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May 7, 2022 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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Understanding the Problem

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	Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome to another late-night live stream.
	Because I had some thoughts in my mind, and I thought I'd come and share them with you.
	But first, let me make sure that everything is working in the background as it should.
	Because I don't deal with the boomer stuff at the background anymore, do I?
	So, I've got to make sure I'm doing it all right.
	Hang on a second.
	I hope you're all very well, by the way.
	I will get the chat up very shortly.
	Good.
	There we go.
	That's something.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Excellent.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Hello, chat.
	I can see you now.
	I hope you're all doing very, very well.
	Do I roam with a black light?
	No.
	I don't really know what that means.
	What's the skull stuff?
	Someone made that for me out in America.
	And it cost me $1,000 to get back to Tim Poole.
	Helped me get the Sargon axe back.
	And I've had it ever since.
	But anyway.
	So, I recently have been studying the concept of aesthetics a lot.
	And I think that there is a lot in there as a concept that we will all benefit from understanding.
	Because suddenly it makes a lot more sense out of the things that we've been thinking about.
	But I'm going to frame all of this around Warhammer 40,000.
	And so to begin, I'm going to show off something I've painted.
	If you do, if you don't mind.
	This is my Terminator Captain.
	Can I make him a bit smaller so you can see it properly?
	No, apparently not.
	What?
	Why not?
	Why can't I do that?
	There we go.
	This is my Terminator Captain.
	I have wanted a Terminator Captain for, I mean, it's got to be coming on about 30 years.
	Because when I first started playing Warhammer, I never played Space Marines.
	Everyone played Space Marines.
	Space Marines were gay because everyone was playing them.
	So I played Orcs and Chaos and Tyranitz and Eldar and everything else, you know.
	but I never had a space marine army and so now that I have a space marine army because my son wanted the necrons and they came in a box with space marines uh I thought oh well at least I can always now I can get the space marine units that I've always wanted to have And one of them was a Space Marine captain in Terminator armor.
	I just think they look neat.
	I've very much got the Marge Simpson take on this.
	And this guy took me a lot of work to paint, but I'm really pleased with him.
	I'm really pleased with how his cloak came out as well.
	Sort of like the dark red trimmed with gold.
	I think it's very, very striking.
	And I just really think it pulls the piece together well.
	As well as the sort of cream under his cloak.
	And I'll tell you what, man.
	I swear to God, Games Workshop is still using the same bleached skull, like cream colour from when I was young.
	And it was shit then, and it's shit now.
	And it's horrible to work with.
	It is easily the worst paint to work with.
	You've got to layer it so many times.
	Sorry, I've got a bit of a sniffle as well, apparently.
	My wife's had a cold.
	And this is the only bit of tissue I've got.
	Oh, God.
	I'm so ill-prepared.
	Anyway, but I'm really pleased with them.
	I thought it came out well.
	And it's not that I'm like the best painter or anything.
	Because I know I'm not.
	But I think I'm okay.
	But the thing that I think is important is that there is a certain kind of aesthetic that this guy pulls together, right?
	He's the colour choices that I'm making are deliberate in order to not overwhelm you.
	There's enough detail on there that he's interesting to look at, but also you're drawn certain parts of him.
	And that's what I'm really most pleased about.
	The fact that he comes off looking, I think, okay.
	Chat, what do you think?
	You better be like, oh, yeah, he's brilliant, man.
	He's brilliant.
	Who's my favourite Primark?
	Well, since I'm playing Dark Angels, obviously the Lion.
	Dark Angels did nothing wrong, by the way.
	Well, I don't mind if the Black Templus pursues a Primaris.
	I don't mind the Primaris, to be honest.
	I don't understand why they didn't just introduce him as like, here's a new armor upgrade, blah, blah, blah.
	But anyway.
	The reason I'm framing all of this like this, because I think that the stories we tell actually are important.
	And I think this is why the progressive, and the progressives know this too.
	The left, the insections are very aware of this.
	One of the essays in Critical Race Theory, the big book that I had to read, is very, very insistent that essentially they flood the airwaves with their stories and make sure everyone is aware of what it is they think.
	It's oh, God.
	But this is why they're busy on a quest to pervert everything.
	Everything.
	And this is the best example.
	So I've not watched Vikings, this new Viking show.
	I don't care about it in any way, shape, or form.
	Other than this is a vehicle for progressive propaganda.
	Now, the point though is that if you say, listen, I think this is Jarl Hackenson or something like that.
	Now, historically, wasn't a black woman, was a Norwegian man or a Danish man.
	You could have done better.
	Oh, give me a break.
	I thought it was pretty good.
	Right?
	Anyway.
	Anyway, dicks.
	The point being, when someone does this to you, they're doing it on purpose.
	This is essentially a shit test.
	They are essentially just, it's a challenge to you to say, listen, are you on our side or are you not?
	This is a way of drawing a line in the sand and demanding that you agree with them or you're a racist.
	What could your objection to a black woman in this be?
	Oh, it's just because you hate black women.
	Well, this is why I think that 40k is actually an instructive lesson in this.
	And this is why I wrote this like 16,000 word essay.
	I've linked it in the description, but I also included a, I spent an afternoon recording the entire thing as an audio track.
	So it's two hours long, but you know, put it on, play some video games, paint some miniatures, whatever.
	And I will explain it to you in great detail.
	And to say that I'm going into great detail, I think it's understating it somewhat.
	I'm not trying to blow my own horn here.
	But this is like basically my magnum opus on the subject.
	And I think that I'm really, really hammering these points down hard.
	And I think that this is actually quite firm ground from which we can push back.
	And I'm thinking of the kind of analysis we get from cultural critics, right?
	You get some cultural critics who are left-wing and shit.
	And then you get cultural critics who are not left-wing.
	And I'm not saying they're right-wing either.
	But I guess if we're going to have to dichotomize, you're either left-wing or you're right-wing, then they could be called the right-wing critics, although they're not right-wing.
	But one of the issues with the left is that the reason that they say, oh, everything that's not us is right-wing, is because it's literally the commitment to the concept of change, the dissentian aspect of the left, is that if they aren't at the destination, which is where they want to be, which is essentially the communist utopia, where it is just Rousseau savage.
	People wandering around in the woods, but the woods being our civilization under the rule of the social contract, and everything has been geometrically arranged, as Burke would put it.
	If you're not in favor of simply uprooting everything that we have and having revolutionary change, and you think that maybe some of the things that exist are actually worthy and they demonstrate their virtue, then you are essentially, in some way, a conservative.
	As in, if you think, well, I think that the common law is a good idea.
	Maybe we shouldn't have one rule for all.
	Then, okay, that's great, but that's not what they're asking for.
	They're actually going to need a tier system for the races to have different rules for different races, which is what you see acted out every day.
	Whenever the progressives report on, say, a crime, and you see, oh man, you see this every time.
	Oh, there's a mass shooting.
	And you literally see them on Twitter going, please let him be white, please let him be white, please let him be white.
	It's like, why?
	Well, because they want special treatment for different races.
	And a mass shooter who's part of one of their favored races makes them look bad.
	As far as they're concerned, it makes the entire race look bad, which I think is just wild.
	But then they're busy pathologizing every white person based on a white mass shooter.
	So it's just the mirror image.
	Obviously, when someone goes on a mass shooting, other people who share the same skin color as that person are not responsible for it.
	Don't know why I have to say that.
	Well, I do know I have to say it, actually.
	But anyway, I feel that maybe I should make my position known as an individualist liberal.
	That's not what I'm in favor of.
	These people are monstrous.
	But the point being is that they are actively seeking this to equalize out the consequences of people existing in a society.
	Now, I don't think those things should be equalized out.
	I'm not a communist.
	I'm in favor of freedom, which means that you will inevitably get inequality.
