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Chapter 1: Who is Keith Knight and what is the Libertarian Institute?
He is the managing director of the Libertarian Institute. Also, he is the author of Domestic Imperialism, phenomenal book. I highly, highly recommend it. And of course, you guys over at the Libertarian Institute, we mentioned this when Scott was on last week, but you guys are in the middle of your fund drive.
So why don't you real quickly, before we get into the show, tell people about the Institute and the fundraiser and how they can help.
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yeah dude i mean i've i've been saying this at this point because me and you both like we've we've known each other for years now and i've known scott for years and i knew i remember when scott was first starting up the libertarian institute when it was just an idea and then kind of watching it get bigger over the years and at this point it really is like people will ask me like oh what's a good reading list to get started
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Chapter 2: What is the woke left and how does it view economic disparities?
and i've been more and more finding myself going just go look at the books the libertarian institute has published i mean they really are like like i i your book domestic imperialism was phenomenal the um the best book on ukraine the best book on covid that i mean like literally like i'm not exaggerating if there's one book to read about the ukraine war it's provoked
If there was one book to read about the COVID crisis, it's Diary of a Psychosis by the great Tom Woods. And those are just three of the list of books. What is that? It's got to be 20 books, something like that at this point that the institutes put out. And they're just every last one of them is phenomenal.
So the best organization you can support if you are in a position to do it, please go help those guys out so we can keep doing all this cool stuff. All right. So me and you had talked the other day about doing this show and we were talking about like maybe doing an episode on kind of the woke left and then this argument now over the woke right.
And it just weirdly, we plan this, I promise you have to take my word for it, but we were planning this before I got in a little bit of a Twitter back and forth with Constantine Kassin last night. And it was just maybe part that kind of informed me because that was in my mind too, but it really was, we'll get back to that part, but it really was just like,
It was one of those moments where I just found myself being like, but how can you, the same guy who said this, now be saying this and not have any type of like, you're not feeling like that cognitive dissonance vibe in your mind? Like it's not vibrating right now and you're going, huh, well, I can't really say this because my entire identity was that. And so anyway, this is wild to me.
It's been an interesting kind of online debate. I'm not sure if the term woke right can be revitalized or if it can be appropriately applied, but I think it's an interesting conversation to have nonetheless. So you want to start with the woke left maybe, and then we'll get into the woke right divide, or how do you want to do it?
Sounds good. Let's give the OG wokest their respect before moving on to the new term. Yes, please.
By the way, we could argue this in a second, but I'm not sure they're the OGs, but yes, what everyone thinks of as the OG wokeists.
The ones who popularized the term in my generation, at least. So when it comes to the woke left, This would be anyone who assumes that disparities in wealth are proof of exploitation in the economic realm and anyone who sees disparities in outcomes between groups as proof of discrimination.
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Chapter 3: How does the woke left misinterpret equality and societal roles?
All of these extraordinarily difficult things the average person doesn't have the time for, doesn't want to take the risk. So you have a very small number of people who are willing to engage in those activities. Most of those people do not succeed. The ones who do end up with a disproportionate amount of wealth.
The woke leftists in the economic realm has to ask themselves why we don't see 100% of people getting paid the minimum wage, because that's legally all you have to pay. Everyone could just earn the minimum wage.
Immediately, you see that as a causal result of capital investment, which makes workers more productive, once they get access to telephones, computers, machinery, as far as agriculture goes, each worker becomes more productive. And they're competing with other employers for the best employees. This is what raises wages.
So it's capital investment along with competition, which increases the likelihood that people will acquire wealth. It is not the result of exploitation.
Exactly right. So it strikes me to get a little bit psychological with this in a way, because there is something that I think it's kind of hard if you look at, like, say, the young generation today. This is true of my generation when we were young, too. But it's hard not to see, at least compared to previous generations, how strikingly immature young people are.
I'm just saying objectively, when you look at it, in my grandfather's day, by the time you turned 18, you had already been considered a man for quite a bit. And you were going to, I mean, go fight in a war. You were certainly, if you had finished high school, or even if you hadn't finished high school, you were going to move out of your parents' house. You were going to buy a house.
You were going to start a family. You were going to do what are considered adult things to do. Today, we see, and I'm guilty of this too. I mean, I'm about to be 42. I'm in a hoodie right now. It's just kind of ridiculous. We all are very young. We're very slow to mature. And it does strike me, now being a father,
that even as you say this the only thing that comes into my mind is it's such a childish way of looking at the world and and not just like child like young for a child i mean small children like a 12 year old should be above but the idea that i like i have a three year old and a six year old and if
you know, one of them gets a bigger cookie than the other one, they have an instinct in them to be like, not fair. It's not fair that someone gets more than the other. It is the, and reasonably so, it is the expectation for little children that things will be provided to them in a fair manner. And it does seem to me that this is almost what you see with like woke leftist college students.
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Chapter 4: Is woke ideology losing its influence in current politics?
Men are higher risk takers. The reason 95.5% of people killed by the police are men is not because of a huge sexist issue against men when it comes to the police. Men are much more violent. Younger people are more likely to get killed by the police than older people because younger men have higher levels of testosterone and are much more apt to commit violence.
So we see these disparities everywhere. You would also think in the dating market that if men just had all the power, that women would be constantly going up to guys asking, can I please have sex with you? And if I have sex with you a few times, maybe I could convince you to take me out to dinner. It's the opposite.
