So 49 closing in on the big 50 pretty excited we're gonna have a great big party to celebrate the 50th Right now at the monkey bar in Midtown, New York bringing a bunch of celebrities Brad Pitt lots of chicks sports illustrated some models all the whole shot Him maybe LeBron's gonna be there too And my first read is a tweet that will debacle last week now. He's like oh I I just agree with him, but yeah, I guess maybe he's seen it firsthand Oh, this is what people in danger. It turns out you just bummed out that because being a convenience. Well, he's in Shanghai That these that these guys be really really narcissistic.
I mean he's been told is a great as since he's like 11 years old I got believe he is in his own the world to the end degree Kind of funny. I was talking to friend of mine says who's his wife? I never hear I know he has kids and oh we talk about giving him wine at one point You know that the drink up glass of wine dinner and seems like a real family man and this guy's talking to you Those yeah, it's his high school sweetheart His you gotta believe he's stepping out on her He enough does the bronze a bad guy although you Apparently it's a very very bad guy with a with a real a very sensitive to public persona But inside pretty bad guy and I can't imagine he's being faithful to his wife You know with all the women who are probably throwing themselves at him since he was 11 Yeah, maybe it's been faithful. I don't know but my friend said yeah, you gotta believe that he says in barrier He probably told me hey look man, you know stuff's gonna happen.
This way it's gonna be I Said yeah, I told my friend. I said yeah, I get it. Yeah, this is kind of my told Marie You know with this podcast is I hey look babe, you know things are gonna happen. You got the weekly demon out there, you know So anyway, I'm reading Michael Miles's book the new right came out earlier this year And and I like that seem to Leb's principle that he won't read a book tells been out for at least I think it's a 20 years You won't read in current books and I think that's really sound advice and I typically follow it more or less That has been fascinated by this whole new right movement the whole 4chan phenomena just cracks me up every time I hear Knuckles eighties.
I'm just I'm just laughing out loud really like the book kill all normies written by the published by that communist press That's zero books. So I think I think there's something there and it's not all hatred. I mean gosh. I mean honestly It's just the opposite it's It's a it's a lot of joking.
It's a lot of laughing it's a lot of poking fun at the left and the left finds it hateful because They're so filled with hate anyone's making fun of them must be hateful as well I'm gonna now these people are I mean, yeah, they'll in sell the end and volunteer with something young men are bitter Yeah, I get that a little bit but for most part This is a this is the movement of mischief It and saying screw the established order and I think is a lot to recommend it So anyway, I got them out of book and I'm really enjoying it a short book I almost threw with it a couple quibbles one. They must have rushed this book to press all sorts of typos all those odd I'm not seeing them as I move through the book It's in the earlier chapters. I saw them all the time I bought this book last summer and it so often happens I take a book I might read a third of it put it down for a while and do something else then come back and read it I'm what is their way to Amazon time right now? I'm a Kindle is there a way Amazon can fix the typos and then when your Kindle sinks up it fixes the typos because in the first couple chapters They're like all sorts of just bad type of type of graphical errors and I'm going through the book I'm not seeing them So I don't know they get out of the fix them you know the publisher fix them and re-up loads and versions and it fixes on your Kindle I don't know I'm interesting I'm don't really care enough to go back and look at the earlier chapters find those typos but I just backed out of highlight them Let's go back and see if I can find them again.
It's as fascinating the first couple chapters that you think could get more proofing We know for a fact that the first half of books get read more often than the last half of books just by human nature, but anyway Another quibble people on the new right There's so freaking ignorant about natural law And this is the second time I've seen this phenomenon the first time I've seen it is with that is Russell who I really like I have great reservations about that yes but for the most part like him I think he tries to be intellectually honest and his idea of nature when when I like a Catholic or a It anyone I got a traditional type thinker first in nature that is Russell's just like well You don't see that I'm laid at grass. You know grasshoppers don't do that And it's like these days You don't know nature means and then Michael Mouse does the exact same thing attacking papi cannon So let me just read here this passage that he just this excoriates papi cannon with Papi can is talking about AIDS the 1990 back in 1980s Supposedly papi cannon wrote the poor homosexuals They have declared war on nature and nature is exacting an awful retribution Unquote and the mouse is gonna just take papi cannon apart for that statement about nature He says mortgages and cable television to name two examples are hardly natural you talk about how you own business I'm not natural doesn't necessarily gonna kill thousands or hundreds of thousands of gays dead It's like mouse Mortgage is a cable television to name two examples are hardly natural at first I'll stylistically is like what the freak to name to It's like he's thinking hey if I could spend a lot more time I can help with a lot more examples It's like frick mouse about the word processor typing is on how the Kindle I'll be reading this on what about podcast software How about nine hundred of things that we use and I work day life is a nature instance you mean it and That's not just a stylistic. Well, I mean it is a stylistic. What's I mean to name two is like you can name a billion But it's not just I listed it points out how he has told him this about papi cannon saying ladies totally oblivious to it And he goes on it says the higher primates engage in polygeny He goes on it says if nature is a standard the woman should be ready to be mothers when they first get their period So over and over again, he's attacking this is constant in nature And he is totally ignorant of the tradition of natural law When thinkers about Western Civilizations refer to nature like that they're referring to like the homosexual declared war on natural law That's what they're referring to you can't forget the law portion of it But because it became such a ensconced way of talking for literally two thousand years because it predates Christ by the way This was back to the Stoics and Cicero the Greek and Roman traditions They all talked of nature in the sense and what they mean by it is nature informed by reason That's what like that is Russell Michael Malice messes like gosh.
