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we spend like four times as much on
Health Care per person as France does
for significantly worse service in a
variety of ways um and so the reason
that's not a political issue is because
the more money you spend in healthcare
the bigger the total GDP stat is Kenya
has an economy so Kenya has an economy
six times its size in fact compared to
its GDP stats because the way GDP stats
are measured Kenya is measured at one
six its real size and so what they're
looking at and so I could tell even as a
teenager I could tell when I was 16 or
15 that quality of life had gotten worse
since the 70s because I talked to my
parents and I would watch older movies
and it was obvious from older movies and
my parents that average life had gotten
worse but if you brought that up people
would immediately jump down your throat
and it wasn't even a discussion uh and
it's because total GDP number went up
and if total GDP goes up even if that's
mostly inflation uh then winning it's
this very warped tunnel vision
understanding of the
world okay so um how much do you think
of what is happening right now is just
in inescapable biological cycles and how
much of this is bad ideology that if we
could replace the ideology we could move
in a better Direction who man everything
is itself and yet nothing all things are
connected man um am I going to need to
hit on the bong for the this this answer
yeah so it's hard to disentangle things
I think uh because okay I'm not going to
give you the philosopher answer um a lot
of it's natural cycle a lot of it's our
own stupidity and they're they're
they're mixing together so let's say
imagine you had an infinitely wealthy
Society in an infinitely wealthy Society
people could allow to become infinitely
stupid and so it is this Duality um and
I think
it's it's a combination of them uh but
something that I'm going to find very
fascinating when I'm older is comparing
how different societies have faced this
demographic issue and people like to do
stuff like let's say blame the left or
blame Jews and I'm like you can trace a
lot of this stuff in China and so if a
lot of these same Trends are happening
in China it's not the jews' fault um and
that's really interesting I've not heard
anybody say that before I invented the
idea yeah um where
because China you have feminism birth
rate in China is worse than America's
which is strange because poor countries
tend to have higher birth rates uh China
has uh the Chinese government deals with
this in the funniest way possible I
sorry if you were Chinese I am terribly
sorry you have to live through an
orwellian dystopia for me 6,000 miles
away I can chuckle at it um but in China
and this is again something we need to
talk about as a society but we don't uh
the government is going full
authoritarian and so I can see this as
the parallel between the Western world
and the Eastern world where in the west
the government enables it well in China
they go against it where uh for example
they've planned they've banned playing
video games for too long in China
they've banned women wearing bikinis or
like porn or like even cleavage in
movies because they they don't want men
to uh they don't want men they want to
force men to like get married and like
go out with women in order to to see
boobs and so a really funny thing uh is
that so because women can't wear bikinis
in China they have men wear bikinis to
model the underwear I'm sorry yes
exactly so the Chinese government
doesn't let women wear bikinis publicly
so they have men wear them instead uh
and the Chinese government also bans
homosexuality so what you're looking at
China versus America the Western World
the government enables the mouse Utopia
in China the government actively pushes
against it using
authoritarianism and um and so you can
see the cultural manifestations of the
same underlying Trend where everything I
talk about the psychological Black Death
uh the um psychological Black Death
demographic crisis inequality it's
happening at the same time in both China
and America but it's taking wildly it's
taking you see the same underlying
economic trend manifest wildly
differently in a different civilization
because the context is so different um
and so in America it's right versus left
I think China's going to have a civil
war too I think for them it'll be uh
basically communist Countryside versus
uh capitalist cities where the right
versus the left is weird in China where
uh their hard Marxist left are the
social conservatives and the capitalists
are the socially liberal people so it is
to answer your question it is an
economic thing but it's also it
manifests differently based off the
ruling class and culture why would it be
happening at the same time in the west
and in China these Cycles sink up so um
the last time the last Verge time this
cycle hit was uh mid 19th century and so
Central Europe had the Revolutions of
1848 and then France had the typing
Rebellion 1953 both of which are uh the
typing Rebellion is the third bloodiest
war in history in the 1600s in the year
1645 every major country on Earth was
fighting both an internal Civil War and
an external War at the same time you
have a couple that had it before or
after in the year
1348 uh the entire world was having a
Civil War and the black death um and
then you can go back even further where
the Chinese Empire the Han Dynasty fell
at the same time as the Roman Empire
around 200 ad um around 900 ad the abis
and copit in the Middle East the
Frankish Empire and uh the tong dynasty
in China all fell at the same times
these Cycles are linked historically and
the more interconnected the world is the
more the Cycles are linked and so um and
so what we would what we're seeing now
is roughly approximate social issues
around the world and I I've seen this
living I've lived I lived as a digital
Nomad for a few years so in France there
were these the the the yellow vest riots
were happening so I'd see explosions in
the streets in Peru the Communist Party
had just been elected there um in uh in
Canada they have their issues America
has issues China right after I went
there it became authoritarian um and