	And so in their attempt to equalize all of these things out, they have to play favorites like this.
	And one of the angles of attack that they use is going through your media.
	They want to normalize everything that you see around you and have it so that everything represents their idealized worldview.
	I mean, if you live in England, say, have you tried watching normie adverts recently?
	There is a reason that we were talking about on Lotus Eaters why Americans have no idea what their own country actually looks like.
	Like, Americans, when polled, think that a third of the country is Muslim and 40% of it is black.
	And somewhat like 20 to 30% are gay and trans and things like this.
	It's like, wow, why would they think that?
	I mean, black people are 12%, Muslims are 1%, gay and trans are 1% probably combined.
	Like, why would they be so out of touch?
	And it's because of the way things are represented on the TV.
	They know that your worldview is brought in by your perceptions.
	And if you constantly see something over and over and over, you will eventually start thinking, well, that's the way the world is.
	And the thing is, they're not wrong at all.
	And you're not wrong for thinking that that's the way the world is.
	So going back to my great essay here, I'm going to give you a quick overview of some of the points that I'm making in it.
	But again, I really would recommend going and either reading it or listening to the two-hour audio version.
	Because I think it's important to understand in depth why these things are as they are.
	But so I begin really by analysing the difference between left and right and explaining, look, we can literally hammer down what is left wing and what is right wing from the mouths of the leftists and from good scientific work that's been done on this.
	I mean, basically, Jonathan Haidt, I think, is exactly right on this.
	And it turns out that the left are only concerned about...
	Both left and right are concerned about liberty, so I'm just going to leave that off.
	There are six moral foundations.
	Care, fairness, loyalty, authority, sanctity, and liberty.
	Now, left and right are both concerned about liberty, but they define it in different ways.
	But the left just does not care at all about sanctity, authority, and loyalty.
	They only care about care and fairness.
	As in, is there physical harm being done to someone?
	Or is someone getting their just desserts?
	And we define these things differently, obviously.
	But that's what they're concerned about.
	Whereas the right are concerned about all of these things relatively equally, actually.
	They respect that sanctity, say, you know, a child's innocence, is important.
	But the left don't view that as important at all.
	Hence, the current scandal of the grooming that the left has been doing to children.
	They, of course, don't respect authority.
	They don't have any loyalty at all to anything or anyone.
	They are totally isolated and independent of one another and bound together only by shared ideological agreement.
	And that's why the left is so constantly infighting, constantly backbiting.
	Like, you just don't see this.
	Like, look at these just the lefty creators.
	Look at the way they are.
	And then look at the wholesomeness that is, say, Critical Drinker, Mauler, Heels vs. Babyface, and that community, that Star Wars girl, all that community.
	They're so nice.
	Gundam, they're lovely, they're kind, they're decent.
	And it's because I think they have a shared loyalty to one another.
	You know, they're friends.
	They like each other.
	And they're not going, oh, we have difference of opinion.
	Right, that means that is, in fact, a moral transgression to the left.
	And it's like, right, okay, so, I mean, you know, now we're at war, basically, is where the left ends up going with that.
	Whereas if you look at the wholesomeness of Drinker and Mauler and their community, it's just like, man, this is just a totally different world.
	It's a totally different worldview.
	And I think that the again, I don't want to call them right-wing.
	It's not that they're right-wing, but they're just normal.
	You know, they're just decent people.
	But the people who are not highly politicized in every aspect of their lives, I think they do.
	And if you were to ask them, they would say, yeah, I care about loyalty, authority, sanctity.
	Of course, you know, these things are obviously important, as well as care, fairness, and liberty.
	And so it's important to like have this distinction.
	And then you've got in the way that they know things.
	Now, a lot of the analysis done by the, say, drinkers' community, I'll just call it that for now because I haven't got a better term for it.
	And then the sort of like the bread tubers.
	You notice a lot of it's completely different.
	The bread tubers do do sort of what they call textual analysis, but they consider that to be lowbrow.
	What is highbrow to them is to introduce politics into things and of course give their political take and show, oh, look, this representation.
	Look at this.
	Look at this from my left-wing commie lens.
	It's okay, great.
	Who cares?
	Right.
	And what Mauler's and Drinkers' community is doing is exploring the aesthetic value of this thing.
	And it seems that the bread tubers actually fail to understand what the purpose of that is.
	And so this is definitely, I think, a distinction between the left and right.
	They are very rationalistic.
	They are thinking in terms of a priori reason, whereas the drinkers' community are thinking of the experience you have as you're going through it.
	Like, does this make a pleasurable experience or not?
	And that's important to art.
	That's why we engage in it, or part of the reason we engage in it, is to be entertained.
	Now, there are also other reasons that we engage in it.
	And one of the aspects I think is really worth hammering home here is that Aristotle, I think, is right about the purpose of art, is that it is an imitative form of knowledge gathering.
	It is a way to understand people around us.
	And one of the things that we learn and that we're taught by the artist is about human psychology.
	Why do people do things?
	And this, I think, hammers, it really hits the point of why the progressive tendency to lionize the villain.
	They themselves take on the role of the villain.
	What was Brie Larson when she's like steals the guy's clothes in that shit movie she was in, where she's just obviously being the villain because she's playing on, oh, this guy was being misogynistic to me or something.
	Okay, but that doesn't justify this massive power differential in you being cruel to him.
	Yeah, sure, he's being an asshole, but like, this doesn't justify you, you crippling him and stealing from him at all.
	You know, wildly disproportionate.
	But if this is an imitation of reality, what they're saying is that they think that that's a just thing to do.
	That's a righteous thing to do.
	And that to everyone else would be like, right, okay, that person's the villain, without a doubt.
	And so, what we learn from that, from the intuitive aesthetic side of things, we are learning a lesson about evil.
	What we are seeing there is saying, right, okay, that's the kind of thing that person thinks.
	That's the kind of perspective that they have on the world.
	And these are the kind of things that they will do if given the opportunity.
	Now, of course, they're not all going to have the opportunity that Brie Larson's character had because she was a superhero.
	But if they were, well, I mean, be a lot more like Homelander, wouldn't they, than Superman?
	That's right, Andrew.
	He looked at her in a manner.
	I think he was slightly condescending to her as well.
	It's been a while since I've seen the clip, but it's just, you know, this is a villain.
	You are looking at a villain and the backstory of a villain, and they identify with that villain.
	And they can't understand why you don't see the thing that they see.
	And so this, I think, is important because, again, it speaks to the fact that there are other concerns.
	You know, there are other concerns.
	Like, there is, you know, authority, loyalty, sanctity.
	Like, that you should, like, sanctity in particular, it is wrong to simply violate a person in the way that Brie Larson does, right?
	That's, it is just fundamentally wrong.
	However, they don't care about sanctity.
	They care about equity.
	And so this person deserves it.
	And that's the story that they're telling you.
	This is the imitation of reality they're presenting to you.
	And this is the reason why internal consistency matters.
	Now, a lot of the Lethbridge content creators seem to, like the Bread Tube analysts, seem to think that fidelity and internal consistency are not really very important at all.
	Which is, again, why you end up with this.
	What are you doing with this?
	Why would this ever have come to pass?
	Why are we having black hobbits in the Shire?
	Why have we got, you know, not even just black, like Maori hobbits?
	You know, why have we got a black female Viking?
	Why are you doing this?
	Like, you're not trying to make me believe that you are creating an illusion, right?
	Because that's what a piece of art is.
	It's a kind of illusion that drags us in.
	Again, I explain all of this in this piece.
	So definitely go check it out.
	I sweat it.
	worth your time.
	But this, the point is, art is a kind of micro-universe that we were brought into and we're told a story and the rules of the universe are set and they have to be realistic.
	We have to be able to believe them.
	Now they can be fantastical.
	That's fine.