I mean you guys are so freaking smart You're apparently very well read how can you be so freaking ignorant on this point? It'd be like me talk about us history and I have no clue who George Washington is I'm serious That's how bad these seven examples are that that is Russell Michael Malice use it's like no nature informed by reason When people like I be cannon who's a Catholic and a traditionalist type thinker when they say nature that's shorthand for nature informed by reason Unaided by revelation and that's that's the whole thing in the Western Canon again Go back even a hundred years ago the average intellectual would have understood this They're saying nature means your reasoning ability on aided by revelation They're not talking about stuff that God tells you and the Christian tradition. They're saying no no We're going back to nature as I'm stood by the Stoics. You don't need revelation So you go back and look at Thomas Aquinas's suma theologically That's him trying to use nature natural reasoning on aided by revelation to reach the highest truth Basically Thomas Aquinas and that marvelous set of books is trying to build an edifice Just close to God as you can get it and then God feels in the rest.
He stood at this gap there Once you go into that gap now you're getting the revelation type area and now you're leaving nature Now granted we're talking nature informed by reason you have to look at how your body reacts to certain things So it's not like we talked about the apes and pligine. It's not like the natural all thinker would say that's totally an app No, I mean I look at your body your mind people around you you throw all that into this nixer And you use your reason you start coming up with fundamental human truths one of which is homosexual activities are freaking twisted And it's nature that tells you that I mean if you're looking just at nature brutal beastly nature Well, yeah, almost like TV. Okay. I mean look at a chimpanzee colony Man, they'd they'd pawn each other like someone slips Spanish fly and Viagra into the San Francisco water system I mean it's just if you don't have the nature informed by reason Yeah, there's all sorts of problems arising.
That's not remotely what the epic can amends not remotely what? 2,000 years of Greco Roman Christian tradition meant and it's in his shocking that some like Malice is writing a book and spends like Three pages attacking peppy cannon didn't take the time to pick up like a philosophical dictionary That was my most most by the way appreciate that we talk about things like hey nature aided by reason then you know That's the standard That's not a great standard anymore in this political culture That really doesn't tell you anything. I mean that's things are so upside down tops you turvy Especially now in 2019 to say nature aided by reason that's a that's a really weak standard because it is a subtle thing I mean you have to get to have some quiet you just don't think about it You can't get all your choose from internet hyperlinks and the New York Times It doesn't solve virtually anything like it says political climate quite frankly probably wouldn't have for 30 40 50 years at this point And I appreciate it's always been very difficult to apply even a thousand years ago You have these very delicate you know sophisticated detail thinkers who would disagree on some of the finer points But here's the thing we talk about nature or nature aided by reason or nature as informed by reasons by the way to put it One it does give you a standard it gives you at least in a personal life It gives you a way to think but then even when you deal with certain political issues or what have you it also gives you a standard a difficult Standard to apply when it takes thought study contemplation. Yes, but it gives you a standard Something to grasp onto something to build upon something to apply like like a ruler even if the ruler is kind of You know, make tricky or you can't read the numbers real well on the rulers I was exactly to say at least gives you a starting point secondly Because it's so delicate sometimes difficult to discern.
