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April 22, 2024 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #898

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Seaters.
	And today I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello.
	And Josh.
	Hello.
	And today we'll be talking about the fact that the mask is off at Columbia University, a truly foreign land and the self emulation trend.
	Taking the nation by storm.
	But anyway, I have an announcement to make, which is, as you can see here, there is a career opportunity at lotuseas.com slash careers, which is production manager.
	And the thing I have to read out is, we are looking for a production manager with skills in videography, audio, and editing available to work in London or Swindon.
	If you're interested in the job, full specs can be found.
	Yeah, so go and have a look.
	Otherwise, I have nothing else to announce.
	Let's get into the news.
	Cool.
	Are you familiar with Columbia University at all?
	Of course.
	Yeah.
	Founded in 1754, I believe it is by George the second before the American revolution by the colonial university.
	Um, cost of attendance is not cheap.
	Do you want to take a guess how much per year?
	Well, I accidentally read what you've got in your notes.
	Oh, okay.
	Well then don't worry about guessing.
	It's just shy of $90,000 a year.
	And I think that this on American degrees for years as well.
	Yes.
	It's a lot of money.
	What would you do with 400 grand?
	Because I would not get a degree.
	No.
	I would do something else.
	I would do anything else.
	I kind of regret getting mine and mine wasn't that expensive.
	Yeah.
	So it's, it's pretty crazy how expensive it is to go to Columbia University.
	And I think that that's worth keeping in mind when you think about what we're about to talk about now, because this is very clearly a class issue.
	And in fact, uh, recently there was a, quite an outrage because one of the, there've been protests, spoiler alert, there've been protests at Columbia University.
	of Israel and Gaza, as you can quite well expect.
	Just to be clear, I'm not on Team Israel or Team Gaza.
	I think it's foreign land, nothing to do with me.
	But this has been something that came up in the news because this turns out to have attracted all sorts of rich kids to come and protest in Gaza.
	There's one particular young lady called Isabelle Jennifer Seward who, when she was a teenager, was driving recklessly and killed an old couple.
	And the niece of this old couple thought that the only reason she wasn't charged with murder is because she has a rich daddy.
	Probably some truth to it.
	Well, I mean, it's always funny when you see the difference between who gets prosecuted and who doesn't, like Bruce Jenner killing that person.
	She's at the protest now.
	And so, well, what's happening at Columbia University?
	Well, there was a Chaz.
	You don't need to hear the chanting, not yet anyway.
	Yes, there is a Columbia Autonomous Zone that has been set up, a liberated area of one of the most expensive universities on Earth.
	So it's a CAS rather than a CHAS, there's no... Yeah, I suppose so, yeah.
	Yeah, it is.
	Hundreds of students are there in their Palestinian garb.
	LARPing, yeah.
	Yeah, LARPers, people who have real problems.
	Sorry, this happened like in the last week.
	Yeah.
	They're wearing masks.
	Yeah, they aren't wearing masks.
	It tells you a lot about their politics, doesn't it?
	Just at a glance, if they're wearing the headscarves and the masks, doesn't it?
	Yeah.
	But it is kind of crazy that still, in 2024, it is socially conformable to wear the mask.
	That makes you a social person.
	There is certainly a contagion in this crowd, but I'm not sure it's quite what they're prepared against.
	I haven't seen someone in England doing that for at least a year.
	Probably more.
	I don't really remember the last time I saw it.
	People in the U.S.
	are still doing this.
	Well, no, no.
	College students in the U.S.
	are still doing this because it's about showing you're a pro-social person, whereas an anti-social person doesn't wear the mask.
	But it's not universal.
	I mean, you see that some people aren't wearing masks, but it's a pretty tried and true formula that we've seen at this point.
	Wealthy college students pretend to care about something on the other side of the world and hate Israel.
	I don't know what else to say about that.
	Anyway, so it is a weird cult.
	Here's them chanting late at night.
	I'll let you listen to this one.
	Out of the camp!
	Out of the camp!
	One step forward!
	One step forward!
	Another step forward!
	We ask that you please respect our privacy and our community guidelines, which you have so far disrespected, and leave our camp.
	YouTube.
	And leave our camp.
	One step forward.
	It's literally life of Brian.
	We're all individuals.
	But I love that they have community guidelines.
	The nature, the Californication of everything, where everything has to have safe community guidelines just so embedded in the institutions at this point.
	The human embodiment of YouTube here.
	Yeah.
	Also, why would you refer to it as community guidelines as well?
	These people are a product of the digital age, but they have community guidelines.
	So they view community guidelines as kind of a divine writ that has come down that if you violate, well, you're a bad person.
	And you see this all the time, you know, Alex Jones was suspended from YouTube for violating community guidelines.
	Oh no, did he?
	oh, well, now I know Alex Jones is a bad person.
	I didn't give him a talk about your community guidelines.
	Isn't it just a social contract, really?
	That's what they mean by it.
	Well, yeah, but it's just as if the community guidelines are important outside of the social media platform.
	But anyway, so as funny as these people are, and they are funny I'd say, they aren't very friendly.
	What I loved about this, we'll watch some of this, is that they identified a Zionist who had infiltrated the zone.
	Zionist, Zionist, or like a party where it's Zio's gotta go now.
	Well obviously it's the Zio's gotta go now.
	I mean, how do you think they identified the Zionist?
	Yeah.
	There's a way to identify what they call Zionists, and it's exactly that.
	But what I loved about this as well is that you're violating our privacy.
	It's like you're in public.
	What are you talking about?
	Well, they're also being filmed.
	You're also occupying this university?
	This isn't a private event.
	I don't know what to tell you, but I guess they are.
	But anyway, yeah, let's see how we identify the Zionists, shall we?
	Attention everyone!
	Can I get everyone to form a human chain?
	- You need some muscle in there.
	- Mind check! - Mind check! - Repeat after me! - Repeat after me!
	We have Zionists who have entered the camp.
	We are going to create a human change We are going to create a human change Where I am standing Where I am standing So that So that They do not pass this point They do not pass this point And infringe a That was so incredibly cringeworthy.
	and try to disrupt our community and try to disrupt our community Zionist free community you see that was so incredibly cringeworthy yeah I kind of miss the stabby violent protesters from the old ones that burnt down Berkeley because Milo showed up Yeah, they were at least less cringe.
	This is just embarrassing.
	I mean, Zionists are against the community standards.
	Understood.
	Pitting the nose on the Zionists?
	I mean, sincerely?
	It's just a yellow star calendar.
	Okay.
	They didn't say how they knew they were a Zionist.
	No, of course not.
	The thing is that I haven't got it for this one because it took place at Yale but there was a very orthodox Jewish looking man just being corralled by a bunch of pro-Palestine protesters and he's like I'm trying to get across the campus so I go to university here and they're like no.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's literally because he looks Jewish.
	And we had this thing in London of the police saying, Oh, I mean, we might well cover this later on in the week.
	So the response to that has been ridiculous because the police officer was like, Oh, you're openly Jewish.
	Oh right okay.
	This reminds me because when Andy was here the other day he was mentioning because there's no Trump rallies to attack anymore and so I got kind of bored and I've just clatched on to the Palestine stuff.
	Yeah.
	So I'm now just going after Jews because I mean these people just kind of want to beat someone up.
	Yeah and yeah basically and they really I mean it's one thing being like Uh, I don't like Zionists.
	But why would you tell Zionists to go back to Poland, exactly?
	This is pretty great.
	Well, not great, but it's a good example of...
	So the bitter irony of wearing other people's cultural garb while saying to other people you have no culture.
	Yeah, and go back to wherever you come from, says the person with the foreign accent.
	But as you can see, I'm starting to think maybe this isn't about Zionism as a philosophy.
	I'm starting to think maybe they just hate the people that Zionism refers to.
	Yeah, I mean, you know what the Go Back to Poland reference is, right?
	Uh, yeah.
	Auschwitz.
	No.
	Oh, no?
	No.
	So, after the Second World War... Oh yeah, I know lots of them come from... That's where it comes from.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's the fact that why are we giving up our land to these Europeans who have just showed up?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
	But they're, you know, they're not exactly retiring types and this, again, it's just one of those things where it's like, Okay, you can say we don't like Zionism, but like...
	So, Hamas are a prescribed terrorist organisation, in Britain at least.
	I'm pretty sure they're going to be in America as well.
	I mean, I didn't check it, but I can't imagine.
	I can do that right now.
	I mean, we don't have the same prescription though.
	That doesn't even make sense.
	Like prescribed in the UK, for example, you can't offer moral support for terrorist groups.
	So yeah, this would be a crime in and of itself.
	Oh yeah, in America they're going to have the First Amendment.
	Yeah, in the United States you can do what you want.
	Right.
	Um, but I'm still, I'm sure they're still going to be considered to be a terrorist group.
	Um, but anyway, so it's not great.
	And I mean, you know, like we've got this guy Al-Qassam's next targets and it's like, right.
	Just, I mean, I love that it's a white woman with that as well, with a Palestinian mask on.
	She's not covering her hair.
	What's she doing?
	Yeah, I know.
	But anyway, I mean, she's at least covering her face, so she's not spreading COVID.
	To be fair, leftists do need to cover their face more.
	So, I mean, technically, none of that was violence or aggression.
	So technically speaking, when an NBC journalist goes there and says, our team spent long hours reporting on and around Columbia's campus on Thursday and Friday, I want to clear some stuff up.
	I didn't see a single instance of violence or aggression on the lawn on the student campus.
	The student at protest was peaceful and often very quiet.
	It's like, okay, in a sort of technical manner, yes.
	But in another manner, you could suggest that that's perhaps an environment of intimidation.
