The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1371
Aired: 2026-03-10
Duration: 01:34:29


=== Domesticated by the Bomb (15:07) ===

[00:00:00]  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:00:01]  Welcome to the podcast of The Loot Eaters for Tuesday, the 10th of March, 2026.
[00:00:05]  I'm joined by Josh and Lewis Red Dutton.
[00:00:08]  And today we're going to be talking about the Libtard and the Terrorist.
[00:00:12]  How we have a story that's literally, it's like genuinely like a Renaissance painting where there's all of these people doing things in different angles and they're trying to capture a particular sort of story.
[00:00:23]  Well, it's all there in the latest attempted terror attack in New York.
[00:00:27]  It's incredible.
[00:00:27]  The Libtard and the Terrorist sounds like a new Disney franchise.
[00:00:30]  It does, it's finally going to be profitable.
[00:00:32]  It does.
[00:00:34]  Then we're going to be talking about the fact that we've got brains in jars playing video games.
[00:00:39]  I mean, that's basically a description of a lot of people these days, right?
[00:00:42]  Yeah, I've got something to aim for in the afterlife now.
[00:00:45]  And then we're going to be talking about how the government is going to force you to be socially cohesive using the eternal power of the state.
[00:00:52]  See it, say it, sorted.
[00:00:54]  It's worse than that, I'm afraid.
[00:00:56]  It's far worse than that.
[00:00:57]  But before we begin, we're doing a live event on the 11th of April.
[00:01:01]  I mean, look at that.
[00:01:02]  11th of April.
[00:01:02]  So in about a month's time, we're all going to be there.
[00:01:05]  It's in Swindon.
[00:01:06]  So get the train.
[00:01:07]  Be fine.
[00:01:08]  It's going to be 7 o'clock till 10 o'clock on Saturday the 11th.
[00:01:11]  It's going to be great, right?
[00:01:12]  We're all going to be there.
[00:01:13]  It's going to be a big laugh.
[00:01:14]  Three hours.
[00:01:15]  So it's going to be a long show of just the podcast, a debate, and then Lad's Hour.
[00:01:20]  So it's going to be good.
[00:01:21]  Link in the description, and we'll see you there.
[00:01:24]  So this happened on Saturday, and it was just genuinely amazing.
[00:01:30]  What you have here is, as the Blaze describe, a Libtard in the middle of protesting against a far-right protester, counter-protester, a far-right protester.
[00:01:42]  And it is exactly as I say.
[00:01:44]  We welcome everyone in the city right before a Muslim terrorist throws an explosive over his head.
[00:01:49]  We'll watch it.
[00:01:49]  It's just incredible.
[00:01:51]  It's in New York, and we want everyone here to stay in New York.
[00:01:56]  You don't get to come from outside and then tell everyone else.
[00:02:07]  Now, what's lucky about this is that the explosive didn't go off.
[00:02:14]  But look at him.
[00:02:15]  Look at him.
[00:02:15]  His face.
[00:02:16]  Oh, my God.
[00:02:17]  Something has happened.
[00:02:18]  I was expecting the kind of genteel white European politics where everyone just stands there and talks to each other.
[00:02:24]  And then, oh, actually, a jihadi has just gone law and chucked a bomb over my shoulder.
[00:02:29]  Does he have any self-preservation?
[00:02:30]  No, he just stands there, gawping like a landed fish.
[00:02:33]  He doesn't know what he's doing.
[00:02:35]  This is genuinely the most perfect representation of leftism and immigration married together in the West.
[00:02:44]  It's a society where nothing serious.
[00:02:46]  We were talking just before we came on about outside losing their importance.
[00:02:49]  And it's a society where nothing serious happens.
[00:02:53]  Yes.
[00:02:54]  Where there's nothing to put you in touch with death, nothing to make you actually struggle.
[00:02:59]  And then, when you get into that situation, you get used to everything being done for you.
[00:03:03]  Then, when something serious does happen, you haven't got the coping mechanisms, you haven't got the preparation to deal with it, so you just freeze.
[00:03:09]  It's learned helplessness.
[00:03:11]  I think it's a learned helplessness.
[00:03:12]  I suppose there could be a genetic component to it, but you freeze like a rabbit in the headlights.
[00:03:17]  And there was this famous case, infamous case, in 94, I think it was, of the sinking of the Estonia.
[00:03:23]  And it was a Swedish booze cruise, essentially.
[00:03:26]  Everyone was completely pissed in the night.
[00:03:29]  And the Estonia sank between Stockholm and Tallinn, where they've been to get cheap.
[00:03:34]  And no one, when they investigated it, has seen so many cases of people making absolutely no attempts to escape.
[00:03:40]  Something was actually happening, Reg.
[00:03:42]  It was happening.
[00:03:43]  And these people just huddled in their cabins.
[00:03:45]  This happened at the Swiss ski resort the other day, right?
[00:03:48]  Where like 40 people died because the bar had caught fire and they're just videoing the bar on fire and posting it on social media.
[00:03:55]  And they're like, oh, look, the bar's on fire.
[00:03:57]  It's like, okay, that's your cue to leave.
[00:03:59]  But they're standing there with their drinks in hand, watching the roof go up in flames and 40 people die.
[00:04:04]  They're trained by the society, it's a society where it will do everything for you, it will look after you, everything will be okay, you don't have to struggle.
[00:04:12]  And so you don't, particularly if you're people like this and you have this leftist mindset, I suspect you've been molly-coddled a lot all your life and things like this.
[00:04:19]  So you don't learn to struggle.
[00:04:20]  You even think it's bad to even think to do so, to fight.
[00:04:23]  You don't do that.
[00:04:24]  That's not what left-wing people do.
[00:04:25]  That's what evil far-right people do.
[00:04:27]  So the idea that you react and that things hit in.
[00:04:29]  No, no, that's not.
[00:04:30]  That's not what it's about.
[00:04:31]  And as you say, with the Swiss thing as well, I think when the, was it 77 BC, when the Romans invaded Athens and famously they just stood there partying and did nothing.
[00:04:41]  Well, I mean, they may have done.
[00:04:43]  I'm actually not too familiar.
[00:04:44]  I mean, I know that Sulla sacked Athens, but they can't have just stood there partying while the Romans were running around burning things down.
[00:04:50]  I heard they did.
[00:04:51]  But maybe that's wrong.
[00:04:52]  But anyway, the Estonia is the best example.
[00:04:54]  They just froze.
[00:04:56]  And so many people just couldn't bring themselves to realize that this is it.
[00:05:01]  This is it.
[00:05:01]  You're going to die.
[00:05:03]  That's exactly it.
[00:05:04]  It just goes to show how essentially domesticated everyone is.
[00:05:07]  Because, I mean, this, if this bomb had actually gone off, it was a nail bomb.
[00:05:11]  Everyone around would have taken a handful of nails to the face.
[00:05:15]  This guy would have been dead.
[00:05:17]  The people around him, again, just who are taking photos, not doing anything, would have all been dead, or at least severely wounded.
[00:05:23]  And yet he stood there like an idiot.
[00:05:25]  Like, oh, am I going to shout into my megaphone again now?
[00:05:28]  I've got a leftist slogan I'm meant to be shouting about diversity, tolerance, inclusion, and how everyone is welcome.
[00:05:33]  It's like, listen, man, like, and I mean, we'll take a bet now.
[00:05:38]  Do you think that this affected his worldview in any way, shape, or form?
[00:05:42]  No, of course not.
[00:05:43]  Or it just became more left-wing and more paranoid, or that Islamist must have been influenced by the far right, or it's the far right's fault that they've misbehaved like that because they provoked him.
[00:05:55]  How did you know?
[00:05:56]  How did you know that was what the conclusion of this story was going to be?
[00:05:59]  I did it because you only told me about it about a couple of hours ago.
[00:06:01]  I know.
[00:06:03]  I didn't have time to read about it.
[00:06:04]  But that would be what you do.
[00:06:05]  It's cognitive distance.
[00:06:06]  You've got to come up with a way of keeping this worldview that keeps the wolf of his mental instability and low self-esteem from the door.
[00:06:16]  And that's how you do it.
[00:06:17]  You come up with a broader conspiracy.
[00:06:19]  This was the fault of the right.
[00:06:20]  And this is exactly what Hannah the Plumber said during a debate with Matt Goodwin the other day on television, where Matt Goodwin was like, Well, why did the Manchester Arena bombing happen?
[00:06:28]  And she said, Well, because people like you caused division.
[00:06:30]  It's like, right, Matt Goodwin is responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing that killed 22 people now.
[00:06:37]  Like, you are mad.
[00:06:38]  And this is exactly as you say, these domestic leftists unable to accept that there is a reality outside of the well.
[00:06:46]  They parentify.
[00:06:48]  Is that the word I want?
[00:06:49]  No, that's not the word I want.
[00:06:49]  No, no, they render children this out-group of infantilize this out-group.
[00:07:00]  They don't have free will.
[00:07:02]  They are children that respond to stimuli.
[00:07:04]  The far right is the stimuli.
[00:07:05]  They react to it.
[00:07:07]  So that's what he would, of course, think.
[00:07:08]  I also like the sort of perfect timing where he's talking about everyone being welcome in the city as someone throws a bomb over his shoulder, using him as like a springboard.
[00:07:18]  I mean, if I were to design a video to undermine left-wing ideals, this would be it.
[00:07:25]  I mean, it's genuinely hard to imagine something more.
[00:07:30]  I mean, look at it.
[00:07:32]  There he is.
[00:07:33]  Like, genuinely hard to imagine a more perfect image that encapsulates the complete failure of left-wing ideology.
[00:07:40]  No, the attitude of people like him, I imagine, is essentially European people, white people, have invaded our countries and humiliated us historically in various ways.
[00:07:51]  Therefore, what we are doing is righteous and understandable vengeance.
[00:07:54]  It's jihad.
[00:07:55]  It's jihad, and we're taking back what is ours.
[00:07:58]  And why are we able to come in and take back what is ours?
[00:08:01]  Because their men folk are so weak and pathetic.
[00:08:04]  And the left-wing men in particular, they probably disgust him.
[00:08:09]  They disgust him.
[00:08:09]  Oh, no doubt.
[00:08:10]  Weak, pathetic semi-men.
[00:08:12]  Well, there's a good example of this, actually, because when UKIP were going to do a demonstration in Whitechapel, and then eventually the Met police told them not to, there were left-wing counter-protests and a large Muslim contingent.
[00:08:26]  And the Muslims stayed away from the left-wingers.
[00:08:29]  And when the left-wingers, who were obviously white, said, Listen, mate, we're on the same side.
[00:08:34]  And then the Muslims said, no, we're not.
[00:08:36]  Instantly, no, we're not.
[00:08:38]  Yeah.
[00:08:38]  No, we're not, because there's a degree to which people kind of respect in a weird way an honest enemy.
[00:08:45]  Oh, absolutely.
[00:08:47]  And in our historical battles, you know, you'd arrange the battle.
[00:08:50]  And is everyone ready?
[00:08:51]  And then you'd start the battle.
[00:08:53]  And the left are not an honest enemy.
[00:08:56]  And they know that the left are just the weakest people and the most treacherous people that can be produced from us from among European people.
[00:09:05]  And what they do is repel them.
[00:09:09]  Yes.
[00:09:09]  Those that are conservative.
[00:09:11]  Nobody can respect a turncoat.
[00:09:13]  Exactly.
[00:09:14]  Yeah.
[00:09:14]  So anyway, moving on from this, there was also this, where he had a second nail bomb that he threw- Luckily, neither one went off.
[00:09:37]  He's not very good at making nail bombs, is he?
[00:09:39]  No, thank God.
[00:09:40]  But yeah, so this is the case.
[00:09:42]  So, anyway, the New York Times has some details that we'll just go through just to get some clarity on it.
[00:09:48]  So, the protest was done by Mr. Jacob Lang, a January the 6th protester who was jailed and pardoned by Trump and right-wing activist, patriot.
[00:09:57]  Interviewed him quite a few times.
[00:09:59]  Yeah, you know.
[00:10:01]  And he'd done a stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City demonstration near Zorhan Mamdani's mansion in New York.
[00:10:10]  He turned up with about 20 followers as they were on.
[00:10:13]  A crowd of counter-protesters grew to more than 100.
[00:10:16]  One of Mr. Lang's fellow protesters got into a few scuffles with counter-protesters, as if they are somehow not also culpable for the scuffles, but whatever.
[00:10:25]  And then that chap who threw the grenade and yelled at La Akbar was Amir Balat 18 of Langhorn PA.
[00:10:34]  Where's PA?
[00:10:35]  Pennsylvania.
[00:10:36]  Pennsylvania.
[00:10:36]  That's right.
[00:10:36]  Yeah, right.
[00:10:37]  Didn't strike me as a Pennsylvanian personally.
[00:10:39]  Well, he didn't strike me as a New Yorker, mate.
[00:10:40]  He looked like it was from out of town.
[00:10:41]  You know what I mean?
[00:10:42]  No, I'm joking, obviously.
[00:10:44]  And he was there with another chap called Ibrahim Nick, who's also a Pennsylvania, which is really interesting because remember, the New York guy was like, you can't just come in here and tell people they don't belong, but you can just come in here and throw nail bombs at people if you're sufficiently melanated.
[00:11:02]  Okay.
[00:11:04]  One of the two young men had told investigators that they sympathized with ISIS videos that they'd watched online.
[00:11:08]  He told investigators that the motive had to do with disrespect of that Jake Lang had shown towards Islam and Muslims.
[00:11:17]  So, I mean, it's a pretty open and shut case.
[00:11:20]  Not really much to actually investigate on this.
[00:11:24]  Two Muslims from out of town didn't like this guy because he spoke against Islam and Muslims.
[00:11:30]  And so to prove him wrong, they were trying to nail bomb him to death.
[00:11:34]  And who was standing in front of him to defend him?
[00:11:37]  A white leftist.
[00:11:39]  Yeah.
[00:11:40]  It's just everything is there.
[00:11:42]  The jihadis, like you said, were from Pennsylvania.
[00:11:45]  Nothing particularly new on that, but they just come in as also a sort of bitter irony here where you criticize Islam for being inherently violent and you respond with nail bombs.
[00:11:57]  Thank goodness they're not very good at making bombs because there'd be far more fatalities in the West were the Islamic world better at it.
[00:12:04]  Yeah.
[00:12:04]  But that's his strategy, this guy, this white guy.
[00:12:06]  That's the crucial thing.
[00:12:07]  It gets him status among other whites.
[00:12:10]  That's important.
[00:12:11]  It doesn't matter if the Muslims despise him and look down on him and think he's a semi-man or whatever.
[00:12:17]  The point is that other whites think in some weird way, I don't understand, that he's a good man.
[00:12:23]  He's one of us is on our side.
[00:12:25]  That's the crucial thing.
[00:12:26]  Well, let's carry on.
[00:12:27]  So apparently the two men were arrested and a third explosive device, quote unquote, had been found.
[00:12:34]  And so there we go.
[00:12:36]  Whether that was going to go off or not is anyone's guess.
[00:12:39]  But then you've got Jake Lang.
[00:12:40]  He posted this.
[00:12:41]  I just survived an assassination attempt by these two Muslim men.
[00:12:44]  Home made a bomb.
[00:12:45]  They threw, landed three freak in front of me.
[00:12:47]  The detonator failed to ignite.
[00:12:48]  Blah, blah, blah.
[00:12:49]  That's true.
[00:12:50]  That's all correct.
[00:12:51]  He did just survive an assassination attempt by two Muslim men.
[00:12:56]  The lefty here.
[00:12:57]  Sorry, there we go.
[00:12:58]  Fucking get there.
[00:12:59]  There we go.
[00:13:00]  Here is his story.
[00:13:01]  He's a quote unquote comedian.
[00:13:05]  That's not me, quote-unquoting it.
[00:13:07]  That's him, quote unquoting it.
[00:13:09]  But just some libtard activist.
[00:13:12]  I was in the middle of saying, as a born and raised New Yorker, we welcome everyone to this city when he threw that over my head.
[00:13:17]  I still stand by it.
[00:13:20]  As a born and raised New Yorker, everyone is welcome except Jake Lang.
[00:13:25]  So because Jake Lang is right-wing, he's not allowed.
[00:13:28]  But even after the terror attack, he's like, no, I still welcome the Muslim from out of town into my town.
[00:13:35]  Because as you see, for those familiar with Jake, he's an evil right-winger.
[00:13:39]  And I cannot stress enough, it was right near our feet and it did not look real.
[00:13:42]  We just stood there laughing.
[00:13:44]  Meanwhile, the incel femoids ran away having been totally gestimogged.
[00:13:49]  I expect that.
[00:13:50]  No.
[00:13:51]  What does that mean?
[00:13:52]  It means that they were wusses because this guy threw an explosive.
[00:13:55]  But the bomb squad were like, yeah, no, it was an improvised.
[00:13:58]  Yeah, so the incel femoids, by which he means people that don't agree with his opinions, did the sensible, adaptive, and reasonable thing, which is to get away from what could have been a bomb, but could seriously injure, if not kill them.
[00:14:10]  Yes.
[00:14:10]  Because their cortisol levels are interfered with or whatever, apparently.
[00:14:14]  Whereas he's prepared to stand there and take on the bomb and potentially signal how tough he is by not running for his life.
[00:14:22]  No, no, no, not tough.
[00:14:24]  It would be martyrdom.
[00:14:25]  A martyr course, yes, yes.
[00:14:27]  This is what he's getting at.
[00:14:28]  Not only am I okay with the Muslim terrorists being here, New York is for Muslim terrorists, but I'm going to willingly martyr myself if they throw a bomb.
[00:14:38]  Like, these people are mental, but again, you just couldn't get a more perfect story wherever you are.
[00:14:43]  I suppose he's trying to say, bring it on.
[00:14:45]  I'm so confident that everything in my life will be okay in the end.
[00:14:49]  can stand next to a bomb that might explode it's signaling his it's almost like a messiah complex Yeah, and I think your point about them just never having lived near the rough edge of existence is really important here.
[00:15:05]  I cannot stress this enough.
[00:15:06]  It was right near our face.

