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Dec. 31, 2021 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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Aren't you glad that's over？

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	Oh, I think I might be live.
	Tells me I can end the stream, so that must mean something.
	My clock is broken perpetually.
	I'm not late.
	I'm actually early.
	I said it's quarter past eight.
	And yeah, so I'm early, officially, for like the first time ever.
	So don't you go complaining at me, guys.
	Honestly.
	How's it going?
	I realized I hadn't done a stream in ages, and of course it's New Year's Eve, and I'm going to jump on the Reverend Simon Sideways stream at about nine o'clock.
	So I thought I'd just pop on here because it was like that.
	I'll carry on doing some work.
	And honestly, I'm tired of doing work.
	I can't wait to show you what I've been working on, but I can't yet.
	But anyway, how have you all been?
	Hope you're all very well.
	I've had, I was ill on, well, about the week before Christmas, I was ill, so I wasn't on the podcast.
	And then I've been on holiday since New Year's Eve or the day before, till just after the beginning of the new year.
	So I haven't done anything much.
	Don't you dare say boomer audio.
	Now I'm going to have to go and check it.
	No, my audio is fine.
	It's the right word.
	Shut up, dick.
	How are you all doing, everyone?
	Hope you're all well.
	So I don't really have anything in particular to talk about for this stream, for New Year's Eve.
	So I figure if you guys have got anything you guys want to talk about, we can have a chat about stuff.
	I mean, it's not like there hasn't been enough going on, right?
	Rip Betty White.
	Yeah, I know.
	Lots of Titans have been falling recently.
	Who's ready to relive another 2020?
	Well, that's the thing, isn't it?
	Do you guys think that 2022 is going to be any better?
	Because, I mean, on the plus side, on the plus side, at least the evidence suggests that we're winning the COVID argument, as in Omicron isn't worse than before, and in fact, it's better, and things are getting better.
	So the justification for all the tyranny is going away.
	And so eventually we will surely be able to pressure the governments to not tyrannize us.
	You know what's really funny, though, is that the Celtic nations really hate the English, right?
	They hate them.
	They hate whatever it is Westminster's doing.
	They don't really care about the science of the thing or the, you know, the morality of the thing.
	They're just like, right, what's England doing?
	We're doing the opposite.
	And so Nicholas Sturgeon, Mark Drakeford, they've shut down any kind of New Year's celebrations in Wales and Scotland.
	But we haven't in England because A, there is no appetite for another shutdown here.
	And this is something the Conservatives have had to reckon with.
	And so Boris and Saud are just like, well, we're not going to do anything because, you know, Omicron appears to be milder than the previous variants.
	And that fact doesn't matter to the Celts, the nationalist parties in Scotland and Wales.
	And to the Labour Party in Wales, actually, but basically the same thing.
	And so we're basically going to have an influx of Scots and Welsh fleeing over the border into the last free state in the United Kingdom.
	Yeah, devolution was a mistake.
	My God, was it a mistake?
	I mean, apart from unless you're a Celtic progressive and you love being tyrannized by Mark Drakeford or Nicola Sturgeon, in which case devolution was f ⁇ ing brilliant for you.
	But if you want to, I don't know, see your friends and family, enjoy New Year's Eve out or something like that, then devolution was terrible for you.
	And you're relying again on the natural instincts of liberty that are embedded in the English consciousness.
	Maybe the government shouldn't just shut everything down like literally a bunch of fascists.
	Maybe, just maybe, that's how things should be.
	So, yeah, maybe, but that's how the English think.
	So, we have to do the opposite.
	And so we look forward to all of our Celtic visitors.
	Excuse me.
	Talk about Jack Murphy.
	Talk about Jack Murphy.
	Jack Murphy.
	Do you mean Mr. John Goldman?
	Who has a pen name?
	Yeah.
	Jack Murphy, what is that to say?
	I posted something on Gab and Getter, actually.
	Let me get it up because this summarizes how I feel about sort of online manliness things.
	And it's not that, and you all know, I'm very much someone who is very concerned about the state of masculinity.
	Don't go licking the abs or anything like that.
	It's not that it's not at all that I'm not concerned about this.
	But I think there's a way that this should be done.
	And the sort of Jack Murphy types are not doing it.
	So I posted this on Getty.
	You should follow me on Getter, just at Carl Benjamin.
	Nearly 30,000 followers.
	Come on, let's do this.
	I'm really enjoying Getter, actually.
	I use it all the time, but you can follow me on Gab as well.
	I use both of these constantly.
	But I posted this too there.
	So I said, my advice to young men is to be suspicious of man gurus like Jack Murphy.
	You cannot distill a doctrine of manliness and impart it rationally to another person and expect them to be a man.
	Being a man is a habit that is learned over the course of a lifetime through trial and error and constant exposure to paternal figures.
	One unconsciously absorbs the patterns, behaviors, and reactions through circumstances befitting a man from good example, not through reasoning oneself into an ideology.
	Becoming a man requires a mentor to whom you are an apprentice.
	This is usually done from a fathered son out of a bond of affection between them.
	You can't pay for this privilege and expect satisfactory results.
	For fatherless young men who might find this to be a disappointing answer, my advice is to begin to trade a hobby, a craft that puts you in constant contact with a mentor figure from whom you can learn both the craft and habits of being a man.
