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On Tuesdays and Thursdays, you might have recognized we are live.
And we are live because I have an amazing guest that will be on the show later, and we'll get into that.
Welcome back to Slightly Offensive.
This is the best worst show on the internet.
As you always know, my name is Elijah Schaefer.
I am your top 17 host here on the internet.
And if I'm not in your top 17, then I don't know what is.
But the world has gone crazy.
I mean, Stephen Crowder just a couple of minutes ago dropped a bombshell video and let us all know the truth that we've been screaming about on this channel for a long time.
That conservative Inc, Con Inc., BigCon, whatever you want to call it, is a total scam that is completely in bed with big tech companies.
We'll screw you no matter what you try to do.
It's a big mafia and gang, and you're not in it.
And if you try to leave, well, they'll make it as difficult as possible as we're seeing with Steven try to break away to be independent.
We're going to talk about that and also get into the main crux of what tonight's episode is.
Tonight's show is going to revolve around a simple question, and that's why is conservatism failing the West?
I'm going to be having an in-depth discussion about this issue with the infamous Sargon of Akkad, also dead named in some circles as Carl Benjamin.
Apparently, today he's going by a better name.
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So I just want to go.
We're live, chat.
We're live.
And I'm here with you guys.
And I'm ready to get into this because before I introduce my guests for today and we jump into the topic, there could be no disputing the fact that conservatism is failing.
If you want to be challenged on that, the fact that you have some borderline, a feminine LA kid in a backwards hat in his mobile studio about to speak to some neoliberal, liberal, whatever you want to call him, philosopher from the UK in order to isolate and to solve this problem shows really just how much ground true conservatives have lost.
And that really should alarm you.
It really, it should.
I mean, that sincerely, because if you look at everything that's occurred in the past 10 years alone, the rise of transgenders, the ascendancy of the LGBT grooming cult, the Twilight of the Nuclear Family are all extremely recent developments.
And just to give you a quick reminder, in 2008, most Democrats, the far left party, the communists, refused to endorse gay marriage.
Like that was 15 years ago.
That was only like a decade and a half.
Most of you guys were alive at that point.
Most of you even watched the news.
And the simple truth is that conservatism has been losing the culture war on every front.
And in many cases, has failed to even put up a fight at all.
And it's not just happening in the United States.
It's been an ongoing assault in Britain across most of Western Europe, New Zealand, and in Australia, all crown colonies.
In most cases, it's even worse over there.
You might even argue the fact, as we'll talk about, that censorship, that targeting of people for free thought has surpassed our enemies, like in Russia.
My guest tonight is Carl Benjamin.
He's going to get into the state of affairs in Britain.
But as most of our viewers know, the right in America has completely failed to stop the left's incessant march on progress.
With one uniparty controlling everything, I almost cringe at myself using the dichotomy of left versus right these days.
It seems like an oversimplification of the argument, right?
Liberal versus conservative, left versus right.
I mean, really, it's just a matter of whether you're part of the insurgency or you're part of the machine.
And in fact, most of the GOP in the United States has now adopted the talking points of the liberals from just a few years ago.
The further along you go, the more confusing it actually gets to tell the two apart.
And I can't be the only one who's been thinking this.
The Republican Party is nothing more than 2016's Democratic Party.
We're a party that influenced and loves to talk to transsexuals.
We're led by homosexuals.
And maybe you like that.
All right.
That's between you and yourself.
But it's interesting that the more and more people realize conservative values are the one thing that's missing from our countries.
And it may be the answer and the one thing that we may need to bring back.
Now, this uniparty of DC that is most evident when it comes to social policy, because the distinction between the left and the right are so blurred when it comes to LGBT filth and propaganda, minority pandering, feminism, that's been separating the line and making it much more difficult to tell the difference at all.
While the left is actively cheering on the mutilation of children so that they can become trans and liberated, the right's only objection is to say, yeah, I think everyone should be 18 before they chop their dick and balls off.
And the same is true on literally every other social policy.
The left wants reparations for blacks.
The right wants to create economic freedom zones.
The left wants to let convicted felons out of jail.
They want to groom your kids from infancy to become homosexuals.
The right cheers on gays against groomers.
Again, the difference here is pretty much negligible.
That's why I'm not really, I'm independent now, and I see the difference between both parties kind of being just one is a slower road towards destruction than the other.
It's a hell and we're living in it.
And as of late, it seems like the GOP as a whole is a controlled opposition.
It merely appears to put up resistance, while in reality, it almost instantly caves to pressures and falls in line with the progressive agenda.
Perhaps the reason for this is that much of the Republican Party's leadership and establishment members are all part of the same elite club.
They're funded by special interests, and they rub elbows with the same power players that are all that all kowto to the same globalist elite.
So take our new speaker of the house, Kevin McCarthy.
He's been playing the game in DC for years, and he and other GOP goons like Dan Crenshaw are all involved with Klaus Schwab's World Economic Forum to some degree, currently convening in Davos as we speak.
Coincidentally, the World Economic Forum's tentacles extend over to Britain.
Their new prime minister with a very Western name, Rishi Sanak, Sanak, Rishi Sanak, I don't know how to say it.
It's an extremely traditional British name, just so happens to be involved as well.
Across the pond, Sanak leads the Conservative Party.
If you know anything about the UK or Britain, it's like way worse than the United States.
Their Conservatives are currently preoccupied with promoting free trade, protecting the rights of women, and defending our greatest ally.
And I'm not talking about Israel.
I'm talking about, of course, none other than Ukraine.
When it comes to social policy, the same thing is true there as it is here.
Sanak is currently making headlines for opposing a new trans bill in Scotland.
The bill would have allowed citizens to change their gender and be issued a new birth certificate at whim without ever needing to visit a doctor.
Now, what was Sanak's reason for blocking that legislation?
You're never going to believe it, but according to him, it's because it undermines women's rights.
Never mind the fact that it's objectively wrong.
It's disgusting and antithetical to progress in the West.
It's a sort of counter-enlightenment.
Never mind that the trans lifestyle and ideology encouraged by so many is literally leading people to kill themselves.
It seems anti-progress to promote an ideology that's killing the people you're trying to protect.
Never mind that it flies in the face of natural order, that it's part and parcel with what is happening across the West.
We are being absolutely flattened by these assault ideologies, and they're marching forward with no intention of stopping.
What they are doing isn't just wrong, but in many cases, it's downright evil.
And what do the people who are ostensibly on our side do to stop them?
Absolutely nothing.
They fold like an omelet at the first sign of pressure.
They use the left zone's talking points to try to reason with them.
And they placate the left constantly as, oh, we aren't homophobic.
Look, we have Santos.
We have gay GOP members.
We love black people.
It's so ridiculous.
It's actually sickening to me.
And we know why this is happening because the globalists, the elite, the special interests across all of our Western nations, whatever you want to call them, I don't really care.
They have the final say.
They give orders and the soldiers follow.
And that is the state of our world right now.
I cannot stress this enough.
We have to get these fake people out of office.
We have to elect real traditional conservatives and people with values to office, people who will not just, you know, whatever, they can make mistakes in their life, but they've got to learn what actually works for the people.
They're not going to take bribes, not going to answer phone calls from Schwab or these special interests or lobbyists.
And if the right wing doesn't begin to actually take a stand and not just push back in a placative public way on social media, but in a real way in terms of policy, and we set our own agenda, then there's going to be no point in having a right at all.
My guest today, Carl Benjamin, is an extreme expert, I would say, on this issue.
He's been talking about this around the internet for a while, about why he believes it's failing.
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I want to welcome to my show today, slightly offensive, Carl Benjamin in a second.
Let's begin the interview.
All right, let's jump into this.
Carl Benjamin, Sargon of Akkad.
Why are you going by Carl Benjamin these days?
You know, I don't know.
I never really went by Sargon.
That was what everyone called me because that was the name of my channel.
But I never called myself it, you know.
It was just like a tag that I used to use playing video games because I'm old and I come from the era of the internet where you never used your real name online because back then, ooh, you know, who knows what would happen if someone got access to your real name?
They get your information and stuff like that.
It's a totally different world now.
And that was just kind of a legacy holdover of that.
And so, you know, I didn't design my channel or anything.
It just kind of grew to the size that it grew to and the name kind of got attached to me.
That's why.
Yeah, I find that to be kind of funny, though, because that's what I was thinking.
It's sort of like your dead name.
Everybody's got an alternate ego today.
I do have to ask the question we've all been asking, though, since you changed your name and you did transition publicly at some point.
They say not to ask a man what's in his pants, but you still have your balls?
Are they still there?
Did you remove them?
Yes.
No, no, they're still there.
Oh, very much, very much so, Carl.
Very much so.
I want to cover a couple things for people who might be new to this show, people who might not know you or might not be familiar with what you do.
So let's just jump into that, for instance.
So who is Carl Benjamin in a quick minute or two synopsis?
Someone who got dragged into the culture war because the culture war came to me.
So I first opened a YouTube account in 2011, I think it was, because I just wanted to subscribe to channels and watch videos.
And I was just, you know, a normal person working in a normal job.
And feminism arrived and it was insufferable.
And I was illiberal at the time.
So I was like, well, look, it seems a bit illiberal to decide that actually one sex is better than the other.
And perhaps we should privilege some people over others and blah, blah, blah.
And I happen to like playing video games.
And so, when feminism invaded video games, I decided, right, okay, I'm going to make some videos talking about my objections to these things.
