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| Now it's no secret that one of my interests, a lifelong interest, but in particular over the past few months, is theology. | |
| I've been mentioning it a fair bit in my videos and studying it even more so. | |
| And I swear, not a week goes by that I don't either have somebody demanding that I explain why I'm not a Christian or an atheist asking me if I found religion in my old age. | |
| You know, ain't it funny that there isn't a religion on the planet, aside from Islam, that doesn't say be humble. | |
| I mean, there's damn good reason for that advice. | |
| Fact of the matter is that the loudest and most boastful are usually those that are hiding the most. | |
| Whereas if you stay humble, if you try not to be a braggart, you tend to have a bit more respect. | |
| Your voice carries a bit more weight to it. | |
| Certainly myself. | |
| I've done advertising for other people before, and I've been pretty good at it, but doing advertising for my own bloody book is proving to be quite the challenge. | |
| Being boastful about it does not come naturally to me. | |
| And yet this religious thing, people identify so strongly with their religion. | |
| They all want to argue about how, you know, I'm an atheist and I know everything, or I'm a Baptist, or I'm a Catholic, or whatever. | |
| They all demand that you show them respect because they believe something. | |
| It's absolutely ridiculous, and it goes against the bloody teachings within the thing. | |
| Now, you know, Moltbuck would be quick to point out that this is just a puritanical quirk. | |
| You know, that this atheists need to prove that they're right because they're the modern interpretation of the gospel. | |
| And he's absolutely right in that. | |
| But there's a bit more to it, I think. | |
| I think in Rising to Power that the Puritans kind of degraded all religions down to this, you know, this pissing contest of who's the right religion. | |
| Instead of having a humbleness and an openness to other ways of looking at the world, there's a self-righteousness, a materialistic proving that, you know, I belong to the winning team. | |
| God loves me more than he loves you. | |
| It's quite absurd. | |
| Oh, and just for the record, I would not call myself a Christian after the Fourth Lateran Council. | |
| An atheist? | |
| Well, the creator did such a great job hiding his own work that it'd be downright rude to believe in him. | |
| So of course I'm an atheist. | |
| All that said, let's get to the actual topic of this video, natural law. | |
| Now natural law is a sort of sort of word you'll hear thrown around, I guess you could call them the low church. | |
| You'll hear these ridiculous Republican protesters screaming about their religion, screaming about natural law. | |
| And of course, they know what natural law is. | |
| They have it completely figured out. | |
| And it's whatever supports their contemporary political cause. | |
| Natural law is a bit more than that. | |
| And see, what all this boils down to, the reason that I find theology so interesting, and in about six months I'll probably turn around and get really heavy into mathematics and quantum theory again or something like that. | |
| But see, there's two different levels of abstraction you can take the universe at. | |
| There's the material abstraction. | |
| And this is most of science. | |
| Whether it's high-level science like climatology or extremely low-level like quantum mechanics where we're dealing purely with mathematical probabilities and formula, it's this measurable engineering problem. | |
| And your typical atheist response is going to be that ethics is an engineering problem. | |
| Now, certainly over at Less Ron, they've done a lot of work to try and reduce morality and society down to a mathematical formulation, an engineering problem. | |
| And they've done a lot of very good work in that direction. | |
| If you're not reading Less Ron, start reading Less Wrong. | |
| Go click on the. | |
| There's a wiki on the side, look up the sequences, and you'll disappear into there for like a good three weeks. | |
| Absolutely amazing, the stuff they've done. | |
| And there are certain low-level engineering aspects. | |
| You know, we can do a sociological study of what's the effect of prior partner count on marriages. | |
| What's the effect of diversity on a neighborhood? | |
| We can do those sorts of studies and we can learn valuable information. | |
| Certainly, studying science does not directly affect morality, but it's very good to be living in a world with industrial agriculture and indoor plumbing and traffic. | |
| Traffic that's controlled by mathematical formulas, thank God. | |
