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March 31, 2022 - Davis Aurini

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The Empire Never Ended

Playing off of Philip K. Dick's famous quip, the desire for centralized control is something that never went away.

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	Good evening, folks.
	We have the beautiful Ella in the comments.
	Now, Ella has been busting her tail for days now, isn't it?
	Taking care of sick kittens in the kitten wart.
	It's kitten season, apparently.
	I didn't know kitten season was a thing, but apparently it's kitten season.
	And she has been waking up every three hours, working all day, just really, really busting her ass.
	So, please, three cheers for Ella.
	She is just absolutely fantastic.
	And working in veterinarian services is one of the most emotionally exhausting jobs out there.
	So, praise for Ella.
	Beautiful, but also kind of trashy.
	In the good way, though, the way that we like.
	Where is the cat?
	He is on the sofa.
	I think that's him.
	He's just kind of a gray lump.
	He might join us later on.
	And that's Turner and Hooch, JT.
	He's got some new tracks up on Starving Vampires on YouTube.
	Nothing with me in it.
	We've got one that we're working on, but it's a whole thing.
	And we should probably write another that's more in our wheelhouse.
	We'll see.
	We'll see.
	I was thinking about how I wanted to start the stream.
	Have you guys seen that picture of Alex Jones with the 4chan quote underneath where Alex Jones is kind of like standing by the fire?
	And it's, you are going to have the wife.
	You are going to have the children.
	You're going to have the house.
	You're going to eat red meat and you are going to live a good life.
	I thought that would be a nice, positive, and inspirational way to start the stream out.
	What is this?
	This is a tactic ass stand out.
	Yeah, tactic ads hiding over there.
	I was dancing with him earlier.
	He does not like dancing.
	Lasts all about 10 seconds until he gave me this plaintive wail.
	At which point, no, we had to sit in the chair and he got pets.
	But now he's napping.
	He doesn't tear around the house until about 3 in the morning.
	The Empire Never Ended.
	This is a quote from Philip K. Dick.
	If you don't know who Philip K. Dick was, great guy.
	I've read a lot of his works.
	I haven't read all of them.
	I need to read more.
	Blade Runner was based off of his story, what's this story?
	Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep.
	The Schwarzmeger movie, Total Recall, was based upon the short story, We'll Remember For You Wholesale.
	His stuff is extremely schizoid.
	It's very paranoid, metaphorical.
	Like the guy did tons of acid, and you can tell.
	Absolutely brilliant stuff.
	And the theme running through all his work is trying to discern what reality is, and that we have malevolent controllers that are trying to keep us enslaved, trying to keep us addicted to the system.
	One of his books, the three stigmata of something-something.
	It's about this business tycoon that goes to an alien planet.
	In fact, I'll bet this inspired the Ridley Scott movie, the really bad sequel to Aliens.
	This business tycoon goes to an alien planet, and he comes back as a metaphorical deity of enslavement to the corporation.
	And all the people on Mars, what you do on Mars, is you slave away all day doing a brutal job, then you buy some Kennen Barbie doll figures from the corporation, then you take some drugs and you become the Kennan Barbie doll figures, and that's the slavery program, and now the CEO's come back, and he's got a metal jaw and a metal arm, a metal eye, those are his three stigmata.
	Once he comes back, everybody starts turning into him until a Catholic priest exercises the whole thing, he disappears, and the alien planet blows up.
	And if that sounded incoherent, the story is even more incoherent.
	Love, Philip K. Dick.
	Now that quote, the empire never ended.
	He was referring to the Roman Empire.
	In fact, here's an interesting thing.
	I've been bouncing novel ideas around in my head.
	And I decided to look up the population of the city of Rome over the past millennium.
	And I just realized that air filters on.
	better turn it off.
	You guys should do that.
	Google population of Rome over the past 2,000 years.
	Major, major crash at the fall of Rome.
	So anybody that says, well, Rome never really fell, again, just the historians say that, no, it fell.
	Okay, population absolutely crashed.
	That's not what Philip K. Dick was talking about.
	He was making the point that the blood empire of Rome, Nero's Rome, that never really went away.
	And of course, as a fellow schizoid, you don't mean this literally, okay?
	This is kind of the problem you get with the...
	When the normies try and grab onto the schizoid, the object permanence is just too much for them.
	And so they wind up thinking that there is literally a 20,000-year-old Vampire of the Masquerade, Ventru Elder, plan to enslave everybody, and that they found the internet technology when they made the pact with the aliens, and they released it intentionally, and YouTube was planned back in 1943, etc.
	Which is, no, that's not, that's, that's not how secret conspiracies work.
	What he was more getting at is that the system of control is still there.
	It's always going to be there.
	Satan is the prince of the earth.
	And of course, you know, I need to thank Vox Dei for...
	I can't remember if I read the quote before, but he's certainly the reason it's on my mind.
	He's been popularizing the quote recently because of how transparent the eternal empire has made itself.
	History as a battle between the schizoids and the psychopaths.
	The schizoids who understand that metaphor is the only thing that really exists.
	And the psychopaths who want power.
	Power is all that they worship.
	And it's becoming quite evident at this point.
	Particularly the rapid shift from COVID to Russia.
	Oh man, I am so, so happy with how we managed to win that battle.
	The switch from COVID to Russia is very jarring, very knee-jerk, and it's becoming increasingly undeniable what's going on.
	that it is just the empire of control.
