This week, I've had multiple conversations where people have raised the bar,
the question and asked just who is behind this global coordination.
When it comes to policies regarding lockdowns or vaccine passports, mandatory
fascinations and media censorship, who's, who's really behind it all.
And who stands to profit and unto what?
Ends also in today's episode, we talk about how history never talks.
About quitters, but this isn't history, this is pop culture,
pop culture loves a good quitter.
They love someone who's falling off the map into obscurity and
with their last dying gasp of air, the reach up from the grave and
say, I protest fill in the blank.
But today, instead of focusing only on those who are.
Gasping fender from their last breath, from their graves to protest
something in order for a quick buck, we're going to focus on who
truly deserve to be celebrated.
Hey, it's Lucas Skrobot and you're listening to the Lucas Skrobot show where
we uncover purpose, pursue truth and own the future episode 246 August 4th, 2021.
And I would.
To go through this Olympic season without mentioning the Olympics.
At least once I'll be honest, I've not been watching the Olympics.
I probably would enjoy it.
I don't have time.
Ain't nobody got time for that.
Ain't nobody got time for that, but history doesn't have time for quitters,
but pop media pop culture really does.
Why?
Because a good quitter, a good grand standing protester, they
can steal the limelight, stir up a lot of great controversy.
And we all know that controversy drives clicks, clicks, drive
eyeballs, eyeballs, drive dollars.
And if you are sponsoring.
One of these athletes, you are going to be glad that they stood up and
shouted from the top of their lungs.
Maybe missed the metal standard, barely made the middle stand because
then they get recognition where they would otherwise probably be for golf.
And if they get recognition, then the little boys and little girls across the
world are going to be seen your logo.
So it, it all makes sense.
It, there is a lot of incentives to become a, a good protestor for a morally superior
cause take American football player.
For instance, Colin Kaepernick.
He was the second round draft.
36 overall for the San Francisco 49ers back in 2011, he led the
team to Superbowl in Superbowl 47.
That was 2012 and the N F C championship games.
The next season, after that, he started to slip into obscurity 2016, rolled
around and he ends up as a back up quarterback now going from stardom.
To a backup quarterback and that is not a good career path.
That that is it is curtains for you.
Soon.
The limelight is off you.
People are quickly forgetting your name and obscurity is about to pounce upon you.
So what does one do?
Well, they protest the national Anthem.
They take it.
Disrespect their country, their flag, and they protest racism.
And overnight that limelight is back.
He's been able to quit football and go on and probably make more money outside
of football than inside of football.
All.
Why?
Because he decided to protest.
His name got heard and will now be remembered all because he took that
knee or take, for example, when Barry the track and field hammer,
thrower, star, and, uh, starch.
She's not the star.
She placed third at the Olympic trials, the us trials, she placed third.
And while she was receiving her masters, The American Anthem was plain.
She turned her back to the flag and put a shirt over her head in protest
against America and the national Anthem stealing the limelight from
the first and second place winners.
And at the same time, Drawing attention to herself.
I mean, if, if she hadn't done that, I don't think anyone.
I mean, I totally forgot that hammer throat was even a thing at the Olympics.
I mean, who, who was going online?
I mean, I'm sure someone is, but who was going online?
Says who placed third?
If the, uh, Olympic trials for hammer throw no one.
We all know that first place gets the lion's share.
If you are not in first place.
You are missing out, um, the majority of the pie, whether that's the New York
times bestseller, whether that's being, uh, uh, billboard hit, whether that's
being whatever, any and anything in life, if you are first, you're getting
the lion's share all those other places.
They really don't mean that much.
So how do you continue to.
Capitalize.
How do you use your platform for a good cause that also enables you and your
name to be remembered and to propagate your, your financial success for
many decades after your 15 minutes of fame, but protesting is the best way.
Well, don't be fooled though.
Not all Americans.
Hate America.
Uh, there are actually some people surprisingly who still love America now,
right now in America, the, the narrative, if you're not in America, I'm sure all of
you know this right now, the narrative.
Is America's bad place.
You don't want to be there.
You don't mind to be proud of your nation.
It's horrible to be proud of your nation.
And especially if you're a person of color, you're pretty much living.
I mean, in a, uh, an institutional slavery still.