And it's kind of snowballed from there, to be honest.
Well, that makes a lot of sense, genuinely speaking, because I also found to be interesting this sort of like we're talking about the failure of conservatism, but let's not blackpill people.
There's some wins that you've gotten.
You were targeted.
People don't realize this.
You were targeted in the past and banned from a few platforms.
Where have you actually been banned from?
And what have you gotten back?
Have you gotten anything back?
Yeah, well, the only place I'm currently banned from is Patreon.
I was banned for five years from Twitter, but the God Emperor Elon Musk has resurrected me, which was a hell of an event for me and a lot of other people, actually, I think.
But yeah, so just Patreon is the only place I'm banned from, actually.
Yeah, well, welcome back to the real world.
Welcome back to the Twitterverse.
It is a wild Western state.
Welcome back to Plato's Cave.
Yeah, welcome back.
You can all get angry at shadows on the wall.
I like what Elon Musk said where he said, Instagram is a place where people makes people depressed because they're comparing themselves to other people.
And Twitter is a place where it makes people mad because you're always conflicting each other's ideas.
Which one's worse?
I don't know, but both have too many titties and too many distracting things that are going on.
So I'll just leave it.
I'll leave it there.
I want to jump into something that's Instagram.
Instagram, definitely.
There's one thing being mad, right?
You can log off being mad and then you'll go off and you'll do something else.
You'll calm down fine.
But with Instagram, you look at it and you really feel deeply inadequate inside and then you go away and that feeling doesn't go away.
You've got to stay off Instagram for a long time to not feel inadequate compared to this other stuff you see.
That's true.
And also, too, it's like, I'm just going to say there's probably at least a few people out there posting selfies that look better in a bikini than you do.
So that's always the hard part.
They always say it's the bikini pictures.
And I just go, you know, I'll concede ground there.
And I'll say probably almost everyone looks better in their bikini than Carl.
So we'll.
Oh, thanks.
We'll keep that.
We'll keep that.
Let's keep the bikinis.
Let's keep the bikinis off, but in terms of never having a lot of fun.
I'm not going to be on truth.
One observation.
Welcome to the shit show.
Welcome to the shit show.
Look at some confetti.
And because you get extra confetti for drinking the Coke Zero sugar, because that's literally the top tier based alpha male drink.
And everybody knows that is the biggest way.
That is big dick energy.
Everybody knows that.
Coke Zero.
Why do you drink Coke Zero?
You got to stop the sugar, man.
Yes.
Let's take the sugar.
Can you please give a based red-pilled non-cringe smash the SJW destroy patriarchy quick explanation on why Coke Zero is supreme?
Because everybody disagrees with me.
And I was like, stop drinking that poison.
Oh, everyone's wrong.
Fuck you.
Everyone's totally wrong, right?
It probably is poison, but like fucking everything's poison.
So shut up, you know, like, like, there's microplastics in my bread, okay?
So shut up about it being poison.
Everything's poison, right?
And, you know, I smoke, so shut up.
Me too.
Me too.
Reason.
I thought this is going to be a serious conversation, Elijah.
So look, the reason that Coke Zero is clearly the supreme alpha male drink is because Diet Coke is obviously gay, right?
It doesn't taste right.
Coke Zero is far closer to the authentic Coke experience with cocaine than Diet Coke will ever be.
And Diet Coke's weird and frothy as well.
It's gross.
Yeah, literally, Coke Zero is the cocaine before it got cut by the drug dealer.
Diet Coke is the shitty $75.
It was the cocaine before they took it out of Coke.
Coke used to have cocaine in it.
Yo, your Diet Coke is baking soda in a bag.
Coke Zero is back when white people had rhythm in the 70s.
That was when the Coke was uncut.
You know what I'm saying?
All right.
We can't get serious.
We can't get serious.
It is slightly offensive.
I like to keep it lighthearted because I think once you stop laughing, you know?
No, no, but it's.
It was a really good opening monologue, brother.
Hey, I don't.
It's really, really strong.
Like, you hit all of the points.
I was thinking, wow, he's really been paying attention.
Well, somewhat, a little bit.
I mean, in between smoking cigars and watching videos about how seed oils are going to prevent me from reproducing and, you know, all the things on my timeline that are so vital and so important.
I'm radicalized by seed oils too.
I'm totally, I have no idea what the scientific legitimacy of the anti-seed oil propaganda is, but I want to believe it.
I want that to be the problem.
And so I literally have been cooking everything in butter and olive oil these days.
Me too.
Totally radicalized.
Me too.
I literally, and I and I saw someone saying that the alt-right was adopting the anti-seed oil, you know, bonanza.
I didn't know if I believed it.
And then when I was in the in the oil aisle at the Woollies the other day, my right arm was trying to forcibly sig heil as I walked past the seed oils.
And I was realizing that their vice wasn't wrong.
It was like an innate, there was like something in me that was just trying to like start, restart the third Reich every time I see a little bit of canola oil.
It's true, though.
It's such an obviously bad thing.
And that's what all of my Twitter propaganda has been telling me.
So I totally believe it these days.
yeah it's like i bought some bitcoin today uh sig heiled the canola oil and i and i bought a a uh nuclear proof case for my phone so that my balls aren't tanned by radiation that's like all i all i want answers to is why was everyone thin in the 70s and then now everyone's fat That's a great question.
We need answers.
Well, I just tell people, I'm not even fat, but I got Kanye cheeks.
You know, Kanye has a little bit of like, he looks like he's got squirrel cheeks, like he's hiding some acorns in there.
I have the same.
Do you have that too?
Or like, no matter what I do, I just always have these little pressure valves.
Fat face, aren't you?
All right, you fat fuck.
Let's get into this.
So we're going to talk about the greater, the, all right.
We're going to talk about the greater understanding of why conservatism is failing.
But we've got to get into this first because this is live.
I don't usually do the podcast live.
The live streams Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
We don't do this, but we're in two opposite hemispheres and two different sides of the world.
And so we're making it work.
However, we got to start with conservatism.
Before we get to the ideology, let's get onto the surface level.
Let's go to what is presented on the outside.
And the conservatism that's presented on the outside, even more than politicians, because people are out of touch, is what people might call con ink conservative media or what Steven Crowder today is called Big Con.
I got to ask you, did you watch Steven Crowder's response yet?
I haven't had time yet.
You're like, I've heard, I've seen people posting about it, but I haven't had time to watch his video.
But I got the gist, which was some unknown, unnamed conservative influencer platforms, should we say, are somehow in bed with big tech.
And this is why particular unnamed platforms never get deplatformed, never get deranked, never get demonetized.
And everyone else does.
And that would explain a few things.
Yeah, people are like, wow, some of their new hosts can get million subscribers in less than a year.
They must be really good at content production.
You go, ooh, I don't think you know how this works.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, clearly there's uh algorithmic advantages uh that are being laid out.
And so all I'm saying is uh meta, Facebook, YouTube, send me an email.
You know, I want those algorithmic advances.
Joke, I'm joking.
Me, I'll wear a Pfizer t-shirt if you just unlock this channel for like, I'll literally ask.
I will literally be the first person to Astra the Zeneca.
I'll put it right up there and I'll let you know how I'll scream Zeneca while it's up there.
It's my AstraZeneca.
It's my new sex toy by Big Pharma.
It's a little bit, you know, talk about a prick.
It's a okay.
I know.
I'm just going to say this.
There's 26.
Is it 26 letters in the alphabet?
I think I remember that.
Some of these companies only have two of them.
But I do bring this up because one of the things that I've pointed out here, and I will also not name drop names because Crowder's not doing that.
And I want to be respectful as well.
And I also don't want to get sued into the fucking outer space with the contracts I've signed.
But the reality is that conservatism, I believe, I want to start with the media and what do you believe the problem with the media is?
And I'll preclude this with this.
I don't have the same size platform as Crowder.
I don't even have access to my audience because of big tech because we've got so many strikes and issues over the years.
It just suddenly the reach drops one day and you can't even access your own audience.
One of the things that I thought was really interesting was at the height of COVID, Wajeki and YouTube approached a lot of the big conservative media companies.
And I'm going to give this really a positive impact to Blaze media during the time, is that they rejected this offer and they didn't submit to this.
A lot of companies did, is that if you didn't, you know, criticize the vaccines, if you kind of towed off on some of the globalist narratives, you would not be restricted, you would not be demonetized, and you would get algorithmic favorability.
And I will say that these other companies that are supposed to be your champions of right did accept these offers and they did, they did not only kowto, they completely submitted to big tech and kind of said, well, we're going to exchange our values for your money and also demonize anybody who calls this out and say that they're the ones that are wrong.
This is not just through COVID.
This is through all of recent history that the thought leaders and the representatives, for the most part, not all of them, and that's why I'm not using names because a lot of people are resistant and are genuine.
Have traded and sold out.
So let's go with you, Carl, because you've been around for, I hate to say, that sounds so mean.
You've been around for a long time.
I'm old.
I'm old.
You're an old sack of shit.
Can't I just be old?
Can't I just be agent?
I've got gray beard and everything.
Come on.
So to my decrepit, wrinkling guest, my question to you is I can't even stay serious in any interview, Dan.
It's not false.
Left this on this hostile to me.
I've been around Australians too long, man.
Everyone's an asshole.
I believe it.
So I was like, ah, what's up, fucking Kant?
And you're like, oh, shit.
What's up, Dad?