they shut down people from the West
India is having its nationalism Russia
is having a war with Ukraine uh the
European Union having is having its
crisis Brazil Brazil's getting really
and so this is a normal historic thing
where different areas of the world uh
often experience their own crisis at the
same time as other crises as we look
back on this moment between the US and
China what response to what's happening
now are we going to look back and say
that was the right way to play that man
I don't know if I had a good answer
uh I don't think anyone's got a good
answer so for the US and China uh I
you're talking about if China attacks
Taiwan right I I'm just saying more
they're both confronted with the same
issue you got America is right now this
huge battle between the left and the
right yes um which to give my
characterization on the left and the
right the left is compassion the right
is personal responsibility I think those
are um given to us by Evolution I think
for a society you need the dynamic
tension between the two uh but we've got
this wild uh imbalance due to the left
taking over all the institutions and
pumping out kids that just tend to lean
left uh but they're now bumping up
against reality so that's what I feel
going on in America and uh theoretically
we're what we're trying is do we uh
reduce freedoms but within our system
you see a cultural giving up on things
like freedom of speech uh so that's how
things are going here campus protest
things like that over in China you've
got uh massive authoritarian Crackdown
you've got the weers and concentration
camps but the play there being hey we
need value homog so we need everybody to
see the world the same way um you've
also got the credit score so we're going
to gamify which you'll hear me talk
about all the time gamification is
amazing and as I build out my virtual
world I think a lot about how do I avoid
a Chinese dystopia yeah but you've got
them using credit score visibility into
everything you do the zero covid
lockdowns like I mean just really
stamping down on it but even though you
have to give up your individual rights
will that end up being the right place
so let me um go one step further so
there's one more thing just for the
audience I want them to
hear uh China is passing all of these um
educational reforms is probably the
right way to think about it trying to
make sure that men are more masculine
which is why I was so like they're
having the men wear bikinis that's
Chinese media yeah the culture so you've
got uh we only want kids being taught by
uh we want kids focusing on physical
education we want physical education
only being taught by former athletes we
want people looking up to masculine men
like we don't want them to become a
feminized okay so those are the the two
different things happening right now yes
and will either of those be a winning
solution or is it going to be something
else entirely they're both going to fail
I mean you can't force people to do
stuff where uh often times your
intentions when you do something or how
you do it more important than the thing
itself and so I think the Chinese the
Chinese are realizing a lot of the mouse
Utopia stuff but when you force someone
to do something it's going to backfire
like if you have telling people they can
only play video games for they can't
play video games for longer than an hour
a day is just going to make them resent
you and it's going to completely
backfire if the Chinese Force this on
the CH if the Chinese government forces
this upon their youth their youth will
just learn to hate those values and this
is one of the things we've seen with the
the left today where the left pushes
things that are by all accounts pretty
good like uh racial tolerance sexual
tolerance whatever but they push it in
in such a hamfisted way that it creates
the opposite reaction of a resentful
right um and so that's what I would see
happening in the left and I think no
government today has the mental
capability to understand what's
happening because if they did we
wouldn't have the crisis and I find that
for these historic crises the worst
thing that happens to a society is that
they become too constrictive after said
crises so
um after the Black
Death everywhere in Eurasia except
Europe became too socially conservative
after the Black Death after the after
that whole crisis China became more
authoritarian and they lost a lot of
their creativity Islam became more like
Su hyper fundamentalist religious and
India also became more religious and so
Europe after the Black Death was able to
maintain a more fluid social structure
while Asia became more constricted um
it's funny I brought that point up three
times in this podcast so far but it's
not I talk about that much on the
channel um but so if you also look at
after the end of the 17th the crisis of
the 17th century is that England and the
Dutch did the best because what happens
with these kinds of crises is that
authorities used the world crisis as an
excuse to crack down on descent and then
when you crack down on descent you crack
down on creativity and so with the
crisis of the 17th century it's what
killed Italy and Spain as being some of
the wealthiest countries in the the
world and so the thing that worries me
about a crisis like this is let's say
World crisis birth rate crashes
psychological Black Death Civil Wars out
of it like complete religious
fundamentalists or people who are
authoritarians win and then we fall into
a dark age because what if what happens
in this crisis is just like hardcore
religious fundamentalists breed is that
like you you can say goodbye to science
and Modern Art and all that stuff h
okay so if we don't have the Playbook
right now on how to do this well NE here
not in China um if you had to solve this
problem for us what does either history
tell us or what does your intuition tell
us that we would need to do at a
cultural values level to avoid the mouse
Utopia life is a journey man like it's
the friends we make along the way life
is the life is the journey itself and
it's not the destination um now do you
believe that and it's just too Earnest
to say without ex yes it's one of those
points that I got my generation got
