As we're coming into contact with different spiritual around different
spiritual domains in spheres of authority.
And in those they carry thoughts.
And when those faults fly over our head, we have the authority
to either accept or reject.
We can grab onto and say, these are mine, or we can say, Hmm, I don't know.
I don't, I don't know if that's really my thought, but we have.
To be aware of the thoughts going through our head, because if we're not aware, we
will begin to accept every thought that goes rolling through our mind as our own.
And what happens when the spiritual gates of a region or a nation is opened?
To thought systems and thought patterns in the spirit realm have had, or are
physically being released because remember that they have physical
substance, what happens when all of a sudden these thoughts are and how
fine through your head that are, are.
Potentially very destructive for your life and society.
Welcome to the Lucas Skrobot show I'm Lucas Skrobot, and this
is where we uncover purpose pursue truth and own the future episode 284.
It is May 26th, 2022.
And today we have a little bit of a different episode.
I've put together a montage for you of a number of segments and clips from the.
284 episodes.
Not all of them at one time, but there's a lot of, lot of content
that's buried in the archives.
And we pulled out some of the best of clips, some clips that I've
even forgotten about that as I've looked through the content and cold
through the content, I've realized, man, this is, this is really gold.
This is helpful.
To us today in May, 2022, to understand where we're going to understand how to see
the world and how to own our futures in the midst of the chaos and in the midst
of the amazing, positive things that are happening right now in the world.
It is an oftentimes we focus.
Um, the crazy and the chaos and the insane that is happening.
It's often quite entertaining to focus on the insane.
Let's just be honest, but truly we live in incredible times across the earth.
The times that we live in are so amazing that you and I would not trade
our lives for the life of a billion.
Billionaire that lived a hundred years ago, people who lived a hundred, 120
years ago, they would die because they didn't have simple antibiotics.
They didn't have refrigerators life.
And the world that human time is really getting better.
Our life, our life expectancy is getting better and that is good
news that we should focus on.
And remember.
And celebrate and rejoice in because one of the biggest keys to living a
fulfilled satisfied life is gratitude because gratitude takes us off the
throne of our hearts, gratitude, strips away, all of our entitlements, all
of our, our thoughts that we are the ones who make our self built life.
And it brings us back to the source, to the.
That all things come from God, all blessings come from above gratitude.
So I hope that you enjoy this series of clips in today's epic.
And we'll see you next week back here on the show.
Everything we do by spend to address our deep seated feeling of not being enough.
That's what I call the insecurities exchange.
Let me go buy something.
Let me go take a course.
Let me go get a piece of paper from somebody that says, oh,
You are good enough to do this.
And then all of a sudden, then you realize, oh, wait a minute.
There's an advanced course in this.
I'm not good enough until I get the advanced course.
And then there's another advanced course.
So this is how the world is propped up today.
And Dr.
Seuss wrote about this.
I mean, you don't, you know, I liked your disclaimer that you're not.
You know, a social psychologist therapist, but Dr.
Seuss wrote about this.
I don't think he, maybe he was, I don't know, but the stars upon stars, right?
So there's the stars, belly Sneetches and the non-start Belize niches.
And it's this, this, creating this cognitive dissonance to get people,
to get the stars on them, and then you can get the stars off them.
And it's this whole.
Cycle of looking for that gatekeeper to essentially give you the
stamp to say that you're okay.
You're ready enough.
You've arrived.
You have enough knowledge that you can now begin to go out into the
world and, and make a difference.
Yeah.
All right.
So E Cummings now I am not a, I am not a big consumer of poetry, but
I read some, and this is what I've committed to memory, but just the line.
To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best night
and day to make you everybody.
Else's the hardest battle we ever fight and never stop fighting coming.
Can you say that again?
And just a little slower, say that one more time so we can let it
sink in to be nobody but yourself.
In a world that is doing its best night and day to make you everybody
else is the hardest battle we ever fight and never stop fighting, man.