=== The Laughter of the Damned (09:20) ===

[00:15:07]  It did not look real.
[00:15:08]  We just stood there laughing.
[00:15:10]  Like, that is the laughter of the damned.
[00:15:11]  That is the laughter of people who just do not understand.
[00:15:14]  But nothing is real.
[00:15:15]  That's the thing.
[00:15:15]  Nothing is real.
[00:15:17]  Unless you experience serious psychological and physical stresses in your life, there's a degree to which you can just kind of meander through life and nothing's really real.
[00:15:26]  They talked about this in Ernst Junger, was that his name?
[00:15:30]  This German philosopher.
[00:15:31]  And he argued that in the, I've never been in a war, neither are you, I'm sure, neither of most of us.
[00:15:36]  But he argued in the moment of being in battle, that's the essence of being a human.
[00:15:42]  Life is no more real and it seems eternal and it seems amazing and you're there and you're striving and there's nothing more, there's no more heightened experience than that.
[00:15:53]  And we don't have anything even remotely similar to that.
[00:15:56]  Not even these days, not being invited to a birthday party at school.
[00:16:01]  Even that's regulated these days.
[00:16:02]  Yeah.
[00:16:03]  Well, just the point.
[00:16:05]  You're completely right.
[00:16:05]  Like, look at the hyper-reality of the internet that then inserts itself in the second line.
[00:16:11]  Meanwhile, incel femoids have been totally gestimulated.
[00:16:14]  Sorry, that's a very online statement, right?
[00:16:17]  That's someone who spent far too long on online circles, having these pathetic online debates and engaging in these online trends.
[00:16:25]  While literally, he nearly got blown up by a terrorist.
[00:16:28]  Yeah, I feel like that's an opportunity where you've actually got to be serious.
[00:16:32]  If you're making light of nearly being blown up, it just means that you're not a serious person.
[00:16:37]  You're not capable of being serious.
[00:16:39]  You're not capable of having serious thoughts.
[00:16:41]  It's one reaction, though, isn't it?
[00:16:42]  Laughing.
[00:16:43]  It's a strange psychological reaction.
[00:16:44]  I've never understood.
[00:16:45]  He was laughing, and I don't know if he was, if he's just saying.
[00:16:49]  Laughing in the face of something terrible.
[00:16:51]  It seems to me to be quite maladaptive.
[00:16:53]  But you get some people that do that.
[00:16:55]  If someone's furious with them and they think they're going to get beaten up, they will start laughing.
[00:16:59]  Yes.
[00:16:59]  That's like an anxiety.
[00:17:01]  An anxiety response.
[00:17:02]  Yeah.
[00:17:02]  I can't see it's adaptive because I would have thought it would make the person angrier and angrier and angrier.
[00:17:06]  But that's what some people do.
[00:17:08]  And laughing in the face of just death and of just something I can't control.
[00:17:15]  But to them, it did not look real.
[00:17:17]  I believe that he thinks this wasn't real.
[00:17:19]  I believe that he thinks this was all just a big fake or a setup or something like that.
[00:17:24]  Because exactly as you said, Ed, you know, nothing's ever happened to him in his life.
[00:17:28]  Like, he's been completely safe, ensconced in a series of rules and in a material base that has provided him with everything.
[00:17:34]  So all he has to do is follow the rules.
[00:17:36]  And he was.
[00:17:37]  He was standing there going, refugees, welcome through a microphone.
[00:17:40]  That's completely within the rules.
[00:17:42]  And yet, as soon as someone goes outside of the rules, he doesn't know what to do and he just stands there.
[00:17:46]  And lucky for him, he walks away entirely because he's never had to think for himself.
[00:17:50]  He's never had to do anything for himself.
[00:17:52]  He's understood that you get somewhere in life by signaling status.
[00:17:56]  You adopt high status beliefs.
[00:17:59]  You seem kind, and then everything is done for you.
[00:18:02]  And this has people have been raised by this way, and therefore nothing bad has ever happened.
[00:18:07]  I was fascinated in just earlier when we were out there, and you had this biography of Diane Abbott, which we did.
[00:18:14]  And she goes through.
[00:18:15]  I'm only on sort of page five.
[00:18:16]  She's already talking about being beaten as a child.
[00:18:19]  She's already talking about something visceral and horrible and deeply unpleasant.
[00:18:22]  She's had to learn coping mechanisms to deal with by getting into a relationship with Jerry Corbyn or whatever it is.
[00:18:29]  But she found her new daddy.
[00:18:32]  But even this striking, traumatic thing that she felt the need to mention.
[00:18:38]  I don't think in order to kind of get sympathy.
[00:18:40]  I think because it was just a child.
[00:18:41]  Well, I genuinely believe that it was.
[00:18:42]  Yeah, but this guy clearly hasn't gone through any of that.
[00:18:45]  Anyway, so what do you think the Muslim mayor had to say about the terrorist attack in his city?
[00:18:52]  Well, let's find out, shall we?
[00:19:00]  Good morning.
[00:19:03]  On Saturday, a protest was held outside Gracie Mansion, where I live with my wife, Rama.
[00:19:09]  Neither of us were home at the time.
[00:19:12]  This was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy entitled Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City.
[00:19:19]  I'm the first Muslim mayor of our city.
[00:19:22]  Anti-Muslim bigotry is nothing new to me, nor is it anything new for the one million or so Muslim New Yorkers who know this city as our home.
[00:19:32]  It was literally just a terror attack by a Muslim because he likes ISIS and he doesn't like people talking against Muslims.
[00:19:40]  And he tried to murder as many people as he could.
[00:19:42]  And that's how he opens it.
[00:19:44]  That's about as naked a sort of in-group self-interest statement you could possibly make, right?
[00:19:50]  I just don't know how you would make it even more so if you wanted to be like, no, Muslims are my guys and I'm not going to denounce them.
[00:19:59]  I'm going to denounce you.
[00:20:00]  The only way it could be worse, really, is if he praised the person who threw the bomb.
[00:20:05]  Yeah, the person who threw the bomb was a social justice activist.
[00:20:08]  In his defense, he doesn't praise the person.
[00:20:11]  But you'll notice this is a statement he put out on this.
[00:20:14]  As you can see here, he says, well, you know, white supremacist Jake Lang organized a protest, blah, blah, blah.
[00:20:19]  What followed was even more disturbing.
[00:20:21]  Violence at a protest is never accepted.
[00:20:23]  Well, what happened?
[00:20:25]  Right?
[00:20:25]  Notice how detached from an individual this is.
[00:20:28]  They always use neutral language when talking about violence when they've done something wrong.
[00:20:32]  Non-specific, non-personal language.
[00:20:35]  The attempt to use an explosive device to hurt others is not only criminal, it is reprehensible and the antithesis of who we are.
[00:20:40]  Look at the way that's framed.
[00:20:41]  You wouldn't know that he's not talking about Jake Lang there.
[00:20:45]  You wouldn't know that a Muslim had run up and chucked a bomb at people.
[00:20:50]  From the way it's written, Jake Lang is the only named person.
[00:20:53]  He's been condemned as a white supremacist.
[00:20:55]  He's an affront to the city's values.
[00:20:57]  And then something happened afterwards, and there was violence and an attempt to use an explosive device.
[00:21:02]  Why would I not think he means Jake Lang from this description?
[00:21:06]  Like this, I can only assume is a deliberate attempt to defend the terrorist because the terrorist is a Muslim.
[00:21:12]  This is pretty much all of politics, though, isn't it?
[00:21:15]  Everything's framed in this sort of way whereby the maximum political capital for you is always sought rather than what is fair or what is true.
[00:21:24]  Yeah, the Muslim inherently can't do anything wrong.
[00:21:29]  Yes.
[00:21:29]  So therefore, that creates this conflict in his mind.
[00:21:32]  The only way you can deal with it is by presenting the truth in a way that doesn't remind you of what actually is the truth.
[00:21:38]  And then it feels a lot better.
[00:21:40]  I mean, genuinely, if you just keep reading this, it's like, well, so did Jake Lang throw a bomb?
[00:21:45]  And then the officers ran towards danger?
[00:21:48]  Again, did he throw a bomb at the officers?
[00:21:50]  No, it was a terrorist who threw the bomb at the officers and at Jake Lang.
[00:21:54]  But you wouldn't know that from this description.
[00:21:57]  There's no mention of a terrorist.
[00:21:58]  Well, it's the, what's the word?
[00:22:00]  It's the, oh, God, what's it called?
[00:22:03]  Reifying?
[00:22:04]  Yes, that's it.
[00:22:05]  It's the reifying of violence.
[00:22:07]  What happened was there was this racism and bigotry, and that's terrible.
[00:22:09]  That's related to Jake Lang.
[00:22:11]  And then violence was sent down like a thunderbolt somehow.
[00:22:15]  The world decided that there should be some violence and happened, coincidentally, to use a Muslim as a conduit.
[00:22:22]  But that's incidental.
[00:22:25]  So it's almost kind of implicitly religious.
[00:22:29]  After that, reprehensibly, the bad God that exists somewhere, bad God, bad God decided some violence would manifest.
[00:22:37]  By coincidence.
[00:22:37]  But the state was there to take care of it.
[00:22:40]  Fortunately, officers ran towards the state was there.
[00:22:43]  You didn't need to do anything.
[00:22:44]  And lucky for you, it didn't blow up.
[00:22:45]  So, you know, keep laughing.
[00:22:47]  But anyway, like I said, this is a particularly pernicious statement because it just kind of implies that Jake Lang is the guy who threw the bomb responsible for the violence, as you said.
[00:22:56]  And so, I mean, going to the man who was arrested doesn't exactly look like he's ashamed of his actions, does it?
[00:23:05]  Well, he's going to be rewarded from his in-group, isn't he, for his actions.
[00:23:09]  He's going to be seen as a hero in Islamic communities.
[00:23:13]  And then ultimately, he'll be rewarded in paradise.
[00:23:15]  Yeah.
[00:23:15]  And because he didn't actually kill anyone, he's probably not going to get that long in jail because he's 19, probably his first offense.
[00:23:24]  And no one actually died, even though he tried to murder a bunch of people.
[00:23:28]  So he's probably going to be back on the streets within a few years.
[00:23:31]  If even that, to be honest, given New York's judges.
[00:23:35]  So great.
[00:23:36]  We've learned a lot here, haven't we?
[00:23:38]  We've learned that the left will literally embrace terrorism, and we have learned that the Muslim man in charge will literally imply that it's you that's causing the terrorism, and there will be no...
[00:23:49]  There's something quite reassuring, though, in a way, because it implies that when things really do break down, which they inevitably will, then a lot of the left will just freeze.
[00:24:00]  Well, yeah, but we knew that.
[00:24:01]  We knew that, but it makes it very, very clear that they will just freeze, which creates a vacuum in which proper, sensible people can actually take charge and do things.
[00:24:11]  So I know they freeze in the face of all kinds, but this is in the face of actual immediate death and they still freeze.
[00:24:19]  I didn't quite realize they could do that.
[00:24:22]  To be honest, this is exactly what I expected, frankly.
[00:24:24]  Anyway, the internet's already making animes about this.