	And I think that pretty much summarizes my view on Jack Murphy.
	He handled it really badly, didn't he?
	Really, really badly.
	Like, everyone has made mistakes in their lives.
	Massive mistakes.
	Jack dies his beard.
	If he dies his beard grey, God.
	Right.
	But anyway, so be cautious of, you know, man theorists or any theorists, really.
	Because being a man is something I think you have to do rather than think about too much.
	But Jack Murphy really handled it badly.
	Like, I watched, you know, the clips and how he dealt with it.
	And he kind of acted like a bit of a bitch about it, didn't he?
	And then the internet kind of went wild with it.
	And he didn't help himself out.
	He should have immediately, when Sidney Watson brought up this super chat, had just said, Yep, that was something I wrote, I think it was in 2015, so six years ago, when I was a different person and I made mistakes, and that was a mistake.
	I say, you know, you were falling into like left-wing patterns of thought or something like that.
	And I have learned from that why one shouldn't do this.
	And this is why.
	It made me feel this, it made me feel that.
	It ruined my relationship.
	I was degrading myself by being a cuckold.
	I don't know, Jack.
	You know, say whatever it is you like.
	Explain, you know, I've never written a blog speaking about how much I'm happy that my girlfriend is going off and getting fucked by another man through my idea.
	So I wouldn't actually know what he learned from that.
	But the point is, he could have owned it, right?
	And come out stronger on the other side of it by saying, This is why you shouldn't do it.
	Don't follow the road I've gone down.
	I learned a really bitter lesson doing this.
	Do the opposite.
	Do XYLZ that I will advise.
	You know, this is from my direct life experience.
	Don't experience this yourself.
	Instead, he clammed up like a total bitch.
	And then, you know, he's going on the warpath against Jeremy from the quartering.
	And, you know, he's been striking videos.
	Apparently, he's got some sort of war room.
	I mean, give Jim his credit.
	He is doing an amazing job covering this.
	Sorry, it's fireworks.
	That's why I thought I left my door open.
	Give Jim his credit.
	He's doing an amazing job covering this.
	It is hilarious.
	And yeah, and then, of course, his gay, not gay porn.
	Was it gay porn?
	It was a porno movie, right?
	Again, you know, things come out and it gets worse because of the way that he's reacting to it.
	He's not being a man about it.
	You know, he's not taking ownership of it.
	He should just essentially just cop to it and then say, yeah, and this is why you shouldn't do that.
	You know, I made a mistake.
	I've changed.
	I'm no renting your girlfriend.
	Well, it might be the ultimate path to being an alpha, but it's not a good path to being a man, is it?
	But no, Jim's been doing a really good job of this.
	It's been very funny.
	I've been trying not to indulge too much in it because I've got stuff to do, frankly.
	And he's a bit unhealthy, like enjoying this guy's Fall from Grace too much.
	I think it's a bit unhealthy.
	But yes, I think that Jack Murphy has done himself no favors and he has not been manly about the thing.
	And you should be slightly skeptical of someone who behaves in this way and yet presents themselves as a man.
	You know, this is not something I would trust.
	Because I've been ill, Daddo and Son.
	I've been ill and now I'm on holiday.
	But I'll be back in the new year.
	Don't worry.
	And they're doing a great job on the Lotus Case podcast without me.
	So, you know, it's an ultimate power.
	Yes, it is hilarious.
	I'm not going to lie.
	I'm not going to say it's not.
	I hear that Cuck Simulator on Steam has got a DLC.
	Anyway, so a couple of people saying, what about Lindsay Ellis?
	Well, what about Lindsay Ellis?
	You know, what about her?
	What about my darling, my sweetheart, who has left YouTube because of Twitter?
	Weird.
	She's doing great on YouTube.
	All the people in her comment section on YouTube think she's wonderful.
	Her videos get great views.
	Like, she's a YouTube phenomenon and still is, and is massively popular.
	Where isn't she massively popular?
	Oh, that's right.
	On Twitter.
	I mean, she's still popular on Twitter, obviously.
	But you've got a bunch of small, envious accounts, frankly, from even more radical leftists than her.
	And she's a pretty far-left person herself who are just sniping at her on grounds of purity and say, well, no, this is a racist post about Avatar the Last Embender and how a lot of modern anime is trying to be it.
	And it's like, well, look, Avatar was great.
	Why wouldn't they try to be it?
	But, like, that's not racist, right?
	You'd have to be a real lunatic to think that's racist.
	And she, for some reason, name searches herself.
	And I know that she name searched herself because she keeps quote-tweeting or did before she logged off, kept quote-tweeting like really small accounts going, I don't care.
	I hate Lindsay Ellis.
	Like, sure.
	There are always when you reach the level of fame Lindsay Ellis has, you're always going to find people who hate you.
	You can't let that get to you.
	You know, a few whining snipers on Twitter is just not worth your time, Lindsay.
	And I say this genuinely as someone who respects the success that you have.
	You have eight employees that you apparently fired in your leaving message that you posted to Patreon that they didn't know about, apparently, which seems rough.
	Way to announce it.
	By the way, Lindsay, all the internet's telling me that I'm fired.
	Doesn't seem very nice.
	Don't think you should do that.
	But there's no reason that you should stop doing YouTube.
	You're very popular and very successful on YouTube.
