
	Welcome to the age of killer abs.
	Weird.
	For women.
	Why are women trying to get killer abs?
	That's just bizarre, isn't it?
	Because I mean, obviously, in previous eras, that's not really what men were focusing on when they were looking at a woman and thinking, right, okay, she's a good partner.
	It was cleavage, obviously, and hips and ass and whatnot.
	But cleavage primarily is what women have used to beguile men.
	And you can find studies.
	In fact, there's this one video that's really funny where there's this guy.
	He's like, right, he's filming himself and he's got this software that uses the webcam to track his eye motions on the screen.
	He's like, right, there's a woman's cleavage is going to come up and I'm not going to look at it.
	And you can see him.
	And he's like, right.
	So the image comes up and his eyes just straight to it.
	And he's like, damn it!
	Damn it!
	And he's so angry with himself.
	It's such a difficult thing to resist as a man that you can, that video cracks me up.
	But anyway, but the point is, why?
	Why killer abs?
	As a man, I don't care about that at all.
	Like, going back to our original picture, I don't find that sexy.
	I mean, that looks like a bloke with tits.
	So why would I be into that?
	But that's the question, isn't it?
	I was lucky enough to be born before Generation Z men, frankly, and millennial men.
	I was lucky enough to be born in a generation that got to watch X-Men and, you know, all these sorts of Saturday morning cartoons that weren't trying to subvert traditional gender roles.
	And this, I think, was something I'm looking back very, very pleased with.
	I'm glad I don't have the sort of gender confusion young people have today.
	But what am I talking about?
	And what are we talking about when we say this is not manly?
	Like, what does that mean?
	What is manliness?
	Why is this important?
	What does it do?
	And this is where I think it is Adam and Sitch sort of come off the rails.
	And Short Fataku as well, who was also involved in this on Twitter.
	Again, all people, I very much enjoy their content.
	I've been friends with them for years.
	I've got a great amount of respect for their integrity and their intelligence.
	And so this was not a conflict I saw coming or expected to ever weigh in on.
	But I think that there is something to being a man that is not merely being male.
	And I think that's not controversial to say.
	And again, weirdly, like, my timeline seems to be popping things up.
	So this article came up literally about an hour and a half before I did this stream.
	And it was really one of the last sort of pieces of the puzzle that slotted in.
	Because I don't know who Tom Ellis is.
	You know, I don't know who this guy is.
	But when The Guardian had posted it on Facebook, they posted not the title.
	They'd posted this.
	What's the worst thing anyone's ever said about you?
	You were a disgrace of a man.
	It's like, okay, but what does that mean?
	And why is he affected by it?
	If being a man is merely being born male or being an adult male, then you can't really be a disgrace of a man.
	What's disgraceful?
	Like, we're just talking about the purely material aspect of one's body.
	But of course, what he's talking about here is that there are metaphysical expectations that are the traditional construct of what a man is.
	And this is why, if we look at this picture, you have deep and well-embedded ideas about the role of the adults in this picture and what their respective functions in society are expanding outwards from their own household and into their careers and social lives.
	And this is what is being referred to here.
	There are certain ways of behaving that we need to discuss.
	And this is what was talked about on Adam and Sitch's.
	Oh, sorry, Sitch and Adams.
	Oh, God, Adam, you're the butler.
	You are the butler.
	Look, it's in the name.
	You should have argued for primacy on the basis of alphabetical order, at the very least.
	But anyway, this is.
	Dev, Sitch and Adam covered this on their stream, covered Academic Agents video.
	And as you can see, they've got the picture of the abs, the abs in crescent, the guilty abs.
	And they've been talking about this.
	And at one point, Sitch and Adam start attacking, well, what is being a man?
	And when Academic Agent is presenting his thesis, he's leaning on the traditionalist constructs of a one Julius, is it Julius Evola?
	Now I've never read Evela or Vola, how it's pronounced.
	I hear he's very, very right-wing, and he has very, what I suppose they would consider to be regressive views on gender, which I'm not endorsing or denying because I've never read his work.
	But one thing they do is attack Evola or Evola himself for not being manly enough.
	And it's like, okay, that's interesting because that's a way of essentially just ad homing the problem out of the debate, right?
	It doesn't matter how manly or not Evela is.
	What matters is, was he saying something that was true?
	You know, it doesn't matter whether he himself doesn't live up to it.
	The criticism might well still be true.
	And so we have to kind of talk about what it is to be manly.
	And as you can see there, in fact, you can see why, frankly, I do think they are misrepresenting what Academic Agents' position is here.
