Michael Shellenberger on America’s Cultural Crisis

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  • @DadSavesAmerica
    @DadSavesAmerica  Місяць тому +4

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  • @suetipping4841
    @suetipping4841 Місяць тому +99

    The darkness is undeniable. I no longer go into the marketplace as I used to do. I am afraid for my granddaughters and even afraid for other's grandchildren now. And worst of all, the darkness is intentional brought to us by rulers who hate us. Tragic. Shakespearean. Deadly. I cling to God in a quiet manner.

    • @Dapryor
      @Dapryor Місяць тому +2

      Damn, that’s well said.

    • @Gizziiusa
      @Gizziiusa Місяць тому +2

      ...and to think, in all probability, its going to get worse. Much Worse.

    • @runswithraptors
      @runswithraptors Місяць тому +1

      This sounds like Shakespeare 😅 I know the feeling though, hard to even be in public and not witness/feel the evil

    • @suetipping4841
      @suetipping4841 Місяць тому +1

      @@runswithraptors When others respond, I do not feel quite so alone. There is a comfort in knowing others are witnessing.

    • @kaybrown7733
      @kaybrown7733 Місяць тому

      Lol America is responsible for its own problems. Stop blaming others because you cheer on the leaders here, and then cry about the consequences later. Grow up!

  • @robertaustin6940
    @robertaustin6940 Місяць тому +109

    It's not collapsing, it's being taken down.

    • @Belzediel
      @Belzediel Місяць тому +2

      Uh oh, something alerted the analogy police...

    • @Usca1990Asis
      @Usca1990Asis Місяць тому +7

      Agreed. 10 years ago and even 20 things were different and liberalism wasn’t so toxic.

    • @ZunarXJ59
      @ZunarXJ59 Місяць тому +3

      ​@@Belzedielwell ur just sitting there. thank God they're here

    • @Gizziiusa
      @Gizziiusa Місяць тому

      intentionally, deliberately....by design. its all part of an agenda.

    • @kathrynoneill81
      @kathrynoneill81 Місяць тому

      Yes, by an assortment of foreign interference and globalist organizations & corporations. Open borders, carbon taxes, climate alarm all just part of the UN agenda.

  • @Seekthetruth3000
    @Seekthetruth3000 Місяць тому +7

    Michael Shellenberger is a true patriot.

    • @ldiggs9072
      @ldiggs9072 Місяць тому

      No he is not. What is his last name.

  • @davidbrims5825
    @davidbrims5825 Місяць тому +48

    ‘’ Evil will become good and good will become evil.’’

    • @patrickahaus6570
      @patrickahaus6570 Місяць тому +2

      Evil exists ehen Good People do nothing.

    • @Worldofourown2024
      @Worldofourown2024 Місяць тому

      Out of the chaos of Orwell's 1984. We used to watch science fiction movies always saying unthinkable fictional scenarios won't happen in the real world.
      And here we are wondering where our next meal is coming from. Wondering when the collapse and war goes off for a new order out chaos is their crazy new deal not in our favor.

    • @Yanel5795
      @Yanel5795 Місяць тому +1

      Evil has always been good in your civilization

    • @Worldofourown2024
      @Worldofourown2024 Місяць тому

      @@Yanel5795 Good for the psychopaths overseeing my world war empire civilization I call the big nothing after the big short. What is your civilization? European Union? A world nomad of one? Mars Bar colony?

  • @askedkedeldeif
    @askedkedeldeif Місяць тому +11

    This is a wild time y’all, but just know I love you fellow humans and we’re in this screwed up mess together. Even as we struggle and worry right now we need to hang onto our humanity. Please help each other and be kind to one another right now, love your loved ones and show them the best times you can right now.

  • @keithfilibeck2390
    @keithfilibeck2390 Місяць тому +8

    Turns out multiculturalism and diversity isn't a strength, who knew

    • @StimParavane
      @StimParavane Місяць тому

      It makes me laugh how these liberals are in effect importing Muslims with their very clear gender roles.

  • @jackalopewright5343
    @jackalopewright5343 Місяць тому +7

    The fact that so many crimes are no longer considered crimes, isn’t that the definition of a collapse?

  • @honkingonbobo
    @honkingonbobo Місяць тому +21

    We entered the Weimar Republic era a little while ago. Glad my children will be homeschooled once they get to elementary school age.

    • @skylinefever
      @skylinefever Місяць тому +1

      We were headed to it when the Federal Reserve act was passed. Money printer go brr ruins everythibg every time.

    • @pennyculliton378
      @pennyculliton378 Місяць тому +1

      Well, yes, these times here do remind me of the end of the Weimar Republic. But that's a function of the rise of the far right-- just as it was in 1932.

    • @honkingonbobo
      @honkingonbobo Місяць тому

      @@pennyculliton378 The 'far right' rose as an opposition to the moral degradation and pedophilic evils of the Weimar era. History doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme.

    • @BrockOBauma
      @BrockOBauma Місяць тому +1

      ​@@pennyculliton378 lol, ok.

    • @aimeedouglas1584
      @aimeedouglas1584 Місяць тому

      @@pennyculliton378yes, because all our institutions and media and cultural icons are so deeply embedded by the “far right” 🙄

  • @nancybaumgartner6774
    @nancybaumgartner6774 Місяць тому +73

    Countries are “rich” until they get overrun and consumed by bureaucrats.

    • @gurgamous
      @gurgamous Місяць тому

      and those bureaucrats always use the welfare of humanity as their alibi en route to becoming tyrants.

    • @redblacktichy7713
      @redblacktichy7713 Місяць тому +1

      The problem is much deeper and bigger

    • @nancybaumgartner6774
      @nancybaumgartner6774 Місяць тому

      @@redblacktichy7713 yep. It started in Eden . People are either serving their father , Satan or father God through Jesus Christ . They do it through secret societies and capture of all institutions. The banking system has always been captured , and the USA was not built for us.
      This is the rise of the satanic one world government as described in the book of Revelation.

