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May 19, 2021 - Davis Aurini
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20210326 Dreams of a High Culture

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Good evening folks.
And look, there I am.
I need to get a theme song or something like that.
Now, still don't have the right title.
Why you should respect powerful women.
Why do I cause myself so much trouble?
Why can't I just be normal?
Right?
I always gotta poke the tiger.
Now, I don't think we have anybody here yet.
So, for all you people not here, what I'm doing is I'm opening up the Twitch app and I'm gonna do a quick stream on there to tell everybody that we're not on Twitch this week.
Stream IRL.
Alright, can I have the keyboard?
There we go.
Tonight's dream is happening on DLive.
There we go, and start stream.
I've got to rotate.
Oh, that's convenient.
Tell me how much data it uses.
Alrighty.
Let's see.
Do we have anybody here?
Can I tell if I have anybody here?
Zero viewers.
So, I'm going to assume you all got the news, and you're here on D Live.
But I'm going to keep this open for a few minutes just so we can catch any stragglers.
So let's see what am I going to do with this.
Can I put it there?
Yeah, it's reasonably stable.
So, what's new with me?
Not too much, honestly.
But, some exciting news.
Big L?
Looks like his daughter's arriving.
Sooner rather than later.
So, um, so I'll be out one, well, two friends for about a month, because...
Because after the birth, they're just going to nest.
And God bless them, they deserve it.
But in about a month, I'm going to have a wonderful new niece.
And I'm so excited to meet her.
So there's the news.
Anything else?
Not really.
I usually like to have something to talk about for a few minutes until you folks start arriving.
You know what?
I'm not seeing anybody over on D Live.
Or on Twitch, I should say.
That's interesting.
camera effect on this one as well.
In that case, I'm going to write a quick comment.
How do I write a comment?
Welcome to Arena's chat room.
Can I chat?
Appears I cannot.
colors are really washed out on this is what it is It is, how, what time is it?
Yeah, we're three minutes in.
There's nobody over there.
So I'm going to end the stream.
And they'll have the backup.
Oh, one viewer.
shoot.
So hopefully I can figure out to go to my twatter to find that.
Anyway.
Let's get to the DLive app.
Two viewers.
See, things are still going a little bit slow.
That's originally why I went back to Twitch initially, because it's like you need momentum to build up for each different service.
Like, I really don't like switching services because of this.
But, you know, is what it is.
Alrighty.
So, on to the stream proper.
For, oh, two of you.
So, you probably heard that the that ship ran aground in what's it called?
Suez Canal, I believe.
Was it the Suez Canal or was it the whatever.
Some canal.
A very vital part of global trade.
Either North America or the one between Africa and the Middle East.
I don't know which one.
I don't care.
I am not a stevedore.
But you know, it's interesting, isn't it?
Watching how much this is backing up trade all over the world.
bitcoin surged in value because of that and you know there's a guy on my my discord who posted he posted this meme It's like, what's that?
The economy's recovering?
Better destroy the canal.
It's like, good lord, it's just one thing after another the past year, hasn't it?
And right now the governments are freaking out because apparently the coronavirus, which is part of a school of viruses that are the fastest to mutate ever, has mutated.
So now there's going to be variant streams, right?
Like it's never going to end.
Yeah, like nobody's dying from this stupid thing, but the the legislation's never going to end.
Just one thing after another.
And okay, maybe I'm late to the ball game, just noticing this, right?
But I was kind of looking at all this today.
And, you know, I'm kind of laughing at it because you got to laugh at this stuff.
But, um, I don't think it's the time to be profligate with your resources.
I mean, just the way things are going, it's just like we're, I was going to say we're hitting a stream of bad luck, but it's not bad luck, right?
I mean, like, you get viruses out of China every few years.
And that's been going on, you know, for my entire adult life.
Every three, five years, you get some weird bat virus or bird virus or something out of China.
Never caused any problems before.
But this time, yeah, a complete underreaction and then overreaction from all of our political leaders.
And so, I don't know what happened with this ship that ran aground.
By the way, if you really want to piss off Navy people, call them boats.
They get angry if you do that.
I have no idea what happened, but, you know, more incompetence.
Got the...
Oh, goodness.
I made the mistake of going to Reddit recently.
I was, why was I even there?
I actually had a reason.
looking for some other source of information but of course god they've got such an awful design to reddit I can't figure out how Reddit works anymore.
But somehow I wind up on a Reddit thread about how there was an anti-mask protest here in Calgary.
And of course, the Reddit zombies all say exactly what you know.
You know what they're going to say.
right these bloody npcs they just they just get programmed How can we possibly, I can't live in this city because there's people that don't want to wear masks.
The masks don't do anything dipwad.
Or they do basically nothing.
Right?
And nobody's got the stupid disease.
Right?
The only people that need to be kept safe are people that are already on death's door.
Everybody else, we can just go back to life as normal.
Like, nothing changed.
Right?
New coronavirus.
Okay.
Life is the same, but no, no, the Reddit people, it's the, it is worse than Hitler that people don't want to wear masks.
So they're jerking around the economy.
The Democrats have been encouraging their foot soldiers to burn down the cities.
Now we've got a major interception in world trade.
Call me cynical.
But I think there's going to be something else coming down the line as well.
So be frugal with things.
Another bit of interesting news is China and India have banned Bitcoin.
Now, banned Bitcoin.
Yeah, good luck, right?
You can't stop the signal.
Like, there's only one country on the planet that could ban Bitcoin, and that's North Korea, right?
Nobody else has that much control.
But, you know, okay, they banned it.
This is kind of interesting because India and China hate each other and do the opposite of what one another do.
So the fact that they're moving in concert on this is kind of interesting, but, well, probably not that interesting.
I'll tell you what I think's happening.
Now, the China situation is fairly self-evident.
Chinese government doesn't like not having control over something.
Well, I mean, what government does, but the Chinese are a little bit over the top trying to control everything.
So that's why the Chinese are banning it.
Now, India.
And by the way, what I'm about to say is not a reflection on the Indian people any more than my criticism of the CCP is a reflection on the Chinese people.
Let's just be clear about that, because we're living in a world of midwits that like to quote you out of context.
But the Indian government, basically, like, to understand the Indian government, and, you know, okay, so I've never been to India.
That's just my two cents, right?
It's a guy that pays attention to the world stage.
A bunch of 45-year-old women whose children have left the house, who aren't too bright, and who like to boss everybody around.
That's basically the Indian government.
So, why did the Indian government ban Bitcoin?
Like, especially since cryptos offers so many potential advantages for places like India.
Like, there's all these altcoins coming out that are specifically designed to solve problems in the second world.
So, like, India banning the Bitcoins is just stupid.
The reason they did it is because the school marms don't understand what Bitcoin is.
And, yeah, India has way too many regulations, right?
Like, trying to get.