Hi, Mom.
How are you?
Good morning, mom.
Thanks.
Oh, yeah.
That's when you use an O in the mom instead of a U.
Yeah, you just never say that.
Let's just begin there.
So let's start with conservative media.
What do you see as the main problem with conservative media as a whole?
With the conservative media ecosphere, there's a general lack of support for one another, which I find perplexing because it's not like we have institutional friends, right, in the same way that the left-wing media does.
And you'll notice that left-wing media, they are all hand in hand, shaking these hands constantly.
And there is a very well-connected network of people who generally run left-wing media.
Do you remember Ezra Klein's journal list?
No, enlighten me.
Right, so this was some, I can't remember what format it was.
It was just some like some email list or something like this, where basically all of the, well, not all of them, but you know, a large number of left-wing journalists were all basically in some kind of email forum together, coordinating and talking and essentially conspiring in order to push narratives and advance an agenda.
And they can do this because they all actually kind of just agree on what the agenda is.
And so they're very happy to promote one another.
And this leads into a feedback mechanism where the entire ecosphere just grows broader and grows bigger very, very quickly.
And it's something that conservative media actually needs to start learning about.
That cross-pollination is good for everyone.
It's one of those things that I'm very quick to have guests on our shows, not for the reason that it'll grow everything bigger, but I mean, it will.
But also because it helps forge bonds.
They are deeply, deeply untrustworthy people, and yet they all work together, lockstep, hand in hand, goose-stepping down the road to leftist paradise.
And it's one of the things that conservative media does, and I think it's because the conservative mind, and I understand why this is, you know, it's a respectable thing.
It's independent.
It's, I want to make my own way.
I should be, you know, my own man.
That sort of base instinct that the conservative has.
It's very laudable, but it means that a lot of conservatives tend to struggle on their own more than they need to when they could actually speak to people of like mind and work with them.
I haven't got any particular people in mind when I'm saying this.
And in the past few years, things have been getting better, actually.
I have to say, I've seen a lot more sort of, you know, just conservative crossovers.
But there are lots of people who haven't spoken, and I think really should.
And it just, it blows my mind that there's such a disconnect between certain conservative outlets.
And I find it frustrating, frankly.
It is a really interesting point you make about how people are sort of like in their own individual direction and they're not even working together towards a common goal.
If there was to be a common goal that would unite them, I never even heard anyone answer this.
What would be the common goal that would unite these people?
From somebody who's, by the way, you've been on the inside, you've met a lot of these people.
What really could unite them?
Well, that's the question of what is the point of conservatism.
That is, because the left knows exactly what the point is.
They are in some way all aiming for what we could just broadly call communism.
To put a final point on it, they are all looking for the alleviation of physical restraint on the will.
That's all of leftism summarized.
And so in some way, they all notice how when something happens, the gas stove thing is the most remarkable example of watching the left fall into line like fucking Nazi foot soldiers.
So how are you all on board with gas stoves all of a sudden?
Like, it's just flip, All these dominoes just fall.
And suddenly all of the left, oh yeah, gas stoves, bad, always been bad, always hated gas stoves.
You don't have an opinion on fucking gas stoves.
I know AOC doesn't have an opinion on gas stoves.
You know, like the day before yesterday, she'd never mentioned it.
And now she's a bloody expert on it.
No, you're not.
You are not.
You got a set of talking points from someone.
And it was clear that, in fact, what you could do is start reducing people's living standards in order to overcome capitalism.
That's what you're doing.
Everyone can see that's what you're doing.
Everything you do is just anti-human, anti-the good of the normal person.
And this is, this is very easy for them all to see.
Oh, this, this helps this cause or this helps the general cause that we're fighting for.
Good, we're all, we're all in, right?
Conservatives don't have a unifying vision like that.
And that's because essentially the conservatives don't really stand for anything.
They stand for not going quite as fast as the left, as you said in your opening monologue, wants to go.
And the thing is, that's kind of the point of conservatism.
I mean, it's kind of in the name.
We accept progress just not as quickly as you guys.
That's it.
Yeah.
You know, I do find that to be funny that our enemy knows, like the enemy of freedom knows more about what might actually set people free or what the opposite road is than the people who claim to defend it.
And I think that one of the main disadvantages that people don't talk about is that, like, because we're starting with the media here, is the right-wing media has become made up of people who have been set free from hyper-progressive ideas.
They call it, you know, walking away.
It's basically a bunch of people who they'll be like, oh, you left the left?
Somebody who has had no classical education in Western fundamental ideology, no basis or any training in understanding of philosophy or the arts or even of just standard disciplines of our own history.
And then, you know, you bring these people in on top of that.
Not only are they untrained and they don't know what's going on, but then they're also selected for very Marxist intersectional reasons, like because they're gay or because they're a woman or because they're black.
And so then the media is like, well, what happens when you select a bunch of newly abandoned left-wing individuals who are selected based upon their phenotype?
You know, I mean, this is pretty rudimentary, but it's true.
You're going to have the same issue that the Bible warns about with selecting pastors from new converts.
I mean, this is fundamental in no matter what religion or any discipline.
It says, what does it say in Timothy about people that seek to be an elder or an overseer is that they should not be someone who newly is into the faith.
It says less like their pride get the best of them and they are deceived by the devil.
Now, whether you're an atheist or not, the discipline of that of knowing, yeah, just because someone's new, they might be zealous.
And that zeal can be confused with knowledge.
And do you feel like that's part of the danger is that the right is very zealous and excitable and trainable to like get mad.
You know, we're always like pissed.
It's like, oh yeah, we're fucking drag shows.
Kill those parents.
You know what I mean?
What are you doing?
And it's like, but then there's, I've never heard anyone really explain how we got to the direction of having child drag shows.
Like what has really led us here?
Identified the problem, both the policy and the cultural value that led us there, nor offer a valid solution.
They just film them and react to them and talk about needing to bring back public executions, which I don't disagree with.
But I'm totally in favor of the death penalty.
Totally.
Yeah, but you know what I'm saying?
Well, for drag queens, actually, though, I have to say, I think it's a bit strong.
Executing drag queens is past the limit, I think.
But for serious crimes, definitely needs to be brought.
And it's an incredibly progressive thing to an extremist thing to have abolished the death penalty for serious crimes.
Like, almost no one is in favor of it.
Like, literally, go out into the street tomorrow.
I just ask people, should terrorists be hanged?
And everyone will be like, yeah, of course.
Why wouldn't they?
And nothing happens on it.
But anyway, so the problem is that conservatives have a set of an intuitive sense of how the world should be, but have no theoretical grounding for this because conservative philosophers are actually terrible at putting their message out there.
And conservative media pundits are terrible at actually projecting the theory that underpins a traditional worldview.
And this is awful, actually.
I mean, you can probably, off the top of your head, name a dozen left-wing theorists, right?
You could just sit there listing them off, one after another, one after another.
And you could go on probably forever, but you probably couldn't name 10 conservative philosophers, right?
Or the average person probably couldn't even name one, right?
And this is the problem with the conservatives.
This is the problem with the traditionalists.
Because really, like, the very definition conservative, it just comes from the French Revolution.
From the perspective of those people who are like, okay, we consent to progress.
We just don't want it all now, you know, because we want to be ginger about it.
We want to be careful about it.
And okay, but what, and then maybe it made sense, right?
Because it's like, right, okay, we don't know exactly where this is going, but surely it's better than being trapped in the 17th century because the 17th century actually was shit for a lot of people, a lot of the time.
And so Francis Bacon being like, look, we can use reason to improve the human condition, totally laudable goal, especially in the era of, I don't know, surgery before anesthetic, for example, right?
Totally laudable goal.
But now we actually have a really high level of technological advancement.
It's actually not like deeply, it's not deep suffering to just get a tooth out or something like that.
So now we have to ask, okay, so what's the point of continuing?
And essentially, progress is to free us of the human condition, which is, you know, where all the techno-babble about transhumanism is coming from.
And I'm just, I'm not in for it, right?
And so the conservatives need to explain why what they are trying to argue for when they oppose drag queens is a good thing.
And the problem is that, I mean, you fell into this as well.
You said freedom, right?
That's an interesting word because that word has lots of different meanings to lots of different people.
And it has a very, very powerful meaning to the left, because frankly, the left can win every single argument that revolves around the concept of freedom.
Because actually, total freedom is a really bad thing.
And what you mean is political liberty, which is not the same thing, but it gets wrapped up in the term freedom because it just, you know, naturally does.
It's just a colloquialism.
But political liberty, totally understandable.
Freedom from being a human, possibly not where you were going with that, right?
But this is, of course, where we have arrived with transgenderism.
The body is somehow cursed.
The will that is, in my opinion, generated by the body is in fact the sovereign over the body.
And so you've got this kind of dualistic severing of the mind from the body.
And of course, this can go nowhere because the mind is generated by the brain, which is a part of the body.
So it's total nonsense to say there is a dichotomy between the mind and the body.
You are one complete whole thing, and that's it, right?
So all of the left-wing metaphysic on that is just nonsense.
It's just total nonsense.
It doesn't exist.
There is no dualism.
You can't be born in the wrong body.
You are a fucking Gnostic preacher to say this, right?
It is not true, and you know it's not true.
So let's move past this and ask, right, what do we actually want, right?
Because I think one thing that we have in the modern world is probably on a personal level enough freedom.
Now, we don't have enough political liberty.
