Ep. 1391 - Anti-Human Eco Brats Deface One Of The Oldest Monuments On Earth
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the anti-human climate alarmist brats are at it again. This time, they defaced one of the oldest and most historically significant monuments on the planet. These people don't love the planet. They just hate humanity. Also, Louisiana is mandating a copy of the Ten Commandments for every classroom in the state. The usual suspects are claiming that this is an attack on the First Amendment. I'll explain why that's ridiculous. And, the "bio-hacking" movement continues to grow. These are people who think that dying is a choice, rather than an inevitable fact of human existence.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, the anti-human climate alarmist brats are at it again.
This time they defaced one of the oldest and most historically significant monuments on the planet.
These people don't love the planet, they just hate humanity.
Also, Louisiana is mandating a copy of the Ten Commandments for every classroom in the state.
The usual suspects are claiming this is an attack on the First Amendment.
I'll explain why that's ridiculous.
And the biohacking movement continues to grow.
These are people who think that dying is a choice rather than an inevitable fact of human existence.
We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Here's a little bit of ancient history that suddenly become relevant again.
39 years ago this month, just ahead of the summer solstice, the Battle of the Beanfield took place in Wiltshire, England.
Now, this wasn't a battle in the traditional military sense.
It was a violent confrontation between a convoy of around 600 New Age hippies and roughly 1,000 police officers.
The police officers were there to enforce an injunction preventing the hippies from holding a festival at Stonehenge.
The injunction was necessary because just one year earlier, around 100,000 hippies had, as hippies tend to do, caused tens of thousands of dollars in property damage to trees, fences, and several archaeological artifacts in the area, including Stonehenge itself.
So, in 1985, the authorities understandably wanted to prevent any more hippie carnage from being inflicted on Stonehenge, and they set up a roadblock several miles away to turn the new-age travelers, quote-unquote, away.
And that's when, according to the BBC, quote, police said they came under attack, being pelted with lumps of wood, stones, and even petrol bombs.
Of course, to this day, the hippies maintain that the police were the aggressors.
That's probably not true, but it certainly appears the police officers used significant force once mayhem broke out.
At one point, the police reportedly threw fire extinguishers and stones at the hippies to keep them from fleeing.
And in any event, ultimately, two dozen people were hospitalized, more than 500 hippies were arrested, and by most accounts, the Battle of the Beanfield marked the single largest mass arrest in the history of England, at least since World War II.
Now, I'm opening with the Battle of the Beanfield because, well, it's just interesting trivia, but it also illustrates a couple of things.
First of all, it demonstrates an obvious point, which is that the use of force by police officers does indeed deter lawlessness.
You don't have to endorse all the tactics the police used that day in order to see that.
In the years after the Battle of the Beanfield, there were still some hippies who tried to throw a festival at Stonehenge for the summer solstice, but it was nothing like what happened in 1985.
For the most part, the hippies got the message loud and clear and were whipped into shape.
But the other important takeaway is that, for whatever reason, Stonehenge has long been an object of fixation for anti-social, anti-civilization, anti-human weirdos.
And most likely interest stems from the mystique of Stonehenge.
Stonehenge was constructed more than 5,000 years ago without the benefit of the wheel, and it's still unclear to archaeologists exactly how the builders pulled that off, or even who exactly the builders were.
It's one of the most impressive monuments ever built in human history, and so it kind of makes sense that listless, uninteresting people would latch on to Stonehenge in a desperate attempt to imbue their own lives with more meaning.
And that brings us to the events that took place at Stonehenge yesterday.
A couple of vandals associated with the group Just Stop Oil, one aged 73, the other aged 21, charged towards Stonehenge and began blanking it with some kind of orange powder paint.
Watch.
Watch.
(people shouting)
(wind blowing)
(people shouting)
(upbeat music)
Damned hippies.
You know, there are people who think that Stonehenge has some sort of like mystical power to it and I think that it doesn't because by now like it would have put a curse on all the hippies that they keep harassing it.
Maybe it has.
Maybe that's why they're hippies.
Actually, that's an interesting theory.
Anyway, as you can see, it fell to a tourist to stop these two people from defacing Stonehenge.
There were no police officers nearby to immediately detain them, so a random guy on vacation had to step up to preserve one of the most famous structures in the entire world.
And we've seen this again and again.
When vandals dumped pink powder on the case containing the U.S.
Constitution at the National Archives Rotunda in February, no security guards lifted a finger to stop them.
