And it's another trunout, a trunout, not a chimp out, a trunout in Minnesota this time, a state that has to be quarantined, placed under military administration to stop the radicalization of its people, the stochastic terrorism incited by its officials, men like I think it's Mayor Frye, I don't know of that city Minneapolis where this trun rampage took place, and Mr. Waltz, who is vice presidential candidate for, with Gamal Harris last summer, and he was called a normal man, he's a normal man according to some, as opposed to Trump and Vance, who are abnormal, icky, incel men, but Mr. Waltz, a normal man calling for increased true transsexual funding for the rewiring or re-piping of their machinery by government

funding mandate or something like this, it's a very normal middle American Germanoid, Germanic upper Midwest position, increased apparently, that's according to some, increased funding for transsexuals to stop them from rampage. And for this reason, the Trump administration must place it under immediate military occupation. A tranny chimp out as a mentally ill freak now kills people in a Catholic church. And it gives me dark thoughts because I just finished Joseph Conrad's book Secret Agent, which I will talk about later on this episode again, because it's very topical always. And meanwhile, this talk about high-trust society breaks out again. I'm sorry, yes, you like the fat beats this time. I use Jamaica Rastafari beat. It's hip. I'm very hip.

Number one sex show, Caribbean Rhythms America, episode 195. But I read other day Theognis, one of my favorite poet, ancient Greek, who for a long time in antiquity, he was seen as a kind of wise man. Providing self-help, life advice, philosopher, poet, okay? And Theognis, very ancient poet man, probably born 600 BC. When you hear classical Greece, you know it from 400 BC, so this is sometime before that, the century before that. But some scholars say he's born sometime in the 500 BC or 600 BC. And I've mentioned him from time to time on this show as one of the two voices of ancient Greek aristocracy at its purest, its most uncompromising voice. The other one being Pindar. And Pindar is just full of radiant light and high mystical things.

If I were to recommend to you one writer that most embodies the stereotypical popular culture image of the ancient Greeks, it wouldn't be Plato or Socrates who are already a little bit weird with their worship of reason and pedantic philosophy. It would be Pindar, just full of sun, seeing humanity as possibly divinized, worshipping athletic achievement and wisdom and genius. The whole mood of it, if you want to say it this way, it's what people imagine ancient Greek vibe at its best, but it hardly makes for popular reading, so I cannot recommend it for your translation, and it's hard to read even for ancient Greek scholars, and the language is insanely dense with metaphor, allusion. I think Ezra Pound tries to get some of that tone in his poem.

It doesn't really work for Ezra Pound because he comes off like a graduate student when he does it. He makes many allusions that you have to look up in the encyclopedia. Pindar is anything but academic or such. I think Paglia says if you want to read Pindar, don't go for any of his pedestrian English translators who never captured the spirit of it, but read the poetry of... So I think I'm wrong as I say this. I don't think she says this about Pindar. I think she says it about Sappho, so in Greek Sappho, the lesbian poet, who is not nearly as difficult as Pindar, but I think Paglia considers her untranslatable in English too and she says ignore her stupid pedestrian translators into English. If you want to get the feel of Sappho in English, read George Herbert.

And this is English poet beginning of 1600s. So I don't know who I could recommend to you as a Pindar substitute in English. Some people say Stefan Gjorge, but that's in German. And there are, there may be none. It may even be easier to mimic Homer in English than Pindar. In a later time, Pindar, in a later time than Homer, I mean, Pindar's born later and so on, but he has a more archaic, more mythical feel than even Homer does, I think. But anyway, read him, I guess, in prose, prose translation, if you must, although so much, it's dense, it's very dense. But Theognis, on the other hand, very different feel from Pindar, very dark, brooding dark poetry, full of angst, aristocracy in the hour of its danger. He's a dispossessed aristocrat exiled at times from his city, at times impoverished.

And in the ancient world, he was seen for much of Greek history as a source just of life advice. Think gnomic, it's called, so-called gnomic poetry. Short one-liner or a few sentence aphorisms, mostly bearing on how you should live, on the dangers and misfortunes of life, that type. In the Bible, ecclesiastes often come close to this field. I think it's even called Gnomic Ecclesiastes, part of it. It was, I'm not expert in African literature, so I don't know if it's Ecclesiastes or Psalms that are like this, but it was probably modeled on Greek poetry of this type, and it was one of Friedrich Nietzsche's early scholarly successes based on which he became the youngest classics professor ever by that time, I think, in the 19th century, is that he resurrected, attempted

to resurrect the original meaning of Theognis, in other words, using philology techniques and so on, resurrect the meaning that Theognis himself had in mind when he composed this poetry and that his immediate audience would have perceived in the 6th century BC, before More essentially, even in antiquity, his work was cut up, redistributed as a series of disconnected maxims on self-help, the thing I say about gnomic self-help one-liners. And I am nobody, I am just an internet humorist, and I wrote a book called Bronze Age Mindset. But it's so easy for such things to happen to what you write, I see it in real time. even within years of the book I wrote and even while the text itself is available easily

for anyone to read in black and white and yet people don't read it and the popular understanding comes to be that it's something about I don't know what flavor massage oil you should get your girlfriend to you know this kind of thing well I wish it was even more about that don't let your children listen to this episode anyway Theognis Poetic Fragments you can find online but unfortunately, don't let your children listen to episode. I will talk later in episode and probably on the next one, the life of Roman Emperor, Elagabalus. And I do this to shame the transsexuals of our own time, because Elagabalus is such a more glamorous tranny than anything today. But anyway, look, you can find out these fragments online, but not only are they hard to translate into English,

but there are archaic translations, thou, thy, and this kind of, and it's not so good. It's pointless to read archaic translation now, and I don't know. But he has very good many anti-Ploebian statements. Let me read you one. He starts, Sirnus, Curnus, that's one of the, many of the poems are addressed at this personage, Curnus, Sirnus, his friend, much like Shakespeare sonnets are addressed to a youthful friend, so say Agnes addressed to Sirnus. Sirnus this city is still a city but the people are others. He's saying the people have been replaced. Sirnus this city is still a city but the people are others who previously knew neither judgments nor customs. He uses the words here dikas and nomoi meaning both laws or the word but dike means justice, and dikas just means

multiple judgments, let's say. Nomoi meaning both the laws and customs, this latter word. Anyway, but the people are others, they've been replaced. He doesn't use the word replace, but the people are others. Who previously knew neither judgments nor customs, but wore the tattered skins of goats about their ribs and pastured like deer outside the city walls. And now these are the good men, son of Polypaus and those who were noble before are now the wretched. Who can hold up to see such things? And each other they deceive while smiling, knowing the marks neither of the bad nor of the good." Should I read for you this in Greek? I think it's maybe too showy. Maybe I will do it end of show or maybe not. Maybe I will do that only for the crittiest tier, which is $7,000 per month as you can see.

But Theognis composes in basically the same meter as Homer. It's a dactylic hexameter. The rhythm is like pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum. That kind of a heroic meter. But he alternates hexameter with pentameter. So six feet followed by five. This style is called elegiac couplet style. It gives you air of sadness or longing. But I want to tell you regarding this, what I just read for you how much content there is just in that one couple of lines that I read for you if you know how to look how much it tells you about the way such men thought. First of all Theognis is talking here about his own version of replacement migration or just replacement. I think elite replacement is probably more or at least as important as replacement migration and you can

have internal migration replacement within the same within the same nation I mean. This is what happened in places like Brazil cities and Argentina cities where a lot of peasants were moved into Buenos Aires in the 1950s and 60s from the countryside and in fact they were a different race than the Argentines who lives there. They were called la negrada, the black mass, you know, essentially that's what and they were brought in to be the clients of the populist semi-dictatorship of Perón. And similar things happened in the Brazilian cities. There had always been small slums, but they swelled to huge size. As in the 50s, 60s, 70s, these people from the interior were brought in, who were in that kind of racially stratified

society. That underclass, the peasant underclass, was of a different race. They were brought in, partly to build public works at cheap labor, you know how it goes, but primarily as clients for leftist enterprising politicians. I don't know if a similar process took place in the very ancient Greek cities like this of Theognis. He was from the city of Megara. But I mean to say it's never just class conflict. Every major internal revolution, including the French revolution, I think, had a secret racial basis. Hic niger est. Anyway, to go back to the lines I read from Theogdis, the first of the new people, they were rustics, right? They were clothed in tattered, soiled goat skins, animal skins, and grazing outside the city walls, essentially like deer.