That's why you don't F with it You don't just throw it out and it what I mean is the traditions built up over thousands of years through the use of reason and The whole post-modern movement is dedicated to basically throwing out because they're saying it's not nature rated by reason It's just a a structure directed by the power power elites like the bourgeois whatever to keep the power and there is no truth at all There for there is no nature in former reason. Well, that's what the war is Okay, it's between like the natural law people and the post-modernist quite like for some reasons But when those post-modernist theories get into hands and laugh their their just an atrocity I podcast a lot on this probably in 2020 by the way, but these tradition that build up over Thousands of years in the western tradition get news. You know nature and for my reason you just don't want to fill them out You don't disrupt them all of a sudden, you know, if you're a Catholic or you're Christian or you have any respect for your forebears He just don't throw it out and again the post-modernist would say and again not not all post-modernist I mean it's as it's been in the hands of the left would say well, no There is no such thing as nature for my reason It's all there are just constructs societal constructs and you're thinking within those constructs So just what you think is tradition of nature being informed by reason and building up a culture a civilization step-by-step intricate That's nothing but a like web like a matrix maybe a false world or a false set of premises That built up over the years and we need to destroy all that to get back to I'm not exactly sure what they want to get back to I'm still trying to figure out what the frick the real aim is Besides killing all white guys I had a magical night Friday night I really hate using that word magical But the term mystical doesn't fit it I guess got an existential gap type situation that can kind of fit I suppose But here's here's a scenario This is where mom got ill and died on September 22nd I've been digging out of the office ever since this has been awful six day weeks even working some Sundays only a couple hours come I'm pretty religious. Let's go speak about not working on Sundays It was I was saying if you work seven days in a row you really working 12 days in a row You go from Monday to the following Friday, so you need to break it off as no one works seven days in a row It's you working either six days in a row you working 12 days in a row So I've always tried it always take Sunday off no matter what But I've had to work a couple hours on Sundays for the past month and I'd have a working You know Monday through Friday often than working evenings and normally working about six hours or so on on Saturday Well, I think that's come to an end and I stayed late Friday night I had to go to the local high school football game, but I worked until seven o'clock Friday Yeah, those last couple hours I was there were really productive and I was like frick I think I'm caught up not like really caught up But on Saturday I ain't working eight hours.
I might work four and up working almost five But no matter at the time on Fridays and they're thinking oh it's you know almost time to leave to go to football game It was like 20 out of six So I pour myself a stiff gin and tonic and worked a little bit more on a file cleaned up some things got an email box cleaned up for the first Time and make five weeks every email is been answered or cataloged or whatever I can see on the emails on one screen I have to scroll down to see what all I'm F not by I can do it So I drink that gin and tonic and it's right two minutes to seven as I gather so I walk over the football game Pour myself another gin and tonic and walked out the back door just in the splendid mood realizing I think it's over I think this you know the horrible experience of my mom getting ill and dying and then Having to stick out and work and work and freaking grind for the past month on top of that We're not really kind of like emotionally drained just having to go back to the office This isn't really hard. I'm not complaining now. I'm fortunate blessed whatever to have a lot of clients and whatnot So I'm not complaining but it has been very hard and I realize I think it's over Think I think I've climbed this hill and I'm walking out. I've had one stiff gin and tonic in me and I'm walking out in My hooded jacket my favorite jacket a lot partner mind bought it for me Put my hood up where people don't recognize me I put on my aftershocks I fire up the bill bird podcast who's talking with the former drummer of the black court crows I start walking to my house the high school and it was splendid.
I'm walking through downtown in my small city It's like ten thousand people eleven thousand and we have a great downtown I mean, you know, you don't take the right eye and I check it out nothing like that But I got believe as far as small downtowns go We got to like be like in the 90th percentile but downtown movie theater, which you'll see anymore We have a great bar actually two bars on the ones temporarily shut down. We got a handful of retail shops We have a freaking art gallery. We got the you know the hipster coffee shop pretty much got a lot of downtown But it's a small downtown and so I'm walking that four blocks or so listen to bill bird I'll call stream it through my veins I feel like the worst part of the office is over and I think for the first time since my mom's death I generally felt happy You know, we start seeing like more homosexuals and advertising, you know, but I've never seen any and like the Dodge Ram truck commercials The Shelby you know Silverado truck commercials will see my commercials. They have no homosexual man.
I don't get it Like you know, I even have that theme song from Bob Seger like a rock and that could easily adapt it Man, do you see Britain's worst pedophile was murdered in prison? This guy is named Richard Huckle I dick huckle and I read the article I never thought and I heard of the guy but this guy was a freaking monster He wrote like how two manuals from the lusting children took pictures of it So done the dark web he glowed about some of his victims who were to shockingly young this guy's an absolute freaking monster I mean, but someone this is someone in the Britain prison murdered with like a homemade knife That was pretty blunt. It's must have been a freaking goose of death It's really hard to mustering Christian charity for such a monster All right. Well, simply impossible I'm sure it's a you know an efficiency in my part, but I just I could muster nothing but glee hearing about this freaking monster being killed in prison Not that that's one thing prisons do well.