  • @darkcircles1313
    @darkcircles1313 Місяць тому +10

    We, as a nation, as a culture, assume that it was last forever but history shows time and again that nothing is permanent and everything changes with time. Maybe we should begin to acknowledge that 50% of the nation wants to live one way and 50% doesn’t. Both sides have positives and negatives but both are clearly incompatible

    • @gavwilson3413
      @gavwilson3413 Місяць тому

      One side appears to want chaos, disfunction and destruction. That’s the side promoting transgender rights, insisting all whites are racist and demanding we stop using fossil fuels. To be clear, a modern society would not struggle to operate without fossil fuels. A modern society cannot even EXIST without fossil fuels! 52% of fossil fuels are used for non-energy purposes. Medicine, clothing, food, packaging, cleaning purposes. Just some of the uses of fossil fuels.
      So, if you demand the end of fossil fuel use, you are demanding society turn the calendar back to 1799. In every single way. 20% plus child mortality (because there won’t be hospitals), increased diseases across the board, (because cleanliness will be virtually impossible without running water and abundant energy), malnutrition and starvation for about 1/3 of the worlds population. These will be some of the outcomes of ending fossil fuel use.
      It doesn’t matter if you disagree with that. You’re not disagreeing with me. You’re disagreeing with reality!

    • @StimParavane
      @StimParavane Місяць тому

      Promiscuity, abortion and homosexuality are the dividing lines.

  • @mustang607
    @mustang607 Місяць тому +51

    The rise of active narcissism and personal irresponsibility.

    • @katieandnick4113
      @katieandnick4113 Місяць тому

      But why? That doesn’t just come from nowhere. Humans are not inherently selfish, as evidenced by the fact that we survived for hundreds of thousands of years, relying only on each other and nature. Something changed, and it wasn’t four years ago or ten years ago or fifty years ago or a thousand years ago. Always ask “why?” Where is this suffering coming from? Why are human beings so miserable?

    • @stvbrsn
      @stvbrsn Місяць тому +1

      Except when you say “the rise of” it sounds kind of organic.
      “Weaponization of active narcissism” would be more apt.

    • @thisisobviouslynotmyrealname
      @thisisobviouslynotmyrealname Місяць тому

      ​@@katieandnick4113 i think its got to do with the extremely rapid economic and technological development of western societies in the last few decades. Theyve became super rich and this produced a sense of complacency and an hedonistic narcissist culture that despises religion and tradition.

    • @geebeeinga
      @geebeeinga Місяць тому

      @@katieandnick4113Well, let’s start with your erroneous premise that humans are not inherently selfish. Actually, humans are absolutely selfish. There is nothing observable over the millennia that says anything different. Of course we have the ability to do unselfish things and make personal sacrifices, and frequently do on smaller scales. But humans are self-centered beings to our very core. It’s also erroneous when people say, “I believe people are basically good” yet nothing suggests that people are inherently good. Again, observation and historical evidence suggests the opposite. These blanket premises of unselfish and good people simply are not true. Human nature is to be selfish and do bad things. It doesn’t necessarily mean that each and every person cannot do good and unselfish things, but on the whole that is not the case. The answers to your question in the latter portion of your post is in front of all of us. The ‘why’ is because it is our nature - and the suffering we create is due to that nature. We are miserable (and empty) because we are selfish and there is only one way to overcome our nature.

    • @RobBigs-lu8bq
      @RobBigs-lu8bq Місяць тому

      Thats really it. Its the acceptance of narcissism and profoundly disingenuous social behavior for an ulterior motive. The American worker has been pimped since the 70s, export all the jobs and bring in migrants for low level jobs here, entire industries, construction, restaurant work, its all illegal immigrants now. Its just a business. The core of the American people have a gov that sold them out decades ago, they dont mean anything to anyone other than themselves, and are openly reviled. Your politicians not only failed you, but actively sold you out, used fear to marginalize your economic interest and health at every turn.

  • @theodoremccarthy4438
    @theodoremccarthy4438 Місяць тому +41

    If you approach the question of how to make civilization work from the assumption that it has to work for every group, then you’ve already doomed your civilization. Not all cultures are compatible, and maintaining a civilization is dependent on maintaining its cultural standards.

    • @nowistime8070
      @nowistime8070 Місяць тому +6

      that is a very important perspective.

    • @ecleveland1
      @ecleveland1 Місяць тому +8

      That’s the very reason we have so many different cultures on this planet. We all can’t just get along together as one. Separately letting each culture have their own space and not forcing others into agreeing with you works. We can trade and share but it’s much better when we don’t force cultures to exist together when it’s better when they each have their own spaces. People used to come to America and assimilate but that stopped somewhere along the way. It’s sure not working now.

    • @Usca1990Asis
      @Usca1990Asis Місяць тому +3

      Agreed.

    • @skylinefever
      @skylinefever Місяць тому

      This is why I joke about the "Intersection of gay rights and ending Islamophobia" to mock the stupidity of modern leftism.

    • @jonnyw82
      @jonnyw82 Місяць тому +1

      Nailed it

  • @larkinwalton4360
    @larkinwalton4360 Місяць тому +11

    Wasn’t nietzsche, it was Dostoevsky who said in the Brother’s Karamazov, if there is no immortality then there is no more nobility and thus everything is permitted.

  • @psikeyhackr6914
    @psikeyhackr6914 Місяць тому +8

    70 years of planned obsolescence in automobiles which economists do not talk about while ignoring the depreciation of durable consumer goods is so civilized!
    What is Net Domestic Product anyway?
    Adam Smith wrote "read, write and ACCOUNT" multiple times in Wealth of Nations. When have economists suggested mandatory accounting in the schools?

    • @skylinefever
      @skylinefever Місяць тому +1

      Our economics got replaced with line go up next fiscal quarter is gud thing.

  • @bircruz555
    @bircruz555 Місяць тому +5

    Civilization preexisted America by thousands of years, and it will survive long after the American empire dissolves. And all empires are doomed. There has been no exception. That is macro-history.