	What you should do is what you had done previously, like back in March, which is deactivate your fucking Twitter account because Twitter is an addictive drug.
	And it's an addictive drug that clearly has very negative qualities for certain, frankly, I think probably all people.
	But you particularly seem to be affected by it because you see a piece of criticism and it seems like the entire world has seen that piece of criticism.
	And it's not even criticism.
	It's just people literally saying, I hate Lindsay Ellis.
	I think she's a racist.
	Imagine being concerned about being called a racist in 2021, nearly 2022.
	Just imagine, like, that allegation hasn't been worn through enough.
	No, there's still some, there's still some, like, you know, magic in it.
	Racist.
	Oh, God, it still has an effect.
	God, fucking imagine giving a shit that some prick on Twitter is calling you a racist.
	That's all they do.
	The problem you have, Lindsay, is not YouTube.
	It is Twitter.
	Deactivate your Twitter account.
	Stay off it.
	Don't search for yourself on it.
	You don't need to know what the bottom feeders on Twitter are saying about you because you're busy making content that literally millions of people enjoy.
	Like, what a pathetic, ridiculous state you've found yourself in because of your addiction to Twitter.
	And it is an addiction.
	Admit it.
	Just admit it.
	But yeah, no, Christine Pete says, I don't think you understand to the left.
	Twitter is a definitive source.
	They can't admit it.
	Otherwise, they would have to admit their entire lives are useless.
	Yeah, well, that's exactly right.
	They are wildly addicted to Twitter because Twitter is a place where a person can be categorically right about progressivism.
	And if it turns out that being categorically right about being that Lindsay Ellis is a racist, then, well, I can see why she would end up so depressed.
	But it turns out, Lindsay, that they're not categorically right.
	You're not a racist, so just knock it off.
	Anyway, thank you, Kenny.
	When are we getting another tabletop RPG?
	Probably not for some time.
	I just too busy at the moment, frankly.
	It's nice that some people have still got Sargon Pillars.
	We have just started a new merch store on the Lotus Eaters, but there's not much on it yet, but we will get stuff on there.
	Am I scared of super chats?
	No, YouTube demonetized my channel.
	I couldn't turn on super chats even if I wanted to.
	Thoughts on the James Webb Space Telescope?
	Not really.
	What's been going on with the James Webb Space Telescope?
	I haven't been reading Ayn Rand.
	I've been really rather taken with a chap called Michael Oakeshott recently.
	I find his distinction between sort of rationalism and conservatism incredibly enlightening.
	I mean, he wrote this essay called Rationalism in Politics in 1963.
	And that's a great question, Skeptical Waves.
	Good C, by the way.
	And this essay essentially presages everything that has happened to us.
	The Tony Blair administration, the sort of, you know, George Bush, Tony Blair, and, well, Obama, I suppose, in the American case.
	But the takeover of the sort of rationalistic administrators to the point we're at now where literally scientists are dominating our nation.
	Scientists.
	People like Fauci and Chris Witty are just commanding our nations and how we should live our lives.
	We've arrived at this point, and he predicted all of this.
	And so it's pretty mad, to be honest.
	I'm about six inches and one butt plug away from a Jack Murphy beard.
	Well, at least I'll always be the butt plug away.
	Yeah, well, like, I don't hate Lindsay Ellis, right?
	I don't, like, sorry, Ivan's, like, doing an intervention for Lindsay Ellis as the year stream.
	I thought I'd never see.
	I don't hate Lindsay Ellis.
	I don't even hate her criticism.
	Like, you know, I've watched the odd video of hers.
	It's not terrible.
	I can see why there are progressives who like it.
	It's not for me.
	I like critical drinkers' criticisms, but, you know, like, that's fine.
	Horses for courses, you know, yin and yang, whatever.
	I'm not pleased to see anyone being driven off the internet because of a bunch of idiot progressive twats on Twitter.
	Like, this is another thing that I didn't want to go hard on Jack Murphy, because, I mean, everyone is.
	And I don't, I don't really want to, I don't really want to drive people like that, like, and go at them so hard.
	I'm not saying anyone needs to stop or anything like that, but I just don't want to be a part of it.
	And, like, I wish that Jack would instead change, right?
	You know, and say, look, I made a mistake.
	I shouldn't have tried to destroy the quartering.
	I shouldn't have evaded taking responsibility for the trash I'd put on the internet.
	I should take responsibility for it.
	I am a different man now.
	I've learned.
	I've matured.
	And I apologize, you know?
	And instead, he's gone embarrassing and childish with it.
	And it's like, look, just, you know, and Lindsay Ellis is the same thing.
	She's becoming embarrassing and childish by going, oh, I'm just so catatonic about some prats on Twitter.
	It's like, why?
	You know, grow up.
	For Christ's sake, the pair of you, grow the fuck up.
	Do I like Ragior Hollock?
	Of course I like Ragiholick.
	Like, there are a few channels who's basically every video that I watch, and Razor Fists is one of those.
	Talk about Adam and Sitch.
	Yeah, I went on Adam and Sitch's channel the other day, tried to explain to them that I think the problems that we're having now are from a commitment to reason and science, and that the view of the left, I guess we'll call it, but the sort of enlightenment view is, well, now the man needs to change.