	If you happen to be a Jewish person, which is certainly how the rabbi at Columbia University took it.
	Rabbi Elie Buchler, who's associated with the campus, just told the 300 Orthodox Jewish students, just stay home.
	Don't come in because it may cause trouble.
	Which honestly, I think has probably got some, some real roots to it.
	By the way, Hamas are considered a terrorist organization in the US, according to the State Department, anyway.
	Yeah, I didn't think to check it, so I just assumed that would be the case.
	Anyway, so this is the president of Columbia University, Nemat Shafik, who is known as Manoush.
	I'm actually not sure why she's known as Manoush.
	I'm sure it lists it, but I just didn't see it.
	She's a very interesting person.
	She's an Egyptian-born American economist.
	Who's been serving as the 20th president of Columbia University since July 2023.
	So she was born in Alexandria.
	At four, she had to flee to the United States because the military government was persecuting her father and took her father's property.
	She joined the World Bank and at the age of 36 became the World Bank's youngest ever vice president.
	Then she became the director of the London School of Economics.
	Then she became the deputy governor of the Bank of England.
	Got a life period in 2020 from the Conservatives.
	That's quite a prestigious career.
	Yeah, and then in 2023 became the President of Columbia University.
	So, okay, that's interesting.
	And she was called for a Congressional hearing.
	And, well, let's watch a little bit of this.
	You realize that at some of these events the slurs and the chants have been F the Jews, death to Jews, F Israel, no safe place, death to the Zionist state, Jews out.
	You don't think those are anti-Jewish?
	Completely anti-Jewish.
	Completely unacceptable.
	So you changed your testimony on that issue as well?
	So there have been anti-Jewish protests.
	I didn't get to finish my sentence so what I was going to say was there were protests that were called that were That's not what you were asked.
	You were asked, were there any anti-Jewish protests?
	And you said no.
	So the protest was not labeled as an anti-Jewish protest.
	I'm not asking what it was labeled.
	The question wasn't what it was labeled.
	But anti-Semitic incidents happen or anti-Semitic things.
	Okay.
	I mean, I'm someone who's watching from very far away, but this looks like a pretty anti-Semitic protest to me.
	I don't know whether it's just the Brit in me, but it was winding me up how rude she was being, questioning her.
	Just like, you don't need to be that rude.
	Sorry, tangent.
	But yeah, so Ilhan Omar, obviously cross-questioned her.
	I have seen, we have had pro-Israeli demonstrations on campus.
	No, no, no.
	Just a protest that was against Muslims.
	No, I have not.
	Have you seen one against Arabs?
	No, I have not.
	Have you seen one against Palestinians?
	No, I have not.
	Have you seen one against Jewish people?
	Have you seen a protest saying we are against Jewish people?
	No, I have not.
	Okay, thank you for that clarification.
	There has been a rise That's all you need to know about that.
	Did the sign explicitly say we hate Jews?
	No?
	Well then it's not an anti-Jewish protest, is it?
	You know, a Zionist is infiltrated, etc, etc.
	It's a high bar from Ilhan Omar.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But even Biden, well, whoever handles Biden, had to come out and condemn this and say, well, look, every American has the right to peaceful protest.
	The calls for violence and physical intimidation targeting Jewish students and Jewish community are blatantly anti-Semitic, unconscionable and dangerous.
	I mean, like I said, this is not normally a subject I want to talk about, but this is pretty crazy.
	Like, pro-Hamas chants on the thing.
	It's bonkers.
	So even the Deputy Press Secretary of the White House had to come out and be like, yeah.
	Biden's actually not pro this.
	Cool, but the anti-Semitic remarks was sincerely the position of the White House.
	Yes, actually, that is precisely it, actually.
	That's exactly it.
	Anyway, so on Friday, the new CHAZ here was broken up by the police, so I won't bother playing the video, and all students at the encampment were suspended.
	So that's over 100 students that were suspended from the university.
	Beautiful.
	I know, finally.
	I wish that would happen any other time.
	Well, it's interesting how far this had to go.
	It had to literally be Hamas chants and be like, I think we've got to suspend them now.
	Yeah, I think we're going to have to suspend these people.
	To be fair, if they were chanting death to white men, they probably would have been offered a scholarship.
	Well, that's what I'm thinking.
	Imagine those guys.
	I mean, imagine how many we'd have to suspend.
	That'd be beautiful.
	But do you know what's interesting?
	Really interesting.
	I was watching the Democracy Now coverage of this, and they were talking about who was suspended.
	And one of the people there was Ilhan Oman's daughter.
	Which puts into perspective, A, the class level of Somalia's first senator, or congresswoman, sorry, and why she's like, well, did the banner say, we hate all Jews?
	No.
	That's it then.
	How can she be on a hearing?
	When her own daughter was attending the protests in question and was suspended.
	Yeah.
	Broken up.
	Yes.
	Oh, you can see why she's so adamant that the Nazis were indeed socialists because they had socialist in the name.
	Right.
	Which is literally your argument.
	Well, if it doesn't say death to all Jews on the thing, then we're not calling for the death of all Jews.
	But anyway, so the question is, well, why are the students doing this?
	And of course, the answer is professors.
	Radical professors who ginned up the students and who have caused all of this problem.
	The Columbia and Barnard Chapters of the American Association of University Professors has issued a joint statement condemning the Columbia President Manoush Shafiq's crackdowns on student-led pro-Palestinian protests.
	What the hell was she supposed to do?
	She's being called before Congress.
	Like, you've literally got them chanting, yeah, we actually want Tel Aviv burned to the ground, we love Hamas, and we're not letting Zionists on the campus.
	Zio's gotta go.
	Yeah, like, what did they think she was going to do?
	Probably double down.
	I mean, they usually do.
	Well, sure, but the thing is, you can tell that Minouche isn't one of these people, right?
	She's part of the globalist world controller class that's bounced around from, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and is trying to instantiate like a global liberal order.
	She's not an insane leftist radical who wants to disestablish the state of Israel, you know?
	She's too plugged into the system to be protesting it, right?
	Exactly.
	And so this is why she's kind of squirming.
	Congress is like, you know, well, technically they didn't say death to all Jews on the sign, but it is obviously an anti-Semitic protest.
	You know, I'm really sorry to have to say it.
	You know, I'm Egyptian.
	Well, to be fair, the Egyptians were shooting down the rockets for Israel, weren't they?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I mean, the Egyptians have done nothing for the past decade.
	But in the statement, and I love this, we are shocked at Mnuchin's failure to mount any defense of the free inquiry central to the educational mission of a university and democratic society and her willingness to appease legislators seeking to interfere in university affairs.
	What are you talking about?
	Sorry, free inquiry?
	This is a weird cult protest.
	It's a fact-finding mission.
	I don't know what you saw.
	Get off of our campus, Zionist!
	What are you talking about?
	She has demonstrated flagrant disregard of shared governance in her acceptance of partisan charges that anti-war demonstrators are violent and anti-Semitic.
	And in her unilateral and wildly disproportionate punishment of peacefully protesting students.
	I think it's pretty proportionate that if a few hundred students take over, and I am going to say I think they are anti-semitic, that they get suspended from the unbelievably expensive university that their rich parents have sent them to.
	I think that's actually really proportionate.
	So I don't know what to say about that, but of course This is not new.
	This is just a re-creation of Marcuse's Radical Students, which you can of course go over to the website and learn about because we've covered this in depth.
	But this isn't new either, like the whole thing.
	It's just an echo of what happened in 2016 and 2017.
	It's just now they have another cause.
	But I mean, at least this course feels more real, right?
	At least there's something actually happening here, unlike the oppression of white people on university campuses or whatever.
	I do miss the feminist cringe compilations from 2016, though.
	They were a lot more funny than these ones.
	Yeah, but the thing is, this sort of stuff has been happening since the 60s.
	And in fact, those students... I did have a clip I should have brought up.
	One of the students was like, well, we've got a long history of doing this.
	We were protesting in the 60s about some nonsense they were protesting in the 60s.
	And so it's like, okay, well, you know, you've got a bunch of professors who are not going to be punished for inciting their students to do this.
	The students have done it.
	The students have been punished.
	But the underlying philosophy is still a core part of the system itself.
	It's still in every classroom.
	Well, not every classroom.
	It's still in the classrooms.
	It's still being pumped into the soft heads of the students, as Yuri Beznov would have put it.
	Are you ever going to do anything about that?
	Which, of course, I doubt they will.
	All right.
	Well, let's move on to some nostalgia, shall we?
	Sure.
	Not for me, but it'll be fun.
	Nostalgia for me, probably.
	Most likely.
	I wanted to explore a truly foreign land.
	This truly foreign land is, of course, the 1990s.
	It is beyond understanding, and I'm sure we'll just go through it.
	I love that the 1990s have been fetishized by Zoomers at this point.
	Yeah, it's kind of weird.
	No, it's not weird at all.
	No, no, I mean the fake ones.
	Do you remember in the 90s where people made their own sweets?
	I was like, what?
	No, we didn't.
	It just didn't happen.
	We bought Mars bars and sweets from the shops like everyone else.
	But this whole thing is, you know, to start off here, just to celebrate the success of the Fallout TV series, which obviously has no plot faults whatsoever, apparently.
	And what I'm pointing out here is, of course, that the Fallout TV series is kind of fun, because you go to the pre-war world in the TV series, and it allows you to kind of interact with the 50s culture as if it carried on in a strange way, and there's a lot of love for that, and I love that about Fallout.
	But I was in the office and Bo was talking and Bo mentioned that he was talking to someone and reminiscing about the 90s and then he realized he might as well have been talking about the 70s or something because it's just such a different time period.