I suspect a part of the reason that we see so many Indians coming to North America is because it's just impossible to start a business over in India.
Too many regulations, the government shuts everything down.
You know, you apply for a business license and it takes six months to get the stupid thing.
So, you know, how are you supposed to pivot?
How are you supposed to react to the market with the government putting that much sand in the gears?
So, yeah, I suspect their reason for doing it is just that, because they don't understand how it works.
Man, three folks.
Are you guys getting out there and enjoying the weather or something?
It is finally getting nice outside, isn't it?
Sorry, we had more people last night on the test stream where I was just making sure I had everything working.
So, there you go.
Ship run aground, international trade crashed.
Hopefully, you bought some gasoline last week.
I wouldn't be buying any gasoline this week.
Try and avoid traveling if you can.
And yeah, guys, I think things are going to get worse.
Like, I'm sorry to say that, but I don't have a lot of optimism about this.
Like, some other stupid thing is going to happen to continue to knock the economy off kilter.
Yeah, the state of this economy, well, it's not great, is it?
So the topic of this stream, interesting post by Face2Face.
Ekinoru, I think is his blog spot, is his URL.
And he was addressing the question of what happened to fashion because there is no fashion anymore.
There's no fashion publications.
It seems like fashion disappeared right around 2010.
And now, there's a few things going on with this.
The disappearance of subcultures, the disappearance of common culture.
I was watching somebody, it might have been movie Bob, actually.
I think it was actually, about 10 years ago, before he went, you know, full retard.
He was asking the question: why is Simpsons not funny anymore?
Because, like, it's the same show, the jokes aren't any worse, but you kind of watch Simpsons, like, like, even 10 years ago.
I don't know who the hell's watching Simpsons these days, but like 10 years ago, you tune into The Simpsons just because you felt like you were supposed to, right?
It was the tradition.
And you didn't really like the show anymore, but you said, okay, I'm going to tune into it just, you know, because it's The Simpsons.
And Movie Bob's speculation as to why it's not funny anymore was that we no longer have common culture.
Back in the 80s and 90s, because all the communication was centralized, right?
It was six big networks, radio stations, a handful of newspapers, and that's it.
So you had the centralized culture.
And so you would know who Madonna was, even if you don't listen to her music.
Where if you contrast that to 10 years ago, they had an episode where, oh goodness, who's that musician that made the suit of meat for herself or something?
She was on it.
And I've got no idea who she is.
None whatsoever.
I don't care to learn.
I somehow know about the Backstreet Boys and Madonna, but these new ones, I know absolutely nothing about them because I'm just not interested and there is no centralized media.
And the thing about The Simpsons is that all the jokes it made presumed a centralized culture, a common culture that we could all reach, that we could all understand.
That was the nature of the comedy on The Simpsons, right?
Like Seinfeld didn't have that sort of comedy, but The Simpsons required that common culture.
And since starting in the 2000s, but really picking up steam in the 2010s, there's no decades anymore.
Like it used to be you had the 90s, the 80s, the 70s, they had a really distinct feel to them.
They had a soundtrack, they had a style, they had, you know, a thing going on for each decade.
They had movies that identified the decade.
Whereas not really anymore.
And this, again, it goes to the distribution of culture thanks to the internet.
It's funny.
So, like, I listen to the alternative rock station, which is an old folky station, as I understand.
Except it's not really.
Like, the music that comes on, it's like every modern genre of music is playing on that radio station.
And it's gotten to the point I don't even know what genres are anymore.
Used to be pretty clear-cut.
You had rock and roll, you had hip-hop, you had jazz.
What's this?
Nothing.
But now all the music just blends into one another.
There hasn't been.
There are good bands right now.
Okay, there's a lot of good music being made.
But it's not distinctive of the time.
Right?
Like, you have to look up when the music was written because it could have been some of it could have been written back in the 80s or 90s or something like that.
And the other stuff, you got no idea.
It could be written last year, could be 15 years old.
You don't know.
Every song's a little bit of a mix of rap and rock and roll and alternative.
It all kind of blended together.
With no distinct voice of the decade.
And part of that, part of that is the internet distributing culture.
right like it's here's an example Fallout 3 made the old 1940s blues and jazz songs that they play on the Pip-Boy in the game.
Those saw a bit of a revival after that.
In the 90s, you would not have been able to find those songs, right?
The music store only had, I don't know, like a thousand different artists, which sounds like a lot, but it really isn't that many.
So even if you wanted to go buy a CD of that, you couldn't.
With the internet, it's super easy.
So you can listen to whatever you feel like listening to, you can listen to that.
That's part of it.
But face to face brought in a really interesting observation.
He pointed out that to have fashion is a part of high culture.
It's maybe the worst part of high culture.
I don't know.
I like fashion.
Although I don't get fashion.
I'll be honest.
I wear costumes.
I don't get the fashion thing.
And part of that is just me being a contrarian and disliking the casual clothing that's been popular for the past 30 years.
But also, it's like I just don't get fashion.
I think it's genetic.
My great-grandfather, you know, moved to Toronto, started dressing like a banker with a pork pie hat.
Then he moved to Alberta, bought a cowboy hat and cowboy boots, right?
I wear costumes.
I don't really get the blending in with other people fashion sort of thing.
But yeah, now fashion is part of high culture, elite culture.
It's the leaders of our society telling us what we're supposed to wear.
And FaceToFace's observation is that right now the elites are too busy fighting over status amongst themselves to cooperate to create a coherent culture.
And thus, no fashion.
you know i think you could expand this actually to um i'm thinking michelle obama and those atrocious sofa covers that she would wear around i mean we've hit the leftist singularity right Where the left is now in rebellion against absolutely everything, including good fashion.
And so rather than promoting a fashion, see what used to happen.
If the first lady was wearing an outfit, all the women of the nation would want to imitate her and start wearing similar outfits.
But not anymore.
Michelle Obama was wearing those outfits as a rejection of high culture, as an F you to whatever majority she felt like she wasn't a part of.
And since Michelle Obama, nobody talks about what the First Lady is wearing or what Kamala Harris is wearing.
Nobody cares.
She's just wearing whatever.
Because the elites are too busy scrabbling amongst themselves to actually build an identity, to build a fashion, a culture for the era.
Now, this doesn't mean there isn't great clothing out there.
There absolutely is.
I mean, look at this fantastic smoking jacket I've got.
Some very nice leisure suits are coming out right now.
But there's nobody, there's no established figure telling you to wear them.
It's become a bit of a free-for-all.
You can pretty much wear whatever the hell you want these days.
like with it within within a certain narrow area and give it a few more years maybe cloaks will come back into acceptability if not style I'd be happy with that.
Claremy, glad to have you, my friend.
You know, Face to Face was raving about this whole aspect.
He was just, he's been doing a lot of cultural analysis.
He argues that we're going into a 15-year warming up period.