=== Mouse Brain Predicts Doom (15:03) ===

[00:24:28]  For the sake of time, I won't play it, but it's a surprisingly accurate and good use of AI, actually.
[00:24:34]  This is one of the few things AI is actually good for, which is creating political parody.
[00:24:38]  Anyway, we'll leave that there.
[00:24:40]  Just, you know, make sure you've learned a lesson from this.
[00:24:43]  OPHUK says, let's just prove libtars have zero self-preservation instincts, which is why they vote for importing more Islam and calling them NPCs has never been more accurate.
[00:24:53]  Yeah, I mean, literally people who are programmed by the status signals of society and can only respond in these ways.
[00:25:01]  They're actual NPCs.
[00:25:03]  Let's move on.
[00:25:04]  So I never thought I would present this segment.
[00:25:07]  I'm going to be talking about virtual brains, creations of brains using supercomputers, as well as some other things as well.
[00:25:16]  There's an example of human brain cells in a Petri dish able to play Doom, which we'll get onto.
[00:25:23]  There's basically a complete model of part of a mouse brain, a complete model of the entirety of a fly's brain.
[00:25:32]  And it's looking likely that eventually when the technology allows us, there'll be complete models of human brains.
[00:25:41]  And human brains will be able to exist in the digital sphere exactly the same as they do in your head, at least from, you know, a neuronal level.
[00:25:53]  So I'm going to talk about the mouse one first because I'm going to go through it in chronological order of how these technologies have emerged.
[00:26:01]  And using the Japanese, I need to be careful how I say this, Fagaku supercomputer, researchers have modeled the entirety of a mouse cortex.
[00:26:12]  And a cortex is just the outside of your brain.
[00:26:15]  It's like the part closest to the surface.
[00:26:18]  And it simulates almost 10 million neurons or 26 billion synapses.
[00:26:23]  Obviously, neurons are the sort of currency of the brain, so to speak, although I could put that probably a bit better.
[00:26:30]  And synapses are how these communicate with one another in a network.
[00:26:34]  And this includes 86 interconnected brain regions.
[00:26:37]  So all of this has been modeled using real mouse brains and it's been recreated in a computer.
[00:26:44]  And also this virtual mouse brain has a virtual mouse body because they found that if you just have the brain in isolation, it doesn't really react in the same way.
[00:26:55]  So you have to create a virtual body as well, which is interesting for it to behave in predictable ways similar to the real deal.
[00:27:04]  And it actually captures the structure and behavior of the brain cells down to the branches coming from the neurons themselves.
[00:27:11]  And so there's a profound amount of detail here.
[00:27:14]  And it manages to record things like activations of synapses.
[00:27:18]  And it's to the point now, in terms of accuracy, that if you touch the mouse's whiskers, the part of the brain is activated in the model in the same part that a real mouse would have activation.
[00:27:31]  And they can compare the two, and they're incredibly accurate, which is surprising.
[00:27:37]  I mean, first of all, what do you both think of this so far?
[00:27:41]  It's very frightening.
[00:27:42]  It is a little bit scary, isn't it?
[00:27:44]  It seems very science fiction.
[00:27:46]  Yeah, it's dystopian science fiction coming through.
[00:27:50]  So what are we eventually going to have?
[00:27:52]  It will be like a science fiction film.
[00:27:54]  Humans that are robots that are indistinguishable, completely indistinguishable, from humans that have actual brains.
[00:28:00]  Not the kind of brains that would fail the Turing test either.
[00:28:04]  Just brains that are created by humans.
[00:28:06]  And so it's biblical.
[00:28:08]  I mean, it's suddenly we are God creating people.
[00:28:13]  It's like that film.
[00:28:14]  What was it called?
[00:28:16]  Oh, God, that film where that Swedish actress and she plays a robot.
[00:28:22]  It's a very, very realistic.
[00:28:23]  Can't recall.
[00:28:24]  Ex-Machina.
[00:28:25]  Oh, yeah.
[00:28:26]  Good film, actually.
[00:28:27]  It's like that.
[00:28:29]  She's indistinguishable, except that she needs to kind of charge up occasionally.
[00:28:34]  So, yeah, this is what you were saying earlier.
[00:28:37]  Maybe science has just gone too far.
[00:28:39]  Just stop.
[00:28:39]  For God's sake, stop.
[00:28:41]  Larry and Jihad now.
[00:28:42]  Just activism.
[00:28:44]  Civilization generally collapses at some stage, and we can't.
[00:28:48]  We can't.
[00:28:48]  This is absurd.
[00:28:50]  It's too much.
[00:28:50]  It's gone too far.
[00:28:51]  Stop.
[00:28:52]  Yeah, I just hate it.
[00:28:54]  I just hate everything.
[00:28:55]  I'll leave my verdict for a bit later there, guys.
[00:28:57]  That's okay.
[00:28:58]  So this allows researchers to test hypotheses virtually, though.
[00:29:02]  So you can model how Alzheimer's or epilepsy can spread to better understand them and create a cure because it's easier to observe how it affects the brain in the model rather than in real life.
[00:29:14]  And of course, they will be comparing it to real life, but it means that they have greater resources available.
[00:29:19]  So there is potentially some good that can come of it if it's restricted to that domain at least.
[00:29:25]  But as with most things, there are no restrictions on them.
[00:29:29]  There are no reductions in scope creep.
[00:29:33]  It will inevitably expand.
[00:29:34]  If it's a model of the brain, does it have the effects of the brain, like the things that brains do?
[00:29:41]  Yeah, of course.
[00:29:42]  That's what I was talking about with the whiskers.
[00:29:44]  There is a little virtual mouse consciousness that is struggling to understand why it can't get the cheese.
[00:29:51]  Maybe not quite like that, but you're on the right sort of lines, that it is a creation of part of a mouse brain.
[00:29:58]  It's not the full one.
[00:29:59]  Presumably doesn't involve things like hormones.
[00:30:02]  No, because, of course, the main difference, and I'll get onto this a bit later, between a physical brain and a computational one is that their signaling is going to be very different, isn't it?
[00:30:14]  And so the neurochemical nature of a biological brain might always be different to that of a virtual one, unless we get biological computers that can perfectly simulate a biological brain, but we're very far away from that yet, at least to my understanding.
[00:30:33]  And so there may well be an ever-present difference between the two, which might be a sort of bottleneck for this technology.
[00:30:42]  But the aim of these researchers, as explicitly stated, is to model a whole mouse brain and then eventually work their way up so they can model the human brain.
[00:30:52]  But it's worth mentioning that a mouse brain has 75 million neurons and a human brain has 1,000 times that and they've not even modeled the whole mouse brain yet.
[00:31:02]  So it's a technological trajectory, but it's got a long way to go yet because the bottleneck for this, more than anything, is just computational power.
[00:31:12]  So if there's some sort of breakthrough in computation, there's no reason why.
[00:31:15]  So the price of RAM is going to continue to go up, is what you're saying.
[00:31:18]  Yes.
[00:31:20]  I know, it's unfortunate, isn't it?
[00:31:23]  But it's even to the point whereby they showed films to mice.
[00:31:32]  They were showing Mad Max to mice, which you've got to wonder.
[00:31:39]  What?
[00:31:40]  I know.
[00:31:41]  I don't see how my impression of mice, well, at least of cats, is that they're not very interested in watching films.
[00:31:46]  Yeah.
[00:31:46]  At least not Mad Max.
[00:31:47]  They occasionally get excited by wildlife documentaries.
[00:31:50]  If you're a mouse, you don't want to watch Mad Max.
[00:31:51]  scary you want to watch well the justification is that they have low resolution vision um similar to our peripheral vision which mean it works mainly on on on movement rather than say details and color What kind of films do flies like?
[00:32:07]  I don't know.
[00:32:07]  I've never asked one.
[00:32:10]  I like Mad Max too Mice apparently like action films They're the ones that captivate their attention the most.
[00:32:19]  But that would work.
[00:32:20]  But the idea is it captivates their attention at least somewhat, which is measurable.
[00:32:25]  So then they have something to measure the real mice against the fake mice, I suppose.
[00:32:32]  So they recorded more than 900 minutes of brain activity from eight different mice watching films, including Mad Max, and then used cameras to monitor their eye movements and behavior.
[00:32:44]  And, you know, there's been lots of study in mice.
[00:32:48]  At some point, there's got to be some sort of review.
[00:32:50]  It's like, right, Jenkins, what have you been doing this week?
[00:32:54]  I've been making mice watch Mad Max, sir, over and over 900 hours.
[00:33:00]  Is that good use of your time?
[00:33:02]  This is why I trained to be a scientist.
[00:33:03]  Is that good use of money?
[00:33:06]  Need a mouse IMDB next.
[00:33:09]  But yes, researchers aggregated the data to train a core model, which could then be customized into a digital twin of any individual mouse with an additional bit of training.
[00:33:19]  And then one of the researchers working on the project described the models as impressively accurate.
[00:33:25]  So they could model.
[00:33:26]  We can model mice watching Mad Max, sir.
[00:33:29]  But you never thought you'd hear that today.
[00:33:31]  There's no reason why they chose Mad Max specifically over any other kind of film.
[00:33:34]  I presume it was just an action film that was out at the time they were doing the research.
[00:33:38]  So it was one of the more contemporary what real-world applications does this have, Jenkins?
[00:33:42]  Well, not many, sir.
[00:33:44]  Very few mice actually watch Mad Max on their own.
[00:33:47]  It's just a source of stimuli, really.
[00:33:49]  But the thing they'd have them running through a maze getting cheese or something, right?
[00:33:54]  And check the stimuli from that.
[00:33:55]  No, we're going to make them like eyes open, watch Mad Max.
[00:33:58]  Play a game of mousetrap.
[00:34:00]  Yeah, sorry.
[00:34:01]  So the model can at least exist longer than any lifespan of an individual mouse.
[00:34:06]  And so in theory, researchers, once they've created this model, can conduct experiments that would have taken years in mere hours.
[00:34:15]  It's going to create really, really realistic Tamagotchis.
[00:34:18]  Yes.
[00:34:19]  Did you have a Tamagotchi?
[00:34:20]  I didn't have one.
[00:34:21]  I hated the idea, actually.
[00:34:22]  I remember watching The Madness of King George in the cinema in Chelsea, and someone's Tamagotchi went off.
[00:34:29]  And of course, if you don't feel it, it dies.
[00:34:32]  Can't turn them off.
[00:34:33]  So she had to get it out and leave the cinema and pay attention and whatever.
[00:34:37]  I just, so every day I have an update on the I hope this is the one thing future archaeologists dig up from our civilization.
[00:34:46]  And now I hope it's the hard drive that contains the simulated mouse brain watching Mad Max.
[00:34:50]  And so future archaeologists are piecing this together.
[00:34:52]  It's like, yeah, I think, oh, my, oh my God, it seems to be a mouse that has been trained to watch Mad Max over and over and over.
[00:34:59]  Why did they do this?
[00:35:03]  All of a sudden, they started being really concerned about gathering resources like oil and water.
[00:35:08]  We couldn't put our finger on it.
[00:35:11]  Sorry, Gone.
[00:35:12]  In theory, this could speed up research on rodents because, of course, it being in a computer, not using real mice, you don't have the same lifespan, and you've got the power of a computer, so you can accelerate the development of science rather rapidly.
[00:35:30]  So there are already some new insights.
[00:35:32]  We were unsure why neurons select specific neurons to connect to in our brains.
[00:35:38]  And we found that neurons prefer to connect with neurons that respond to the same stimulus.
[00:35:42]  The colour blue is the example given by the researchers.
[00:35:46]  And so they pair to things that have similarities to them.
[00:35:49]  Like people, really.
[00:35:50]  Worked out why mice only give it a six out of ten on Rockatos.
[00:35:55]  Not quite that good yet.
[00:35:56]  We'll get there.
[00:35:58]  So how is this even possible in the first place?
[00:36:01]  think that's a reasonable question to ask and that's because packed with the devil um I can't answer that one.
[00:36:08]  But what I can answer is the psychological aspects.
[00:36:10]  So individual neurons perform simple electrochemical operations, but when billions of them interact, complex cognitive processes emerge, such as things like perception, memory, and language.
[00:36:22]  And it's these neural networks that are formed together that create the phenomena that we associate with our own mind and, of course, the minds of animals as well.
[00:36:33]  So basically, complexity emerges from the structure of the network.
[00:36:36]  And that seems to be vindicated here because they can predictably predict, I suppose, that a mice, a mouse even, will behave in the same way as its model and vice versa.
[00:36:51]  And so it seems to suggest that actually the important thing is the structure of the mind and not necessarily whether it's biological or virtual.
[00:36:58]  But my sort of hesitation with this is that a biological brain is always going to be different than a computer because it is biological in nature.
[00:37:08]  And so it's going to behave differently because at the atomic level, it's going to be different, even if the structures look superficially similar.
[00:37:16]  So it's also going to change in time.
[00:37:18]  It's not a single static thing.
[00:37:20]  Yeah.
[00:37:20]  And I think that it's one thing to model the neurons, but then adding the neurochemical elements and all the complex interactions.
[00:37:28]  It might be, say, 95% accurate at the minute, but it changes over time, though, like a car.
[00:37:34]  Things will wear out over time if it's used more and more and more and more.
[00:37:40]  So it's been parallels even in that way.
[00:37:42]  And it's going to degenerate over time.
[00:37:43]  Bits of it are going to have to be replaced.
[00:37:45]  There's going to be, I mean, let's assume you did like a perfect map of this mouse brain in one period of time.
[00:37:50]  As that changes and the mouse brain changes, they're going to diverge apart anyway.
[00:37:53]  It will diverge apart.
[00:37:54]  Well, that's the same as if you create a clone of yourself, your experiences diverge.
[00:37:58]  It's the same, really.
[00:38:00]  This is why all the transhumanism stuff is nonsense.
[00:38:02]  I'm going to upload my consciousness to the cloud and say, okay, but that's not you.
[00:38:07]  And it changes like the second that happens, you and it have different experiences and you're not the same thing anyway.
[00:38:12]  I agree.
[00:38:12]  So this is all nonsense.
[00:38:14]  But this technology, and they're explicitly talking about this, is the foundation to being able to do that.
[00:38:20]  And the researchers are explicitly saying that it is going to be possible eventually to transfer your consciousness from your own real brain to a virtual one if this carries on, which, to my mind, is a little bit scary because I think it will change you.
[00:38:37]  You will be different by merit of being in a computer rather than your body.
[00:38:42]  But also, most people don't even deserve one consciousness.
[00:38:45]  They barely use it.
[00:38:46]  I have my doubts about how conscious some people are.
[00:38:48]  Exactly.
[00:38:49]  Can you imagine just millions of people just replicating their own consciousnesses out of vanity?
[00:38:54]  Awful.
[00:38:55]  How conscious are you if you hear things like see it, say it sorted and think that's a brilliant witty thing to do, and I will definitely say it and it will be sorted.
[00:39:04]  No, you're not conscious.
[00:39:05]  You're just a mouther of the party slogans.
[00:39:07]  You don't think.
[00:39:08]  So the idea that such a semi-conscious person should upload their semi-consciousness to some cloud so that there's their semi-consciousness where they say things like multiculturalism built Britain or whatever, immigration built Britain.
[00:39:21]  And then they have a computer that's saying the same thing.
[00:39:24]  It's just hideous.
[00:39:25]  The scariest thing is they'll probably have an even greater capacity to do harm because they'll have all the computing power available to them.