	We buy that Daenerys has dragons because the story sets it up that there are reasons that this would be the case and this is a fantastical world.
	That's okay.
	And what would happen?
	If there was some mad queen with dragons well, she might go on a terrible burning spree uh, but that's not.
	You know, that's not the reason that Game Of Thrones was terrible.
	There are other.
	I'm not even going to go on into why Game Of Thrones was terrible at the end um, i'm just going to leave it there.
	Uh, i'll let an academic agent deal with it um, but the point is they're not trying to persuade you that they are creating a kind of magical universe in which we're going to go back in time a thousand years and see the world through the eyes of the vikings.
	You, you know, that's not what they're doing here, because if they wanted to do that, they certainly wouldn't have picked this person.
	No, what they want to do is use the concept of the, the piece of art, as a skin suit.
	They are introducing something alien to the the, the universe itself, which is progressive politics.
	Now they're like, oh look, black female viking representation.
	Okay, you can be a rapist if you want.
	I mean, the vikings are a bunch of rapists.
	Don't know why you want to be represented as them.
	You know, that's not exactly, not exactly an enviable role, is it?
	Uh, I guess it's empowering when a black woman does it, who knows um?
	But the point is that they're deliberately trying to pervert what you're trying to enjoy, and they're doing it to propagandize you the message.
	They know that this is a form of imitation and so they think that if they can get you to believe this, then you are coming into their sort of sphere of influence and, in a way, you are.
	I think.
	In a way that's genuinely what's happening, and this all, of course, stems from the concept of the personal is political.
	Um, they think that everything that you do, everything that you see, is a manifestation of a form of politics, and maybe to them it is, and maybe to you it is, maybe you don't even realize that's the case.
	Okay, why should we agree with your politics?
	If that's the case, then all that does is demand that either you agree with their politics or you continue with your own politics.
	And it's like, well, why wouldn't I just commit to my own?
	Let's assume everything is political.
	Okay mine me, I like my stuff my way, like i'm under no obligation to buy into your progressive representative politics.
	What, why?
	Why politically, do I have to agree with this?
	Oh, is black women so oppressed?
	Yeah, I don't really believe it?
	I don't know, don't really agree don't don't, don't believe it, don't agree, think you're full of shit, think you're being subversive and think you're trying to destroy things that otherwise could have been good.
	Uh, so no, I just reject this outright.
	Um, but the but.
	The point is that okay, so they see everything as being political.
	Uh, so let's talk about political representation.
	There's a great uh piece by Hannah Pitkin who talks about in depth the concept of political representation.
	And so suddenly all of this becomes political representation.
	This is not merely like, oh, representation for the sake of it because it's good for black women.
	No, no, no.
	This is a political maneuver.
	And I think that she's right when she, what was the, my memory's terrible.
	There's a particular, there's a particular type of representation here.
	So she's got the formalistic representation, which is institutional political power.
	I mean, there's a black woman who's the vice president of the United States.
	There are black women on the Supreme Court.
	There are black women everywhere, right?
	They seem to have formal political power.
	And this, one would think, is substantive.
	So they act in the interest of black women, maybe.
	I mean, I don't really think they do, actually, but I think from their point of view, they would argue they do.
	Then you've got symbolic representation.
	This is, of course, symbolic.
	And then you have descriptive representation as in the way that the representative stands for a particular group based on observable characteristics.
	Well, that's completely the substantive, the descriptive and the formalistic are all things that they're completely open about.
	They completely talk about.
	But I think that really, when it comes to art, it's the symbolic representation that they're going for.
	It's not what this thing is intrinsically, this representation.
	It's what it is in your head.
	And that's what they're trying to get at.
	They're trying to make you think in a different way and make the symbol more important than your ability to engage with the art faithfully.
	And again, there's no reason why you have to accept that.
	But I'm going to keep going on because otherwise I'll talk about one subject forever.
	And this, I think, explains why Warhammer has been at the cusp of conquest of the progressives for such a long time.
	And in fact, they're completely surrounded.
	They're in a sea of progressives.
	And they don't know what to do about this because their property is the most intrinsically right-wing thing in the world.
	And they can't make it progressive without destroying the entire thing from the inside.
	So, for example, female space marines is the first way that feminists, when they're like, oh, we need female this, female that, female this, and the other in the video games.
	It's like, okay.
	But if we give them female space marines, then the entire universe of Warhammer is destroyed.
	Because the entire thing is predicated on the universe being the worst thing in the world.
	It's literally the grimmest, darkest universe you can imagine.
	So yeah, it's pretty bad.
	I mean, I probably picture worse, but it is as bad as it gets.
	And it's why Warhammer is an interesting universe.
	It's why it's exciting.
	And so, okay, well, what does the Imperium need to stay alive?
	It needs superhuman, trans-human, cyber-soldier-type things, you know, genetically modified freaks of nature that are all they do is fight for hundreds of years and that's all they do, kill the enemies of the Imperium.
	Yeah, okay, well, we're gonna start doing this long, expensive, difficult, mystical process.
	We're gonna start doing it to girls.
	So why would you do that?
	Why would you do that?
	And I mean, I go in detail as to why, like, you wouldn't.
	There are just so many reasons that you would not choose a woman for a super soldier.
	And these are physical reasons.
	And this is not just about the upper body strength or the density of bones and the density of the muscles or anything like this.
	I mean, it even goes down to like eyes.
	The way men's eyes react to movement is faster than women's.
	And it's like men can see fewer colors than women.
	And yet, you know, and for whatever reason, I'm sure that women are like b you know, evolutionarily busy going, no, that's a rotten piece of meat.
	We can't eat that.
	And a man's like, looks fine to me.
	Well, it turns out that men's eyes actually aren't as good at piss-even color as women's eyes, which maybe this is one of the reasons that women are so interested in decorating and stuff out there.
	Things have a beauty to women that they just don't have to men.
	But conversely, men's spatial awareness is fucking incredible compared to women's.
	The joke about women drivers and women parking is real.
	It represents a real aspect of reality.
	Studies have shown this.
	And it's just everything.
	It's just absolutely everything.
	If you were going to design or choose a body, a type of body that was going to be fit for combat, not fit for combat.
	Well, unfortunately for the feminists, it's men.
	Men are the combatants.
	And this is shown because, I mean, literally, not one woman has ever managed to pass into a special forces regiment based on the fitness test alone.
	Like the very first fitness test.
	Like, you've got to go through a series of tests.
	And not a single woman has managed to pass the entry assessment before going on to these other things.
	It's just unfortunate that no woman will ever break a man's world record.
	It will never happen.
	Women are just not built for it.
	And so this is an internal problem for Games Workshop.
	You've got a bunch of feminists going, oh, I knew you hated women because you haven't got any female space marines.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	It's okay.
	Yeah, that might well be true.
	We're a bunch of sexists.
	We're evil.
	We're just the Nottingham branch of the patriarchy.
	But if we put female Space Marines in this, no one's going to believe it.
	No one is going to believe that in our universe, this would be something that any sane person would do, especially as there are trillions of men.
	So it just wouldn't make any sense.
	It would make people reviled.
	The people who are enjoying the aesthetic experience that is predicated on the internal consistency of the universe would say, what the fuck are you doing?
	And now Games Workshop themselves, back in the day, they actually did have female Space Marines.
	Like the very, very first rogue trader edition of it.
	But no one bought them because why would you want female space marines when you could have male space marines?
	Because these are meant to be elite warriors.
	If you're buying into a hectic universe where it's just constant combat, it wouldn't make sense.
	And so very quickly in the early editions, they made it, okay, well, the space means have to be male because of blah, various law excuses.
	But now it's baked into the law.
	And so now they're just like, okay, well, it is the law.
	We don't, you know, they claim they didn't care.
	Let's believe them.
	Let's believe they didn't care.