    • @sullathehutt7720
      @sullathehutt7720 Місяць тому +1

      Unfortunately this point will be missed by hundreds of millions of occidentals who bought into Fukuyama's delusion and proceeded to de-civilize their own houses and homelands.

  • @greglarson6293
    @greglarson6293 Місяць тому +20

    I wish we could go back to a time when men wore suits and women wore dresses not matter how poor, people appreciated living in America, teachers were respected, cops were respected, children were seen but not heard, and liberals were simply pro-union and not whatever they’ve degenerated into now.

    • @MyTruth1771
      @MyTruth1771 Місяць тому +1

      What year or decade best exemplifies this time period for you?

    • @pennyculliton378
      @pennyculliton378 Місяць тому +1

      I've been teaching for over 40 years and I have NEVER felt appreciated by being told how to dress or to wear a dress (which I DO most days because I find it more comfortable). What an asinine assertion.

    • @alonsolaw8380
      @alonsolaw8380 Місяць тому

      Yes, the good ole days. It was great

  • @SaxSith
    @SaxSith Місяць тому +2

    That’s what fusion of cultures leads to.

  • @TheCrimsonOne508
    @TheCrimsonOne508 Місяць тому +3

    As a further point regarding the ethnic and cultural homogeneity of Scandinavia working in their favor, Sweden let in so many migrants that 20% of the country is foreign-born and now Sweden has a massive crime problem

  • @buckiemohawk3643
    @buckiemohawk3643 Місяць тому +1

    it started with the first big wave of immigration in the 80s, we had season american workers Who worked across America and spent money propping up short term rentals at motels and other places. They also had a competitiave wage because they would do lawn care for 30 bucks a day

  • @gurgamous
    @gurgamous Місяць тому +4

    I understand people who deem humans as a sort of parasite on the earth. Problem with it is it's abjectly cynical, which is why I dont agree with it, nor do I think it's constructive in even the most remote sense.

  • @kkrenken895
    @kkrenken895 Місяць тому +36

    Yeah. We’re done.

  • @marioevora9269
    @marioevora9269 Місяць тому +5

    Dostoiévski said “if God doesn’t exist than everything is permitted”, not Nietzsche.

    • @kotenoklelu3471
      @kotenoklelu3471 Місяць тому

      Peterson said that Nietzsche said something like God is dead. We killed it. And there is no water to wash away all the blood... He was German philosopher before Nazis become a thing. Dostoevsky was Russian writer before communists became a thing. He actually wrote about communists. But I didn't read. Something in Бесы I guess

  • @lumo5691
    @lumo5691 Місяць тому

    Absolutely 💯

  • @johnrinke8080
    @johnrinke8080 Місяць тому +5

    When you get 200 bodies laying in a pile at a funeral home.civilization has collapsed.florence colorado

  • @bdanielnyc
    @bdanielnyc Місяць тому +2

    Why is it that our elected leaders refuse to have these kinds of public conversations, with the goal of improving our society and culture?

    • @sullathehutt7720
      @sullathehutt7720 Місяць тому

      Because democracy isn't about sustaining civilization.
      It's about dismantling civilization and selling off the remains.

  • @derekwhite9932
    @derekwhite9932 Місяць тому +66

    Actual Justice Warrior has been covering how we're soft on violent crime, but go hard on self defense. The activist ignore the violence.

    • @D-Fens_1632
      @D-Fens_1632 Місяць тому +9

      Give YOU? Give me the money....

    • @bianchaesson1441
      @bianchaesson1441 Місяць тому +2

      ​@@D-Fens_1632???

    • @tessahall797
      @tessahall797 Місяць тому +2

      @@bianchaesson1441if you know, you know.

    • @ZunarXJ59
      @ZunarXJ59 Місяць тому

      ​@@tessahall797nice

    • @TERMINATOR101-b8j
      @TERMINATOR101-b8j Місяць тому +2

      ​@@D-Fens_1632 I can hear her voice just reading that.

  • @Skippy-s1g
    @Skippy-s1g Місяць тому +38

    The only way to improve behavior is through hardship. Nothing else will convince people to do what they don't want to do.

    • @marysisak2359
      @marysisak2359 Місяць тому +2

      agreed. People will always take the easy way out.

    • @ecleveland1
      @ecleveland1 Місяць тому +5

      Don’t worry it’s coming.

    • @Skippy-s1g
      @Skippy-s1g Місяць тому +3

      @@ecleveland1 that's what I'm hoping for. And I'm going to laugh until I piss my pants.

    • @TheMoodyLoners
      @TheMoodyLoners Місяць тому +3

      You’re exactly right. Societal collapse is enabled when we continually lessen the cost for being stupid and self destructive

    • @skylinefever
      @skylinefever Місяць тому +1

      @@TheMoodyLoners I say we bring back FAFO and hand out Darwin Awards.

  • @jimb3093
    @jimb3093 Місяць тому +2

    Yep, we are far gone, no doubt.

    • @ToniTruthArt
      @ToniTruthArt Місяць тому +1

      They said the same thing when slaves got free, same thing when blacks got equal rights. Someway we’ll all be the older generation having a disdain for the younger generations making a way out of this bs we thought was burning.

  • @LK-mo8bj
    @LK-mo8bj Місяць тому +17

    It's a problem to set morality standards without Judeo Christian values. That is what all of Western legal and cultural norms are based on. You can't have the civilisation we are accustomed to without the morality of these two religions.

    • @ecleveland1
      @ecleveland1 Місяць тому +3

      No, we can’t. It’s impossible to have and enjoy the freedoms our country was founded upon without morals. We kicked God out of our country in the 1960’s and we started losing the very morality that this form of government is dependent upon. We broke the covenant with God.

    • @skylinefever
      @skylinefever Місяць тому +1

      How did shintoism, buddhism, and confucianism manage to work?

    • @byron739
      @byron739 Місяць тому

      Christian values, yes. The (((jew))) part is what is destroying the West.

    • @terryvalentino3112
      @terryvalentino3112 Місяць тому +3

      Ask the Chinese how that worked out against communism ​@@skylinefever

    • @skylinefever
      @skylinefever Місяць тому

      @@terryvalentino3112 I don't know, I was too busy asking how it led to South Korea making KPop and Japan animating hit movies.