| So it doesn't directly affect morality, but it is all very good stuff to be studying. | |
| Now, what these the people that are trying to reduce everything to an engineering issue, what they're missing is the upper-level abstract, that there are certain patterns that repeat themselves again and again at the high level. | |
| And this thing, this pattern that we notice, this is what's meant by natural law. | |
| the law that is naturally ordained by the universe that you can't fight against. | |
| Now, in a prior video, I said that, for instance, natural law means that if you spend all your time chasing after a new line of coke, or chasing after a meaningless, empty sex with randoms... | |
| if you live a completely hedonistic lifestyle, a completely selfish psychopathic lifestyle, that it will catch up with you in the end. | |
| If you're poor, it's going to catch up with you pretty quickly, but even the rich, it catches up to them. | |
| It leaves them in wreckage and misery. | |
| And I know that I already hear the immediate atheist response to suggest that there's some sort of karmic force in the universe. | |
| What about all those people that suffer needlessly? | |
| You know, what about all those rich SOBs that die happily? | |
| And can you show me one of the latter? | |
| Oh, there's certainly a lot of needless suffering in this universe. | |
| And when you describe it as a karmic force, as an active agent, then it certainly implied that an active agent wouldn't create this sort of suffering, now would it? | |
| So that's not what natural law is. | |
| It's not a cosmic agent. | |
| At least it certainly doesn't behave like one. | |
| suppose it could be. | |
| A great example of natural law is Austrian economics. | |
| Seriously. | |
| Austrian economics is true whether or not you want it to be. | |
| Right now, in the situation we are in the world where we've switched from gold-backed currencies to funny money, it's inevitable that we're going to collapse. | |
| In fact, I just saw a link, I'll put it down below, about how there was basically zero inflation in the United States until the Federal Reserve, and in particular going off the gold standard to help accelerate it way more. | |
| But you see this very flat line and then just this rocketing, rocketing, you know, like the cost of average goods. | |
| It's very stark, you know, like please argue with me, Keynesians. | |
| Argue that graph, please. | |
| As Aaron Clary put it, it's hard to predict when the collapse is going to come because the Keynesian funny money, they always, you know, they always come up with another little quirk, another different type of bailout, another different way of seemingly to manipulate things so they get away with it. | |
| They keep seeing to get away with it until in the end the wall hits them that much harder because economics is natural law. | |
| Fact of the matter is that if you don't produce anything, you can't be wealthy. | |
| And that shall be the whole of the law. | |
| Economics is the most obvious. | |
| It's the easiest to understand. | |
| Because, you know, try and explain economic theory like this to a small business owner in a community of 500 people. | |
| I mean, it's hard enough explaining it to people nowadays when inflation's going through the roof, when corporations are getting bailed out and we have more people unemployed than ever before. | |
| That wasn't very friendly. | |
| But imagine trying to explain it into a small village where they don't see the aggregate effects of all these terrible policies. | |
| So that's one part of natural law. | |
| Another part is warfare. | |
| Sun Ze, the art of war, has been in print since the guy first wrote it. | |
| The Book of Five Rings. | |
| Same thing there. | |
| It is extremely popular with you'll find it in the business section. | |
| And now if you read these books, there's nothing that you can really nail down. | |
| It's all very abstract. | |
| It's all about patterns. | |
| You know, bury your chariot wheels to urge your men into battle. | |
| Except for all those times when a tactical retreat is how you win the battle. | |
| There's the, shoot, I can't remember his name right now, but the series of books, 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, I think the 33 Strategies of War. | |
| Chatt with the guy on email a few times. | |
| Very, very intelligent man. | |
| And yet none of his rules can be put down into an engineering problem. | |
| These are all high-level abstract patterns. | |
| And to go back to Austrian economics, yes, good businesses fail sometimes because there's a flood, or because there's a solar eclipse, or because of some external factor. | |