	And it's becoming increasingly evident who's on our side and who wants to be on the other side.
	And I suppose it's sad how many people are on that other side, but are on the side of power and slavery.
	But at least it's evident now.
	You know, it had me thinking back to the, back to the Gamergate days.
	Back when we naively thought that Gamergate was just about ethics and game journalism and getting rid of these feminists that want to get a cheap payday,
	lecturing video games about being sexist when really there were Gamergate was about DARPA.
	It was about social credit.
	We had no idea at the time.
	The Empire was still doing a pretty good job of hiding behind the scenes.
	Gamification.
	Gamification is one of those interesting things.
	Amadi says, I'm sort of glad that the COVID fax was leaky because the other side can't claim it stops the spread.
	I mean, that right there, this was their bid for power, the COVID.
	Have been doing a lot over the years to disrupt their narrative back in the 90s.
	Back in the 90s is when you started to see the, the first pushback.
	I think I'm just gonna you know here.
	Here's, Here's my story.
	You tell me how well it reflects, how well it summarizes your experiences.
	Is this map close to the territory?
	We are a species that thinks in stories, so I'm going to do my best, but I haven't been alive everywhere and everywhere.
	Back in the 80s, the strong, empowered woman, the modern woman, was a cool thing to be.
	And the depictions of that modern woman, they're pretty good.
	They're inoffensive.
	We get the girl that hangs out with the guys and carries her pack.
	Now, she's not pretending that she's as strong as the guys, but she's, you know, she's carrying her weight, she's participating, fantastic.
	Right?
	Now, the reality is this is a subversive feminist agenda to destroy all differences between the races, endless Marxist, Hegelian conflict.
	Make everything the same as absolutely everything out as everything else.
	Without differences, there is no sexiness.
	So destroy sex by making it everywhere.
	That was the actual agenda.
	But very few people picked up on that back in the 80s.
	Back in the 90s, you had a little bit of pushback.
	Little bit of pushback saying, hey, this political correctness is going a little bit too far.
	it's getting a little bit silly.
	You saw some of the beginnings of anti-feminism popping up during the aughts.
	More and more people becoming aware that feminism was not about equality between the sexes, not the radical idea that women are people, which is, you know, try going back to Ur, the first city.
	Read their religious texts.
	It's in there.
	It's not a new idea.
	And then by the time the second decade of this millennium rolled around, the teens.
	I mean, it became an industry, being opposed to feminism.
	But we still thought of it as being opposed to feminism as opposed to the empire.
	After all, what is the connection with George Bush waging illegal wars and Anita Sarkeesian getting paid stupid money to complain about video games?
	What is that connection?
	Well, it turns out, looking back, it was DARPA.
	It was the education system.
	It was employing gamification.
	Gamification, which extra credits, back before they sucked, back when they were liberal, maybe even very liberal, back before they became leftist, and that guy's stupid cat was making cameos in every video.
	They had an excellent video on gamification.
	And in fact, that was the first time I heard about the social credit system in China.
	We've always had simple games.
	We've always had strategy.
	Even we perfected gambling institutions a long time ago.
	Ideally, you want a gambling institution that pays out enough to make it addictive while still earning you a profit, but it's also fun so that people don't resent it when they lose their money.
	And then you've got Las Vegas.
	You're going to be around forever as long as you don't screw it up.
	See, video games are something new.
	Video games have taken it to a whole other level.
	Sometimes, a difference of kind eventually, or sorry, a difference of degree eventually becomes a difference of kind.
	Video games are using the same manipulative mechanics as a Las Vegas slot machine.
	But they're doing it so much more.
	It's like comparing a rock to an atom bomb, right?
	They're both kind of doing the same thing.
	You're using it as a weapon.
	But the degree has become such a difference that it's now a difference in kind.
	And so the real push behind all this, again, it wasn't that a few games journalists were getting blow jobs to write good reviews of a video game that was terrible.
	That's what we thought it was.
	What it actually was, was that DARPA needed to rebrand video games.
	Video games, especially when they started in the 90s, were very like old nerdy, as in autistic, high IQ, masculine brain nerdy.
	And they need to rebrand video games to be for everybody.
	Right?
	Eventually video games expanded to include all men, so now you had Madden sports video games.
	But they need to get everybody on that.
	They need women, they need seniors, they need everybody on video games.
	And if there's still this perception that video games are just for frat boys and nerds, well, how are you gonna, how are you gonna sell this to a senator?
	How are you gonna take your manipulation algorithm and sell it to the unmarried woman who's 40 years old?
	And so Gamergate, we thought we were going up against games journalists and Feminists and whatever.
	No, no, no.
	We were going up against DARPA, but that's the thing.
	This narrative keeps being interrupted.
	And the empire, the empire that was behind the push to get women in the workplace, make them obedient little drones.
	Not as if women didn't work before that.
	The empire that was behind the gamification of society.
	Same empire behind COVID, same empire behind this Russia nonsense.
	And let's be frank, Russia is part of that empire as well.
	What is it?
	The World Economic Forum's Young Leaders Program?
	Yeah, you know that Dan Crenshaw guy, that U.S. politician with the eye patch?
	He's a young leader.
	So is Putin.
	It's a big club and you ain't a member.
	DARPA needs to be shut down and their creepy robots destroyed.
	We need an inquisition.
	Yeah, you know what, that's a...
	This is a good road to go down.
	We need an Inquisition.