Uh, so here's this next clip by camera Mensa stock who won gold, gold metal in
wrestling in Tokyo for the United States.
Here's Tamra.
Showing her gratitude and expressing her joy for being able to represent the
horrible wicked United States of America.
I surprised myself and by the grace of God and they will even move my feet.
Like I just leave it in his hands.
And I pray that all the practice that the hell that my freaking coach put me
through pays off and every single time it does and I get better and better.
And it's so weird that there is no cap to the limit.
Pause first notice it's the hard work.
What got her there?
It was her hard work or all the work that she got put through.
That was the thing that enabled her meritocracy.
Something that we are quickly forgetting in this generation hard work pays off.
Um, I'm excited to see what would I have met last question for you?
That American flag around their shoulders looks pretty good.
How does that feel to represent your country?
It feels amazing.
I love representing us.
I freaking love living there.
I love it.
And I'm so happy, I guess.
You as well said, congratulations.
Enjoy that call and we'll see you out there on the podium.
Okay.
I'll try not to cry.
I love this clip.
She is.
So she's rightly should be.
She's so happy.
And I love seeing, I love seeing someone have a patriotic love for their country.
Now it is good.
And it's right.
That you should be able to criticize your country.
You should be able to look at whether it's your country or your
faith or your family or yourself.
And you can see your defects, you see your flaws and you can say those
things here, these things in my own personal life, I missed it here.
Mr.
Teer missed it here.
Here's the ideal.
I want to live up to.
I'm going to confess my shortcomings.
Look at it.
Not just say that it doesn't exist, but then I'm going to.
Work to live up to a higher ideal.
While at the same time, you can still love your nation.
You can love your nation.
You can love your faith while still being able to criticize it.
You can love your family or your parents or, or yourself, while
still being able to admit that there are areas that we need to work on.
And that goes.
Every country across the globe, but there is something that
if that is good, yeah, right.
About a healthy level of patriotism for whatever nation or culture.
Are from, and I just love seeing that here, especially in a time where people
are taught to not love your nation, to not love your heritage, to not
love your background at the Olympics.
There were two other, I'm sure there's more, but there's
at least two other people.
Who decided to protest.
Now, if you remember Gwen Berry who did qualify for the Olympics, she said that
if she had made the metal stand, that she was going to protest, despite the
Olympic, uh, regulations, she did not.
Make the metal stand.
So I guess you won't be able to, uh, protest the U S women's soccer team.
If you remember, they took a knee and protested, uh, the
national Anthem before their game.
Well, they're out of the running for a gold medal.
They lost to Canada and they also lost to, uh, Sweden, I believe.
And, uh, that was.
Quite laughable, but here's a not so American centric story.
There is a young man named Muhammad Abdul , who is Sudanese.
Now Sudan has said that they were going to move to normalize
relationships with Israel.
They have not done so yet, but in protest and in the boycotting
of Israel and re their rejection of the normalization of Israel.
Mohammad decided to not show up for his fight, his judo fight
against an Israeli competitor.
Another competitor of Jurien fatty Norine he decided as well not to
fight against an Israeli competitor in judo, both have been sent home
for breaking the code of sportsmen.
Like currently.
And there's, there's two sides of, of me in this.
The one side is that there could have been.
Probably was, if not an enormous amount of state pressure, because there could
have been state pressure where the government is saying you are not, do
not compete, do not normalize, uh, this relationship with an Israeli competitor
that could have been as this happened in the past, which we're about to
talk about, but there's also probably an enormous amount of pure pressure.
I know people who have decided.
To take very meek stances for, for Israel or meet stances, even
saying, Hey, I don't think the total.
Genocide, which is the call of the, from the river to the sea Israel be free.
I don't think that that's a good idea.
I believe that we can make peace somehow, but many people don't want to make peace.
And so even if you're taking some of those small stances here in the middle
east, you can face a lot of backlash.
Now, now that's not everyone which we will see as well.
And we are beginning to see with the UAE, even normalizing
relationships with Israel.
And, uh, Bahrain, even in the GCC normalizing relationships with Israel.
So this is changing.
It is not everyone.
I hate to paint everyone with a broad stroke, but these two gentlemen
have both said that they are protesting for the sake of Palestine.