Late last year, activists with Just Stop Oil were able to throw soup on a Van Gogh painting, then glue themselves to the wall, all without anybody intervening.
And of course, on too many occasions to count, these kinds of activists have obstructed traffic with impunity.
They get away with it so consistently because, at some level, they have the tacit endorsement of the state.
Now, I've talked extensively about these brats before on the show.
But even with all those other incidents in mind, to me this latest attack on Stonehenge is especially egregious.
Defacing a monument as ancient as Stonehenge is really an attack on humanity.
I mean, defacing any monument, any work of art, is an attack on humanity.
But when it's something as ancient as this, it just becomes, again, all the more egregious.
The fact that Stonehenge is still standing is a testament to human ingenuity and resourcefulness that's hard to comprehend, even to this day.
That's why there's so much mystery surrounding it, thousands of years later.
The only people who'd want to deface or destroy Stonehenge and erase the evidence of humanity's accomplishments are people who despise humanity itself.
Now, it's the same reason why climate activists want everyone to stop having children.
It's the same reason they want to end fossil fuels and crash the global economy.
They're not really concerned about global temperatures rising by a degree or two.
They want humanity to go extinct.
In comments to the media, Just Stop Oil has denied all this.
They've claimed that this orange cornflower paint is going to wash away in the rain, so it's not really vandalism.
Of course, Just Stop Oil has made that same claim before when they vandalized several other monuments and it turned out to be false.
And additionally, there are apparently 80 species of lichen on Stonehenge that might be dead now, including rare species that scientists want to preserve.
They're still trying to figure out the precise extent of the damage, and even if it does all wash away, they still have no right to use an ancient monument as a platform for their delusional political statements.
So even if the paint does come off, the point remains the same.
These activists are fundamentally anti-human, and they're becoming increasingly emboldened.
In a video message, the 21-year-old Stonehenge attacker, who apparently, and not surprisingly, identifies as non-binary, explained why they, them, Zimzer, decided to deface the monument.
Watch.
My name's Niamh, I'm 21 and I'm a student at the University of Oxford.
Today I'm taking action with just a vote to demand that the UK government commits to signing the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and promises to stop burning fossil fuels by 2030.
To refuse to do so is to warrant death, destruction and suffering on an absolutely immense and immeasurable scale.
Today we'll be taking action at Stonehenge the day before the solstice.
Okay, so a few things to note here.
First of all, there's something that physicians refer to as the gestalt.
Gestalt.
That includes a person's general appearance, tone of voice, etc.
And it's a little bit concerning here.
First of all, this person is whispering for some reason, which comes off as a little unsettled.
Probably because, you know, the parents are in the next room, we could probably assume.
On top of that, this non-binary activist is also wearing a Patagonia shirt.
Even though Patagonia admits on its website that its vast array of suppliers, by necessity, rely on fossil fuels to conduct operations.
They emit something like 200,000 metric tons of CO2 every year.
So I guess we're meant to conclude that ending fossil fuels is important, except when non-binary University of Oxford students need a nice sweater vest or t-shirt.
Then the fossil fuels are okay.
Of course, every accusation is really an admission with these people, and when these activists warn of death and destruction and devastation on an immeasurable scale, they're actually revealing precisely what groups like Just Stop Oil want to happen.
It's what they know will happen if Western nations did stop producing fossil fuels, which supply an overwhelming majority of the world's energy.
We'd be taken over by China in about a week, and civilization as we know it would come to an end.
For some reason, that appears to be what significant number of young people now want to happen.
They've been indoctrinated into what is clearly a nihilistic death cult.
And on social media, many of these young people are now celebrating what just happened at Stonehenge.
On Twitter, Olly London posted an image of a blue-haired British archaeologist with she-they pronouns who wrote that the attack was, quote, well done.
This is an archaeologist who says, well done.
When someone defaces one of the most important archaeological sites on the planet.
More than 10,000 people liked that particular tweet, which gives you some indication of how popular the sentiment is.
Now, it's not hard to see why this is becoming a trend.
For one thing, there's a lot of money in it.
As Fox News reported late last year, the Beverly Hills, California-based Climate Emergency Fund, or CEF, sent roughly $4 million in grants overseas in 2022 alone.
Quote, the most sizable slice of these grants was wired to UK climate activists.
The largest beneficiary of CEF's funds appeared to be Just Stop Oil, a British activist group that has repeatedly made headlines for stopping traffics and disrupting public places across the UK.