That the he kind of sees there being like a 15-year, you know, sine wave.
So like a 30-year sine wave to culture.
You've got like 15 years of the cold period, then you've got 15 years of a warm period.
And he kind of argues that the cold period started in about 2005.
And you know what?
I noticed this at the time.
That, like a couple of years beforehand, all the girls were, they were loving all these terrible rap songs about being slutty, right?
But they just wanted to go out and have fun.
You know, like Sir Mix a lot.
That's the pop culture that we had back then.
And then right around 2005, all of a sudden, all the girls got cold.
Before that, they were super easy to talk to.
They were fun to talk to.
But around 2005, they started getting all prickly about things.
So before that, they were kind of annoying because they were going around, look at me, I'm slutty.
But then around 2005, they got all judgmental with everything.
And then we saw the whole explosion of feminism, of rape on campus, of Me Too, all of that.
So for the past 15 years, we've had a really cold culture.
Man, the bars were way better before 2005.
But you know, the artists were coming out of that.
We're entering a warming period and that this current crop of kid thinks the whole affirmative consent thing is retarded.
They're having fun.
They're wanting to get back out.
Mix things up.
Meet people.
Stop being so scared of the outside world.
And I think he's onto something.
I think he's onto something with that pattern.
Mind you, I'll tell you, there's one thing that trading Bitcoin has taught me is like there's no set in stone patterns, right?
There's history rhymes, but it doesn't repeat.
There's trends that you can spot, but it's not written in stone.
So the issue we have, like beyond the whole culture thing and the fashion thing, and you know what?
Good for him for focusing on culture and fashion, because that's probably far more important than what I'm going to be talking about.
When you recognize, because like that, that observation of his, that the elites are just fighting one another for status.
It's a game of musical chairs, man.
The ship is sinking.
I thought that was an extremely profound insight.
And this speaks yet again to the fact that there are no political solutions to any of this.
And there might be local solutions, but, you know, even then.
The elites are just fighting one another to get their piece of the pie.
And they're not committed to actually fixing anything.
Goodness, a bit of a dour note, isn't it?
Yeah, I'm not liking the way things are going, folks.
I'm just going to be upfront and frank with you.
I think we're going to have another, like, well, we've got the crashed ship.
There's a negative economic impact right there.
They're going to do something stupid with the coronavirus.
Probably by April.
End of April, I think.
They're going to announce more lockdowns or something at that point.
We've got all these people running around like chickens with their heads cut off, trying to implement policies they don't even understand.
I mean, thus we have the whole electrical shutdown down in Texas.
And these people do not learn from any of this.
So yeah, I would really be looking to batten down the hatchets as much as you can.
The masks will become permanent.
You know, it's so funny.
I was reading an article from 2017 talking about how the masks, the wearing of masks over in Asia was psychologically pathological.
See, the reason that they were wearing the masks over in Asia Wasn't Initially, it was fear of disease But it became a way to alienate yourself from the world Right?
Like, you can put on the mask and hide your face, and then you don't have to emote to anybody else on the subway.
And they're pointing this out back in 2017, but even though Reddit fucking loves science, they aren't too good at actually reading any of the science.
So yeah, you are correct.
The mask couldn't be permanent, which, like, shit, man.
Roll with the punches.
I mean, Ella pointed out that some of the masks can look pretty cool and mysterious, right?
And the ones I got, I picked them up recently.
I picked them up mainly just because they have a a valve to let the air out so they don't fog my stupid glasses.
But they actually have a carbon filter in them, so...
It's stupid, but they actually are filtering out pollutants from the air, so...
So, you know, that's something.
Plus, it's hard for people to recognize you when you're wearing a mask, so, you know.
You take the good with the bad, is what I'm saying.
And it won't be a good thing for kids since we are evolved to look at faces.
Well, you know, even here, we've got a little bit of a silver lining to this.
Oh, there's there's everybody.
y'all showed up the silver lining is that your kids are going to be seeing your face and your families and the friends that come over and visit you And so it will likely lead to tighter bonds to a smaller truck.
Whereas the kids are going to feel very alienated from the society.
Which, you know, typically if you're trying to run a society, having a generation raised to be alienated from it, probably a bad idea.
But, you know, I'm not in the business of running a society.
I just live in it.
And it's not a very good society.
It's increasingly not a good society.
So being alienated from it?
Not worse things could happen.
I do feel bad for the little kids going on but now that's the worry, right?
The worry.
We've already had this explosion in autism.
And it's not overdiagnosis.
Okay, guys?
It is not overdiagnosis.
I wish it were.
These days we have a tremendous number of children who cannot function properly.
That require a great deal of supervision.
And even those that do get better, right?
It's like massive intervention to help them just become normal.
Magnus Bond friend, glad to have you here.
By the way, can I um want to see?
Can I share lemons?
I saw that that was a thing.
Chest requires five lemons to distribute.
But I've.
Ah, you just donated some lemons.
Thank you.
Alright, let's see if I can distribute now.
No, it says I have 2.4.
Maybe if I. What happens if I reboot the app?
See, I don't know how any of this works.
I think a lemon is worth about one penny.
Let's see.
Yeah, I partied pretty hard with Big L last night.
So my energy levels aren't super high.
And it's a good thing we did, because, you know, he's got the kitty now.
Weird, it's saying I have three lemons, even though you just donated 14.
I think we'll have to wait until next stream for me to distribute lemons.
Whatever that means.
See, it says I have 530 in the other thing.
Could watch ads and get lemons.
Ah, whatever.
So yeah, we already have something in the environment is causing an increase in autism, a major increase in autism.
I've heard the speculation that it's because of parents being older when they give birth, but that doesn't seem to explain this.
Like, this is too extreme for a minor variation in age to cause it.
Like, if older parents were that bad, we would have myths and legends out the wazoo about this.
And I'm pretty familiar with mythology.
And, you know, like, mythology will occasionally address that, yes, it is harder for a woman to get pregnant as she gets older.
But there is no mythology whatsoever stating that older parents create dysfunctional children.
So any effect from that's going to be extremely minor, which doesn't explain the very major effects that we're seeing.
So it must be something in the environment.
I don't know what, but it's got to be something in the environment.
And so we're going to take these kids.
They're already at risk.
And now we're going to harm their socialization to exacerbate the problem.
Well done, Western civilization.
Well done.
Frickin' clown world, eh?
Maddie says, I just can't get over how selfish the boomers are being.
I think the Hong Kong flu was almost as serious as COVID.
But those boomer assholes went to Woodstock.
high schooler had to skip their graduation and school dances it's you know i don't like going after the boomers because it's such an easy target you know You know, I don't like going after the boomers because it's such an easy target, you know?
But you're not wrong, are you?
What blows me away is how they just believe everything.
Have you ever met a journalist?
Do you?
Do you not know what journalists are?