	Because they don't consider themselves to be right-wing, and they're not in comparison to, say, like a regular person.
	But of course, by social justice standards, they're far-right lunatics.
	But so they're trying to maintain a sort of center ground, which is perfectly fine.
	But Academic Agent says, ensure Adam addresses the fundamental issue, namely young men behaving like teenage girls in front of masculine women.
	The issue is never about abs.
	Hold Adam to honesty.
	And he is right when he says that.
	Again, going back to the image, it's not about the fact that the woman has abs.
	It's about the response of the man to them.
	And so we have to talk about what it is to be a man, as in not just being an adult human male, assuming you hold that retrograde definition of what a man is, but the metaphysical construct of manliness.
	Now, this, traditionally, in the Western canon, and we can look back for literally thousands of years to see the demonstration of what is valued in a man and what we consider to be manly.
	This has been summarized in about six or seven different virtues.
	So the first one is courage.
	A man should be courageous.
	And this is to be brave, to have the courage of one's convictions.
	This is to stand by one's word and to stand firm in the face of danger, often physical danger.
	This was expected that you would go into battle in previous eras.
	Of course, now, I don't see much courage around anywhere.
	How many people in the chat, you know, ask yourself honestly, are you going to fight China for your right to kum?
	Ask yourself that.
	What are you prepared to actually die for?
	You know, what courage are you prepared to show, really?
	You know, I'm thinking about this as well.
	Like, I don't think I'd want to go to war with China against China at some point.
	And, you know, I'm not saying that it's right or wrong.
	I'm just saying I think it is something that has been bred out of us, right?
	Our courage is definitely lacking, I think.
	Anyway, the next manly virtue is industry, as in being enterprising, being diligent, working hard.
	And it's a form of self-sacrifice.
	It is something that a man does for others.
	He doesn't just do this for himself.
	Of course, my internet is now playing up.
	Of course, it is.
	I apologize if my internet cuts out.
	It shouldn't do.
	I'm on a land connection, so it should be fine.
	But anyway, so this kind of self-sacrifice, again, is bound up with courage when you apply it to certain situations.
	For example, dying heroically in battle.
	So the next manly virtue is personal discipline.
	That is self-control, a denial of the passions, resistance to vices, protection of one's own nobility, your resolve, how controlled you are around yourself.
	This is a manly virtue.
	This is not a virtue we ascribe to children, and it's not a virtue we tend to really ascribe to women either, but it is something that we admire as a manly virtue.
	And that's bound up with personal responsibility, as in not making excuses for one's own failures, and that allows you to take proper credit for one's own successes.
	Again, another manly virtue.
	The next one being self-reliance.
	This is Jordan Peterson's Be the Rock upon which other people lean.
	It's not surprising that Peterson resonates with men who have never been talked to about duty, about nobility, about manliness, not being dependent on someone else.
	Again, not a womanly virtue.
	That's fine.
	Women have other virtues that we can talk about another time, but that's not what this stream is about.
	And honor is the final one, which is maintaining one's self-worth, one's sense of self-worth, sort of your own pride, treating yourself, as Peterson would say, as someone you are supposed to take care of.
	This is like a relational virtue as well.
	It describes your dealings with other people.
	So you are not a liar.
	You are not a cheat.
	You think well of yourself.
	You have not debauched yourself.
	And so you exist in a kind of continuum from a point at which you hopefully reach manhood and you have not been debauched in some way going forward in your own decision making.
	So you are brave, you're industrious, you are disciplined, you're responsible, you are self-reliant.
	And if you contain all of these virtues to some degree, obviously not the most degree, and the more you are these things, the more manly you can consider yourself to be.
	This sort of metaphysical construct forms a continuum through time.
	And at each point, slice in time, each moment in time, if you are doing the things that are proper to being a man, then you can have self-respect as a man.
	And that is something that other people should be able to see because virtues are self-evident.
	And this is what is encapsulated in Rudyard Kipling's poem If.
	Now, I don't know whether you're familiar with if, and if you're not, you are missing out.
	But these are all of the virtues that he's speaking to.
	If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you but make allowance for their doubting too, you can see how this is a combination of the manly virtues.
	It's self-discipline, it is self-reliance, it is courage, it is all of these things.
	And of course, he goes through the poem.
	It's not a long one, but at the point he says, you know, yours is the earth and everything that's in it.
	And what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
	It's an excellent, excellent poem.
	And this is what he's talking about.
	These virtues combined in a person, maintained over a period of time.
	This is what it is to be a man.
	Now, this is not scientific or material.