| Natural law is not a karmic force that seeks out justice. | |
| It's a force that inevitably punishes anybody that's going against it, eventually. | |
| It can take a while to catch up with you, but it always catches up to you. | |
| You can be the general of one of the wealthiest armories out there. | |
| You can have the best technology and the best trained soldiers, and you can still lose every war. | |
| Exactly like the United States has been doing ever since the end of World War II. | |
| Have they won anything despite having the best tactics and the best generals? | |
| No, because they have the wrong strategy. | |
| This is natural law. | |
| and it's an entirely sensible thing to talk about if you're trying to pick up women by being a nice guy who deserves it on the inside without ever acquiring any life skills that are interesting accomplishing anything without learning what women are actually attracted to and becoming that, then you're never going to attract women. | |
| It doesn't matter how much you think you deserve it. | |
| Natural law says that if you're a beta, even if you're a millionaire beta, your wife's going to cheat on you eventually. | |
| And, of course, the wife that cheats is going to come to her own sort of a bad end. | |
| Natural law's there. | |
| I certainly don't understand all of it. | |
| Otherwise, my armies would have taken over the world already. | |
| And anybody that likes to scream and yell about how they hate this group or that group because they don't follow it and condemning everybody, acting with none of the humbleness that you ought to act with, they certainly don't understand it either. | |
| But it's not a ridiculous concept. | |
| It's not. | |
| It's one of these things that's been appropriated by the low church. | |
| That the high church, which is atheist cult, which is modern liberalism, has rejected it and assigned it onto the low church, the enemies that will make them look good. | |
| Now we get to the second part of this video: rebellion. | |
| Because violation of natural law is almost always some sort of rebellion against natural authority. | |
| it's a rejection of the way the world works a reputation of it on the low levels is simply a a reputation a repudiation of legitimate authority there's a | |
| There's a comic I saw a while back, a captioned photo of a kid on a riding lawnmower with a grandmother in the background that looks like she's screaming at him. | |
| The kid kind of just happens to have a surly expression on his face at the time. | |
| And the caption goes, get back here, young man. | |
| And he says, fuck you, you're not my real dad. | |
| Gonna go listen to some Lincoln Park. | |
| And like, this is. | |
| It's so funny because this is so normal nowadays that our entire culture celebrates rebellion. | |
| Rebellion has become a commodity that's packaged and marketed and sold at discount outlets. | |
| And we can all buy our brand of disconformity. | |
| It's gotten so bad that even the hipsters now dress like somebody from the 1950s who was dressing to conform to look like, you wore a suit, a fedora, you looked like a real man. | |
| They're wearing the suit and the fedora to protest against something. | |
| The meta, meta, meta-level protest. | |
| And this is why they're made fun of. | |
| Because when you go that far, it's obvious to everybody that you're ridiculous. | |
| But what's not so obvious is the ridiculousness in our own constant rebellion. | |
| Our culture all goes to the 1960s. | |
| This cultural revolution, this generational rebellion that they had. | |
| Or they had better, newer ideas. | |
| You know, it's not fair that people that work hard get to make a lot of money and those that don't work hard don't make a lot of money. | |
| These rebellions against economics, these rebellions against gender. | |
| You know, it's not fair that a 45-year-old man can be sexy, but a 45-year-old woman can't. | |
| So we're going to try and change reality so that 45-year-old women can be sexy. | |
| How well did that work? | |
| And again, this trend of Puritanism, where Puritanism seems like a religion designed so that the top males can sleep with all the women and completely punishing it punishes male sexuality because that punishment only affects the lower half of the bell curve, not the upper half. | |
| The upper half doesn't get accused of date rape, not most of the time. | |
| it's the lower half that gets that accusation but this this constant unceasing rebellion against natural law against the way the universe naturally works That some people are smarter than others, and yet we want to believe in equality. | |
| That some people are more moral than others. | |