	But now they're forced to care because their player base didn't buy the female space marines and they certainly weren't going to buy, they wouldn't buy them now.
	And it would be a massive outrage if they were to bring in these female space marines.
	And so it's like, right, okay, they're just stuck on this.
	So the progressives are like, okay, well, look, we're not going to stop.
	Like, this is our crusade.
	This is what we do.
	We are here to remake the entire universe.
	And if you are not going to consent on this one, well, then you can surely consent on the Imperium of Man at least being racist against aliens.
	And Games are like, oh, yeah, very, absolutely.
	Yeah, you're totally racist against aliens.
	Like, okay, yeah.
	Why?
	Why would it be...
	It would be a bit weird, wouldn't it?
	If the Imperium was like, right, okay, the Gene Stealers do want to mutate you into some weird alien beacon for the Tyranid High Fleet to come and consume all the biomass on your planet.
	But maybe we should hear them out.
	Maybe they're not all bad.
	Not all Tyrannids are going to eat your brains and devour your planet and scour it of life.
	Of course they're racist against aliens.
	All the aliens are bad.
	You made all the aliens bad, Games Workshop.
	Like it would be irrational not to be racist against the aliens.
	Like, imagine, like, oh, well, I mean, Orc lives matter.
	Sorry, what the fuck are you talking about?
	Like, they're all evil.
	They're all evil, and they're all going to destroy humanity if given the chance.
	Yes, the Imperium is racist against aliens, because that's not an irrational position.
	You'd be like, well, what about the moral concerns of the aliens?
	It's like, well, okay, but what about the moral concerns of the humans?
	And is it reasonable for me to take the moral perspective of a human being?
	I think it is.
	I think we can state that.
	We can categorically hammer that out.
	Human beings, it is reasonable and rational for a human being to begin their moral analysis from the perspective of a human being.
	What perspective is it that you're taking that gives us moral consideration to genocidal aliens?
	Like, I really want to know.
	Like, where are they?
	Where's the locus of their morality?
	If it's not within the person, where is it?
	It's got to be somewhere else.
	And they're like, yeah, but I mean, what about fairness to the dark elves who just want to rape you to death?
	Like, I mean, they've got their own moral agenda.
	It's evil.
	But, like, what about fairness to them?
	It's like, why do I care about their opinion?
	They literally just plan on torturing me and raping me to death.
	I'm not interested in sharing a moral interaction with them.
	I'm interested in blowing the fuck up, you know, like this is, but, but the progress is like, yeah, but everything.
	Everything.
	And it's because to the progressives, anything that is a rational agent is part of their moral constituency.
	And so the Dark Elder, they can articulate their reasons for wanting to do this.
	And the Progress is like, well, we've got to give that consideration, you know.
	You don't want to be racist to the Dark Elder.
	Don't want to be racist to the orcs.
	Even though they're literally like, we just love fighting, mate.
	You know, it's like, well, you know, have you considered their side of the story?
	I have.
	And when a million screaming green retards turn up on my planet, I just shoot them.
	You know, I just shoot them without with prejudice.
	With total prejudice.
	You'd be like, yeah, but you just shoot every orc on site.
	Like, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, literally, because every single orc just likes to fight.
	Every single dark elder just likes to rape.
	You know, kill them with all prejudice.
	And you'd be like, well, you're racist to these aliens.
	Yes.
	Yes, because they're all evil.
	Like, from my perspective, they are all evil.
	And I think that you're justified in self-defense.
	That's why.
	And so the Games Right Show has to be like, well, I mean, the Imperium is racist.
	I mean, you don't want to be like the Imperium.
	It's like, yeah, no one wants to be like the Imperium because no one wants to live in a universe full of rapey, hostile aliens that want to devour the entire human race.
	But that's the universe you created.
	And if stories are an imitation of life, then if we're going to sit there and say, right, if we were in the Games Workshop universe, where would we fall on the which side of the good guys, which side of the bad guys?
	Like, well, I mean, it's rough.
	You've got an average lifespan of 40 years and you're basically a slave in a mine.
	Hacking away.
	It's like, yeah, okay, or I could be ass raped to death over the course of like a thousand years by the dark elder.
	I mean, don't get me wrong.
	It's not, it's not a liberal democracy, is it?
	It's not like living in progressive fantasy land to be a slave in the mines or something.
	But it is way better than the alternatives.
	And so unfortunately for you, Games Workshop, you can say, well, I mean, there are no good guys in Warhammer.
	And this is what they did, by the way.
	They disavowed the Imperium of Man.
	They didn't disavow the rapey elves.
	They didn't disavow corn.
	The god of literally killing things for the sake of killing.
	Right?
	They didn't disavow that.
	No, no, no, no.
	They disavowed the Imperium of Man.
	It's like, why?
	Oh, because it's right-wing.
	Yes, it is right-wing.
	It is unashamedly right-wing.
	It is concerned with authority, hierarchy, and loyalty.
	These are the three things that the Space Marines care about exclusively.
	They don't care about liberty.
	They don't care about care.
	They're not interested in fairness.
	It is the most caricature of a right-wing organization you can have, which makes it, according to like Conquest Second Law, the most invulnerable to the progressive.
	And because of the way the universe is structured, it can't really be anything else.
	And so this is why I think that the Warhammer 4000 is actually important for the culture and understanding the culture more broadly.
	Because not only is it explicitly right-wing and racist to all aliens, it is also the hero of the 41st millennium.
	It is the good guys of the Warhammer universe, whether they like it or not.
	And if they want to try and make it so that someone will, what about the Tao?
	What?
	The aliens are going to sterilize us.
	Are they the good guys?
	Are they?
	I don't think they are.
	You know, they're the communist aliens that are going to sterilize.
	Not sure I'd call them the good guys.
	But the point is, they can't really worm out of that.
	And this is so much of the discourse around the Imperial.
	Oh, they're not good guys.
	They're not good guys.
	Like, yeah, from your position in the 21st century, safe and warm and comfortable and well-fed in a liberal democracy, we are not about to get flayed alive by some chaos cultists.
	They're not the good guys.
	You're right.
	You're absolutely right.
	But when you are in that position, you're probably going to be like, oh, please, Imperium, save me.
	Why did you allow a chaos heresy to spawn on my, to prosper on my planet and take over?
	And now I'm being tied to a rack and having my internal organs spewed out for the god of death.
	You know, like, why, why can't a space marine come down and kill all of these people to save me from the agony of being tortured?
	That's why.
	That's why.
	As soon as you're in that position, you'd be like, okay, the Imperium are the good guys.
	They weren't doing this to me.
	Yeah, shit.
	I was in a mine.
	My lifespan was probably cut short by the terrible fumes of blah, blah, blah.
	But at least they weren't trying to kill me.
	And when everyone else is trying to kill you, well, the person who isn't trying to kill you and will defeat those on your behalf, they become the heroes.
	And unfortunately, for Games Workshop, they're committed to this.
	There is no way they can undo this within the law of their universe without undoing the whole thing.
	Without undoing the human race, without undoing all of it.
	And it would have to.
	And can you imagine if they were like, yeah, you know what?
	So the Imperium of Man is gone and all of the aliens just decided not to eat humanity for some reason.
	And actually, it's Star Trek now.
	You know, like if it would not be 40k.
	Everyone would just be like, I'm not playing this shit anymore then.
	Or I'm just not listening and I'm going to carry on with what I was doing, you know, playing it.
	It is intrinsic to the setting.
	And that's why I think this is such an instrumental and instructive way of looking at things.
	And also in part eight of this, go explain, look, why like, okay, so Curtis Jarvin, who's a neo-reactionary thinker, has some good concepts.
	And one of them is the cathedral, is in the organism of leftism that we see.
	Why is it that Twitter, Facebook, the New York Times, blah, blah, blah, they all censor the Hunter Biden laptop and they all bury it.