We can see this through cancel culture, through COVID, through whatever Trudeau, whatever tyranny Trudeau is imposing on Canada right now, you know, and the same thing that happens everywhere else.
We do suffer from a lack of political liberty.
But when it comes to personal freedom, actually, I think we've got enough.
If not, we're going too far.
Look at California or Portland or New York or wherever.
So the question is, what exactly do conservatives want to offer young people?
And one message that they have, and John Peterson put it well in personal responsibility, but that actually is a facet of something.
And that personal responsibility is a facet of belonging somewhere.
You have responsibility to the other people around you who you belong to and they in some way belong to you.
And so you're being part of something that isn't yourself that you love.
It's about having sentimental attachment to the world around you.
And I honestly, I see a lot of Zoomers online.
I talk to a lot of them in the comments and I just, I'm genuinely concerned for them.
And I think they've had it essentially bred out of them that they don't know what this even means, right?
They are just cosmopolitan, metropolitan.
They don't understand why you wouldn't put your pronouns in your bio.
Like they're not necessarily communists or anything, but they just don't understand why that would be bad because everyone does it.
It's always been done as far as they can ever remember.
And so it's just normal.
And so it's weird that we're the old people are like, no, I'm not putting my pronouns in my bio because a lot of commitments come along with that.
And I think these people are going to find themselves essentially lost in the world, in a world that they've been deliberately programmed not to understand.
And they will never even realize what has been taken away from them.
Because the only thing that matters in the world through the eyes of the left is what is materially in your face.
And even as an atheist, I will say this, there is an aspect to humanity that is transcendent.
There is something greater than yourself that is not merely physical, and you are a part of it.
And in fact, I can give you a great example of this.
And I hope to see some support for this in the comments.
Santa Claus is the great example of how you do believe in something bigger than yourself, right?
It's not about you believing in Santa Claus, although obviously you do.
You do not tell a child that Santa Claus does not exist.
And you don't do that because you know that in the current state the child's in, they are innocent.
There is a sanctity there.
There is something about this situation that is like a bubble that you could pop and you know you shouldn't do it.
And so you don't do it.
And so there we go.
You are committed to a metaphysic, a transcendental thing that is the belief in Santa Claus.
This is how we know it's real.
It is a real thing.
It's a real aspect of the human condition.
And now we can then have a conversation moving past that.
But it's going to take a long, long time.
And I don't know whether you can ever really recapture it, to be honest.
Yeah, I also find it to be a little bit interesting with why conservative is failing.
So like that's like you know the fundamental front is that there's a lack of homogeny in general and in a joining together because because the right wing is is often called conservative, but it's not.
And I found that to be one of the funniest things was that I have I'm not a conservative personally, but because I value conservatism and certain values of it, and I also am like one of those people where I can objectively agree to things that I may or may not even follow because I understand objective truth.
Objectivity is not necessarily politically biased.
It's just objective.
Like, for instance, if you told me, is it objectively healthier to never smoke cigars?
Yeah.
Would I ever recommend people?
Do I ever go to my show like, you should start smoking cigars?
Yes, I do, because smoking is fucking based.
And I do love a good cigar, I've got to say.
Yeah.
No, but I don't actually promote cigars.
Like to people that do, right?
I'll connect and be like, oh, you like cigars?
Let me tell you a good cigar.
But I never say you should start smoking cigars.
This is a good habit to form.
This is something that is healthy for you because it's an objectively wrong thing.
And I also don't get offended.
Right, but I don't get offended when someone tells me, you know, when someone comments, oh, you shouldn't be smoking cigars.
They're not good for you.
I just go, you know, you're probably right.
You actually have a good point.
And I would agree with that.
And I'll let you teach my kids in schools that smoking is bad because whatever.
Go ahead and do that.
Just kidding.
my kids won't be in schools because i don't do that shit uh but also on on the flip side on the flip side of things it's like my kids will be robing the outback Oh, yeah.
Literally.
We'll be beheading cobras.
Wrestling with snakes.
Literally.
Literally ripping the legs off of huntsman spiders.
If you don't know how big the spiders are out here, go look up huntsman spiders.
They're space.
They're frightening.
The bugs and the toads and the shit out here is just trepidatious.
It is not a fun game.
But I know, but hey, you know, the spiders in Australia are better than the snakes back in the US.
So I'll leave it to that.
Welcome to the right wing movement.
I've been working on something, right?
And I think the conservatives need to be able to articulate what it is they're trying to do.
And there is a certain sort of metaphysical structure to conservative thought that they are living within but unable to articulate.
And I think they need to start being able to articulate it.
Because one thing that they should be talking about are sanctity and virtue.
And this is found in sanctity is found in a state of affairs and virtue is found in action.
And this is something that every conservative, I think, intrinsically knows.
The drag queen in the church that was going around the other day is a perfect example of a sacred space that has been violated.
The sanctity of the purpose of the church, why that's there, has been obviously infested with an ill intent by some kind of thing that is bringing in a foreign ideology, a foreign purpose, and is perverting the course of the church.
I'm an atheist.
I don't go to church.
I don't want to see drag queens in churches, right?
I want to see priests in their priestly robes conducting services in churches.
I don't want to see drag queens in mosques.
I want to see Imams doing the Imam things in mosques and in synagogues and blah, blah, blah.
On and on and on.
I want the thing to be authentically about its own purpose, even if it's not for me, because that is the defense of the sanctity of the institution.
This is one thing that conservatives need to start talking about.
And this begins by understanding that there is a point in time where a state of affairs is created and a point in time where this state of affairs is broken.
And that continuum that connects those two points is what you're trying to protect.
So, that the state of affairs, when it's broken, is sometime far off in the future, hopefully when the human race is dead, right?
That's what you're aiming for.
The end of things.
All right.
That's exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about, right?
No, that's exactly it, right?
What?
Is this venerating God?
You're an atheist.
Yes, I know.
But you're not, or you claim not to be, you know, like the people in this church.
You claim to be venerating God.
Okay, well, why don't you follow what the Bible says?
Anyway, the point is, there is this continuum that goes on, and it's your job as someone who I will call traditionalist rather than conservative.
As a traditionalist is to enrich and enhance this continuum, to make sure it's robust, to make sure that it remains sacred and sanctified, that it is not violated and debauched by various outside forces.
And that honestly goes for literally anything.
You know, it's not, it's easy to, it sounds like religious language.
So you'd be like, okay, well, this only applies to religious things.
No, it applies to almost everything that you've created for its own internal purpose to produce a good of some sort.
You know, it applies to almost anything.
Like, if I went to a book club and I was like, hey, fellow book club members, I'd like to talk to you about graffiti.
And they'd be like, what?
Yeah, no, no, we're going to talk about graffiti.
You know, street artists, graffiti.
And then everyone else is like, no, I don't want to talk about that.
But one person was like, no, no, we have to.
And then another one came in.
No, we're going to, and you'd be perverting the purpose of the institution of the book club.
Why would I do that?
Like, that's just evil, right?
That's what evil is, to pervert the intent of something for its own ends.
And so this is the first thing.
Protecting sanctified states of affairs is something that traditionalists, conservatives, whatever, have to learn how to do.
And the second thing, right, is make sure that you don't think in terms of abstract classes, right?
There is no such thing as an LGBT community.
There is no such thing as a black community.
There is no such thing as a white community or an American community or whatever.
What there are are people, right?
Real people who exist in time, in a place, in a location.
And if you're not talking about the people in this location, that you could get the phone book and read through.
They probably don't still have phone books, actually.
How old am I?
But you could read through their names and say, right, in this area, these people live.
And then you could firm them and have a conversation with them.
They're like, right, that's a real person.
I could get their details.
I can talk to them.
I can form an image in my mind of a real person.
That's what a community is, a location.
A community exists in the world.
When they say LGBT community, no, that doesn't exist.
Bollocks.
You're a liar.
You are lying to me when you say that's a thing.
That's a left-wing construct, an artificial construct that is designed merely to become an abstract pressure group to leverage open more of civil society.
And that's got to stop.
So the conservatives have to think of themselves essentially as occupying stations in life, right?
You are a person in a place.
You have relationships to other people.
For example, I am a husband.
I am a father.
I am a member of my local community in Swindon.
I know my neighbors.
Actually, I don't know them very well.
I should get to know them better.
But I've got all of these sort of responsibilities because these relationships are tangible things.
You know, when your relationship with someone is waxing and waning, if you spend a lot of time with someone, you can say you've got a very healthy relationship with them.
You're looking forward to seeing them.
You know what their responses to seeing you and acting with you are going to be.
If you haven't seen someone in many years, maybe give your nan a call.
You know, you could do with working your relationship with your grandparents or your mum or your dad.
They'd appreciate it because these stations in life are connected by these relationships and it's the sort of sinews that operate in our social lives.
And the stronger they are, the healthier you will feel mentally.
Your life will be better.
And this is the sort of map of the world the conservatives need to start pushing forward against these abstract.
Oh, go join the LGBT community online.
Shut up.
Doesn't exist.
But what does exist is the relationships with your family and friends?
The BBC was right.
You are a Nazi.
You are promoting the traditional Nazi agendas.
Calling your mom.
Nazis were leftists.
That's the problem.
They were like, oh, the Aryan race.
It's like, okay, where's that live?
The Aryan community.
Yeah, it's like, hey, Sargon, Carl's really messing up my kid.
Oh, what's your kid doing?
He started to work out, get to know his neighbors.