Have you never had a newspaper article about get printed about something you're intimately familiar with?
Because the newspaper articles are always completely wrong.
Anytime you know what's going on, if it's something to do with regulating an industry that you're in, or if it's a scientific topic that you happen to have studied, whatever it is, the newspapers get it completely upside down.
And the sort of people these days that become newspaper reporters, these days, it's always been this way.
They've never, they are gossips, right?
They are all fighting desperately to get to the top of the greasy pole.
And the only way to do that is to publish a scandal.
And so they will do anything and everything to turn anything into a scandal.
You know, as I've said, this is one of the reasons I was kind of thinking about running for city office, but I'm not going to do that because the journalists would just come after me and rip me to shreds.
Right?
Like, look at what happened to Peterson recently when he was discussing, like, he was on a medication that conflicted with the other one, causing a physical illness.
He was discussing this with the media.
And he explained very straightforward and simply that this would cause, like, the symptoms he was suffering from the.
Actually, I don't think he was even suffering these symptoms.
One of the potential symptoms of this conflict of medication was it was like an itching or something that would be so bad it would drive certain people to be suicidal.
The three newspaper articles later, Jordan Peterson was suicidal.
No, he wasn't.
And yet the boomers believe it all.
I remember one time, I was watching some news article, back when news was a thing, and they had an emergency room doctor opine on what the correct standards for driving should be.
And what laws we should implement to punish the people that infract against those standards.
And I was like, dude, just because you're a doctor doesn't mean you know anything about the transportation system.
How about you leave that to civil engineers?
There's a whole degree in all of this that you do not have, Mr. Doctor.
All you know is that accidents are worse at 100 kilometers an hour than at 50 kilometers an hour.
Like, you don't know what's going on on the roads.
Your opinion on this is completely worthless.
It's actually less, it's worth less than my opinion on it because I've put a little bit of energy into studying it and I'm actually a good driver.
And I'm a lot smarter than you, Mr. Doctor.
And yet he's put up there on the media because, oh, he's a doctor, so, oh, I guess he knows everything.
It's absolutely absurd.
But so I'm kind of getting off on a track there.
I'll get to the comments in a sec.
Selfishness.
Selfishness is what you brought up, Amadi.
And yeah.
It is incredibly selfish.
I mean, good lord, I'm not even 40 yet.
And I'm already at the point where it's like, okay, I'm pretty useless.
Like, okay, not useless.
I have a, I'm useful in many ways.
But, you know, you get to 40, it's like, it's time for you to start giving back to society, you know?
It's like, no, nobody's going to mentor you.
Nobody's going to, you know, give you an opportunity.
Not when you're 40, right?
And it's like, yeah, I don't want an opportunity.
Give the opportunity to the kid.
Kid needs the opportunity.
I don't know.
Put me into the mulcher.
Use me to use me to fertilize some crops, right?
Like, what matters is that the kids are raised properly.
And I'm only 40 for crying out loud.
We're talking about people that are mostly retired, mostly collecting pensions.
The selfishness is just absolutely amazing.
The credulousness and the selfishness of boomers.
And you know what?
They're principled exceptions.
I don't know if there's anybody that's of the boomer demographic in the stream, but you know, I'm sure a few of my readers have been.
Not all boomers are terrible.
Though I will say, even the good.
Again, if you're listening to the stream and you're a boomer, you're the exception to this rule.
So I'm not slinging stones at you.
And yeah, the Gen X millennials suck too, so.
But even the good boomers.
Even the good boomers.
It's like they have this intentional naivete.
Like they refuse to see the world as it actually is.
Which is so ironic because they're the ones that staged the huge rebellion against their own parents.
And I get it.
Their parents were major squares, okay?
Their parents were traumatized by the Great Depression and World War II.
They were kind of a bunch of squares.
I get it.
But you know, like, going back to like my 20s and 30s, the absolute dearth of useful, workable wisdom that the boomers passed on.
They gave absolutely worthless knowledge and weren't interested in giving anything worthwhile.
It's um so even the late, like even the good boomers still wind up blindly supporting the status quo.
I mean, there's a lot of boomers that were opposed to Trump because he was crass.
Really?
That's your argument?
Remind me again, what percentage of your generation got divorced?
Screwing up all of us kids?
Because, you know, being a little bit crass or screwing up your own offspring with divorce.
I don't think crass is that big of a deal.
Like, look at the bigger picture for crying out loud.
Like, yeah, Donald Trump is a total douche.
I'll agree with you on that.
But, well, he didn't really manage to accomplish much, but I don't think he could have accomplished much, no matter, like, could have been Jesus himself that was president, and we'd still be where we are right now.
So I don't blame Trump for that.
But what he said he was trying to do, compared to what everybody else was saying, is like, yeah, that was, that was something worth investing in.
I am so tired of the blind allegiance to politicians that have been screwing us for, what, 50 years?
But the boomers still buy into all of it.
Like, even the good ones.
Which is what makes it so frustrating.
So.
Public Frog says, instances of Down syndrome increase dramatically as women age.
This is clearly established connection.
Okay, fair enough.
Fair enough.
But it's the autism that's really going out of control.
Magnus von Frenn says, Xanax, benzodiazepine withdrawal, not funny.
Yeah, like, I'll admit, I'm, one of the things I really disagree with Peterson on is, well, Boomer, his faith in the psychiatric establishment.
Now, I'm not saying that there are no good psychiatric drugs.
Like, obviously, there's good ones.
And, you know, in many cases, the whole psychiatric system, it's, if you insist on being an asshole, right?
Like, you just won't sort yourself out.
You won't figure out how to make yourself generally acceptable to other people.
At some point we just, we load you with chemicals so that you're mostly harmless.
We used to lock you up, which, quite frankly, we should probably still be doing.
Right?
Like, you gotta ask.
Like, all these shootings, all these mass shooters we have these days, is that because our culture is falling apart?
Well, yeah, that's part of it, probably.
But it's another huge part of it is that we used to lock those people up.
And honestly, it's even for their own good.
There's that guy.
This was five, ten years ago.
Kind of a famous case.
Basically, he was up in Edmonton, and he went off his meds, and he caught a bus across the country for some reason.
And there's a guy sitting next to him that was kind of sleeping.
And he wound up murdering the guy and cannibalizing part of his flesh.
Because he was having a schizophrenic episode.
So, first of all, we've got a guy that's dead.
But second of all, the schizophrenic now has to live with that.
Right?
Like, he did something horrible and monstrous because, well, it's not his fault that he's schizophrenic, but it is his fault that he went off the meds.
So he's got this insane guilt burden upon him.
Maybe it would have been better if we just locked him up.
Boomers, says Laramie.
Their own parents have to hopscotch over them to be the grandparents they fail to be.
They eat all the seed corn on the farm.
Exactly.
They eat all the seed corn.
One ice cream.
Thank you very much, Metaroman.