	Why did they all bury it?
	It's because they act as a religion.
	And this religion he calls the cathedral.
	And they act in concert.
	They understand they can act in ways that are beneficial to their side and detrimental to the other side.
	And this is sorry.
	How do I literally not have any fucking snot rags on my desk?
	And this is something that Herbert Marcuse called repressive tolerance.
	And it's something we see the left doing constantly.
	And it's a useful intellectual tool to be able to understand what's happening.
	And another thing that Yarvin came up with was the idea of Cthulhu's swimming left.
	Is it that the Overton window, no matter what happens, no matter what the crisis, no matter what the political climate?
	Well, Cthulhu, the Overton window, it's always shifting leftwards.
	It's always further and further left and never right.
	Well, it's because of this repressive tolerance, and that's, I think, an important thing to be aware of.
	And so this all comes around to me explaining, look, the Imperium of Man did nothing wrong.
	And so I think that this is something we can actually build a good foundation on using Warhammer 40,000 as sort of like the test case, the most invulnerable property.
	But it's not just that, though.
	You can start tracing these concepts back into other media that you see.
	It's like, okay, right.
	So if they want to build a world that is persuasive and it's an illusion I can get lost into and enjoy an aesthetic experience within, why are they, say, presenting me with the black female Viking?
	Because they're not trying to do that.
	What this is, is political representation.
	What this is, is actually an attack on the way I understand the world through the stories that I imbibe through media.
	And if media is a representation of the world and helps understand the psychology of what it is to be a human, well, then they're actually attacking the honestly, they're attacking the sort of epistemological validity of your own experiences is what they're going after.
	Like what your way of understanding the world is under attack by progressive representation.
	And that's why America and my country is just so out of touch.
	And I mentioned adverts on British TV, right?
	I tell you, I watched an advert break in EastEnders or whatever it was the other day, because my wife's watching TV.
	I never watched TV.
	And so I was like, oh, okay, let's have a look.
	Let's see what this is like.
	At least half of the people represented in the adverts were black.
	And it's like, right, that's weird.
	Because in Britain, black people are about 3% of the population.
	Like, we have more Muslims than black people.
	We have more Welsh people than black people.
	We have more Scots than black people.
	Why are they not more represented in the media than black people?
	Like, it's just really weird that it, I mean, like, it would make more sense on British TV to see more Scottish people than black people.
	And yet, 50% of the people in the adverts I saw were black.
	So, right, okay.
	I know what's going on here.
	You now know what's going on here.
	They are trying to set your world view to make you think this is reality when it is not reality.
	They're going after you through the media that they present to you that you consume because the way you take in media is that it informs how reality is to you.
	And it tells you, oh, this is what black people act like.
	This is what this group acts like.
	And they just act all the same.
	It's like, well, maybe that's true.
	Maybe that's not.
	Who knows?
	Anyway, was there anything else I wanted to talk about there?
	I think that's quite a lot that I've just kind of dumped on you.
	So I'll probably leave that there.
	Chat, if you've got any questions, I will go on Rikita.
	Of course I'll go on Rikita.
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	Definitely do go listen to this, though.
	I'm very, very briefly covering everything.
	But if you want to know what this is actually all about, I've got the receipts, as it were, right there.
	Question: If I make a painting mistake, how do I correct it?
	How else can you correct it?
	You've got, like, I mean, I make a lot of painting mistakes.
	Like, when I was doing this bit, I got a bit of white on there, so you have to get a bit of the red colour, paint it over, make sure it's the right colour, blah, blah, blah.
	That's how you do it.
	It's not difficult.
	I've read On War by Klaus Witt.
	Do you think when they say politics and everything is them justifying the rationalization in making these decisions, namely race ideas, swaps, while gaslighting our objection?
	Well, to them, this is a method of serving the political agenda.
	What they consider, this comes from Carol Hannish in the personalist political, I think that's her name.
	But she's the Carol Hanish.
	See, I cover all of it.
	She wrote an essay saying, well, look, it was an essay, it was kind of a letter to women's feminist caucus in the 60s, where they were complaining that they were having these therapy sessions, and they were like, are we achieving anything with these?
	And I mean, they may feel better, I guess, but they were like, were we achieving anything?
	She was like, yes, these are political, damn it.
	Because the things that are prescribed as personal are prescribed by the power structure, which is true.
	And so this means that engaging in a politicized debate about these personal issues is an attack on the power structure itself, which it is.
	And if you want to overthrow the power structure, all of these small attacks, nipping constantly at the fringes of the Imperium, well, they will build up.
	And so the mere fact that they were doing this, politicizing personal views and personal problems, is a form of attack on the world around them.
	It's like, yeah, that's true.
	And this is something, again, we need to be cognizant of.
	When am I doing an interview with Russell Brand?
	I would love to do an interview with Russell Brand.
	Have you noticed that Russell Brand sounds a lot like Tucker Carlson these days?
	Have you noticed that he is calling out the same people in the same way as Tucker Carlson?
	He's presenting the same concerns as Tucker Carlson.
	I do wonder if Russell Brand is a secret conservative.
	Maybe he doesn't know it yet.
	So painting video went, no, no, no, no.
	It's like Bismarck said about making laws.
	You don't want to see the sausage machine in action.
	You know, the finished product is a good product, but you don't want to see the sausage machine in action.
	There's no way.
	How do I suspend my disbelief with a black ruler of an 11th century Norwegian city?
	Well, that's the problem, Drew.
	You can't.
	And if you can, I don't even think the progressives can, really, because I don't think they're drawing aesthetic experiences from these things.
	I don't think they're like getting into them, buying into the world, going through the story, engaging in this first-order experience, living through the emotions of the people, and identifying and like emotionally, compassionately engaging with what the character is going through in order to get to the emotional conclusions and learn about what it is to be human.
	I think what they're doing is engaging this in a political way, the symbolic representation that Pitkin was pointing out and saying, well, look, that's the pleasure of this thing for me.
	I don't care how it ends.
	I don't think they give a shit about the quality of the story writing.
	And I think this is why progressive shows are just shit.
	But the people watch them for validation that their propaganda is being broadcast.
	And it's like, okay, well, I mean, who doesn't do that?
	Who doesn't?
	You know, I watch loads of channels with whom I agree because everyone likes to hear things from perspective that they agree with.
	But if their perspective is purely politicized leftism, well, I mean, it makes you sound like a really two-dimensional person, doesn't it?
	Who can't actually empathize with others?
	So all of this talk about empathy, well, seems bullshit, doesn't it?
	Black Library sure is trying to de-right wing 40k.
	What with the Belisarius call being a bigger MacGuffin than any character in the universe, except maybe Erebus and Horus Heresy ruining Big E.
	Oh, yeah, they're going to do what they can, but they will end up undoing their property.
	Like, Warhammer 40,000 cannot be made left-wing.
	It's just impossible.
	They will lose their fan base and they will regret it and they will undo what they have done at some point.
	Which Primark has the best political use?
	You have to ask Arch.
	I'm not the law master, I'm afraid.
	I had to, basically, I got Arch to validate the law in this.
	Because I play the game.
	That's what my entertainment with 40K always was.
	I haven't read the books because there are like 60 million of them and they're all like this.
	And it's like, I don't have time for that.
	I'm sure they're good.
	And don't get me wrong.
	I'm sure I'd really enjoy them.
	I just don't have fucking time.
	But I really enjoy playing the game.
	And so my understanding of the law comes from either watching videos or from the codexes themselves, where it's the flavor text and the fluff that goes around it.
	And so I had to validate to make sure that I was correct on the law assertions that I'm making.
	Because I do give a breakdown of the philosophy of the Imperium, the ruinous powers of chaos.
	And again, the progressives are chaos.