He called me on his weekend.
He lost.
You are looking really slim, man.
I was going to say, you got healthy recently.
I haven't seen you in person in maybe four years, and I haven't seen you online because you're like me where your videos exist, but they're like invisible.
So they don't get, you know, so shame on me too.
Todd is your neighbors.
Go look up your favorite content creators.
By the way, this is to everybody.
If you had people you liked over the years and you thought they disappeared, 99% chance they're still in business.
You just don't see them anymore because they're of the disappeared class.
I was going to ask you on this other.
This has happened to me with other people plenty as well.
Like Sticks, Hacks, and Hammer.
YouTube unscrewed subscribing from him.
I'm like, I didn't unsubscribe from him, obviously.
Why am I not on his list?
And who knows, you know?
I'm probably unsubscribed.
You know what was crazy too?
Is like is watching the view count drop of like all the great people.
Like everyone always used like back in like 2018, 2019, people get hundreds of thousands of views per video.
And now the only way you can do that is if A, you're just not objectively somewhere in the free thinking category or B, you work for one of those two-letter companies that Steven Crowder didn't mention, but was talking about until you, unless you have the seniority to get ahead there.
But I will just say, good on that.
Like that's that's ironic that with the conservatism, that's what I want to bring up is when I people always ask, what do you mean when you say you're not conservative?
What I mean is I'm not a traditional, like my personality is naturally more progressive.
I don't want to lose.
What?
I don't want to lose.
Yeah.
That's what I say.
You're a conservative.
Well, I don't think of myself as a fucking loser.
Well, and that's that's hard.
No, no, but that's, but that's genuinely the case.
Like, why do you not give me your pronouns?
Because I might be retarded, but I'm not retarded like that.
Like, I have my own problems, but that's not, I'm not schizophrenic.
I don't have multiple personalities.
But going forward, it's like, well, because I, yeah, I also want to win.
And so let's talk about the winning aspects of this.
I see the capability and I see these conservative values, meaning the Bible was written for me because I don't naturally have a conscience.
Like I, I don't, I might sound like psychopathic.
Maybe I'm a sociopath, but like I'm not.
Yeah, but like, meaning like I don't feel like my brain doesn't naturally feel like massive guilt.
I don't screw people over.
I don't steal.
I'm not a violent person.
I don't attack people.
I'm not out to hurt anyone.
That's just, if you know me, if you meet me, I'm a pretty, maybe to my detriment, pretty docile like that.
And you've watched my videos over the years, guys.
You've seen I've been beat up, assaulted, and I just, you know, that's not my nature.
But the Bible, I don't need to tell me what's right and wrong, but there are certain things that I do need.
Like, like you see a lot of people out there in the world, and you know, the way that the Bible tells you about your mind and your thoughts and to focus on what's worthy of praise and to thank God and have a heart of thankfulness.
And, you know, my mind is kind of depressed like a lot of guys in the Western world.
I sort of a black pill by nature.
I'm sort of a pessimist.
I feel really discouraged easily.
I struggle with, you know, bouts of like onset of depression.
I've had moments of despair, like these things.
And the Bible really helps me to know, hey, you know, or like partying and drugs and stuff.
Like, yo, God didn't give you, he gave you a sound mind.
Like use your mind, be sound, be sober, be vigilant, like keep your mind focused.
And so I need that institution.
So Bible W for me wins.
What do you feel like is actually still winning, or what still has the capability in conservatism to really take root and actually win hearts again?
Well, I think that on a personal level, again, if conservatives were capable of elucidating their own philosophy correctly, they could actually really do a lot of good winning over the hearts and minds of young people, right?
Because, for example, and this is the most telling part of how phenomenally materialistic and utilitarian our society is, is the stupid, utterly absurd question, where's the harm?
I don't fucking know, and I don't care.
That's not the question I want asked, right?
Where's the harm is the loser's question.
That is the cope at the end of it.
It's well, okay, this isn't good, but where's the harm?
Who gives a fuck, right?
The question that conservatives or traditionalists, whatever you want to call yourselves, the question you ask is, where is the virtue?
How does this make the world better, more wholesome?
How does it make you stronger?
How does it make you more confident?
How does it make the world a better place?
Saying, where's the harm is you already on the back foot?
You're losing and you're getting further away from what is good and right and decent, right?
So don't ask where the harm is.
Ask where the virtue is.
How is this good?
How is this intrinsically worthwhile?
And if it's not intrinsically worthwhile, reject it, you know?
And if you want to say, well, I like this thing.
It's a vice.
Accept it as a vice.
I like cigars every now and again.
I accept they're a vice.
I accept I shouldn't do it.
I accept this is a moral fault on my part that I do this, right?
This is one of those things where I can accept that I've done something wrong.
It's not where's the harm because I might be like, well, where's the harm?
But that doesn't absolve me of the fucking moral fault failing of actually increasing my risk of cancer.
You know, I've got a family to protect and support.
So it's one of those things where it's like, look, actually, you are responsible for the things you do.
And so do things that are good because then you don't actually have to worry about guilt.
You know, if you're actually actively doing things that are good for you, you can feel good about yourself, right?
So I set up lotaceas.com, an office half an hour away from my house.
And I specifically chose this location because every day I would get on my fucking bike and ride to the office.
Half an hour there, half an hour back.
And my God, right?
It has been so tempting to accept the offers from my co-workers.
Like, do you just want to lift in?
I've just got to be like, fuck, no, I do not want to lift in.
That would be a vice, right?
I did this to make sure that every single day I got about an hour's worth of exercise every day.
And I had to do it to go and do my job.
And it is one of those things I'm actually really proud of because it's really cold and it's really wet sometimes and it's really shit to ride to work.
Sometimes I'm just tired.
Sometimes I don't feel like it.
But every single day I get on my bike and I ride that half an hour.
I make myself do it because that's a virtue.
And it's really improved my personal fitness.
I've never felt as good as I feel now.
I'm 43 years old.
Like I feel better now than I did in my 20s because in my 20s, I was eating seed oils.
I was eating sugar, drinking full-fat coke, eating junk food, blah, blah, blah.
But now I've cut all of that out.
I get regular exercise and I feel fantastic, like physically fantastic, because that is the result of virtue.
Virtue is what makes you stronger.
Vices make you weak.
This is something that conservatives need to articulate without apology.
When a leftist says, where's the harm?
You say, right, that's a vice.
That's it.
I think that self-recognition, too, of noticing that maybe in your life you won't not have any vices, but you can work on reducing them and trying to get down to zero is a realistic approach because like that's I love the motivation for men.
You know, you got to work out nine days a week, got to sleep on the ceiling, you've got to, you know, you've got to murder the CEOs of seed oil companies.
It gets pretty extreme.
You're like, wow, we're getting pretty far here.
Look, man, if you go to Chick-fil-A and you have a little bit of seed oil in small amounts, it's probably not going to crush you.
But being reliant on junk food as a coping mechanism, you're already crushed, but you're hiding it.
That's the problem of where progressivism is a lie.
Is most of our hearts, I believe that men are born wicked and evil.
We might disagree, but I think the hardest discussion is that.
Oh, no, I totally agree.
I totally agree.
Like, just on that point, very quickly, right?
If you believe man is made good and born good and made evil by society, you're a leftist.
Get the fuck out, right?
Every conservative knows in their hearts that without proper habituation into good habits and good morals with good rules, you are going to be a fucking terror on the earth.
And that is exactly what we're seeing happening in like you know, urban communities, shall we call them with fatherlessness.
This is exactly the problem.
And this is what Robert Heinlein was talking about constantly.
The very premise for Starship Troopers is: look, essentially, single motherhood will destroy civilization because of these rebel children who will be constantly out of control because they've never had to accept a no.
And he was totally right.
And we are seeing it in front of our very eyes.
Man is born wicked, okay?
He is born wicked.
But through good habituation, through loving families, he becomes good.
That's the only way.
That's the only way it can work.
Well, and that's what I think is really fantastic in sort of why I really love, like, I'm like on a journey towards understanding how to apply conservative values because I always tell people it doesn't really conservative values don't care about your feelings, not just like facts, because but also I don't understand how we can accept those institutions without acknowledging the existence of God.
I know we differ, and I want to bring that up in a moment.
And before we, before we get to that, so I actually take objection to the Ben Shapiro formulation: facts don't care about your feelings, right?
And that conservative values don't care about your feelings.
There is an objective truth to the sort of this sort of conservatism I'm promoting, right?
I think that for every person, considering the sanctity of your own person, considering the strength of your relationships with others, and living a life that is more virtuous than vicious is going to objectively just be good for everyone, right?
There's no one on earth that's not good for.
But the question of feelings is important because really that's what your relationships are: your sentiments towards one another, how you feel about each other, how you feel about the world around you, how you feel about your own house, your own street, the countryside in which you live.
And so there is a tendency because the problem with the sort of like the you know, it doesn't care about your feelings is it falls back into the sort of rationalistic trap of logic, right?
As in everything we, we, the conservatives, are just correct about things, and the left are just stupid.
It's like, no, that's not true.
The left are actually correct about some things.
We're wrong in some ways about some things.
And they're not stupid.
They're evil.
They're actually really smart and really evil.
And so you are sort of kind of dumb, but good.
And they're really clever and not.
And this is what conservatives, this is the perspective the conservative needs to have to understand why they keep fucking losing, basically.
It's not about logic, really.
It's about how we genuinely love the things around us.