	The other thing I was listening to today, I was listening to a bunch of James Lindsay.
	I didn't finish the podcast.
	I'd only been listening for about three hours.
	And, you know, speaking as a Catholic, the big issue with the neo-Marxism, with the critical race theory, with the critical pedagogy, with all of these nefarious cults that have taken over our educational institutions and taken over many of the social programs that we have.
	The problem is that these are basic bitch heresies.
	Like it's just Gnosticism.
	There's only about a dozen heresies.
	I mean, there's technically there's as many heresies as there are lies.
	But there's only about a dozen heresies that people keep coming back to again and again.
	And so the question becomes, how do we get rid of heresies?
	Right?
	The sort of heresies that become cults.
	When one person is in heresy, like who cares?
	Nobody gets worked up over one person being a heretic.
	But when you have these mass movements of heresies, that's when you start to need an inquisitor.
	And I know that terrifies people these days.
	Right?
	Because one of the things the heretics, the demon worshipers, one of the memes they have been very good at spreading is that the Spanish Inquisition was tyrannical.
	Well, it actually really, really wasn't.
	The difference between the tyrant and the just ruler...
	The fundamental difference is that the tyrant, they both claim to know what's good for you.
	Both the Inquisitor and the cult leader say, well, say, I know what's good for you.
	The cult leader is going to manipulate you and force you into doing what they tell you to do.
	The inquisitor, as long as you're not harming anybody else, we don't really care.
	With the Spanish Inquisition, for example, with Torquemada, he had two principles.
	First, that there was a bit of a mass hysteria going on, and he didn't want mob justice.
	He's like, okay, you say these people are heretics.
	Well, I'm going to investigate if they're a heretic.
	And most of them weren't heretics.
	And second of all, if they are a heretic, then my goal is to bring them back into the fold.
	You should be able to talk a heretic out of it.
	I mean, if you're a heretic, you don't get to take communion.
	You also shouldn't be able to hold public office.
	Right?
	So, yeah, no critical race theorists teaching children.
	But ultimately, the Inquisitor, he doesn't want to run a fine-tooth comb over your life looking for problems.
	He'd rather be doing something more interesting.
	Because he's not really interested in power.
	He's interested in understanding things.
	You know, that's another thing Lindsay brought up.
	He was quoting one of the Marxist texts.
	And they're talking about, you need to understand things to control them.
	And I just immediately flashed to, that's not how science got started.
	That's what science has become.
	Understand things so we can control it.
	What about just understanding things because understanding things is interesting?
	What the hell happened to that?
	I have co-hip sets.
	I keep seeing posts from Redditors talking about how X is just like some cape shit movie.
	They process reality through Marvel Comics and Star Wars.
	And Harry Potter.
	Let's not forget.
	To quote Devin Stack, people say the left can't meme?
	What the hell do you think Hollywood is?
	It's a meme factory.
	And it's very, very good.
	When people say the left can't mean, It's because the leftists you run into online are not good at meaning because they're talentless hacks.
	The good ones are in Hollywood.
	They have a whole industry dedicated to it.
	And the problem with the right, and God, I hate using these terms left and right, but the problem with the right.
	How to put it?
	It's the fear of experimentation.
	The world was better when we filtered everything through religious text instead of Marvel.
	I agree, but I also think that's too reactionary.
	Does that have...
	In fact, that's exactly what I'm saying.
	Let's see.
	Where's the kitty?
	Toby.
	Okay, I'm going to go grab the kitty.
	Brown!
	Hey, butts!
	Hey, butts!
	Come here.
	I know.
	You're napping, but the audience wants you.
	Come on.
	Come here.
	Heads and pets.
	Here's Tacticat.
	See, it reminds me of Plato's Republic, where he's saying, in the utopia, the only stories which will be allowed are the ones with moral lessons.
	Are the valid ones that teach people to be moral?
	Well, then it becomes who decides.
	One of the most powerful apologetics for Christianity has been Lord of the Rings.
	And if we were to go so strict as to say that no other, we should just filter everything through religious text, then people would look at Tolkien's work and get angry about, oh, it's pagan, celebrating paganism.
	Am I too intense?
	I like me better when I'm playing strategy games.
	He's actually a very nice cat.
	just looks sinister.
	Where is the room for exploration or creativity?
	We have good edgy means, but anybody that tries to do something more than that ends up getting torn down on the right.
	Massive purity spark.
	It's a tactic at LSEZ.
	LSEC, Toby.
	He wakes you up in the morning by punching you in the nose.
	But he also scampers after you when you go to bed so that he can cuddle next to you.
	He's a very sweet cat.
	You want here?
	One here?
	Then you want you want the sprites there?
	Let's see.
	Oh, and yes, Tolkien did filter his work through Catholicism.
	I don't know, like I view this as part of the whole system of control.
	Either like radical reactionary traditionalism or complete chaos.
	Rather than a healthy balance between the two, you've got Christian rock or Marvel movies, both of which are terrible.
	And I'm not trying to come down on you either.
	It's just the.
	Like if you want to do creative stuff, it's very, very difficult to do that and be right wing.
	Not just because Hollywood hates the right wing, but because the right wing hates artists.
	And if we want more good art, then we need to encourage experimentation.
	We need to accept experimentation.
	You know, it's one of the funny things.
	Talk about the empire that never ended.
	You know, and I was planning this out earlier in the day, and I started listening to James Lindsay talking about the radical left and their form of tyranny.
