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1. 00:01 as I say it there are two types of states there are webarian institutional bureaucratic states and then there are nihilistic polities so the world today is divided between countries or polities that are based on institutions and laws and regulations
2. 00:22 the rule of law and and so on so forth but mostly on an unelected bureaucracy which is in charge of interpreting laws and then enforcing their own interpretation and that includes the judiciary i call these the webarian countries because of Weber and
3. 00:42 his work on bureaucracy and then of course there are the nihilistic polities the nihilistic countries where institutions are frowned upon dismantled and replaced with totally arbitrary uh regimes that are based essentially on the will of a single individual an
4. 01:00 authoritarian person a strong man who is in charge and this is not only in the United States we're talking about Hungary about Israel about Turkey about Serbia about Russia you know I would say that the majority of countries in the world are nihilistic not
5. 01:19 webarian and this gives a long-term competitive edge to countries like China and Germany which are still largely we're bearing the problem is this the the peoples of these countries the people in general have endured what I see as narcissistic injuries the
6. 01:43 elites both on the left and on the right the elites were condescending and contemptuous of the masses and the people reacted to this narcissistic repeated consistent recurrent narcissistic injuries people reacted with narcissistic rage we know this from
7. 02:02 the dynamics of pathological narcissism and now we are in an age of rage we have transitioned from the age of contempt or the age of injury to the age of rage of course this is not all about narcissistic injuries it's there's envy there there's envy of the elites people
8. 02:24 who are less educated less well-connected less in less integrated into the system less part of the establishment these people envy the elites and this envy masquerades as victimhood and righteous indignation i want to apply this framework um to a few
9. 02:45 uh topics and I want to say in general before I start that the liberal elites the so-called progressive elites the educated the intellectuals and so on so forth they completely misread the people they completely misread the masses and they are at a loss and they are
10. 03:02 befuddled and they're more and more anxious and they're in a state of panic in my view and I'm offering here kind of key based on my studies of narcissism and I think this key may disambiguate many things you if you use this key I think you can make sense of many of the
11. 03:21 events and happenings of today consider for example um corruption tax dollars are perceived by the mass masses as money confiscated the masses pay taxes actually only the masses pay taxes the elites do not pay taxes the masses pay taxes and they see
12. 03:46 nothing in return literally nothing in return infrastructure is crumbling services healthcare education are nowhere to be found or the barriers to entry are very high the masses pay the the bulk of of taxes and they see almost nothing while the elites they have tax advisors and
13. 04:08 offshore tax shelters and ways to minimize or to evade taxes altogether so the elites perceive tax dollars the taxpayers money the elite perceive this money as having been confiscated by a faceless heartless bureaucracy this is money stolen by people who have nothing to do
14. 04:33 with the taxpayer and so resting it back getting it back extracting the tax dollars back from the bureaucracy getting this money back from them they as I said the faceless heartless almost monstrous bureaucracy you know so getting money out of them or
15. 04:56 away from them is perceived as a positive thing is perceived as a form of defiance and rebellion which is closely affiliated with liberty and to some extent democracy and if the only way to defund the bureaucracy is via corruption and graft by the few then so be it if
16. 05:23 only billionaires and politicians can take the money away from the bureaucracy then so be it the people are not interested nor do they believe that they're going to get their money back all they want to do is punish the bureaucracy punish the elites and one
17. 05:42 way to do that is to take away their research grants and to take away their funding and to take away their scholarships and to take away their travel expenses and to take away their salaries and this explains why there is a very high tolerance for venality and
18. 06:00 corruption among the masses because yeah it's true there's a group of kleptocrats and thieves who are stealing this money everyone understands that everyone sees the corruption in action the graft is everywhere and yet the masses don't care because the elites are suffering the
19. 06:20 bureaucracy is suffering the state is suffering those people who have subjugated the masses those people who have stolen from the masses those people who have defrauded and deceived the masses they are the ones suffering now at the hands of the few admittedly these
20. 06:38 few are getting richer by richer by the minute but the masses don't care they regard it as the cost of doing the business of dismantling the state now take another example egregious and even even criminal misconduct in the eyes of the masses this is a positive not a negative
21. 06:59 convicted felons are heroes people who have been who have been prosecuted um have also been persecuted in the eyes of the masses electing to office people who are essentially criminal people who are antisocial people who are anti-establishment electing them to
22. 07:23 office is showing the finger to the elites and the bureaucracy the more the elites protest the more intellectuals fume and and are infuriated the more universities criticize the more the more the more you know the wellto-do feel helpless and and attacked the better it
23. 07:47 is the more intellectuals protest the more the masses cheer and egg on the offenders the offenders the criminals the corrupt they are the emissaries of the masses they are the advanced army they are the vang vanguard they are the avanguard of the new rebellion the new
24. 08:09 revolution another topic lack of credentials and expertise and and experience people with absolutely no background no relevant background are appointed to positions of power and responsibility which are essentially existential and the masses are happy