=== Human Brains Playing Doom (10:34) ===

[00:39:31]  There's no limit or bottleneck.
[00:39:33]  If you can connect to multiple computers or you're in a supercomputer, presumably you're going to be better at certain things than your actual biological brain.
[00:39:40]  And their morality has been drawn exclusively from dystopian post-apocalyptic films.
[00:39:45]  Apparently so, yeah.
[00:39:47]  We're going to have some very sinister mice on our hands virtually.
[00:39:51]  But the parallels are enough that it could create convincing results.
[00:39:57]  And I just wanted to break down how the brain and computers work and how they're sort of similar.
[00:40:02]  Although my expertise is in the brain and not in computers.
[00:40:05]  And so if I get the computational aspect slightly wrong, I'm sorry.
[00:40:09]  But basically, the nodes in the brain and the computer, in the brain, it's neurons.
[00:40:15]  In a computer, it's transistors and logic gates.
[00:40:18]  The connections are synapses in the brain.
[00:40:20]  In a computer, it's circuits and signals.
[00:40:23]  In the brain, are electrochemical spikes or neurochemicals.
[00:40:27]  Whereas in a computer, it's electrical voltage states.
[00:40:31]  And then the computation in the brain are patterns of activation across neural networks, whereas in a computer, it's logical operations and state transitions.
[00:40:39]  And so there are parallels here, but these are not quite the same things.
[00:40:44]  But it does mean that there's enough overlap that I see things like this working, I think.
[00:40:51]  But let's go on to the fly, shall we?
[00:40:53]  Not the film with Jeff Goldblum.
[00:40:56]  But this one.
[00:40:57]  And let me just show you a video which is a simulation of a fly's behavior.
[00:41:02]  It's not an animation.
[00:41:03]  It's not something that someone has created.
[00:41:06]  This is the model of the fly's brain at work.
[00:41:09]  I'm going to mute it just in case music is copyrighted.
[00:41:12]  So just a quick thing on this.
[00:41:14]  You can make it full screen.
[00:41:17]  Why do we need to model a fly's brain?
[00:41:20]  It's a stepping stone to model more com complex things, and a fly's brain is quite simple.
[00:41:26]  This is a lot.
[00:41:27]  You can model a whole fly's brain, and it's actually simpler than a mouse brain.
[00:41:33]  That thing.
[00:41:33]  Cleaning.
[00:41:34]  Yeah, it's like cleaning the hands.
[00:41:36]  They're scheming, aren't they?
[00:41:37]  They're rubbing their hands together.
[00:41:38]  Yeah, that's what I'd assume.
[00:41:39]  They eat shit all day.
[00:41:40]  They've got to keep clean.
[00:41:42]  But again.
[00:41:45]  But it looked pretty convincing.
[00:41:47]  It behaved like flies I've seen.
[00:41:49]  I bet, yeah.
[00:41:50]  It looked pretty real.
[00:41:53]  But this is the first embodiment of a whole brain.
[00:41:57]  And it produces multiple behaviors as well, not just one, as we were able to observe.
[00:42:02]  And this is a adrosophila melanogaster brain.
[00:42:07]  That's the name of the fly.
[00:42:08]  And it has 125,000 neurons and 50 million synaptic connections.
[00:42:12]  So it's still simpler than the mice cortex.
[00:42:16]  Apparently so, yeah.
[00:42:17]  That's what they told me.
[00:42:19]  But the model predicts the fly's behavior to a level of 95% accuracy.
[00:42:23]  But as I was saying earlier, that remaining 5% is going to be increasingly difficult to model.
[00:42:29]  So a fly would notice and think, hang on, that's a bit weird.
[00:42:32]  Yeah.
[00:42:33]  Living a fly uncannily valley.
[00:42:35]  It's like a schizophrenic fly.
[00:42:37]  What's going on here?
[00:42:39]  I'm quite white.
[00:42:40]  I'm going to clean myself.
[00:42:42]  The fly is just like, no, I see you.
[00:42:44]  This is something strategically going on.
[00:42:48]  But the way it works is sensory input flows in, neural activity propagates through the complete connectome.
[00:42:57]  Motor commands flow out and a physical simulated body executes the output.
[00:43:03]  And then closing the loop from perception to action for the first time in a whole brain emulation.
[00:43:08]  Those are the direct words of the scientists that worked on it.
[00:43:11]  But this technology does pave the way to things also that we haven't mentioned, things like the matrix.
[00:43:17]  If you can simulate the entirety of a fly, then you can simulate it in virtual reality, which means if you can simulate that sort of thing, then you can simulate other biological things.
[00:43:27]  And eventually you could create a completely synthetic world in which your synthetic brain can exist in, which is probably the end goal of all of this.
[00:43:39]  They could just sort of end state.
[00:43:40]  Essentially, you sort of randomly generate human brains existing in cyberspace to be under NPCs, but just hyper-realistic NPCs in Skyrim or something.
[00:43:51]  You're just making Grand Theft Auto V a reality.
[00:43:53]  Yeah.
[00:43:54]  I assume the people that are in Grand Theft Auto V that are the NPCs don't think of themselves as NPCs.
[00:44:00]  I presume they don't think at all, right?
[00:44:01]  Yeah, I don't know how complicated the brain modelling is.
[00:44:04]  Having played the game, it's pretty simple.
[00:44:06]  Most of the shout things.
[00:44:09]  So the final thing I wanted to look at was something slightly different than the previous ones we've talked about, and that is that Human brain cells have learnt how to play Doom at a better level than random.
[00:44:22]  Yeah, well, that's not very impressive.
[00:44:23]  My brain cells have learned how to play Doom.
[00:44:26]  Yes, but you've got a whole brain, and your brain is not in a jar somewhere.
[00:44:31]  I doubt I'm using my whole brain when I'm playing Doom.
[00:44:33]  I mean, come on.
[00:44:34]  I mean, it's a good game.
[00:44:35]  It's a great game, but like, you know.
[00:44:37]  Anyway.
[00:44:38]  So, in 2021, an Australian company called Cortical Labs used neuron-powered computer chips to play Pong.
[00:44:46]  So, this was the first time.
[00:44:49]  Which basically consisted of lumps of more than about 800,000 living brain cells.
[00:44:53]  From who?
[00:44:55]  I don't know where they got them from.
[00:44:57]  You just get brain cells.
[00:44:58]  Do you?
[00:44:59]  I don't know.
[00:44:59]  Chinese black market, perhaps.
[00:45:01]  Who knows?
[00:45:02]  I'm sure.
[00:45:02]  Grave robbers.
[00:45:03]  Yeah, probably someone donating them to science, I guess.
[00:45:06]  I don't know who's got them to spare, but dead people.
[00:45:09]  Oh, yeah, we just happen to have 800,000 human brain cells.
[00:45:13]  I'll do you, right?
[00:45:13]  What are you going to do with it?
[00:45:14]  We're going to make them think that they live in a world that's constantly beset by demons and that their entire existence is fighting off demons, actually.
[00:45:21]  I mean, if they use this to train AI and then the AI instructs us how to run the world, I would have more faith in it than our politicians currently.
[00:45:30]  Yeah, I mean, Doom is a serious situation, isn't it?
[00:45:33]  I mean, you can't just stand there and freeze in Doom like that.
[00:45:36]  Nailbomber left-wing.
[00:45:38]  You get shot.
[00:45:40]  That's very true.
[00:45:41]  But they put these living brain cells on top of microelectrode arrays that can both send and receive electrical signals.
[00:45:48]  And researchers had to carefully train the chip to control the paddles on either side of the screen for the Pong.
[00:45:54]  And they're able to get it to play, basically.
[00:45:56]  But it's no more than simple.
[00:45:59]  So I don't understand what did they get these brain cells to.
[00:46:02]  It seems to my mind to be just a case of conditioning, similar to training an animal, in that you get stimuli and a reward and stimuli and a punishment.
[00:46:11]  I don't know quite how they've done it.
[00:46:13]  I don't know whether they were like Hassan Pika's dog, where they're just shocking it.
[00:46:17]  Yeah, what level of consciousness do these brain cells have?
[00:46:20]  None.
[00:46:20]  It won't be conscious at 800,000 brain cells.
[00:46:24]  Why would they want to play Doom?
[00:46:27]  For the same reason the mice want to watch Mad Max, I guess.
[00:46:30]  If it Mad Max, I can see that they want to watch it.
[00:46:32]  It's lots of colours and stuff, but why would they...
[00:46:35]  Well, the brain cells don't have eyes, so it's not even going to be able to watch it.
[00:46:39]  So it's purely reacting based on sensory input from other ways.
[00:46:44]  And so one would presume...
[00:46:45]  Yeah, but that's all the brain is anyway.
[00:46:46]  It's electrical signals, right?
[00:46:48]  Well, that's all the brain is anyway, though.
[00:46:49]  It takes electrical signals from your senses, so you can just mimic those.
[00:46:52]  And so now this proto-brain, like it wasn't mimicking sights, so it was playing it differently than an actual person would.
[00:47:00]  But you're able now to manipulate these sorts of things using Pythons.
[00:47:05]  Pat says the brain cells are likely obtained from aborted fetuses.
[00:47:09]  That is also probably the case.
[00:47:11]  So we've got aborted fetuses playing Doom at a better level than random.
[00:47:16]  Mm-hmm.
[00:47:17]  And you can we live in a society where that's happened where that where we get aborted where we get aborted babies who have been sucked out of their mother's womb and crushed up and we take their brains and we get them to play Doom.
[00:47:29]  And also you can control it with an interface through Python, which of course, if you don't know, is a pretty common programming language.
[00:47:36]  And actually an independent developer called Sean Cole used Python to teach the chips to play Doom within a week.
[00:47:43]  So it just took him a week and then they could play Doom.
[00:47:47]  I don't know why you would choose to do that, but okay.
[00:47:52]  And also they only needed a quarter of the number of brain cells to play Doom that they needed for the Pong demonstration.
[00:47:58]  So they're getting better at it.
[00:48:00]  FYI, this is not an image of Doom either.
[00:48:02]  Yeah, this isn't like Doom.
[00:48:04]  No.
[00:48:04]  I don't know what mod or whatever they have there, but they aren't creatures from Doom.
[00:48:08]  That's not the same gun.
[00:48:09]  That's not the same face.
[00:48:11]  So who knows, maybe it's a special...
[00:48:14]  New scientists fact-checked that.
[00:48:15]  Maybe it's a special low IQ version for the Petri dish of brain cells.
[00:48:20]  Who knows?
[00:48:21]  But it still did better than machine learning software has been able to do.
[00:48:27]  So AI and the like still can't compete with brain cells on a computer chip.
[00:48:33]  Although there are lots of questions with this, like how do the neurons know what's expected of them or how can they see the screen with no eyes?
[00:48:40]  And so there are many questions here.
[00:48:42]  I have many questions.
[00:48:44]  Why are we doing this?
[00:48:47]  I mean, there are actually uses of this technology that are pro-social, modelling the brain to understand disease.
[00:48:53]  I'm not against that.
[00:48:54]  But then seeking to create virtual consciousnesses brings up not only moral questions and ethical questions, but also what happens to us biological people?
[00:49:06]  What if the virtual brains, being in a supercomputer, all of a sudden just have this inherent advantage against the biological brains and they choose to go against us?
[00:49:16]  Just potentially creating new adversaries in the same way that people talk about AI.
[00:49:21]  Maybe they're going to act in an unpredictable way.
[00:49:23]  Maybe they'll be spiteful.
[00:49:25]  They will.
[00:49:25]  And then you'll get biological people that will identify with the robot people in order to gain power over other biological people.
[00:49:35]  Almost so.
[00:49:36]  That definitely will happen.
[00:49:37]  so you'll basically have a like you know like general jumbo uh in the beano and he has his own you do It's been a long time since I've read it.
[00:49:45]  He has his own little army of people that he controls.
[00:49:50]  And it would be like that, except it would be some woke, ghastly person like Zach Polanski or whatever his name.
[00:49:55]  But yes, that is all.
[00:49:57]  I've just thought I would introduce you to man-made horrors.
[00:50:01]  Man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
[00:50:03]  You're welcome.
[00:50:04]  Thanks, Josh.