He uses the word grazing enemonto, they were grazing, that's what that word that I just said means come from the word Nemo. It's a very interesting word. It means to deal out, distribute the plunder. For example, if you very archaic pirate warrior word, you do a raid, you take a territory, you do a raid, you conquer a city, you plunder it, and then you deal out and distribute the booty. And that's called Nemo, Nemain, to distribute that booty. But it also means to graze. And I think Carl Schmitt makes a lot of this word, if I'm not wrong. He takes it to be the primal form, land spatial apportionment. He leads much into this phrase, the word nemo, I mean that it can mean both to distribute and conquer and to graze your flocks, you

know. So he sees this word as the root of the word that I just read for you above nomos, which means custom or conventional law. Schmitt takes it to be the root of it is the primal ordering, the spatial conquest underlying all legal actions and establishments of custom and law. I'm not sure this is etymologically correct, what he says, but I mean that it's in fact that this word nemo, to deal, to distribute, to graze your flocks, and to conquer all at once, it means, very interesting that it means all those things at once, but I'm not sure that it's in fact the root of the word for law and custom, nomos, to conquer an expansive land, but it's sure interesting to think about that. Carl Schmitt always interesting. But yes, the Ognus sees the newcomers,

and elsewhere it's clear he's talking mostly about the new elites, the new rich, he thinks are very vulgar lying people, but even here he says these new rustics are seen as the good men. The word he uses, agatos, they're now the agatoy, the good men, this is typical word that the Greek aristocracy used for themselves. It doesn't mean, like, good boy morally, like somebody who does selfless good works. It means distinct, superior, aristocratic, well-born, the beautiful and the bold, you know, the kaloikagatoi, the beautiful and the good, the noble and the good, the way the Greek aristocracy referred to itself. Obviously, Theognis is using it ironically and bitterly here. These rustics who just moved in are now the patricians. And note the two things he says about these parvenus.

Yes, they were goatskins, but the first other thing he says about them, they don't know laws or customs. They don't know justice or judgments. Again, dikas being the word plural of justice. They didn't know the things that must be done by justice, the things that must be done in each situation. The aristocrats saw themselves the holders of knowledge regarding customs, meaning in a smaller sense, also the day-to-day manners, the manners in certain situations at parties or whatever, at the symposium. But the general way of behavior, yes, the major festivals of a people, what has to be done during a religious festival, its artistic expressions. I think it's fair to say that the aristocracy in such sense is the true meaning of a people.

The people without an aristocracy like this ends up have very weak identity. I'm sorry to all the populist nationalists, but it's kind of a contradiction in terms from my historical reading as well as my practical experience. As I'm aware right now, you have an anti-nationalist, liberal, so-called elite, but they are actually a demotical leader on from the people. And I've never found much national feeling present in any people around the world. It's very brittle, weak national feeling always. The people are kind of a homogenous mess everywhere you go, but that's for another time. But regardless, look also at the other element Theognis mentions as a quality of the new elite. They deceive each other while smiling. They don't know the mark. They don't know the mark of the good and the bad.

The word here he used for mark is gnome. It means something like knowledge, knowledge mark, knowing sign. They don't know that mark of what is either good or bad. They can't tell quality apart from trash and they lie. And this is exactly what Nietzsche emphasizes in the genealogy of morals. If you read that, the most clear uncompromising statement of what means aristocratic morality is the first essay of the genealogy of morals. Read at least the first five paragraphs, I guess, you can call them chapters, but they're long aphorisms, first five sections of genealogy of morals. It will take you an hour to read if you read carefully, much less if you read it fast. If you read the beginning, he's talking about just this from Theogdis and others.

The lying, the common man was seen primarily as a liar, a deceiver by the aristocrats who referred to themselves as Theogdis does in this case when he says that those previously who were noble are now wretched. The word he uses here for noble is the esthoy. It comes from the verb to be. These are the men who are the truthful men. They become outcasts and wretched under this plebeian rule of liars. the democratic societies, the low trust society, you could say in a joking way, I'll get to that in a moment, but I'm bringing this up, yes, as a preamble to tell you about this idea of high trust, which I'm sure you've heard this phrase. It's used to refer to certain societies in distinction to others. I think it's a misused phrase.

Theogonist has this amazing line also, you will not find seeking among all humans more than one ship's company of men, reverent in tongue and eye, who are not led by profit to do what is ugly. And I read this and I thought how rare a good friend is. I think this line is true. It will always be true. Anyone who's been in a fight, look, most people go through it. It's not applicable to most normal fags because they go through life as complete zombies. They're inert. They've never really had either enemies nor friends. They're not in any fights or any entanglements. They never had a need for a close ally ever. They never probably had a close friend, and they just live in this stew of low-level backstabbing that they think is normal. But I found that a trustworthy man, if you know one,

is such a rare luxury. I'd say, I give advice very rarely, but I'm really sure about this, that if a man is actually trustworthy and tested to be so, a woman almost never is, almost never. Hmm if you are not need a woman you're out of her mind She go for other people entirely and I don't even mean that. Oh, she will cheat on you Sure in a relationship. I mean even in terms of friendship sure Should not need a woman. You're completely non-existent Whereas I'd say I give advice Very reluctantly, but you find a man who is trustworthy You should hold on to that man as a friend at the expense of almost anything because it's more valuable than silver or gold, Theognis says this line too, a trustworthy man in a hard fight, bigger value than silver and gold.

And this lack of trust, which in my experience of the world is what I've encountered more often in relations with people, they betray you, you can't rely on anyone almost. And this is what I hear also from others, people who are in business or any other walk of life where they're in the middle of fights. We live in a world of backstabbers, at best flakers, but it really often is backstabbers. So what does it mean then to speak of high trust peoples, high trust nations, and civilizations? If in fact at any one point in the world you will only find a ship's company of, I don't want to use righteous men, but men who will not backstab you. And surely you've heard this phrase by now, high trust nation. In academic terms it refers to something very specific, I think, I'll get to it in a moment,

But the way it's used casually, I think it's very misleading, it has certain emotional connotations I think are clawing. Because the way it's used casually, let me not obfuscate, it does contain a core of truths. I don't want to obfuscate. It refers, for example, you can leave money even or certainly other possessions on a bench or on a seat of a subway car in Tokyo. You can come back and it's returned to you, whereas in other places, no. Similarly in places like Tokyo, school children can walk alone from school in a dense, highly urban setting, and no problem. Or this account, Mr. Star, recently had a tweet about this. Are you really free if you can't get a pack of cigarettes, let's say you're 17, 18, you

get a pack of cigarettes and a beer or coffee from a 7-Eleven, and you walk to a nearby park and hang out with friends or you talk to strangers, and you can be reasonably sure that it's not filthy, that you will not be harassed by a homeless schizo or migrant or a dumb youths or other such, referring to his, I think, experiences in China. And by the way, this is create a wonderful atmosphere in many Asian cities, especially because it's safe in this sense so people don't have their guard up so you can more easily socialize with strangers, talk to them, that they're nice to you and you can interact to them more easily than in places with high crime, so the story goes. I'm not entirely sure about that because I've been in places with high crime and people

don't have their guard up in all of them. But I think in places with newly high crime, they do. I don't know. See, even here there are exceptions. But I don't want to pretend what I just told you is nothing when at the point in our time many cities in the West, you can't do the things I said. By the way, not all cities, many European capitals, you can do that just fine in Paris and Madrid and the like, it's no problem. But I hear in America and New York and California, it's very different. It got to a point where it was different in Buenos Aires also over the years. I remember the botanical gardens there, which you should definitely visit if you go to Argentina, very pleasant in a pleasant part of town, the Buenos Aires Botanical Garden.

But sometime in the 2010s, you got homeless sleeping on benches. And I complained and the park security just ignored you, you know. So if you report homeless, by the way, on the street in Paris, the police comes and removes them. Not so in Austin, Texas, I hear. I don't know. Let me take a tangent. If this Trump administration wants easy wins, I will give you three massive wins that will be a claim that will get huge loyalty immediately. I propose these three measures if anyone from administration listening and it bears on this matter of high trust society and so on. So do not blame me please for taking a somewhat long tangent, but deal with this matter, the homeless issue. I'll try to write open letter to all politicians in democracies around the world.