It's the guy begging for the woman's attention, saying, I'll take you out a bunch of times and maybe in exchange we could get intimate together. Just every aspect of life. This is not even close to a resembling reality where the men have all the power and the women just have no institutional power at all.
yeah no 100 and of course it does seem that we've in the moment we're living in now it does seem uh like a lot of this stuff is being rejected and i don't know you know it i'm very pleased with that um development uh it's it's really hard to overstate how much just a few years ago It seemed like this was just the dominant trend and we were never going to get away from this.
You know, I remember thinking I was very wrong. This is one of the predictions I was very mistaken about. But I remember thinking when COVID first hit, I was like, this is going to be the end of wokeism. because now we got like real shit that we got to deal with. Like people aren't going to, you know what I mean? Like all this, like me too stuff that dominated the previous two years.
I go, that's not, we're in the middle of lockdowns. Now people are scared of the virus. The government's going totally totalitarian, all of this. I was wrong. The woke ism continued somehow past that. It does seem like now people, There's just and I don't know exactly. I mean, I think part of this is like exhaustion on the woke left itself. It is it is hard to maintain.
We're living in the early 30s rise of the Nazis forever when there's just nothing to back that up around you. I also do think it's a it's part of the dynamic, at least, is that.
the anti-woke crusaders be those kind of right-wingers libertarians the people like us who have been you know talking about this stuff for a long time they just came with such better arguments over and over again that eventually the woke were just destroyed i mean look it's kind of it's a joke when matt walsh can just can destroy your entire world view by asking you what a woman is
You know, how long can you keep going? And in some sense, there is something encouraging about that where I'm not saying it's the entire the entire reason that we're where we are. But there is something, I think, to the fact that logic still has some power. The truth still has some power. And this group of people who were just armed with zero arguments just could not survive.
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Chapter 5: What are the misconceptions about racial issues in policing?
There was never even like a case presented as to why we think this happened because the officer was white. I mean, even though all the guys around Derek Chauvin were like an Asian and a black guy and all that, but it's not as if he said some, it's not like while he was doing it, he was like, yeah, you take that, you black motherfucker. You know what I mean?
Like, it wasn't like there was like a racial aspect to it. It was just like, Oh, well, the victims are black and therefore this must be a racial issue. And that just doesn't make any sense. It's just like on a very simple common sense test.
Like if you if there was a bar fight down the street and it was a white guy got in a fight with a black guy, you wouldn't just immediately go, well, it must have been racism. It's like, well, maybe they were fighting over a girl. Maybe one of them bumped into the other one. There's a million different reasons why.
And it's something, it was crazy that the official movement, it seemed like, never even had to present an argument as to like, well, this is why it's a racial issue. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is sheath underwear. I've been telling you guys about them for years now. And I also like sheath underwear came on.
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Yeah, you would think that you look at the police and you say, all right, they have the right to arrest citizens. Citizens don't have the right to walk up to cops and arrest them. They can stop and see if you're suspicious and maybe search through your car. You don't have the right to do that to them. They have the right to put you in jail if you violate one of their rules.
But you don't have the right to do that to them. They have a monopoly on violence. People look at this and say, all right, they have a monopoly on violence. They give you orders. You must obey them. They're like, there's got to be a racial aspect to this. It's like, do you think that's the same thing? There's a much more plausible explanation for these things.
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Chapter 6: How has the woke narrative been challenged by empirical evidence?
as your source for being skeptical of the Second World War. Churchill wrote a book titled The World Crisis, 1911 to 1918. So let's take it out of the Second World War and just look at Churchill when he's operating in a war that today almost had very few defenders.
Barbara Tuchman will defend the First World War, but everyone more or less looks at it and says, well, this was a mass death, which really could, I mean, as bad as Kaiser Wilhelm was, he was better than what followed. So maybe we should have just tolerated that.
In Churchill's book, The World Crisis, he said that the policy that he enacted as first lord of the admiralty was a deliberate starvation of the population of Germany to push people into submission. He uses the word submission. Men, women and children wounded and sound into submission the whole population of Germany. I don't remember the exact quote, but I know it's on page 672 of that book.
He says this is a policy among the civilian population of Germany. A very pro Churchill historian, Martin Gilbert, said that there were roughly 700,000 deaths as a cause result of this blockade. Meanwhile, Kaiser Wilhelm went to the Netherlands to retire and live the rest of his life.
so it could be that we feel bad for the poor german civilian population that could be an explanation and then in the second world war churchill writes another book titled the gathering storm where he says the human tragedy reaches its climax that after all the exertions and sacrifices of the righteous cause we have found neither peace nor security and we lie in the grip of even worse perils than those we have surmounted
Meaning we fought the war against National Socialism and now the Bolsheviks control East Germany to Vladivostok and have a loose alliance with Mao in China. And they have bases, you know, very close to North Korea, later expanding into Vietnam. So you could use Chamberlain and Churchill as your sources, not David Irving.
There are people in Churchill's cabinet, Charles Percy Snow, who was a science advisor, who gave a series of lectures at Harvard titled Science and Government, where he said – this was in 1961. He said the paper on bombing by Frederick Lindemann, who was known as Viscount Sherwell, went out to –
churchill's cabinet and we found that we could use bombs to make half of the german population homeless especially in cities with more than 50 000 inhabitants so you could use him as a source j.m spate said we were the ones who authorized the initial bombing of civilians in german cities and we knew that this would bring the war into britain but it was necessary because his book is titled bombing vindicated
So he's saying that the sooner you start bombing, the sooner you can get them to wave the white flag and surrender. So you have people, this was the heir principal secretary of the ministry saying, yes, we started the bombing. We should be proud of it. You have Frederick Lindemann himself giving a memorandum to Winston Churchill in May of 1940.
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