=== Cultural Differences and Segregation (09:59) ===

[00:50:05]  That's just awful.
[00:50:08]  Do RoboFlies dream of electric poop?
[00:50:10]  That's a great question.
[00:50:11]  I hope not.
[00:50:12]  Yeah.
[00:50:13]  Okay.
[00:50:15]  Ochidor says, this is going to become we could, but never asked if we should.
[00:50:20]  I mean, that is a phrase that needs to be epitomized in our time, isn't it?
[00:50:25]  Caleb Knight says, I point the good sirs to brain organoids for more man-made horrors.
[00:50:31]  These tiny lab-growing brains that already are being slapped into CPUs.
[00:50:35]  Yeah, that's weird.
[00:50:36]  Like, if you just have a human brain in your desktop computer, don't do that.
[00:50:42]  Own Apple Tea Party.
[00:50:44]  Do you want Skaven?
[00:50:45]  Because this is how you get Skaven.
[00:50:47]  That is very true.
[00:50:48]  I want Skaven, don't worry.
[00:50:50]  This Warhammer thing.
[00:50:52]  And another person talking about that, Boss Neeson.
[00:50:56]  So Japan is making a Skaven Lord Terminator hybrid.
[00:51:00]  Looks like after Venezuela around in Cuba, Japan is going to have to be added to the list.
[00:51:05]  I don't think the entirety of the Japanese people are willing.
[00:51:08]  Ryan points out these are basically like servitors.
[00:51:11]  Yeah, that's the best approximation, actually.
[00:51:14]  A kind of human cyborg slave.
[00:51:17]  Anyway, let's move on from that because that was just depressing.
[00:51:22]  But you know what's not depressing is how the British government has decided you're going to be socially cohesive with all of the foreigners that they've brought here, whether you like it or not.
[00:51:32]  They're going to do it by force.
[00:51:35]  And this is the government's cohesion strategy that they have recently published.
[00:51:41]  It was leaked and it seems to have been slightly edited in some way because the news headlines that went around from this were, oh, the British flag is a tool of hate.
[00:51:52]  And I couldn't find that in here.
[00:51:54]  So they seem to have taken that out.
[00:51:56]  So when I was watching the Olympics, all those hateful people walking out with our flag are just really hateful.
[00:52:03]  And it doesn't make sense.
[00:52:06]  This was how it was leaked.
[00:52:08]  But I couldn't find the term tool of hate in this.
[00:52:12]  So we won't accuse them of that.
[00:52:15]  I can certainly believe that they believe it is, though.
[00:52:18]  I know that they believe that.
[00:52:20]  Anyway, so we'll just read the foreword from the Prime Minister because Kirstan, the most legitimate Prime Minister we've ever had, most well-liked, and the person most trusted to enforce this upon us, says, by any fair standard, Britain can be proud of its approach to social cohesion.
[00:52:36]  Simple things we take for granted, like interfaith marriages or religious freedom, are in fact a departure from the historical or international norm.
[00:52:42]  Indeed, the ease with which people of different cultures and races live side by side in our diverse democracy is both envied and feared around the globe.
[00:52:51]  Is he just gaslighting us at this point?
[00:52:53]  Like, fear.
[00:52:54]  The ease in which people of different cultures and races live side by side.
[00:52:58]  Does he live in the same country as us?
[00:52:59]  That's going just great.
[00:53:01]  Wasn't he prime minister when all the Southport riots were going on, when gangs of Muslim were hunting white people down?
[00:53:08]  It's the full force of the law, Josh.
[00:53:11]  Full force of the law.
[00:53:13]  Will be prosecuted and you will be found guilty and you will be jailed.
[00:53:16]  Exactly.
[00:53:17]  I guarantee you will regret this, says the most loved Prime Minister we've had.
[00:53:22]  I'm sure our agreement gang's the envy of the world, Kier.
[00:53:25]  Well, yeah, that's the point, isn't it?
[00:53:26]  It's like this is a demented statement that doesn't speak to any of the horrors that multiculturalism has brought upon us.
[00:53:32]  But he carries on, feared because it provides a banal yet profound challenge to the increasingly noisy politics that says it simply cannot be done.
[00:53:40]  People who are different cannot come together united under one flag, which is why we have the massive protests flying all the foreign flags.
[00:53:48]  Like, what are we doing here?
[00:53:49]  This is insane.
[00:53:51]  In our communities, we show daily that it can.
[00:53:53]  I mean, we've talked about the kind of informal segregation that we have in this country by the fact that, and you'll know this, Ed.
[00:53:59]  If you look at the census map, I should have got it for this actually, and you just click through the different ethnicities, you'll see it's different areas of the country that have different ethnicities in it.
[00:54:09]  And those areas work.
[00:54:10]  That's the interesting thing.
[00:54:11]  When I was in Luton recently, you noticed that the town centre, which is mixed, is dysfunctional.
[00:54:20]  And you have Eastern Europeans sitting on benches drunk, and you have mad African schizophrenics milling about, talking to themselves, and whatever.
[00:54:30]  It's dysfunctional.
[00:54:32]  You move out into Berry Park, which is a substantially Pakistani area, to the extent that when I was there, everybody was Pakistan.
[00:54:40]  That's functional.
[00:54:42]  And it's also actually interestingly quite high trust.
[00:54:45]  And people get along, and because you're the only white person there, and you've got a camera, of course, they want to come and talk to you, and they're very friendly.
[00:54:52]  I wouldn't necessarily want to live there, but they're perfectly friendly.
[00:54:55]  It's functional.
[00:54:56]  It works.
[00:54:57]  They understand this is a Pakistani area.
[00:54:59]  It's their area.
[00:55:00]  And you have to.
[00:55:01]  And there's rules and you abide by them.
[00:55:03]  And it's that period of time between the first immigrant moving in and the last white person moving out, as it were, that is tense and that is not functional.
[00:55:13]  Yes.
[00:55:13]  But once they've created a monocultural society, which they have done in Berry Park and they have done in Birmingham Sparbrook and they have done, then it works quite well.
[00:55:22]  Yes.
[00:55:23]  Anyway, Keir Salma carries on.
[00:55:24]  This call to action recommits Britain to that quiet act of defiance against the forces of division.
[00:55:31]  I think that's you guys.
[00:55:33]  Forces of division.
[00:55:34]  Skeletal.
[00:55:35]  Yeah.
[00:55:36]  That's pretty cool, though, doesn't it?
[00:55:37]  And renews our approach to social cohesion.
[00:55:40]  Well, if social cohesion is going so well, why do we need to do any of this?
[00:55:44]  Right?
[00:55:45]  If it's all been such a wonderful example of how things are going brilliantly, what is the need for this action plan at all?
[00:55:52]  This is like someone just at the end of the Soviet Union putting out a message saying communism has never been stronger than ever.
[00:55:58]  Exactly like that, yeah?
[00:55:59]  It's exactly what it is.
[00:56:00]  And that's why they're doing it because they clearly, as you said, the force that they fear and they know that it's falling apart.
[00:56:08]  As ever, we draw deeply on our shared values.
[00:56:11]  Oh, yes, the shared values of the polytheistic Hindus and the monotheistic Muslims and the monotheistic Jewish community all just living harmoniously with each other, don't they?
[00:56:22]  Just, I mean, there was a thing, what was the thing in Birmingham the other day where there was a terror attack at the synagogue a couple of months back?
[00:56:29]  Oh, that was in Manchester, wasn't it?
[00:56:31]  Yeah, yeah, and they were literally, if you look there, it was a Jewish neighborhood and a Muslim neighborhood right next to each other right next to each other.
[00:56:35]  And they come across and commit a terror attack.
[00:56:37]  It's like, sorry, these are segregated communities that don't share values, actually.
[00:56:42]  But anyway, but not only in our core liberal principles, which, I mean, do we think that these communities operate by liberal principles, such as tolerance, protection of minorities, and the rule of law?
[00:56:53]  And the fact that the rule of law is a liberal principle.
[00:56:56]  I mean, it is a liberal principle, but it's not a principle that is held by many people in these communities.
[00:57:03]  It's not an exclusively liberal principle either.
[00:57:05]  No, that's true.
[00:57:06]  The rule of law applies in anywhere that has a government.
[00:57:10]  Nor just the natural pluralism that has always characterized an island country containing our four distinct and proud nations.
[00:57:15]  And again, you'll notice they were distinct and separate.
[00:57:19]  We have the English, the Welsh, the Scottish, and the Northern Irish.
[00:57:23]  It's not that we were making, you know, the it immediately undermines what he's saying because, um, of course, the borders between the four different areas of the United Kingdom are borders because of ethnic differences.
[00:57:39]  The English, the Welsh, the Scots, the Northern Irish.
[00:57:41]  And then they're borders because of endogamy and thus cultural differences.
[00:57:44]  There's substantial cultural differences, and that's why they don't live together.
[00:57:48]  That's why that's and they also have a thousand years of fighting each other under their belts.
[00:57:55]  The many wars between the English, the Scots, and the Welsh, and whoever else in the Irish.
[00:58:00]  It's not like this has been one of profound peace.
[00:58:04]  And I mean, they're still separate to this day after this thousand years.
[00:58:07]  So, this idea that we can invite people in 10 minutes ago and then they're just going to integrate when thousands of years, there's some degree of cross-cultural pollination between, say, England and Wales, but they're still distinct and people still view each other as distinct.
[00:58:23]  There's a kind of cultural settlement there, but notice what he's offering us here.
[00:58:27]  So, that is the model, but just bringing in Muslims, Africans, East Asians, Indians, whoever, and having them having their own little separate national areas in Britain as well.
[00:58:38]  So, he also overplays the degree to which these are distinct and proud nations as if they're all united.
[00:58:43]  No, there are all kinds of fissions within those nations, north v South in England, for example, and there's genetic differences between them, East v West in England.
[00:58:53]  That's the essence of the Civil War, that genetic difference.
[00:58:56]  Are you a Celto-Saxon cline or simply a Saxon?
[00:59:00]  And that was expressed in the Civil War.
[00:59:02]  The difference between the Cornish and the English.
[00:59:05]  The difference between the Normans and the Saxons.
[00:59:07]  Right.
[00:59:08]  It's still there.
[00:59:08]  Yeah, it's still there.
[00:59:09]  It's also absurd to describe Scotland as united because whether you support Rangers or Celtic or you're a Catholic or a Protestant, I remember saying to my Scottish grandfather that I was rooting for Celtic.
[00:59:21]  He's like, no, you're Rangers.
[00:59:23]  There were huge riots in Cornwall in 1549 because they tried to impose an English language prayer book and they demanded it to be in Cornish and it was a symbol of the English oppression of the Cornish.
[00:59:34]  Cornish are actually the strongest regional nationalists in the entirety of the United Kingdom to this day.
[00:59:41]  I think that they still have a very, very strong regional identity.
[00:59:44]  And you can see this because when you go to Cornwall, all you see is Cornish flags flying everywhere.
[00:59:49]  And in fact, you can see Cornish people even in Wiltshire flying a Cornish flag.
[00:59:52]  And even within Scotland, if you go to the Shetland Islands, you won't see any Scottish flags.
[00:59:56]  You'll only see Shetland flags.
[00:59:59]  They vote Lib Dem as a protest against the SNP.
[01:00:02]  So we're not Scottish, is the argument they make.