The easiest when you can find running as mayor of a city addressed the homeless problem. I was hoping Nilay would do this in Argentina. I've heard conflicting things on this, including that his party's commitment to libertarian ideology does not allow them to remove the homeless in that city out of supposed respect for freedom. I hope that's not true, that's a stupid misinterpretation of libertarianism that they shouldn't hold to if – I hope they change their mind if that's the case. However, others tell me that that's not true and that it's just that his party does not actually control the city of Buenos Aires and he could not do that I mean remove the homeless legally by decree so there will be elections in Argentina I

think in October let's see how they turn out but as for the legal matter in America I am NOT a political or legal expert but maybe explore some measures to coerce big cities coerce them if need be to deal with the homeless issue now the strand the stranny thing is is going on in Minnesota fine you can deal with that too, but that's a blip. The homeless thing changes people's lives day to day. The federal government forced states to ban sale of alcohol to all under 21. They were saying, if you don't pass a law forbidding sale of alcohol to under 21s, we're cutting your highway funding. And I think actually homeless on streets is a much bigger problem for quality of life daily for millions of Americans than a 19-year-old drinking is. So I don't know, maybe not highway funding,

but try to find a leverage like that. And even if it fails, let the mayors of these big cities show themselves going to bat to make people's lives worse. Yes, I want someone who admits a one block radius of deathly smell to scream in your mother's face. Let them take that position and lose. They will lose even if they win that fight. And on this note, I need to make a correction and I'll post this also on X on Twitter. When the recent Trump administration measure, reopening mental asylums came out, I was one of the people who complained about it because I am worried, frankly, that if you empower therapists and psychologists, that whole group of people right now is some of the most libtarded, disingenuous, communist pinko pieces of shit around. And I would be worried,

not in some theoretical future time, but right now that they could use it on unusual mind mens, like me and my friends on the internet. I've said things on this show that could be disingenuously used to prove mental illness. Okay, I walk on the street and there are beings who speak to me from behind dumpsters. They are not of this world and they can take that clip and lock me up against my will if that were to be the law. But I was assured by someone that the new Trump directive does not change that law. It does not empower therapists or judges to lock up people against their will any more than before. It's actually just targeted to deny NGOs and leftist social workers of certain measures. They currently have to protect, well, actually to fund themselves at state expense

and to fund the homeless epidemic. And this new measure from Trump denies them that. So I need to make that correction, I've been forgetting to. But this is just such a big win, such a prize on the table for any politician today. change this it's shocking to me no one runs on this now you have highly contested New York election as far as I know not one of the candidates is promising the people of that city I will end the homeless scourge for you. Second win please Trump administration do something about the filthy organizations and companies that take advantage of the trustfulness and hopefulness of young people applying for jobs I said on last episode the job market right now is not good even as it is for experienced friends but

Students now graduating from college are in a bad job market. They actually have a lot of trouble finding their first job and these bastards scam companies, you know They list fake jobs and you show up at an interview. It sounds like a normal interview And actually it's a way to try to scam you Oh, you you need to join our training program first and the tiny princess and no job is guaranteed after you pay Whatever. I remember this myself. It's immensely demoralizing besides being a waste of time and such but that these companies and half the ads you respond to prey on people often in desperate straits where you may want to move to new city and you have to send 200 resumes a good portion of those are scams right this must be against some law some regulation you can pass to

address this get these loser GOP people in Congress to do something that's popular for once they can try to pass such a law and if you need a court case or media case as a catalyst study engineer one don't wait for don't wait for one don't you know I I promise you that yes it's a small thing but will get you real gratitude from younger people especially and finally I suggest you do something about the scam spam phone callers I don't know how normal facts deal with this frankly my phone is always off I never pay attention to the sounds I don't have notifications on but others have to have the phone on for work or so on or they have family they need to hear from and I remember from United States when I was there and in certain other countries too and I get

local SIM card 10 to 15 spam calls a day and as you know they get more aggressive and targeted lately they go after senile old people and the like but it's annoying aside from that and this too if there's any way to address it I I understand it's an international problem. I see it happen to me in other countries, but there must be some technological and legal fix to it. And I promise you, you fix this, you'll get massive instant gratitude. These three things I mentioned are concrete immediate quality of life issues having to do with what I'm talking about on this segment, high trust versus low trust society. And the migrant question is too, by the way, it's not some nebulous ideological thing about ethno-state and the like. I mean, it could be that too,

but the migration restriction people make a mistake when they emphasize that too much for normal fags. It has to do with what daily life is like on the street, in parks, in jobs, restaurants, littering and the like, what the life of your citizens is like. They'd be willing to take higher prices, even, if you got rid of the international barrio flooding their cities and towns, where you get a Boricua deep fryer smell? Do you want to eat cardboard arepas? Is that worth having to deal with a mound of trash in your cities and cholos with neck tattoos casting your cousin? So the Haiti cat eating migrant thing during the election was just about just this. And as recent events will show you, it's not just about low wage or unskilled migrants. The H1B thing is maybe even more important

to the quality of life of your citizens who vote, the registered and likely voters, your young graduates in STEM programs and so on especially. Well, more on that later, that's been talked about before, but yes, back to St. Ignace. So anyway, there's a core to the common casual usage of the phrase high trust. Let's say no harassment, I homeless, ability to not have your things casually stolen and so on, these types of things. But I wonder if the correct word for that isn't just safe, safety, safety and security. And that can be achieved in countries that are low trust quite easily by means that have nothing to do with trust or trust as a matter of habit. For example, you can walk around El Salvador capital now on a weekend night dressed as

a flashy tourist with a white girl dressed flashy on your arm and nothing will happen to you. It used to be the crime capital of the Americas, but now not, and that's not because it's high trust, it's because it's been pacified, which is a good thing. By the way, forgive my tangents, my advice to the El Salvador government is to build a new capital, or at least a second, let's say, cultural and pleasure capital somewhere on the coast, maybe, or such, because congratulations are solving a security problem, but the city itself is not pleasant, I don't see a way to reform it, I'm sorry, it's just an endless extension of East Los Angeles, it's ugly, you can't reform that city, it's also part of the country with terrible earthquakes periodically and I think actually the coast is susceptible

to earthquakes too but maybe look around that Gulf that you share I think with Honduras or the certain parts of high land along the coast in the middle maybe you can I don't know find a solution it can be a great country one day I think but not because of that it's It's also too expensive, in my opinion. But anyway, similar, China, okay, it's itself not a high-trust place at all. I was surprised Nick Land, a few episodes ago, named China as a high-trust place where your bike does not get stolen and so on if you leave it outside. But historically, I don't mean in centuries past, even within the last 20 years, I mean, you find video of China and Chinese, the kind of lowest-trust type of people, ignoring their

own dead in the road, running over a pedestrian with car multiple times to make sure he's dead and will not report you for the accident. Massive corruption scandals, you know, empty buildings constructed with laundered money that fall flat, you've seen the videos. The reputation among China's neighbors has always been just that about the Chinese, the reputation in Hong Kong with their own people, you know, of the mainland Chinese was and and still is, I think just this, that they're scammers, they come there to sell fake noodles, fake food, doing real estate and auto loan scam speculation, whatever else. But now multiple people like Mr Land and Mr Star report, well, at least in the big cities you go it's quite pleasant, you have apparently Japanese level of trust, and not just the

big cities, I heard even in quite smaller second tier cities, but I wonder if that's That's just not the social credit system and mass public surveillance. So the people are then doing it out of fear, not out of ingrained trust, which can cause fear quite fast behavior changes. But would you still then say, oh, I can trust these people? Maybe when they feel that there is no fear component, you can't trust them. I'd say it's a matter of public security in that case. I remember a libtarded girl once, I knew she got really angry at me when I say, well, she's She's happy in Germany because the cars that crosswalks will stop at quite a distance from you and will not pressure you to cross faster than they do, you know, in the United States

when you're crossing the street and they kind of inch, they're turning onto your street and they inch closer to you and I tell her, but this is likely because of the fines and the public laws that are enforced, they're forcing them to do this and she blew up at me. Well, why does it matter? But I think it matters whether someone does something because they are compelled by fear or whether they do it because they're naturally trusting or sympathetic or whatever other words people use. And come to think of it, Singapore, one of the most safe and orderly cities you can go to, never had, as such, a native high-trust culture. It had the opposite. First of all, it was very diverse, which lessens public trust, as is well known.