	And it's so interesting to think about because when we look at when we look at Joe Biden and the military-industrial complex and the health industrial complex and guys like Dr. Fauci, they don't strike me as particularly liberal.
	They might be Democrat, but they're not men of the left in any meaningful sense.
	Like this is the tyrannical patriarchy, the tyrannical father, the force and manipulation and mandates, the yang energy gone toxic.
	Well, when we look at the neo-Marxists with their focusing on the children, the chaos, the language manipulation, the community building, of that, we see the yin form of tyranny, the tyrannical mother.
	And the tyrannical father and the tyrannical mother, they take very different forms, but they are ultimately about tyranny.
	And I suppose that is what we, us, that's what we are opposed to.
	You know, one of the things, I don't know if Ella's still here, but I said to Ella, and it just rang so rang true with her, rang really hard, That, you know, this world is nothing but adults abusing children, adults abusing one another, companies abusing employees, politicians abusing citizens.
	It's nothing but a giant cycle of abuse.
	And that's what we're fighting.
	And so if what we're fighting is tyranny, does that mean we stand for liberty?
	we stand for freedom?
	I don't think that's...
	not exactly.
	What we stand for, liberty is a prerequisite for what we stand for.
	I mean, like, this goes right back into the ontological question of why do we have free will?
	Why does pain exist?
	Why would a good God allow pain to exist in his universe?
	Well, consider the artificial universe of Facebook Meta.
	And, you know, I think most of us haven't actually been on Facebook Meta.
	Oh, and Ella says, yes, it's like everyone's out here just surviving at you.
	Yeah, it's like being in a household with a toxic parent.
	And, like, with a cluster B parent, it's like one kid is the good kid, one kid is the bad kid.
	And it doesn't matter what you do, you're always going to be in one of those two roles.
	I saw a great video by Barry Tass on the Rocks, which is a small YouTube channel.
	You guys should check out.
	She's a classy lady.
	And there was a video pointing out that, like, children are not accessories.
	Alright, there's, there's, children are not accidents.
	They're people.
	They're people, and your job as a parent is to value them.
	Good lord, like, how many times have you and I had conversations?
	Animals are not toys.
	When you have an animal, you have a responsibility.
	And so Bubs here can be a major pain in the ass, and he gets fur everywhere.
	And he complains a lot.
	But, you know, he's an animal.
	You got to take care of him.
	I had a neighbor that, she would, she had a big dog.
	And sometimes, oh, she wanted to go away for a weekend.
	She just locked the dog in the house for two days straight.
	And I would hear the poor thing howling.
	Yeah, locked in the house two days.
	It's pissing and shitting on the floor.
	Yeah, that's abuse.
	That's abuse.
	You don't, guess what?
	You have an animal.
	You don't have the freedom that you once had.
	Actually, like I'll tell you, the way I got Tacticat, well, his owners, they have a kid, and they saw the direction Canada was going, and they decided to make a run for the United States.
	Now, before they did that, they made sure I was here to take care of Tacticat.
	Right, Bubs?
	And after one night of pouting, he adjusted quite well.
	And they've even tossed me money to get him food.
	So they're still taking responsibility, and we've been working on getting him down to where they are.
	And he should be back with his family soon.
	So they did take responsibility for that animal, for the record.
	Anyway, Varitas on the Rocks, whom you should all subscribe to, was talking about, well, here's the thing.
	If you raise your kids like they're a freaking accessory, they have to adapt to your life.
	No, you're a parent.
	You need to raise the kids.
	And she was saying they become the social media narcissists.
	The people that are just constantly, they're entitled to validation.
	There's a flip side to that.
	So you tell your kid they're an accident, and they become the person that is constantly trying to validate their existence.
	That becomes the codependent that is the other half of the narcissist.
	And really, most of these functional narcissists that we have running around, they are really just, like, they're codependents, fundamentally.
	They're not clinical narcissists.
	They just don't have proper boundaries.
	And so many people in this world are flipping back and forth between being entitled douchebags and being doormats that get walked all over.
	Which is exactly what the Eternal Empire wants you to be.
	Now, where was I?
	Let's see.
	Iv Kohip says, a lot of people in the Bible, even the prophets, were not black and white.
	There's a surprising amount of nuance in the Bible.
	Yeah, they're really good.
	Good Lord.
	Like, I don't read the Bible enough.
	I saw a really good video, and I forget who linked it to me.
	If you're listening, you know the video I'm talking about, link it down below.
	I believe it's an Eastern Orthodox guy talking about how there's this conception of Christianity that you just follow the rules, whether or not you like the rules, and then you go to heaven and God gives you a donut.
	And how hypocritical that whole thing is.
	Which is literally Judaism, not Christianity.
	I mean, Judaism, get this.
	Did you guys know that the Jews tied a string around Manhattan to trick God into thinking Manhattan was one house?
	Because they think that when God said, rest on the Sabbath, which is like literally, it's like, dude, take a day off.
	Don't be a workaholic.
	Take a day off, man.
	That he meant they're not allowed to carry things with them in public.
	So on the Sabbath, they are not allowed to carry their wallet with them.
	So you can't really leave the house in the modern day without your wallet and your cell phone and your keys and perhaps a pocket dildo, whatever you need.
	And so to trick God, they tied a string around Manhattan.
	Yeah, like that's a real thing.
	Google it.
	And if you go to Manhattan and you cut that string, you are going to spend 20 years in prison.
	Guaranteed.