And if, if it's not just pure pressure and they're doing it against them,
Then I would say, wow, there's probably a tremendous upside for them.
I mean, what are you going to get?
You're going to get fifth, seventh place.
We don't really know what, what places they would have gotten if
they work to continue to compete.
But it was, it was not likely that they're going to be on the metal stand.
So if you're not on the metal stand and you're not first, you're
not getting the lion's share.
It makes sense that you can.
B become a victim.
You can protest something and capitalize on that for years to come.
Not saying that is a hundred percent the case, but it, uh,
it definitely could be well, who should, who should be celebrated?
Who should be remembered?
Well, I think, uh, Iranian Saeed, Mo Malawi, QI in 2019.
Was told by his government that he was not permitted, not allowed to face his
competitor is Israeli competitor in judo.
And if he did, he would face consequences.
Here is Saeed Ambrose.
Well, he says I could have been the world champion today.
Because of the law and my country and the prudence that it requires.
I was obliged not to fight against my Israeli opponent.
I just wrote down as is how it's going to pilot.
This is the law, the national Olympic committee of Iran and the sports
minister told me not to compete.
This is back in 2019.
They rang me and wanted me not to compete.
I asked why they might go for Nigel hall.
He said, this is the law.
And those who do not comply with it will certainly have problems.
I was afraid for myself and my family.
So I did not compete.
I followed the law and I didn't compete.
what he ended up doing was he, he faced his final competitor before.
And if he beat that competitor, he would have ended up having
to face an Israeli competitor.
So he threw the match, he threw the match and he ended up placing third.
I believe.
Or fourth, he didn't, he didn't metal.
Cause he'd be through the match.
He would have placed a third or fourth in this Olympic games
back in 2019, a prelim games.
And he then ended up defecting.
He defected to Germany because he was afraid to go back to Iran because he
called out the Iranian government to force him to not compete well after going
to Egypt and getting an ego, excuse me.
After going to Germany and getting asylum in Germany, he was then able to
join the Moroccan team and he trained.
He actually, he just represented Morocco, not Morocco.
Oh my goodness.
Mongolia.
What am I saying?
He joined the Mongolian team, but he trained with the Israel national
judo team ahead of the Olympics.
And because of the, he dedicated his silver metal to Israel, he said,
thank you, Israel for the good energy.
This metal is dedicated to you, Israel.
Now that is true sportsmanship when you're faced with being kicked out because you
couldn't face an Israeli counterpart, and then you decided to train with them.
And in your winning, despite the cultural lashback that he could get, he
decides to dedicate a metal to a nation.
That supported him, even when his culture doesn't support that nation
by and large or a political faction, I should say a political faction of,
uh, of the region does not support the existence of an Israeli state.
That takes, that takes courage.
Another, another act of courage was a young Saudi woman to Hanni L Tani.
She is also a judo fighter.
She started fighting from a young agent in college, 20, and when she
had to face an Israeli competitor, she faced an enormous amount of pressure.
They were told don't face this competitor, don't fight, don't normalize.
But as I said, we are seeing a healthy trend in the region of a warming up
and normalization of relationships.
And this example.
A Saudi competitor fighting against an Israeli competitor is one of those signs.
And she decided to fight, even though she lost 11 points to zero.
That I believe is a true sign of sportsmanship.
There could have been a tremendous upside by withdrawing, especially
if she knew that she was facing someone who is better than her.
So why face the humiliation of a hard loss by commend to honey Invus?
I think that is such a honorable thing to do, especially in the
face of so much criticism in the face of possibly being canceled.
Uh, by friends and family and, and probably receiving a whole lot of hate
on social media, but the Olympics is a place that we can come together and unify
as a world to look each other in the eye.
And not have to see our ethnicities, but we can celebrate our nationalities.
We can celebrate our different cultures while at the same time, remembering and
accepting that we are all one white race.
There's not multiple races.
There is the human race.
And that I think is something that's beautiful, even though
that might be being lost.
Currently in this, in this cultural moment of, of what seems to be real
divisive NIS in culture, across the globe, when it comes to, uh, ethnicities,
when it comes to nationality or comes to the color of people's skin as are
the lens that is being put on societies, continuing to push towards one.