And that is just one dark money group based in the United States.
Of others.
So that amateur-quality creepy video you just saw from the non-binary activists may have been amateurish on purpose.
In reality, Just Stop Oil is an extremely well-funded operation.
They could have sprung for better production quality if they wanted to.
But they don't.
Because the impression that this is some sort of grassroots organic movement, that's part of the performance here.
But it is all a performance.
So-called environmental activism is, in fact, a very big business, and a lot of people are making a lot of money on it from sources that we can't identify.
That could be one reason the whole movement is attractive to young people, many of whom are now looking for jobs.
On top of that, of course, government officials all over the world have become propagandists who indoctrinate young people as a matter of course.
Here, for example, is New York Governor Kathy Hochul warning of an impending heat emergency in the city.
Very scary stuff, watch.
This is not a natural hot weather stretch for us here in the state of New York, especially upstate.
But we are going to be seeing temperatures at levels we have not seen in our lifetimes.
And I want to update New Yorkers on what we're doing about this significant public health event.
Right now, everywhere north of New York City is under a heat advisory, and it's only going to get worse.
Starting today in the Genesee Valley and the Finger Lakes, and starting tomorrow, extreme heat will hit everywhere in the great state of New York.
Now what does this mean?
It's a dangerous mix of high temperatures and extreme humidity, causing feels-like temperature of over 100 degrees.
Now that's hot.
Now, the central claim that Kathy Hochul is making that New York has never before seen temperatures that feel like 100 degrees is completely false.
It's so obviously false that you could disprove it with about five seconds of Googling.
According to the National Weather Service, the highest temperature ever recorded in New York City's Central Park was 106 degrees Fahrenheit all the way back in July of 1936.
And that's the actual temperature, not the heat index.
Before that, there was a heat wave in 1896 that killed more than 1,000 people as temperatures exceeded 90 degrees.
The National Weather Service reports that the warmest month on record in New York was all the way back in July of 1999, and in several years since, New York has hit 100 degrees on several occasions.
Also, you know, it's the summertime, and so it gets hot in the summer.
There's a reason why we always see the renewed push for climate alarmism in the summer, because that's when it gets hot, because it's supposed to be hot, because it's the summer.
So what Kathy Hochul is saying is wrong for about a million reasons, but she said it anyway because she knows it's effective.
People hear what she's saying, especially young people, and they believe it.
And they become panicked.
They think that we really are headed towards some sort of apocalypse.
They become activists and loyal voters for the Democrats.
And unless they're met with force, as they were at the Battle of the Beanfield, Some of those activists will continue to deface priceless historical artifacts to attract attention to their nihilistic death cult.
They'll continue to block roadways, preventing people from going to work, preventing ambulances from transporting patients.
Appeasing these cultists simply does not work.
Letting them do whatever they want obviously does not work.
That much is now very clear.
If we want to have any monuments or any history left at all, we need to take the threat as seriously as the British did in 1985 and shut them down.
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AP reports, although the AP is not happy.
Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom.
The latest move from a GOP-dominated legislature pushing a conservative agenda under a new governor.
Can you imagine that?
The media is shocked and appalled.
To have Republican legislatures that are actually pushing Republican agendas.
So anytime you see it happen, you're taken aback by it.
The legislation that Republican Governor Jeff Landry signed into law on Wednesday requires a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in large, easily readable font in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities.
Landry said, if you want to respect the rule of law, you've got to start with the original lawgiver, which was Moses.
Opponents questioned the law's constitutionality and vowed to challenge it in court.
Proponents said the measure is not solely religious, but that it has historical significance.
In the language of the law, the Ten Commandments are foundational documents of our state and national government.
The posters, which will be paired with a four-paragraph context statement describing how the Ten Commandments were a prominent part of the American public education for almost three centuries, must be in place in classrooms by the start of 2025.
And also worth noting under the law state funds will not be used to implement the mandate the posters would be paid for
through donations So
The law also authorizes but does not require the display of other items in k-12 public schools including
The Mayflower compact which was signed by religious pilgrims aboard the Mayflower in 1620
It's often referred to as America's first constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Northwest Ordinance, which established a government in Northwest Territory, and created a pathway for admitting new states to the Union.
So, you can display that, you don't have to, but you do have to display the Ten Commandments.
So, this will obviously be challenged in court.
Will it survive the court challenges?