Like you have to look into your own soul and look into that the soft part of you that you protect with that hard shell every day and ask yourself, okay, what actually would I die for?
You know, what would I die for?
What do I love more than myself?
And every leftist will say, well, I don't know what you mean.
That's a question that doesn't mean a thing to me.
I can't give you an answer to that.
And you need to say whatever it is that's the first thing out of your mouth.
You know, what when you, when you prize open the hard shell, what is it in there that you would actually die for?
What do you love more than yourself?
That's so don't be afraid to have feelings.
You know, it's not wrong to have feelings.
What's wrong is to be incontinent with your feelings.
What's wrong is to not know how to control your feelings and how to hold yourself properly as a man and things like this.
But it's not wrong to have feelings and you should be aware of them because really that's what gets you up in the morning.
You know, it's because I love my wife and kids that I make sure that through all the cold and rain, I'm going to get on my bike.
I'm going to go to work.
I'm going to earn some money because we've got bills to pay.
So don't be fall into the left's trap of being like, oh, well, you know, they want you to think that.
They want you to think that.
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I love how one of my favorite things that I love, Carl, is like how I have a friend who has a left-wing podcast on Spotify that gets no viewers.
And it's like brought to you by Citibank.
And then you can have an audience and you're a right wing.
And it's like, do you want this dirt of patriotic dirt bag?
It has soil for the coming.
Yeah.
You know what, right?
This is something I find very, very interesting because I don't do sponsored content.
I've never done sponsored content.
So like, it's just because I come, I'm Generation X and we kind of inculcated ourselves with a deep hatred of corporate selling out.
And I just haven't been able to bring myself to do it.
I just, I just can't do it.
I'm not judgmental about those people who do because, of course, you know, you've got to make a living.
That's the way things are.
But it is interesting.
I mean, look at like Ethan Klein, right?
On his podcast.
Like, hey, yeah, this is like the communist podcast leftovers.
And here are all our sponsors and they're mega corporations.
They're like the height of capitalism.
And then the conservatives have got, hey, would you like to buy this little rustic dinner set that some old grandma makes in her basement in Idaho or whatever?
You know, she only makes five a year, so they cost loads.
It's the worlds of difference.
Napoleon Dynamite.
You ever seen Napoleon Dynamite when they're selling?
Okay, well, they're selling the Tupperware in, I think it's in Idaho, you know, in like rural Idaho.
And then it's like, they're like, well, if you buy this set of Tuppware, you can get this limited edition wooden ship.
And it's like this model.
And the woman's like, I want that.
And I feel like that's what it is.
It's like, I'm like, it's like, do you guys want a wooden ship with your Tupperware?
On a side note, though, but I agree with you on the corporate thing.
Here's what's crazy.
And if you're new to the show, you don't know this.
But I could be rich right now, but I'm not for the reason that I haven't sold out to corporate interests and I've lost seven figures of funding over the years.
Like I've not only been lost my advertisers almost all of them fully twice now, but like it's really sad.
I mean, like I for instance, I stuck up for Kyle Rittenhouse and lost like a high six-figure deal just from one advertiser.
It's pretty bad.
Have you got like a Patreon or a subscribe star?
Yeah, I have a locals, but I've also only been independent since October.
So I used to work for the Blaze.
I was a W-2.
Yeah, I know.
So it's like I'm brand new to the independent game, but I'm demonetized on YouTube, of course, and like pretty much everywhere on Instagram and all that stuff.
So I don't really make any money from ad revenue.
But I have been happy with some of these companies that are like Patriot owned or like right-wing owned and they're like cool companies.
And I'm like, yeah, I'll give you a shout out.
And we'll like, you know, that's cool.
You guys believe in the values of free speech and liberty and whatnot.
But definitely Steven Crowder's model, your model, like to be just member supported is definitely.
So that's why if you want to member support, support me, support Sargon, support Carl to the same guy.
Go and sign up to Elijah's locals.
Seriously, because then he doesn't have to do these shills.
You know, if enough of you sign up, couple of dollars a month, he doesn't have to shill and he can just say whatever, you know, fucking mouth.
Yeah, yeah, I can't on my show.
I've got a rule: no swearing on my show, right?
Why?
So, uh, well, it's probably good.
I should, I should learn that.
Yeah, exactly.
Why?
Because it's, you know, you shouldn't.
You know, I wouldn't want to swear in front of my nan, so probably shouldn't, right?
It's my favorite.
I have a different family.
I get Australians.
Well, my family's Australian.
You know, I was like, both.
No, I was just saying.
It's like, we curse only, and then we say some English words in between.
It's like, it's like, it's just curse words.
That's how we communicate.
Well, I'm thinking of my nan on my dad's side.
She's dead now, but like, I wouldn't, I don't even know what would have happened had I sworn in front of an old English lady.
My mom, my mom slapped me before as an adult when I cursed in front of a lot of people.
I didn't mean to.
I said, she slapped me and I was like, and I was like, don't speak like that.
I was like, I didn't realize I had cursed.
I was like, oh.
And then, and then I'm sorry.
My dad also won't watch my show, I think, partially because of that as well.
So maybe I should, I should, I do, I do want to work on it, but I also admit that as a vice, it's an area of weakness that I haven't mastered.
But my speech, I'm not as disciplined.
I'm actually on a journey, but I'll admit it would be better if the show had no cursing because then it would appeal to a larger audience.
There's a difference.
There's a difference, right?
So I'm guessing your demographic is around 25 years old, male, right?
Bingo.
25 to 35.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There we go.
Right.
Um, and that's that's not wrong.
You know, these these you're speaking to a lot of young single men.
And I'm not in any way judging.
You know, I do the same.
You know, my demographic's about 30, 35, that sort of area.
So it's a little bit older than yours.
But it's you, you, you attract the sort of audience, the sort of person you are.
And that's where you are at your stage in life, where I was in my stage in life when I was your age, right?
And so, yeah.
But as I've grown older, I've become a father.
Okay, actually, I know my parents listen to my podcast.
It's like, right, okay, I can't have just bore, you know, like swearing like a sailor on it, right?
You know, it's, I just don't want that.
I don't, you know, because who knows?
Like, you know, my kids might be in the room when they're listening to the bloody thing or something like that, you know, if they're visiting their nan or something.
So it's like, right, no, like, I, it was just one of those things that it was about again, we're coming back to the station in life of being a father, right?
It changes your perspective on the world because you get new relations and new moral duties that you didn't have when you're a single man.
Like, I don't blame you as a single man.
I take you haven't got kids, right?
For being like that.
That's fine.
You know, you're just being a bro with the bros, right?
Totally normal.
But you change when you adopt a new station in life and you grow into it.
Like, Orwell had a great phrase in Shoot an Elephant.
So you wear a mask and your face grows to fit it.
Now, he was using that in a negative connotation, being an imperial officer in India.
But actually, it's true of all things.
And it is one of those things that I think young men who are afraid of responsibility need to remember that actually it's not as scary as you think.
And it doesn't take long for your face to fit the mask.
And you look back on the person you were, only a couple of years, and you realize that you are a better person now, and you're happy.
You're happy with what you become.
Again, just following like the Aristotelian path of virtue.
You honestly, it might seem like a LARP at first, but I'm telling you, after a few years, do something for a year, and that's all people know you for.
And you'll feel better in yourself.
I promise you.
Right.
So I want to, because I want to take up your entire life and your entire day.
I want to conclude with.
My day's over.
It's half 12.
Well, yeah, I want to conclude with a very interesting topic of that fact of like where kind of things are headed.
Because an interesting study came out the other day, which was that, you know, there were 3,300.
I mentioned this a few times, but there were 3,300 people that apparently this last year that were arrested and charged.
Maybe not charged, but were arrested at least for social media violations in the UK, but only 400 in Russia.
So where are we headed overtly right now in the West versus our perception of ourselves, right?
Because that's what I want to say.
We perceive Russia bad, Russia totalitarian, Putin is strict, and our countries are free.
So yeah, where are we?
And where are we headed?
Is there any hope?
Look, I know you analyze this stuff regularly, so I'm curious to pick your brain.
Yeah.
So I'm not someone who supports Russia.
I don't think that I would like to live under Putin's political regime.
But then I don't support Zelensky either.
And I wouldn't want to live under his political regime because I own a media platform and Zelensky abolished them all.
So both in the Russia-Ukraine thing.
For me, it's like watching a wasp and a spider having a fight.
It's like, good luck.
I don't really want either of you near me.
But the question, like, what's coming for the West is, I think, nothing good.
I don't see how we don't end up with food shortages in the coming couple of years because of the COVID lockdowns and the supply chain issues that still haven't been resolved.
The problem with going to engaging in a proxy with Russia, as I understand it, is that we get so many raw resources from Russia.
And the rest of the world is not actually boycotting Russia like we are.
So the question is, how long can we keep cutting off our nose to spite our face?
I don't know how long that's going to go on for.
I don't know how bad it can get.
Hopefully, inflation doesn't get any worse, but I'm not an economist.
I can't give you a prediction on that.
You'd have to speak to Dan Tubbs for that because he's doing a great series on LetterCase.com called Brokenomics because he is an economist and he is going through: look, these are the at the moment he's doing quite a long series that I'm watching with rapt attention because, like I said, I don't know anything about the subject, but basically, he thinks it's quite dire.
To summarize his point on it, he says, basically, it doesn't matter who we elect because economically the financial system is in checkmate.