By the way, somebody sent me about 40 or 50 bucks of Bitcoin just the other day.
So major thank you to whoever that was.
Guys, if you're going to send me some Bitcoin, make sure to fire me an email so I know who you are so I can thank you properly.
Because that's the lovely thing about Bitcoin.
It's mostly anonymous.
See I'm gonna top off the ice here
So as you can see, we're down to a very thin amount.
but I think it'll get us through the live stream man I remember boomers Boomers I respect.
Justifying the Patriot Act.
Justifying all the lockdowns on our freedoms that came after that.
Yeah.
Muslims.
Muslims bomb the Twin Towers, so let's invite more of them into the country.
Now, in the defense of Muslims, has there been a single Islamic terror attack that wasn't supported by the intel agencies?
I was just, I was reading another interesting article.
Do you guys recall about...
Yeah, this is going backwards.
This was top secret information for five years.
Or something.
We only recently found out about it.
You know, way too late for it to matter.
But you remember that drama Muhammad Day?
I think it was down in Texas where some Islamic terrorists showed up.
And there's a shootout with the off-duty cops that they were moonlighting a security.
There's a shootout and the cops were victorious.
Right?
And so nobody, aside from the terrorists, got hurt.
Well, here's the interesting thing.
immediately behind the terrorists, the car right behind the terrorists, was their FBI handler.
You go to the World Trade Center bombing, not the, uh, Not 9-11, but the, was it 1993, I think?
The World Trade Center bombing.
And It was FBI agents that supplied 90% of the materials to that guy.
And this is not a conspiracy theory.
Go Wikipedia.
Go look it up on Wikipedia.
This is mainstream established news, okay?
The New York Times wrote about this.
And I'm not an absolute expert on every single terror attack that's happened.
But, you know, any of the ones I do know anything about, you dig into them and there's a spook.
There's always a spook that's managing these guys and is usually pushing them into doing something crazy.
Here's the thing about people, man.
Like, people are assholes, okay?
People are not good.
But they're not quite as violent and evil and murderous as we're led to believe.
You get the occasional really bad seed.
You get the occasional serial killer, right?
But the remarkable thing about humanity is that most people aren't that bad.
And what happens with so many of these, it's gaslighting.
Okay?
And I say this as somebody that has been gaslit.
Not by, well, I don't know, maybe they were working for the government.
But, you know, I've had people try and screw with me by feeding me negative information and try and provoke an overreaction in me.
And then, you know, they've been successful at times doing that.
And so when you hear about these terror attacks, so much of it is that you're just dealing with unstable people.
Unstable people that have been pushed into doing something illegal.
Because there's this mandate to go arrest terrorists, even though there really aren't any.
There might be a few here or there, but most of the terrorists are manufactured.
Like, they're a little bit unstable.
And, you know, COINTELPRO came up and said, hey, buddy, do it would be a really good idea.
You should turn your shoe into a bomb.
You know, I'm speculating a little bit about this.
know every single terror attack, but the ones I do know about, there's always an FBI agent right behind the terrorist.
So yeah, say what you will about the tenants of Islam.
Muslims aren't actually that bad.
But, you know, sadly, it's that our leadership, they're fighting amongst themselves to try and get a...
They're not invested in the long term.
So, not much to do about it.
But batten down the hatches.
Gee, guys, I thought I might have a little bit more material for tonight.
I'm afraid I do not.
So, um, tell you what, guys, I'm let me go through, like, I don't have a lot of comments here, but let me go through the comments that are there.
We'll see how long we can keep this stream together.
Um, like I said, me and Big Altai went off last night.
So, I've got a negative two penalty to charisma right now.
No, no, it's good that we did, though.
He's uh, looks like his daughter's arriving pretty soon.
So, um, he's gonna be busy for the next month.
I mean, you know, it's easy to point out the things wrong with Islam, but Islam does get a lot right.
Uh, there's a lot of very wise Islamic scholars and writers that you can dig up throughout history.
That's one thing I like about Quintus Curtius, right?
He's not myopic in his view of wisdom.
He finds wisdom wherever it is.
No prejudice.
Yeah, the stork has been dispatched.
Beyond that, I don't know anything.
They're gonna go nest for the next month.
So, they'll need weird uncle, they'll need a weird uncle right now.
In about a month, they'll need a weird uncle.
So what else has been going on?
still believe in QAnon, which is mind-boggling.
Yeah, I don't want to name names- I don't want to point at individuals.
Not even for like a higher purpose.
It's just, you know, I've got enough enemies already.
But the QAnon really has become a bit of a cope for people.
Like, they're really clinging to it and they're becoming stupider than they used to be.
Right?
There's people I see out there that have been traditionally very reasonable and logical.
And over the past year, they've become extremely unreasonable.
quick to jump to conclusions that are useful to them.
I think part of the problem is that we're looking...
We want there to be an answer.
We want there to be a solution.
And, like, guys, there isn't one.
I mean, not for the that.
Problem is, all the incentives are misaligned.
And expecting people to be better than incentives is a fool's errand.
I mean, heck, that saying I love.
The detective saying, always follow the money.
Right?
When there's a murder, look at the money first.
Because money is a very powerful incentive.
You know, like you might really hate Joe, but you're probably not going to do anything about it.
Unless, if you find out he's got gold Boolean hiding in his garage, then you might go get revenge on him and pick up some of that gold Boolean since he doesn't need it anymore.
People respond to incentives.
And if you can map the incentives of a system, you can predict what actors within that system are going to do.
Doesn't mean you can predict the system as a whole.
I mean, like, I've got no idea where anything's at.
Nobody has any idea where anything is headed, but you can look at the incentives of politics and predict that politicians are not going to do what they promised to do.
Right?
They're not actually going to stand up for the policies and principles that they said they were going to stand for.
I mean, even like even Donald Trump.
We were all pretty excited when he said lock her up, weren't we?
But he was never going to do that.
He, I think he was blocked from doing the things he did try to do.
Right?
So I've got some sympathy for the devil there.
But the locker up, that was just bullshit.
He was very clever.
He would say things that would allow you to interpret what you wanted to hear.
Right?
He's a great politician.
The kind of unique thing about Donald Trump as a politician is that most politicians promise that, you know, it's going to be cake tomorrow, even though tomorrow never arrives.
They sell you positive things.
I mean, like, look at Joe Biden.
Everything that comes out of that man's mouth is an empty platitude.
The interesting thing about Trump is that he sold negative ideas.
And that's kind of funny.
Basically, people have just gotten so pissed off with the system that there was a market opportunity for somebody selling cold spikies rather than warm fuzzies.
One thing I will give the left, says the Matty.
They know how to push their agenda when they get the chance.
The right, yeah, the right never does.
Now, in the rights defense, I think there's a comment on, I think Vox Day, I think it was Fox Day that mentioned this.
How if you pay any attention to the legal proceedings.