I don't know.
It'll be a tough road, given the makeup of the courts.
Should it survive the challenges?
Yes.
Of course it should.
Now, as you would expect, and as mentioned in the article, people are upset about this policy, and that's not surprising.
It makes a lot of sense, and it certainly makes a hell of a lot more sense to have the Ten Commandments in classrooms than to have, say, pride flags and all of that kind of nonsense.
The Ten Commandments serve as the moral foundation for our system of law.
Not just ours, but all of Western civilization.
So even if you look at them from a purely secular perspective, from that point of view, You would have to at least acknowledge that they are the most influential set of rules or laws ever set down.
I mean, there's no doubt about it.
So they are highly relevant from an historical perspective, from a legal perspective, from an anthropological perspective, and that's, again, without even getting into the biblical, moral, spiritual perspective.
And all that means That it's relevant from an educational perspective.
Because history, the law, anthropology, all of these things are supposed to be part of a child's education.
Every child in school should know the Ten Commandments.
In order to be literate and to possess the most basic knowledge of history and human society, you need to know the Ten Commandments.
So it should be a part of A child's education.
Now, compare this again to, for example, pride flags.
Most of the people who oppose Ten Commandments in the classroom support having pride flags in the classroom.
And this is an important comparison because, you know, the reality probably is that I don't know if this is the case.
Putting the Ten Commandments in the classroom does not need to be a response to anything that the left is doing.
It's a good idea on its own terms.
But I also think it's highly likely that if the left had not spent the last many years going massively overboard trying to inject Even the most radical elements of their ideological agenda into the classroom, if they had not done that, then, I don't know, would Louisiana have passed this law?
Again, they should regardless.
But I think there is also an attitude from some on the right, which I totally understand, of course, Which is that, okay, if this is what you guys are going to do, if this is how you want to play it, you know, if you're going to put pride flags in the classroom, then we're putting the Ten Commandments in the classroom.
And there's a much better argument, of course, for the Ten Commandments than pride flags.
What's the value of a pride flag or any kind of gay pride paraphernalia in the classroom?
What's the value?
What's the educational value?
Does the concept of gay pride have any real historical relevance?
It doesn't.
It's only like five minutes ago that anyone ever talked about gay pride.
The concept... Okay, mid-20th century at the earliest is as far as you can go back.
You go any farther back than that and you go to anybody and you talk about gay pride, they would look at you like, what are you, they wouldn't even understand what you're saying.
So, does it serve as the foundation for anything in our society?
No.
Is there any real academic value to children learning about the pride flag and what it means?
You know, if you meet a child who can tell you all about the pride flag and rattle off the history of it and point to the different colors and tell you what they stand for, if you meet a child who is in that unfortunate position where they know all that stuff, is that an indication that this is a really well-educated child?
No.
Can a child be literate and well-informed and educated and yet not know anything about the pride flag?
Yes.
So, it's pretty clear which of the two wins out in this contest.
As opposed to, a child gets through public schooling and graduates, And if he doesn't know anything about the Bible, if he cannot tell you what the Ten Commandments are, can't even give you five of the ten or something, can't tell you anything about the Bible, well then that tells you that his education was sorely lacking.
There's a basic level of literacy and historical understanding that he lacks.
Now, does it violate the First Amendment to have the Ten Commandments in the classroom?
My answer to that is, are you stupid?
What kind of question is that?
I know they're going to be able to find activist judges who say, oh, this is an infringement on the First Amendment.
I know that's going to happen.
But it's still stupid.
Of course it does not violate the First Amendment.
You know, the First Amendment, what does the First Amendment, when it comes to religion, what prohibitions or restrictions does the First Amendment put on the government?
Well, there's one.
It forbids Congress from making a law respecting the establishment of religion.
That's what the First Amendment does.
So, we have to ask ourselves, The Louisiana Legislature.
Is it Congress?
No.
Did they pass a law respecting an establishment of religion or imposing a state religion?
No.
So, it's got nothing to do with the First Amendment.
It is not any kind of infringement on the First Amendment.
I know in recent times we have been told That really the First Amendment means that religion cannot be acknowledged, can't even be acknowledged, in any kind of public setting, particularly in any kind of setting where the government is... The way we look at it now is, according to the First Amendment, this is probably, if you talk to the average person, you ask them, like, well, what does the First Amendment say about religion?
What restrictions are there?
And they would probably tell you this.