You know?
So w w we've we have these ideas?
Of, oh gosh, if I could be more like in fill in the blank, whoever that
is in your sphere of influence, you know, in, in your, in your circles of
the people you respect and admire and want to be like and whatever that is.
And I know people that, you know, that they study people to be more like them
and learn their mannerisms or pickup and made in sometimes it's unintentional.
But when we realize.
That you and me trying to, I, I fall short any time.
I am trying to be any body else, but you know what?
I really am the most remarkable Kevin money.
There is.
And so I need to just recognize, I don't need to try to be somebody
else what the Cummings point and what I was talking about.
Th there are all of these ads that just aim at us.
I heard Bernay brown.
Didn't say this.
She was quoting someone.
She said, I had a friend that, that said this to me, that our
first thought of the morning is I didn't get enough sleep last night.
Our last thought of the day is I didn't get enough done today.
Our days are bookended with scarcity thinking scarcity mentality.
That's how most of us start and stop our days.
And then between then it's just this mad dash trying to be somebody else.
So what if you just realize.
No I'm created to be me and I have gifts, talents, and
abilities that the world needs.
And if I can just learn to show up authentically, uniquely as me.
It's going to be much better than me trying to be somebody else.
So we are a really bad imitation of anybody else.
And when we can find the freedom to be authentically ourselves and to get
comfortable, what, which you mentioned a moment ago, you know, getting older,
getting more comfortable in your own skin and that that's, that's the.
Um, Kevin, how did we get there, Kevin?
How did we get there, Kevin?
I love, I love what you said just now.
About gratitude, abundance about how so often we, we live in this
scarcity mentality, um, just from the first thought, the last thought
of our day to everything in between.
And then how you, how you said that that gratefulness gratitude thankfulness is
the door that opens abundance to us.
I said, I heard it said that it is, it is gratitude and gratefulness
that breaks the back of humanism.
Right?
So humanism in this idea that we are self-sufficient that we need to take
care of ourselves, that, that everything rises and falls on our shoulder.
But the moment.
And even it breaks the back of a entitlement of entitlement to, because
I did X, Y, and Z, I deserve a, B and C, um, this entitlement that we have, that
when we step into gratitude, it also then breaks this back of, of entitlement.
It breaks the.
Of this idea that we deserve something and all of a sudden
puts us into this place of wow.
Everything that I have around me is a gift that, that I don't deserve that
this is a blessing from God on my life, that my family, my health, my, my, my,
my job, my relationships, these are all.
Blessings that I, I didn't do anything to deserve.
And that frees us, that frees us from this, this striving, um, by
the sweat of our brow mentality, that, that plagues so many of us.
As my friend, Steve Foran puts it in his book.
And I'd love to introduce you to Steve.
He'd be a great guest on your show Lucas.
Um, when I realized that everything in my life is a gift, my only
response is to be grateful.
When I realized everything in my life is a gift.
Our response is gratitude because the things that we believe, the
things that you believe, the things that I believe will drastically.
The decisions that we make on an every day basis, it will drastically shape the way
that we raise our kids will drastically shape the culture of our households, the
culture of, of our friendships in the communities, around us, the ideas that
we adopt and not all ideas are equal.
Not all ideas lead to the same place.
Not all ideas have the same re.
But the question is how can you and I, with a simple, quick framework
discern which direction an idea will take us, because most of what I
see out in culture today, Our ideas that sound good, that feel good.
That make you warm and cozy they're ideas that are promoting mankind or
ideas that are embracing our humanity fighting for the common good of mankind.
But if you follow them just a few steps forward and that trajectory,
that those thoughts and ideas bring us.
If you follow those, you'll find that they actually do bad.
They feel.
But they do bad.
We are going to be speaking about the pro human ideologies and anti-human
ideologies and how we can discern the difference between them, because that
is a really easy litmus test that I have found when, when taking an idea and
understanding where it comes from and where it is going in, whether or not.