Right, right, because Hawaii just invented a law saying that you're not allowed to have guns.
Because the Constitution doesn't matter, right?
Left-wing judges, they always put weights on their side of the scale.
they always manipulate and lie just a little bit just enough to get their way the right doesn't But I don't know that Becoming corrupt is the solution to any of this.
i mean like really the the deeper problem with the right is that inevitably by getting involved in politics they do corrupt themselves to some degree but becoming more corrupt like again that's weighing it for the conservative side it's i don't see that as a long-term solution you know Cheaters never prosper.
Like, it catches up to you, right?
It like, let's say, hypothetically, like, we're all pretty sure the election was stolen.
Let's say that the right had engaged in election fraud because they knew the left was going to engage in election fraud.
Well, that might have gotten Donald Trump a second term, but it would have just further eroded the whole election process in the first place.
And again, the reason this matters is not because elections are a good idea.
The reason it matters is because you need to trust societal institutions.
Just because the mafia is printing dollars doesn't mean that the cops should go and print dollars.
Because there's going to be a higher cost down the road for all of that.
So if there's a solution to the left constantly tipping the scales in their favor, it's calling them out on that corruption.
But, you know, like you and what army are going to do this.
There's this boomer I know who will frequently get all pissed off about whatever stupid carbon tax, whatever.
And, and I feel him.
I completely agree with him on this stuff.
But his solution, like, he'll occasionally propose something to me, right?
Like, putting up a website that allows you to calculate anybody's carbon footprint so that people can see that Justin Trudeau is a massive hypocrite.
And it's like, I hate saying it to him, but it's like, yeah, like, that's a cute idea and all, but nobody cares.
The left doesn't care.
Right?
Like, you, the newspapers don't care.
You could put all this energy into making the website, but no, the only people that will care about the website are the ones that are already convinced.
You're preaching to the choir, man.
So, yeah, you and what army?
The left is willing to cheat.
The right wants to win fairly.
Makes sense.
Think about how women fight versus how men fight.
And I mean, like, the left and right, like, they are basically the two sexes of our race.
Like, the same dichotomy between the sexes exists between the left and the right.
And the left and right hemispheres of our brain.
Doesn't mean that, doesn't mean that women are evil or that your right hemisphere is evil.
You know, the frustrating thing, like there is, there is a way to deal with the left.
okay like I don't I'm not saying I have the whole battle plan worked out but there there is a way to deal with that you know if you're if you're ever in a job where somebody's using the rules to screw with you to push you around boss you around there They're playing, you know, Barracks lawyer.
And meanwhile, they don't follow any of the rules.
Rather than confront them straight on, what you do is you sidestep.
You use some kung fu, some judo to let them fall over when they charge at you.
I mean, isn't this what Christ meant when he said, be as innocent as doves, but as wise as serpents?
Right?
Like, understand how the game's played.
You got to be clever with this whole thing, but keep your principles at the same time.
There is a way to do it.
but there's no incentive for doing that.
And, you know, ultimately, okay, so why is there no incentive for doing this?
Um.
Part of the reason there's no incentive for being a good politician is because the media will lie about you.
And the problem with the media lying about you is that all these stupid boomers believe the media.
They've.
You know, Imagine, it's not selfishness exactly.
Hey, Meta Ronin, thank you for the ice cream.
It's not selfishness.
Not quite.
It manifests as selfishness, but what is it?
It's that the boomers have exported their morality.
Okay, so like when you when you buy a car When you buy a new car, if you want to maintain the value of that car as well as you can, You're probably going to stick with the dealership and bring it in to be serviced by the, the official techs at that dealership, and you know what.
You could probably find somebody cheaper.
You could.
You could do it yourself.
You could be 100% responsible for your own car.
But you know realistically, the smartest bet is export your car responsibility onto the experts.
Right?
Hire a bunch of experts to be responsible for maintaining your car.
The problem is that we've given up common sense.
Part of the reason people get so frustrated with science.
Like, it's funny, you know?
Like, I constantly find myself in these, like, in the uncanny valley between two extremes.
Like two of the extremes right now are the I fucking love science crowd and the traditional Christian I Reject science crowd.
There's a place for common sense Like, if some scientist comes out and makes some wild and improbable claim, then that scientist should anticipate the claim being challenged.
Right?
Like, if somebody, like, dark matter, for example, right?
And I'm actually, I don't know about dark matter, right?
I, it kind of sounds like bullshit to me.
It sounds like we don't actually understand galaxy formation, and so they're inventing this bullshit to try and make their formulas balance out properly.
That's what it sounds like to me.
And, you know, maybe I'm wrong there.
But, you know, you're making the improbable claim of dark matter.
It's kind of up to you to explain it.
And any scientist worth their salt is going to be eager to explain the thing, right?
Like, you are allowed to use your common sense.
Common sense isn't always going to be accurate, okay?
Like, the truth is often stupid, right?
But if you're making this improbable claim, expect to be questioned.
But it's like we've just given up the common sense.
We've.
Good lord, like, we trust the cops.
That's, oh my god, the boomers trust the cops.
Now, I, again, look at the incentive structure.
You know, I got a buddy that's in prison right now who is, you know, mostly innocent.
Mostly.
But he's innocent in a way that's not very useful to him.
Because, well, he's in prison.
So, like, so here's the thing, guys.
If the cops, they're just trying to look busy.
They're like the rest of us, right?
You're working on the construction site, walking back and forth with the 2x4 over your shoulder just so you look busy.
We're all just trying to look busy so our manager doesn't come yell at us.
And so cops, you know, it's not like they technically work commission, but they effectively work commission.
And if you work commission, you're going to sell the things that make the most profit, that are super easy to sell, that everybody wants.
And the cops are going to go for the low-hanging fruit.
So if you, and this is my friend, he got into a situation which was too noisy for anybody to pretend did not happen.
Right?
Like, if you head out on Thursday night and purchase some marijuana from your marijuana dealer, that's pretty quiet.
Everybody can pretend nothing happened, right?
Most people don't even know something happened.
So it's like, like, whatever, who cares?
But he was involved in something that nobody could ignore.
So, you know, cops got to do something about that.
And then they've got him.
They've got him in their clutches.
Do you think they're eager to let him go?
Of course not.
You know, he's like, what, down in Florida, right?
So how many serial killers are in Florida right now?
20?
30?
Right?
It's Florida.
Everybody there is insane.
The cops aren't really interested in finding the serial killers, though, are they?
Yeah, that sounds like a lot of work.
This guy, they've already got him in the prison, right?
Just keep jerking him around.
I'm hopeful he is going to get out, be found innocent.
But, you know, like, while he's in the prison, you know, prison guards are just making a paycheck.
The lawyers are making a paycheck.
The judges are making a paycheck.
It's like the people on the prequel Star Wars movies.
Just happy to be working, just happy to be working.