They would probably tell you that basically the First Amendment says, because they couldn't quote it to you, but they'd tell you that basically the First Amendment says that the government can't say anything about, can't even, can't acknowledge religion.
It's like religion doesn't exist as far as the government's concerned.
But that is not the case.
And the good news here also is that the Ten Commandments are a part of multiple major world religions.
So that's all the more reason why Louisiana cannot be accused of establishing or respecting a, you know, imposing a state religion.
That's clearly not happening.
All they're really imposing, if anything, is a well-rounded education on children who are in the public school system.
Children who will now, because of the Ten Commandments being in the classroom, will now be exposed to such controversial and provocative ideas such as, like, don't kill people.
Respect your parents.
Don't steal.
These are the provocative, outrageous, controversial ideas that the left is now worried kids might be exposed to.
They're gonna be confused!
And they might be confused.
It might create some awkward questions for some of these kids.
And that's a good thing, if it gets them thinking.
Who knows?
Maybe some of them will come home and they'll say, hey, I saw the Ten Commandments in the classroom and it says, thou shalt not kill But you mom told me that abortion is okay.
How does that work?
Maybe we'll get some of the kids to ask those questions to their parents.
Questions those parents will not be able to answer.
Speaking of pride flags, as we were a moment ago, here's USA Today.
Happy pride from the White House.
Well, the Eisenhower Executive Office building adjacent to the West Wing, where Vice President Kamala Harris was busy queering up the nation's capital Thursday, Harris chatted with the creators and cast of Queer Eye, both Bravo's original Queer Eye from the Straight Guy series and Netflix's revamped Queer Eye, in honor of the show's approximately 20th anniversary.
So this show's still on the air and it's been on for 20 years.
So the cast of Queer Eye showed up at the White House And here's one of the many videos that they posted.
We see them walking across the White House lawn and meeting the first lady, or rather the, whatever she is, the vice president.
Let's watch.
Thanks for watching.
Hi!
Hi!
Can we talk?
Come on in.
Yes!
(upbeat music)
Just so you know, we're gonna fight every urge not to open drawers, and it's in our DNA.
See, there's John Lewis.
Yeah.
So there we are on the Edmund Pettus Bridge deck.
Oh, wow.
Honey!
How are you doing?
I'm proud of my president.
[MUSIC]
Okay, so you see the guy there wearing a dress.
And this is, as far as I know, a guy who identifies as a guy.
Not that it matters, but...
As far as I'm aware, he's not even trying to present himself as female or whatever.
He's just wearing a dress.
Because he wants to.
Wearing it to the White House.
And Kamala Harris has to pretend to take him seriously dressed like that.
You know, we're always told, of course, that it's just a social construct that says that men shouldn't wear dresses.
Right?
This is what they tell us.
Well, who says that men shouldn't wear dresses?
It's a social construct.
Society just came up with that arbitrarily.
It's artificial.
There's no actual real reason why dresses are womanly, is what we're told.
Well, the funny thing is that any man who tries to prove that theory We'll always inevitably wind up proving the opposite.
Because when you see men dressed like this, it's extremely clear that these sorts of outfits are not meant for men to wear.
Nobody looks at that and thinks that it looks good.
Nobody does.
Nobody sees a man in a dress and really honestly thinks in their own minds, wow, that looks great.
Nobody does.
It's awkward.
We all know that it's awkward.
An alien from another planet could land here, having no knowledge of any of our social constructs, and they would see that outfit and they would say, what's going on here?
What the hell is that guy wearing?
So we all know that.
This guy kept parading himself around like this at the White House.
Here he is in the briefing room talking to reporters.
JVN, is it true that this is all your natural hair?
Yes, I can confirm that this is not a wig.
Do you use your own products?
Go ahead, I'm ready.
JVN.
Oh, yes.
Is it true that it's all your natural hair?
Yes, I can confirm that this is not a wig.
Follow up question.
Do you use your own products?
I do use JVN hair, actually exclusively for over four years.
Next question.
(laughing)
Is it true Karamo is your favorite member of the Fab Five?
I will say that I can confirm that Karamo Brown is my favorite member of the Fab Five.
I also have a very strict rule that if I'm only with one of our castmates, they are, in fact, my favorite.
Well, hey, it's just the White House.
I mean, why not turn it into a complete mockery?
I'm actually quite glad that they're doing this.
I think it's great.
Please continue.
Please do more of this kind of thing.