You know prisoners. They like children. You know, they might rape and kill a 97 year old grandmother They might rob back and shoot a teller the head off awful, but they like little kids. You know, these melusters go to prison These hard criminals take it out on them and that's now hey, you saw human nature I mean no matter how buried it is and how cruel you are I guess something's like the innocence of little kids still shines in your soul And you're gonna take revenge on a monster like that and heads off to the heads off the prisoners You have that little spark of decency left them to realize monsters like that don't need to live Now talk about listen to that podcast of Bill Burr talking to the black crows drummer It's pretty pretty good pretty interview.
There's something about the black crow drummers delivery the way he talks like kind of run me the wrong way But it was a good interview really interesting this guy's talked about in 1995 They were on tour with the Rolling Stones They're the opening act And he talked about how the stones getting off stage and getting out of the stadium was just like an app It's actually a military maneuver because basically he goes because they were the black crows and he were sitting in SUVs or whatever they were waiting for the concert to end And he heard like jumping jack flash just ending and then a ton of fireworks go off And he goes not just like two or three but went out for quite a while bunch of fireworks entertainment the crowd He goes and then boom as soon as the fireworks start He goes the Rolling Stones they're piling end of this long line of SUVs like McJagger head his own SUV SUVs with his handlers and Keith Richards and all the the Rolling Stones the band everything They all pile in these SUVs and they get out of there before the fireworks even end He goes out of those like a military precision These guys have been doing it for 50 years is how exactly or how exactly are with how much precision They got out of that scene and got back to the hotel where they parted all night or whatever All he said that McJagger didn't join him. No, that's about to hold much more McJagger I do know Keith Richards has done so many drugs that he supposedly aside that when he dies He wants to be cremated so his friends can smoke his ashes You know what I hate I hate cigarettes always have since I was a little kid I had contacts growing up and a bunch of my extended family smoked and my eyes would get all red irritated because my parents How's it feel smoke and I just hated cigarettes when I worked at Kmart for some reason fricking cigarettes smokers would come in And you know they finished smoking that it flipped their cigarette butt out of the sidewalk and that was just routine It's like what you know part of things this whole backlash is cigarette smoking a lot of it is because just how freaking inconsiderate Cigarette smokers were even into the 1980s As all it's like this is like a well-deserved backlash You guys just being rude jackasses all those years with your cigarette smoke and flipping your cigarette best Wherever the freak you wanted to but here's the thing I want I hate this anti-cigarette backlash I mean with Michigan and other states outlawed smoking in restaurants and bars in particular I was appalled talk about a shock intrusion into the private sphere Yeah, yeah, I know you open for business, but I walk on the public all the time. I mean That belief in the public and private is totally false I mean it's your private business you can do with it whatever you want And if you want a lot of smoking a lot of smoking the people don't want to be there They don't need to come there and if non-smoking is such a great idea then open a non-smoking bar You don't even look at killing it and I realized by the way for me personally that no smoking It's great. I mean I mean I don't like being around cigarette smoke You know but my personal preference after being around cigarette smoke shouldn't let me act into the state whatever dictate what a private business does But anyway, but that side what I've also come to really like is the smell of cigarette smoke the three cigarette smoke So that Friday night when I'm walking out of the office Some dude we cross paths he's walking towards me.
I'm walking towards him Just kind of say hi to each other hold my gin and tonic and he's he's holding a cigarette And I got a whiff of that cigarette smoke and I don't know that was nostalgia what it was I was like man, I just love the smell of that cigarette smoke again. I don't want it in my car One of my office But to smell it in the open air like that it was just blended it was just one of those little things I thought that's just that's a great smell and I thought bad you know That's probably a bearish. It looks like a respectable guy part that guy guy's probably embarrassed by some smoking a cigarette Maybe I caught a masturbator or something. I was just like dude don't be embarrassed man.