Of power rather than one of meritocracy.
Well, other weird things are happening this week across the globe.
As I said, people are asking who is, who is driving all of these agendas
when it comes to the globalization and the harmonization across multiple
many nations when it comes to the response of COVID 19, even though.
There's a lot of conflicting data.
There is other science and studies that are put out there when it's
put out there, or people talk about studies that go against the.
The the political norm or goes against the, the agenda that is being pushed
when it comes to vaccine passports, uh, efficacies of vaccines or the
efficacy of lockdowns or masks.
If you push against that, you're being silenced now.
I it's not about the segment right here.
It's not about whether you agree or disagree with a vaccine or
whether you agree or disagree with the efficacy of lockdowns or
mass in as much as why is it that.
There is such a sensorial ship and a label labeling of misinformation along
things that not is misinformation, but when it goes against the information that
has been decided that this is the norms, this is the path that we are taking in.
Anything that might question this mode of operation is going
to be labeled in silenced.
It's going to be labeled as misinformation in silence.
Well, sky news, Australia.
Sky news is not just a rando, you know, Brando quote unquote fake news source.
That's making stuff up.
It's an, it's an actual news source.
Well, they were, they were suspended from YouTube this week
because they were quoting studies out of Harvard and out of Oxford.
Here is Alan Jones from Fox news Australia.
As you know, we've been shut down on YouTube.
I'm not going to make any comment or any judgements about that, except to say this,
the challenge to free speech is real.
We don't seem to have a leader anywhere to defend it.
You won't be canceled if you're on the left.
If you're on the common sense center, a right look out there after you believe me.
I know those of you who are regular viewers will know that
whether it's Chris, Kenny, Peter Credlin Andrew bolt, Rita Penner.
Hi, Paul, Mario Corey.
How material is researched.
The only thing is you're apparently not allowed to quote experts from Oxford,
Stanford, Harvard, or Yale universities who disagree with some of the rubbish.
And that to me is, is shocking.
You're not able to, you're not able to quote, research.
From established universities, established hubs of well respected
hubs of research like Oxford or Harvard, if it goes against the agenda.
And this is why people are raising questions, this is why people are alarmed.
It's not so much that.
I'm anti, you know, quote unquote, I don't like this because I'm anti vascular.
I don't like this because you know, I'm on her.
It's not about that.
It's not about the, the vaccine or not the vaccine.
It's about why are we not able.
To have free and open dialogue and communication around
this, on these platforms.
Why are these platforms censoring this, but not censoring, other
things that is also clearly.
Clearly actually MIS information like the president of the United States.
Remember I showed you here, Joe Biden telling a town hall audience
that if you're vaccinated, you won't get Corona virus.
That's not correct.
Was he fact checked?
The vibe, the, the, the various shots that people are getting now
cover that there there's you're okay.
You're not gonna, you're not gonna get COVID if you have these vaccinations.
Yeah.
As old around the world and he's wrong.
And, and you strong.
Why is that being fact checked?
Is that being taken off of social media?
Is that being flagged on YouTube?
There's the white house being suspended or on, on YouTube for
that clip doesn't seem like it.
Now, Israel, they have reinstated that even if you are fully vaccinated,
even if you were fully vaccinated, Come to Israel, you still have to
do a mandatory eight day quarantine.
What does that tell you about these government's actual belief
of the, the efficacy of these vaccines in their ability to stop
people from spreading the virus?
Maybe, maybe you're not going to get it.
As much maybe, or have a higher chance of getting it.
Maybe your CA will actually be less, but the CDC came out with the leach study.
It came out and said, it said that, well, people who are, are vaccinated
have the same viral load as people who aren't vaccinated and are
able to spread it just as easily.
And now we're seeing nations taking that into account and saying, well, Be
fully vaccinated, come over, still have the virus and still be spreading it.
Therefore you need to lock down.
I have a French you're in the middle east, him and I were talking and he
said all of his friends, all of his friends who got vaccinated after they
got vaccinated, they got COVID all of it.
Now that might be antidotal data.
That's not a double blind study.
But it is, it, it does make one say, wait a minute.
I thought that a vaccine was so that you wouldn't be able to get this.