What was the phrase that the USA Today article used?
Queering up the White House.
That's not my phrase.
That's not my phrase.
USA Today, very happy about this, and they said queering up the nation's capital.
So, to borrow a phrase, yeah, go ahead and continue queering up the nation's capital a few months out from the election.
Yes, please do.
Please spend the next few months pulling stunts like this.
Invite as many men in dresses as you want.
Do as many TikTok videos celebrating the queering of the White House as you want to do.
Let voters see this.
Let them decide if they want more of this or not.
Because I think that most voters will check the not box on this one.
People want normal.
Okay, do you know what people really want the most?
They want normal.
That's the thing people want.
They just want things to be normal again.
Really, I don't care whatever the polls say, the surveys, what people's top priorities are.
This is a question that's not really, that's not generally asked in polls, but I'm telling you what people want the most.
They just want to live in a normal country again, and that's what they want.
Right?
And that's what they want.
That's the country they want their kids to live in.
And they want to be governed by just serious people who take their job seriously.
And the side that parades men in dresses around at the White House, well, that cannot be the side that represents normalcy, that's for sure.
They don't even pretend to.
I mean, this is a side that uses terms like normative as a pejorative.
This is a side that opposes normalcy.
They militate against normalcy.
They see normalcy as a bad thing.
The whole reason why they celebrate a man wearing a dress is that it is not normal.
So it's not me saying it's not normal.
They would say, yeah, you're damn right it's not normal.
What's so great about normal?
We want more abnormal, so that's what they want.
It's abnormal versus normal.
And again, that's the whole reason they do this.
They don't want normal.
They hate normal.
And I think it's good that they hate normal as publicly and loudly and obviously and obnoxiously as possible for the next few months.
Let's see, it's from Reuters.
U.S.
Senators on Tuesday attacked the CEO of Boeing for the plane maker's tarnished safety record, overshadowing his apology to families who lost loved ones in two 737 MAX crashes and acceptance of responsibility after a January midair emergency.
Chief Executive David Calhoun faced repeated questions about how much he's paid, Boeing's safety culture, and why he is not immediately resigning instead of retiring by year's end.
This is at a hearing before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
We have, I think we have one clip from this.
This is Josh Hawley, who's Interrogating the CEO of Boeing, especially about how much he's paid about his compensation, which is quite, as you might expect, is quite sizable.
Let's listen to that.
What is it that you get paid currently?
Senator, that's well disclosed in our proxy documents in each of the years that I've been employed.
Yeah, but what is it?
It's a big number, sir.
Well, let me help you out.
It's $32.8 million this year.
Does that sound right?
Yes, it does.
That's a 45% increase over last year.
Does that sound right?
Yes, it does.
What is it you get paid to do exactly?
I get paid to run the Boeing company.
Yeah.
So, just help me understand that.
I mean, do you get paid for transparency?
Is that, is that part of, is that one of the metrics for your income?
I think the board counts on me for transparency.
Really?
Because you're under investigation for falsifying 787 inspection records.
The Boeing's under criminal investigation for the Alaska Airlines flight.
You were investigated by DOJ for criminal conspiracy to defraud the FAA.
This is all in your tenure.
This doesn't sound like a lot of transparency to me.
What about safety?
Is that a component of your salary?
It sure is, Senator.
You know, have you seen the reports that the subcontractor that you used to make that door piece that fell out of the sky, that when the FAA went and toured the facility, they found one door seal being lubricated with Dawn liquid dish soap and cleaned with a wet cheesecloth, and another was being checked with a hotel room keycard.
Does that sound like safety to you?
Senator, I think our relationship with that particular supplier has been well
documented, reviewed by the FAA, and most certainly us.
And I'm very intent on acquiring that company so that none of that ever happens.
Okay, so it was a, you know, it's good grilling by Holly, who I like as a senator, and it goes on for another five
minutes, which is,
you know, which is good, but I do have to confess I just get so tired of this routine.
These hearings that are so transparently just opportunities for politicians to put together highlight reels for their campaign videos and try to go viral and all the rest of it.
When is the last time anyone even asked a real question in a hearing?
Isn't the idea of a hearing to actually try to get answers to questions that you don't already know the answer to?
I mean, call me naive, but I thought that that's ideally the purpose, is to actually find something out.
Find information that you can then act on in some way.
To change, to make a change.
Which involves asking questions we don't already know the answer to.
And I just get tired of these hearings where they don't even actually ask any questions.