So you can replace the king, but he's still got nowhere to move.
And so we will have to continue with mass immigration.
We'll have to continue with quantitative easing.
We'll have to continue with all of these things.
They can't get any better.
You know, it'll continue inflating.
So, and that can't go on forever either.
So, who knows?
You know, like you're advertising gold and silver at the beginning.
That's what he recommended to me.
You know, this is not financial advice, but he was like, Yeah, it might be an idea.
So, who knows?
Socially, we're on a downward spiral.
I mean, you know, where are the forces in society that are arguing for the sanctity of marriage, the sanctity of your person, the right thing, like what C.S. Lewis would call the Tao, right?
The Tao of the West, and for virtue in and of itself.
They're just nowhere.
It's gone.
It's completely gone.
You know, where is the pride in our civilization?
Well, how could you have pride in this civilization?
You know, the Western man has lost the conception of himself as a bearer of civilization, right?
If you go back 100 years, it was very evident that the people took pride in themselves and the standards they upheld because they understood that the rest of the world was watching them.
Because the Europeans, as the British say, we'll take as the example, they were an empire.
They were constantly interfacing with foreigners.
They were constantly being judged by foreigners.
So they took pride in the fact that they were bearers of, say, British civilization or American civilization.
And the quality of people that this produced was raised because it was like, okay, we want to be impressive.
We want to maintain the opinions in the minds of foreigners.
We want to actually live up to that.
We bear our civilization and we're proud of it.
And so we do good things.
We make good things.
We are, you know, an upward pushing force.
Well, that's all gone.
You can't find anyone now who is actually proud of the civilization in which we inhabit.
So, okay, great.
That can't be good, right?
That's got to just lead us into a slow, gradual process of degradation.
And any of the remaining pillars that were holding up our civilization are being constantly chipped away by leftists who are desperate to bring us to the final form of communism, which is the lowest common denominator.
So there is honestly, and I hate to do it, but there's nothing really positive politically on the horizon, quite possibly major instability.
God only knows what the consequences of these mRNA vaccines are going to be.
Probably food shortages, probably political upheaval, definitely more shilling and selling out for the WEF.
You are not going to be politically represented if you vote for one of the two main parties in your country.
In America, that's the Republicans, the Democrats.
In Britain, it's Labour or the Conservatives.
And, you know, just whatever the blue and the red are in your country that the boomers have been voting for since time immemorial, they're going to kill you, basically.
They're going to destroy your country and the things that you loved.
So it could be that you could vote for someone else and you should.
That's the only thing that the terms of service allow me to recommend.
So I would recommend looking into doing that.
Most importantly, though, right, don't let this destroy you.
You don't have to be a casualty of this.
Look to yourself.
Look to your personal relations.
Look to your own your own business if you can.
Try and make sure that you are insulated from these things.
Make sure that you have a strong local community network.
Get involved in your local community.
Do some volunteering.
You know, just one night a week.
Go and volunteer for something.
Doesn't cost you any money.
It's not going to get you any money either, but you'll get things that are intangible, but you will come to value.
And you never know what opportunities and doors that'll open.
And it will make you feel appreciated.
Because really, the key to ending any kind of depression or anything like that is to know that someone depends on you.
This is the key to life.
This is the key to happiness as a man is to be depended upon.
If no one depends on you, then no one needs you.
Yeah, and quite frankly, that's what pronouns are about.
It's about trying to feel wanted.
It's about giving an identity.
That's why everyone's trying to figure out their new identity and their program.
It's about trying to be considered.
Yes.
Oh, I'm, you know, oh, I'm needed at there's a community.
There's an LGBT community that wants me, and I need to be an activist.
Everyone's an activist, so they find purpose and meaning.
And I always say that that's also too, one of the interesting things about with why work is so much hell with women in the workplace.
Not that there aren't some women who've worked throughout history or some women who can do jobs, but this pressure to put women in the workplace or to prioritize it as their life calling is women find meaning in different things in different places.
And that's why, you know, we have fights about air conditioning being too cold and there's so many HR complaints in offices because the jokes are offensive and you make it a more appropriate place and all these grants and coffee breaks and nothing about work or making money about grinding about competitiveness, et cetera.
Because it's just quite frankly, women find value.
And so they say we have an egg shortage right now in the United States why they're expensive.
I would say to all my girls over 28 that aren't married and have no kids, there's an egg shortage there too that's been going on for a lot longer than the one in Walmart.
And the ones that have the eggs are expensive.
And you find that's why the older they get, the bitchier, the crazier they get.
And it's not a shame on women.
People go, why are you hating on women?
No, I actually care about them and I want them to find meaning.
And so when you take meaning away and purpose from children with parenting, when you take away from women with their God-given maternal instincts, when you suppress men and their ability to drive and you try to assassinate their characters and look at them and make them feel like they're bad people or whatever it is, these attacks are all taken away from what our purposes are most entitled to be or where we find the most, I guess you could say, Zen, perfect peace, tranquility.
And it breaks my heart because, like I meant, conservative is failing because the conservative politicians, the networks, these are all mostly very liberal people when you meet them in person.
I'm just going to say that as the truth.
That's the reality.
No, no, this is a totally good point because I see a lot of like older conservatives who think that Gen Z, the Zumas, are irredeemable and a lost cause.
And that might be true, but they didn't generate themselves, right?
They are what feminism has made of them.
And it's not their fault.
In fact, it's our fault as the older generations for not being able to hold the line against this corrosive force that has destroyed the sanctity of the young lady and the opportunities of the young man.
It's our fault what the Zumas have become.
I'm not surprised they feel lost and confused and nihilistic.
And there's this kind of weird Gen Z humor where nothing is connected to anything.
And it's just like, oh, isn't this just Novel.
And it's like, yeah, it's novel, but it's also awful.
And I don't feel that you can be sincere about anything, which is terrible for you in your personal life.
You know, sincerity is the bedrock of every relationship you have.
If you can't be sincere about any of them, then you don't really have any relationships.
And that's a very lonely experience.
So I'm genuinely sympathetic to the plight of Gen Z and what the feminists, millennials have done to them.
Essentially, you've got to train yourselves to be normal.
But good luck.
That's right.
And I was going to say that with the meaning as I'm enjoying out here my travels with my wife, Kez.
We run a live stream, which is a total bunch of fun.
Man, if you ever, I was going to say this, because you care about helping new creators as well.
I've always really cared.
There's so many people out there, you know, that like, you know, whether it's putting my reputation, life on the line, losing a lot of money to help Kyle Rittenhouse in his case, from witnessing that to helping J6 defendants when no one would platform them and when you're risking things to even just helping, you know, people throughout the years get on shows like Alex Stein, John Doyle, et cetera, and promoting people.
Like I've always kind of been my heart to just help people grow and get up.
So if you ever know anyone that is looking to like, that's interesting, that's always my key thing, that they're interesting people.
Throw them my way for the live streams because I love platforming people despite their size.
And oftentimes people end up just growing up and, you know, they grow past you or they just forget about you or whatever.
And that's totally cool.
No hate, all love.
But I'm always looking for new voices.
So if you know any out in the UK or you see anybody, I can't find them anymore because they're all suppressed.
And like, it's really hard to find.
You know what I'm saying?
It's really hard to find people.
No, no, isn't that interesting though, right?
Because like if I hadn't started when I had started, I can't imagine that I would have really become as successful as I am now.
Because it, like you say, you're exactly right.
You just don't see new content creators coming up in the non-progressive sphere.
You know, progressive content creators pop up like all the time, but the conservatives are terrible at discovering new talent.
And that's not good.
Like the whole rising tide lifts all ships is definitely true about the conservative media ecosphere.
It was definitely true about the left-wing ecosphere.
It would definitely be true about ours.
And I mean, you've got a huge channel, right?
You've got like half a million subscribers, more, right?
So it's not that, you know, you've made it.
You're a big name.
But there are so many guys out there who are going to be on like, you know, 5,000 subs.
And I found a couple, but it's just so difficult to find them.
Like, I wish I had the names to hand, actually.
They used to have tags.
You used to be able to grow.
But if you know about this, because of the, I mean, we don't need to, we're not getting into it today, but I meant like, I actually feel bad because I want to learn from people.
In fact, that's why all the ideas are so stale is because there's no new voices because it's not because we're trying to gatekeep, believe me.
I platform people who have been so nasty to me in my life.
I don't shit talk people publicly who are the worst human beings in the world that I know personally.
I'll still put you on my show.
I'll talk to you.
You've got good ideas.
I'm not going to blacklist you because you are unpopular somewhere.
I'm just not like that.
I'll have a black supremacist and I'll have any, I'll have a white supremacist.
I don't give a shit.
However, I do genuinely feel like we're hitting a turbulent time intellectually because of algorithms on the internet to where the people who might have better perspectives might think you're a fuckwit and so am I and might be like, dude, you guys both are completely off.
And here's where you're wrong.
I would love, I would, nothing I would love more than to know where I'm completely off and to know where's a better direction.
Unfortunately, they're just not visible.
And so please, please always let us know if you know somebody that's like that.
But don't waste our time, please, because the idea that, you know, I hate when people send me things like, check out this guy.
And it's like, MAGA MAID 4.
I don't really want to talk to that person.
No offense.
Talent has to be able to rise, you know, and at the moment, it feels like it's being artificially suppressed.
We should see a lot more talent.
I'm sure.
I don't feel like that.