	So please do not cut that string.
	Do all the Jews go to hell in Manhattan then?
	I don't know.
	No, the religion of Christianity is that you should will the good for the sake of the good because good is good and you shouldn't cheat and you shouldn't do cheap workarounds.
	If you're gonna do the job, do the job right.
	But more to the point, there's gonna be supernatural help to help you want that.
	Like if you ask, if you're like, God, help me want what's good.
	You know, okay, here's a good example of this.
	Sometimes you have to use your own willpower.
	If you are trying to get a hold of your diet, right?
	Let's say you drink Coca-Cola every day, all day long.
	You love the corn syrup.
	And you look at yourself in the mirror and you're like, this is kind of a problem.
	Well, it might be on you to use some of your willpower and not buy Coca-Cola anymore.
	But here's where the miraculous starts to happen.
	It turns out your body doesn't actually crave carbonated corn syrup.
	You've got a bit of an addiction.
	You need to kick that addiction.
	But if you use a little bit of willpower, guess what?
	in about six months, you won't even want Coca-Cola anymore.
	Christianity promises, and more than that, okay?
	Like, I'm using gluttony because that's one of the less gross sins.
	Christianity promises not only, first of all, like all these things that you think you're addicted to.
	What's that webcomic?
	Where the guy gets to heaven and God says, hey, how do you like heaven so far?
	It's pretty good.
	Is there a billiard table?
	My son, do you really need a billiard table?
	Oh, I guess I don't.
	And the last panelist just sitting there, man, this sucks.
	And when you hear about the rules, all the rules that you gotta follow, it's like, but I'd be miserable following all those rules.
	Forget about the rules.
	Christianity is not a rules religion.
	Christianity is, I want to eat delicious food that makes me healthy.
	I don't want to sit around like an idiot eating Cheetos all day.
	Right?
	That's disgusting and gross.
	Cheetos suck.
	They don't even taste like cheese.
	Okay?
	They paint them orange to trick your brain.
	No, no, I want to, I want to have some, a delicious breakfast and, you know, and work hard and accomplish something and then have like a fantastic dinner, maybe a little bit of chocolate.
	want to enjoy it.
	The things you're not supposed to do, like sit around and eat Cheetos all day, is because it sucks.
	It like it literally sucks.
	Sin sucks.
	These are things that are sub-optimal.
	And the promise of Christianity is that you're going to have supernatural help.
	that you will literally be changed on the inside to want the things that are good for you.
	So yeah, the prophets were not black and white at all.
	And actually, like, ancient Judaism wasn't black.
	Ancient Judaism didn't tie strings around cities to pretend they were inside.
	Okay.
	Oh my goodness.
	My aunt's 35-year-old co-worker collapsed and required a heart transplant recently.
	My aunt works at a hospital.
	I'm not saying it's the vax, but it's the vax.
	Carl Denninger posted his last thing on the vax.
	It looks like his estimate is one out of 30 are going to be hit with something from it.
	It's yeah.
	But, you know, let me wrap this back around.
	Back around to the psychological territory.
	About the endless freaking abuse, though.
	I think it's a happy accident, though, like a Bob Ross painting.
	Oh, yeah, happy accidents are great.
	Guess what?
	You've been married three years, you don't get to complain about an accident at that point.
	That's all I would say.
	The freedom and tyranny thing.
	Christianity is about the freedom.
	We are about the freedom.
	But not freedom so that we can eat Cheetos all day.
	That's stupid.
	Who the hell wants, like, eating, that's slavery, eating Cheetos all day.
	I think heaven is something like an orchestra.
	You know, why did God give us free will?
	Well, an orchestra or a dance troupe.
	If you've ever seen, you know, I was watching some of the traditional Highland dancers years back.
	And the coordination of their movements is just mind-blowing.
	You can get all these people in the same place and coordinate their movements that well.
	Now, you could very easily, especially these days, do a computer simulation where every movement is perfectly coordinated.
	And who cares?
	It's interesting because they all have free will.
	Anybody can put together an orchestra on a soundtrack.
	Not as interesting as hearing an actual orchestra because there's that free will.
	Because there's that random element, the choice involved in all of it.
	I was talking about Facebook and meta.
	Let me get back to that.
	And the whole theory of pain.
	C.S. Lewis talks about this in his book on pain.
	We're now seeing it in Facebook meta.
	So if you say any hate speech on Facebook, aside from Russia, you're allowed to call for the murder of Russian politicians on Facebook, but nobody else.
	Yes, please be more transparent, controllers.
	If you say anything that could hurt somebody else's feelings, your voice gets silenced for a month.
	Social media only allows positive interactions.
	It only allows the thumbs up.
	No thumbs down.
	And if you can never have somebody disagree with you, how will you ever know what is true?
	You know those guys that know it all?
	They're just experts on everything?
	As I say in Saskatchewan, must be nice.
	Well, it wouldn't actually be that nice.
	You know everything, you've got nothing left to learn.
	There's that, I forgot if it was on Reddit or what it was on, but this girl going, this girl asking, how can I find a relationship that...
	Where do I find a guy that doesn't mind me being an OnlyFans model?
	And somebody said, maybe you shouldn't be an OnlyFans model, and he got banned for that.
	Well, babe, what do you want?
	Do you want to make, like, like a couple thousand dollars a month being an OnlyFans model until your looks run out?
	Or do you want somebody that loves and cherishes you?
	Which one?