shoved with propaganda in at such a
young age that saying it comes across is
ridiculous but I mean so the thing is
this crisis is just starting my
estimation of these events has changed
markedly in every single year especially
the last four years I don't know what
I'll be telling you in four years and
the good thing is that we have decades
to figure it out uh we're going to be
here for decades hopefully we can face
information as it comes integrate new
aspects into our worldview what I would
say though is there are several things
that are incredibly important and I
should make a video about this though um
one of which is you need to find a way
to integrate traditional value systems
into modern science and modern culture
where there are lots of things in the
pre-industrial world that is never going
to happen again I can't see like I at
least I hope that arranged marriages
don't come back after after this because
when people see what non- arranged
marriages look like I don't think they
they can or like you can't go back to
the pre scientific world because we've
seen science you can't go back to saying
God Wishes the Spheres to orient you we
have to incorporate science and so my
hope is that this century is going to be
a philosophic and religious golden age
as thinkers
incorporate um as thinkers incorporate
because we don't have the mental tools
to deal with what's about to happen
modernity is predicated upon infinite
progress and infinite growth what
happens when that stops modernity has to
go through a period of self-reflection
to figure out mental tools to understand
what's happening so first thing develop
intellectual tools and value systems to
assess it number two is develop
communities uh and I think that if if
there's something I've heard from a
bunch of wise friends Mouse Utopia is if
you're stuck in Mouse Utopia leave the
cage the difference between Us in Mouse
Utopia is mouse Utopia is this
self-enclosed environment if and it's
comparable to the start of the Bible
where Abraham saw the degeneracy of
urach until Abraham went out into the
desert with his family and formed the
Jews we've actually we've looked at the
genetics on that um we've looked at
everyone who claims descent from Abraham
and there was a y chromosone ancestor in
that place that time so uh value system
formed communities of people who are
opposed to Mouse Utopia and who can
because I think I actually think the
biggest issue in modern society today is
loneliness so find a way to solve that
um and
also develop guard rails against
Insanity um and
so for example
um when I saw things were going to go
bad and I saw that the we would spiral
into Political fanaticism I gave myself
rules for Bridges I would never cross
because I knew that this would affect me
as a person and that my mind is not
immune to it so I told myself I'm never
going to dehumanize my enemies uh I'm
never going to promote genocide I'm
never going to say that the truth
doesn't exist um I'm never going to kill
myself I am never going to promote
nihilism and so I made those rules to
myself because I think to myself Rudyard
you are in a rational place now they're
make where you're not rational so you
need to make rules for when you're not
rational and so we need to do that as a
society where I think a great rule is
don't enable nihilism where because
nihilism has no benefit if you're like
yeah people like the human race is just
terrible and we should never have kids
and we should hate each other and
everything is lame why are you believing
that there's no benefit to believe it um
and and um fourth is established
decentralization uh actually you guys
should watch my Manifesto I released a
few months ago um decentralization is
incredibly important because my biggest
worry here is that authorities use uh
genetic engineering and Ai and robots to
enslave the population because what with
these technologies that are coming into
existence and again Technologies
impossible to predict but a lot of this
Tech is already here is I don't want a
society where the government as of now
can monitor us every day every second
with these telescreens and that
telescreen the government can listen in
on this conversation I don't think
that's this is a ticking Time Bomb where
if we don't solve this now it's going to
bite us later and so I think the
decentralization of power is my fourth
thing where we need to develop
incentives against uh basically
governments using new technology to
enslave the populace and especially so
genetic engineering people into uh
subservient because the government is
every incentive to genetically engineer
people to be subserviant and it doesn't
have to be a bad thing it could be this
nanny State very like helpful like
Goodwill government like we're going to
genetically engineer depression out of
existence the problem is that if you
genetically engineer depression you've
genetically engineered everyone who's a
social dissident and so it's this
double-sided thing if that makes sense
it does very much I think rules are
critically important it's something I
talk a lot about that I think people
leave out of their lives at their Peril
the rules that you implemented are
actually very interesting the manifesto
why did you write it what did you want
people to take away from it yes um so
uh I see a lot of factional development
inside the right where the left is a
coherent ideology the right doesn't the
right's this Alliance of all these
various factions um and if you guys
haven't figured it out I am some shade
of a conservative politically and uh
inside the right I see all of these
different factions that have nothing to
share and the it reminds me I've read a
lot on the evolution creation of the
left over the course of the 19th century
and it reminds me very similarly to a
period of leftist History
uh after the French Revolution where
it's just chaos and I think we're in
that place for the right and the right
will develop a new culture so I wanted
and most of the people I see who are
also doing this they're either
sociopaths or grifters so I thought what
could I do here I am going to drop my
mental model for this before other
people do so um to basically get ahead
of the competition