Of course that the MRNs vaccines, the way that they work is different
than a traditional vaccine, many would say that it's not even a
vaccine and the, the arguments on the pro vaccine side that I've heard.
I'm sure you've heard as well, is that well, you won't get it as
bad or your chances are reduced.
It's not a hundred percent effective.
Well, the, the steps that.
Australia is taking is very different than a place.
Maybe like Singapore, Singapore has said, we, we have come to
accept the reality that we now live in, which is that COVID-19 is
going to be a part of our world.
Just like the flu, who is a part of our world.
We're not locking down borders because of the flu.
So we're not going to lock everything down.
We're not going to kill our economy because of COVID they have accepted,
we are never going to get to COVID zero, but there are places like in
Australia where that is the goal.
COVID zero is the ultimate goal.
Here is, uh, uh, reports from what is happening right now, down under.
The Australian army will take to Sydney streets, assisting police in locking
down 2 million residents in COVID hotspots suburbs, the police commissioner
calling the prime minister for help after Sidney's worst single day, since
the pandemic began 239 infections were recorded, at least 66 were infectious
in the community and tragically.
There were two more deaths, as I said.
Th th the number 200, some odd cases doesn't seem like a whole lot to me
in a metropolitan city like Sydney.
But when you're, when your mindset is, we must get to zero
cases, that is a goal zero cases.
Then it would make sense that if there are any sorts of
rising cases, you are going to.
Shut everything down.
You're going to deploy the military.
You're going to more or less establish martial law in your democratic state.
To control this because your goal is your goal is COVID zero and your,
your methodology is authoritarianism.
The premiere announcing a crack down on those, spreading the virus by doing
the wrong thing with fines, beefed up for not wearing masks and even stricter
rules in the eight hotspot council area.
At Liverpool train station,
police make their presence fill to thousands.
More officers deployed in the Southwest in Campbelltown and in Bankstown.
And you COVID crack down.
We are seeing noncompliance at a level that's impacting on the virus.
The commissioner enlisting the army for support.
If we had to use them.
Absolutely.
I would call out formally requesting 300 troops late this afternoon in Melbourne.
They were used at checkpoints, patrolled streets and Dawn, our tomes.
They assisted with compliance.
They actually provided confident for midnight residents in all areas of
concern can only travel five kilometers from home and must wear masks outdoors.
One of the biggest problems people visiting other households
offices will come knocking random, but certainly targeted from
compliance through Crimestoppers.
We are now getting tens of thousands of people.
Reporting breaches through Crimestoppers across all of Sydney police have
new powers to shut down businesses, construction sites and public spaces
where there's a risk to public.
We wonder, well, how could this possible?
How could this possibly happen?
How could a democratic society be totally okay with, with their,
their society being shut down?
With their businesses, being able to be shut down by police with martial
law in a city when there is 200 cases.
How was, how was society okay.
With that?
How, how, why aren't people standing up and saying something?
Well, one people are standing up and saying something there have
been protests, uh, across whether it's the UK or France or Greece in
Italy, uh, protests across Australia.
I believe a hundred were arrested over this last week in protests
against these lockdowns in Australia.
But if you notice in this case, They're seeing 10 tens of thousands
of people are calling in and reporting on their neighbor seeing hello?
Hello, Mr.
Lomas softwares are.
Yes, my neighbor.
They have some people over there having a Barbie, you know, go over and arrest them.
Give them a fine, this is how it's happening.
It's it.
Society is accepting it and embracing it and letting it go forward.
So who is who's behind it?
Well in many ways, and this is the least, um, conspiratorial thing.
It's the general public, because people are afraid.
People are afraid and we're listening to the media.
The media is telling us what to think.
And so we're going along with it and we don't have time.
We don't have time to think about what other course of action there might be.
And this is what we talked about in the previous episode in episode 245, where
when there are, are viral infections and infectious diseases, people tend to become
more conservative, stay in their house.
They stay close to the social circle, want more walls.
They want more restrictions on society because we are afraid
and we want to self preserve.
That is the non conspiratorial.
Viewpoint on this.
Well, this week also a leading, uh, advisor for the Biden
administration, the top Biden COVID administration on CNN regarding mass.