	We've created the sort of rationalistic scientific system that's making us terribly depressed, atomized, and not happy with one another, not happy with ourselves, and alone, and addicted to our phones.
	Okay, look, perhaps there's a different way of doing things.
	And I don't think Adam and Sitch really got it, which is a shame.
	About half their audience did get it, and the other half didn't get it either.
	But about half their audience got it.
	So that's a good start.
	Like I said, I'm not nearly finished with what I'm doing yet.
	So really, I shouldn't have been interrupting anything with these ideas.
	But I will be at some point next year.
	And I will be better able to explain what I'm trying to say when it comes to it.
	Was the original Sargon really Nimrod?
	Maybe.
	Maybe.
	I'm not sure if the biblical story of Nimrod is supposed to be Sargon, but it's hard to think of who else it could have been, to be honest.
	But again, when you go and like, you know, 4,000 years ago, 3,000 years ago, I mean, you know, who knows?
	We don't really know.
	Anything anyone says about something like a statue or a story from 4,000 years ago, take it with a very, very, very large handful of salt because we probably don't know that.
	I've never read Ayn Rand, actually.
	I'm not a terribly big fan of Ayn Rand.
	It's not that I think she's bad or there's anything wrong, but I've had conversations with objectivists and they lead to the same kind of atomized place that the communists end up.
	And I think that basically this is where the Enlightenment goes, if left unchecked.
	Because there's the sort of what I guess we'll just call the traditional side of humanity and the animal side and the rational side.
	And the rational side, if given free reign to dominate over the animal side, actually doesn't take care of the animal side at all.
	And now I'm not saying that the animal side takes care of the rational side either.
	In fact, it's the opposite.
	Of course.
	If we commit purely to being animalistic and we do everything through intuition and never ever use our reason, then we end up as brutes and barbarians, right?
	But conversely, if we never accept that we have an intuitive animal side and we commit only to the rational side, then we end up as like soy-based metaverse inhabitants.
	And I really don't want that.
	I really do not want that.
	And so I do think there has to be a synthesis of the two going forward.
	And this is what I was trying to explain to Sitch and Adam.
	It's not that, I mean, you know, the meme that comes out of it is a science bad.
	It's like, no.
	What it is, is a commitment to science.
	Scientism is bad.
	you know, thinking that science is the, we've got the hammer.
	And so every problem is a nail that science can hammer in.
	And it's like, yeah, but if we've been literally hammering everything to the point where we're now destroying things, looking at the hammer and going, right.
	Okay.
	Well, I just need to hammer a little bit more until no, we need to put that down and pick up a screwdriver or something.
	We've got other things that we need to do.
	And there are other ways of looking at the world that don't involve concocting a scientific solution to things that will, I think, put people on a path towards a more happy and fulfilled and meaningful life.
	That's just basically what I was thinking.
	Without both, you become synthetic.
	Yeah.
	Well, without the animalistic side, you do.
	Yeah, synthetic is a good term for it.
	And without the rational side, you become bestial.
	So it's not that they aren't both necessary.
	Yeah, I'm not religious, though.
	I do think we need some sort of metaphysics, however.
	But because I'm not religious, I just think metaphysics is what we project outwards from ourselves.
	As Hume put it, the mind spreads itself on objects, external objects.
	And I think that's probably true.
	And I don't, yeah, well, saying science is bad, that's a meme, that's a joke.
	But that's right, Russell.
	Science is not a tool.
	Science is a tool, not a philosophy.
	That's exactly right.
	And yet we're adopting science as being the answer to everything because we've fallen purely into a materialistic view.
	We need to be able to construct some sort of metaphysics that explains who we are, why we're here, and what we should be doing.
	And if the left and the sort of Enlightenment can't do that and it collapses everything down into pure materialism, then that's not appropriate.
	Then that doesn't solve the problems that we're creating for ourselves.
	And I do think it is a lack of meaning and purpose.
	What I'm saying is a lack of metaphysics that is making everyone terribly depressed.
	And being like, you know, a Kuma who's in Nozick's pleasure machine doesn't make one happy.
	It doesn't give you purpose in life.
	It's still not good for you.
	Yes, I am still on the keto.
	Although I have to say over Christmas, I did break it a bit because, you know, it's Christmas.
	I'm good all year.
	Like, literally all year.
	I deserve a bit of time off.
	Anyway, like, let's, let's, what else has been going on?
	What else has been going on, folks?
	Do not blaspheme against Lord Fauci.
	Well, Lord Fauci is only possible with this scientismist worldview.
	And I can't stand it.
	I mean, there are so many reasons.
	But the primary reason is who the fuck is this guy?
	Who elected him?
	And how do we get rid of him?
	You know, I mean, like, the very basic principles of democracy would repudiate this scientism view, let alone anything else.
	And there are lots of other criticisms.
	So I'm triggering you as a nuclear engineer.
	I'm sorry, man.
	And I'm not saying, and I'm totally pro-nuclear power, by the way.
	Germany apparently is closing down like the last, like, three of their last six nuclear power plants.
	It's like, why?
	Like, it has to be ideological, but nuclear power is definitely the green energy source of the future.
	I don't care about the environment at all, you know, so I don't really give a shit about like, you know, environmental concerns because, like, it's just not my wheelhouse, right?
	But it's like, nuclear power is the safest form of energy, and it is also the most productive, and it's the most green.
