This Is Actual Communism. I’m Not Being Hyperbolic.

0:00 there are ideas below the surface of our conversations the issue is never really the issue the issue is always the revolution hi there once again friends fans and foes of dad Saves America John paa here and I wanted to take a minute to use a tweet that I found compelling to take a step back and explore big ideas that are having an impact on our world and that we as parents I really think need to Grapple with and help our

0:27 kids navigate because if we don't we might Sleepwalk into bad times and so I wanted to share this tweet and some clips that have come out recently that I think pull some of these ideas together and it was from Eric Weinstein on Twitter talking about the changing face of politics among his cohort of Silicon Valley bigwigs Eric runs Peter Teal's Venture Capital arm and what he writes is pretty potent we'll put a link to the full tweet I'm just going to read a

0:58 couple excerpts that I think are most dtive one of the most important forces shaping the current US presidential election is not being sufficiently discussed communism now if you're a viewer of this channel you've got a little more communism than than in other places much to the negative so Eric tries to set up what he means and why this matters and he says okay for a minute just assume this is true for the moment imagine that you see all Dei as

1:27 Marxist and maist imagine that you see AOC and the squad as Communists imagine that what you see in terms of social justice or wokeness or postmodernism or gender affirming care or Palestinian genocide or Soros open Society initiatives or Progressive Das or anti- whiteness or defund the police is all a straight up precursor to Violent revolutionary Marxism and he goes on to say that this is how he and many in his circles see the world and as he puts

1:59 said the people crossing over to Trump with enormous checkbooks see this exactly the way I have described in the above paragraph now whether you agree with that or not it's interesting if that's true and there's a clip that came out recently of Elon Musk among the biggest checkbooks of all that I think points towards Eric being correct so I thought we'd watch it together and talk about it I was essentially tricked into uh signing documents uh for one of my older

2:31 boys Xavier uh this is before I had really any understanding of what was going on and we had co co going on and so there was a lot of confusion um and um you know I was told oh he you know xier might commit suicide if if he that was a that was a lie right from the outset no reliable clinician ever believed that there was never any evidence for that uh it's it's a incredibly evil and I agree

3:00 with you that people that have been promoting this should go to prison uh I it won't stop till that happens yeah it'll just go underground there's all puberty blockers are being accessed online by kids all the time through non-medical channels if you've been watching the channel you know I've um interviewed Dr hay uh and his he's The Whistleblower that pointed out that Texas Children's Hospital has been doing these procedures I am opposed to these procedures but

3:25 stay with me because this connects back to the communism trust me so yeah it's not going to stop yeah okay so I see so that's I I was tricked into doing this um and uh you it wasn't explained to me that puberty blockers are actually just sterilization drugs um so um I mean this is painful to watch and um this is obviously incredibly painful

3:56 for him um I lost my son essentially uh so you know they uh they call it dead naming for a reason yeah all right so the reason it's called Dead naming is because uh your son is dead so my son Xavier is dead killed by the woke mind virus I'm sorry to hear that yeah I can't imagine what that would be like yeah

4:28 so uh yeah and there's lots of people in that situation now it's not pretty and lots of demolished kids yes yeah well that's a good that's a good reason to be the final straw all right so let's so I about to destroy the the woke M virus after that so you may have heard that Elon announced he's going to move his company's headquarters out of California because the current governor signed a law in which schools are no longer going

5:00 to be required to share gender related Behavior changes of students with the students parents so there's something going on here that I don't think most normal people left or right understand and this is like the penultimate example of it but it is sort of like a a mountain peeking through the water presenting itself as an island but below the surface is a Giant Mountain that goes all the way down to the depths of the sea but but don't take my word for

5:30 it or Eric's because if you want to understand how this which seems like it has nothing to do with State ownership of the means of production or Carl Marx just you wait it has a lot to do with it and another clip sort of lays it all out pretty clearly this is from an extended interview with a woman named Judith Butler she is considered one of the foremost and most influential scholars in the world of uh gender Theory her

5:56 books include undoing gender gender gend trouble imitation and gender insubordination the list goes on and on and on it's entirely about deconstructing what it means to be a man and a woman but it goes deeper than that and just we let her lay it out for you interdependency that we need to understand to fight Co is also the interdependency we need to understand to fight climate destruction I agree and so we need a I I would call it a communist

6:25 ontology it's a solidarity that's that's thicker than I think we need a radical social ontology we need to rethink selfhood its boundaries its openings to have a a completely different ethics and and and and a politics of care did you get that did you get that that fighting covid and climate change requires a communist ontology did you did that all connect cuz at one level I'd say it doesn't connect for me except that it actually does and the reason why