	Because if you actually want to win at life, you need to be corrected when you're wrong.
	You need the possibility of things being said that hurt your feelings.
	You need the possibility of pain.
	You need the possibility of wrong choices to make a meaningfully correct choice.
	To go back to the tyrannical parent, the cluster B parent.
	The cluster B parent is going to put one kid as the good child and the other as the bad child, but it's arbitrary.
	It doesn't matter what the two kids are doing.
	It's not really about the kids' behavior.
	Part of the aspect of the abusive parent is that they know everything.
	They're Mr. Know-It-All.
	Must be nice.
	They know everything.
	They can categorize all actions.
	You should play football, not soccer.
	Soccer is for sissies.
	Football is for real men.
	You should play the guitar, but drawing, that's for fags.
	Or whatever.
	They've got some arbitrary system of value.
	They don't bother to get to know the kid and find out what the kid is interested in.
	Oh, this is cheesy, but I'm actually going to bring up home improvement, that Tim Allen sitcom from the 90s.
	So Tim Allen is a home improvement guy.
	He's a handyman in the show.
	He's got the one kid who's a nerd, and he always has trouble connecting with his nerdy son until one day he's always saying more power, more power.
	He just wants to crank up the amperage on every electric tool that he uses.
	And then he hears his son talking about his computer, and his son says, yeah, this computer doesn't have a lot of power.
	Because back in the 90s, we built our own rigs.
	And he starts to connect with this kid.
	He's like, oh, I'm finally getting my kid.
	He's the same as me.
	He just wants more power in the computer.
	The abusive parent knows everything.
	They've got it all figured out already.
	And they will reward the child who approximately matches their version of the truth.
	So, right, like if they're a physically oriented parent, they will reward the jock and punish the intellectual.
	If they're intellectual, they'll do the reverse.
	As opposed to looking at the person saying, who are you as a person?
	What do you need as a person?
	How can I help you become free?
	And we are going to take an ice and bathroom break.
	right back.
	The difference is not tyranny or freedom.
	It's tyranny or meaning to take a page from Peterson: the meaning is what overcomes suffering.
	If you can find something meaningful, you can justify the suffering that's inevitable to existence.
	But you need the freedom to achieve that meaning in the first place.
	You need the possibility of failure and the tyrants, the tyrants want to mandate success.
	You can actually see the root psychology of it, can you?
	People that are running away from the possibilities that freedom offers with actual freedom, you don't know what's going to happen.
	It's not all predetermined.
	And so they run away from the possibilities that freedom offers into the, the certitude that tyranny offers man.
	At the end of the day the, the bastards ruling over us like they're really just broken children.
	I mean, look at Trudeau for crying out loud, this broken, pathetic man.
	I mean, like we all know that his father was a cuckold.
	You think that that Trudeau's father didn't know, that that Justin didn't know that Pierre had been cuckolded and that Pierre hated him?
	But Pierre was too proud to admit he'd been cuckolded.
	Mcnoyes says strikers and soccer get dementia from head-butting the ball.
	I mean probably or they get shot by a South American fan one of the two.
	It's been interesting, kind of like sitting back and just watching the whole trucker process the the, the protest the, the process, all of it, watching Trudeau run and hide and then lash out against the truckers and then get spanked by everybody and then stop being a tyrant, then run and hide again.
	And now, don't get me wrong, this is a powerful man, he's a dangerous man, but he's also just so pathetic and childish he is.
	He is a child with too much power, with so much freedom.
	It terrifies him and he wants to descend into tyranny to get away from that freedom.
	what we are supposed to do as parents but also as individuals is to become the sort of people that can handle freedom that don't need to be babysat 24-7 There's that essay.
	What was who wrote?
	Was it Dalrymple?
	Might have been Theodore Dalrymple that wrote it.
	I forget right now.
	It's on CITY Journal and the title of the essay is, the knife went in and was him discussing dealing with prisoners and how they would so often use the passive voice around him.
	Not I stabbed the person, but the knife went into them, as if the knife had a mind of its own.
	i think i commented years ago that if you keep shouting out to the universe that i am not the captain of my ship the master of my own soul but that i am but a subject of circumstance i'm obedient to the circumstance I didn't stab the person, knife went into them.
	Then you were screaming at the universe that I am not in control.
	I cannot be in control.
	Somebody else must control me.
	Well, good news for you, buddy!
	We got a place for that!
	It's called prison.
	A word that keeps swinging by my mind while I'm talking about all of this, too, is the word empower.
	Empower somebody.
	And that's a really interesting word because empower means to give them power from the external, from the outside, to give them power from something else.
	Somebody who requires empowerment is powerless.
	See, originally, olo, that is a fantastic gif.
	Originally, the word empower meant civil authorities by the collective will of the people and the will of God.
	Oh, what is that?
	Oh, Vox Day.
	What is the Latin for that?
	That's going to bother me.
	I won't be able to find it quickly or pivotly enough.
	Say it in the stream.
	It's going to bother me.
	Somebody look that up, Toss in the comments.
	It's going to drive me nuts.
	The voice of the people is the voice of God.
	And the voice of the people will take certain members and empower them to be peace officers, to be agents of the court.
	Those people have been empowered with superhuman authority, superhuman power.
	The word empower used to only refer to, yeah, like cops, crown prosecutors, inspectors, you name it.
	They've been empowered with extra authority.
	And they only have that power while they're executing their duty.