	This is, as I said, a metaphysical construct.
	This is something that we project out into the world through our own sense of what it is to be a human being.
	And this, I think, is what is being lost in the modern world.
	This understanding that actually there is something, a state of affairs that one can construct that is better.
	And again, I can't think of a better word than noble, more noble than being the opposite.
	So this dovetails nicely with a recent stream Academic Agent did on a book by Benjamin R. Barber called Jihad versus Mukworld or something like that.
	And this is a very interesting concept because the concept of jihad is not the Islamic jihad.
	Because especially if we're talking about like Islamic extremists who want to make the entire earth Muslim, that's very much not what the point is.
	The point is that the phrase jihad here represents metaphysics.
	It represents an a priori way of viewing how the world should be.
	And that is contrasted with Mukworld, which may as well just be called materialism.
	Because this is the free market capitalism, the extreme end of communism, where everyone is allowed everything at all times and there is no restriction to anything, and nor should there be a restriction.
	The idea of restrictions is, well, weird, quaint, old-fashioned, metaphysical.
	Doesn't apply.
	And you can see how the term jihad, if you replace that with metaphysics, this is what allows them to say, well, the American Patriots are just as bad as the Taliban.
	It's like, why?
	Of course they're not.
	That's a ridiculous statement.
	But what they're saying is they view the world in a metaphysical way.
	They have a sort of, in the Christian patriot view, they have a divine plan.
	And so do the jihadis.
	But on a sort of functional practical level, they're obviously not the same, but they occupy this same category where they both have a view of the world that is not just, oh, you know, how much money do I make?
	How many drugs do I take?
	You know, what video games am I playing?
	They are not kumas.
	They view being kumas as a bad thing.
	And so this is what I'm talking about.
	The traditional ideal from the Western perspective of manliness.
	Now, I'm using He-Man as an example of that because he is a great example of how Mukworld can package the metaphysical and sell it back to you.
	And I will at some point chastise Academic Agent for daring to mock He-Man as well.
	But this is the ideal of masculinity we got to watch on 80s Saturday morning cartoons.
	And thank God we did, because at the very least, we got to see what an example of all of the masculine virtues put together looked like.
	It's not something young people get to actually see these days.
	And they don't get to see that that is something noble and desirable.
	But at least we used to.
	But anyway, moving on.
	This seems unconnected, but it's completely connected.
	Here we have the Conservative Party in Britain.
	One member of it called Steve Baker, an MP, and he's complaining that the Socialist Party of Britain has gone...
	Sorry, the Conservative Party of Britain has gone socialist.
	But then I did repeat myself because they are.
	But the problem that Steve Baker has, look at the books that he's posting.
	He's decided finally, before he, you know, tops himself because they've gone, the conservatives, Boris has become fully socialist at this point.
	Oh, let's raise taxes.
	We'll spend, spend, spend.
	This is fine.
	We'll do what Jeremy Corbyn would do if he was in government.
	And so Steve Baker is sat there just crying into his Hayek and Popper and Nozick and Mises and humour.
	I've not read humor, but I've read the rest of them.
	And the problem that he has with all of this is that these are all materialist texts.
	And so they can do nothing but present freedom.
	And freedom is a materialist concept.
	Freedom is essentially, in the end, usurped by the communists, because the communists promise more freedom than they promise.
	And the communists promise the total freedom of being the Kuma.
	And at the end of the day, this sort of libertarian perspective does get checkmated.
	It gets trumped by the communists.
	And so the libertarians have been totally blown the fuck out.
	on every point, unfortunately.
	Now, this is not an attack on libertarianism or anything like that.
	I have many libertarian sympathies myself.
	I want a minimal state.
	I want it kept as far away from me as possible, etc., etc.
	But the point is that Steve is unable to challenge the problems that we have because he is unable to really see the problems that we have.
	The problems that we have aren't really about liberties because we have the complete liberty to be a total slave to our passions.
	That's not the problem.
	The problem, and you know, this is everywhere.
	Like, the poorest people on earth have iPhones, Steve, right?
	Like, you know, okay, we're being taxed more than we want to be taxed, but we still have everything that we want.
	Arguments from liberty are hollow these days.
	That's the problem.
	And it's not that there aren't loads of liberties that we're losing.
	Look at the COVID tyranny that is being imposed now.
	I can't travel.
	I can't leave this country at this point because I'm not vaccinated.
	And it's not that I think there's anything wrong with the vaccines either.
	Like, millions of people have been vaccinated.