  • @murphthesurf3409
    @murphthesurf3409 Місяць тому

    Ten years ago, I would see parent's with young children and feel happy for them. Now, I see the same thing and feel sorry.

  • @zaneshark
    @zaneshark Місяць тому +2

    Kali yuga, great tribulation. Call it whatever you like. It's peak civilization followed by societal collapse and the end of an age.

  • @JasonDarbee
    @JasonDarbee Місяць тому +4

    For profit culture is doom

  • @kevinholden-ip5fz
    @kevinholden-ip5fz Місяць тому +22

    Yes….it is collapsing!

  • @barbarareed9308
    @barbarareed9308 Місяць тому

    Thanks!

  • @iansmith8783
    @iansmith8783 Місяць тому +61

    It was Dostoevsky who wrote, "if there is no God, then everything is permitted"

    • @truthaboveall7988
      @truthaboveall7988 Місяць тому

      God permits everything- that’s how men justify the most atrocious atrocities like the genocide we’re committing today - God gave America control over the world - God also gave Zionists power over Palestinians it’s very confusing

    • @robertholland7558
      @robertholland7558 Місяць тому +1

      But who or what is this”god”?
      You are god, and god is you, just everyone else is.
      We are not to harm each other.
      When we do we also harm ourselves, we harm “God” in both ways.
      Then one is no longer god, no longer human.

    • @iansmith8783
      @iansmith8783 Місяць тому

      @@robertholland7558 shellenberger attributed the quote to friedrich nietszche. I just wanted to point out the error, i'm not trying to make a point.

    • @nnotny
      @nnotny Місяць тому +3

      @@robertholland7558 Ooo, so progressive and free in your thought. Except that I've been reading the same mushy crap since the 60's, and here we are, everybody is their own little universe.

    • @robertholland7558
      @robertholland7558 Місяць тому

      @@nnotny we are and are part of the universe at the same time.
      That you have been reading that for over 60 years, and still not realise this is sad .
      Calling it mushy crap indicates you have not experienced reality in its entirety.

  • @pattyevans9250
    @pattyevans9250 Місяць тому +37

    I heard someone say this, and it struck me as a perfect synopsis of our times..."no one is asking for forgiveness, or mercy, anymore. Everyone is demanding permission for anything."

    • @RooftopCiv
      @RooftopCiv Місяць тому

      It’s not even a demand, they expect the world to curve to their way.

    • @ecleveland1
      @ecleveland1 Місяць тому +2

      I don’t even think they are asking for permission. It’s more like they are telling you to like it or else.

    • @ZunarXJ59
      @ZunarXJ59 Місяць тому +1

      Asking permission? Nah bro, they're telling

  • @Praenuntium
    @Praenuntium Місяць тому +2

    Amen, we're fucked.

  • @MOOREENGAGING
    @MOOREENGAGING Місяць тому +24

    Slight correction: I believe he meant to say Dostoyevsky not Nietzsche. Still remains an important truth.

    • @nowistime8070
      @nowistime8070 Місяць тому +1

      no it was Nietzsche

    • @MOOREENGAGING
      @MOOREENGAGING Місяць тому +1

      It’s in The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, though Nietzsche certainly argues for the same idea.

    • @kotenoklelu3471
      @kotenoklelu3471 Місяць тому

      According to Peterson Nietzsche said something like God is dead. We killed it, you and I. And there is no water in the world to wash away all the blood. He lived before the Nazis. Dostoevsky was a Russian author before communists. He is said to write about commies but I didn't read in Бесы

  • @zwatwashdc
    @zwatwashdc Місяць тому

    These are the same kind of conversations about moral degradation we have been having for centuries. In a way, this is how our civilization functions. If you are looking to the civilization to give you a moral structure and raise your children, you are looking in the wrong place. If you believe your civilization’s lies, everything is very confusing.

  • @mrfarenheit9159
    @mrfarenheit9159 Місяць тому +3

    Yo Mike, on the decreasing test scores in schools, Charles Murray has a book you should read.

    • @jaykay6387
      @jaykay6387 Місяць тому +1

      When he started blaming "the schools" I wanted to smack my forehead. It's not "the schools", or the "teachers", or the lack of funding. In Baltimore last year, 40% of the high schools did not have even "1" person who tested as "proficient" in math. Let that soak in for a moment. If that doesn't highlight the profound problem we have in this country, nothing will.

    • @mrfarenheit9159
      @mrfarenheit9159 Місяць тому

      @@jaykay6387 and we just waved in 10 million 90ish IQ mesoAmericans who will further drag down school performance..but look on the bright side, Dwayne Aleizando Mountain Dew Camacho is now a lock for the presidency in the 2050s!!!

    • @skylinefever
      @skylinefever Місяць тому +1

      I often said if you could get the Idiocracy to quit breeding, you could get much better schools.

    • @BrockOBauma
      @BrockOBauma Місяць тому

      ​@jaykay6387 but math is racist.

  • @ptrward
    @ptrward Місяць тому +2

    The world has had 2000 years to consider the message of Jesus and that has a time limit. God describes the end times as what you are beginning to experience now as the world turns to satan. Soon, the antichrist and the tribulation will be here. Believers in Christ are removed...
    16 "For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
    17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord."
    1 THESSALONIANS 4

  • @juliesuberg8965
    @juliesuberg8965 Місяць тому

    the philosopher Kathleen Stock Feminism Between
    Right and Left gave a useful framework to view the take by right and left on liberalism

  • @channelmoved9096
    @channelmoved9096 Місяць тому +8

    Sounds like Shellemberger didn't read TS Elliot's book on Christian Society. "The inevitable result of Liberalism, in the end, is Totalitarianism.

    • @skylinefever
      @skylinefever Місяць тому

      Auron McEntyre's The Total State book does a better job.

    • @jonnyw82
      @jonnyw82 Місяць тому

      What book?