Second, the native majority, the various South Chinese group in that area, which still comprise is something like 71, 73% of the citizens. They were never themselves a trustworthy bunch. Yeah, the Hokken merchant, you know, not trustworthy reputation in history to begin with. It's kind of prototypical devious merchant minority in the melee world, but now it's a very high trust place and that's because of authoritarian public security measures, you see. So I think it's possible to attain this level of public orderliness now, regardless of the innate character of a people. I hear it's become this way even in Rwanda. I can't confirm it. I want to go soon there and observe. I want, do you want to see gorilla with me? And then a monster was born. Anyway, listen, I will be right back.

I need cigarette and coffee and to relax throat. Thank you very much. I'll be right back. Welcome back. Well, the mountain gorilla is a friendly creature, gentle at times. And do you think my half gorilla sons will make a rampage throughout the world. I want to see this, Rwanda Burundi, as I say, and then a monster was born. I like Marquis de Sade. Maybe I should talk about him more often on this show. He is correct about female genitalia when he says that hole is the most disgusting place in all the universe. Well, he doesn't say it's a character in his book. He speaks through characters, you see, just like Plato. Anyway, Japan was not an orderly country either, until recently, by the way. It's possible its peasantry, or the majority of Japanese population,

had been sufficiently beaten up, culled, you could say, over generations, that they would no longer do chimp-out revolts, which they did frequently in their history. But, so maybe they had their serfs pacified, but it had an active, sizable criminal class, and an upper class, the wolves and the sheepdog class, that neither of these was very pacified at all. I told you, samurai children, they were allowed to chimp out hard. And my friend, the rogue scholar, recently posted that the ancient Germanics raised their children the same way, that it was seen very good for a boy in an ancient Germanic home to be seen as a layabout, a do-nothing, because if he was about the house using the little duster, you know, broom and cleaning and primping, they'd say, that's not a warrior, that's a pussy.

A warrior is lazy and violent, and this is the kind of attitude prized by samurai class in their children until very recently. As far as I know, they raised samurai children to say, do not scold them too hard. They are supposed to go around, throw tantrum. And I believe that there are diaries my friend, the bureaucrat has, I forget what book this is, but the Virginia Gentry raised their children the same way in pre-colonial America, just allowing their three-year-olds to walk around the house throwing complete tantrums. I don't know, I think that works better. I've seen what strict child-rearing does to children, as boys especially, it's not a happy result often. But anyway, anyway, look, Japan, as they say, even after World War II, it had major public disturbances and chaos.

It was not this orderly society you think you see now from stereotypes about Japan. The Japanese people are not necessarily naturally like that. And Germany during Weimar had public criminality, both left and right-wing terrorism, including something I've called femme, I've called, excuse me, something called femme murders. Things like organization council, look it up. I'm not endorsing anything. It comes from medieval word femgerichte, secret courts that men convened at night to try criminals, adjudicate, carry out executions, because public authorities were not able to do it. In other words, the same genesis as the mafia around the same time, sometime in medieval, late medieval times or Renaissance times,

early Renaissance, I think that's when they came about in certain parts of Germany. Both institutions, the Femgerichter and the Mafia, the same thing, exactly born in prototypical anti-high trust society, the lowest of trust conditions. And similarly, you can dismiss the man I read for you, Theognis, say, well, he's an ancient Greek. They were famously a contentious people. And he was writing in atmosphere of extreme public dissension in his city between the rich and the poor and the nobles and the new rich and constant internecine civil war. Okay. But the same thing is true, you know, and then of course, the counterpart later in the historians Thucydides who describes similar complete breakdown of values and trust during the Greek civil wars that accompanied the Peloponnesian War.

But you know, that was the inspiration for guess who? For Mr. Hobbes, who is a North European from England. I thought that was one of the prototypical high trust societies and yet Hobbes says the the same thing because it comes from his experience of the civil war and the disturbances in England of his time. Man is a wolf to man and that attitude is the same in Hobbes. So, you know, I think these things are a lot more changeable and fluid, you know. And here's the thing, the only other place I've heard frequently about the Japan phenomenon, that is where you can leave your wallet on the ground and find it with everything inside, is in Sicily. I've heard numerous people, I've never been myself, I very much want to. It would be a religious experience for me, Sicily.

I want to see the temple at Segesta. I want to see the ancient city of Akragas, Agrigento, where I died several times, thousands of years ago. But I've heard people report that especially in areas where there is mafia coverage and such, you can do that. You can leave your belongings, they'll be saved. And that's in a textbook definition of a low-trust society. So you know my point is the way people use this phrase high trust, low trust is quite loose and does not have a lot to do with its original meaning. Its meaning in academic speak, it was invented by the way is pretty precise for precisely things like the Sicilian case or in other parts of southern Italy, Calabria, Puglia, parts of the Balkans, where you need bribes to make anything official happen, where you

have to rely on personal connections, kinship connections to get any business done, where there's massive corruption at the public government level especially. There are huge business transaction costs because of all the officials you have to bribe, the various private and corrupt interests you have to placate to get anything done. That's a huge drain on business and other activity. One other place I've seen this myself in a day-to-day life, I'm not big businessman, I don't take part in the business of life as others do, but just as a casual traveler in Croatia. Never trust anything a Croatian tells you. It's the most lying people I've ever met. I have no idea how any business gets done in that country. The most routine, petty, gratuitous lying, more so than the East block, more so than

other parts of the Balkans. To cause you inconvenience, I haven't seen that kind of thing even in the Orthodox parts of the Balkans that are said to be the most corrupt. You know, usually the Catholic Church, the Protestant denominations are associated with greater levels of public trust. So I am told by social scientists, and I don't know, but you know, these places are actually quite safe, though, a girl can walk in a park safe at night in parts of Italy and the Balkans that we're talking about. So your things will be safe, mostly as a tourist. So again, it's not a one to one with the casual meaning of the word. The point is that in neither of these cases, the casual understanding nor the academic one, does it map to what I see as the important and true meaning of these words, which is

when you meet an individual person of this or that place, can you trust them as a man? And you can't. And these are addressed by Theogdis and many others that mankind is fundamentally a wretched, wicked species. If you go through life trusting, well, you know, I think you should just try it. But it's one of the dumbest mistakes you can make, but maybe you need to make it. I do see people online suggesting that somehow you can in private life trust one-to-one people from certain nations more than others. And that's something I mostly disagree with, no offense to my American friends. But the stereotype, for example, Russians have about Americans is precisely this, what I read for you from Theognis, that they smile at you, they pretend to be polite while backstabbing you.

All, of course, within the limits of the law. And often, by the way, even within the letter of the ethical law, that too as well, you can see you can game that, you know, you cross all the T's and such, you got to feel like a good person, but fundamentally a traitor. Does it offend you? I only add every other people is the same, that the Russians are the same in a different way. Forgive me if you find this argument too, ordeal of civility-like. I suppose it's quite the opposite, I mean to say the North Europe peoples, let's say, who are taken by the human biodiversity and the popularized social science pundits. They think the North European peoples are the most trustworthy, the most high null line, I'm sure you've heard it all, is trustworthy people, so altruistic

that they're pathologically altruistic and that's their problem, you know, they're too kind and too good. But that stereotype has never existed in, by the way, in European history about the North Euros. It's often quite the opposite about various North European peoples at various times. And it's a delusion that leads to self-pitying and I see it as parallel to the Ashkenazi Jewish delusion and the Serbian delusion of the same, oh, we're just these good guys and we're so upright and we're this small guy and we're picked on by big bullies for no reason and we're the good and everyone else is out to get us and I see this self-pitying thing in the discourse about high trust people. I'll grant you, there's something there I feel comfortable in Iceland for the reasons I told you.

I know public officials would not cheat me. I had problems in Iceland, especially during the pandemic, and I solved them by talking to embassy officials. She was so nice to me that, you know, no questions were asked. I mean, I could just talk to a friend and she didn't see her job as a way to try to sabotage me the way, let's say, a shibun bureaucrat in the United States does. I know that businesses will not cheat me there. I don't need to haggle. I know that in the Balkans, or if I went to Armenia or Georgia or whatever, you have to pay bribes, stupid negotiation haggling, and you buy anything important, you have to get it triple appraised. So in the aggregate, there is indeed a substantial difference, the one I mentioned to you about transaction costs and so on. Nobody's denying that.