	If people are dying in the streets, you know, I'd be like, okay, maybe there's a problem, folks.
	But, okay, don't be wrong.
	There are people who have had negative side effects.
	But these are a tiny, tiny minority.
	The reason I don't get vaccinated is because the attitude.
	I just don't like the attitude.
	I've had COVID.
	I don't need to get a vaccine to protect me from a disease I've had and recovered from, because if the point of a vaccine is to give you antibodies for a disease that you might catch, well, too late for me, isn't it?
	There's no point.
	And it's the attitude towards the vaccines, the tyrannical, overbearing, authoritarian attitude.
	And so I'm not saying there aren't arguments, but Steve isn't making them.
	And they're not arguments on the sort of personal and social level.
	And apparently they just don't resonate with our governments anyway.
	Why is Steve failing here?
	Well, he's failing because he's not speaking to the metaphysical essence of what we think of real people.
	We're flattening everything down into a question of civil rights.
	But that's not the question.
	You know, the civil right to be a sugar baby, is that good?
	Like, is that what civil rights were for?
	No, because I've been reading the Federalist Papers recently, actually.
	And I think, why?
	Why was I reading that?
	It's like, yeah, I know.
	Just because I never have, actually.
	It's just I never have.
	But the problem is that you can tell it's a very different society that Jefferson, Madison, I think it is, that are writing for.
	And it's not one that has Kumarism like we have now.
	It's not one that has unfettered capitalism like we have now.
	They're enterprising, obviously, and they want free enterprise, but it's a whole different world.
	And they were also deeply religious people.
	And this meant that they had a morally informed worldview that had metaphysical boundaries.
	You didn't become a heroin addict or a coomer or a sugar baby or whatever, because there was something moral holding you back.
	And that morality is not found in the books that Steve Baker is presenting.
	It has to be assumed or lent back on in some other way.
	And without it, again, the communists can just open the door and say, well, we'll just go for it.
	Why not?
	And you're like, well, I mean, the libertarians aren't telling me why I shouldn't do that.
	This is also something that is missed by left-wingers, obviously.
	And I thought I'd bring this up because I watched Philosophy Tube's analysis of Islamophobia.
	And again, all you can see is just rampant, dripping materialism all the way through this.
	Because it's as if PhilosophyTube doesn't understand that the terrorists don't do this because of, as they say, food shortages, job shortages, energy shortages, because they feel disenfranchised on a material level from British or American society.
	They're not going, well, if only I'd been given a little bit more money from the state, then I wouldn't have gone alawaka and blown myself up in Manchester Arena, killing, you know, dozens of women and children.
	That's not what they're thinking, right?
	They're thinking this is a degenerate society.
	This is a society that permits immorality and revels in it.
	That's what they're thinking.
	The problem is they're thinking this is not an Islamic society.
	And you can, and she does make the claim that racism drives them to a small number of them to terrorism.
	Not in any way the case, in any way.
	But of course, she'd have a very expanded definition of racism.
	And she'd say, well, what we're saying is you haven't accommodated their beliefs enough or something like that because we have our own beliefs here.
	I said, yes, we do.
	And there's no particular reason we should give them up for Muslim immigrants either.
	And if they don't like that, well, then they should find a country they're more suited to if they're going to immigrate somewhere.
	Don't immigrate ours.
	But again, the immigration is done on mercenary grounds.
	We're here because, oh, we want to prosper.
	We want to make money.
	No, we're not going to integrate.
	We're not coming here to integrate.
	Because again, integration implies a metaphysical construct of what it is to be English or Scottish or Welsh.
	And that's not what we've got.
	You know, we've got little Pakistanis, little Bangladeshis, little colonies of various other countries and operating as they were back in the motherland.
	It's like, right, okay, that's interesting.
	And so she can only ascribe this to material problems because that's how she thinks.
	Again, all of this comes down to this distinction, I think.
	And I don't think that the freedom to be a Kuma is any kind of freedom at all.
	Academic Agent, in fact, literally an hour ago, did a video response that I watched.
	And like, this was very interesting because, and I hate to say this, right?
	I think he's thrashed Adam, Sitch, and Dev on every count.
	And I don't support like his teleology on that, like where he wants the government to start, you know, enforcing traditional gender roles and stuff like that.
	That's not what I'm saying at all.
	In theory, and on a moral level, he is right about not being a slave to one's emotions.
	And again, taking it all the way back to this, there is nothing manly about this character.
	And if the proliferation of unmanly men throughout society is anything to go by, all it's going to result in is rampant Kumarism.
	And that a good civilization doesn't make.