People respond to incentives.
People respond to incentives, right?
And you can rant about how people should have higher principles and yip, yip, yip, yip, yep.
And yeah, like a few of us do have higher principles, right?
But even the ones that have higher principles still respond to incentives.
I'll tell you what, since they put all these frickin' red light cameras and the speed cameras all over the damn city, you know, I've been speeding a lot less.
I don't think it makes me a safer driver.
I think doing 15 over the limit is perfectly safe in most neighborhoods.
And the ones I don't think it's safe, I do under the limit.
But yeah, now I got an incentive, right?
$50 fine if the red light camera says I was going too fast.
So, you know, I respond to incentives.
We all respond to incentives.
That is the human condition.
Wait, wait, wait, it's that saying, the definition of madness is doing the same thing and expecting different results.
Well...
Well, expecting the world to conform to your idealistic notion of what humans ought to be and ignoring the very real incentive structure, which is built into the DNA of the system, is a fool's errand.
So you do what you can, is what I'm saying.
Two scoops this Mineron.
Thank you.
Matty says, I think Dominion voting system is suing everyone now is the to prevent the public ever questioning the damn is forever winning man you know what really like I'm I'm not even in America right So it's not like I really care.
I'm just kind of sitting like on the sidelines in another country.
I mean, like, even if Trump had got the election, like, it wouldn't have mattered.
He couldn't do anything in four years.
There's no reason to think that with four more years, he would have, you know, become the God Emperor.
No reason to believe that.
So I'm just kind of sitting here on the sidelines and looking at this whole situation.
And just thinking to myself, man, you guys really shouldn't have broken voting.
I mean, like, anybody with half a brain knows that voting is worthless.
Voting really, like, it's relatively impotent, right?
Like, that Trump was such a fluke.
It was such a fluke to get a guy like Trump in.
Like, if they'd been paying attention, right?
Like, Trump should have been a wake-up signal to the political establishment to say that you guys are very out of touch with the electorate.
Right?
Like, you guys don't have as much control as you think you have.
And if they'd just woken up to that, they could have gone back to business as usual.
Which, you know, like, I'm not saying business as usual is good, but, you know, they keep the trains running on time.
So that's something, I suppose.
But, um, no, they freaked out instead.
They freaked out and they broke voting.
Like, voting didn't even matter.
Right?
The best that we could do is get Donald Trump, and then he was completely incapable of doing anything because he wasn't a Washington insider.
So it's like, you guys still won.
Like, you guys still won.
but man now you've broken voting and i'm not saying that because they broke voting there's going to be an armed uprising or something of that nature No, no, no.
That's not what I'm saying.
What I'm saying is that, like, the day I woke up to the fact that the justice system was foundationally hostile to my existence.
And this has been further reinforced over the years.
You know, like that the guy that broke into my house, stole my laptop.
Cops wouldn't even file a report against him.
And, you know, I'm not going to go into the other details, but it's become abundantly clear.
Like, you know, the officer, the cops are not going to do shit for me.
What the cops do for me is they scare criminals because criminals think the cops are going to investigate crimes.
And because everybody believes that there are cops out there, most people don't commit crimes.
It's it's sort of like I don't recommend you do this but like locks just keep honest people honest right You can probably leave your car unlocked when you go to the grocery store.
Yeah, you probably shouldn't.
It takes one second to lock it, you know.
And there are creeps that, like, there's like one creep in your neighborhood that goes around looking to see if a car is locked.
But like the lock, it's not really the one creep you need to worry about.
It's all the other monkeys all over the place.
And because cars are typically locked, most people don't try and break into cars.
And so because in theory cops enforce crime, they enforce the law, in theory, because they do that, they actually don't, but in theory they do, people think they do, most people don't commit crimes.
Most people, if they get all hot under the collar, if they get all belligerent with you, very few of them will escalate to violence.
Right?
So like they might be an asshole, but they're not going to go all the way to burning your house down and raping your chickens because they're afraid of the cops.
Even though in most practical sense, the cops don't care if you rape a chicken, goatly.
Fill your boots.
But see, when I realized that the cops really don't enforce crime, it fundamentally altered my perception of reality.
It fundamentally altered how I interact with the civilization.
Now, I happen to be somebody of relatively high moral character, and you know, it's not a brag, that's just a fact.
I don't steal, I don't lie.
I hate those things.
I don't do those things for my reasons.
I've got reasons to not lie.
Because I don't like lies.
To not steal.
I hate thieves.
But I'm also fully aware that I could, and I could easily get away with it.
And the fiction that there's law and order.
Yeah, I don't really buy that.
So I've become a bit of a wildcard.
because i saw the system for what what it is that's what they've done to a lot of people by destroying the voting system These people aren't going to go raid the Capitol building again.
No, they're, um, oh, oh, so this voting thing, just a big lie.
That's interesting.
I'm going to file that away, and that is going to affect my future decisions.
Like, you've altered my incentive structure.
So sitting here on the sidelines, watching what these people are doing, like, are you really sure that election was worth stealing?
I mean, Trump wasn't going to do anything.
I mean, he'd already guaranteed he wasn't going to do anything.
So he was mostly harmless.
But now you took away one of like the like the cornerstones of the American experiment, like the big fiction that people believe.
This is America.
And you just took away one of those fundamental building blocks.
I don't think that was a clever thing to do.
I don't know exactly what the results are going to be of that.
Which is and that's the problem.
The results are unpredictable and say what you will about a predictable system at least the trains run on time.
Right?
You throw wild cards into like you can deal with a few Leo Arena's going around being dickheads.
You can deal with a few of us because we're most of the people smart enough to figure out that the system is a lie are also smart enough to keep acting as if it isn't.
But you just woke up a whole bunch of people that are very stupid and we would all be better off if these people stayed asleep.
And you just woke them up.
Probably not a good strategy.
Weirdly, I have a bigger problem with petty little thieves than occasional murderers or rapists.
Oh god, like the petty thieves are the absolute worst.
That's why I hate thieves.
See, like what?
Just look at the bloody.
You buy a laptop, okay?
And the laptop, well, say it costs you $1,000 when it's new.
And you are anticipating getting, let's say, five years of usage out of that.
Now, the fact of the matter is that when you bring the laptop home, like six months later, the laptop's only worth $500, you'd be lucky to sell it for $200.
It's basically worthless.
Aside from the fact that replacing it would cost you $1,000.
And so that thief that steals your laptop, he makes a couple hundred bucks, but he costs you $1,000.
I think that's why I really, really hate Thebes, because of the, the, what would you call it?
It's like a tax, right?
When you steal something and resell it, it's like 90% of the price gets lost in the marketplace, right?
So 90% of what the person spends, it's not like you're stealing gold bullion, right?
If you're stealing gold Boolean, then it's got a one-to-one value.
So at least that's respectable.