I want to let this operating system function in my life.
Now, here is a quick shortcut.
If you want the 1 0 1, the too long, didn't read shortcut of this episode.
It is this most ideas out in the world today in culture that's
propagating themselves as being pro-human or actually anti-human at.
Let me say that again, that the too long didn't read most ideas
in culture that are being pushed and promoted throughout culture.
That saying, this is pro-human.
This is kind, this is compassionate.
This is loving.
This is good for, for, for mankind, for the environment for the world.
They're actually, when you play out.
The implications of these ideas are inherently anti human at its core.
And that is the way that we're going to there's.
There's many ways to discern there's many ways to understand what ideas we
should object or reject or should accept.
But this is one really easy litmus test, a framework to quickly
evaluate the quality of an idea.
Is it pro.
In actuality or anti human in actuality now, as I said, A lot of these frameworks
that are anti-human have positioned themselves as being pro-human why,
because if you can play with words and that's what's happening right now
throughout society and largely due to the postmodern movement that we are in, as
it's really striking right now, across culture, across the globe, this idea of
postmodernism words do not have meanings.
And therefore, if we can manipulate the meanings of words, We can push
our agenda and there is no channel of communication outside of.
Of this thought system, because we've changed the definition of the word.
And we see that with, with, uh, kind of woke racism movement.
That's been happening, where, where we went from being, we should be not.
Just moving to a positioning and saying, we need to be anti-racist.
And what anti-racism is, it's not saying don't be racist, but to
saying, actually you are racist and you can't help being racist.
You must fight your racism.
And the only way to end racism is by being racist and having reverse racist.
And it's changing the definition of racism saying that, well, you know,
certain minorities groups can't be racist and the more, the more
lower you are on the totem pole, the less racist you could possibly be.
And so we've, we've changed the terms and we actually created a
hierarchy within, within culture to say, one form of racism is.
Those at the bottom, having racist ideologies towards those who
supposedly are above them on the totem pole, but the other form is bad.
One form is actually not possible.
It's not possible for someone in the intersect of
intersectionality to be racist.
It's not possible.
So we've, we've changed the definition of words to be able to promulgate ideology.
In the world.
Now, there is one main philosophical idea that we sit on that enables
society to even move in a direction of seeing one another equal.
And this idea, again, it's found in most major religions, at least
monotheistic religions, which that is that we were created by.
Now, this is a very important idea that we were created.
This idea is that the core of the declaration of independence for
the United States of America, which says we hold these truths to be
self-evident that all men are created.
Equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable
rights that among these are life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
So this, this idea that we are created and that we are all endowed with
equality and, and unalienable rights.
To pursue life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is really an idea throughout
Western society that has now empowered capitalism across the world, which has
empowered millions of people to leave poverty and enter into education and
build a better future for their families.
It's this idea that we were creating.
And that we were created equal when we depart from one or both of these ideas,
we will fall into anti-human ideology.
Now, why can't we have one without the other?
Why can't we say, well, we were all.
Evolved to be equal.
We, we, maybe we say, okay, we don't have God, God's not in the picture.
Let's just take him out, wipe him out.
But we can still say we're equal.
Actually.
We can't because the moment that we do away with God, we do away with the fact
that we were created in a certain manner, in a certain form kind and likeness.
Then we've evolved out of the swamp of history, the swamp of billions of years.
And we were just a highly evolved animal.
If we're a highly evolved animal, we are nothing but a sack of chemicals.
And if you're nothing but a sack of chemicals, then
life really has no meaning.
And we can begin to make judgment calls on well, who is actually more human.
Who is actually more positioned who should actually give, be given more
rights than others, because if we've evolved, that means that we're not equal.
It means that you and I may be in different places because maybe
you are more involved than I am.
Maybe you've reached a, a higher level of enlightenment and,
and, uh, humanity than I have.