Now remember in Australia right now, if you're not married wearing
a mask outdoors, vaccinated or unvaccinated, it's a $500 fine,
but this is what the, the Biden administration is saying about masks.
You know, today that many of the face cloth coverings that people wear are not
very effective in reducing any of the virus movement in or out either you're
breathing out or you're breathing in.
And in fact, if you're in the upper, mid west right now, anybody who's
wearing their face cloth covering can tell you they can smell all
the smoke that we're still getting.
We need to talk about better masking we needed.
Well, there it is.
I thought people have been saying this for months, months, and months and months,
we've been seeing like, wait a minute.
It's if you wear your mask properly or you're wearing an N 95 mask,
then yes, that is going to help you.
But the moment that you touch it, you fiddle with it.
You move it off your nose, you pull it over your face or you
reuse a mask or you touch your mask and then touch something else.
It is no longer effective.
We've been saying that.
I've been saying this so many other people have been saying this.
And I think in many ways we all know it.
We all know that unless you're hacking up a storm, if, if you're
somewhere and you're coughing, coughing, coughing, and you're, your
spirit is going everywhere then.
Sure.
It's probably a mass is gonna help a little bit, but the moment you
touch it and then touch the surface.
Well, now it stops helping.
And we can, we see the steam going up and fogging up my glasses.
Every time I breathe wearing one of these masks, we, we, we, we are
intelligent enough to know that that steam is going into the air and going
around someone else's mask and into their mouth and into their lungs.
And then finally here, here's the truth.
The masking that we have, it's not enough.
It's not doing anything to homemade cloth mass.
They're not doing anything.
So either we can stop playing the charade and do away with the mask, or we're going
to need like actual heavy duty mask, which I certainly don't want on my face.
I don't like the little cloth ones as it is.
But if at least let's be consistent, like at least let's be consistent.
So who has what to gain, who is behind all this one?
I mean, clearly I don't know if, uh, I did know I would be, um, I would not be,
I would be a much more popular person and probably in the throws of those
powerful, powerful people in society.
I don't know for sure.
Who controls everything.
I definitely believe that there are dark spiritual forces that
are pushing these ideologies and empowering these ideologies, these
ideas of controlling society, these ideas of author authoritarian, uh,
draconian laws and control on people.
Uh, just, just the, the psychological toll that is happening across the globe when
it comes to the mental health of people from these isolations and lockdowns,
as we have talked about in the previous episode as well, uh, it it's shocking.
I saw one stat that said there's been, or five times.
More suicides among children fan death from COVID from these.
And so the mental toll that is, is having it's dark.
It's definitely dark.
Uh, so there's, there's that side.
I definitely believe there is a spiritual aspect at play.
The ideas that are probably.
Conspiratorial.
And I, even though a lot of people could say, I'm pretty conspiratorial.
I do my best to stay away from conspiracies.
I don't think conspiracies are always very helpful, but here's something
that I found was very interesting there when it comes to who's controlling
everything who stands to benefit.
Well, there are four major companies that own most of the world's businesses.
The shareholders of banks like bank of America, JP Morgan, Citi
group, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley, uh, that bank of N
Y Mellon, the majority shareholders all share these four corporations.
These core four, uh, companies, first, one being state street corporation.
Second Vanguard group third, BlackRock fourth fidelity.
These four huge corporations have a controlling majority in most
of the world's biggest banks.
They also control many banks in Europe.
They also have tax dealings and tax havens in the Cayman, islands, Monaco, et cetera.
What's even more shocking is that the us federal reserve is comprised of 12
banks represented by seven board members.
Some of whom are representative of these big four groups.
So in other words, state street corporation, Vanguard group block,
BlackRock, and fidelity, or F M R have a controlling influence on at least
the us monetary policy and system.
Not to mention that these big four have controlling shares or have a lot of power.
In companies like 18 T Boeing, caterpillar Coca-Cola DuPont ExxonMobil,
general electrics, general motors, HP home Depot, Honeywell, international
Intel, IBM Johnson and Johnson, JP Morgan McDonald's Merrick, Microsoft
3m, Pfizer, Proctor and gamble.
United technology, Verizon communications, Walmart time, Warner Disney, Viacom,
Rupert Murdoch's news corporation, CBS corporation, NBC universal notice.