I think that's why we like heist movies.
Because heist movies are about stealing something that's worth stealing, right?
And generally you don't harm.
Like when you rob the casino, you just take the money.
You don't also burn down the $20 million casino.
But that's a heist movie, okay?
That's fictitious.
The real world, the thief burns down 90% of the value through the act of thievery.
I think that's that's probably why I hate them so much some asshole stole $1,000 worth of girl scout cookies Like, what the hell?
So that's a perfect example.
Because those cookies were worth $1,000 to the Girl Scouts, because they're going to go.
It was a business investment.
They were going to go resell them.
$1,000 of cookies for a regular person is a white elephant.
Right?
You're not, you're.
If you eat them, you're going to get fat.
You're not even going to eat all of them.
They're going to go bad before you can even eat them.
So, like, half the cookies get thrown in the garbage.
Like, what are you doing?
What are you even doing?
I guess it's, you know, if a guy...
Let's say I'm at the bar.
And a guy punches me in the face to get a girl that we were both competing for.
Oh, okay, zero-sum situation.
Like, I'm not happy that I got punched in the face, but like, again, there's a utility.
There's a utility function to what just happened there.
But the thief is just so socially destructive.
They get a little tiny, like a meaningless benefit for themselves.
Like, yeah, you stole my laptop, dip shit, that I just spent $100 in a replacement part for, and you're probably only going to sell it for $100 if that.
So it's not like you're even benefiting all that much from the thievery, okay?
Like, it's not, again, it's not a heist movie where you steal gold Boolean.
It's, you stole a broken laptop, asshole.
Like, I don't expect people to be charitable, right?
And I don't expect people to take the large view of things, but it's like setting fire to a forest because you're hungry and it pre-cooks the meat.
And you're going to go harvest like one deer that burned to death.
And you just burn down the whole forest and you killed hundreds of species.
and it's like the utility function is just off the map.
The best places to live are the places where you leave a wallet and society has the morals to not take all the money.
High trust versus low trust.
The uh the shopping cart.
Do you return the shopping cart?
And I guess, you know what?
That's that's kind of what I'm saying.
I guess that's what I'm.
I think you could pull all the topics of this live stream into that, right?
From the elites that are scrabbling for social status, which like shit, you already have so much social status.
Do you really need like that little bit more?
That's the incentive structure.
They're burning down civilization to make themselves feel important to the actually, I'm not sure what I was going to say next.
Yeah, I like to think I'm pretty good at not looking hungover, but I am definitely hungover.
Yeah, we're entering a low trust society.
And the thing about a low trust society is you're in it.
And you can be as high trust as you want to be.
It's not going to fix the society.
Now I'm also not saying, go and be part of the problem.
Within reason.
Within reason.
Like, listen, we've built this huge welfare state, right?
Which is problematic, which encourages, like, it encourages people to stay poor, etc.
Welfare state's not a great idea.
At least, uh, again, complex topic.
There are types of welfare I support.
It's the bureaucratized welfare that I disagree with.
Not saying we shouldn't have a social safety net.
I think it's pretty reasonable to have a social safety net.
But anyway, so if we take, you know, lemma one, that the welfare state is bad, it does not therefore mean that if you are down on your luck, you shouldn't accept welfare.
You're not being part of the problem by doing that, okay?
you're accepting the reality of the situation.
Sami, don't be part of the problem.
Don't be a thief that makes things worse for everybody.
But it doesn't mean that you make yourself a victim to everybody.
Alright, there's this happy middle ground of you doing what you need to do to not go to jail and to keep your job.
But not doing everything when you're not getting compensated for it, when you're not getting paid for it.
There's a happy middle ground.
Why is it serpents and isn't it's dubs, right?
Yeah, you know what, Matty, I'm not even...
You know what?
Like, my attitude to healthcare is actually very similar to seatbelt laws.
That, like, libertarian speaking, seatbelt laws are schizophrenic, okay?
Like, every law is enforced with lethal violence.
And it's like, okay, you have to wear your seatbelt to keep yourself safe, or else I'm going to shoot you.
Right?
They're insane.
But we're not living in the realm of platonic forms.
We're living in this foul year of our Lord 2021.
And the fact is that people are really stupid, and we don't want married men with children dying in a car accident because they were too stupid to wear their seatbelt.
So we institute a fine to get these idiots to wear seatbelts.
Kind of the same thing with healthcare.
I think, hypothetically, a well-regulated free market of healthcare will be superior to socialized medicine.
Hypothetically.
Until the moochers and looters show up.
Until the rat bastards show up and screw the whole thing up.
And then you have the American healthcare system, which is like the worst of all potential health care systems.
So it's kind of like I.
Okay, we'll have socialized medicine because you monkeys are too stupid to do anything properly.
Everyone should have as good of health care as people in prison.
Promise it costs $250,000 to educate each doctor.
Is that all?
Military spent a million dollars training me.
Doctors, what do they know?
Experts, what do they know?
It's um you're never gonna have the perfect solution either.
Because all politics is the is the art of the possible, right?
And so at any period of history that you care to select, there is so much baggage that goes along with it.
I mean, one of the major like if you trace through how we got to modern healthcare, one of the major culprits of why it's so screwed up is the American Medical Association.
Which I'm not going to go into.
Long story, doesn't really matter.
But the thing is that we have this thing called the American Medical Association, and it's not going anywhere.
Your perfect, pie-in-the-sky, libertarian, idealistic version, and I'm not attacking you, Amanda, I think about my perfect libertarian system all the time, now needs to incorporate the AMA, right?
And not just the AMA, but the insurance companies.
And you name it.
You name it.
You've got all of this baggage with everything.
So at some point, you look at this big stupid mess and say, is there some way we can just socialize this and give everybody, I don't know, what is it that poor people get in America?
I mean, like, half of Americans have government-supported healthcare already.
So trying to cling to the libertarian ideal of private market, free healthcare, or like, not, like, free market health care.
It's like that ship sailed long, long ago.
And it's like, yeah, sounds like a cool DD universe.
You should write a book about that.
But good luck implementing it.
Yeah, Medicare.
Just give everybody Medicare for crying out loud.
Of course, now even that, like, that's not going to happen either because there's vested interests all over the place.
Oh man, we're down to only three viewers.
Must be an exciting night out there.
Either that or I'm very boring tonight, despite my very flashy coat.
So, um.
I think we're going to shut her down.
I hope it's been a good stream.
Like, I think it was.
But I don't know.
Oh, goodness.
Known unknowns and unknown unknowns.
The existential question undermining all knowledge.
Anyway.
Well, guys, thank you very much for joining.
Amandi, thanks for the fantastic comments.
Those were fun.
And I guess we'll see you next week.
Unless, since I no longer have a best friend for a month, I get really bored and I decide to do another stream.
We'll see how it goes.
Anyway, Garpe Futurum, teni traditum.
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