    • @channelmoved9096
      @channelmoved9096 Місяць тому +1

      @@jonnyw82 Christianity and Culture: The idea of a Christian Society. In it, he explains why a Christian Society will take generations to define, let alone implement.

    • @jonnyw82
      @jonnyw82 Місяць тому

      @@channelmoved9096 Awesome, ive been thinking about this a lot lately, ill have to read it.

  • @Doneamansjob
    @Doneamansjob Місяць тому

    A clear thinker.

  • @CarlosRosario84
    @CarlosRosario84 Місяць тому +28

    Despite all the financial struggles I and my family faced, everything is finally falling into place! $47,000 weekly profit and riches I'll always praise the Lord

    • @RandyLori
      @RandyLori Місяць тому +2

      Do you invest with a professional broker? I would appreciate it if you could show me how to go about it.

    • @CarlosRosario84
      @CarlosRosario84 Місяць тому +1

      Thanks to Mrs. Elizabeth Regina Nelsen's time in my life, which had a profound impact on me.

    • @DavisWilson345
      @DavisWilson345 Місяць тому

      Wow! Kind of in shock you mentioned expert, Elizabeth Regina Nelsen. What a coincidence!!

    • @creepy288
      @creepy288 Місяць тому

      Elizabeth Regina Nelsen has really set the standard for others to follow, we love her here in the UK as she has been really helpful and changed lots of lives

    • @CarrissaBarney242
      @CarrissaBarney242 Місяць тому

      Life is easier when the cash keeps popping
      in, thanks to Elizabeth Regina Nelsen's services. Glad she's getting the recognition she deserves

  • @crobinson93
    @crobinson93 Місяць тому +1

    Liberalism has nothing to do with the opioid crisis .This guy is full of it. Now if he’s talking about neoliberalism, that’s a different story.

  • @killa3x
    @killa3x Місяць тому +1

    Parents mostly to blame. They getting played.

  • @pooneil
    @pooneil Місяць тому +1

    Normally, love the content on this channel! I was not too impressed with the speaker. First of all, I find it interesting that when he talks about playing with human life, he neglects to mention capital punishment as an example. Secondly, draconian drug policy is what has gotten us in the position we are in. I am completely on board with the idea that decadence in general is a sign of civilizational collapse. I have learned this from studying anthropology. However, the world we live in now has substances in it that no prior civilization has had. Fentanyl as a street drug happened as a result of the many black market forces. Back when our laws were more draconian, the person that is getting revived for the 12th time would have died the first time because anyone whom they were with would have left out of fear of getting in trouble rather than calling an ambulance and waiting (Good Samaritan law). I do not condone open air drug markets nor using drugs in public. We do not have a liberal drug policy in this country at all, even if it feels that way compared to a few decades ago. Finally, alcohol ranks, close on the harm scale to some of the hardest drugs, measuring the harm to the user as well as collateral damage to those around the user. I have to stop this at around six minutes, but I haven’t heard the speaker mention alcohol when talking about drugs. PS, love your content, John! But I do need to disagree sometimes and mean it with all due respect!

  • @jackgoldman1
    @jackgoldman1 Місяць тому

    Not collapsing, but transforming. Same thing happened in 1929 to 1939. We transform.

  • @hologramhouse729
    @hologramhouse729 Місяць тому

    When you are allowing hateful bullies

  • @williambarry8015
    @williambarry8015 Місяць тому +24

    The smoke from the fires makes it feel like civilization is collapsing.

  • @Bianchifox
    @Bianchifox Місяць тому +1

    Capitalism being born in the Netherlands is not totally wrong, but probably it is more precise to say it was born in Belgium, more in particular in Flanders and Brabant. It depends a bit on what you call the start of capitalism exactly (there were of course the city states in northern Italy), but the first real stock market was in Antwerp since 1531 (you can still visit it today 'Handelsbeurs'). Holland thrived after the Habsburgian low countries (not exactly, but more or less Belgium and Netherlands today) were split over catholic/protestant division (also leading to migration from south to north) between a protestant northern part (not exactly, but more or less Netherlands today) and then in Spanish catholic hands southern part (not exactly, but largely Belgium today).

    • @sanniepstein4835
      @sanniepstein4835 Місяць тому

      Dutch painters demonstrated that artists did not need to be court pets to achieve greatness.

  • @alonsolaw8380
    @alonsolaw8380 Місяць тому

    It's horrible and getting worse

  • @soccersprint
    @soccersprint Місяць тому

    F the IRS

  • @bobcat409
    @bobcat409 Місяць тому

    A subset of a longer interview

  • @barbarareed9308
    @barbarareed9308 Місяць тому +16

    In 2023, US women aborted 1,26,700 babies 😢

    • @jr2904
      @jr2904 Місяць тому +2

      You're missing a digit

    • @skylinefever
      @skylinefever Місяць тому

      Find a way to make people actually want those babies.
      Just banning abortion causes communist Romania.

    • @skylinefever
      @skylinefever Місяць тому

      I wonder the the abortion ban states are just going to have masses of hated children turning into dysfunctional adults, like communist Romania did.

    • @Worldofourown2024
      @Worldofourown2024 Місяць тому +1

      So, I don't care. There already aren't enough resources, loving parents, food, and housing to go around.

    • @Worldofourown2024
      @Worldofourown2024 Місяць тому +1

      It won't matter for there isn't enough housing, food, drinking water, adequate schools, infrastructure, and loving parents for the kids that must endure.

  • @barbarareed9308
    @barbarareed9308 Місяць тому +1

    Correction. In 2023, US women aborted 1,026,700 babies😢

  • @shughy1
    @shughy1 Місяць тому +24

    Top of the list in western countries is each country should hold referendums on immigration, it's tearing it apart

    • @HonorableHombre
      @HonorableHombre Місяць тому +1

      Too scared of the radical pinks hats so you scapegoat immigrants lol.

    • @cgsimons1187
      @cgsimons1187 Місяць тому +2

      Correct. Him adding at the end that immigration is needed was like slipping in some poison.