And therefore I am now less human.
So the moment that we take away God, from the picture we have sought
off the branch that we sit on.
And likewise, the moment that we take away equality from the picture at the
moment that we take away, the fact that we were all created as equal
as humans, we see we were created, but we're going to all created.
We cut off that branch too.
So these are when I look at an ideology or when I look at a thought
system or a pattern in a breed in, and I judge it before adopting.
I judge it before adopting it and say, okay, where did this come from?
Where's it going in a evaluated?
These are some of the two main indicators that I can look at to say, wait,
this will lead me down a bad road.
This is what happened in Russia with the Gloxmin when Russia really adopted this
idea that we were all just, uh, a sack.
Chemicals.
And we adopted the, the ideas of, of marks and Ingles in saying that well,
there's no such thing as morality.
There is no such thing as right and wrong.
It's only powering.
And we look at a certain segment of society and say, well, these
people are the way they are because of their upbringing.
They are the way they are, because if their genetics and their, their
culture that they lived in, and we can't change them because it's just
been determined by their environment and by who they are, what happens.
Well, if it gets sent to the gulags and when the reeducation camps of
the gulags don't work, what happens?
They get sent to the back of the building, to the firing squad.
Now this is happening again in current culture, gulags are happening
across the world, Krantz it, where we look in with the weaker people.
In China, where there there's this idea that they're less than human
and they're putting in concentration camps and re-education camps.
We can see it throughout mainstream media in America, where there are
certain people who say even the most liberal well-intentioned white
person has a, a virus, uh, in his or her brain that can be active with.
At an instant, when these ideas are accepted by us and saying that a
certain group of people have been predetermined to think and act a
certain way and it's, it's not curable.
Well, then what happens, what happens when we decide what we
need to fix and cure these people, because they are a danger to society.
What happens when we need to fix and cure you?
Because you're a danger to society.
But then remember you're not curable because you are just
an evolved sack of chemicals.
And so the thing that would be most merciful, the most compassionate,
not only for you, but for others would be to finish it for you.
So here we started off with.
Kind and humane idea of trying to create and build a better society.
And in turn, we end up destroying.
The humans who live in that society, we become anti-human
for the sake of being pro-human.
It just doesn't work.
And we're not going to be talking so much about trans dimensional
beans or gin or a demon or angels.
We're not talking about any of that stuff.
We are going to be talking about thoughts because our thoughts or thoughts.
Have substance in the spiritual realm or in the aspheric plain with whatever
terminology you wish to call it.
Now, just like in the natural realm, this microphone right here,
I can touch it and I can feel it.
It has a physical substance, but in the spirit, in the
spiritual realm, thoughts, ideas.
Have physical substance, there is a bigger implication of all of this besides.
You know, hyper spirituality or something that actually comes
back into our every day life.
The way that we view the world, the way that we walk in the world, the way that
we raise our families, the ways that we operate art in our, and our companies
and our jobs, the way that we engage in cultural issues, that this one idea.
This one fact that ideas have substance.
They are physical items in the spiritual realm is actually quite important.
Now, rarely have I heard this?
Talked about when it comes to geopolitical situations.
There's very few people that I have listened to that have articulated how
in the spirit realm, there are angels and demons or trans dimensional beans,
whatever you wish to call them gin that are Shabbaton and a law fighting
for the souls and the destiny of.
Very few people talk about this.
Cause it normally falls into just like very kind of religious overtones.
And I want to do my best to stay away from religious overtones because that's
really not the point of this episode.
The point of this episode is to bring up the fact that there are power.
That are affecting the way that you and I and entire nations, entire
regions of the earth think because they have been given authority because
someone has opened the door and welcome specific thought systems into.
Their life or their culture.
And so there, there is, of course, the, the practical outplay of when we
introduce legislation or an idea into culture, into society, whether that
comes through Hollywood and movies, or whether that comes to, um, uh, re
reforming the education system, of course, that also happens there in culture in
very practical ways, but there's also the spiritual aspect where there's a.