	So it's like, why are we having a conversation about this?
	Like, from any practical, just pragmatic perspective, it has to be nuclear power.
	Anyway, yes, exactly.
	I'm glad you all agree with me in the chat, by the way.
	Like, because I see, like, this weird animus against nuclear power.
	It's like, no, it doesn't make any sense.
	Like you say, it's the most efficient and greenest, but it's also the safest.
	I saw a graph the other day, well, six months ago now, but it just showed the number of deaths because of various power sources.
	And nuclear power is just a tiny, tiny blip on the graph.
	Hardly anyone dies because of nuclear power.
	So it's just like, anyway, yeah, it solves a problem, doesn't perpetuate.
	Exactly.
	It doesn't promote an ideology, does it?
	It just solves a problem, and that's it.
	You know, that's something, that's a pillar of leftism that's taken away there.
	You know, oh, the environment, humans, bad, blah, blah, blah.
	And it's like, yeah, but we can solve that with nuclear power.
	So now what?
	And then it's like, well, I, you know, it's literally the meme.
	You know, I don't want a solution.
	I want to be angry.
	It's like, yeah, you just want to be angry.
	So go away, you know.
	It probably is because of hippies, but that was in the 60s, you know?
	And don't get me wrong, it probably is because of the Cold War and all, you know, fear of Chernobyl and things like that.
	But it's such obvious bollocks.
	You know, it doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
	So this is what I'm saying.
	I'm not against science.
	I'm against science, like going full Uncle Ted and crafting the new man and shaping man to fit the ideology rather than changing our views to fit what we are as men.
	That's what I'm saying.
	Because, I mean, look at where we're going.
	I don't think people are happy.
	I don't think they're going to get more happy.
	And I think things have to change.
	Thoughts on Oliver Cromwell?
	I don't know.
	Should I have some thoughts on Oliver Cromwell?
	Interesting historical figure.
	Acheeto says, science is very cringe.
	If we have all these science classes in school, we should also be teaching metaphysics to an extent.
	I don't disagree at all.
	You know, the problem is the Enlightenment seems to have failed to construct its own metaphysics, which is really interesting.
	I mean, you hear a lot from philosophers saying, well, look, the Enlightenment as a project is unfinished.
	And it's like, well, that's true, but not because it didn't finally reach the end point, which is essentially communism or some variant thereof.
	It's because it doesn't have a holistic view of what it is to be a human.
	It's got a one-dimensional view of what it is to be a human, which is kind of surprising given the airs it attaches and annexes to itself.
	Oh, we're going to use reason to fix all of man's problems.
	Okay, well, one of man's problems is not having a metaphysics.
	One of man's problems is just thinking of himself as a bundle of atoms and void.
	That's a problem.
	That's not good for us.
	But I think you're right on that, man.
	I've got about 20 minutes before I have to go.
	So just to let you know, this isn't going to be a long stream and it's not going to be any major thing.
	Great one from Squishy Hunter.
	Windmill blades are made from fiberglass, which cannot be recycled and end up in landfills.
	It's the same with solar power, isn't it?
	Like, I've seen memes going around, I guess.
	Like I said, don't trust me on this.
	But like solar power panels can't be recycled or just get binned or something like that.
	And so it's just like, this is mad, you know?
	But yeah, science is cringe, I've got to say.
	There are lots of people I'd like to unless CETAs.
	We will definitely, definitely look into these things in the new year.
	I am seeing all the comments.
	Don't worry.
	You've gone completely off the rails diet-wise in the last three months.
	Well, you've got to get yourself back on those rails.
	No one can do it for you.
	You've got to do it yourself.
	So tell people where you're going next.
	Well, nowhere until these bloody COVID restrictions are over.
	I'm not subjecting myself to any of it.
	I'm just not doing it.
	And so I can't really go anywhere at the moment.
	Will Ghislaine be Epsteined?
	Well, that's a great question, isn't it?
	Yes, the Ghislaine-Maxwell trial.
	I mean, it's a huge cover-up, right?
	It's obviously a huge cover-up.
	They had something like 20,000 images.
	Now, the allegations are that Epstein on his island in various mansions had set up a bunch of cameras to get compromat on the various scientists, politicians, and actors and celebrities who cavorted with him.
	And none of these are being made public.
	And then people are like, oh, well, some pictures are made public.
	Yeah, which ones?
	Maxwell giving Epstein a foot rub.
	So, yeah, the two people who are being accused.
	Yeah, we don't need those pictures.
	We need the pictures of the people they were associating with and what those people were doing with the young women, the girls that Epstein was trafficking and taking advantage of and, you know, whatnot.
	That's the question because we need to see the extent of the network that he was operating because he was operating a paedophile network.
	And none of it's going to come out.
	I don't think she's going to talk.
	I think she's essentially being given a sort of, it should be given essentially a kind of protection scheme in some way, I think.
	So obviously she won't leak anything, but nothing will happen.
	Or maybe she get Epstein'd.
	Who knows?
	I like the fact that Epstein has just entered the lexicon now.
	I certainly wouldn't rule it out or anything like that.
	But I have a funny feeling that she won't.
	I have a funny feeling that she won't.
	But I don't know.
	But it definitely, definitely seems like a cover-up to me.
	What are my thoughts on Stephen Michael Davis?