These four groups have controlling shares and a lot of incentive when it
comes to the, these vaccine creators like Pfizer Johnson and Johnson.
And they're also controlling media groups.
So who, who stands to gain?
What, what, what is there to gain?
Well, I think of course money is always a driving incentive, but we
also know that these people have more money than they can dream of.
I think the more attractive thing.
People have always sought after his power.
Look at Alexander at the great, you looked at Octavian.
You look at Kingus Khan, uh, all of these great men, Julius Caesar, who, who saw to
conquer the world, they were after power.
It wasn't money.
It wasn't riches.
It was power.
It was control.
If you can control the world, you can, in many ways become God-like.
And currently today, As we've talked about, there is
a push from libertarianism.
Or a Liberty worldview or mindset, and it it's still use,
liberals are still being used.
It's being conflated with this, but it's been, it's turning into progressivism.
As we talked about in the previous episode, it's progressive
as an and progressivism says everything is, should be created.
We need to orchestrate and level society so that we have equality of
outcome and progressivism is no longer.
Built on the premises and the ideologies of, of Liberty or liberalism, but it's
based on the idea of social construction, where there's an equality of outcome and
it's only the best, the brightest minds.
They are the ones.
We're able to control all of society and make sure that everyone
has that equality of outcome.
Yeah.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
Makes sense.
In a post-truth society where we have exchanged the truth for lies and
reasons for post modern irrationality, the absurd finally makes sense.
It came out from, uh, from the Louis silken law firm that ethical
veganism was ruled to be a protected characteristic at the tribunal last year.
Meaning that employers would.
At risk legally, if they ordered their staff to become vaccinated, the report
says that some ethical vegans may disagree with the vaccinations on the basis
that they will inevitably been tested.
On animals, ethical veganism has previously been found by the
employment tripe PRI boon in the UK to Mount to a belief capable of being
protected, says a spoken spokes person spokesman for Louis silken law firm.
Although COVID-19 vaccines don't contain anything drived from,
they were tested on animals.
So.
And whether this not pans out to be true, it's hilarious, nonetheless,
because those people who are claiming religious reasons for resisting a
vaccine, they're being told too bad.
It doesn't matter what your, your reasons are.
We have the ability to force us and mandate this on you.
At least everything that I've been seeing so far, there's a lawsuit recently by
university in America, where as it's going up the court system, they've
said that the universities have a legal right to mandate, uh, vaccinations
for all their students and faculty.
People are pursuing that in a court of law.
We'll see where that lands, but here's another path.
At least, uh, hopefully if there are, you know, protected characteristics or
belief systems, uh, you can become vegan.
But if you, if you don't actually want to become vegan as a Laurence
Fox Laurence Fox came out.
This week do be able to, you know, get out of any forced vaccinations
by having some special protection.
So he came out as a trans vegan that's right.
Trans vegan, and he didn't make it up.
According to the urban dictionary at trans vegan is a quote, a
person or intelligent people.
I think it's hilarious that you have to see intelligent being, um,
because maybe the, the intelligent beam doesn't identify as a person.
So a person or intelligent being who feels like a vegan associates as a
vegan behaves and talks like a vegan, but as it is trapped in the body of a
carnivore and cannot help, but eat meat.
Denoting or relating to a person who sense of personal identity does not
correspond with their eating habits.
Hmm.
So I guess I might be coming out as trans vegan as well.
You know, clearly I can't help but eat meat.
Um, but really identify as a vegan.
I ask that you respect my trans feminists and, uh, you know,
maybe this would be a way that.
If, if in the future, there's a mandate, at least with the current
data out there, I've said this before.
I'm not completely against ever getting a vaccine.
My family gets vaccines.
It just seems for something like this, which has lots of similarity to the flu.
I don't go out and get a flu shot.
So right now with the data that I have, I am a skeptic and that's okay.
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Our destinies today's quote comes from Solomon.
He wrote in Proverbs, do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you
yourself will be just like him goes on in the next proverb to say, answer a
fool, according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes, trans veganism.
I mean how, the fact that that was actually a term.
That someone was trans vegan that they identified as vegan.
Yeah.
Even though they continued to eat meat, that was something that was
around at least all the way back in 2017, that scene to, to the rational
human being that seems like folly.