There's an opening of a spiritual realm that affects the hearts and minds,
the thought patterns of people across the globe who are sitting underneath
those specific domains of society.
So there are two points that we are going to touch on today.
These two points are one, as I've already said, thoughts have
substance in the spirit realm and.
We are going to be talking about the domains of authority and how.
The things that we let into our domain of authority or household or our family
or our workplace, the places that we have a level of authority outside of
us that actually opens up those things that we have taken, um, ownership of
thoughts that we have taken ownership of.
It affects other people around us.
The first idea here is that.
Not all thoughts are your thoughts.
I'm going to say it that again, not all the thoughts that run through
your head, originally, your thoughts.
There's actually thoughts that are floating around this room.
Thoughts that are floating around the zeitgeists.
If you will, of society, there are thoughts that are out there.
There I, when I was growing up.
It was quite the, quite the loner.
And I had way too much time to think, but during my time to think
I began thinking of philosophical thoughts that I had never heard
before, but were actually very common.
Throughout history that philosophers have thought about whether, you know,
how can we even perceive the world would offend the only person in the world.
These are things that are floating around in the zeitgeists of culture
or the spirit realm, wherever you are.
There are other thoughts that pass through your head that aren't yours.
And then there are thoughts, thoughts that are yours, but what can happen is
a thought will flip through our minds.
And we'll say, oh, I never had that thought before and we take
it and we own it as our own will.
The moment that we own a thought as our own, we accept that thought.
We essentially have given permission and authority for that thought
to build a, a place in our minds, a strong hold, if you will.
It begins to form thought patterns and, and.
And ways of operating behavioral operations within our mind.
And that then begins to affect our aura or the, the, the space of energy around us.
The next point under this thing, uh, this first idea that thoughts
have substance, is that word.
Are powerful words, create realms words, have power to affect and shape someone's.
Life.
Words are very important because words carry ideas with them.
And those as.
They have substance and the spirit rum.
So they're so important.
So the words that we say over ourselves, over our marriage, over our kids, over our
business, over the projects that we do, the things that we say about ourselves,
it is reaffirming our thoughts systems.
So if we're, if we are continuing.
Talking down about ourselves, cursing ourselves, saying Lucas, you know,
you're such an idiot, Lucas, why can't you get yourself together?
You know, if I'm continually talking down to myself, I'm actually agreeing with
something that's in the spirit realm, an assignment that is against my life.
And by agreeing with that, we know from.
That our thoughts becomes our words.
Our words become our actions.
Our actions become our behaviors, behaviors, or habits or environments,
and then our character and our destiny.
So we need to watch our thoughts.
And we talk about that relentlessly here on the show.
We need to watch our thoughts.
Why?
Because it becomes our reality.
And so first we need to watch our thoughts and then it's out of
our hearts that our mouth speaks.
So when we're speaking.
It's because we've already been thinking about.
And so we need to watch our words because when we speak those words,
that actually creates environments.
Now, there, there are, you can have hexes, you can have vexes, you can have
word curses, you can have inner Val.
So when we vow, I'm never going to do this, or I will never, or
I could never, we're actually creating these vows over our life.
That.
Strongholds and power over our lives.
That keeps us from probably doing things that you are actually
created and designed to do.
When we speak something over our children and over our
spouse, you're always like this.
Why can't you ever get it right?
You're so fill in some curse.
We're actually.
Speaking something physical over their life that has power because
we have given a power who is exactly is shaping the way that you and your
children will end up viewing the world.
Most of us would like.
That well, we self shape our world so we can decide what we want to believe
or don't want to believe, or we think, well, it is the education system.
It's education.
That's the problem.
If we can only advocate people, if we can only revamp the school system, some
people believe well it's government policy it's government that is
shaping the way that people view the world and an operating through the.
Others.