25. 08:28 with this they cheer this on it is a plus because it means that these new office holders are outsiders they're not beholden to special interests and the entrenched official they are they are truly members of the masses they are part of the family it's
26. 08:50 a clanish approach to politics it's uh it's this polarization you're with me or against me this splitting defense where where if someone disagrees with you they're all bad and you are all good and so whoever you appoint to high office regardless of of expertise and
27. 09:13 experience and education and credentials and so on so forth whoever is appointed is your men is part of your family is your kin and kith and is your messenger is will carry out your wishes what are the wishes of the masses to destroy everything to ruin everything to render
28. 09:34 everything dysfunctional this machinery this beastly contraption that has consumed the masses in the past few decades is facing its demise at the hand at the hand hands hand of the masses the long arm of the masses are exactly these people who are totally unqualified
29. 09:57 incompetent and inadequate when coming to their positions positions they're holding bumbling ignorant incurious fools besoughted with inname conspiracy theories religious superstitions and other such nonsense people who are hating on science and irudition
30. 10:18 these people exactly are beloved by the masses because they reflect and mirror the profile of the typical electorate the base typical people average people are as stupid as ignorant as incurious as addicted to magical thinking insane conspiracy theories as
31. 10:45 hateful of science and irrudition the elites universities higher in higher education institutions this these people reflect the masses they emanate from the masses and they leverage the power of the masses they are the arrow head that is penetrating deep
32. 11:09 into the establishment and ruining it from the inside and their ignorance is an asset their stupidity is exactly the source of their empowerment these are the requirement in the job description these are the synanons of the new elite the new elite
33. 11:33 is everything the old elite is not it's negative identity formation to qualify as a member of the new elite you need to be the exact opposite of a member of the old elite so the old elite was educated you should be uneducated the old elite was knowledgeable you you should be
34. 11:50 ignorant the old elite was curious about the world and so on you should be incurious the old elite was all for equity diversity and inclusion you should be against the old elite was rational you should be irrational the old elite disparag and mocked and
35. 12:05 ridiculed conspiracy theories you should uphold them and support them as the foundations and pillars of the new science religion of course is the cherry on top of this um unsemly and and nosiating cake so this is the new elite breaking things destruction and
36. 12:30 sabotage are the only way to undo the labyrinth to exit the maze and to drain the swamp this is the only way this orgy of devastation and eradication and obliteration this negation of everything it's the only way to move the rocks and to unear the critters lurking under
37. 12:55 these rocks also known as the previous elites especially intellectuals politicians and and so on so this is where we are going it's a rebellion it's a revolution of the masses against the elites so now this is the thesis and I'm open for questions
38. 13:19 um please can you hand the microphone to to this gentleman over there and let's start the question and answer part thank you no the that's what I was saying the people don't care they're immersed in a kind of revolutionary orgy of tearing down what they perceive to be their
39. 13:43 prison there's a sense of liberation no rules no laws no barriers to entry no minimum requirements it's a total anomy anomy prevails this is anarchy pretending to be freedom and the the sense of liberty the sense of freedom is intimately linked to anomy
40. 14:07 intimately linked to a lack of norms a lack of rules a lack of laws a lack of constraints a lack of inhibitions a lack of limitations like anything goes you're free to do anything you want you're free to transgress you are free to aggress you're free to to u misbehave you're
41. 14:27 free to assault you're free to to commit crimes you're free finally this total liberty and freedom and um it sits well with actually with the with the American tradition i think the likes of Donald Trump and so on so forth they actually reflect the true soul the true soul of
42. 14:47 the United States but this and the true and the true composition of the people by the way I think the the left-wing elites in the United States are European they're not American they're foreign foreign implant and transplant and people rejected them
43. 15:04 because of this but I think this phenomenon of equating liberation with totalitarianism ironically equating liberation with anything goes equating liberation with it's who you know not what you do or who you know not what the law says um this I think is a universal
44. 15:27 phenomenon the the foundation is crumbling the walls are falling down the institutions are dying started with the family and the church and so on and now all institutions are dying political or not we are entering a nihilistic anarchic age where to some extent might
45. 15:46 is right but also right is might and that's the victimhood movements where they claim rights and impose commensurate obligations on on people and so it's it's um it's mayhem it's a chaos it's a winner takes all it's um it is a jungle that we're entering we're
46. 16:07 entering a period of true jungle and but throughout this period people feel more free more liberated more elated more euphoric than before because there is also growing infantilism and children don't like discipline children hate to be told what
47. 16:29 to do children throw temper tantrums and we have no adults left nowadays everyone is a child adolescence has been extended to age 25 people live with their parents until they're 35 and 40 they delay marriages they they all the milestones of growing up are gone and so we are
48. 16:49 eternal we are po eternals we're eternal adolescents and exactly like adolescence we're rebellious we're defined we're contumacious we reject authority and we believe that a world of anarchy is much preferable to establishments institutions elites rules laws and
49. 17:10 definitely bureaucracies that's how I see it