=== Regional Identity vs. Forced Integration (02:32) ===

[01:00:04]  But anyway, let's carry on.
[01:00:07]  So, as this action plan sets out, we cannot be blind to the dangers of the stakes because the truth is, while our values remain strong, in recent years, their practice has often been poor.
[01:00:16]  Too often, we have taken our eye off the ball when it comes to being clear about the responsibilities of cohesion as well as the rights.
[01:00:22]  We should rightly be proud of having some of the toughest anti-hate and anti-discrimination laws anywhere in the world, but this should be underpinned by a collective responsibility to pursue integration.
[01:00:31]  Well, I mean, I personally think that ship has sailed when you have almost autonomous foreign communities.
[01:00:38]  I think integration is a bit of a question.
[01:00:41]  And slightly up here, he says as well: this should be grounded in the fairness of a two-way street.
[01:00:46]  As in, oh, right, so I have to integrate into their communities.
[01:00:51]  Sorry, when did I choose this?
[01:00:53]  Why have I had this inflicted upon me?
[01:00:56]  I can use a bit of an analogy here because your country is effectively your home.
[01:01:00]  But imagine living in your home and then someone moves into it without your invitation, and then you have to make compromises.
[01:01:08]  The government's like, well, now you have to change.
[01:01:11]  Well, if it happened at that level, you know, everyone from every side of the political spectrum would be outraged.
[01:01:19]  When I was a second year at university, you had to live out of college.
[01:01:22]  And so I lived with these friends of mine that were fundamentalist Christians.
[01:01:26]  And I kind of agreed, yeah, okay, if we move into, you know, I won't smoke and I work whatever.
[01:01:31]  But of course, once I'm moving in and I'm paying the same rent they are, I couldn't help but start to assert myself and smoke my pipe in my room and things like this.
[01:01:39]  And my housemate, Susanna, said, When you were in, you promised you wouldn't smoke.
[01:01:42]  I know, but I am paying as much rent as you, and I feel that I have a right to assert what I want.
[01:01:49]  I don't like this cleaning schedule you've drawn up on the fridge where we will have to clean once a week.
[01:01:52]  Why can't we just clean if it's dirty?
[01:01:55]  And so it gradually all kind of the whole settlement under which I moved in broke down as they had to bend to my will as much as I did to theirs.
[01:02:04]  You know, so she complained about me making noise in the room by playing music, but I'd be woken up at six in the morning on a Sunday by her playing the guitar and singing a hymn.
[01:02:12]  You know, there had to be a two-way street.
[01:02:15]  But that's the thing.
[01:02:16]  I was invited to come and live there and then by everybody else in the flat.
[01:02:21]  Yes.
[01:02:21]  Whereas these people were invited by the government.
[01:02:25]  The Labour government.
[01:02:26]  The Labour government in particular.
[01:02:29]  Specifically to rub it in our faces, literally, as they said.
[01:02:32]  Anyway, we'll go through the executive summary because, of course, the United, I love this one.

=== Enduring Rapid Change (08:08) ===

[01:02:37]  The United Kingdom has endured rapid technological, demographic, and economic change.
[01:02:42]  So you don't endure something that has been a boon to you.
[01:02:46]  You don't endure something that has been good for you.
[01:02:49]  The first true sentence in this entire thing.
[01:02:51]  Well, exactly.
[01:02:52]  I didn't endure eating a steak for my dinner last night.
[01:02:55]  Is it possible that the person develops just didn't know what endure meant?
[01:02:57]  It is totally possible.
[01:02:59]  But the thing is, they're just giving the game away here, right?
[01:03:02]  So you've had this inflicted upon you alongside a rising tide of extremism and malign foreign influence.
[01:03:07]  Or I wonder where that's coming from.
[01:03:09]  You know, if we have to endure this, why do we have to go through this?
[01:03:12]  And this is, of course, putting social cohesion in the UK under strain.
[01:03:15]  So it's not a brilliant example, actually.
[01:03:17]  There are lots of problems.
[01:03:18]  And this is the government admitting there are lots of problems.
[01:03:21]  So anyway, confidence communities is the first thing they want.
[01:03:24]  They want to restore pride in place, investment in local communities.
[01:03:29]  Well, that sounds fine.
[01:03:30]  Bringing people together.
[01:03:32]  We will invest in initiatives that create opportunities for connections across backgrounds, including cultural and sporting events, youth and community infrastructure, blah, blah, blah.
[01:03:40]  Well, why do you need to do that if we're such a great example of multiculturalism?
[01:03:44]  As in, these communities don't actually know anything about one another.
[01:03:47]  They don't really like each other.
[01:03:49]  And the government's like, right, no, we're going to have to incede.
[01:03:51]  No, you're going to have to do this, whether you like it or not.
[01:03:54]  Otherwise, this whole experiment fails.
[01:03:57]  So this is actually a veiled way of saying, you know, oh, there's that misguided black youth in London who stabbed someone.
[01:04:04]  If he had a youth center, this never would have happened.
[01:04:08]  If he was able to play ping pong, he never would have macheted a person to death.
[01:04:12]  Well, if only he'd been taught our values and history, as the next one says, right?
[01:04:15]  We will mandate citizenship classes in schools and teach digital literacy.
[01:04:19]  We'll improve the nation's curriculum, teaching our nation's history, and ensure Holocaust awareness stays a compulsory topic in schools.
[01:04:25]  I mean, where would we be without Holocaust?
[01:04:27]  Our Holocaust has nothing to do with history.
[01:04:29]  Well, I mean, we ended it.
[01:04:31]  Oh, yeah, that sounds.
[01:04:32]  Yeah.
[01:04:32]  As in, we fought against Nazi Germany, which is why we need a Holocaust memorial in London for something.
[01:04:38]  It's weird that out of everything, that's the thing that's mentioned.
[01:04:41]  Yeah.
[01:04:43]  I wonder who it is that needs mention of that.
[01:04:46]  Just weird that that's the thing on Kierstan's mind.
[01:04:49]  But the point being, okay, so again, this is a kind of admission that, yeah, we've brought in a bunch of people who don't really feel any connection to the land.
[01:04:56]  Did you think he was going to say, you know, rent boy awareness days?
[01:05:00]  Very aware of that.
[01:05:02]  I assume that'll just be a core part of teaching the nation's history.
[01:05:06]  But the interesting how, like, this is again a kind of veiled admission.
[01:05:10]  Yeah, the people who come here don't have any real connection here and they don't really understand why they're here.
[01:05:14]  And so we're going to have to kind of brainwash them into understanding.
[01:05:16]  Oh, no, you're British now.
[01:05:19]  You are the ancestors of like Alfred the Great or something.
[01:05:23]  Anyway, the next one is celebrating faith and belief communities, working closely with faith and belief communities.
[01:05:28]  Expanded Faith Week and boost the belief literacy and things like this.
[01:05:33]  And it's like, okay, okay, but the problem that you have is a lot of these religions are defined in opposition to one another.
[01:05:41]  Like Christianity and Judaism are actually antagonistic.
[01:05:46]  Islam and Christianity and Judaism are actually antagonistic.
[01:05:50]  Sikhism is literally determined by its opposition to Islam.
[01:05:54]  Islam is literally determined to its opposition to polytheism, such as Hinduism.
[01:05:59]  Like, these are not just, you know, it's come by ah, we can all just get along.
[01:06:03]  Well, no, and we have lots of terror attacks that show us we can't.
[01:06:07]  Also, I imagine that belief communities doesn't mean the so-called far right, does it?
[01:06:12]  It's not going to seek to understand us.
[01:06:15]  Christianity doesn't actually get much of a mention in this.
[01:06:17]  Anyway, going on to cohesive communities, integration based on values.
[01:06:21]  We know that migration needs to be managed to support communities and cohesion.
[01:06:25]  Why this belief communities?
[01:06:26]  Why do people have an inherent right to have stupid beliefs?
[01:06:31]  Irrational beliefs.
[01:06:32]  I'd love to.
[01:06:33]  Tolerance.
[01:06:34]  Oh, right.
[01:06:34]  So it's downstream of tolerance.
[01:06:36]  Yes.
[01:06:36]  But they won't tolerate certain beliefs.
[01:06:38]  There's certain beliefs you get a visit from Prevent.
[01:06:40]  Only if you're white enough.
[01:06:41]  Yeah, if you're white enough.
[01:06:43]  So it's certain beliefs.
[01:06:45]  Yes.
[01:06:46]  As long as they're a bit wishy-washing.
[01:06:47]  Yes.
[01:06:48]  Tolerance is like a principle in which the weak follow.
[01:06:51]  Like, you don't need tolerance if you're strong, do you?
[01:06:54]  No.
[01:06:55]  It's an inherently weak virtue.
[01:06:57]  Tolerance is for the people who are being imposed upon not to react to what they're being forced to do.
[01:07:03]  That's what tolerance is for.
[01:07:05]  Anyway, they're going to restore the order of the asylum system and force people to integrate based on a points value base or something like that, where they're going to include, they're going to set clear expectations for integration, English language, proficiency, and participation in work.
[01:07:27]  And the effort will focus on removing barriers to participation, supporting underrepresented groups, and fostering a shared sense of values across the UK.
[01:07:36]  As if there's just some sort of worldwide shared sense of values.
[01:07:39]  So you brought in a bunch of Africans, you brought in a bunch of Afghans, you've got some East Asians, you've got people from South America, then you've got people from Europe.
[01:07:46]  And we've got to somehow divine what a shared value that these people all have is.
[01:07:52]  What is it?
[01:07:52]  Even the notion of values is basically Western.
[01:07:55]  It's the idea that you can have different values from me and they're equally valid somehow.
[01:08:02]  And I must accept that you value this more than I do or whatever.
[01:08:05]  Whereas in normal communities, no, we all value all these things the same.
[01:08:09]  These things are sacred.
[01:08:10]  These things are taboo and don't question them.
[01:08:12]  Yes.
[01:08:13]  I also hate the notion of the existence of these values as you characterize them because it implies that the truth doesn't matter, that one thing is equal to another, therefore they're as equally true to one another, which is simply cultural relativism.
[01:08:30]  It implies, oh, I have a different view from you.
[01:08:32]  Well, one of them is closer to the truth, potentially.
[01:08:34]  Or closer to the truth based on a shared starting point.
[01:08:37]  But some things aren't actually true or false claims.
[01:08:41]  What they are is preference claims.
[01:08:42]  So, for example, 99% of Afghans say they want Sharia law, and we are an English common law country.
[01:08:49]  These things are not compatible.
[01:08:50]  They're a direct contradiction.
[01:08:52]  Common law is a discovered law that is revealed by the common practice of the people.
[01:08:56]  Sharia law is divinely ordained and dictated by a prophet.
[01:09:00]  Well, which one wins out?
[01:09:02]  And of course, I know what I think should win out, but I'm not making necessarily a truth claim here.
[01:09:06]  I'm making a preference claim.
[01:09:07]  I am an Englishman.
[01:09:08]  I would like to live in England that has the English common law, but the Afghans have got as much right to be heard and integrated as I do.
[01:09:16]  So which one comes top?
[01:09:19]  Because it's a two-way street.
[01:09:21]  It's a two-way street.
[01:09:22]  So no, no, go on.
[01:09:24]  I was just going to say that even with the best intentions and best will in the world, if they tried to do this, what would inevitably end up happening is that it would be the native population who would be expected to make the most concessions because they're the most willing and able.
[01:09:40]  Because you can't expect someone from, you know, rural sub-Saharan Africa to all of a sudden magically be able to adopt all of the behaviors of an Englishman at the drop of a hat.
[01:09:53]  It's simply not possible.
[01:09:55]  And so what inevitably has to be done is that we make more concessions to people who are unwilling and unable to do the same.
[01:10:03]  It's possible if they've no choice.
[01:10:05]  Again, I was talking to someone about this, a black fellow in Luzon and a Pakistani fellow in Slough, actually.
[01:10:11]  And they both said exactly the same thing, which is that when we came, there was hardly anybody that wasn't English.
[01:10:16]  So therefore, you've no choice.
[01:10:19]  You must adopt everything that they do.
[01:10:21]  You've no choice.
[01:10:23]  And that's the only way it can possibly work in any kind of moderate capacity.
[01:10:28]  But this is the government who, but notice that we will set clear expectations for integration.
[01:10:33]  Okay, what happens if they're not met?
[01:10:34]  What do you do?
[01:10:35]  If one of these communities says, yeah, we don't fancy that, what are you going to do?
[01:10:38]  What are your options here?
[01:10:40]  And the answer is this is basically an ultimatum that demands government suppression now.