And yet.
That is, and yet it makes perfect sense to use that argument, especially in light
of the cultural climate, where if, if you are trans, you know, heaven forbid, heaven
forbid anyone says anything against you.
That's hate speech that's discrimination.
And at the same time with the measures that are coming forth,
it does seem like religious.
W religious exemptions are being pushed to the race wayside.
But what is being brought front and center are, are things that are
built on irrational, no ideologies.
And it is because progressivism and we talked about this in the previous
episode is because progressive ism has.
E a mutation of liberalism progressivism isn't liberalism got further and
further and further along the political spectrum and then morphed
into progressivism, which is and morphed into extreme authoritarianism.
As we were talking about in the previous episode of it, it's not that trajectory.
Progressivism has an entirely different subset of ideologies.
And those ideologies comes from post-modern thought and belief where
there is no reason where there is no truth, where there is no morality
where everything is merely, relative, everything boils back down to power.
So.
It's not a progression.
When we look at the political spectrum from right to left, you
think that, okay, the rights are conservative and they're afraid of
everything that doesn't look like them.
They want to control themselves and control everyone in an
order society just perfectly.
But then when you move across to the liberal side, well then they're, you
know, free flowing and everything.
Yeah.
Or even if you look at the political compass, which says that on the top,
You have authoritarianism and on the bottom you have libertarianism.
And the top of the quadrants is they're trying to control everything and the
bottom it's just a free for all liberal.
It doesn't actually like these, these scales, whether they're trying to
measure economics or socials or show social scales or the collectivist versus
individualist, they, they don't work.
If you stop and actually think through, well, where would this ideology fall
and how do you have yourself in a place?
And the reason that fee they don't work is because they're really not sliding scale.
They're not a connected scale where you kind of just slide
from one thing to another next.
This, this scale works when politics and government is your God.
And there is no, there is no such thing as.
As reason outside of political ideology.
And we, we touched on, is there, is there a possibility to, in the previous
episode, is there a possibility to have a moral injustice society without.
God, or without divine revelation or divine laws that are given
by God as Thomas Aquinas talks about the divine laws.
And we hinted on, well, no, but really the answer is yes.
And even Aquinas talks about that, that there are natural laws and
that there are human laws, but the way that we come to these laws.
Like liberalism might come to these laws is through reason.
And it's through rationality that we're able to look at the world and look at
our relationships and through the use of reason and the use of objective truth
from the looking at nature and observing things and conscience that is in our heart
and relationships is through reason that we're able to come to those conclusions.
What is justice or injustice?
What is truth or falsehood, but progressivism has starts
from a totally different base of ideology of belief system.
It is that there is no reason there is no truth, whereas liberalism or,
or collectivist versus individual.
Those, those do fit on some, some sort of a spectrum.
We have to realize that when we take these presuppositions that are so far
down, these root systems, oftentimes they're completely and totally detached.
And that's why we're seeing things like progressivism, which seems to
be, which has been called liberalism.
That turns into.
Authoritarianism, but it's not that at all what's happening is it's a totally
different subset of ideas that has pushed liberalism classical liberalism
out of the picture and is superseding.
But it still has that label as being liberal when it really is far from
it and the objectives and that motive operandum operandum is not what we have.
Considered to be liberal in the past, but going back to this quote,
I say all of that to say when, when we look at whether it's a protest,
when we look at whether it is.
Uh, a comedian coming out as a trans vegan.
When, when we look at how do we, how do we use community, patient?
How do we use media?
How do we use entertainment?
How do we use jokes to combat this irrationality?
That there are times where it's fitting not to use folly.
And not to respond to the folly, but to use rationality, to use
Regent, weak reason to use logic, to use truth, to combat it, but also
those in the progressive camp that has said there is no such thing as rash.
There is no such thing.
As reason.
Those are all constructs to oppress people.
Which is what they say.
This was the postmodernist.
Say it's all just power.
They're not going to respond to arguments of reason because that
is not the way they're operating system of viewing the world works.
So what do you do well?
You then answer a fool, answer someone who believes there is no reason
according to irrational humans, because that's how you win the battle.
And that's, and that's why I think, you know, trans veganism
might just be the way to go.
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