	I quite like Stephen Michael Davis.
	I actually watch quite a few of his videos whenever I get the chance to watch videos because watching him raking over progressors is thorough and I enjoy that.
	What are my thoughts on Hop's argumentation ethics?
	I haven't read them, I'm afraid.
	So I couldn't tell you.
	But would I be a roundhead or a cavalier?
	I mean, they both did have legitimate arguments, right?
	It makes sense to say Cavalier, roundhead, sorry, because they won.
	But the Cavaliers just look boss, so, you know.
	But then I don't, I agree with the fundamental premise that Charles didn't have the authority to be an absolute monarch.
	The English didn't have absolute monarchs prior to the Norman Conquest.
	This hadn't been a problem prior to that.
	And we shouldn't have them.
	And so I agree with the roundhead contentions in that way.
	But, I mean, look at them.
	They're a bunch of Puritans.
	God.
	What are my thoughts on Matrix Resurrections?
	I'm going to do a video on that, actually, in the new year for the Lotus Eaters.
	There's a lot there that I don't think people are paying attention to.
	But it basically comes from the fact that, look, when you have a very meta story, then the content of the story is actually about the person telling it and the situation they're in rather than the story itself.
	And people seem to be focusing on the story itself, and that's a bit of a distraction, right?
	It's not important, really, what the story of The Matrix is and what she's done with it.
	What's important is what she's saying about herself and her own situation.
	And again, how is it that you can be unbelievably wealthy, unbelievably famous, and own a franchise, well, probably not own, actually, at this point, but be responsible for a franchise as well loved as The Matrix and be terribly unhappy with your life?
	Gotta make you wonder, isn't it?
	Gotta make you wonder.
	I won't give it quite the full Starship Troopers breakdown, but I'll go through those bits that I think are important.
	It'll probably be about 10-15 minutes at most.
	But there is a fair amount there that's worth talking about.
	And so I will get that done.
	It's not like The Matrix itself, the film itself, right?
	I don't think it's as bad as everyone's saying.
	Like, I don't think it's actually that awful.
	It's not good, obviously.
	It is a bad film.
	But it may as well have been a YouTube video where she just explains how she feels about things.
	And that would have been a lot easier just to have, you know, a conversation about rather than going to the hassle of making a giant movie that then we have to now talk about in this meta sense because it's just there's a lot of wasted money, right?
	And it just feels like it's like, I feel like we're going through the motions by having to watch it to discuss the message that she's trying to put across.
	I mean, she could have just tweeted out or something.
	But again, I understand that she was basically under the heel of Warner Brothers.
	And so the film is about Lana Wachowski getting cucked.
	A Jack Murphy production.
	Talk about the ethics and morality of cuckolds.
	Okay, it's unethical and immoral.
	Well, you know what?
	That's interesting, though.
	One thing that I do notice is that nobody is really explaining why it's unethical and immoral.
	And I find that frustrating because, like, you know, this is what Jack should have come out and said, look, this is what I've learned.
	Like, you're violating the sanctity of your relationship.
	You're making the very relationship that you have that should be precious and pure with the person that you love.
	You're making that sordid and dirty and gross.
	And that's why this is bad.
	You're degrading yourself.
	You're degrading your wife or girlfriend, whatever it is.
	You are not upholding an oath that you have between one another.
	And this is why it's bad.
	But nobody is saying that for some reason.
	It's like, okay, but, you know, everyone's just like, eee, it's gross.
	Like, yeah.
	Yeah.
	But you need to be able to rationalize why, because otherwise it makes those people who are pro-cockoldry think, well, is it that gross?
	You know, maybe.
	It's like, no, it's wrong.
	It's absolutely wrong.
	Time to revisit Demolition Man.
	Well, I mean, you're fucking living every day now, aren't you?
	Imagine this is another thing that is in the Matrix.
	Like, what I love about watching Hollywood movies now is the normalization of therapy.
	They think everyone on earth just goes to therapy.
	It's just a normal part of their lives.
	It doesn't indicate there's something desperately wrong with California and the people who live there, New York as well, by the way.
	These things are just totally normal.
	Everyone they know goes to therapy.
	And so, oh, we'll just put it in our films.
	So I was with my therapist, and my therapist said, What do you mean you were with your therapist?
	Well, yeah, I can't, you know, obviously, don't you see your therapist?
	No.
	Because I don't have a mental issue.
	Like, what the hell is wrong with you?
	Like, you don't realize that you have problems that are so deep and founded within the very lifestyle you lead that you think you can just see a therapist pay someone to pretend to give a shit about your problems.
	Like, this is the same as trying to pay Jack Murphy to be a man.
	Like, these people don't care about you.
	They can't really help you.
	They don't personally know you, and they've got no direct investment other than the utility of the money that you give them.
	They don't care.
	You know, you need to find a proper, real relationship that is based on sentimentality, that is based on genuine love.
	People who actually care about you.
	Anyway, anyway, moving, moving on, moving on.
	do i have anything on my reading list 22 and 2 that i'd recommend um a few things Yeah, what can I recommend that I can say on YouTube?
	Okay, yeah, so go for the Michael Oak shot rationalism in politics.
	That's an essay, right?
	It's a 40-page essay.
	But there's a book that you can read.
	I haven't read the whole thing either.