	They are the chaos powers.
	And the important distinction is they're not...
	You can argue in a way that the Gene Stealers...
	But they most represent and resemble the chaos powers.
	Because the chaos powers are ideological.
	They are a set of moral commitments.
	And it is completely understandable that the chaos powers would use the argument for inclusivity that the progressives use.
	You're excluding people.
	The Imperium's like, yeah, you're damn right.
	But the Chaos Powers, if the world is run according to a progressive morality, they flourish under that because they're the powers of vice.
	And the Imperium represents the powers of virtue.
	And virtue naturally must be exclusionary to vice.
	Which sucks for vice, but also why we shouldn't suffer heretics.
	What do I think about PJW's rant?
	Sounds like he was talking shit when he was drunk, doesn't it?
	Just stupid drunk talk.
	To be honest with you, it sounded like it was either clipped together or like deep faked because the quality was terrible.
	But who knows, you know?
	But who cares?
	Paul Joseph Watson said some edgy stuff when he was drunk.
	Okay.
	I'm sure no progressive has ever said anything edgy while they were drunk.
	I'm sure they're all total fucking angels.
	I'm sure.
	but they're just lovely um all right sorry i'm like thank you thanks for tagging me by the way in the chat so i can i can actually see who's asking a question properly Can the God Emperor be black?
	No, he can only be what he is.
	The God Emperor is a character of mythic significance.
	He is not simply interchangeable.
	Same as Jarl Hackinson here.
	This is a specific character in a time and a place.
	They are not fungible.
	They cannot simply be chopped and changed and be like, oh, this is the same thing.
	No, there is a narrative.
	They are heroic.
	They are trapped within a story that has been weaved.
	If you want me to get on the front of the rail, you know, the sort of the ride that is the story and see it through to the end, then you can't just change out the characters halfway and expect me to be in the same story.
	These are non-fungible.
	These are set in stone, eternally, immortally.
	If the emperor is not as the emperor is according to the law, then it is not the emperor.
	It's someone wearing a skin suit.
	Stop asking for painting sessions.
	My thoughts on Mexico's apology?
	None really.
	The best political primarch, of course, is of Angron for his superior intellect and philosophical mind.
	Again, I'm not the expert on the law, but that's not what I wanted to talk about.
	Again, it's, I mean, I'm sure you're completely correct.
	But the intricacies of the law aren't really the important part.
	The important part is what the end product ends up representing and how we engage with stories.
	Would you have a chat with actual Justice Warrior at some point and stream them?
	Yeah, of course.
	If he knows someone who knows me on Discord, that's probably the best way to get in contact.
	Yeah, they weren't even that edgy.
	Yeah, I know.
	I know.
	It's like gamer words from like 20 years ago.
	Is that okay?
	Will I do a live stream of the game Why Ma 4000 Dark Tide on PC when that comes out in September?
	And have a look.
	If it's shit looking, I'm not going to first-person action game.
	Hmm.
	And first strategy games.
	Maybe though.
	It might be good.
	I'm not very optimistic about these things these days.
	Have I read AA's new book?
	I actually, Harry was like, oh, can we do a book club on it for Lotuses?
	And I was like, yeah, okay.
	And so I have got a copy of it.
	It's only like 150 pages long, so I probably will read it.
	I had to flip through a couple of chapters.
	And it looks quite good, to be honest, but don't tell him I said that.
	Because it'll only go to his head.
	But yeah, it looks like it's going to be fairly good.
	I think as I understand it, his conclusion is probably going to be something like, we need a vanguard of elite intellectuals because you can't expect the public to do anything really.
	And I think that's basically true.
	If we've seen nothing else, it's the public are generally compliant with whatever the regime is.
	So, you know.
	Try posting an England flag.
	What in the chat?
	Do I let me see if I can no emoji found?
	Okay.
	Oh, there are no England flags.
	There are no country flags at all, actually.
	Never mind.
	I wonder why that is.
	Who is the best 40k faction?
	Why is it the Imperial Guard?
	Well, I mean, I personally actually like the alien factions because I think they're all quite creative.
	But anyway, James says, I absolutely love your take on this, and that's why I love 40K in your video.
	Thank you very much.
	Sorry, there's been a lot of comments.
	So, any questions that you want me to answer quickly?
	Ask again, please, and I will get to it.
	Is that anti-liberal, though?
	Sorry, what anti-liberal?
	What I'm presenting here, I mean, the Imperium is anti-liberal, it's very illiberal.
	But I mean, I don't think it's relevant.
	You know, I think that what when I am of the opinion that it is acceptable, and in fact, it is emotionally mature to be able to engage with a piece of work on its own terms, go into the universe on its own terms, see the story through to the end on its own terms, and learn about that human experience.
	I've actually got a piece coming out on literacies.com on Thursday, I think it'll be, talking about this, because I think this is important.
	That basically we do learn about what it is to be human through representation in art.
	And it allows us to engage with things that would otherwise be terrible, like Warhammer, in a way that is safe for us.
	And so we can learn about ourselves and about other people, at least if you're empathetic.
	If you're just hearing, oh, I'm here to impose a political regime, then yeah, you can't do that.
	But if you are an intelligent and emotionally aware and self-actualized person, then you can do that.
	And it's good for you.
	So, no, I don't think that it's necessary for that to be the case.
	What's your opinion of you on the theory that the left relies on the centre-right to hold the line against the right while they push farther left?
	The problem with the right, what we'll say is the moderate conservative is that they have no generative principles of their own.
	As in the I go right, a lot of these things are answered in this essay, right?
	But the thing in itself here springs from a problem that arose from the concept of conservatism from the French Revolution, as I detail in this sort of area.
	This is one of those things where conservatives essentially started in agreement with the progressives.
	The question was merely of the speed of the moves.
	And this is not something I think that the right should be agreeing with.
	Now, people might be like, okay, well, what are you suggesting?
	Fascism?
	No.
	They are all rationalistic Enlightenment politics.
	I would like a form of politics that is not hegemonic in all systems.
	I would like a form of politics that is not rationalistic and is not concerned with the detail of every person's life.
	I want some freedom, frankly, to exist outside of politics or to exist in a way that I can exercise my own personal political agency in my life.
	As in, I don't really want someone coming along and telling me how I have to run my business.
	You know, that's up to me, right?
	And so to have these kind of hegemonic ideals, like this schemata of ideas that all link together, that form an ideology, I think is probably kind of dangerous, actually, and kind of the reasons that we're in the position we're in at the moment.
	And I mean, ask any of these sort of socialists, fascists, whatever, ask them to define what an ideology is.
	You know, because they'll promote these ideologies all day, every day.
	But I don't think they can really adequately describe what they are.
	Because, I mean, the definition of what an ideology is is contested anyway.
	You know, it's hard to find a good philosophical definition of one.
	I mean, you've got the critical race theorists in that they feel that an ideology is merely a set of contested ideas, whereas you've got Michael Oakeshott's view that it's a set of ideas that justify seizing power.
	And I actually think that's a more accurate term.
	And I don't really think that someone saying I have an idea is grounds for them to take control of my life.
	I'm sorry.
	No, it's my life.
	I should have the maximum amount of control over it.
	End of story.
	I don't give a shit what bullshit idea you've concocted in your jackass fucking community of online leftists.
	Like, yeah, well, we've got to all do this.
	Well, I'm not going to.
	So shut your fucking mouth and get out.
	Didn't ask.
	Don't care.
	Piss off.
	I literally don't care what your idea is.
	Go away from me.
	You know, it's like, it's mad how, like, this old ideology.
	Fuck your ideology.
	I just don't care.
	So anyway, getting back to it, yes, the right, the center-right, the establishment enlightenment right is definitively in line with the progressives in some way.
	They want to use reason in order to fundamentally reshape our societies.