Well, I'm not. And for me, it's reflected in like, do I drink the tap water? I will only do that in Iceland and Japan, which are also the only places I eat raw vegetables in a restaurant. I highly recommend you don't eat raw lettuce anywhere else unless, maybe super nice restaurant, but you know, you can get sick in any rest. But I've, you'd be very mistaken to extrapolate from what I've just said now to the personal level. And I think you can have quite bad effects in your life to believe you will find the trustworthy ally friend because of his background it's a rarity of the highest luxury in any country and most people are wretched trash that is true and by extension also I think you'd be wrong to assign moral content to these differences because as

I tell you they're often not the result of innate goodness they're often the result of taming of docility simple fear at times like on the safety thing at other times the there is conformism and dolt-headedness that gets confused for other aspects. Italians, you know, have lived in cities for thousands of years. They're not a very trusting people in that sense, and they're right not to be trusting of states. They've seen what the state does to you and are immunized against that. And I wonder if state structures are to the Nordics the same thing that alcohol is, a vice to which you are susceptible because not as long accustomed to it that's let's say Italian and maybe you need a wake-up call and rehab from the state structure because remember it is the state structures in these nations

staffed by the native peoples of these nations that are betraying them and if you look to America the rhetoric about high trust seems especially misplaced when the entire west of the United States is basically shyster central and has always been. I mean the environment that an evangelist snake like Ted Cruz comes out of is just one of constant gigs, scams in every walk of life, so please spare the moralistic language about altruistic high-trust people getting taken advantage of and so on. In Ted Cruz's world, it's always been, how can you get something for nothing? Except it's often dressed up in these, you know, I'm crossing all my T's, sometimes it's dressed up, I'm a good person, I'm cheating on him, but it's not really cheating because,

you know, I said this or that at that point and he should have registered, which under or the standards of the courtroom drama TV shows I watched could be interpreted as a fair warning and I'm an ethical slut, an ethical. And among the right, the right wing I mean, it's especially absurd to vaunt about this trust issue. It's the biggest collection of snakes and bastards you can imagine anywhere. I doubt that the lowest of ghetto gangbangers is as much a betrayer as people on the right are, especially, I need to warn younger friends, Especially people who advertise their religion and it's always been this way even among the older conservative movement I've known older conservatives. They tell me the stories of petty vindictive backstabbing that happened

routine and all these famous conservative foundations and magazines from the 1980s and 70s onward and the same thing continues now among the new right or dissident right or whatever other shyster word They're using now. I'm religious. Therefore. I'm a good person. Therefore when I stab you in the back It's I'm not responsible. I'm not doing a bad thing. I'm doing it in the name of my you know that The people who advertise that watch out for it's always the same types attracted to this thing You know where it's knives out for everyone else spare me the discourse about high trust coming from you lot Especially I doubt you could run a Nepalese village for more than a few months without breaking into chimp out mutual murder

mankind is trash okay it's a lying wretched creature and not to deny that people's especially from the global south should be expelled from the West regardless by the way of their moral or other traits and has nothing to do with this I never never thought this one nice small anime account say and I repeat in full agreement I never had anything against other nations because of their capacity for violence or for deception for that reason selective breeding and birth of anime this account on twitter say this never and i agree totally it's such a cuck thing oh i'm afraid of the mean violent people protect me please that's not i didn't like a lot of foreign people because they're stupid they're mediocre and boring they make life dull and they have

nothing interesting in their heads their character is all about self-serving material concerns and actually ethno-narcissism, ethnic self-regard, which now you are enjoined by the trash of the right-wing gutter pundits to embrace yourself. They say, Western peoples, to save yourselves, you need to become like a Armenian-Georgian mafia gang. You need to become like Albanian clan. You need to grow up and advance from Western universalism and so on, from that childhood idealism you need to mature and to wise and prudent position of ethnic self-serving. And I say it's an impoverished, degraded vision of life. And it's no surprise that many of these people are themselves from Mami cultures, like half Guatemalan, half Bulgarian or something. I will teach you the wisdom of living like you were

in a village outside of Lagos, Nigeria. They think that teaching wise things to the deluded, the universalist Anglo and such, that the mature position is to be a nation ethnic solidarity, which is the quality Gobineau attributes to the lowest and most backwards of the nations. And it's the self-pitying narrative where you end up believing that one nation is more moral than another, you know, that's both false and I don't want to get more into this. The falsehood is where you have to correct for that by being, I want to end this segment by read something for you from Nietzsche which so you understand what the people who tell you everything I've just said are about, who are pretending to sell a cure to the ills

of the West, but themselves represent the residues of a dying culture that can't live without second-guessing itself. My friend Ulitz reminds me of this passage it bears on everything I've talked about. I will read for you. At least it's a somewhat long passage, but extreme interesting, extreme prescient for understanding current debates, and least valuable of all is that kind of history which takes the great popular movements as the most important events of the past, and regards the great men only as their clearest expression, the visible bubbles on the stream. Thus the masses have to produce the great man, chaos to bring forth order, and finally all the hymns are naturally sung to the teeming chaos. Everything is called great that has moved the masses for some long time and becomes,

as they say, a historical power. But is not this really an intentional confusion of quantity and quality? When the brutish mob have found some idea, a religious idea for example, which satisfies them, when they have defended it through thick and thin for centuries, then and then only will they discover its inventor to have been a great man. The highest and noblest does not affect the masses at all. The historical consequences of Christianity, its historical power, toughness and persistence proved nothing, fortunately, as to its founder's greatness. They would have been a witness against him, for between him and the historical success of Christianity lies a dark and heavy weight of passion and error, lust of power and honor, and the crushing force of the Roman Empire.

From this Christianity had its early taste and its early foundations too that made its continuance in this world possible. Greatness should not depend on success. Demosthenes is great without it. The purest and noblest adherents of Christianity have always doubted and hindered rather than and helped its effect in the world, its so-called historical power, for they were accustomed to stand outside the world and cared little for the process of the Christian idea, in quotation marks. Hence, they have generally remained unknown to history, and their very names are lost. In Christian terms, the devil is the prince of the world and the lord of progress and consequence. He is the power behind all historical power, and so will it remain, however ill it may sound today, in ears that are accustomed

canonize such power and consequence. The world has become skilled at giving new names to things and even baptizing the devil. It is truly an hour of great danger. Men seem to be near the discovery that the egoism of individuals, groups or masses has been at all times the lever of the historical movements. And yet they are in no way disturbed by the discovery but proclaim that egoism shall be our god. With this new faith in their hearts they begin quite intentionally to build future history on egoism. So it must be a clever egoism, one that allows of some limitation that it may stand firmer, one that studies history for the purpose of recognizing the foolish kind of egoism. Their study has taught them that the state has a special mission in all future egoistic systems.

It will be the patron of all the clever egoisms to protect them with all the power of its military and police against the dangerous outbreaks of the other kind. There is the same idea in introducing history, natural as well as human history, among the labouring classes whose folly makes them dangerous. For men know well that a grain of historical culture is able to break down the rough blind instincts and desires to turn them to the service of a clever egoism. In fact they are beginning to think, with Eduard von Hartmann, of fixing themselves with an eye to the future in their earthly home and making themselves comfortable there. Hardman calls this the life of the manhood of humanity with an ironical reference to

what is called now manhood, as if only our sober models of selfishness were embraced by it. Just as he prophesies an age of greybeards following on this stage, obviously another ironical glance at our ancient time-servers. For he speaks of the right discretion with which they view all the stormy passions of their past life and understand the vanity of the ends they seem to have striven for. No, a manhood of crafty and historically cultured egoism corresponds to an old age that hangs to life with no dignity but a horrible tenacity. I repeat to you, a manhood of crafty and historically cultured egoism corresponds to an old age that hangs to life with no dignity but a horrible tenacity.

Where the last scene of all that ends this strange eventful history is second childishness and mere oblivion. Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. the dangers of our life and culture come from those dreary, toothless old men, or from the so-called men of Hartmann in quotation marks. We have the right to defend our youth with tooth and claw against both of them, and never tire of saving the future from these false prophets. But in this battle we shall discover an unpleasant truth, that men intentionally help and encourage and use the worst aberrations of the historical sense from which the present time suffers." They use it, however, against youth in order to transform it into that ripe egoism of manhood they so long for.