	The 90s are closer to the 70s than they are now, right?
	Yeah, I mean we're closer to 2050 than we are the 90s.
	And, of course, this meme has been around a long time.
	People have probably seen it.
	The world you were born in no longer exists because, of course, 2001 happened and then everything kind of went a bit weird.
	But, I mean, just on the no internet front, the world has changed such an unbelievable amount.
	But then you look at the society.
	Like, you remember when we sat down and we did that series where we were looking at London in the 40s and the 50s and the 60s and the 70s?
	It was all pretty much the same thing.
	And then the 80s changed a little bit, and then the 90s it was still recognizable, and then the 2000s onwards it was just gone.
	There just was no London anymore.
	But it seems you can also do a similar thing with just all of 90s society.
	So this is Historic Vids, which is just an account that posts vids from the past, which now includes the 90s.
	And it's just people in high school.
	showing off what life was like and of course it's people look happy and healthy yeah and they're goofing around this this got 34 million views a video of people in the 90s going to high school and and goofing off which i mean that shouldn't happen This shouldn't be notable.
	No!
	But for some reason, this is really notable.
	At least everyone enjoyed it, and there's loads of people talking here.
	Of course, there's some aspect of nostalgia, but that doesn't exist for me, because this just wasn't my time.
	But, also looking at this, I can see an obvious difference between the modern day... Nostalgia's not really the right word, because you weren't there, but a recognition that something was better is definitely the case.
	I feel like I get the same thing watching the Fallout universe.
	You see people living in the 50s style and it's just like, damn.
	Yeah, there's better.
	Well, they're not sort of misanthropic and depressed and miserable, are they?
	You can tell that their happiness is genuine.
	Yeah.
	The culture just also looks super weird.
	I mean, with the no phones and everything else.
	But I also just wanted to check in on something I completely forgot about, but I thought was really funny back from the early 2000s, the 90s, which is kids back in kindergarten were even having fun.
	So I don't know if you ever heard about this.
	So the guys who got sent to Afghanistan and Iraq, they would get letters from kids in kindergarten.
	Who were encouraged to write these to the troops.
	Right.
	And they loved them because the kids would just write the most insane things possible.
	And this is a good example of it, where one soldier just got a message from Jeremy here.
	He wrote, I hope you kill a lot of people in the war.
	And then drew him shooting an Iraqi in the face, which is just, it's just great.
	I imagine these children probably inspired a few war crimes in their time.
	I was watching some, because there's a guy who served and now he's grown up, he has a YouTube channel, talking about this.
	And he says that him and the boys, they would literally get massively excited when the mail came in.
	And they're not interested in letters from their family or friends.
	They just wanted the kids' letters.
	Because they're the funniest thing in the world.
	The kids have drawn like an Apache helicopter going over a school.
	It's like, go on, do it.
	White phosphorus?
	That's for big boys, come on!
	Get it on the pump!
	But there we are, just a point of, I don't think many of these things can happen anymore.
	And we can also see just the change.
	I mean, the change is unprecedented, that difference there.
	So we can see here, this is a graph of people getting married.
	So how old are they versus the percentage of them at age that are married.
	And basically, it's the same thing for the 40s, 50s, 60s, kind of for the 70s, which is the draft's a little bit delayed per decade.
	But then when you get to the 80s, there's a massive drop.
	Like, oh, something's gone wrong.
	But then in 10 years, that drop there.
	I mean, what are we looking at for the 1990s kids here, the millennials?
	About 30% of them are married, versus if you were an 80s kid, what was that, 45%, 50%?
	And that's leveled out now.
	That's not even a growth curve.
	That's done.
	they're just not going to get more married I imagine it's probably even worse in Britain because the notion of about 25% of people being married by 25 in Britain seems weird.
	That seems really early, doesn't it?
	I don't know if you've seen those memes that are like average British male at 25 versus American male.
	It's just because they're richer than us fundamentally.
	It's like, hey, he actually has his own house and a car and blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Whereas British male is just like, uh, struggle.
	So there's that.
	But yeah, no, I just, I just wanted to appreciate like how vast of a difference things have happened because Bo was sitting there talking about the 90s and there's just things I just didn't even recognize.
	Like he mentioned the email chains.
	Yeah.
	Remember email chains?
	I do.
	I didn't understand.
	They're not that old.
	No, but the idea that you would have, at first he mentioned it, I thought he meant it was like a newsletter you subscribe to.
	Well, I mean, I can see why you would think that.
	Yeah.
	No, you send long emails around all your rates.
	I'm not that much older than you Calum, surely you must remember.
	Didn't do email change, bugger that.
	What?
	Just email a single person, move on.
	Anyway, he was complaining that he wanted his friends to take him off an email chain because he hated it.
	But the one that got me in the feels the most has to be this one.
	This is footage of the handover of Hong Kong to China.
	And in 1997, it says here, Britain's economy was larger than China and India combined.
	Yeah, but then we gave them our manufacturing and service capacities.
	Hmm.
	For some reason.
	I don't know why.
	I mean, I just can't envision a Britain that's that powerful.
	Like living in a world where you're stronger than India and China combined.
	And I'm working on something at the moment where I had to look up images of the grand fleet that was assembled on the eve of World War One.
	It just stretches to the horizon, just warships.
	And it's just like... That's power.
	Yeah.
	And that's a hundred years ago, just over now.
	It's just impossible to conceive.
	Yeah, I think we peaked both culturally, financially, politically at the end of the 19th century.
	Yeah.
	It's been a decline ever since.
	It's weird now that people are looking back at the 1990s being like, Oh my God, I remember the good times.
	Remember the good old times, which, um, I mean, definitely it's all relative.
	So there's some truth to that.
	I did want to fact check this as well.
	Cause I didn't actually believe it at first that we were richer than China or India.
	Yeah.
	Which sounds like bollocks.
	But no, it's true.
	So here you go, here's the United Kingdom.
	So here's the GDP in 1997, 1.5 trillion USD.
	It's now a whole 3 trillion.
	So that's GDP, of course.
	Then you have India, which was under half a trillion in 1997.
	It's now much bigger.
	It's bigger than us! 3.4.
	Yep.
	Oh God, that's a whole other problem.
	And then there's China, which back in 1997 was under a trillion.
	So yeah, we actually were worth more as a nation than the entirety of China and India combined.
	In that time period.
	But of course, you can see this is sort of the rise of them.
	More, I mean, there's an element of decline of us.
	90s, 2008 happened.
	There are also questions about the figures in China as well, but I would imagine the Indian ones are probably a bit more genuine.
	The Indian curve is just an exponential growth.
	Chinese curve, exponential growth at that point.
	And yeah, okay, rise of them, but cool for them.
	Kind of weird that we gave all the manufacturing away to them.
	work out, rightly bring up.
	But the other one here that surprises me, of course, is that you think the whole West is poisoned?
	It's no.
	Look at the US.
	Just no care in the world.
	What were they in 1987?
	It's out of interest.
	$8.5 trillion.
	And they're now $25 trillion.
	They're doing just fine.
	In terms of, like, compared to the other NATO allies that they have.
	Good boy.
	Anyway, so I also want to go on to this.
	So this was some polling done about the 90s.
	It turns out the public overwhelmingly agree.
	They missed the 90s.
	It's because it was.
	Yeah, no question of it.
	Like we were literally living in the end of history at that point.
	This was how life was meant to be forever.
	As far as we were concerned at the time.
	It seemed to actually be a time in which you were relevant as a nation, and now it's just kind of, no.
	It's not even relevant as a nation.
	There are so many different factors that all kind of harmonized throughout the 1990s that it just seemed like we were the winners. - Sure.
	The Soviets were gone.
	Capitalism was producing huge amounts of wealth.
	Everyone had money.
	Everyone had the things they wanted.
	Um, but this was before the rise of smartphones and social media.
	So people had to talk to one another.
	Like if we can go back to the first clip, I think that that is just the thing.
	Like all of these people talk to each other face to face on a daily basis.
	I mean, I still grew up with that, but you know, we, we had phones, but they weren't necessarily smartphones all the time, but also we had a culture where, you know, if you were on your phone all the time, you'd be called a nerd and given a wedgie or something.
	Yeah.
	But the, the atmosphere is different because it's not just that on top of that, you've got the layers of like social policing, I guess you can call it from the managerial left where it's, you know, everyone's habits and behaviors have to be.
	Take him very seriously at all times.
	You can't just make a joke, whereas all these people were allowed to do is just make jokes.
	They could make jokes.
	What else is there to do?
	Well, that's the thing.
	Another critique of this, okay, well, these are unserious people who are not really very good people to have in a crisis.
	Okay, fair enough.
	That's totally true, but at least they're happy.
	I was thinking about this because you've seen The Crown.
	I've seen parts of it.
	So there's this really funny part that came out where it was the modern queen where she's quite old and there's a moment where Tony Blair is crowned king in one of her dreams but the dream sequence is very funny because it's her walking down the street and seeing everyone's got rid of the old past and now the multicultural new elites are taking over.
	Okay.
	You know, very based, whoever organized that.
	But what was interesting about that for me is I was back watching the early episodes of The Crown and you could tell... Oh, you said The Crown.
	I thought you said The Kraut and then you talked about The Queen.
	I was just like, what?
	That's a bit of a... Sorry, carry on.
	But there's, you know, the early episodes where they're a bit stuffy in the fifties and still, you know, they found out someone, your Royal Highness knows, is a gentleman who has unnatural relations.
	Just didn't even want to say gay, but the point being that you could compare that to Queen Victoria and you could see a direct lineation between those two periods, whereas the 1990s seems to be a proper breaking point in which all of the Anglosphere just drastically changes into a new civilization.