	To empower a woman, to empower a minority, why do they need that power?
	I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
	Power, what you're supposed to be doing as an individual, as a parent, is teaching your kids to build their own strength.
	You don't want to empower your kids.
	You remember those, you ever have those kids?
	I had this kid threaten me back in like elementary schools.
	My dad's a cup.
	You know, like that.
	My dad could beat up your dad.
	He's like, my dad could have your dad arrested.
	He's a cop.
	It's like, no, he actually couldn't.
	My father doesn't break the law.
	So, okay, because your dad's a cop.
	You're empowered to be a bully now.
	Part of freedom is not being dependent.
	And to be empowered is to be dependent.
	Now, if you're a cop, that's fine.
	You know that you are dependent upon the society to have that magical shield on your chest.
	And that the moment you retire as a cop, you no longer have the power to execute a search warrant or to interrogate a suspect or whatever.
	no longer have that power once you've stopped being caught, but you still have all the other power that you rightfully own as a human being.
	That ancient evil empire wants everybody to be powerless, and they control all the power, and they only dole it out when and where they want.
	So as opposed to having a very, very small number of people who are empowered.
	Cops, crown prosecutors, meter maids.
	As opposed to having that really, really small group of people who are empowered by the civilization to go above and beyond and wield power that no mortal man should have,
	the empire wants everybody to be empowered they want nobody to have their own power but only to be carrying a license of holding their power And see, that's what the Chinese social credit system is doing.
	It's not that you have the fundamental freedom to spend your money on any damn thing you want.
	No, you need their permission before you can spend your money.
	So really, it's not even your money.
	are just temporarily entrusted with it.
	See, freedom isn't our goal.
	Freedom is the prerequisite.
	And we're supposed to be about teaching people to be responsible and strong and to get their ducks in a row so that they can execute their God-given authority correctly.
	Efco says, I don't know.
	I don't want my own power.
	I want the power that only God can give.
	Because Lyft experience taught me that my own power sucks.
	I've been thinking a lot about what is the way out of this.
	do we defeat the old empire?
	Maybe power is the wrong word.
	Yeah, I think power is the wrong word.
	Go ahead, try this one on for socks.
	of power, authority.
	Yeah, authority is a far better word because authority comes with responsibilities.
	When we talk about a cop having authority, that authority also has responsibilities.
	And when we talk about parents having authority over their children, that comes with the responsibility.
	Your kid turns 18, you no longer have authority over them.
	Parents have authority over their children for a set period of their life.
	And then at the end of that period, you are expected to have raised a child that can take authority over themselves.
	Authority.
	I should look up the etymology of that word.
	Because, obviously, it's the same etymology as author.
	Authority, to say the way that things go.
	I'm going to be able to dig a lot deeper on this.
	You know, I really need to look up these etymologies because I know the etymology of empowerment.
	And I've said before that our enemies worship power, right?
	I posted a while back that alignment test on Facebook, other places, and it was actually really good.
	It was really, really good.
	The questions were not blatant.
	And I saw a lot of people getting different results on it.
	But what really interested me is when I looked up the definition of lawful evil, and the definition of lawful evil perfectly describes the Calgary Police Service.
	It perfectly describes the sort of people that we have working as crown prosecutors these days.
	And these are people that worship power.
	I mean, that's ultimately what evil is.
	Evil is about power.
	Then it says, I believe in Latin, it's auctoritas.
	We get the word autocrat from it as well.
	Yes, the autocrat, that who dictates all of the civilization by his own will.
	Which is a terrible thing to do, because you're taking away authorship from individuals.
	Aktoritas.
	What is that Latin for?
	Is it just for authorship?
	I mean, it would make sense, somebody like Stalin, who, I mean, like, what a, you know, he probably is the perfect example of an autocrat.
	Somebody that completely formed the Soviet Union around himself for the length of time he was alive.
	I mean, Hitler's got nothing on that.
	Hitler rose to power by reflecting the crowd.
	Stalin actually told the crowd what to do.
	And that right there, that is the ultimate goal of lawful evil.
	To become, well, to become Satan, to reject God, and to create your own version of reality.
	With the abusive parent.
	The abusive parent wants to eliminate the nature of the child and turn the child into nothing but a reflection of the parent.
	It refers to the level of prestige in Roman society, which would result in clout, influence, and eventually how much of the populace would rally around them.
	You know, I'll be the first to point out that there are no villains in history.
	There is no black and white.
	I love that my ancestors sailed across the Mediterranean and destroyed an empire that sacrificed babies.
	I love that.
	that all of human history has been this gradual slouch towards becoming better people.
	There has been moral development over the past two millennium.
	And this is interesting.
	It's very interesting that I suppose you could compare it to our word noble and nobility, which literally just means landowner.
	A noble is somebody that owns land, but has come to represent a lot more than that.
	But noble is viewed positively, while autocrat is viewed negatively.
	See, an autocrat is somebody who, whatever damn fool notion they have in their head, if they win the fight by any means, they're powerful and the gods have chosen them.
	Whereas we as a Christian society say that God loves the good, not the powerful.
	Satan loves the powerful.
	Baby Hitler was cute.
	He was a very cute baby.
	Shatita!
	Hi!
	Thank you for joining.
	What are you all about, babe?
	I think it's a babe.
	It's hard to see.
	a very small icon on the screen.
	One of the weird contradictions happening in me is the more obvious the empire of evil becomes.
	the less interested I am in combatting it.