| And yet we want to believe in the fundamental moral equality of everybody. | |
| One of the big places you see this coming out is amongst the libertarians. | |
| Now, the libertarians, they tend to be, they tend to be a very economics-heavy party. | |
| They look at most situations in a sort of an economical frame of mind. | |
| And so they'll take something, and I think, was it Libertarian Girl? | |
| She ran into this recently. | |
| Where take something like prostitution. | |
| You know, you can say that prostitution is probably bad, which it probably usually is. | |
| There might be some exceptional circumstances, but it's probably usually a bad idea for all parties involved. | |
| And the libertarians will say, well, it's going to happen anyway. | |
| Criminalizing it doesn't help anybody. | |
| We might as well leave it be. | |
| You know, this on this sense, in the economic governing sense, they're trying to adhere to the natural law there. | |
| Like, yes, it's going to happen anyway. | |
| Banning it, enforcing your view of moral behavior, it's probably a bad idea. | |
| But then if you go and say, well, yes, I agree it should be legal, but I also think it's immoral, they flip out. | |
| They get angry at you. | |
| Because of course we see all of these, you know, these low-church Republicans that want to try and control you, control society. | |
| They flip out and accuse you of being one of those, even though you just said you want it legal. | |
| And in fact, go watch Penn and Teller. | |
| They're the perfect example of this. | |
| There's a certain obsession with immoral behavior. | |
| Behavior that violates natural law. | |
| So you've got Penn and Teller, who are themselves married, who are themselves examples of fairly traditional patriarchs who go out of their way to put all sorts of tits on their show, who go out of their way to advocate all sorts of new different forms of marriage. | |
| You know, poly, swinging, whatever. | |
| All out of this desire to seem edgy. | |
| Because that's what it boils down to, is that rebellion is edgy. | |
| Rebellion is cool nowadays. | |
| So we're not going to be like those lame kids that go and buy their goth clothes at Hot Topic. | |
| We're going to be libertarians that support this Liberal Party idea to rebel against those fuddy-duddy conservatives. | |
| Heck, you even see it here in the Manosphere. | |
| There's a... | |
| There's a logo which I absolutely love, by the way, and I'm not criticizing you guys at all. | |
| But the evil patriarchy logo, whereas the male Mars symbol with the devil inside of it. | |
| I mean, here's the thing. | |
| We're advocating love and protection of women and children and adherence to, you know, Republican set of values and martial valor and masculinity and femininity and healthy families and education and we're advocating all this and we have to call ourselves evil. | |
| You know that we all joke about being these evil right-wing bastards. | |
| Again, because that constant need to rebel against something in our society. | |
| We have so diverged from natural law that those who claim to hold natural law are some of the most oppressive, self-centered... | |
| deluded, bigoted, ugly people out there. | |
| Ain't that the perfect dialectic? | |
| You know, over here, you got the liberals. | |
| Right? | |
| The liberals change their mind constantly, but they believe in something, the hope and change, and they don't know what they believe in, but they always believe in it. | |
| And over here, you got the conservatives. | |
| You got these guys that say they believe in natural law and traditionalism and all that, and are the biggest money-grubbing, whoring, gay prostitute-hiring hypocrites you've ever seen. | |
| The liberals glorify in how depraved we all are. | |
| That all of us rebel constantly against natural law and thus somehow prove, because we're all hypocrites, that natural law doesn't exist. | |
| Well, bad news, folks. | |
| No matter how delicious the dinner, the check always comes. | |
| and we're a society that is really not prepared to pay the check that's going to be delivered to us one of the most intelligent things i ever heard about religion is ironically from uh those jay and silent bob movies the uh | |
| That one where the the archangels want to destroy the universe by using a a contradiction in Catholic law. | |
| Which is strangely appropriate, come to think of it, given this video. | |
| Stop believing and have a good idea. | |
| Have some goddamn humbleness in your heart. | |
| And God did such a great job covering himself up. | |
| Try not to spend too much time believing in him. | |
| It's probably not good for your health. | |
| Or your immortal soul. |