	I can tell you what's happened, right?
	There's a reason I've got this one up just to describe it.
	In the 1940s, 50s and 60s, all of those people, old world people, And in the 1970s, when birth control becomes ubiquitous and you have, um, the post hippie revolution, I guess you'd call it, uh, those people, they still all get married.
	And like, you know, 80% because they had the upbringing of the people who came before them, but it's their children in the eighties and nineties who didn't have the conservative upbringing who then go, okay, well, I do.
	There's no particular reason for me to do any of these things.
	And that's what I'm a product.
	That's what's come.
	I'll get back to the notes here, which is, as I mentioned about the United States getting richer, I mean, here's a graph.
	It's in USD, so it's a little bit buggered because it doesn't take cost of living locally into account, but the graph when you do that is much different.
	So as you can see here, average annual wages in the United States, I mean, Americans aren't exactly doing well.
	I mean, their house prices are still taking the piss compared to their wage increases.
	But then for the rest of the NATO allies, who, you know, are worth a damn, sorry Estonia, it's stagnation as well.
	Yeah.
	We're not the only ones there.
	But the last thing I have to mention on this, as video evidence of the past was so foreign, is this other clip that went viral.
	It's people asking Tony Blair, why on earth can they get an appointment so quickly, dammit?
	No, no, this is the reverse.
	Why do I have to have an appointment so quickly?
	Yeah.
	Because the complaint is, look, I want the doctor's appointment in a week's time, and he's making me have it in two days' time.
	It's like... Yeah, well, this is the thing, Callum, right?
	You don't understand that when I was a kid, if there was something wrong to you, the doctor would come to your house.
	Still doesn't sound physically possible to me.
	You'd call up the doctor and be like, yeah, I'll come around tomorrow afternoon or something.
	Let's have a listen to this, because this is just weird to look at.
	They're putting forward targets on practically everything for timescales.
	I can't get an appointment with my local GP unless it's made within 48 hours.
	I can't make it three days or four days hence.
	I was told that's because they can meet their target that everybody gets it within 48 hours.
	Well, I'm absolutely astonished at that.
	Look, come on, let's be sensible about this.
	I don't know about this individual case, obviously, but I would be absolutely astonished if you're saying to your GP, I don't need to see you for four days, and he's insisting he sees you in two.
	The reason... The doctor is asking you to come back in a week.
	You can't make the appointment in a week because you're only allowed to make it 48 hours beforehand.
	This is my son's appointment last week.
	You have to sit on the phone.
	Three hours in the morning, trying to get an appointment, because you're not allowed to ask for the appointment before that, because by making it 48 hours beforehand, they're meeting the government targets.
	Is this news to you?
	I have to say, that is news to me, that doctors are insisting that you have to come within the 48 hours.
	Sorry, can you just pause it for a second, because this is so perfect.
	This looks like AI!
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	This is so perfect, right?
	Because what we had before the Tony Blair managerial regime was a country that functioned on need, right?
	So the people would just get what they wanted as they wanted it, because the doctors were like, yeah, okay, I'll book it for four days' time, whatever, that's no problem.
	I don't care, right?
	But Tony Blair wants numbers on a spreadsheet to look good.
	He wants to be able to say, look, the numbers, the statistics I have, all of the things are coming in.
	It looks like everyone's getting their appointment within two days of them booking it.
	Because I set that artificial target just so I could have the numbers on the spreadsheet work out.
	And Turns out that's not actually what everyone wants.
	Some people are like, well, I'm busy.
	I've got a plan ahead.
	And so now I want to book four days in advance.
	And I'm shocked that this unintended consequence of me setting an artificial target for the doctors has actually inconvenienced your life.
	It's like, yeah, that's the problem with this kind of managerial organization.
	That's always been the problem.
	And it always will be the problem.
	And yet.
	Nothing has been learned.
	Yeah, nothing's been learned.
	And this would have been 20 years ago.
	That's 2005 there, so we'll look it up.
	I just can't get over how people are complaining though with that.
	Again, getting back to Fallout, when you look at the old world and then you cut back to the guys living in the wasteland, you're just saying, hmm, yeah, would be neat.
	Because prior to Tony Blair, we had all of these problems solved.
	Yeah, and then something happened.
	I have my certain guess about some of these.
	I mean, we talk a lot about how, of course, mass migration destroyed everything.
	That should have been a different link.
	I bugged it up.
	Oh well, I'll just show you this instead, of course, because since the 90s, mass immigration.
	Ridiculous.
	Literally don't keep up with demand.
	Something happened in 1987.
	Can't find.
	Still yet to be found.
	But this culminates in just a whole host of problems, of course.
	But I'll end it off with probably the biggest cultural shift that's happened in England.
	Which is the complete breakdown of law and order, or the care of logic, or even sense.
	And it perfectly is encapsulated in that event you were referencing earlier, which is the openly Jewish man.
	Ah!
	The criminal extravagance.
	Discovered.
	People who don't know, this is Anti-Semitism Watch and they, sorry, Campaign Against Anti-Semitism.
	They get funded to go and fight anti-Semitism in London.
	That's their job.
	They're an advocacy group, whatever, right?
	So they went down to the Palestinian protest to film them and see what's there and the police stopped him and said, you are openly Jewish.
	You look like a Jew.
	Yes.
	Met Police 2024.
	The Kipper is a bit of a giveaway.
	Yeah, it is.
	That's true.
	So he says, I'm worried your presence will cause a breach of the peace.
	Your existence as a Jewish man will cause a breach of the peace.
	You've got to understand, these guys, they see one Jew, they're going to go mad.
	Why are you supporting these guys?
	Yes.
	He then says you're antagonizing them by being here, by being Jewish.
	Your presence is antagonizing them.
	So you must move on or you will be detained for being here.
	Oh, I love it.
	The person who's like, I can't stand to see a Jewish person near me is yelling that the Jewish person is a Nazi.
	It's fascinating.
	I love modern politics so much.
	I mean, the whole thing is just completely comical.
	But of course, it's not your average English mom and dad who are out there being like, death to Jews!
	A different group.
	It's a different person.
	But the funniest part about all of this is not only that this is a complete breakdown of just any kind of logic or care for rights of a citizen.
	Or sense.
	Who's the one breaching the peace?
	The person who is Jewish is actually not committing the crime here and shouldn't be shuffled away.
	And if any of the people from the protest attack him, then they should be arrested.
	I mean, why is that?
	Yeah, yeah, but the British police don't work on any sort of basis of sense anymore.
	They work on the basis that they're afraid of the Muslims.
	That's how they are.
	The most interesting part is they put out an apology tweet when this happened and went viral.
	And the apology tweet is fascinating.
	Met police here, I had to get screenshots, they've deleted this.
	Decided to tweet out, in recent weeks we've seen a new trend emerge with those opposed to the main protest appearing alongside the route to express their views.
	The fact that those who do this often film themselves while doing so suggests that they must know that their presence is provocative, that they're inviting a response and that they're increasing the likelihood of an altercation.
	Right, so you're provoking them by being openly Jewish?
	Yes, you have a camera which means... You knew what you were doing when you were Jewish in this area?
	You wore that short kipper.
	I mean, I know what they're trying to say, but it doesn't necessarily make them look particularly good, does it?
	No.
	And it's the fundamental abandonment of sense instead for fear, which is that we'll just keep anyone away that'll make these rabid lunatics angry.
	And it's not just Jews and Palestine.
	This happens all the time.
	I mean, it's just sad that when this happens, you may remember during Remembrance Day, those guys with the British flags were told that they need to move on because, quote, there's more of them than there are of us.
	And I agree that's exactly the correct framing, because the Met Police don't view themselves as the lawful authorities of the people in the pro-Palestine protest.
	That's exactly correct.
	They instead see themselves as part of the English community, which now must be removed because they're too afraid of the non-English community.
	Yes.
	And the same thing's playing out here, where they, for some reason, decided to default the Jews as part of the oppressor class, which makes sense, I guess, for the intersection.
	Well, it's because the Jews are following the laws.
	Yes.
	Who will give consent to be governed, and who will not give consent to be governed, and they only govern by consent.
	So the people who are going to be a rabid mob who, I don't know, attack a Jewish person for being Jewish, they don't give consent to be governed, and therefore the Met Police are just like, well hey bro, what can I do?
	It's kind of the moral of the Melian Dialogues, isn't it?
	I don't want to say them because it's gonna make it sound like I'm advocating for it, but it's ultimately that violence means that you can do what you want.
	Apparently, according to the Met Police, yeah.
	Yes.
	But they issued a follow-up statement, because they deleted that one, in which they- Because that one sounded bad.
	Okay, how's this one sound better?
	Well, they just write, being Jewish is not a provocation.
	Jewish Londoners should feel safe in this city.
	Well, no one feels safe in London, do they?
	Let's be honest.
	It's not discrimination because everyone is in danger.
	The thing is, you know, and I hate to be like, yeah, well, what if it was the other way?
	Well, if it was the other way, I would be like, well, okay, just because someone looks like a Muslim doesn't mean they shouldn't be able to go to, you know, and speak to people who are protesting about, say, you know, pro-Israel protesters.
	And this guy was like, look, you're openly a Muslim, Abdullah.
	You can't go because they'll see your beard and they'll attack you.
	And you're in fact, you're in fact provoking these Israelis or these Jews.
	You know, I'd like, no, that's not an acceptable way to do things.
	Sorry.
	But the point of bringing up this whole thing in the middle of a nostalgia fest is... It didn't used to be like this, we didn't used to have to talk about these issues all the time, my god.