They just make statements and then tack a question mark onto the end of it.
And no, I'm not saying anything that you don't already know.
It's all politics, obviously, but we're at a point now where everything is performance all the time.
Everything that happens in Washington, every hearing, everything is just performance always.
Nothing serious or real is happening ever at all.
So maybe I'll be proven wrong in this particular case.
Boeing should be held accountable.
Their safety record has not been good and it's getting worse.
And there are a lot of really important questions that should be asked about DEI at Boeing.
And what their priorities really are.
And maybe Boeing will actually be held accountable.
They should be.
Maybe there will be a federal prosecution that leads to real change and a safer airline industry.
There should be that too.
I hope so.
I just have no faith in that actually happening.
I think most likely nothing at all will change.
They just do these hearings.
It's the constant... And it's all content now for social media.
And they do all these hearings.
That's part of their job, is to have hearings.
I get it.
But in how many cases have... How many times have we seen these hearings?
And we see these great moments with people asking great questions.
Or even if it's not a question, they're saying things that are, you know, they're putting somebody on the spot and all of that.
And it's great.
You say, yeah, I got them.
Amen.
How many times have we seen that?
And then you check back in on the story six months later, a year later, and you say, whatever happened with that?
Oh, nothing at all.
How many times did we see this with Fauci in all these hearings being grilled, and if not grilled, then at least sitting there while he's lectured by some of the Republicans in these hearings, but then nothing happens.
Nothing happened to him.
Nothing at all happened.
Maybe it'll be different in this case.
We can hope so.
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This is the effort to extend your life by making changes to your body and your lifestyle.
On the surface, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the concept.
The only thing wrong with it is that they've created a cringy new name for something that is not a new or revolutionary idea.
Trying to be healthy is not a hack.
In fact, if anything, it's the opposite of a hack.
You're not cheating or doing anything complicated or sneaky, which is what hack implies.
Human biology really can't be hacked, and if it can, living a healthy lifestyle would not qualify as a hack.
That's just you living how you should live.
The problem is that the biohacking folks are, in many cases, not merely proponents of living healthy lifestyles.
Instead, they employ extreme measures to stave off the inevitable.
The most infamous example, of course, is the tech CEO Brian Johnson, who, among other things, took blood infusions from his teenage son to try and make himself younger.
Didn't work.
Because despite what he may think and how he may look, arguably, he is not actually a vampire.
Yesterday on Twitter I saw a post from another of these types.
This guy, as far as I know, is not trying to steal the life force from his own children, so credit where it's due on that front, but he is employing other slightly less creepy but still rather cumbersome strategies to extend his life.
He posted this.
Quote, I take more than 40 supplements a day.
At 41, my biological age is just 27.
If this picture makes you cringe, you need to understand the science behind why it works.
Now, here's the picture that he thinks might make us cringe, and he's right.
That's a hell of a lot of pills for one person to take every single day.
In fact, I can safely say that this guy, Sean Kelly is his name, takes more supplements in a single day than I have in my entire life.
Later in the thread he posts, quote, this is my life force score.
My doctor told me it's one of the highest she's ever seen.
I get my blood tested every quarter through Go Life Force to track my biomarkers.
Then he gives his code, his promotional code.
These tests show me how various supplements and lifestyle changes impact my biology.
I will admit that I haven't done much or any research on this, but it certainly seems, just from an intuitive perspective, that 280 supplements a week is probably not healthy.
Not healthy for your wallet, and even less for your physical body.
The human body was not meant to process all of that.
We're not designed for that.
Which is why this is not necessary to live a long life.
Go up to any 90-year-old and ask them how many daily supplements they took to get them to 90 years old.
I guarantee none of them will say 40 a day.
In fact, I guarantee most of them will probably say zero.
So this is not necessary to be healthy and there's very good reason to suspect that it's probably injurious to your health to take that much of it every single day.
But that's not even the most important point as far as I'm concerned.
The most important point is that this kind of lifestyle reveals an extreme level of denial and delusion.
A refusal to accept what's inevitable for all of us.
I made that point in response to this guy's post, a point that I'll flesh out in just a moment, but I want to read a response from the aforementioned Brian Johnson, who joined the conversation and responded to me chiming in with this.
He says, "99% of those living can't see the future when it arrives.
At any other time in history, it's easy to YOLO your way to justify debauchery,
self-destruction, and indulgent behaviors as the virtuous way to live.