	It's a lot of essays.
	But he's a very witty, should I say? Very, very tactful conservative philosopher.
	And he's got a very good eye for the problem of what's going on.
	And I genuinely view this essay as having opened my mind to certain problems.
	Even if I'm not articulating it brilliantly when I'm talking to Aden and Serge.
	But there's definitely an underlying truth that he's hit upon here.
	So I definitely recommend that.
	And what do I think about Tradcons trying to turn back the cycle clock?
	Well, this is the problem, right?
	There's no turning back a clock.
	They only go one way.
	There's only forward into the future.
	I've read the Enchoridion by Epictetus.
	And if you go to the Ancient Recitations channel, you can hear me reading it instantly.
	Epictetus, so I like Stoics.
	Stoics come in like a spectrum of flavors.
	You've got the sort of moderate Marcus Aurelius types who are very useful for an average person.
	And then you get autists like Epictetus who are like, so if you find yourself being tortured by an enemy after you've been captured in a siege, that's your fault.
	It's like, okay, hang on, calm down.
	You know, some things are actually beyond your control.
	It's like, yeah, but you found yourself in that being a bit autistic there.
	But what was I saying?
	I'll say something else there.
	I definitely would recommend people watch Actual Justice Warrior, Sean Fitzgerald.
	He's very good.
	He's very, very good.
	And thorough as well.
	Like, he has a very, very thorough deconstruction of every subject he goes into.
	Because the thing is, a lot of the problem that I have is I just don't have time to look into every single sort of contested event that the left doing.
	So, you know, oh, this person in this town did this thing, and now you have to know all of the law that surrounds it in order to be able to challenge their narratives on these things.
	And Sean does that, and he does a really good job of it.
	He does a really thorough job of it.
	And I watched his debate with James Lindsay against Jangles and someone else.
	And Sean just did so well.
	He just had all of the knowledge straight to hand.
	And he just did a brilliant, brilliant job.
	Totally recommend him.
	Totally.
	Yeah, best case breakdown artist.
	Have I seen the Mr. Girl and Destiny talks?
	No.
	I haven't.
	Is it good?
	I've heard, I've heard people saying things.
	Something like, Mr. Girl and Vorsch should have a conversation, and Vorsch started yelling at him that it was a pedo.
	And it's like, okay, Vorsh.
	I'm sure that you were the one yelling that.
	Right, okay.
	Would you ever consider covering the history of political parties in the UK, like the Whigs to the Libs into the present day?
	I think that's what Cal will probably do.
	He's very interested in that.
	So he'll probably do that.
	Is there a YouTuber called Young Ripper?
	He was making it.
	Let me check.
	I think I know who you're talking about.
	I think I know he talks.
	I think I am subscribed to him.
	Young Ripper59.
	Yeah, yeah, I am subscribed.
	Yeah, I've seen a few of his videos.
	Yo, there we go.
	You can hear it.
	He makes content about, oh, YouTube has unsubscribed me from him.
	Right, okay.
	Well, I was subscribed to him until I look him up, and that's why I haven't seen any of his videos for a long time.
	YouTube and unsubscribed me.
	But I don't get that much time to watch content, and so I don't tend to watch entertainment content these days.
	So, yeah, honestly, yeah, like, but he seems like a.
	I remember watching a couple of his videos a while ago now where he's talking about progressives.
	And he's like, look, these progressives are lunatics, and this is why.
	And he gave a really good breakdown.
	And I was like, okay, very good.
	You know, and that's what made me subscribe, in fact.
	Yeah, Rikita has been on fire as well.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah.
	He's been very much enjoying the Jack Murphy stuff.
	Hassan getting banned on Twitch.
	Yeah, that was funny.
	And Vorsch, too, in fact.
	That was very, very funny.
	Turns out that just using ethnic slurs for the sake of it is something that Twitch don't approve of.
	It's weird, isn't it?
	Weird.
	And it turns out that Twitch has confirmed that there are ethnic slurs against white people.
	Good to know.
	Good to know.
	What's my game of the year for 2021?
	I don't know.
	What have I been playing?
	I haven't been playing much.
	Shut up, Steam.
	My game of the year.
	Well, I mean, nothing that I played came out this year.
	So I don't know.
	I enjoyed Bannerlord.
	Arch is starting an ARC server again, so I've been playing that a bit.
	I don't think it's public yet, so can't shill it properly yet.
	But yeah, and, you know, I play Rome 2 occasionally on Twitch.
	Now that sounds.
	I know, that sounds not bad now.
	Who's the best psychic?
	Terrangel, Kibbs, or V?
	Well, V isn't anyone psychic.
	But, ah, God, I don't know.
	I don't want to offend Terrangel or Kibbs.
	So I don't know.
	I'm going to have to say Callum.
	Callum's not a psychic either.
	I'm joking.
	Is Kraut an ethnic slur?
	Yes.
	Yeah, I had to load up Steam to see, you see.
	That's why.
	How do I recommend successfully finding a good relationship in this awful culture we're in?
	Well, that's a great question.
	I actually, let me get a reply to that post I had posted about manliness, man gurus, because there was a really good post on there by a guy that I totally sympathized with.
	Like, he was at, he's absolutely right that, like, you know, Generation X guys like me and boomers just don't understand how bad things are for young men.