	Yeah, it's just on so many fronts.
	The police didn't used to act like this, these issues were never a thing here, just no one had to care about them, 20 significance, it was like some minor group would argue about this and be like, I don't care, we left that place ages ago.
	And there's also just the last point there, being that, well, Why?
	Just why?
	Why did it have to go this way of all things?
	Like, that's the other thing.
	Like, why did we end up here?
	Out of a world instead of, well, being on top of China and India, not having to deal with any ethnic conflicts of any significance.
	Well, there we are.
	And also- You know what's interesting?
	There are theories about this.
	Well, there's also the other thing- Post-war, right?
	Jews get this privileged position in society and the globe because everyone's kind of feeling bad about the Holocaust.
	Consideration, yeah.
	Yeah, a lot of consideration given.
	I do not think the police of the 90s would have been like, well, you are openly Jewish.
	No, definitely wouldn't have been.
	Sounds like a Python skit, doesn't it?
	Yeah, yeah.
	So I feel like the proper civilizational shift definitely took place in these decades.
	And now we're in a completely different one.
	And I feel like this event encapsulates that perfectly, if nothing else.
	One of the issues of immigration is you've brought in a lot of people who actually are not very sympathetic to what the Jews went through in the war.
	Funny that.
	But anyway, that's the point.
	The past really is a foreign country.
	Let's move on.
	Okay.
	I need some stuff.
	Thank you!
	So another person has set themselves on fire in the United States of America and I thought it'd be interesting to look at why and examine this new trend and I think it may well happen again.
	It seems like just the frequency in a short space of time seems to indicate an emergent pattern.
	And I wanted to look at this.
	So this is the statement in this Guardian article from the chief of the New York police where this happened.
	It happened outside of the courtroom where Donald Trump is being tried, but it doesn't necessarily seem related to the actual trial itself.
	It's just where he could get the most publicity.
	So just to think, because obviously when this happened I saw people going, is this a Trump spore?
	He set himself on fire.
	It doesn't seem to be related to the trial in any way.
	It's just that that's where all of the news crews were, where it's most likely to get traction.
	And I suppose he was right in that sense because we're covering it right now.
	That's crazy, isn't it?
	It's like, no, no, no.
	Look, setting yourself on fire is not sufficient to impact the news cycle.
	I've set myself on fire somewhere politically relevant for that to become an important statement.
	A black man has been shot, everyone's interested.
	A black man was shot by another black man, no one's interested.
	I think that this is part of the reason that people are resorting to these methods is that they feel politically disenfranchised and therefore they have to go to these methods.
	Again, just going back to the 90s for a second, if someone sets themselves on fire, it doesn't matter where they did it, like that's news, you know?
	Anyway, apparently it's not news until... How does this further my political agenda?
	How does this tie in with Trump?
	Well, it does tie in with Trump a little bit, at least the reason that he did it.
	But this Chief of New York Police said, at 1.30 this afternoon, this is on Friday, we observed a male walk into the centre of the park, he starts shuffling around his clothes, he opened up a book bag, takes numerous pieces of paper, throws the pamphlet through the park, and then he pulls out a canister, puts some kind of liquid on himself, and he lights himself on fire.
	So that liquid was, I think, You know, fuel of some kind for the fire, right?
	And this is the guy.
	There he is.
	This is a sign, obviously, before he set himself on fire.
	Trump is with Biden and they're about to fascist coup us.
	Which I don't think anyone's really arguing.
	I'm usually skeptical of the mentally ill diagnosis to people who do such things, but I don't know about that.
	I'm wondering if there's mental illness dovetailing with 24-hour news cycle and social media, right?
	Well, we're going to be looking at his reasons for it, but I thought it'd be interesting first to look at some examples of self-immolation, just to kind of understand Not actually showing them on the screen, by the way.
	I'm not going to show you any footage because I don't want to freak anyone out.
	But I think the quintessential example of this is this one.
	This Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who self-immolated on a busy Saigon street on the 11th of June 1963.
	And this was to protest the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government Which was headed by a devout Roman Catholic who coincidentally was killed by a CIA-backed coup that same year.
	So if he didn't do this he would have been alive and it would have been fine.
	Just saying.
	But the sort of legacy of this image has followed on.
	It's obviously quite famous.
	I know that John F. Kennedy said obviously before he was killed by that same organization that backed the coup.
	What?
	He said no news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as this one and obviously that's a pretty significant thing for a future president to say and ironically enough a lot of people's contact with it in this day and age...
	It is from the cover of Rage Against The Machine, their self-titled first album from 92, which is kind of ironic that so-called anti-capitalists commercialized the death of a religious man for their music, which made them lots of money.
	Yeah, but Rage Against The Machine's entire career has been this one strange, ironic decline.
	Yes, well... I mean, this album's an amazing album.
	Now they're charging like $500 for a live show.
	And it's like, yeah, fight, fight the power, bro.
	What?
	I wasn't, is it Tom Morello or one of the other ones was educated as well.
	Like they've had some of the best education.
	Well, clearly not good enough, but it's still very rich and they've always been commies.
	Yes.
	But the other case is Aaron Bushnell.
	This is obviously from the 25th of February 2024, so it wasn't really that long ago, and he set himself on fire outside of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC, chanting Free Palestine.
	This has captured a lot of people's attention.
	He's already got himself a sizable Wikipedia entry, so that's what he gets for setting himself on fire.
	Most people will not get this in their life.
	So it's getting rewarded, basically, by all of this recognition.
	I mean, there are many prominent scientists that have contributed huge things to the world, not setting themselves on fire, but not to this scale.
	A lot of them get deleted as well because there's not enough space.
	I just think this is really sad because he's going to have parents.
	Well, he had a family.
	He's being driven mad by the media cycle because the Israel-Palestine conflict shouldn't really be of concern to a citizen of the United States.
	I mean, there's, there's some Indian woman in America who was threatening to kill some elected officials.
	And so she's on trial.
	It's like, you know, Palestine.
	It's so strange to my mind that people care about this sort of thing because sure, you know, the United States is at least supplying weapons to Israel.
	So it makes more sense there.
	But even this weekend, uh, you know, in central Swindon, there was a free Palestine march through Swindon.
	As if, you know, Israel's going to be like, oh, hold the thought, people of Swindon have protested against us.
	It's just ridiculous.
	Who actually cares?
	But anyway, back to this guy, the guy who set himself on fire on Friday, Max Azzarello.
	After he set himself on fire, unsurprisingly, he died.
	He dies just hours after.
	I want to die immediately if I set myself on fire, that's amazing.
	No, he would have suffered for it.
	He did suffer.
	I had the misfortune of watching the video of it, and he's on the floor, writhing in pain.
	Didn't the army guy, he got shot by security?
	Which, that security guard hero.
	Well you're putting out of his misery there.
	It's supposedly one of the most painful ways to die as well.
	I can imagine.
	Yeah, I certainly don't advocate for it.
	Do not set yourself on fire.
	That's going to be the easiest advice to listen to ever.
	But apparently there's some information in this article about who he is and why he did what he did.
	Apparently his friends and his neighbors said the death of his mother two years ago made him increasingly unstable and it's almost two years to the day of him setting himself on fire that he did that from when she died.
	And he also had about a pulmonary disease after his mother died.
	Which I imagine debilitated him, made him lose a certain amount of hope.
	But he has got a master's degree, or did have, in city planning.
	And he got that in 2012, so he's not necessarily uneducated and it's not like he's necessarily stupid.
	But it's a strange conspiracy theory.
	Like, I'm going to go to the trial of Trump as the Biden administration tries to jail their political opposition and then say that Trump and Biden are going to coup us.
	There he is.
	But sincerely, I think that's actually a viral, stupid 4chan post.
	It is.
	Yeah.
	I know the one.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But like, it just sounds like someone with mental health issues has spent too much time on it.
	Yeah.
	Well, he posted, the final thing he posted on social media was him saying he's going to start an effing revolution and the way he's, he's sort of singing it to that one, the American song.
	I don't know what it's called.
	All the Americans can be annoyed at me, but, um, He's saying that and he's sort of twitching a little bit and you can tell that there's something going on.
	You know, you don't have to be a psychologist to know that there's mental illness there.
	He's got that sort of vacant look of someone who's mentally ill.
	But it's such a preposterous proposition.
	Of course.
	No one thinks that Trump is with Biden.
	Yeah, well, no one's arguing it and I'm going to be sort of dismantling it.
	You know, there he is, um, with his family.
	Yeah.
	And he looks like a relatively normal guy, which is a, it's just a shame.
	There he is with Bill Clinton, um, which is not so normal.
	Um, but, uh, anyway, he also, um, was a, an organ donor.
	I was just going to throw this in.
	So, um, both his kidneys.
	So this was after he died.
	There was an organ transplant.
	Apparently his kidneys were healthy despite his external burns.
	So yeah, his kidneys actually did save two people's lives.
	I'm not sure that was his intention.
	I don't think he was thinking, I'm an organ donor, so I'm going to save people.
	Sure.
	But I just thought I'd throw it in just to be somewhat charitable to the guy.
	I just feel bad for this guy.
	Well, of course.
	Yeah.
	I feel bad for him as well.
	He was clearly needing help.
	Yeah.
	So he also sued the Clinton Foundation in 2023.
	Sorry, I forgot what year it is.
	These are the words the defendant, which is Azzarello, said, they knowingly conspired... So was he sued by them?
	He's suing them.
	So he's the plaintiff?
	Yes.
	So he's saying, they knowingly conspired, participated in and benefited financially from a decade-long fraudulent scheme.
	Money was solicited internationally laundered in support of the scheme via the Bill Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, which was created for this purpose by President Bill Clinton and Doug Band in 2001.