They use it to overcome the natural reluctance of the young by its magical splendor, which unmans while it enlightens them. Yes, we know only too well the kind of ascendancy history can gain, how it can uproot the strongest instincts of youth, passion, courage, unselfishness, and love, can cool its feeling for justice, can crush or repress its desire for a slow ripening by the contrary desire to be soon productive, ready, and useful, and cast a sick doubt over all honesty and downrightness of feeling. It can even cause in use of its fairest privilege the power of planting a great thought with the fullest confidence, and letting it grow of itself to a still greater thought. An excess of history can do all that, as we have seen, by no longer allowing a man to feel and act unhistorically.

For history is continually shifting his horizon and removing the atmosphere surrounding him. From an infinite horizon he withdraws into himself back into the small egoistic circle, where he must become dry and withered. He may possibly attain to cleverness, but never to wisdom. He lets himself be talked over, is always calculating and parlaying with facts. He is never enthusiastic, but blinks his eyes and understands how to look for his own profit or his parties in the profit or loss of somebody else. He unlearns all his useless modesty and turns little by little into the man or the gray beard of Hartmann, this author Nietzsche's criticizing in this essay. And that is what they want him to be. That is the meaning of the present cynical demand for the full surrender of the personality

to the world process. For the sake of his end, the redemption of the world, as the rogue Eduard von Hartmann tells it. So, excuse me, though redemption can scarcely be the conscious aim of these people, the world were better redeemed by being redeemed from these men and graybeards. For then would come the reign of youth. Yes, do you like this? Yulets One, do you like what I just read for you? Very prescient about all really modern intellectual and political movements. The comfortable, selfish egoism, whether of individuals or groups, a disgusting, shameful, and youthful passion. I will be right back. Yes, I was going to talk about female sex tourists and also more in general what girls get up to when they go on vacation abroad in terms of sex-ores in relationships. A charged subject,

unfortunately stupid controversy broke out that had this as its underlying neurosis. But that is itself a longer segment and I think I leave for next time when I will discuss for you also at length the Roman emperor, Elagabalus, very colorful, let's say, celebrity man. So now there is, through now, several people shot dead, I think two dead, others injured, the church, Minnesota, by deranged leftist transsexuals. Please don't start with the, like all the online pundits are going with nothing in their brains, desperate for a take, they're going with the, it's nihilism, nihilism is the problem. German nihilism did this, godlessness. So, you know, it's almost always a transsexual, and strange enough, these neo-Nazi Satanists

only ever attack, the same targets that any leftist graduate student would consider bastions of hegemonic right-wing conservatism, like churches or religious schools or such. It gave me some dark thoughts, again, because, excuse me, disclaimer, and then what follows, I'm not endorsing anything. I'm making historical observations. Nothing human should be foreign to you. With enough real objectivity, maybe you can even understand the motivations of strange animals that are not human. I despise the way some try to dismiss attempts to understand, for example, tyrants or dictators, often because they don't want you to see that they may have reasons for what they do. So they dismiss them as insane. You saw this with Assad, supposedly he gassed people.

In at least one incident, it was later shown to be a hoax. I was telling people at the time, no, he did not gas them, he had no reason to. And it was obvious that it would not have been in his interest to do this. And people were asking, why would he do this when it would serve no end and make him the target of big powers in this case? And the answer from interventionists in the Middle East always was, oh, you cannot ask that. He's crazy insane. He's a black box. You can't try to understand his motivations. Just believe us. Similar type of thing when you bring up examples of third world countries like Haiti, but many other to give warnings to Europe or the United States about certain things, you say, well,

it's this kind of chauvinism that kicks in, no, no, that's a black box, it's third world, it doesn't apply to us, we'll do it right, it'll be okay. So when I see terror attacks, I try to get into mind of terrorists, I understand the motivations pretty well of somebody like Breivik, for example, he's probably, I mean, the Templar order stuff and the Justicia Knight commander, he called himself Breivik, this man who killed something 60s, 80-odd people in Norway, and maybe he invented that as part of his mental illness, or maybe he invented this idea of a new Templar order to troll people, I don't know. But he targeted government buildings that he believed to be full, and he targeted especially They called it the youth retreat. It was really a communist training camp for age of over 18.

They were the children, however, of the socialist elite of Norway who were responsible for flooding that nation with migrants and Pakistanis, which Breivik explicitly said this was his motivation. So he targeted essentially a communist training camp for the political cadres of the ruling party of Norway. I'm not saying that it's legitimate, but you can understand why he did it. you can understand in 1970s Buenos Aires state of Civil War almost why there were mutual targeting of prominent individuals on both sides even in insane cases like economics professor or whatever I'd say yeah that's stupid it makes some sense it's not random people in a in a cleaning whatever long long romance what doesn't make sense is that you're a terrorist you're a lone wolf

whatever you're going to give your life blow yourself up in a pizzeria or go shoot up a school or a church and kill a bunch of random nobodies and that kind of reasoning okay yes I know it's a soft target and maybe hard targets it used to be the preference of terrorists and anarchists in 1900 maybe they're too well protected but it's not really true that they are always well protected and it's still odd that even on 9-11 you know there's a lot of nobodies end up dying in these attacks I'm not saying 9-11 as a hoax by the way I strong advise Mr. Tucker and whoever is around him not to go down that way because you know you have whatever do what you like nobody listens to me please have Candace Owens some more to talk about how Brigitte Macron is a man but I don't want

to pick on Tucker he good the whole new media environment is is messed up and Tucker is probably the least bad in in all of it, but miss Candace Owens Well, I don't want to get into this now. We talked about some other time, but Yeah, she used super super super special super special artificial intelligence to discover Brigitte Macron a cock But yes, it's it's all the way. Nobody's died during terror attacks. I mean Imagine you're a tranny and and tranny's this is radical Hegelian terrorism, by the way is it? So many have been taken over the edge of, you know, loving themselves as a woman, fetishizing their own form in a miniskirt, getting fucked in public bathroom, all a consequence of reading Hegel and taking him too seriously. And

it's odd how that works out. And I'm joking, yes, but it's true that trannies love Hegel for some reason. It speaks also to their ambition, though, that the true tends to be an ambitious type of delusionoid, often more intellectual than others and it's odd then that these of all people decide I'll get the kill count of two people five people even 20 random everyday people why not set their sights higher that's what confuses me and I'm wondering in all these cases if it's because somebody's pushing them over the edge in a very specific direction where nobody important will get killed you know but there will be maximum fear effect but nobody important dies with maximum shocking damage can be done and some faction in media or let's say more appropriately media government

can capitalize but it's nihilist it's nihilist with guns big nihilist scare of the 2020s give me a break this is literal cape shit you know this is the word cape shit half the superhero movies now which are basically unwatchable have a plot about the nihilists are trying to destroy the world I'm not exaggerating this is I tried watching the other day on on Netflix when eating marky mark Whatever his name is he used to be attractive now He's no longer any starting in some movie where the bad guys are literally called nihilists and the good guys are literally called the believers And the most recent mission impossible has a similar plot. It's horrible I I've liked all the Mission Impossible series almost all the last two were not good

I thought the third one especially Mission Impossible 3 with the guy from Boogie Nights. What's his name? Philip Seymour Hoffman who unfortunately died I think he's a good actor and he plays the villain in Mission Impossible 3 I I think that's the one and that's just a great satisfying action movie no objections to that but this latest one supposedly the last in the series unwatchable and they're fighting AI okay they're fighting like a computer artificial and that's just a such a stupid idea for a movie but it's just a busy confusing overwrought self-referential movie and although it's it's not called by this word the undercurrent the theme is they're fighting nihilism that wants to destroy the world for no reason it's mean this is a leftist transsexual not a nihilist

and he she whatever by the way that the Minnesota Tribune and mr. walls did they misgender this person be very careful I think it's a leftist terrorist attacking what he sees as religious people and oh man does he ever he man he has a face on him big brutal Jeffrey Dahmer style face it puts the lotion in the basket and I'm telling you I wonder if somebody pushing these people over the edge in every case like this I'm wondering if that's the case because left to themselves I don't see why a lone wolf would target just that I mean I know why in some sense you can argue that they want fame they want notoriety And there have been however enough of these attacks by now for these people especially when they have some