Well, it's the parents, the parents are having a huge influence on the
upbringing of the world, around them.
Some it's the peers, your friends are shaping the way that you view the world.
But guess what?
There is actually data.
There is studies that have been done that says, what are the greatest
shapers of at least Western society.
Now, this study was done by the Barnum group.
They measured the impact.
On individuals on society, based on the amount of time contact points that
the different industries or different spheres had on people and the amount of
money that was spent on these things.
Because the things that we spend our time on, the things that we spend our money on
is an indicator of where we put value and an indicator of what is actually shaping.
The way that we view the world or operate within the world
or value inside of the world.
So they broke it down.
This study broke down the significant sources of influence on American culture.
So we're speaking, speaking specifically about American culture, but I
think it can be extrapolated most likely with exceptions, I'm sure.
To Western culture.
And then beyond that, as we looked into the rest of the world and
Asia Africa, sub continent, we can begin to see that a lot of the.
Trends of behavior is beginning to happen among the youth.
And I suspect that over the coming decades, we will see that these
sources of influence on global culture will remain similar the same across
cultures due to globalization and.
To digitalization across the globe.
So they split it up into three tiers, the top tier middle and
bottom tier of influence in society in the top tier of influence.
They cited movies, television, music, and books followed by social media and
internet as being the top five influences.
On American culture underneath that still in the first tier was
law and public policy government.
And then below that was the family and the parents.
So the greatest influence it is movies, TV, media, media, media,
social media, followed by some policy and then followed by parents.
So there were laws that are set in place, the policies that are set in place.
By a nation important to shaping a culture, the family and the parents,
they still have a significant impact on the culture that is set within a
family and within the nation of America.
But above that, we see it is all media.
It is the media.
Children are consuming.
That's shaping the way that they view the world.
When you go on to the second tier, you'll see that it's school, then print
media and video games, friends, or peers followed by large corporations.
Coca-Cola Disney and affinity groups.
Who's who's your friend groups who are, you'd like your broader
circle center, media friends, but those broader circles of.
And the bottom tier you'd have non-nuclear family.
So your extended cousins you'd have promotional events, uh, protest events,
live theaters, advertising literature, and then finally your local church
or the religious sphere of society.
So what is shaping culture?
Is it school?
Yeah.
Is it corporations?
Is it big business?
Not really.
Is it your extended family?
No.
Is media, as I said, your mileage may vary culture to culture.
I suspect that here in the middle east media still plays a large
role by a suspect that religion still has a huge impact on culture.
I suspect that government as a larger impact family has a larger impact, but
we still see the way that they measured.
This study was touchpoints spent.
Children on these different spheres, w where's the most time exposure.
And we can see here in the Gulf, in the sub-continent the time
exposure that kids have to media across the globe now is absorbent.
For instance, by the time a child is 14 years old, they will have
consumed on average 18,000 hours of.
It exposed to 18,000 hours of media that is equivalent to 6.2 years
of eight hours a day on media.
By the time you're 14 6.2 years, eight hours a day.
Of media saturation that is mind boggling by the time the normal American is 18.
That number jumps from 18,000 contact hours of consumption,
hours of media to 33,000.
That is nearly 12 years.
Of eight hours a day consuming media.
Now, as I said, this is America, but what about the rest of the world?
Maybe other cultures are different.
Well, yes.
In 2011 in UAE, the national news published an article saying that a
team led by booed Hameshi surveyed 638 UAE nationals from the ages of
16 to 25 at schools and universities.
They said that almost.
Of the young MRDs are addicted to the internet and spend nearly 10 hours
a day on social and other media.
A new survey suggests they say that young people live a highly mediated
existence spending more than 9.9 hours.
On average a day with me.
More time than they spend sleeping.
And they spend twice as much time on the internet as watching
TV, according to researchers.