6:55 I want to talk about this today is because the Winds of politics are crazy they're crazier than ever the past 25 days alone my God has been overturning the apple cart every 10 minutes it feels like but there are ideas below the surface of our conversations that have been taking root and evolving and growing and slowly taking over the institutions of Education that we as parents submit our children to and subject them to that if we aren't

7:23 careful will radically alter this country and so as Eric is talking about that is what he sees as going on among sort of elite Tech Bros if you will but it is having implications in ways that are quite subtle and quite severe but again what does that have to do with it why would Judith Butler leap from covid to climate change to obviously her field of study which is this sort of transgenderism to Communism and to a

7:50 communist ethics a NE a new reconstructed ethics of essentially the end of borders and boundaries between individual and the collective that is what she's talking about we need to be one with the Borg is what she's really saying this this cuts to the heart of this notion that the issue is never really the issue the issue is always the Revolution and the revolution requires that we abolish and abandon all that came before that you know in the old

8:21 terms it would be the creation of socialist man as I've talked about in other videos but that we must reset the clock to Yi zero and only then can we build a truly just Society we have to completely break from the past we have to actively mitigate against nature against our histories our genetics our experiences our reality the the our human nature that we have to reconstruct human nature before we can achieve what essentially is communist Utopia the ever

8:50 elusive world of perfect equity and that all sounds like high flute and gobleg and it is a bunch of Kami gobbly as nor McDonald once said no offense but it sounds like some commi gobbly go but this stuff matters and so I want to read a little bit more from Eric's tweet because he starts to connect the dots to our moment and I quote the idea that is everywhere is this the Democratic Party of the United States thought they could

9:20 play with rebranded revolutionary marxists as if the new communism were merely a form of socially conscious prom Market pro-democracy liberalism or neoliberalism as you might say when it is instead a communist Trojan Horse philosophy it has as its aim destabilizing and destroying our culture and I will say I think we're all feeling pretty destabilized right now that's not just about the radical Communists but it's not not because of the radical Communists this isn't a culture War it

9:52 is the Takeover of the United States by hardcore revolutionary neo-marxists who have come for your newspapers universities public schools and your children and this is where it all connects back to Elon and the rest of us and us as parents the leaders who think they can reach out to Progressive voters do not realize that they are dancing with a devil who will outplay them now in a prior video I talked about this book that explored Marx's ideas and that

10:22 he was fundamentally dancing with the devil that his favorite quote from fa was that all that exists deserves to perish I want to make sure let me just double check that quote everything that exists deserves to perish this is what happens when you live entirely in your head when you live in your head to such an extent that you forget to bathe and become covered in boils as Marx did this is why you find

10:54 nihilism and sort of purposelessness when you spend too much time in the philosophy department at most universities because everything becomes an abstraction everything becomes an effort to deconstruct reality and rebuild it in your mind and we have to fight against this with every fiber in our being this is a natural human impulse to want radical change especially when times are difficult to believe in Utopia there is something

11:24 useful about that seeing problems in our society these are good things these are this is the positive side of this revolutionary ethos the desire for change I would say it's even what animates people like Elon Musk Elon Musk is a disruptor things like uber electric cars private Rockets all of this stuff is radically rethinking the future the problem is there are limits to how much we can uproot which is what the word radical actually means to uproot

11:53 everything about our nature when we do that as parents when we uproot our children when we try to reconstruct their reality where we try to artificially level the playing field in ways that prevent them from getting to experience what it's like to actually be an embodied person we do them a grave disservice and I I want to draw attention to the ways this philosophy is manifesting itself and that we should be on guard for and that both political

12:21 parties need to be on guard for I don't want the Democratic party to be a party of communist I don't think any of us should want that we should want to have viable parties operating within a spectrum of ideas that make us better through our discourse somewhere along the way this philosophy has infused itself and I think you can see it play out in some of the language of Cala Harris back in 2020 the Biden Harris

12:45 campaign actually put out an ad that actually incorporates this idea of essentially equal outcomes and I want to play it and let's talk about it so there's a big difference between equality and Equity equality suggest oh everyone should get the same amount the problem with that not everybody's starting out from the same place so if we're all getting the same amount but you started out back there and I started out over here we can get the same amount

13:12 but you're still going to be that far back behind me it's about giving people the resources and the support they need so that everyone can be on equal footing and then compete on equal footing Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same [Music]

13:44 place sounds lovely right it's um it's not lovely because we Face two choices when we think about the rules of the game and this is true in actual games like our kids soccer game and it's true of our institutions like our courts you can either have what would be called procedural Justice which is to say we are all treated the same by the rules equality under the law that concept gives rise to unequal outcomes when you