	Like, it's just become silly at this point.
	It's just, it's, it's too blatant.
	It's too silly.
	So now America that does nothing but invade every country in the world is angry at Russia for invading the Ukraine after being provoked.
	And good lord, they even came out and admitted that, yeah, we actually did have biolabs with bioterror weapons in them.
	Guess the Russians weren't lying about that.
	As Russia keeps, or sorry, as Facebook keeps changing what the rules of what you're allowed to say actually are, it's just becoming increasingly silly, a silly thing for me to be upset about, And I would rather be developing what strength that I can.
	Which is another reason I don't want to say that freedom is an end to itself.
	That's one of the tools that the enemy uses.
	There's this great meme of Marx.
	It's like the book, Marxism 101, and it's this angry guy saying, Why is everything got to cost money?
	Why do I got to spend money on food every day?
	That sucks, man.
	Why do I got to pay car insurance, dog?
	So long as we are in physical forms, there are always going to be limitations upon what we can do.
	Good lord, even if we are beings of pure spirit, two plus two can't equal five.
	There are inherent and inevitable limitations upon existence.
	You know what?
	You could say chaotic evil is a rejection of limits upon existence.
	If lawful evil is the worship of power, chaotic evil is I reject your rules and institute my own.
	Yeah, it's not about freedom, it's about meaning.
	How do you feel about Isla single malt skulls?
	Scotch, I'm pretty much an Isla.
	I haven't had it.
	I have to try that.
	I've got hips as I see you're also a man of taste.
	I'm terrible, man.
	I love my wisers.
	Love my wisers.
	I don't know, guys.
	I think I might have said everything I've got to say tonight.
	I...
	I feel like it was a little bit rambling.
	These are okay.
	So one of the things I've been thinking about, did I say this last week?
	I might have said it last week.
	That looking at all the stupid in the world right now, my conclusion is: gee, I should make a lot of money.
	I should make a lot of money.
	And anybody that doesn't like me, fetchuote ipso.
	Go fuck yourself.
	Yeah, I'm gonna wear a stupid hat.
	What are you gonna do about it, asshole?
	I make a lot of money.
	They distill it with smoky peat.
	I might have to give that a shot.
	I might hate it, though.
	I like my, the caramel flavor of Canadian rye wispies.
	I'll tell you guys a story.
	So, earlier today, I saw buying some new work boots.
	And oh, they are sexy work boots.
	They are the most expensive ones in the store, so sexy enough for me.
	White, too.
	Synthetics.
	Don't like heavy steel toes, they hurt my knees.
	Anyway, there's this lady there.
	I was talking to the guy that does the shoes section about Russia.
	And I commented to her, I'll be honest, I think it's be over within a week.
	They're already negotiating peace terms.
	And we had a half-hour long conversation after that, exchanged numbers.
	I'm going to go grab coffee or something like that.
	After the past two years, it's abundantly clear who has switched on and who has not switched on.
	And you don't owe anything to anybody that's not switched on.
	It's funny, I put all this work into trying to form parallel societies back in the day.
	But it's like I was trying to help people that didn't want to be helped.
	People I didn't owe anything to, but were certainly happy to tell me that I owed them something.
	We've all been through, in one form or another, we've been through solitary confinement over the past couple of years.
	And those of us that are still here, those of us still standing, we made it.
	We didn't crack.
	Maybe we came close, but we did not crack.
	You do not need the company of other humans.
	You can survive without that.
	You, forget the word power, you are strong enough to not need any of that.
	After the hell they put us through over the past couple years, now you get to choose who your playmates are.
	The reason they love empowerment is because if they empowered you, then you owe them.
	The Bible doesn't say that you owe your mother and father obedience.
	It says that you should honor them.
	So honor them.
	Don't dishonor your parents.
	But you don't owe them anything.
	Honor your society.
	Be an exemplary member of your society.
	But you don't owe it anything.
	Moral usury.
	That's really what abuse is at the end of the day.
	is moral usury, ilia sex.
	For the Christians are distinguished from other men neither by country nor language, nor the custom which they observe.
	For they neither inhabit cities of their own, nor employ a peculiar form of speech, nor lead a life which is marked out by any singularity.
	The course of conduct which they follow has not been devised by any speculation or deliberation of inquisitive men.
	Nor do they, like some, proclaim themselves the advocates of any merely human doctrines.
	They dwell in their own countries, but simply as sojourners.
	Exactly.
	While we are visiting planet Earth, make money.
	Take a wife.
	Have children.
	Raise them properly.
	Eat the red meat.
	Drink the good whiskey.
	Smoke the cigars.
	God damn it.
	If you don't smoke them, who's going to do it?
	Execute the authority you are granted justly.
	Use the power granted to you by the strength of your muscles and the wit of your mind to achieve noble ends.
	But you don't owe anybody anything.
	You know, you don't even really owe God.
	Oh, that sounds like heresy.
	I know.
	I know.
	But no, I mean, it's freaking God.
	You can't pay him back.
	I saw a stand-up comedian back in the day.
	He said, God doesn't need money.
	You know why?
	Because if he did, he's like, oh, shoot, where'd my money go?
	The only thing you owe God is to do something interesting with what he gave you.
	Hopefully something more interesting than following Lucifer.
	The Epistle of Methodes to Diaconetus.
	The Empire of Evil will never go away.
	But you get to choose your level of participation.
	Carpa futurum, Dene Traditum.

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