    • @Etymon-jt3zw
      @Etymon-jt3zw Місяць тому

      ​​@@HonorableHombre Silly normies, still don't get it do you? They're using these illegal immigrants as weapons against us they're using them like ponds.
      They want us to fight a Civil War but there don't want to get their hands dirty. So they've hired mercenaries. A tale is old as time it's called domicide.

    • @Etymon-jt3zw
      @Etymon-jt3zw Місяць тому

      ​@@HonorableHombre Sorry I explained it to you but UA-cam does not allow the truth I guess you'll have to just figure it out for yourself good luck.

    • @HonorableHombre
      @HonorableHombre Місяць тому

      @@Etymon-jt3zw , you aren't scaring anybody lol

  • @jones6119
    @jones6119 Місяць тому

    Why would someone want to take fentanyl? I don’t understand.

  • @jayromer3536
    @jayromer3536 Місяць тому

    2:44 forward. Excellent gen x mantra. Well said!

  • @FekaduDegaga-s1z
    @FekaduDegaga-s1z Місяць тому +4

    “Where there is a will there is a way “ If we know, things are not okay and we are heading to wrong direction. Why not we do the right thing for the future generation. Generation responsible to lead American and the world. Thanks.

    • @ecleveland1
      @ecleveland1 Місяць тому

      It’s too late we are past that time. We just haven’t accepted it yet.

  • @jamessheffield4173
    @jamessheffield4173 Місяць тому

    To paraphrase Jefferson: some things are self-evident.

  • @byronbuchanan3066
    @byronbuchanan3066 Місяць тому +3

    Jesus Christ is the answer. Just because Christians disagree about some things does not invalidate the faith. Without Jesus mankind will always fail and suffer.

  • @1127batkinson
    @1127batkinson Місяць тому +29

    Love Shellenberger's pragmatism.

  • @thereissomecoolstuff
    @thereissomecoolstuff Місяць тому +30

    There is no benefit to this man to speak the truth. It will only hurt his economic opportunities. His sacrifice, viewpoints and courage are acknowledged and appreciated.

    • @SpasmodiusHyperFantasia
      @SpasmodiusHyperFantasia Місяць тому +1

      verb: prosecute; 3rd person present: prosecutes; past tense: prosecuted; past participle: prosecuted; gerund or present participle: prosecuting
      1.
      institute legal proceedings against (a person or organization).
      "they were prosecuted for obstructing the highway"
      institute legal proceedings in respect of (a claim or offense).
      "the state's attorney's office seemed to decide that this was a case worth prosecuting"
      Similar:
      take to court
      bring an action against
      take legal action against
      accuse
      cite
      summons
      sue
      try
      bring to trial
      put on trial
      put in the dock
      bring a charge against
      charge
      prefer charges against
      bring a suit against
      indict
      arraign
      impeach
      have the law on
      do
      jug
      implead
      Opposite:
      defend
      let off
      pardon
      (of a lawyer) conduct the case against the party being accused or sued in a lawsuit.
      "Mr. Ryan will be prosecuting this morning"
      2.
      continue with (a course of action) with a view to its completion.
      "they sensed a unique opportunity to prosecute their policy agenda"
      ARCHAIC
      carry on (a trade or pursuit).
      "waiting for permission to prosecute my craft"
      Similar:
      pursue
      carry on
      conduct
      direct
      engage in
      work at
      proceed with
      continue
      continue with
      keep on with
      go ahead with
      fight
      wage
      Opposite:
      give up
      verb: persecute; 3rd person present: persecutes; past tense: persecuted; past participle: persecuted; gerund or present participle: persecuting
      subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation or their political beliefs.
      "his followers were persecuted by the authorities"
      Similar:
      oppress
      abuse
      victimize
      ill-treat
      mistreat
      maltreat
      discriminate against
      punish
      inflict pain/suffering on
      tyrannize
      afflict
      torment
      torture
      martyr
      harass or annoy (someone) persistently.
      "Hilda was persecuted by some of the other girls"
      Similar:
      harass
      hound
      plague
      badger
      harry
      bait
      intimidate
      pick on
      trouble
      molest
      tease
      pester
      bother
      worry
      annoy
      bedevil
      bully
      victimize
      terrorize
      devil
      hassle
      give someone a hard time
      get on someone's back
      make it/things hot for someone
      get/stick the knife into
      heavy
      noun
      noun: fugitive; plural noun: fugitives
      a person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest or persecution.
      "fugitives from justice"
      Similar:
      escapee
      escaper
      runaway
      deserter
      refugee
      renegade
      absconder
      runagate
      quick to disappear; fleeting.
      adjective: fugitive
      "he entertained a fugitive idea that Barbara needed him"
      Similar:
      fleeting
      transient
      transitory
      ephemeral
      evanescent
      flitting
      flying
      fading
      momentary
      short-lived
      short
      brief
      passing
      impermanent
      fly-by-night
      here today and gone tomorrow
      fugacious
      Opposite:
      permanent
      long-lasting
      queer
      verbDATED•INFORMAL
      gerund or present participle: queering
      spoil or ruin (an agreement, event, or situation).
      "Reg didn't want someone meddling and queering the deal at the last minute"
      Similar:
      spoil
      damage
      impair
      harm
      be detrimental to
      mar
      wreck
      destroy
      devastate
      smash
      shatter
      scupper
      scotch
      disrupt
      undo
      thwart
      hinder
      foil
      ruin
      blight
      injure
      cripple
      hurt
      jeopardize
      endanger
      imperil
      threaten
      put at risk
      undermine
      prejudice
      be prejudicial to
      be disadvantageous to
      play havoc with
      be deleterious to
      compromise
      botch
      blow
      put the kibosh on
      noun: prisoner; plural noun: prisoners
      a person legally held in prison as a punishment for crimes they have committed or while awaiting trial.
      "a prisoner serving a life sentence"
      Similar:
      convict
      inmate
      trusty
      jailbird
      con
      lifer
      (old) lag
      yardbird
      transport
      a person captured and kept confined by an enemy, opponent, or criminal.
      "200 rebels were taken prisoner"
      Similar:
      prisoner of war
      POW
      hostage
      captive
      detainee
      internee
      a person who is or feels confined or trapped by a situation or set of circumstances.
      "he's become a prisoner of the publicity he's generated"
      Phrases
      take no prisoners - be ruthlessly aggressive or uncompromising in the pursuit of one's objectives.