	And he is arguing in this case that there has been significant financial, emotional, and psychological harm to himself.
	And unsurprisingly, this was dismissed by a judge a month later.
	So he's not just suing the Clintons there.
	The number of people he's suing there are the famous names.
	You've got Bill and Hillary Clinton, the Chelsea Clinton Foundation, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Bankman Freed, Richard Branson, Mark Cuban.
	Peter Thiel.
	Yeah.
	He doesn't like Peter Thiel.
	Anthony Scaramucci?
	Nicholas Sturgeon?
	Is she in there?
	Nicholas Sturgeon's in there!
	Blimey!
	Ross Perot there as well.
	Blimey.
	Full laundry list of important people.
	I'm not terribly surprised that the judge was like, get out.
	Bizarre collection.
	He also, prior to setting himself on fire, went on a string of offences.
	Here he is in a mugshot looking very sane.
	So apparently he threw a glass of wine at a framed and autographed photo of President Bill Clinton, which is kind of based, in a lobby of the Casa Monica Hotel.
	In his hometown of St.
	Augustine in Florida and then two days later he was back at the hotel where he was reported to police for standing outside stripping his clothes off and yelling at customers.
	And when the police arrived they noticed he was wearing nothing but his underwear standing on the sidewalk.
	Shouting in a speaker, blasting music and yelling, which of course is not the actions of the same person.
	And then again, on the 24th of August, he was arrested again for graffitiing the property and rifling through a woman's belongings in a flatbed truck, which is not exactly sane.
	Right.
	But there, there he is in his picture looking increasingly crazy.
	He's a Florida man as well.
	Yeah.
	There he is.
	There's his More Florida Man screenshot there.
	And there he is with Bill Clinton.
	There's his manifesto as well.
	The true history of the world.
	Thank God, finally.
	History never told.
	All of these lies.
	So he's also been photographed here with a Bernie Sanders shirt with Eat the Rich with Newt Gingrich.
	Interesting.
	I don't know why he agreed to have that photograph with that t-shirt on, but there we go.
	I mean, you probably think it's funny.
	Yeah.
	He's wearing it, ironically, maybe.
	But he has a sub-stack.
	Here he is.
	I know people want to get people to read sub-stacks, but I'm not doing it.
	Yeah, this promotion is going too far.
	Oh, he's actually got a thing.
	I've set myself on fire as part of the Trump trial.
	Yeah, I'll be looking at that in a second.
	But he says, I did 1,500 hours of research since Peter Thiel started a bank run in March, and now I know the secrets of the world.
	Cheers to America's first military coup and its second revolution.
	So, it is worth mentioning as well, one of his substacks, he's complaining about liquid death, sparkling water, which obviously is just some sort of edgy marketing department thing.
	So he says, want to stare the Doomsday Cult in the face?
	Just head down to your local convenience store and check out the water selection.
	There you'll likely see these cans.
	And he's arguing This is water.
	This water is liquid life.
	The fact that water is something we all need to survive has been bottled up and sold to us at unbelievable markups as evidence of kleptocracy.
	The fact we now have water called liquid death shows just how far the criminal disinformation campaign has come as they convince the public to pay money for water that evokes hopelessness and death.
	Do you want to know what I think is interesting about this?
	I'm old enough to remember when people started buying bottled water.
	People didn't used to buy bottled water.
	People used to buy Coke or Pepsi or something like that.
	Right.
	And it was health nuts who were like, hang on a second.
	This stuff's full of sugar and not good for you.
	Maybe we should just have, you know, water and, and people then, you know, that, that became a, you know, big market.
	And so it's, it was our health concern.
	It was just like.
	It wasn't, it wasn't that they were like, right, now we're going to make, because what came free out of the taps?
	It didn't make any sense to buy water, but then it was like, okay, but I want water to take around because, you know, I want to be healthy.
	I don't want to drink sugar all day.
	So, okay.
	Yeah.
	Fair enough.
	That actually makes sense.
	What?
	I'm just thinking of that lady with the monster can, which is like, clearly it's 666.
	Oh God.
	It's devil water.
	Yeah.
	This is the kind of thing like, uh, but it isn't, is it even unbelievable markups?
	Like it's not that expensive.
	Hmm.
	It's just bougie water, isn't it?
	It's just a marketing department.
	You know, you have like that, that I can't remember what it's called.
	Is it life water where it's just a branded water and there's no idea, but it's not, it's nothing new.
	I don't think it's, you know, evil manifest that there are marketing departments selling silly water.
	Um, but here is his, uh, manifesto more or less.
	Oh, maybe later that.
	I do.
	Yep.
	So there we go.
	So here we are.
	I'm going to read a little bit later.
	Yeah.
	You know, he sold me.
	My name is Max Azzarello.
	I'm an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside the Trump trial in Manhattan.
	This extreme act of protest is to draw attention to the urgent and important discovery.
	We're all victims of a totalitarian con and our government, along with many of our allies, is about to hit us with an apocalyptic fascist world coup.
	I don't think they're really getting Ted Kaczynski vibes from this guy.
	Yes, and he says, this claim sounds like fantastical conspiracy theory, but they are not.
	They are proof of conspiracy.
	That doesn't quite make sense.
	If you investigate this mountain of research, you'll prove them too.
	If you learn a great deal about Ponzi schemes, you'll discover that her life is a lie.
	If you follow the story and the links below, you'll discover the rotten truth of post-truth America.
	You'll learn the scariest and stupidest story in world history, and you'll realize that we're in a desperate state of emergency that requires your action.
	To my friends and family, witness and first responders, I deeply apologize for inflicting this pain upon you, but I assure you that it is a drop in the bucket compared to what our government intends to inflict.
	Because these words are true, this is an act of revolution.
	And yeah, I'm not entirely convinced.
	So this carries on to talk about Bitcoin and how it is a scheme for elites to steal money from the American people, which will crash the economy.
	Um, the economic crash side of things, actually, I spoke to Dan about, um, and it doesn't really make any sense.
	So, but also I think he's just describing to them way more competency than they actually have.
	Yes.
	So the, the, the global market cap for cryptocurrency is 3.4.
	Um, sorry, I can't even read 2.43 trillion us dollars.
	Uh, the money supply, the M2 money supply here, um, God only knows how much that is.
	20 trillion?
	Yep, 20 trillion.
	So yes, it's not really enough to do that.
	It's also worth mentioning the companies that he's saying are sort of complicit in this.
	Here is Alphabet Inc, of course known for owning Google.
	They have 1.925 trillion market caps.
	That's almost as much as all cryptocurrency.
	And if you look at, you know, the US debt, Well, I believe that it is.
	There we go.
	34 and a half trillion.
	So he's got the scale of the problem here.
	You know, if cryptocurrency disappeared overnight, it would be, you know, it cause a recession.
	It would be a scandal.
	I don't think it would cause the world economy to crash.
	So.
	I mean, whoever, whoever holds the U S debt must understand that's never getting paid back.
	Well, they must understand they're never getting that back.
	They've got one of the world's most popular reserve currencies.
	They're forced to have that much debt.
	Um, so he's also got his, you know, beliefs here.
	And there are some very silly things like he's saying, he's talking about culture, trying to influence people.
	He is.
	So I'm going to talk about two things that I know a lot about, uh, the Beatles.
	Uh, he said who scoffed at revolution.
	Of course, John Lennon, being known for being a bit of a commie, told us to fear the taxman.
	That's because the rate of tax was 95%.
	And that's why in the song Taxman, it says one, that's one for me and 19 for me and one for you, from the perspective of the taxman.
	And Happiness is a Warm Gun was a song that was done ironically because they thought it was a weird title of a gun magazine in America.
	And they just thought it was a weird turn of phrase and so they wrote a song about it.
	It wasn't in favor of... So this guy's basically mental.
	Yeah, and also he's talking about Stanley Kubrick.
	Making Doctor Strangelove, which I actually talked about recently, he's not trying to make the notion of nuclear war more palatable.
	The whole reason he made it a sort of comedic film was because he was trying to adapt the thriller novel Red Alert by Peter George.
	And he realized when shooting it that the notion of mutually assured destruction was so absurd that he couldn't shoot a serious film.
	He had to kind of make it a comedy to make fun of the fact that everyone's lives are in the hands of these people that believe in The only way we're going to stop nuclear war is by destroying the other side.
	He's trying to point out the absurd situation, but Kubrick was so paranoid about nuclear annihilation that he moved to rural England because he didn't think it would be a target, as well as the fact that he found Hollywood insufferable.
	So he's just not done his research.
	Obviously, he's mentally ill.
	But I thought I'd do a bit of a deep dive here.
	So I suppose it seems like there's a multiple series of factors here that are contributing to this rise of people setting themselves on fire.
	Obviously, mental illness is the first one.
	You've got to be mentally able to be willing to do it.
	But also I think that people feel politically disenfranchised.
	I think that If they felt like they could have their voice heard you know it's not unheard of that you get crackpot conspiracy theory style people in like town hall meetings and things like that and normally that's as far as it goes but I think that the way things are going with the centralization of politics people are going to resort to desperate measures but are there any other things that sort of come to mind with this?
	I just think this guy is mad.
	Mm-hmm.
	Callum?
	Far too conspiracy-oriented.
	Speaking too much sense, really, actually.
	Can I read more?
	Can I subscribe to that?
	Well, fortunately, you can.
	But yes, I thought I'd have a look at this and break down why it happened, some of his arguments, because a lot of the time the media doesn't look at the manifestos.
	I'm looking at you, the trans shooter.
	And yes, I think that this is a trend that's going to continue, and it's kind of just a bit sad.