Now, when we dropped down into the lower ages, I'm sure that number drops from
10 hours a day to something smaller, but still, if you're at 3, 4, 5 hours
a day, when you're in your early teen years from eight to 12, That is
going to have a significant impact.
What are you watching?
What are those kids listening to?
It doesn't take much observation to see that parents are using screens as
babysitters from all you have to do is go to a mall and see how many kids have
a screen clued in front of their face.
As their parents are.
Because our media consumption is not going down.
It is increasing.
Here are some startling facts on media consumption in the west.
Adults spend more than 11 hours a day.
This is from the Nelson report in 2018 teenagers spend an estimated
of 10 hours a day on screens tweens.
Six to seven hours a day, absorbing media, eight to 10 year olds are spending
about five hours a day with media.
And the typical 18 year old will have been exposed to over
32,000 hours of media content.
And it's increasing, but what does all of this mean?
What does this mean?
What impact does this have on culture?
Well, we see that in the way.
That there is been a huge shift from traditional values to what
I'm calling social media value.
So we have shifted in American culture from valuing hard work,
civic duty, humility, living in moderation, the importance of family
and faith, the rule of law obeying the rule of law for galleries.
Living within our means and living simple lives.
Those were the traditional American values, but it has changed if you look in
modern American culture today, we see that the values have drastically shifted to
values that have been promoted on social media, on TV, on reality TV in movies.
And what is that?
It is comfort living for experiences.
For feelings, having an expression, expressing ourselves and in a way that
makes us feel free rather than humility.
We just want to be expressive, happiness, not moderation.
We want to be happy.
I want to do what makes me feel good independence.
I don't want to be bound to my family values.
I'm going to do what I want to do.
Forgive my.
Entitlement.
I'm entitled to things.
The world owes me something control, acceptance, and freedom, not simplicity
for Galilee or obeying the rule of law.
It's I want to be in charge.
I am king of my own world and I will do what I want.
It's.
And we see that these are the values that have been pushed and
pressed across media platforms.
Whether intentionally or unintentionally, it doesn't matter.
These are the values that the new generation, the coming generation
generation Z, and even the millennial generation have adopted have embraced.
Now we could say, well, what, ah, come on, Lucas.
What's so bad with that.
I mean, Every once to be comfortable, we want want happiness.
I want you to be happy.
We should be independent.
And yeah, freedom is a good thing.
We should all be freedom and into an independent, and we should express
our feelings, not just, you know, bottle them all up, not to live in, in
moderation, not to harness our emotions.
And you self-control instead, I just want to express the way
that I feel like, why is that?
Well, let's look at the effects that this change of value has.
On society.
And majority of adults believe that the following things are now
morally acceptable in the west.
They believe that divorce is okay.
Having a sexual relationship when you're not in a marriage.
It's okay.
Gambling.
That's fine.
If you have sexual thoughts or fantasies about people besides
your spouse, that's okay.
It's no big deal.
It's just in your mind.
Um, LGBTQ plus.
Relationships are acceptable.
Those LGBTQ T uh, relationships should be embraced across the board.
Doctor-assisted suicides, acceptable, LGBT identity, acceptable
cohabitation living together, uh, outside of a married relationship.
Totally fine.
Having a child without the parents being married.
That's fine.
And we see it in the.
We see that it's not just people accepting these things, but people have
begun to live in this sort of lifestyle.
Now, again, to play the devil's advocate.
Well, Luke.
Why not, why, why not live in these type lifestyles?
What's so wrong with thinking that gambling is okay or having pure
promiscuous relationships or having a child outside of marriage times
are changing values, changing.
We're becoming more open-minded and more accepting.
Isn't it good that we're becoming more tolerant and more loving to people
that are in the LGBTQ community?
Isn't this a good thing.
Why, why are you coming down hard on those who decide not
to get married traditionally?
What's wrong with this?
Well, let's talk about that.
What effects do these things have on society?
What is the cascading effect?
As you can see, it's like a domino that has been pushed.