=== State Suppression of Muslim Hostility (14:55) ===

[01:10:46]  So, okay, it's government suppression.
[01:10:48]  So the state is annexing to itself more authority to control the society.
[01:10:54]  In fact, if you go down to the next one, tackling hate and discrimination.
[01:10:57]  Well, I wonder which community this will be leveled against.
[01:11:00]  We will ensure hate crimes are prosecuted with the full force of the law.
[01:11:04]  Oh, brilliant.
[01:11:05]  Brilliant.
[01:11:06]  Is there a single person in jail prosecuted for a hate crime that isn't white?
[01:11:10]  You're very surprised.
[01:11:12]  Yeah.
[01:11:12]  I think whites are still the main victim group of hate crimes as well.
[01:11:18]  They don't talk about that aspect, as in that's the actual government data on it.
[01:11:22]  And so they're not going to ever reveal that fact, even though it's disproportionate as well.
[01:11:27]  Exactly.
[01:11:28]  We will provide further protective security funding for faith communities.
[01:11:31]  Also, just tolerance.
[01:11:32]  Sorry.
[01:11:33]  Sorry, the tolerance notion.
[01:11:36]  So we have to be tolerant of people.
[01:11:38]  And one of the things that you have to be tolerant about in people is emotions.
[01:11:41]  And there's a degree to which we try to control our emotions.
[01:11:44]  There's a degree to which we try to keep it in the pants, as it were.
[01:11:47]  But there's a degree to which you can't if you really, really feel something.
[01:11:52]  And hate is an emotion just as love is an emotion, is a feeling.
[01:11:58]  And you can't really help it if you hate somebody.
[01:12:01]  Well, I mean, they could literally drug you, right?
[01:12:03]  They could literally give you, you know, anti-depression medication that just essentially normalizes all of your emotions into a single bland state of existence.
[01:12:13]  I mean, that's, I think, where it has to go in the end, right?
[01:12:16]  Right.
[01:12:16]  So the whole, every white person needs to be essentially necessarily left wing.
[01:12:21]  I mean, if you look at the rates of drug taking, yeah.
[01:12:24]  It's just a neurochemical lobotomy, really, isn't it?
[01:12:26]  Yes.
[01:12:27]  But anyway, look at the framing on this.
[01:12:30]  We'll provide protective security for faith communities, which they have already done, and it was massively disproportionately weighted towards Islam.
[01:12:38]  We will adopt a non-statutory definition of anti-Muslim hostility and will appoint a special representative on tackling anti-Muslim hostility.
[01:12:47]  Well, hang on a second.
[01:12:48]  I thought this was about faith communities, plural.
[01:12:52]  You've just announced to us that you're going to create a kind of Islamic inquisitor who will be tasked with searching the society out for anti-Muslim hostility and suppressing it.
[01:13:07]  Yeah, so essentially, Islam is the religion.
[01:13:10]  Well, that's, and you must not be a heretic.
[01:13:13]  How is that different to what they do in Saudi Arabia?
[01:13:16]  How is that any different to what they do in any literal Islamic state?
[01:13:21]  That's what ISIS do.
[01:13:22]  That's what the Taliban do.
[01:13:24]  It's also worth mentioning as well that why is it Muslims in particular that are being targeted?
[01:13:29]  Because there aren't people in England saying, you know what, I'm sick of all these Scots coming down from the south of the border.
[01:13:34]  I've never heard that in my entire life.
[01:13:36]  And I think other than Carl, I've never heard that.
[01:13:41]  And obviously, it's because the anger and hostility is the result of poor behavior.
[01:13:47]  It's their poor behaviour.
[01:13:48]  The turning point, you probably won't remember this, but you will, was the satanic verses.
[01:13:54]  Nobody, in my memory as a child, nobody was going on about Islam all the time until the Satanic Verses.
[01:14:00]  And you have them in the street with the book burning it and whatever.
[01:14:03]  And that was a turning point.
[01:14:06]  Well, nobody really knew about Islam till that point.
[01:14:08]  Because why would you?
[01:14:09]  And then you see that, and there's surprisingly big protests as well.
[01:14:12]  If you go back and watch the videos, there's thousands of them who like didn't realize these people were here back in 1989 or whatever.
[01:14:19]  I remember being in a pub called the Royal Oak with my parents, my friend Saal, and we were seven.
[01:14:23]  And in those days, the pub just did sandwiches.
[01:14:25]  It was pork and beef.
[01:14:27]  I wanted a beef one.
[01:14:28]  There was the ham one for him, and he just knew he shouldn't eat it.
[01:14:32]  And we knew so little about this.
[01:14:33]  My parents used a little bit.
[01:14:35]  Well, why?
[01:14:35]  Yeah.
[01:14:36]  Why can't you eat it?
[01:14:36]  What's mad with you?
[01:14:37]  Yeah.
[01:14:38]  Muslim.
[01:14:38]  That was how little we knew.
[01:14:40]  Yeah, yeah.
[01:14:40]  And within two years, we all knew about it.
[01:14:43]  But anyway, we've dealt with the Muslims.
[01:14:46]  We also will need ready action to take to combat anti-Semitism.
[01:14:50]  Of course we will.
[01:14:51]  So we've got Islam and Judaism, but the rest of you are just on your own, I guess.
[01:14:56]  But we need microcosms of Middle Eastern conflicts in our country.
[01:15:00]  Yeah, I know, as if we haven't got enough of those.
[01:15:02]  Anyway, let's move on to resilient communities.
[01:15:04]  We're going to protect institutions from extremist abuse.
[01:15:08]  We will embed the 2024 extremism definition across government, working closely with frontline partners such as the police.
[01:15:15]  Do you want to see the 2024 extremism definition?
[01:15:18]  I think I know it, but go ahead.
[01:15:20]  You know it?
[01:15:20]  No.
[01:15:21]  Ah, it's great.
[01:15:22]  Anything that's not left-wing eyes.
[01:15:24]  Exactly.
[01:15:24]  It's not libtardism.
[01:15:26]  The definition.
[01:15:27]  Extremism is the promotion or advancement of an ideology based on violence, hatred, or intolerance, which I think is the key point.
[01:15:35]  Because really, I mean, you know, if you're going around being violent or hateful, people aren't really very tolerant of that generally, right?
[01:15:41]  But say, you know what, guys, I'm not sure we should tolerate all of these terror attacks or whatever, grooming gangs, then we have a bit of an issue that aims to, one, negate or destroy the fundamental rights and freedoms of others, or two, undermine or overturn or replace the UK system of liberal parliamentary democracy or democratic rights, or three, intentionally create a permissive environment for others to achieve the results in one or two.
[01:16:04]  So basically, you're not even allowed to say, you know what, guys, I'm not sure universal suffrage is working out.
[01:16:10]  That makes you an extremist.
[01:16:12]  Or to advocate a presidential system of democracy.
[01:16:15]  Exactly.
[01:16:15]  You can't advocate for a republic.
[01:16:18]  You cannot advocate for any kind of structural change in the political governance of the country.
[01:16:23]  That makes you an extremism.
[01:16:25]  Swiss referendums, extremists.
[01:16:27]  Yes.
[01:16:28]  Yes.
[01:16:28]  I mean, literally.
[01:16:30]  Or have a discussion on what democratic rights should include.
[01:16:33]  So it's basically neoliberalism on rails that you can't deviate from.
[01:16:38]  If you are not the most extreme form of libtard, you are an extremist.
[01:16:43]  And also, I mean, this whole thing, like ideology that advances intolerance that aims to negate or destroy fundamental rights or freedoms, isn't that Islam?
[01:16:53]  Doesn't that just literally outlaw the most basic reading of the Quran then?
[01:16:57]  Not Sharia, not just Islam, but forms of fundamentals, Judaism.
[01:17:01]  Of course, probably forms of Christianity as well.
[01:17:04]  But like, again, the reason I focus on Islam is because of how much they're trying to protect the Muslims from the evil criticisms of other people.
[01:17:12]  But this turns almost any ideology that isn't liberalism into a form of extremism.
[01:17:18]  It's one of these terms like which, which, or heretic, or whatever.
[01:17:23]  The point of it is to keep people on the straight and narrow path and preemptively reprove them for any kind of psychological deviation from that path.
[01:17:33]  It's a shut-up word.
[01:17:34]  That's the point of it.
[01:17:35]  And that's the only point of it.
[01:17:37]  But what this does is it instantiates the kind of license for liberal extremists to impose a repressive tolerance on the population.
[01:17:46]  No, we'll tolerate whatever we think is within the bounds of liberalism.
[01:17:49]  And anything else, regardless of the effect of it, regardless of the philosophy of it, regardless of what it thinks or how it metaphysically constructs the world, is wrong by definition.
[01:18:00]  And therefore, this is something the government will take action on.
[01:18:04]  You saw this in the Netherlands.
[01:18:05]  The Netherlands promoted itself from the 70s onwards as this tolerant society.
[01:18:09]  Fundamentally, I was at University of Leiden.
[01:18:11]  It fundamentally shifted from being a pillarized society like Northern Ireland, where it was fundamentally divided along Catholic parts, like everywhere, newspapers, shops, everything, to being, oh, we are tolerant.
[01:18:22]  And of course, what it did was it just created a new group of people that you were intolerant of, which was essentially religious people.
[01:18:29]  Well, that's this sort of division between Protestant and Catholic is sort of the legislative and cultural groundwork that introduced multiculturalism, really, because we made these concessions between other Christians who were perhaps genetically quite related to us.
[01:18:46]  And then that must mean that we must get people from the other side of the world when actually it was just to keep the peace between different factions of Christians who were otherwise neighbours and actually have claims of indigeneity to the country.
[01:19:03]  Anyway, going back to the resilient communities part, they say we will publish an annual state of extremism report setting out the nature of foreign and domestic extremist threats the UK and the government's response.
[01:19:16]  They already published that report every year.
[01:19:17]  Hope not hate published that, right?
[01:19:18]  They're not the government.
[01:19:19]  They're not officially a branch of the government.
[01:19:21]  But the government is going to officially produce their own state of hate report.
[01:19:25]  And I guarantee you're all going to feature in it.
[01:19:28]  Ray.
[01:19:28]  So which will be more of the de Brett's peerage of hate?
[01:19:32]  Will it be the government's one or the Hope Not Hate one?
[01:19:34]  I think the government one is premium.
[01:19:36]  We're in a kind of PDC darts versus the original darts competition.
[01:19:41]  Yeah, yeah.
[01:19:42]  Was it the Wrestling Federation and WCW, WWE?
[01:19:45]  Yeah, that's it.
[01:19:46]  Yeah.
[01:19:47]  Well, the government's got the back the government.
[01:19:50]  So surely Hope Not Hate can't compete with this.
[01:19:52]  Nick Lowell's gonna have to up a game.
[01:19:53]  I think it is cooler to be demonized by the government than it is by a bunch of mutants and a singular convicted paedophile.
[01:20:04]  Well, yeah, you could have a collective of paedophiles who aren't convicted.
[01:20:08]  Have they put up a job advert yet for a new pedophile to replace the paedophile that had to leave?
[01:20:11]  I'm not too sure.
[01:20:12]  I don't know.
[01:20:13]  But anyway, but this is the point.
[01:20:14]  They're going to start literally, the state is going to start stigmatizing its own citizens because it has defined the only legitimate position as being a form of liberal extremism and absolutism.
[01:20:27]  And so now it's going to literally persecute members of the public who do not believe in the way that they publicly humiliate them.
[01:20:34]  Yeah, it will, exactly.
[01:20:36]  But what they're doing here is saying these people are essentially outlaws.
[01:20:41]  You are not going to get punished in the same way for hurting or attacking or prosecuting them in some way than you would if you were to say a Muslim.
[01:20:49]  If you were to attack a mosque, put Bacon on a mosque, full force of the law.
[01:20:53]  But if you go for one of these people, they're not going to get the full force.
[01:20:56]  They said earlier, rule of law.
[01:20:57]  And what this is showing you is: no, there's something beyond the rule of law now.
[01:21:01]  There's rule of law, and then there's these things which we expect you to conform to, which is it's not a legal issue, but the police can check your thinking.
[01:21:10]  Well, let's get on to check our thinking.
[01:21:12]  In disrupting wider extremist influence and activity, we will develop tools and powers to disrupt organizations that spread extremism, hate, and threaten public safety.
[01:21:21]  So if you are not a liberal, as in not a completely orthodox Kierstama-approved liberal, the state is going to try and destroy your organization.
[01:21:31]  I mean, that is mad.
[01:21:32]  I think, wouldn't the salvation army get destroyed from this?
[01:21:35]  Like, wouldn't any kind of just religious organization be in danger of this?
[01:21:41]  If you were to just read from the Bible, read from the Quran, read from any basically historic religious text, it's going to be something that the state could get involved in.
[01:21:51]  Like, this gives them power over all of society.
[01:21:54]  Well, if the Church of England wasn't explicitly blasphemous, it would be a case of that as well, wouldn't it?
[01:22:00]  Yes.
[01:22:01]  We will also introduce a state threats designation power based on counter-terrorism prescription, disrupting and deterring most egregious state and proxy organizations from carrying out hostile activity in the UK.
[01:22:12]  Oh, right.
[01:22:12]  So we've got total government security and surveillance there, and there's just nothing they're not going to do.
[01:22:19]  They're going to, and as they say, we will ensure robust use of existing hate crime and public order legislation on harmful extremist conduct.
[01:22:25]  This will never go away.
[01:22:27]  They're giving themselves license to essentially infiltrate and control all social activity.
[01:22:34]  And of course, securing online spaces.
[01:22:36]  We'll make robust use of the powers, sorry, use of the robust powers to require platforms to mitigate risks related to their algorithms.
[01:22:43]  We'll give people greater control of what they're exposed to online and reduce accidental exposure to hateful content.
[01:22:48]  As if everyone was like, oh no, God, I saw a Tommy Robinson video.
[01:22:51]  Oh, God, quick.
[01:22:52]  Excuse me, government.
[01:22:54]  I was exposed.
[01:22:54]  Like, who?
[01:22:55]  What are you children?
[01:22:56]  This is couched in such feminine risk management language as well.
[01:23:00]  I find it really frustrating.
[01:23:02]  Segment.
[01:23:02]  It's like this kind of person who is not an agent in themselves and needs the government to do everything for them.
[01:23:08]  Yes.
[01:23:09]  And that's what, as well, said, women are always the enforcers of these things.
[01:23:13]  Yes.
[01:23:14]  And they tend to put, although there's certain exceptions with purity, harm avoidance and equality above everything else.
[01:23:22]  Like these messages on the train, who are they for?
[01:23:26]  They're not for the people that are going to be aggressive to the staff.
[01:23:29]  They're for people on there that are a little bit concerned about the possibility of aggression and they want to know that big cis is aware of the problem.
[01:23:39]  They're literally for the NPCs.
[01:23:40]  Anyway, so we'll just find finish on the executive summary on the road ahead.
[01:23:44]  Right.
[01:23:45]  So building confident, cohesive, and resilient communities is a whole of society effort.
[01:23:51]  A whole again, just bring that in, folks.
[01:23:54]  If you think you have a private space away from government intervention, you're wrong.
[01:24:00]  That's their plan.
[01:24:01]  A whole of society effort.
[01:24:03]  Everyone, everywhere, and anything that you do, they feel entitled to get into and control.
[01:24:10]  A new social cohesion task force will drive this work from within the government to identify new policy solutions, ensuring strong ministerial oversight, collaboration with devolved governments, local and strategic authorities, civil society and the public will be essential.
[01:24:24]  That's the civil society thing.
[01:24:25]  You don't get civil society in communist regimes because any group, any individual, even the local haughty cultural society is potentially a threat to their power.
[01:24:35]  It's a different node of organization, it's a different node of power.
[01:24:38]  And that's you see that even now in Eastern Europe.
[01:24:40]  It's slowly changing, but one of the consequences of communism is that the level of things like middle-class silly groups that reading books together and whatever is limited.
[01:24:50]  Or whatever it is, yeah.
[01:24:52]  It's mad.
[01:24:54]  But notice the scope, though.
[01:24:56]  It's just crazy how they have given themselves license to take over everything.
[01:25:01]  Literally everything.
[01:25:02]  The one thing that they've failed to understand here is that they need to treat the situation with a very light touch to keep things going in their favor.
[01:25:11]  And what they're doing here is so heavy-handed that it couldn't possibly not cause backlash and cause problems and basically create greater division than existed before.
[01:25:23]  It's demanding a backlash.
[01:25:25]  As I've said before, it's woke eugenics.
[01:25:27]  They are programmed accelerationism to bring about their own collapse.
[01:25:32]  And that's what they're doing.
[01:25:32]  The harsher they do it.
[01:25:34]  For example, with the whole trans issue, people weren't that bothered about it when it was just a few people that were deluded and whatever.