It is, dude.
It's bad.
Like, it's, it's, you can have an audience and they just don't even.
Do you know that this channel is down to see?
We're down to, we're up to 99% is subscriber watched.
Like, we are at a suggested rate of 0.2.
Really?
Yes.
We don't, we don't get to see any non-subs now.
It's completely invisible.
It's less than 1% of the views.
So, for anyone who doesn't know, right?
A normal channel that's not filtered, about 40% of your views will come from your subscribers.
And then 60% will come from people who aren't subscribed.
It just pops up in the home feed and they just click it.
Oh, that's interesting.
Or it's in the recommended videos.
And that's fine.
And a very, very small percentage of your views come from other social media platforms.
You know, it's about 5% to 10% at the most.
And so mostly it's the YouTube algorithm that promotes what your videos are.
When you have been throttled, like, I guess we'll call it the initial throttling, it'll be about 80% of your views come from your subscribers and 20% come from people who aren't subscribed.
So you can tell instantly when it's roughly that number, you've been throttled.
I've never even heard of it being up to 99%.
That is staggering.
That is an unlikely amount of throttling.
It's been made invisible.
It's remarkable, actually.
But that's what I'm really happy about.
The fact that we can get, you know, like 2,000 people watching live on a live stream when they don't, when no one else can see this is something I really appreciate from people.
And you know what's crazy is then you actually have negative growth too, because on a video, you're naturally going to lose interest of a couple of subscribers, but it's made to work out that if you had 40% of people watching, you still gain 500 subs from a video.
You lose 100, you know, let's not 100, but say you lose 12, but you gain 500.
You have a net 480.
But when nobody new sees it, you only lose subscribers.
And that's how they're, you notice that with a lot of accounts, that's what they're doing is you only lose subscribers.
I've got that on Instagram, man.
I got shadow banned on Instagram and I didn't even realize Instagram did shadow banning.
I had like 68,000 Instagram followers and I was really killing it on Instagram as well.
And I was gaining loads of followers.
And then suddenly just one day it just stopped.
And now, like it tells you how many people see it.
And it's literally a thin sliver of people who aren't already following me.
And it's really demoralizing.
They do it to demoralize you.
I barely use Instagram anymore because it's just demoralizing.
And if you search for my name, you have to put my exact, it's Sagan McCad 100 or Carl Benjamin 100 for it to show up.
If you just put Carl Benjamin, it won't show my thing.
If you put Carl Benjamin 10, it won't show my thing.
It has to be Carl Benjamin 100 before it will send you to my actual page.
And it's like, right, okay, that is, and it's the same on Twitter, apparently.
Apparently on Twitter, people have real trouble finding me.
So, you know, Elon, unshadow banned me?
Come on.
Well, it is, it is bad, though, but you can see in the analytics, I was going to say, so what was crazy was the same thing was for me as I was gaining every day.
And then I noticed, I noticed like only like the like last month that like I was losing every day.
Like I would gain, like, because I would notice the same thing.
I would only get like 100 new followers.
I'd lose 120 every day.
And it was net negative.
And over like months, that equals to thousands of followers.
And I was going, what happened?
Because then I looked at my analytics too and I go, oh, it's, you know, there's a thin sliver.
Like nobody knew seeing your posts.
But then it goes even worse.
Guess what?
I looked and I go, when did this, when did this switch?
When did the analytics switch?
Because I'm looking and it's always up and then it suddenly went down.
Well, it happened on November 10th.
November 10th is also the date that I got flagged for sharing election misinformation on Instagram, which they retracted two and a half months later because it was a meme of black people trying to squish a mattress into a Toyota Camry.
And it said, and the mattress said mail-in ballots.
And then it said like, and then the car said like 11.59 p.m. Didn't say anything other than that.
And they said false.
Elections are safe and secure and that mail-in voting does not change the election.
And I wrote them, I said, I didn't say anything.
I didn't say that.
I didn't say that.
So how did we get that?
Then they removed it two and a half months later.
A week later, they hit a video.
I put up just a video of the Brazilian insurrection.
Just a video of the people in the building.
And it said, fact check, false.
The election machines were not rigged.
And I go, and they won't remove the rating?
Didn't say they were.
Did you see even worse?
James Lindsay got fact-checked for putting a tweet up that said gas stoves make food taste better.
What?
On Instagram.
You can go to his page right now.
It's a false false fact.
How do you fact-check?
How do you fact-check something like taste?
This is the funniest thing.
And wait, you'll never believe.
Experts have said that no, you don't like that actually.
He's.
You can't tell me.
You have to type in his full name, too.
This has got to be one of the fun.
Here it is.
Okay.
Wait, look at that.
False information.
Look.
It's fact-checked.
Yeah, you type in CPO.
There's the warning at the bottom, the red one.
What does it say?
As a proud Latina who knows how to cook homemade Mexican food tastes better from a gas stove right there.
False fact-check made his whole account invisible.
And when you click on the fact check, what does it say?
False information.
This was reviewed in a post.
There is no record of Trump ever tweeting this statement.
And it's not from Trump.
It's from some account named Myra Flores 2022, which I think was a Congresswoman.
And they fact-checked the gas stove.
And that's what's so crazy.
And then on my account, too, I recently got like major hit.
I'm actually, they even like demonetize it again.
Look, I got here false.
This is false information.
What is the, what is it?
It's just, wait.
It's just a video of people on a roof.
And it's, wait, and here's the best part.
Why is it false?
Why is it false?
Well, let me read it to you.
It says, Facheque falso que codigos fonte de urnas electronicas nao taman sidos entregas para enspecao.
So it's, I don't even think that's Portuguese.
I have no idea what that says, and I'd probably fuck that one up.
But I also got fact-checked because it said, I translated it in Google Check, and it said that the election, the machines were not altered.
And I've never mentioned an altered machine in my life.
But anyway, I just like, and that's what they do.
I'm just to let people know that's how they hit you and they hit you and they hit you and they hit you.
And so sometimes you think, oh, you know, not, I'm not saying to be warned on people who don't get hit, but I'm just saying sometimes if you don't even have to be over the mark, sometimes you just have to say gas stoves make better food and then you get your account shut down.
Yeah.
But this is just the daily struggle that content creators have with big tech.
So this is why you should go and support Elijah on Patreon or, sorry, locals.
Because this is the boot we live under.
Yeah.
No, it absolutely is true.
And it's gotten worse.
It's just gotten worse over the years.
It's just gotten bad.
But Sargon, people want to find you if they want to follow you, if they want to support your work, if they want to subscribe to your amazing writing and your absolute talentedness.
Because even though I was making fun of you in the beginning, I'm the one who looks like shit today.
I got like four hours of sleep.
I like put on a hat.
I feel blasted.
I'm going to go to the beach, though, and try to catch some waves after this for sure, right?
White Sand Beaches.
I've been eating by a fucking shark, man.
Oh, I've seen a couple.
I've seen a couple little sharks recording.
Oh, dude, the sharks.
How about the cone?
Like, a bunch of Chinese people die over here because of those little spike cone things that you look like a shell, but you pick it up and then the little spike comes out and then it kills you.
It's got dead in like two minutes.
I don't know what that is.
Everything kills you over here.
And Jesus.
Even the Aboriginals over here are really, they're not like African Americans.
Somebody told me that.
They were like, Aboriginals are like African Americans, where there's like a bunch of, like, they have like systemic issues due to like slavery.
And then I came over here and these people are like sleeping in mud piles using like inflated pig bladders and just like sleeping in fields and living in shanty towns.
It's way, way worse over here.
Like there's like, right.
It looks like they're living in 4,000 BC.
Like it's the craziest thing.
Anyway, because anyway, it's definitely.
You guys have a worse healthcare system, but Australia definitely has a.
Do it.
We need to make a video soon.
I'm not even joking.
I'm going to have you back on at some point when you have time.
We should talk about a shorter video, like 25, 30 minutes on socialized healthcare, because I've experienced it and I've had good insurance in the U.S., bad insurance in the U.S., and you're in the UK, comparing Australia, UK, and U.S. with we should get a Canadian on.
And it's kind of Canada.
We're not killing people.
Praise God.
Not yet.
Murder by the state isn't the sixth highest cause of death in Britain.
Yet.
So there is that, I suppose.
All right.
I'll give you a follow.
Anyway, yeah.
But you can just search on YouTube for the podcast The Lotus Eaters or go to Lotuses.com or Sagan of a CAD on Twitter.
All right, to everyone who's watching, don't forget to leave a five-star review.
This is an audio-only podcast.
It's free.
It doesn't cost you anything.
If you like the live podcast, I know it's some of you that are younger might think it was more boring because usually this show has like 30 different video assets and stuff.
But if you've seen, I am self-producing my entire show from here.
I'm switching my own show.
I'm doing everything.
And so sometimes it's really hard to talk to people on other hemispheres and other countries at the same time, switching, pulling things, gathering things.
And also, you got to stop being retarded and watching so much TikTok so you can at least pay attention to longer conversations.
So I'm helping you.
I'm training you so you don't become gay, fat, and retarded like the rest of the world.
And no shame if you do, but you probably won't be as useful if you are pressured into that.
Anyway, keeping on, guys.
Keep following Slightly Offensive.
We'll be back tomorrow night.
Next week, we have some amazing guests on.
I think we have Libs of TikTok coming on.
We have Quarter Black Garrett coming up and a few other amazing people that are lined up for the future.