    • @SpasmodiusHyperFantasia
      @SpasmodiusHyperFantasia Місяць тому

      WoW definitely documented that censorship. lol Eat ----- and suck ----- you're the one who's implying innuendo

    • @thereissomecoolstuff
      @thereissomecoolstuff Місяць тому

      @@SpasmodiusHyperFantasia this would be badass if it wasn’t cut and paste. Not here for the grammar.

    • @SpasmodiusHyperFantasia
      @SpasmodiusHyperFantasia Місяць тому +1

      @thereissomecoolstuff when it comes to the text book example it is as it states

    • @SpasmodiusHyperFantasia
      @SpasmodiusHyperFantasia Місяць тому

      @thereissomecoolstuff that's why
      it's because I'm a cut and paste guy
      when it comes to most of what I say
      It's chill but not for the lay
      And for the right of way
      on what to say
      Just come and look this way
      The dictionary is the passage to way against the context is not without pay now this is not scripted so how's that for a rhyme

  • @alonsolaw8380
    @alonsolaw8380 Місяць тому

    It's very discouraging

  • @onceamusician5408
    @onceamusician5408 Місяць тому +3

    I read somewhere that America has gone from being a raw youth, a brash and noisy adolescent, to drooling senescence . . . .
    WITHOUT any intervening period of societal maturity

  • @FrankensteinDIYkayak
    @FrankensteinDIYkayak Місяць тому

    go to some cafe or community gathering of in the backwoods of redoubt country and talk it up and let us know how it goes.

  • @danielmayeux2251
    @danielmayeux2251 Місяць тому

    😮better throw the independent and libertarian folk in there too. Sitting back spitefully not voting for the conservative just to prove a point.

  • @alonsolaw8380
    @alonsolaw8380 Місяць тому

    Scandinavians yes

  • @D-Fens_1632
    @D-Fens_1632 Місяць тому +3

    Eventually we'll probably have two territories, reservations of sorts, perhaps in the South and central/upper Midwest, maybe the Northeast, where the remaining old world, historically Christian, European whites will settle. I'd speculate on the rest of the country but I'd rather my comment not disappear.

    • @skylinefever
      @skylinefever Місяць тому

      I always loved the idea of making the leftists build their own diversotopias and Wakandas.

  • @bobroberts2581
    @bobroberts2581 Місяць тому +1

    But not going to say anything about the decades of case law saying that boys can consent to adult women? Marka Bodine, Shane Seyer, Nathanial J, Colleen Hermesman, Andrea Serrano, the legal definition of rape being gendered.

    • @skylinefever
      @skylinefever Місяць тому

      Everything good because XX but not XY.

  • @roblink4781
    @roblink4781 Місяць тому +9

    We can't be the Netherlands because we pay for their defense

    • @dixonpinfold2582
      @dixonpinfold2582 Місяць тому

      I think they've woken up to reality and are acting accordingly. They've considerably raised army, navy and air force expenditures, bringing them from 1.4% of GDP pre-Ukraine-War (2021) to 2.15% this year. They say it will tick higher to 2.22% in 2026.

    • @aleaiactaest8354
      @aleaiactaest8354 Місяць тому

      I wish you would stop that.

    • @dixonpinfold2582
      @dixonpinfold2582 Місяць тому

      @@aleaiactaest8354 👎Asinus arroganter respondit.

  • @nowistime8070
    @nowistime8070 Місяць тому

    Big Red may need some attention.

  • @jfziemba
    @jfziemba Місяць тому

    Yes, but there's a great deal of ruin in a nation

  • @glennhopkins2643
    @glennhopkins2643 Місяць тому +1

    What ?

  • @AmeliaHuckleberry
    @AmeliaHuckleberry Місяць тому +2

    The flip way you dismissed people’s physical pain was disturbing. Have you ever had severe or chronic pain? People suffer so badly that they want to die, and so it’s a good thing to have well managed pain control.

    • @kotenoklelu3471
      @kotenoklelu3471 Місяць тому

      He talked about back pain. You kill your backs by taking opioids. You fools

  • @dragongirlguitar
    @dragongirlguitar Місяць тому

    “If God is dead then everything is permitted” is from Dostoevsky in the Brothers Karamazov, not Nietzsche.
    Nietzsche had ethics which he based on “vitality.” No God involved, but he was still very to the right.

  • @ambiorixvargas6052
    @ambiorixvargas6052 Місяць тому

    before we born we are dying anyway

  • @Orson2u
    @Orson2u Місяць тому +1

    At 7m, Shellenbrger raises the experience of the Dutch. The United Provinces of the Netherlands was thr first middle class nation in the world. But while Britain did this usung coal wnd stream power, the Dutch used water power -- dikes.

    • @Belzediel
      @Belzediel Місяць тому +2

      You can't call them that any more.

    • @alexander8688
      @alexander8688 Місяць тому

      😁​ big ferocious dikes.@@Belzediel

  • @GrumpyStiltskin316
    @GrumpyStiltskin316 Місяць тому +13

    Mr Schellenberger is an international treasure. I disagree with him on two points… The forces driving this culture war are not liberal in origin; that’s simply a guise. Also, while it’s really semantics, I feel it important to remind everyone that Covid did nothing to stifle the educational or social development of children. It was our response to the virus that added to the problem.

    • @GrumpyStiltskin316
      @GrumpyStiltskin316 Місяць тому

      @@Helloitsme328 100%.