Above average intelligence to realize they would get at most a week or so of media exposure two weeks total over a long time For a spree shooting through now like this. Nobody will remember them really so at some point They have to be aware that that's not sufficient motivation There's not payoff of fame of the type that they want why not make it count again? I'm not endorsing it, but I'm saying try to get into their minds for a moment. It doesn't make sense. And it reminds me of a book I mentioned last time, which I just finished, Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. I'll talk this book for a moment, truly great book, and what I read for you last time, the passage, a very prescient profile of the leftist terrorist type, if you remember, a guy who

designed the bombs of these anarchists in the year 1900. But I have to do spoilers. You can't talk really about book or literature without spoilers. And yet, I tell you that the plot isn't really why you should read this book. It's a very simple plot. The subtitle is A Simple Story. And I could tell, actually, what would happen to each character almost as soon as they were introduced. It's quite predictable in that way. Despite this, it's a great book. Joseph Conrad, you know, maybe Tales of Adventure, Heart of Darkness, and then my two favorite novels, Lord Jim and Nostromo are by Conrad, Tales of Adventures in the Tropics, An Outcast of the islands Almire's Folly are two other good books. The story of the white man in

the tropics, a testing ground for character. Lord Jim, one of the most uncompromising tales of the search for self-perfection. Redemption through self-perfection and courage. You know, I need to go back to what I said on the last segment. It's in 2,000 more years, 2,700-2,800 years of what you could call arguably Western history, European history. I'm not aware of any time when any great thinker, any great leader, anyone worth listening to said, I really need to learn about loving your own kind from that small village in Anatolia or something like this and I need to go to those rustics and they really have a mind to teach me about ethnic self-regard. Quite the opposite when you look at the foreign peoples that they did admire, the noble savage

so-called types, which can be found maybe as early as Tacitus' admiration of the ancient Germanics and then Montaigne, who I discussed his famous essay on the cannibals on this show some episodes back. And they admire these people, you could say they're xenophilia, they were fascinated, in some cases Libtards would say they were erotically fascinated by foreigners, and yet not once in those thousands of years did they decide therefore we're going to open borders or we're going to surrender to enemies. This is insane, you can hold two thoughts in your head, you know, it doesn't have anything to do with that. And I find the whole pretense that I need to be lectured by a Pakistani or by somebody who grew up in a village in Vietnam about ethnic self-regard, because it's the grown-up

thing to do, you know, you Westerners, you're too kind to us. No, you don't need to do that. And it has nothing to do, by the way, with immigration. Anyway, these tales, one thing that attracted me to Joseph Conrad's tales, which is pretty precisely about the Imperial and adventure ambitions of the white men in the tropics in the in the non-white world It's the convoluted style that turns off some readers I liked it because the style in Lord Jim and Nostromo Lord Jim classically so it's a story within a story within story with lots of back and forth jumping in chronology confusion So you lose the thread of who is telling what story and what time it is

But that very haze is what recreates because, you know, you can't just proceed in modern times the way you would as if you were Homer or the Bible. The modern reader is jaded and to create the mythical feel and the atmosphere is what I'm saying has recourse to these very modernist devices, unusual narrative devices. The same way that Mr. Bulgakov has recourse to a different way to double time plot line in the Master and Margarita and so on. These modernist tactics, a way to draw in the reader so he forgets his scientific or actually his just unenthusiastic mood. You have to find ways around this as a modern artist. I think a lot of devices of modernism, not all but a lot, were means to find fresh paths to this feeling of mythic power you have to somehow short-circuit the modern

audience jaded I don't even want to call it scientific or skeptical it's more like a jaded lack of enchantment caused by the feeling that the world is all explained all explored and by thinking that he's heard it all before when actually he hasn't but you have to some find a way to outflank that so anyway that haze that Conrad create in his tropical adventure stories which I'll Well Grant is not exactly a good style in English. English was his third language and it may be too convoluted, a kind of convoluted effect that maybe he even achieves that at times by accident. But in this book, Secret Agent, it's not like that it's worse, I would say. I don't know that it's a well-written book. It's a tough book to read and I think this is because of the subject matter.

It takes place not in the tropics, it's not an adventure story, it's a claustrophobic story taking place in London and Conrad hated London and he hated leftists. And this book and one other, I think, Under Western Eyes, Secret Agent, published 1907 and Other Under Western Eyes in 1911, in some ways both cover some similar subject matter of leftists and informers and so you can tell in this book Conrad just hated, despised leftists, these fat, disgusting, devious, pseudo-intellectual male, violent people. I mean you read it and you can still see these same types today completely repulsive, obese and intellectuals, petty envy, driven by petty envy against each other with murder and vicious self-dealing on the brains, dressed up delusional humanitarianism that they think they sincerely

believe in. But it leads, right, the unpleasant characters and subject matters I think led Conrad to an extreme irony, indirect speech. He doesn't want to create a mythic adventure feel in the story, so it's heavy irony. And some of the middle chapters, I almost put it away for a while, there are sentences that are very vague. I mean, I'm not going to read them for you, pick up this book, you get to chapter seven or eight, just stick with it because you see, just open it at random, you see these very vague sentences relating to the inner state of the characters in the story or to relations between them that's in kind of metaphorical irony but so abstract to me that's the worst. So I wanted to put the book away at times and because of this vagueness, I wrote my

friend Yama, I asked him, Yama, am I illiterate? I read him some sentences, I say I don't know what this means. But why am I telling you this? Because it's worth it. Stick for the final chapters where I can tell you, this is what I wanted to say, there's a literary masterpiece waiting for you if you stick through to the end of the book. I was blown away, amazed at chapter 11 of The Secret Agent, which on its own I consider a gem, a literary masterpiece, one of the best single chapters I've ever read in any book. Maybe it's too self-consciously a masterpiece, such a self-contained jewel, you look away, how can this be? I'll tell you exactly what happens and you can skip ahead a few minutes if you don't to hear this, but the book, The Secret Agent, is about an informer, like a fed, okay?

But he's a networker in leftist circles, anarchist, terrorist circles, trusted by them, who himself believes in their ideals, he's a speaker at their rallies and such, a booming voice, a good rhetorician, but who also works on the side for financial benefit and in his mind, seamlessly also for the public good, he thinks, as an informer on behalf primarily of the intelligence services of embassies of other countries. One assumes it's the Habsburgs or Germany, it's left unclear. Also at times for the local English police. That's usually the case with informers, they trade from one thing to another. And when the ambassador changes, the previous patron is gone and the new ambassador, you know, it's a and Faro knew not Joseph situation, right?

The new ambassador tells him, the previous ambassador here was too lax with you and you're not earning your pay, you have to earn your pay with us. And the English are too loose with these leftists, they're too liberal. Some of our own even take refuge among the English and it's a scandal to Europe, it's a threat to all the other nations, the whole nonsense English doctrine of rights. So you have to take action, in fact, to provoke a crackdown on leftism here in England by the English police, you need to produce an event. So basically it's the story of an agent provocateur creating this kind of attack that would give pretext to the police. Obviously it's something that happens a lot, that Conrad knew very well happens a lot.

I think it's, even in many countries, the standard terror happening. I'm sorry, but in the West, many of the terror attacks are, I'm not saying the FBI carefully plans each step, but often it's this kind of informant who gets out of control sometimes or such. The Tsarnaev brothers were likely this. The Orlando shooter was almost certainly this. Anyway, back to the book. This man, Verloc, the informant, agent provocateur, but also at times sincere leftist and anarchist activist, runs a shop presumably selling secondhand pornography and so on in a bad part of London, and is married to a poor girl whose brother is a retard, some kind of halfwit, autistic maybe boy, not boy because he's over 18 or whatever, autistic, helpless. So maybe you can tell where this story is going.

I could almost right away, Verloc has to twist his own brain. How can he create a terror attack? It has to be a particular type of terror attack. The ambassador demands a special kind, nothing too drastic, nothing that would cause too many deaths, it would preferably cause no deaths at all, and something that would really actually be puzzling and alarming to the bourgeoisie. So they're used to attack on government or financial institutions, but on science or an image of science itself, they have never seen that before. And science is taken casually as such to be a religion by the modern man. The ambassador goes into a monologue about this that's very interesting. So he tells him, attack the Greenwich Observatory, do it without causing death, you know, like

Like a bombing of an empty building. So naturally, you know what happens when Locke coaxes his autistic brother-in-law, Stevie, to do this, and Stevie ends up tripping during the thing and blowing himself up, and they have to, you know, shovel. It's very brutal, the imagery. It's a classic book from a hundred years ago, but it reads like modern horror movie. They have to shovel his remains out with the gravel and from the blast side, it's very graphic and his wife, it's brutal, the artist's brother finds out and ends up killing him in revenge, killing the agent provocateur, the secret agent. She is then herself betrayed by another revolutionary when he finds out what happened, the whole story, he steals her money and abandons her.