=== Woke Eugenics and Reality (06:52) ===

[01:25:41]  You didn't really mind.
[01:25:43]  It was when you were told pronouns and you've got to put your pronouns on your official job email and all this.
[01:25:50]  It becomes intrusive.
[01:25:50]  It becomes intrusive and it's stated, you must say this, you must say this, you must say these words.
[01:25:57]  Then people react.
[01:25:58]  They're saying things that are patently absurd.
[01:26:00]  People react.
[01:26:01]  This is so heavy-handed.
[01:26:02]  I think you're right.
[01:26:03]  The only reasonable reaction by a significant portion of people is to just have the confidence to say no, no, no.
[01:26:12]  The only thing they can really do in an ideological sense, because left-wing politics are inherently invasive.
[01:26:18]  Yeah.
[01:26:18]  So what can they do?
[01:26:20]  Yeah.
[01:26:21]  But I mean, we say left-wing, but this is just liberal politics.
[01:26:23]  This is the natural end result of liberalism.
[01:26:26]  That, oh, I've brought a series of people who don't agree and really shouldn't be living together into the same polity.
[01:26:32]  Now I need to make sure that they get along.
[01:26:34]  Well, what does that require?
[01:26:36]  Well, it kind of requires a Singaporean sort of totalitarian state and suppression of any kind of dissent, frankly.
[01:26:42]  Lee Kwan Yu is competent.
[01:26:44]  Exactly.
[01:26:44]  And very based on the certain issue.
[01:26:47]  Sure, but no, yeah, exactly.
[01:26:48]  And these are very cringe on every issue.
[01:26:49]  So you're going to be forced to essentially be free.
[01:26:54]  Anyway, we'll skip video comment stage because we haven't got time.
[01:26:57]  So I'll go for some comments.
[01:26:59]  I love the poetic irony of how Islamic terrorism went over a lefty's head.
[01:27:03]  Yeah, I know.
[01:27:04]  It's amazing, isn't it?
[01:27:05]  Like, literally, like, again, just the most perfect picture.
[01:27:09]  An Ismist tossing a nail bomb as some wet lefty advocates for open borders feels like a Monty Python skit.
[01:27:15]  Yes, it does.
[01:27:17]  I wonder if the leftoid chap is laughing because he's so online that he either is expecting it to be some prank to have a 40k for Mr. Beast or he expects he'll respawn in his bed the next day.
[01:27:26]  Well, again, I think it's very much that he just has never experienced anything real.
[01:27:31]  And so everything is just virtual to him, which is pathetic, really.
[01:27:38]  Derek says, mental illness is when you fail to deal with reality on reality's terms.
[01:27:42]  Radicals become radical due to being a social misfit and believing that you can change something else by just wishing for it.
[01:27:48]  I mean, I think that's a good description of mental illness.
[01:27:51]  Fail to deal with reality on reality's terms.
[01:27:54]  That's what's really happening, isn't it?
[01:27:59]  No, I'm not sure there's a good description of mental illness.
[01:28:01]  You don't think so?
[01:28:02]  Well, if you become a kind of maladaptive reaction often to a particular stimuli, isn't it?
[01:28:10]  So let's say a person's girlfriend dumps them and they can't cope and they have a complete breakdown and then they end up with a spiral of negative thoughts.
[01:28:18]  I suppose you could argue these thoughts are not in touch with reality because they're so negative, unrealistically negative.
[01:28:24]  They think, oh, I'll never get another girlfriend or must kill myself.
[01:28:27]  But that's not quite the same as not dealing with reality on its own terms.
[01:28:31]  George says, welcoming everyone in the city includes bomb chuckers and people calling them white supremacists.
[01:28:35]  So Marston may want to re-evaluate that statement.
[01:28:38]  Well, again, no, no, no, it's implicit in I welcome everyone except you, implying you're not a person to me.
[01:28:47]  And that's why when a guy tries to chuck a bomb at you, I don't even try and denounce it.
[01:28:51]  I just laugh at it.
[01:28:52]  Good.
[01:28:52]  You're not a person.
[01:28:53]  You're an evil.
[01:28:55]  You're basically like Sauron in my worldview.
[01:28:57]  So if you get blown up, that's a net good.
[01:29:00]  Literally what is implied by this.
[01:29:02]  Kevin says, eventually there'll be a model of the complete human brain.
[01:29:06]  Josh, we can do that now.
[01:29:07]  All you need is a broken £1.99 calculator, triple-A battery, and you have a fully functional leftist brain.
[01:29:14]  But that understands maths.
[01:29:15]  That's true.
[01:29:17]  I'm nowhere near as good as maths.
[01:29:19]  I bet a calculator, if programmed correctly, could understand per capita.
[01:29:25]  I'm not reading some of these comments, by the way, guys.
[01:29:29]  Our movies are being reviewed-bombed by mice.
[01:29:34]  Richard says, you will comply.
[01:29:36]  Far-right opinions will not be tolerated.
[01:29:37]  Sucking up to foreigners and religions is the way forward.
[01:29:39]  I don't know who these cowards are in London, but they need dealing with fast.
[01:29:43]  Well, remember, Kier Starmer literally did say the other day, Muslims are the face of modern Britain.
[01:29:49]  Did you see that?
[01:29:50]  No.
[01:29:51]  Oh, he was speaking to a crowd of Muslims, some sort of Eid celebration or whatever.
[01:29:54]  And he was like, You're the face of modern Britain.
[01:29:58]  Oh.
[01:30:00]  Well, it's kind of true in watch TV commercials, isn't it?
[01:30:05]  I guess it's descriptively true, yes, in some ways.
[01:30:11]  Omar says, Jess Gill's street interview of long time immigrants lives rent-free in my head.
[01:30:15]  People who've been here 50 years are still picking their home country without hesitation.
[01:30:18]  Pretty sure my dad would be happy to move back to Sudan if we want a hell hole at the moment.
[01:30:22]  Yeah, it's mental, isn't it?
[01:30:24]  Dan says, by government definition, immune systems are extremism.
[01:30:29]  Just any amount of intolerance.
[01:30:31]  That's crazy.
[01:30:33]  But that renders women-only gyms a form of extremism.
[01:30:38]  No, you can't come in here.
[01:30:39]  You're a man.
[01:30:40]  It's like, well, sorry, the government has mandated.
[01:30:43]  That's true, though, because your immune system is being intolerant of microbes.
[01:30:48]  Yes.
[01:30:48]  Deeply intolerant of them.
[01:30:49]  I'm in favour.
[01:30:51]  Refusing to live with them.
[01:30:51]  It's a two-way street.
[01:30:52]  But it's not even coincidental.
[01:30:54]  That's its express purpose is to be intolerant.
[01:30:56]  I'm in favour of, you know, oppressing the lactose intolerant.
[01:31:00]  I feel like that's a good sort of section of society.
[01:31:03]  But what they're saying is that at some point, there will be some Troon who goes to a women-only gym and they'll say, no, you can't come in.
[01:31:09]  You're a man.
[01:31:09]  They'll be like, I think not.
[01:31:11]  Keir Starmer is on my side.
[01:31:13]  The government will come down on my side because, look at you, you're an extremist.
[01:31:16]  And the women running a women's only gym would be like, what's going on?
[01:31:21]  Women that go to the gym really short, because I went to the gym a couple of weeks ago and everybody was short than the yeah.
[01:31:27]  I hadn't been just to see everyone goes, oh, you should go to the gym.
[01:31:30]  So I went to the gym and I suspected that all the men would be really short and insecure because they were short and thus dealt with it by having lots of muscles.
[01:31:37]  And I was right.
[01:31:38]  And they're going to make noises as well.
[01:31:40]  They go, horrible, horrible.
[01:31:44]  And yeah, they're dreadful places full of short men that deal with their shortness by minimum.
[01:31:48]  I'm only 5'9, but these people are shorter than me.
[01:31:50]  I mean, it was.
[01:31:51]  Hey, I go to the gym regularly.
[01:31:53]  What are you compensating for?
[01:31:55]  I don't know.
[01:31:55]  Just be my personality, I guess.
[01:31:58]  Undertested, one testicle or something like that.
[01:32:02]  So you know.
[01:32:04]  Hopeless.
[01:32:05]  Last time I checked, no.
[01:32:06]  And the last thing is: Dan says diversity is such a strength, it must be enforced by threat of jail.
[01:32:10]  Not just threat of jail.
[01:32:12]  Because, I mean, like, you could just have, I mean, that's what we have now, right?
[01:32:15]  If you're expressly against diversity or something, yeah, you may well get Sam Melead and go to jail for saying, you know, whatever, like, nonsense.
[01:32:23]  What did he say on his stickers?
[01:32:24]  English will be a minority.
[01:32:26]  It wasn't even that.
[01:32:27]  I think it was something much more tepid than that.
[01:32:30]  It's okay to be white or something, I think it was.
[01:32:32]  But anyway, the point is, that's what we have now.

=== Twitter's Video Platform Struggles (01:55) ===

[01:32:33]  No, what we have now is a proactive strategy against the society itself for being what it is.
[01:32:42]  That's literally what we've got.
[01:32:43]  Right.
[01:32:44]  Anyway.
[01:32:44]  And what does it do?
[01:32:45]  It forces other people to find other people that have this similar-based normal worldview and who are probably quite genetically similar to each other and create sub-communities and feel a sense of confidence that there'll be others that will back you up, which there is.
[01:32:59]  So it polarizes to such a degree.
[01:33:01]  Yes.
[01:33:02]  And it also turns the country into an entirely sort of hall monitor country where the people in charge, they're not just like, oh, we need to worry about making sure everything runs.
[01:33:14]  No, we need to make sure the ideological conformity of the entire nation.
[01:33:18]  And so it's going to be C.S. Lewis's people who persecute you with the approval of their own consciences.
[01:33:24]  Because at least the robber barons are like, okay, I've taken your money.
[01:33:26]  I'm going to leave you alone now.
[01:33:27]  Are these people going to take your money?
[01:33:29]  And they're going to continue persecuting you without rest.
[01:33:33]  It's just unbelievable.
[01:33:34]  Anyway, we're out of time there.
[01:33:35]  So, Ed, where can people find more from you if they'd like more?
[01:33:38]  Oh, they can.
[01:33:39]  There's a Jolly Heretic, which is on YouTube and on the old Substack.
[01:33:44]  And then I live stream on Mondays at 7 p.m. UK time on Twitter and on YouTube.
[01:33:49]  I noticed, by the way, there's something going on with Twitter.
[01:33:52]  You have far fewer live viewers on Twitter than you used to have.
[01:33:55]  I've been noticing this for weeks.
[01:33:57]  And I've had the same thing.
[01:33:58]  Yeah, I don't know what's going on with Twitter.
[01:33:59]  I have no idea.
[01:34:00]  Anyway, and then I'm on Twitter at JollyHeretic.
[01:34:03]  And so that.
[01:34:04]  I never actually watch live streams on Twitter.
[01:34:06]  Okay, well.
[01:34:07]  Twitter's not a good platform for video and live stream yet.
[01:34:10]  Sorry, it needs a video tab because it refreshes and suddenly everything's gone.
[01:34:14]  And it's like, okay, I was watching that.
[01:34:16]  You could have live comments downside.
[01:34:18]  Yeah, and yeah, there's no live chat or anything like that.
[01:34:20]  And it's not a good platform for video at the moment.
[01:34:23]  Anyway, don't forget, link in the description to come to our live event, and we will see you Tomorrow