    • @sdrc92126
      @sdrc92126 Місяць тому +3

      Gnosticism is the root of modernity. Eric Voegelin argued that communism, alongside other modern ideologies like National Socialism and progressivism, can be understood as a form of secularized Gnosticism, essentially claiming that communism acts as a "religion of Gnosticism" by mirroring key Gnostic beliefs in a political context; particularly the idea of achieving a utopian "heaven on earth" through revolutionary action, rather than through traditional religious practices.
      Some of the beliefs of Gnosticism include: The god of the Old Testament is the devil Jesus is trying to liberate people from the god of the Old Testament Humans are Gods who need to realize their inherent Divinity The material cosmos is the result of a primordial error by a divine being

    • @GrumpyStiltskin316
      @GrumpyStiltskin316 Місяць тому

      @@sdrc92126 what you described, which I’ve become more familiar with over the past couple years, almost sounds like a perversion of the spiritual/religious notion that we are all of the divine. A notion that I’ve been intrigued by for awhile. “We,” not being a select group of people with the exclusion of (or “othering” of) others, and still bound by flesh with all its imperfections. When any group of people decides to worship themselves and each other while rejecting or demonizing anyone who challenges their beliefs, their “allyship,” or their egos, that group becomes dangerous. A paradoxical combination of collective corruption and submission.

    • @cameronhickey7771
      @cameronhickey7771 Місяць тому

      ​@@sdrc92126 sounds like the gnostics got it right.

    • @sdrc92126
      @sdrc92126 Місяць тому

      @@cameronhickey7771 It's a tool of the elite to justify killing -millions- billions. There is no limit to the amount of eggs that must be broken towards the great sacred omelette. But it never works, they gain more power

  • @stevenwonnacott3669
    @stevenwonnacott3669 Місяць тому

    Shellenberger certainly has a firm grasp and understanding of the evils that permeate of society today...he is spot on with his views!

  • @DMAN590
    @DMAN590 Місяць тому

    Why, with the advent of AI and advanced automation is maintaining population seen as automatically good? If you ask me with less need for human labour a declining birthrate is not a bad thing and would result in higher standards of living.

  • @marcusaurelius8605
    @marcusaurelius8605 Місяць тому

    #bestforkids

  • @gitteholmen8156
    @gitteholmen8156 Місяць тому

    Go back to Scandinavia, to Denmark to check. Our society is being more and more neoliberalized and is not at all The social democratic welfare State we used to.

  • @catscan9
    @catscan9 Місяць тому +2

    I'm a 70 year old lesbian,so I felt ostracized and no place in society or religion. We need high technology manufacturing jobs.When I was young,I thought,someday, I'd have a robotic maid and a flying car. The infrastructure is collapsing everywhere, homeless people everywhere. Drugs truly are destroying lives.The government has abandoned this country,to make the wealthy,more wealthy. The people with power have no vision,and worse,no humility. Our founders were not religious,and didn't want a religious government. Our technology could have been so much more advanced,but for the greed of people with money and power. I agree, the left is too far left,and a lot is because of the Internet. The crazies have found each other, like nonbinary people can change their sex by wishing. Where's Qanon? Too many lies by media.

  • @postscript5549
    @postscript5549 Місяць тому

    🌺

  • @xerxes2476
    @xerxes2476 Місяць тому +1

    How about you take care of your kids and don’t put them up with paying for school till rest of there life’s. Lol.

    • @skylinefever
      @skylinefever Місяць тому

      I agree. And if you can't afford it, don't have any kids.

  • @47bricklayer
    @47bricklayer Місяць тому

    I couldn't get but a few minutes in. Allowing? Who do you think you are? We can talk about right and wrong, but "allowing" is an arrogance I can't be a part of.

  • @davidbrims5825
    @davidbrims5825 Місяць тому

    Going back to Babylon….

  • @SuperSlik50
    @SuperSlik50 Місяць тому

    Ya think?

  • @dungeonsdumbbells
    @dungeonsdumbbells Місяць тому +2

    Every generation wants distinction & to shock the last one it seems, I don"t want to think about being more shocking to the woke.

  • @chris-st6sm
    @chris-st6sm Місяць тому

    gop talking points and tabloid rubbish
    a serious conversation on this subject would be centered on how complex systems work and the dangers of reverting to a ordered system. it would be a scientific discussion about complexity, complex systems and adaptation.

    • @gavwilson3413
      @gavwilson3413 Місяць тому

      Spoken like a true socialist.

    • @chris-st6sm
      @chris-st6sm Місяць тому

      @@gavwilson3413 lol... its litterally physics...spoken like a true low information voters.
      its the difference in believing the laws of nature and God and how the world really works vs conservative political propaganda and its baseless, unprovable , undemonstrable complaints.

  • @talyahr3302
    @talyahr3302 Місяць тому

    I typically support Michael, but he really dropped the ball here. Totally focused on the wrong things. Very disappointing.

  • @Mikell-h2c
    @Mikell-h2c Місяць тому +3

    The Netherlands is just a pipsqueak little country. It’s pretty homogenous. The US is vast inverse. How can you compare them? How can you even think that we could become the Netherlands?

    • @skylinefever
      @skylinefever Місяць тому

      Although magic dirt fallacy involves bringing in foreigners, I arguing that copying another nations laws is a magic dirt fallacy.

  • @GodessQueenTila
    @GodessQueenTila Місяць тому +3

    WHEN YOU EXALT SATAN OVER JESUS THEN OF COURSE THE NATION WILL PLUNGE INTO HELL, DESOLATION, OPPRESSION, AND POVERTY.

  • @Bob-m6u
    @Bob-m6u Місяць тому

    The sky is falling, the sky is falling.... Get a life, for christ sakes!!

  • @jayha7071
    @jayha7071 Місяць тому +2

    Take God out of the equation and something will fill the void

    • @alexdetrojan4534
      @alexdetrojan4534 Місяць тому

      🙄

    • @gavwilson3413
      @gavwilson3413 Місяць тому

      Indeed. It is clear that socialist doctrine has replaced God. The false gods of environmentalism, transgender rights, racism, DEI etc. These are what has replaced God. It’s going badly. And getting worse. I say this as an agnostic. If you think our society is being improved by the things I mentioned, you have no objective analysis capacity.

  • @patricksullivan3919
    @patricksullivan3919 Місяць тому +1

    The answer is yes. Any questions?