I think there was a bombing in real life in England, in Greenwich, on which this book is based. It was also, I think, someone told me an important book for Yukio Mishima, who owned it certainly in his library, had annotated it, possibly used it for his own book about a terrorist type in the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, where the protagonist also tries to become famous and so on. But it's quite a bit of a different motivation story. But the details of this book, the personal relationships, this is what this novel is really about. It's not the plot. from being a clinical study of the various decrepit leftist personality types, and that may be, you know, this chapter 11 that I mentioned, it's when the wife finds out that her brother died in this bombing and takes her revenge.

I think that may be Conrad's intention to build up to it in previous chapter, the story of their lives, the images of this woman's difficult life in her youth with her brother, a story in impoverished London. In this chapter, I found it very moving, very dramatic, full of irony and bitterness and drama at the same time. I say a literary masterpiece and I looked, I stood back and I said, this is what the novel is. This is the art of the novel at its finest in the sense that no other art can do this. You couldn't do what this chapter shows in a movie or in a theater piece or anything like that, showing at once the span of these people's lives, their internal states, the ironic and cutting asides of the narrator, and also for those who appreciate the dynamics

of male-female interactions, you know, the connoisseurs of the so-called gender discourse, game and the like, red pill or whatever you want to call it, relationship and female psychology. Here too Conrad shines in this chapter, show depths of male delusion. I strongly recommend this read because even very smart men are delusional in the ways in which this Verloc secret agent is in this chapter when it comes to their women. I could recognize what was going on many times. I've seen where he just completely misunderstands her, misunderstands why she's with him, what she's feeling in general and what she's feeling in the moment and deludes himself completely until he finally sees the hand with the knife plunge, you know? Anyway, this chapter made me think many things.

But yes, book is, look, it's Conrad's intention, invention, call it what you want. The analysis of the leftist personality type, better in this book maybe than in Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky booked demons about leftists and so on. And I think Conrad did not like Dostoevsky. I think Conrad does a better job describing the leftists actually. But this book made me think the true note, the tranny rampage in the church and what I said before and how actually in these attacks nobody important ever gets killed. Again from the point of view of purely terroristic aims objectively I find that odd. How then it could be possible that such creatures are goaded to achieve this kind of agent provocateur type objective even when they're not aware of it themselves actually.

How in some cases they do so maybe they get out of hand for their handlers who can't control or always predict what they'll do. I think that can happen. And they don't need even a secret agent like what's in this book, by the way, which is not at all depicted like a James Bond type, nothing like that. But if you go online, you can maybe push over the edge. Maybe a Fed is pushing over the edge. People who are already mentally ill, I don't know. But this is just so dreary. Is the transsexual race reduced to this? to being, you know, I said they'd be ruthless executors of tyranny in my book and I guess eventually they could be together with Lesboides, but this isn't even that. It's just patsies, or let's say not patsies, but deranged kamikazes to make the careers of feds or whatever.

And even if they're acting entirely of their own accord, really is this your ambition trannies to do? You know, next time, as I say, I will talk in detail the life of the Roman Emperor Elagabalus. I noticed some were asked online recently what was the worst Roman Emperor and many answered Elagabalus. But I wonder and because certainly in his life it's the flashiest in the sense of the most decadent or degenerate as the most perverted as you'd have it in terms of his vices and extravagance but almost reading his life I wish that trannies and yes he was a tranny before the fact I wish that they could still make them like this I mean there were times And I read it I said this man is awesome

He suffocates a room of people by smothering them with a mass of luxury flowers that drop from the ceiling I mean look, uh, it's an easy answer, but this will be long show. I think if I do it now I want to talk not just the Emperor Elagabalus But also his successor Severus after which the Roman Empire in 235 so Elagabalus was Emperor from 218 AD to 222 and he was followed his successor was from 222 to 235 and the Roman Empire enters in 235 AD the crisis of the 3rd century when it broke into three pieces for a while and I think this is an underappreciated event in everything that was to follow in a world history because it stayed broken apart for I think about a generation but you do have to wonder Elagabalus was a nothing of an emperor when it came to

the affairs of state and foreign policy for years and I think he was just incompetent if you can study it you can say he neglected public affairs but I don't think he left the Empire fundamentally worse than when he too he came into office it didn't break up after him you know as disgusting as some of his habits may have been and if they included human sacrifice for real you can say they were quite bad habits but even so I just don't know this the leader some praise among reactionaries especially like Louis the 16th of France or Nicholas II of Russia. I do not consider these men to be noble losers. They are, in my view, really much worse for all their good qualities as family men, good family men, but in their

foolishness. And yes, I would say their vice, not just their foolishness, their indulgent vice, they brought down great kingdoms and empires. And I think Rome actually in this sense had much worse than Alagabalus. I won't mention the pathetic last emperor of the western empire, But even before then, I mean men who seriously harmed the public affairs of the empire And I don't know that in that sense Elagabalus was among the worst Certainly the flashiest I'm saying tranny and into sexual, you know Typical Roman Emperor type thing that you can think of but you know Mao had similar Personal habits, maybe I talked that too on next episode But I wish that our trannies would aspire to this level of depravity here

I will leave you with a taste of it for next time. I will read now. He, Alagabalus, I'm reading now, he often showed contempt for the Senate, calling them slaves in togas while he treated the Roman people as the tiller of a single farm and the equestrian order as nothing at all. He frequently invited the city prefect to a drinking bout after a banquet and also summoned the prefects of the guard, sending a master of ceremonies in case they decline to compel them to come. And he wished to create a city prefect for each region of Rome, thus making fourteen for the city, and would have done it too had he lived, for he was always ready to promote men of the basest character and the lowest calling, as long as they had a big cock.

I added that in this case, but the biography emphasizes that at other points, which I will discuss next time. He had couches made of solid silver for use in his banqueting rooms and his bedchambers. In imitations of Apicius, he frequently ate camel's heels and also coxcombs taken from living birds, and the tongues of peacocks and nightingales, because he was told that one who ate them was immune from the plague. He served to the palace attendants, moreover, huge platters heaped up with the viscera of mullets and flamingo-brains, partridge-eggs, thrush-brains, and the heads of parrots, pheasants and peacocks. And the beards of the mullets that he ordered to be served were so large that they were brought on in place of cress or parsley or pickled beans or fenugreek in

well-filled bowls and disc-shaped platters in particularly amazing performance. He fed his dogs on goose livers, by which the translator understands foie gras, which by the way did exist in the ancient world. He fed his dogs on goose livers. Among his pets, he had lions and leopards which had been rendered harmless and trained by tamers, and they attacked my throat as I read for you about this man's. He had tamed lions and leopards, and he would suddenly order during the dessert and the after-dessert to get up on the couches, thereby causing an amusing panic, for none knew that the beasts were harmless. He sent grapes from Apamea, that's a city in Syria, I think he was Syrian. He sent grapes from Apamea to his stables for his horses, luxury grapes, and he fed

parrots and pheasants to his lions and other wild animals. For ten successive days, moreover, he served wild sows udders with the matrices at the rate of thirty a day serving besides peas with gold pieces, lentils with onyx, beans with amber, and rice with pearls. And he also sprinkled pearls on fish and truffles in lieu of pepper. In a banqueting room with a reversible ceiling, he once overwhelmed his parasites with violets and other flowers, so that some were actually smothered to death being unable to crawl out to the top. He flavored his swimming pools and bathtubs with essence of spices or of roses or of wormwood. And once he invited the common mob to a drinking bout and himself drank with the populace,

talking so much, excuse me, taking so much, drinking so much, that on seeing what he alone consumed people supposed he had been drinking from one of his swimming pools. Yes, I stopped now, does this inspire you? Our perverts are so lame compared to this, do you not wish that they at least rose to this level of depravity, at least something to write about, something to admire, greatness even in degeneracy, but no, it's all recovering kumars in our time with porn addictions and please save me from that and so on. And on the other hand, people like, well, let me not go into this. I want to leave you with a beautiful image of completely degenerate, decadent Roman Emperor, who I will discuss next time, along with other ancient matters, and female sex tourists in our own time.

I hope you enjoy number one sex show, Caribbean Rhythms. I will be back soon. Bap out!