	Already?
	Well, on that note, we have an announcement to make before I go to the video comments, which is I'm leaving.
	I decided to end my notice last week, so I've got three weeks left, and I've been asked to say this and then also tell people where they can find me when I go.
	So here we are.
	This is my YouTube channel.
	This is where I've been doing stuff for funsies, and will continue to do stuff for funsies.
	So if you like funsies, come and have a look.
	And for people who don't know, well, I really got into traveling to weird places for fun.
	So as you can see here, this started obviously with miles in Afghanistan being a hell of a time, and then going to Serbia to help migrant hunters, Donbass, Transnistria, and then Poland and England as well.
	I was also just interviews like Christoph Boszak there, who you remember him, right?
	The time we went to Poland?
	Yeah.
	He's, uh, like him and all the other guys have all grown up now because they were kind of shit posters when we met.
	And now they're all like dads of five years and got multiple kids, which is just kind of cute.
	Anyway.
	Yeah, that's that.
	And if you want to help me make more of that, the way I've been doing it is I have a subscribe star.
	There we go.
	Which if you sign up, you get 10 Soviet rubles as well.
	That's currently a deal I've got going.
	That's that.
	The Callum Exchange Program.
	Go to the video comments.
	The shocking part of reading capitalism, socialism and democracy is how relevant it is to today.
	While we may not have the aluminium or steel monopolies of Schumpeter's day, we do have the fractious political climate and monopolistic companies of our own that are steadily becoming less innovative and more anti-competitive.
	Just as socialism inveigled its way into economies building up to the Second World War, so socialistic practices are being incorporated ever more easily into today's businesses.
	One can only hope that it doesn't take the same catastrophic turn.
	Interesting as always.
	Official proof of my failure just arrived.
	Hopefully the spread will help me as the next time.
	She couldn't understand that very well.
	Yeah.
	The audio wasn't the best there, but it looks like he's taken a Japanese language test.
	That's all I can decipher.
	I wanted to thank Josh for his segment last week on San Francisco because I had all of those topics ready to go and I was like, I'm tired of talking about just San Francisco.
	So he did me a good favor.
	However, there was one that was missed and that is that the San Francisco jails went under lockdown because they can't even control their prison population and they actually asked for the National Guard.
	That's how incompetent they are right now.
	It's a lot like a New York subway.
	You had to put the National Guard on the subway to keep the peace.
	Blimey.
	Well, thank you, California Refugee.
	There was too much San Francisco news to even go through.
	I was sort of looking at all of the insanity like it is being written by monkeys with typewriters.
	Just like all of the things you couldn't even conceive of were there.
	What am I looking at?
	This is a horrifying AI.
	AI is bad.
	Oh, it's Uncanny Valley.
	I don't know if I want to see more of those, Craig.
	Please don't put pop music to mine, unless you've already done it and I've missed it.
	Yeah, put the Beatles' there.
	I'd be happy with that.
	Threadnaught sends us $5 and says, end of an era.
	Callum, can you mispronounce my name one last time?
	Then mock me for being bad at strategy games.
	What was his name?
	Threadnaught.
	Threadnaught.
	You're a shithole of a war, aren't you?
	Not bad.
	Sammy says for $5.
	Hi, question from American here.
	What would happen if the members of the Royal Family voiced criticism of the anti-Jewish climate of the state?
	Just curious if it would matter.
	Well, I mean, the establishment would surely be in favor of that.
	It'd just be more Germans with opinions on the Jewish people, wouldn't it?
	Well, no, because they'd be like, look, you know, maybe London shouldn't be such a dangerous place for Jewish people.
	That'd be fine.
	But I think it'd be way more controversial if they were like, you know what, I'm not sure about this Israel stuff.
	Kind of don't like it and maybe that'd be really controversial.
	Royals for Palestine.
	Yeah.
	Alex says, Columbia Autonomous Zone should be called the Columbia Union of Nagging Twats.
	They're too rich for that.
	Hector says, how dare you ChexNotes be Jewish in public?
	Yeah, that does seem to be actually the core of the concern of many of us.
	Anne says, one group has been silent regarding the process of Columbia, which is the alumni of the school.
	Where are the calls not to donate to the university?
	I've heard nothing but silence from that group.
	I have to think they're okay with this.
	Yeah, it is really bizarre.
	I mean, at least in Harvard, there was a pushback from the alumni, right?
	I wouldn't have to question who donates to universities, really.
	You'd have to be really rich.
	Yeah, but normally you'd donate to particular research projects, or you'd sponsor research grants.
	If someone's trying to cure cancer, for example, you could say, I'll give you some money to do this research, as long as you know.
	Say it was my foundation that funded it.
	Sure.
	Unbreakable Litany says, I grew up being taught everything through the lens of the friend-enemy distinction by team self-immolation.
	Unfortunately, those casting fireball on self aren't on the team of anyone who cares about the stated issue.
	Shame they spent their lives so naively.
	That's the thing, man.
	Like, no one's going to remember these two guys who just committed suicide over these issues.
	When the issues are over, no one's going to care.
	And it's like, oh God, man, the current thing is just evil.
	Wigan Survivalist says, when I was in the Philippines, I had a Filipino Muslim ask me if I was a Jew because I had the nose.
	Given he If you ask me after the October 7th attack, you can guess what my answer was.
	It's pretty mad.
	Passing says, I don't know what to think about the whole antisemitism thing.
	To be honest, before last year, I just thought it was a grift.
	But now every week I see a new video of something really antisemitic.
	Well, the problem is when people like the ADL are doing it, so people like Donald Trump, it's obviously a grift.
	But when a bunch of pro-Palestine protesters take up a university campus, they're like, oh, there's a Zionist among us.
	It's not.
	That's what it's.
	Well, yeah, they've spent basically all day.
	Like it went from daytime to nighttime and they were there for ages.
	So you're not going to.
	It's been going on for like six days.
	We went on for like five or six days before it was eventually shut down.
	Then they realized that protesting is a massive waste of time and never achieves anything.
	Which is true.
	They're not as cynical as me, clearly.
	No, but it's actually true, because I think the largest protest in Britain was in the early 2000s about the Iraq War.
	It was a Million Man March against the Iraq War.
	Yeah, I wrote a whole article for 90 years about it.
	It changed nothing.
	I'm entirely unconvinced of protest ever doing anything ever.
	Yeah, it's just a way of, like, getting your feelings out.
	Well, the regime only accepts ideas that it's already, you know, somewhat tolerant of in the first place.
	Geordie Salzman says, how it should work in a sensible serious country.
	Hello, I would like to see the doctor.
	When can you pencil me in?
	How it actually works in our deeply unserious clown show.
	We're all booked in for today.
	Please call back tomorrow.
	Phone line open ten minutes prior.
	Yeah, getting, just getting the appointment these days is a nightmare.
	LancerInJoy says, in the 90s, cars were better, music was better, movies were better, everything was better.
	I mean, I don't know about cars, but the internet wasn't better.
	That's true.
	That's true.
	The internet is the only thing that wasn't better in the 90s.
	The internet was terrible.
	Guitar effects were better.
	Sorry, I'm just trying to be mediocre, contrarian.
	But the internet is sucking the good stuff out of the world.
	Well, you just need to learn good internet sort of discipline, don't you?
	I agree, but that requires way too much from the average person.
	Arizona Desert Rat says, and what if the protests are being held outside a Jewish home or in a synagogue?
	Are Jewish people supposed to stop living?
	What are they supposed to do?
	Well, yeah, the Met Police, they're just afraid of Islam.
	That's what it is.
	They're afraid of Muslims because they think The Muslims might do something crazy.
	Whether that's a justified belief or not is up to you to decide.
	In the 1980s it was two dollars to the pound, now it's only one pound, one dollar twenty four.
	The real problem.
	I don't think it's that.
	No.
	I looked this morning and it's dropped even further.
	Fuzzy Toaster says, I remember marathon bars.
	Do you know what a marathon bar was?
	I remember those, yeah.
	Do you?
	How do you remember those?
	It's just Snickers.
	Yeah, they are, yeah.
	I don't know why they changed them.
	I assume it was just branding or something easy.
	Sam says, leave the police alone.
	They're doing extremely heroic work by knocking on people's doors and arresting them for the naughty things they may have said online.
	Why bother solving real crimes?
	It's not even solving real crimes.
	I mean, like the crime hasn't taken place.
	They're just like, yeah, if it happens, you're kind of on your own there, buddy.
	I just looked it up and it changed to Snickers in 1990 and I was born in 95 so I don't remember them but I remember them.
	I've seen them.
	You just knew that was the case?
	Yeah.
	Because I actually do remember it.
	People were still bitching about it in 95.
	They were, yeah.
	Andrew says, in retrospect I would agree that the 90s reached some kind of pinnacle.
	I felt it growing through the 80s until I was able to buy an ex-council flat in Islington after the crash of the early 1990s.
	Best decision I ever made, such opportunity.
	Sadly, I'd be on the reach of every young Londoner these days.
	Yeah, but that was when the average price of a house was four times the yearly wage.
	Now it's 12 times the yearly wage, which is crazy.
	You can't even go live in a mud hut in the woods either.
	Yeah.
	Arizona desert rat, uh, talking about your one says this, this guy sounds like he was a doomsday conspiracy nut job.
	Yeah.
	I mean, literally I'm going to go to the court case of a banana Republic and say, these two guys are working in tandem.
	I didn't need to shoot himself, it would have been just as captured on video.
	Because of the trend aspect of it.
	I saw someone do this.
	Because there's a sort of contagion, it's similar to school shootings, when one happens it makes another one more likely because it creates a sort of press cycle and people understand that.