That's I loved here I love just getting away from your cigarette smoke. I absolutely loved it A great quote I heard over the weekend. Ralph Stelfab said if you don't like the Christian right you're really not gonna like the post-Christian right I guess he said that a while back pretty funny Podcasts recommendation sent to me by listener the symbolic world Maybe the symbolic word. I think it's the symbolic world for listening to podcast like them both He has one up right now on the Joker the movie the Joker which I really liked But this guy pointed out a ton of stuff about the Joker that I know I'm like a freaking imbecile watching this movie and this guy points to all the symbolism in the Joker movie I was just absolutely loved the podcast.
So I think this is gonna become a regular for me At a minimum, I know I can recommend the Joker podcast go listen to it If you by the way, if you haven't seen the movie though and you're going to don't listen to this It's just one great big spoiler alert. I want to talk a little bit more about this this whole idea of a structure Is it's a it's a fascinating parallel with with this movie that came out 2017 that I absolutely loved called the death of Stalin You can go check it out. You haven't seen it yet. Marshall is a proto-structuralist before the structuralist came into existence in the 20th century Marshall is already writing about the concept that there is like no Reality, you know, no nature informed by reason he'd say you have nature informed by economic processes You know Marx was a materialist he believed no spirituality whatsoever He thought all history all reality were just structures economic structures And that we are formed in fashion by economic structures for him all was the economy how we survive how we live They could say that The economy the economic forces the way that you're now how to put it But the way your economy is run that informs how you think so he would say that the u.s.
Constitution and a guy named Charles Beard Historian and in the part 1940s 1950s basically he said is the u.s. Constitution wasn't like an idea of Of the founding fathers and political ideas coming down from John Locke He'd say no the u.s. Constitution was erected To further the economic interests of those who fashioned it and not even necessarily on purpose But the Marxist type thinker would say no they were just informed they were in nature informed by economic reality Again that nature informed by reason and sure as hell not by informed by revelation But nature as informed economic structure caused them to put up a constitution like that And again Charles Beard is like one of the forefathers in that area if you want to read him Yes, I'm interested in things to say and again It's nice so much that they did it on purpose to further the economic self-interest But that is how they had to think because that was economic reality at the time So economic reality informs everything in the Marxist theory and that top of that you have a top of the economic structure You have this superstructure and that's all the culture on top of that economic Substructure or that economic base structure you have this superstructure which is our culture So marches would say they're economic reasons that Americans like football and maybe third world countries like soccer And I'm kind of making this up But the reason we go something like this football with all its rules and stop and play and reviewing to make sure they get things absolutely right That's very similar to the american economic reality of making sure you have ironclad contracts People filed through on the business deals because america has always been on the economic forefront and people came here to get ahead And by getting ahead what you mean is they came here to make a lot of freaking money Become very wealthy and that's kind of why america is what it is And that's why america loves football and the rest of the world who's not quite so Adversious or you know greedy how do i put it not quite so economically motivated at least not in the way the americans are That's why they like soccer. That's how marches might break it down again.
I'm basically fabricating that that example, but I think it's apt So again to the marxis there is no nature informed by reason there's only nature Informed or warped or pushed around or molded by the economic realities And therefore this part's crucial to the marxis that economic structure can be changed. That is the revolution Okay, we can change that economic structure And then nature would be then informed by whatever's put into its place And therefore that structure and the superstructure put on top of it has to be basically torn down Shift over to that movie the death of stalin you're seeing it you're seeing the great terror What the great terror actually first was stalin did to the to the kulox and kill him in the ukraine But you look at the gulag in Siberia the tens of millions of stalin killed this terror society had And then the buffoonery next to it because it created this absolute false universe What is this false society but yet is juxtaposed against human nature informed by reason? Because again the economic theory of marks is bunk although I think there's a lot there that can be mined That's pretty interesting. I'm always interested in this theory theory of alienation.
I think there's something there But for the most part this idea that there is no reality is just economic structures that make you think there's reality And therefore we got tear down what you think is reality But yet I will say nothing most sane thinkers would agree no there is reality And so the marxis system like you saw in russia understand when you tear down all that stuff to create the new man or whatever is Whatever it is you're up to he has still have human nature informed by reason and now you have these two I don't know what you call them two systems or two realities. You got the marxis reality and you got the real reality next to each other Then they collide and they come in contact with each other. That's what you're seeing throughout this movie the death of stalin It's human nature as informed by reason next to human nature being pushed around by the marxis system of tearing down reality informed by reason It's really funny that you see those two just opposed and constantly colliding and you get the buffoonery that just makes the death of stalinate if you're an masterpiece of my opinion All right, that's a wrap for this week. Please follow us on twitter check out the Facebook page go to the blog check out You demon podcast calm is all sorts of information or they might find interesting As always they're listening