14:17 put your kids out on that soccer field and they're all playing by the rules of soccer the better players are going to score more points that's a fact the better team is going to win the game that's the way it works and that is one way to think about fairness I think that's the correct way to think about fairness I think that's the way to think about fairness that's actually in harmony with reality in harmony with

14:39 human nature in harmony with the way not just human nature works but physical reality Works how do we coordinate in the world this is why I believe in free market capitalism because it's a stable set of rules that we all basically should agree to don't steal don't cheat and lie that's the basic rules of capitalism you can own things you can trade them you can engage in contracts don't steal don't cheat don't lie that's the rules of the game of capitalism and

15:04 what happens is you end up with unequal outcomes you can either have that fairness in the rules and unequal outcomes or you can try to get equal outcomes by rigging the rules to apply to each player differently put another way you can have the rules discriminate against people now there is a piece of this that's more complicated than that right the notion that we don't all start at the same place we all show up at the

15:30 soccer game right but some parents can afford private lessons for their kids While others can't that is true there is an injustice in reality that we all experience in different ways and I think the positive energy behind this notion of equity is the desire to try to mitigate the things that we don't have control over but that breaks really really quickly because the reality is is that we're all unequal in millions of different subtle ways some of us really are smarter stronger

16:01 taller and faster than others and this is where that mentality of Judith Butler's sort of communist ontology comes back into play you have to deconstruct all of it the biological differences between men and women this is what underpins the attack on gender and gender differences that Elon is talking about and that Eric is wrapping up in this question of Communism when you set your sights on the only true Justice being equal outcomes for everyone you have have to deconstruct

16:30 all of reality to get there that is the path to hell that is the mentality however utopian however maybe even positive you might think it is behind all of the worst dictatorships Humanity has ever seen a vision of a perfect world or a master race all of this stuff is evil it's not just against human nature it very quickly is a smokees screen for you who see the vision of the future the anointed one the elect to be

17:03 in control to be the head of the show to be at the front of the class this doesn't need to be politically partisan here we shouldn't want any parties to be embracing the ethos of Communism and the reason why it's so important for us as parents to Grapple with this and understand it is because we live in a time where this idea has been repackaged in a thousand ways and it will be presented to our kids as early as Middle

17:27 School without us fully appreciating it we need to be on guard for the Reds I'm 46 years old I'm a gen xer and so I first started to get interested in politics and things like that in the late '90s and the late '90s was kind of amazing because you had Bill Clinton saying the era big government is over that was a product of the time when both sides fought a game between the two 49 yd lines with a certain set of

17:54 assumptions that I happen to think were quite healthy and historically correct namely communism sucked and failed as evidenced by the recent collapse of the Berlin wall and as Francis fukiyama famously said we have arrived at the end of History we have discovered that Democratic republicanism you know the rule of law mitigated and regulated by the vote and the will of the people has won against authoritarian Communists free enterprise has won we have the data East Germany versus West Germany North

18:26 Korea versus South Korea malis China versus modern China this is done the experiments have been run communism lost and as Milton Friedman said the only place you can still find a Marxist is in the college campuses of America unfortunately that mine virus survived we should kill it that is not an experiment we need to rerun and what can we do about it as parents we have to take it upon ourselves to know these things to share

18:53 them with our kids and to hold our politicians accountable for avoiding this ditch that they want to drive us into often accidentally as Eric said later in in the Tweet why is this confusing Eric writes well no one I know sees Joe Biden as a communist they don't even see the Democratic party leadership as Communists they view the party as opportunistic and naive in thinking that the Democrats can allow violent pathological revolutionaries into the big blue tent with a simple blue coat of

19:22 paint and a Bargain Basement Rebrand of to deconstruct the patriarchy or decolonize or defund or otherwise reform our society while quietly waiting for their real moment I think it is not outrageous or extreme to be worried in this exact way as people as Citizens and as parents it should inform the schools that you send your kids to it should inform the way you talk about politics and ideas and what can lift people up and I will leave it to you to decide how

19:55 how it should inform your vote but I'll tell you this the idea as matter more than any one election they really truly do I will quote one of my least favorite philosophers John mayard kees who wrote practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct Economist Mad Men in Authority who hear voices in the air are distilling their frenzy from some academic Scribbler of a few years back

20:26 we are living in The Echoes of the academic scribblers who just thought real communism has never been tried but what do you think how are these ideas shaping the way you see the world how can we work together to better educate our kids I want to hear what you have to say in the comments below I hope you enjoyed this there's more where that came from and hope you have a great weekend Josh is a a comedy Collective a

20:53 a United Artists if you will uh uniting myself Reggie Watts Michael Sarah and Tim and Eric and what do we do we do whatever we dream up we shoot it and it goes on there we can fail we can do well it's total freedom no offense but it sounds like some commi gobbley go you got me