The first one was all of a sudden we had this inundation of media immediate begins
to shape and transform the minds of a new generation, replacing traditional
values with a new set of values, a set of values that is exalting the self.
And rather than.
Teaching and putting on a pedestal of value of restraint
and moderation and self control.
It is saying, let your feelings run rampant, do what you want.
Be happy at all costs.
From that we see the next step, which is there's a massive change in the way
that people believe other things in life.
When it comes to the traditional family values are malleable and they're
accepting that we're seeing a spike in kids that are born outside of.
And what is the effects of those?
Well, we talked about this actually just a few episodes ago.
In episode 1 93, with Robert Henderson, he came on the show and he talked about
how family values being destroyed, how the, the uncertainty that happens in
kids' lives between the ages of zero and five is the greatest predictor.
Of further violence in their life of being arrested in their life of being,
putting themselves in a risky situation.
When they're in their teens, it's further evidence.
There's evidence saying that if you do not have a stable childhood, you will
grow up to not be a trusting person.
You won't trust your friends.
You won't trust the government.
You won't trust the relationships that you have around.
Is this a positive thing that we want in culture?
Do we want to sow seeds of mistrust and doubt and culture?
Do we want to sow seeds in the next generations life to have
a chaotic young adulthood?
That's only going to breed more destruction.
Is this.
Here's the clip from Robert Henderson.
What are the predictors of, um, sort of juvenile delinquency, criminal behavior,
teen pregnancy, sort of doing risky things that could get you hurt or in trouble.
Um, and so the, the two, the two key things that we're looking at,
one was a environmental harshness.
Would they call it environmental harshness, which is essentially
low socioeconomic status.
How much money do you have?
How much money does your family have?
The other question or the, the other factor they were looking at
was environmental unpredictability, which is basically measuring.
Um, how many different kinds of family structures you
lived in, in your childhood?
Um, you know, how many divorces, just how many different homes, how many sort
of, uh, marriages and remarriages and so on that you sort of go through or,
or foster homes in my case, I guess.
Um, and what they found was that the ladder, this sort of unpredictability,
uh, that kind of disorder and chaos and early child, Is much stronger
predictor of later criminal behavior and getting into trouble, getting
hurt then, uh, than poverty, which I think might surprise some people.
I think we talk a lot about poverty and society, but we very rarely
talk about stability and care and security for young children.
Um, and I think this is what's going on.
You know, there's a sort of broader question of what's going on in the
us and maybe in Western society more broadly is, um, The breakdown of the
family in a situation where you don't have a stable two-parent family.
Um, you don't, I think it's, it's harder to learn to trust people.
It's harder to sort of learn early on how to, how to establish and build
relationship, have that sort of sense of safety and emotional connection,
and that willingness to be vulnerable, uh, that, you know, children can have
when they have a secure and stable home environment, but you know,
fewer and fewer people have that.
And I think this is giving rise to a lot of.
And I believe Robert is right.
This is the leading factor of the rise in cynicism and nihilism in this generation,
the breakdown of the family unit.
So you might ask yourself, or you might ask me, well,
why are these liberal values?
Why is.
Open-mindedness and this tolerance towards things that directly impact the
stability of a family, especially if you believe that the stability of the
family or a family unit is something to be looked down on is an oppressive
function of the patriarchal society.
You can believe that.
And you can say that, but the problem is that when these ideas are implement,
When there's a breakdown of the family unit, does it leave the next generation
in a better place with better mental health, with better options on the
table for employment with stronger, more healthy relationships, more
trusting, or does it lead to more chaos and destruction in their life?
And the studies would show the data would show that it's the latter.
And so if we want to win the war against nihilism, if we want to stem
the tide that is destroying this generation of suicide, rising suicide
rates, rising depression and anxiety.
Then we must begin with the youth.
We must begin at a young age and we must begin with media because it is.
Media that is shaping the hearts, the minds and the
lives of the next generation.
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