On the eve of giving birth to superintelligence, we no longer know how long and how well we can live.
A different era is now present, whether it can be seen or not."
The question is not whether health habits of today will punch through the 120 ceiling.
Rather, it's if we can create the new systems and norms to systematically eliminate the current die culture, which creates disease, misery, and impairment.
Don't die will supersede die, simply because we can.
Sean Kelly responded in agreement, writing, quote, So true.
And the wild thing, Brian, is how many people are just willing to accept death and disease like it's their destiny.
Most people die today from diseases that are highly preventable.
Almost certainly be even more highly preventable in the future.
One of my goals, and believe also is yours, is to help people not die from things they can avoid.
Pretty simple concept.
And this path is anti-disease and anti-early death.
Does not have to be a horrible experience.
People act like living a healthy life is miserable today and only beneficial to the future self.
Does not have to be true.
You could extend your health span and Okay, now some of what both these guys said is true.
Brian Johnson's right that you shouldn't be self-destructive and overindulgent.
Sean Kelly's right that living a healthy life need not be miserable.
The main point of being healthy is to live a better life in the present.
All of that is true.
I take no issue with any of that.
But if you sift through the true stuff, you will find, buried not so subtly in the middle of it, Pure delusion.
I mean, Brian Johnson says we live in a die culture and don't die must supersede it.
And Sean Kelly says that people should not accept that death and disease are their destiny.
Now herein lies the problem.
Physical death is in fact the destiny of every mortal creature who walks the earth.
Or has ever walked the earth.
Or will ever walk it.
We don't live in a die culture.
Dying is not a part of our culture.
It's not some kind of cultural tradition we've come up with.
It's a physical reality.
Don't die is not a strategy.
It's not a philosophy.
It's not a lifestyle option.
It's pure denial.
It's an impotent slogan shouted by people who are too afraid to face reality for what it is.
And the reality is this.
We will all die.
You can take 40 supplements a day and get blood transfusions and employ all the latest and most up-to-date, trendy biohacking strategies.
You can live every moment of your life trying not to die, but you still will.
Not only will you die, but you'll die around the same time that everyone else does.
You'll live for 80 or 90 years, most likely, and then you'll die.
Or maybe you'll die much earlier than that.
You could be a 41-year-old man in perfect health with a biological age of 27, whatever the hell that means, and then cross the street and get hit by a bus.
That could easily happen.
Or maybe you will succeed in extending your life a significant amount.
It's unlikely, but it could happen.
What's a significant amount?
I mean, maybe you live up to be 100, 110, 115.
There have been people who've lived 120.
With all of your biohacking, you've bought yourself 35 extra years beyond the average lifespan, let's say.
That's very ambitious.
Almost certainly isn't going to happen.
Well, what if it does?
In fact, let's be extremely ambitious and go with something that's like never happened before and say, well, what if you could live to 150 with your biohacking?
Right?
Well, okay.
But what then?
You're still going to die.
And the reward for all of your effort is that you get to live the final 20, 30, 50 years of your life without any of the people you know or love, who have all died before you.
You get to witness the deaths of your children.
You get to be old and frail and lonely for a very long time.
You win, I guess.
Congratulations.
Your prize is that you still have to die.
That's your prize.
And when you die, you'll be just as dead as everyone else who didn't biohack.
The biohacked corpse and the regular corpse will be indistinguishable in the grave.
Now, I'm not trying to be a buzzkill.
I just want everyone to live in reality.
And I don't mean to discourage anyone from trying to be healthy.
It's good to be healthy.
But there is no path to a truly healthy, truly happy, truly fulfilled life that does not begin with truth.
And the truth is that you will die.
The most important fact about your life is that it will end.
If you spend your life trying, first and foremost, to avoid its end by any cost, you will have wasted it.
You will have spent your precious time on Earth on the most futile pursuit of all.
You'll be like a child at the playground who spends the whole time whining that soon he's going to have to leave it.
He's so focused on not leaving that he never enjoyed actually being there.
This is the way that so many people approach life.
So don't do that.
Eat healthy.
Yes.
Get some exercise.
Also, like, enjoy a dessert every once in a while.
Have a drink.
Say your prayers.
Love your family.
Do something worthwhile with your time here.
And accept that you will die.
That's not such a depressing view of things, is it?
Even if it is, it doesn't matter.
Because it's just the way it is.
And that's why the biohackers are today cancelled.