	But it puts it in front of their mind as well.
	That too, yeah.
	Um, Fuzzy Toaster says, I too remember bottled water becoming commonplace.
	Of course I lived overseas.
	It was safe to get a bottle of Coke or Pepsi or canned drinks or bottled water in the late, happened in the late nineties, but it happens slowly in the UK than all at once.
	See, I told you, like genuinely, bottled water just wasn't a thing when I was a kid.
	You just got water from the tap, you know?
	Um, Josh, I'm not reading up the rest of that name.
	Uh, I, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Um, I do have to say, uh, crispy lad actually did sit well still while on fire.
	It looked more poignant, even if his politics made no sense.
	Um, I guess read the name.
	I didn't, I didn't watch the, um, the video of it because why I've seen enough people.
	I saw the Aaron Bush, the one it's just like, I don't know, man.
	I just, I can't, there's just nothing that happens overseas.
	That's important enough to set yourself on fire over.
	It's radical commentary from the Lotus.
	I know, right?
	Don't set yourself on fire, it's not worth it.
	I'm trying to think what could be worth setting yourself on fire for.
	I'm not even sure the Buddhist, yeah, even that one doesn't really... Well, that same year, the government got CIA couped, so...
	If he hung out a bit, you know?
	It makes me think of that image in a new way because you see it and you see this Buddhist guy doing something that's so, you know, must be so painful and he's so serene about it.
	Well, that's why the image was actually powerful.
	You're not dancing around saying free Palestine.
	You have respect for him for doing that.
	But thinking about it, if he just was wearing normal clothes instead of a robe, you wouldn't give him that respect.
	You'd still be like, Well, it's sort of illustrating the power of his meditation and his devotion to his faith, isn't it?
	By staying serene whilst he's in agonizing pain.
	I'm saying I think that's just because it's foreign.
	Like if it was a guy wearing Primark doing that, he's still got a massive amount of control to keep himself praying or whatever in that position.
	I think I'd still be impressed.
	I don't think I would be.
	I think it's more about that he seems to be plugged into a way of looking at the world that's fundamentally spiritual, whereas our guys are just not.
	And so there's nothing holy or sacred that they're trying to uphold with this.
	They just look like people who are just Fundamentally, they set themselves on fire for government policy reasons, which is a far less glamorous reason to self-destruct than transcendental ideals, rather.
	Yeah, it's crazy.
	Yeah, it seems weird.
	Kevin says, and you're going to like this one, Callum, one of the most popular bottled waters tells you exactly what the bottled water companies think of you.
	Evian is naïve, spelled backwards.
	Is that really why it's called that?
	I've no idea!
	I don't know, but I can believe that it's true from now on.
	Kevin makes a good point, though.
	Richard says, Self-immolation, isn't that just cultural appropriation again?
	Vietnamese monk ting.
	Buddhist monks were being persecuted during the Vietnam War by the South Vietnamese president.
	The irony is he was almost worse than the North in terms of persecution and crackdowns, as you don't know much about the persecution of Buddhist monks.
	Yeah, well it it was pretty short-lived.
	I think because when the regime changed it.
	I think it stopped happening.
	I don't know Vermillion Ford says unfortunate see you go Callum as always enjoy your segments your trips best of luck in future nice The Josh guy again says gonna miss you Callum the news of you leaving really sucks But it's bit sweet in that.
	I hope you enjoyed whatever you're going to do wherever you go I had this feeling it was coming at some point.
	More and more of you got fed up with the way Swindon is going.
	Just stay safe.
	It's not been going great.
	I had someone visibly coming off of drugs, vomiting outside of my flat yesterday.
	He was like shaking like that, to the point where you can just tell that he was... It wasn't like this only a few years ago.
	Spartacus says, sorry you're leaving mate.
	You'll definitely be missed.
	Lots of nice love, which is good.
	And Chase says, we'll miss you, Callum.
	Good luck.
	John Stewart says, behold, tomorrow's educated class.
	$90,000 annually to produce a conformist midwit.
	I can't believe they're still wearing the masks.
	Thing is, when I was putting the segment together, I didn't even notice they were wearing the masks.
	Just as part of the furniture.
	It's just part of the uniform.
	You know, we've got the Palestine flags and the masks.
	It's like, I mean, I want to know what the conversations are surrounding us.
	Oh, you know, you haven't got your mask on.
	Oh, yeah.
	I'll look weird if I don't have my mask on.
	Maybe they're doing it because they don't want their identity to be seen and it's just a socially acceptable cover.
	I do think that sometimes when you go to the protests and there are way more people wearing masks, it's just like a self-selection thing of the most insane leftists are most likely to go to protests and the most likely to wear masks.
	Maybe, but I don't know.
	I can't help but feel that there's something of a sort of virtue signal about it.
	I don't doubt it, yeah.
	There's got to be an element of it at the very least.
	JJHW says the police were committing misconduct in public office by stopping that Jewish man.
	I would begin a private criminal prosecution against the police if they did that to me.
	I mean, I just don't think it's going to go anywhere, to be honest.
	I can't get over what you would do with $90,000 a year, other than a degree.
	Well, I mean, buy a house somewhere.
	With $90,000 a year, I could do a lot.
	Yeah.
	Just pay yourself $90,000 a year.
	These are the children of multi-millionaires and billionaires.
	$90,000 to them is not a holiday they could do, and they'd learn so much more.
	Yeah, but they're going to do that as well.
	They're going to university.
	That's a holiday camp, right?
	That's where you send the rich kids.
	If you just sent them to go and travel the world instead, even if they stayed in five-star resorts the whole time.
	But they're going to do that as well.
	Because again, to these people, money is not so much of an object, right?
	Yes, but you ruin your kids by sending them to that place.
	Oh, I agree.
	Just buy them a library with every textbook in every discipline and just say, sit in there for a few years and come out when you're ready.
	Don't have any human contact.
	That'll make you well-rounded.
	Alexander asks, why are these people completely incapable of going after anti-white protests in the same way they go after anti-Jew protests?
	Well, that's a really great question.
	It's because for various intersectional reasons to be honest.
	I'm sorry I don't give a single s about anti-semitic speech.
	The native ethnic group of the nation and the native religion of the nation are constantly under attack and the supposed right wingers in office don't give a damn about it.
	Yeah, well, this is why I don't tend to go on about the sort of anti-Semitic stuff.
	It's like, okay, well, we've been doing the anti-white stuff for a long time and we just know that's acceptable because they're rendered as the oppressors.
	And so, you know, but, uh, but this has got to the point now where it's just like, I mean, it's just literally chanting Hamas, we love your rockets or whatever.
	Like, It's got to be a legal line somewhere.
	You don't necessarily agree with it.
	Arizona Desert Rat says, I remember email chains.
	I also got a couple of chainless.
	What I always was annoyed about is when someone would forward you some like, because a lot of the time it was from outside of your friend group.
	So you get like some long email chain that someone had sent you.
	You don't know anything about this.
	And so it's just, and our man, the boominess of it as well.
	Like you wouldn't believe like the Like, if you didn't boom the memes on Facebook, you're a bad man.
	You have no idea.
	Had a classmate tell me I was going to die because I threw away the chain letter she gave me.
	I told her everyone dies, it's just a question of when and how.
	She was shocked that I didn't give a monkey's shiny blue backside about that silly letter.
	And here I am, still alive 30 years later.
	Yeah, it's...
	It was a, it was a way more innocent time.
	Like getting an email from the mates was actually great.
	Like a bunch of my friends, we, we went to school out in Germany and email was a fairly new thing at this point.
	And so when we all moved back to different areas in the UK, we could email each other and it was so much easier than writing letters.
	This is obviously before social media.
	Um, and it was, it was exciting to get an email from someone.
	Nice.
	It's not like social media now where you're never thrilled to hear from anyone.
	You're kind of like, I'm sick of hearing from people.
	I remember emailing people proto-memes, like before memes became a thing, just emailing friends.
	You gotta see this.
	If I saw it now I'd be like, that's terrible.
	Total boomerism.
	But yes, this is totally normal.
	Do you want to go through any more?
	We only got three minutes.
	Okay.
	Um, but yes, this, uh, this guy was definitely a doomsday nuts.
	Um, but the thing is though, like this is going to get more Redditors to do this.
	Like, there are a lot of people who are like, well, I hate Redditors.
	I was like, yeah, look, we all hate Redditors.
	They are the most insufferable people in the world.
	But I think the way to remember is they're on Reddit because they're suffering already, right?
	I mean, their dietary choices are going to do what society should have done just, you know, a few years into the future.
	But like, I view people who congenitally use Reddit as people who are just suffering.
	It's all those people who are trapped in modernity.
	I sometimes go on Reddit to be fair.
	My point's there.
	I don't post anything.
	I just kind of lurk there.
	There are some things like too Western European for you, where it's just loads of European nations abusing each other.
	That's fun.
	Just looking at all of the different stereotypes, just like, Oh, you're Serbian.
	But I'm not, I'm not taking back anything I'm saying.
	Um, I just, I just think the sort of people who's read it, it's just like just the fundamental sort of sad bedrock of the internet.
	Like they don't like anything that's happening.
	And so they, they post on Reddit about it.
	Yeah, it's such an echo chamber, like some of the political things you see on there, like it gets upvoted to the main page and it's just like... Reddit's been a completely captured political platform since like 2016.
	Some of it's like the rantings and ravings of an unhinged lunatic, you know, wouldn't be unheard of in this guy's manifesto.
	And it's like, yeah, this is an interpretation of reality that we all agree with.
	And it's just so obvious that they're sort of capturing lots of people and taking them down with them into a death spiral.

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