	They're just afraid of going at the same speed as the progressives.
	I don't want the consequence of progressive ideology, which seems to be what Rousseau has predicted in the social contract.
	Again, book club on this on the seas.com.
	To turn us all back into the savage, right?
	The savage living in society with no connection to anyone else.
	And this is what Generation Z has now, the Zoomers have got to deal with.
	They've got to actually wrangle with this problem.
	And I feel fucking terrible for them about it, to be honest.
	Because, like, okay, so you've been, the generation, the boomers have no fucking idea.
	They're totally self-absorbed.
	Generation X is totally checked out.
	It's my generation, totally checked out.
	No ideological prescriptions.
	And it's like, okay, that's not a bad way of doing things.
	However, the millennials have come along with this massive, massive ideology that is essentially they were open to capture, I suppose, is the way we should look at it.
	And, you know, they're the victims of this ideology too, but they're also the primary proponents of it.
	So it's like, okay, well.
	And then you've got the Zoomers who have never known anything else.
	And it's like, right.
	Well, they've fucked you, to be honest.
	They have made it so that essentially you've got no chance of being normal.
	You know, normal like I was, normal like your parents are.
	Normal like, you know, my parents are.
	The millennials are debauching you.
	They are busy fucking corrupting you.
	And this whole thing, you've got to change the way that you look at the world because the values that the millennials have put in your heads are bad values.
	They're really, really bad ones.
	They're bad for you.
	Look at them.
	Look at them.
	Look at the fucking millennials.
	They are miserable, self-loathing shits who are sat there going, oh, macoomerism, macoomerism, racism.
	They are not happy.
	They will never be happy.
	They will never be fulfilled.
	Do not look to those people for guidance.
	Whatever they think, the framework they think in, reject it.
	You know, oh, they used a word right.
	You don't use that word.
	Like, pick the ideological word.
	That's not your concern.
	That's their concern.
	And look at how they turned out.
	Miserable and lonely.
	I mean, in 10 years' time, 20 years' time, when the millennials are coming on 60 or 50, 60, because the oldest millennials are now like 40, right?
	So when the oldest millennials are coming on like 60, they are going to be, I mean, they're probably going to start topping themselves, frankly.
	They're going to be lonely.
	They're going to be like physically damaged because they thought, oh, I'm just going to be really fucking fat.
	I'm going to take loads of fucking drugs.
	I'm going to have loads of fucking promiscuous, unprotected sex.
	It's like, okay, these things have costs.
	These things come with a cost.
	All right.
	You can, oh, you're being a prude or something.
	Okay, well, if you say so, I think this will be called being prudent.
	It is prudent not to destroy your body with drugs.
	It is prudent not to end up as a fucking homeless drifter on the streets of San Francisco.
	It is prudent to get married while you are young and have children while you are married.
	These are good decisions that benefit you and the people around you.
	And a millennial can sit there and go, me, me, me, me, racism, sexism, blah, blah, blah.
	Okay, whatever.
	You can keep your buzzwords, but at the end of the day, you know, the base trans Zoomers are the ones who, in 20 years' time, are going to be successful.
	They're going to have more money.
	They're going to have happy families.
	They're going to have emotional stability.
	They're going to have something to fucking live for, unlike the millennials.
	And I'm sorry that this has been done to the millennials, but you're probably beyond hope at this point.
	There's probably no saving you.
	You know, you don't know what it is to be a human being in reality.
	You know, what you know is theoretically to be liberated, to be free.
	It's like, oh, God, freedom, absolute freedom.
	I mean, absolute freedom used to be a punishment.
	This is what we would call ostracism.
	You are now exiled from all your friends and family and your relationships with anyone, from anything in the city.
	You are exiled from society.
	And they use that's what council culture is.
	It's a form of exile.
	They use it as a punishment.
	They know it's a punishment.
	And eventually, they're all going to be in exactly the same space.
	Sorry, I know I went off on one there, but yeah, the conservatives are fucking the heels of the left and always will be.
	We need a different word for what it is we're aiming for.
	Because I think what is actually more useful is not having, and again, in sort of Petersonian fashion, not having hegemonic views of the world.
	You do not have to fix everything.
	You don't have to fucking remake the system to be perfect.
	It's not going to work.
	You're a fucking moron.
	Work on yourself.
	Like, learn a virtue.
	Like, literally, habituate yourself into a virtue.
	Like, one of the reasons I set up Litz.com is because I knew I'm going to set up an office half an hour bike ride away from where I live.
	So every day I'll just ride my bike back and forth and I'll become fitter.
	And that's how I am.
	I'm way fitter than I ever was before.
	This is a virtue I've deliberately habituated myself into.
	And you should do the same.
	It doesn't have to be what I've done.
	It just has to be something you know is wholesome, that is good for you, that builds strength, that builds, you know, either emotional or physical goodness within you.
	You know what to do.
	Don't worry about fixing the world.
	Fix yourself.
	So fix your relationships as well.
	You know, give your mum a call.
	Seriously.
	Just after I finish this stream, just pick up the phone.
	Hey, mum, how are you?
	She'll be thrilled.
	You'll have made her day.
	You'll get to feel good because you made her day.
	Like, I mean it.
	Like, you're like, oh, that'd be weird.
	No, I don't care if it's weird.
	You've got to do it.
	Go and do it.
	Like, it will make you feel better.
	It'll make her feel better.
	It will improve your life.
	And just do this once a week.
	Just, you know, hey, mom, how are you doing?
	She'll be just blabber on about whatever her day was.
	You don't have to necessarily actually pay attention.
	I know it's probably not going to be that interesting, although you'll be a better son or daughter if you do.
	Seriously, just do the right thing.
	Don't do the millennial thing.
	As a 23-year-old, what do you recommend we do?
	Well, it's good luck, basically.
	Try leaving the house without the phone.
	And I know you like, but I've had this since I was like 11.
	I don't know.
	It's basically grafted to my hand.
	And hey, you know, I don't have my phone on me.
	So I was going to say, I'm the same.
	And normally I am the same in every respect.
	But try it.
	Just, and I'm doing a video about this.
	It should be on Monday, actually, on their website.
	Try leaving your house without your phone.
	See how your world changes.
	And I bet it changes quite radically.
	So, yeah.
	Yeah, start lifting.
	But remember, there is a problem with lifting culture.
	It becomes a bit narcissistic and you end up essentially trapped within the progressive world, even while trying to escape it.
	The important thing that zoomers have to remember is that the genuine content of the human experience is based, it's found in our relationships to one another and what we can do for one another and what other people do for us.
	That's where happiness is.
	That's where meaning is.
	That's where not wanting to fucking kill yourself is, right?
	And if you don't have that, you have nothing.
	And so don't sit there and go, I lift all day.
	Okay, that's good.
	Don't get me wrong.
	It is a virtue to do that.
	But it's not the only virtue.
	And it's not the cardinal virtue and it's not the only, it's not the thing itself that will make you happy.
	There will come a time where that doesn't fulfill.
	So don't be led into thinking that getting likes for posting your physique on social media is a substitute for having a friend because it's not.
	But do lift.
	By the way, I'm not saying don't lift.
	I am saying do lift.
	Obviously.
	Sorry, I'm Callum.
	I will answer questions again now.
	I know I was going off on one.
	Thoughts on Tim Cast's last guest and his racist outburst?
	I haven't seen it.
	Don't know.
	Don't know who that was.
	Sorry.
	Have I written off all millennials?
	Well, no, I'm speaking, whenever you speak in general terms, and you have to speak in a general terms to talk about a generation.
	I'm not saying each and every one in all times, in all places, is like this.
	They aren't the alien races from Warhammer.
	But what they are, they do have a general characteristics.
	And so I think you can speak to these general characteristics.
	If you're a millennial who bucks the trend, you're very lucky.