	Because the fundamental crux of his thesis is an unmanly civilization, a civilization that doesn't adhere to manly virtues of self-sacrifice, courage, discipline, all the rest, is one that's not going to last.
	It's going to collapse.
	And I think he's probably right, which is why I said, well, he's underselling the total collapse quite significantly.
	And the thing is, you can see by the left-wing response to this that he must be on something too.
	Because they're like, oh, yeah, this Kuma meme, we got you now.
	You're far right.
	Because you don't think masturbating all day, every day is a good thing.
	Oh, oh, you Nazi.
	How dare you have some dignity and self-respect not to just be sat there off your face on drugs, just sat on Biden Bucks wanking all day.
	Oh, you far-right bigot, lick the abs.
	Like, you're allowed to hold some sort of personal dignity above this.
	In fact, it's desirable that you do so.
	It's good for you.
	It's good for the people around you.
	And it makes sure that society doesn't just collapse in a couple of generations like we're going now.
	And so let's talk about like just how things are dealt with differently.
	In the most left-wing areas of America, you can see that, oh, look, they're gross.
	I've been San Francisco.
	I've seen the drug addicts on the streets.
	They're like zombies.
	Unironically, like zombies.
	It's this beautiful, beautiful city, and they've just got this zombie walking towards you.
	It's like, oh, God.
	You know, it's 28 days later, it started.
	And you just walk around them.
	And they're just like, and it's okay.
	That was weird.
	And so it's just like in the middle of the streets.
	Just laying there with kids walking by.
	Well, that's an old woman, but okay.
	But there are kids walking by, you know, and like, what is this?
	Who's okay with this?
	Is this how things should be?
	Is that how things should be?
	And the left are like, no, of course not.
	No, they should have clean needles.
	Like, what?
	Are you kidding me?
	The left's only problem with this is that they don't have safe sites.
	And so this is what they're starting now, right?
	Where is it? Where is it? Where is it?
	There we go.
	So they'll have access to trained medical staff, sterile supplies, and access to overdose reversal medications.
	Oh, fucking bravo, California.
	Oh, that's amazing.
	Like, your streets are full of drug addicts and you're like, yeah, God, we need to get them clean needles.
	That's the problem.
	Why don't you just give him the fucking...
	Well, they probably do give him the heroin.
	But the point is, this is not good, right?
	This is not good at all.
	And so, okay, well, what's the alternative?
	And I found this, and this was just...
	It summarized everything about the problem.
	Now, look at this picture.
	This is Afghanistan.
	These are people who are working for the Taliban.
	And the people that they're working on are heroin addicts, which exploded.
	Apparently, there's 150,000 of them in Kabul alone, according to Vice.
	And you think, right, okay, well, at least the Taliban are doing something about the opioid crisis.
	And no, no, no, that's awful.
	How could you?
	According to Vice News.
	How could you try and rehabilitate these people?
	Look at these drug addicts.
	Look at them.
	They look like shit.
	They look like their lives have been destroyed by being like the most rampant coomers in the world on a drug they can't stop taking themselves.
	And the Californian angle, the left-wing materialist response is give them safer drugs so they can coom for longer.
	This is not what being a human being is about.
	And again, we can fall back on our what it is to be manly.
	This is okay for us to argue from.
	But I mean, like, the argument here is purely from the materialistic, libertarian perspective of their civil rights.
	Oh, I can't believe the Taliban are forcing them into these rehabs.
	What about their civil rights?
	Okay, dude.
	Okay.
	So that's what we're concerned about, is it?
	We're not concerned about their health, about their happiness, about their well-being, about their families.
	They've probably got parents and brothers and sisters who care about them and who want them helped or something like this.
	This is not how they're supposed to be, but from the Western materialist lens, you can't argue against it.
	You have to argue from a metaphysical lens.
	And so this is the summary, I think, of why this whole thing blew up.
	And why, fundamentally, when you drill down all of the arguments at rock bottom, Academic Agent isn't wrong.
	This is not manly, and it's not good to have an unmanly civilization.
	And I don't think it's going to last forever.
	So you can coom on for as long as you can coom for, but at the end of the day, when everything that supported your cooma lifestyle runs out, because the pillars of the earth, the men who are taking responsibility as men for keeping everything running, have gone and there just aren't any left to patrol the borders, to make sure that the taxes are paid, to do the dirty jobs that no one wants to do.
	The whole thing starts collapsing.
	And, you know, there we go.
	Your cooming days are over.
	Shortages go in, but at least you got to lick a bunch of abs.

▲