	And it's awful.
	Like, I follow all of the OnlyFans girls posting their L's, sort of, you know, those sort of pages on, you know, Facebook and whatnot and whatnot.
	And it's, I'm on a Facebook ban for 30 days, by the way.
	So if anyone's following my Facebook page and wondering why I'm not posting, it's because I posted something true about the Omicron variant, about the symptoms instantly of the Omicron variant.
	But anyways, by a guy called Lethin at L-E-T-H-N on Gab.
	And he says, I think people in general need to stop trying to force what their view of a real man is onto young men and boys, and we should ignore their opinions on anything.
	No offense to you, Sargon, in particular, because I know you're coming from a caring place.
	But older men, especially those who are married, have no fucking idea what they're talking about when telling young men what to do in life and how to get a woman.
	Now, I'm actually very sympathetic to this because I'm, I think, much more aware than other people my age of what it is progressives have done to young women.
	And we covered on the Lotseys podcast this one, it was an article by a woman who was talking about the way, I think she was a therapist or something, I can't remember what she was, but she was talking about the way that young women see young men.
	And it was just harrowing.
	Like, the Generation Z women have been totally flattened by millennial materialism into viewing any interaction with a man as a transaction.
	Just that's it.
	And so, and the reason this came up is because apparently millions of them are basically using some sugar baby website where they're just like, well, if my interactions with men are just purely transactional, if there's no sentiments then, no love, no caring, no, no mutual feeling, then I may as well just date a really rich man and just get loads of money off him and then great.
	And there are millions of them using this website, apparently.
	It's like, Jesus fucking Christ.
	Imagine being a young man in this romantic ecosphere where women are just like, okay, how much do you weigh?
	How tall are you?
	You know, the meme of, well, how tall are you?
	It's like, well, what if I'm a really nice person?
	You know, don't care.
	You know, off next month.
	It's like, okay, great.
	You know, bad luck, lads, you know, if you're average height, you know, and so the view that these young women have of men, and I'm not saying men are in any better condition either, but you know, I can, from the perspective of Lethin here, I can totally see how these things are terrible.
	And that the things that I, the options I had open to me when I was his age, are just not open to him now because there are just not the kind of women around.
	But that isn't to say there aren't those kinds of women, in fact, because I'll find another thing that I'd found from 4chan going around.
	I wasn't on 4chan, it was just, you know, in my feed.
	And so it's a post by a young woman on 4chan.
	And she's like, you know, I'm a 24-year-old feminine.
	I invite a guy over from Tinder.
	He's super cute, possible boyfriend.
	And we have sex.
	I don't really enjoy the sex.
	And then after he comes, he just takes this wine and goes.
	And she's left there, like, all on her own.
	And she says, why do all my Tinder dates end like this?
	I just want to be held.
	I just want companionship.
	And so on one side, I've got the young man on Gab there.
	And then the other side, I've got the young woman posting on 4chan.
	And you can see that what they're looking for is something that can't be provided by the left and progressives.
	And they don't know.
	Like, this is like the young men probably do know, actually, because this guy is obviously a lot more in tune.
	But this woman is being so poorly advised by feminists on how to be a woman.
	I mean, like, you know, why do my Tinder dates end like this?
	It's the have-sex part.
	It's the fucking have-sex part.
	Go and ask your grandmother whether you should have sex with a man on the first date if you ever want to see him again.
	Honestly, it's just embarrassing how little understanding of men young women seem to have.
	But anyway, I'm going to have to go in a minute.
	So just very quickly.
	So he says, you are correct when it comes to talking about the dynamics of how the community have changed and how it comes to the way we interact with each other.
	But I don't think you'll ever truly realise how badly it's changed for men my age and younger.
	It's bad enough when phony tradcom women pull the whole you're not a real man unless you symp for me routine, thinking they can shame men into marriage.
	But yeah, it's an even bigger piss take when you see boomer men who have been married for years and never take off the ring, belittle young men and act like they just need to go outside to get women.
	They definitely don't understand the level of risk a young man is taking these days.
	Sometimes even for their physical safety, they approach a woman and she's not in the mood.
	Again, don't take this as me attacking you specifically.
	I didn't, by the way, don't worry.
	Just talking about older men generally not having a clue.
	Joe Rogan, for instance, comes across this way as well.
	Jack Murphy is really just a symptom of a larger problem among older and boomer men who just don't get it but pretend to.
	I totally hear you.
	I totally hear you.
	I can't imagine what it would have been like to have had every woman around me being like just a feminist.
	There is no way, there is no way I would have dated any of these women.
	And you wouldn't look at them as anything other than a sexual conquest either.
	And so if you're looking for something more meaningful, man, you've got problems, haven't you?
	So just to be clear, I am sympathetic.
	And I do understand that it's not just go outside and meet a woman.
	Because what are you going to meet?
	Everyone's on their phones anyway.
	Like, what are you going to do?
	It's really, it's a different world.
	And not a better one either.
	But this is where the scientismists brought us.
	And if we're going to escape from it, it's going to require us to change our perspective on what it is to be a person and possibly learn some self-restraint in the process.
	And we're going to have to teach women how to be women again in order to be able to teach young men how to be men.
	Not good.
	Big, very big ask.
	But I'm afraid I have to go because I did promise Simon that I'd be on a stream.

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