	Congratulations.
	A lot of millennials don't.
	And that's not good for them.
	Thoughts on Tennyson and Robert Burns?
	Oh, God.
	Did I?
	I had to read Lady of Shalot when I was like 14 in school.
	I wasn't really interested in it, so I can't really remember a lot about it.
	So not much.
	And I've never read any Burns.
	The guest was Daryl Davis.
	Oh, that's the guy who deprograms KKK people, right?
	I haven't seen it.
	But I mean, he said something racist, did he?
	That's surprising.
	I would love to have a live stream with Don't Walk Run, Andrew.
	Big fan of his videos.
	I love his presentation style.
	But no, I didn't know that Daryl had gone woke.
	But unless you're explicitly trying to resist it, it can get you.
	I'll definitely get Rikita going on.
	Should Greater London because it's own country?
	Like the relationship between Singapore and Malaysia?
	I mean, no.
	I don't think that London should secede from the United Kingdom.
	I don't want that to happen.
	Do you think there needs to be a collapse of things to get truly better?
	Or do you think collapse economic or otherwise inevitable?
	I mean, it's hard to say that there won't be a collapse of something.
	Like, things can't go on as they are, right?
	Like, look at the Conservatives.
	The Conservatives just carry on existing because they're like the, I don't want to really make any political decisions party.
	Like, that's when the people can vote for them.
	It's okay.
	I mean, everyone thought, oh, they're going to get whacked in the local elections.
	And they actually didn't.
	It's just people like, God, the alternatives are shit.
	Conservative.
	You know, and people are like, why do people vote conservatives?
	Like, why does anyone vote for any of these fucking idiots?
	Like, it's you guys who are voting for them.
	You know, like, the public's voting for them.
	I didn't vote for the, well, I did vote for the Conservatives last time because of Brexit, but like, I, you know, I vote UKIP, you know, or reform or reclaim or whatever.
	Whatever's on the ballot that's not any of the mainstream parties, they're all shit and they're all captured by ideology that they don't understand.
	And they don't understand that they're even trapped in a particular way of thought.
	So I don't vote for any of them.
	Am I heading to the states soon?
	When you guys drop the requirement to get something put on my nose to test for a virus I've had about half a dozen times now, then I will go to the United States.
	But I'm refusing to even have a COVID test.
	I haven't been tested.
	I haven't been vaccinated.
	I'm not doing any of it.
	And until all of that is dropped, I'm not going to the United States.
	Should we get involved in mainstream political parties?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Feel free.
	Like, I mean, it seems that, oh, God, if the public are never going to vote for anything other than conservative or labor, well, get in one.
	You know, flood the conservatives with like based Zoomers and have them being like, yeah, okay, so why are you leftists?
	Why do you have to be leftists?
	And you sit there and go, they'll give you a, what are you supposed to be?
	You know, it's like, yeah, okay, you guys don't fucking understand anything.
	But one day you'll die of old age.
	So get in those parties, get based, get in the fucking local councils, get, you know, get the low-level positions.
	You've got to engage in your own long march through these institutions.
	So get doing it now, Zoomers.
	Come on.
	Got to quit cracking.
	I'm too old.
	You know, I'm way too old.
	But you guys aren't.
	And of course, I'm way too infamous, shall we say?
	But you guys aren't.
	So get in there, get working, start forming networks.
	Just copy the left's playbook.
	Look at everything they've done and be like, right, okay, we're going to capture these institutions.
	We're going to crack on with it.
	You know what you're supposed to do, I think, in that regard.
	You've had good instruction from the millennials.
	And I think you can do it.
	I think you've got the time to do it.
	I think you've got the inclination to do it.
	Look how shit everything is getting, you know?
	But you've got to be diligent.
	You've got to work on yourself.
	You've got to improve.
	You've got to get those, get your education, get your work experience, get the knowledge required to operate in these fields.
	Go and get it.
	Work on it.
	But make sure that you keep in the back of your mind the intent, right?
	We're going to end up with a fucking based Conservative Party that one day just pops like a boil and it's just like, well, hang on a second.
	We're not doing any of these things.
	And the Labour Party will go, oh, my God.
	They're not being shamed by us calling them names anymore.
	And literally, when all the Conservatives are just like, just don't care.
	Just not interested in hearing communism.
	Like, literally, whenever a Labour Party member speaks, okay, but you're a communist, so I don't listen to anything you have to say.
	I don't even care if it's a valid point.
	You're a fucking communist.
	The valid point can come from a non-communist, and I'll listen to them because I know that the non-communist isn't on an eternal march to overthrow my civilization, right?
	I don't engage with communists in ideological debates because they're full of shit front and center.
	Like they, you know, you're a member of the Labour Party.
	You are not worth debating against is basically what I want the Conservatives to end up like.
	I really, like, just, just not even interested.
	We know what we're doing.
	We're going to support the family.
	We're going to support young people.
	We're going to make sure that our borders are secure.
	And we're going to lower your fucking taxes.
	Like, there's four pillars that the Conservatives can stand on that are self-generative, right?
	They've got their own internal logic and internal purpose.
	And they produce good societies.
	And everything else can just fucking go.
	That's what the Conservatives need to end up basically only caring about.
	Right.
	It's coming on one o'clock.
	And I've got to get a Warhammer tomorrow.
	Pete, one of the web administrators from work and HR guy from work, is bringing his son over, who's nine, I think.
	And me and my son and his son and him are going to have.
	I'm not sure if we're going to have a 2v2, so it's two teams, or a four-player all-against all battle.
	But we're going to have a nice big game of Warhammer 4,000, which is why I painted up my captain because I wanted to use him.
	And I mean, I'm probably going to get killed by my son's necrons.
	I'm not too afraid of Pete's chaos, but my son's necrons are terrifying.
	And he saved up his pocket money and his birthday money so he could buy a doomsday arc.
	And this is one of the things that I like about Warhammer, right?
	It teaches you to have a time investment.
	This is a genuine.
	Like, there are loads of people like, oh, it's just stupid models.
	It's like, well, yeah, it is in the most like two-dimensional analysis.
	But my son, literally, for like a month, he gets three pounds pocket money a week for laying the table and tidying up his room and stuff like this.
	And he saved that three pound pocket money and added it to what he had saved from his birthday money until he could afford this doomsday arc.
	And then we built the doomsday arc.
	And now tomorrow he's going to fucking nuke me with it.
	I'm sure it's going to happen too because he's got a fucking disgusting gun on it.
	And so there has been, you know, he knew what he wanted.
	He put in the time and effort and he's going to see the results.
	This is a good life lesson for a seven-year-old boy to learn.
	And so this is what the good thing about Warhammer is.
	So I don't want to hear any fucking whinging about Warhammer.
	About the, you know, drill my barrels.
	Oh, God.
	I need to get a drill.
	I do need to do it.
	I should do it.
	I will do this.
	I will do this.
	But for now, he's alright.
	And I painted a little black bit on the barrel.
	So, you know, meh.
	But he's, I'm looking forward to using my captain, even though he gets going to get killed.
	Anyway, in the meantime, go follow the link in the description.
	Go watch, go listen to or read the politics of Warhammer 40,000.
	I explain all of this in great autistic detail, but I think you'll benefit from it.
	And I think I've done the due diligence and good work that will be useful in understanding what is happening to the media around you and how you can be more aware of that and resist it.
	And until then, if you want to support me, you can go sign up on loadseas.com.
	We've got loads and loads of great content.
	We would love to see you over there.
	And if you don't, then, well, done my best, haven't I?
	Anyway, yeah, Sargon destroyed my seven-year-old son.
	Yeah, honestly, it's because the necrons are just so overpowered.
	And my son is an unbelievably aggressive player.
	And so it's just nightmarish.
	Anyway, see you later, folks.
	Take it easy.

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