San Diego Mosque Shooting - The West Is Sleepwalking Into Sectarian Conflict

Greg reacts to political violence, campus radicalism, anti-Semitism, and the next stage of cultural revolution Why progressive movements always retreat, regroup, and push further the next time Tyler Cowen says something worse is coming. Greg argues it’s the same revolution wearing a new mask Wokeism Was Never About Equity The Dialectic Never Stops

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All right, welcome to Quick Show today. Today is May 19th, 2026.
My name is Greg Matson and I am your host. In this episode, we are going to talk about the killings in San Diego at
a mosque. Uh, three people killed, apparently two individuals that allegedly are responsible for these
shootings have killed themselves in the aftermath of of this attack. So, we're going to talk about this a little bit,
what's going on with race relationships and and and wokeness and other things.
And an article that came out on the free press talking about wokeness and this idea that has it been dead, is it dying,
or is it reemerging? I I I think neither of those things have happened. So, I want to cover that briefly as well. This episode is brought to you by Warriors of
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dad was one of the basically three founding partners of the Cougar Club at Brigham Y Young University. All right,
on with the story. Here we have from NBC News. The headline here is what we know about the San Diego shooting victims,
suspects, possible motive, and more. The police chief described the shooting in which three people were killed as every
community's worst nightmare. And I agree with this 100%. I don't care what religion you are. uh to go to a place of
worship and to carry this out is a statement beyond just killing individuals which is the real
tragedy but it is a statement uh against a large group of people and this is not the way you handle these things and this
is a 17 and an 18year-old allegedly who were the ones who carried this attack out who killed these three individuals
one of them a security guy uh there at the mosque who is the father of eight uh just unbelievably tragic and it's it's difficult.
You know, I I I know that there are um that most of this typically in the US is
geared toward anti-semitic uh feelings, sympathies, uh which is also tragic and we've seen
that as well happen. Uh it's hard in a country that is a melting pot where we
have you know invited others to come into the country and their cultures you know the idea is bring your cultures in
with you the best of your culture and through a universal system through our constitution and the laws and the
founding principles of the United States of America we all can get along because these laws and rules rules are
supposedly to apply to everyone universally equally. Now, that hasn't always been the case. Uh we can go back
into slavery. We can go further in into other areas where we are giving certain rights to individuals and groups of
people where it is not equal. And what they're trying to accomplish with most of that is a forced equity, which is a
very dangerous game to play. It never works. It always requires tyranny. It always requires more government, but
universal laws is what the Constitution represents. And so, bring your poor, right? Come to the United States. And if
you're looking for opportunity, if you're willing to work, if you're willing to adopt the universal principles of the founding
of America, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, uh, being primary there, right? Those
are the two first two two freedoms listed in the first amendment.
Those are first. Then great, then come in. If you're not willing to do this or you want to get rid of the constitution or you want to change the constitution
into something else, then no. I I don't think you should be welcome here at all.
That that's just not right. However, uh what we also get from this is when people come in from different cultures,
there are certain biases. There are certain hatreds that come in uh from different groups.
And so like it or not, uh especially in Europe, but also in the United States, we end up with this fmented, especially
in the universities, this fuamented conflict between Israel and the Jews on one side and and the and the Muslims,
especially the Islamists on the other side. And we inherit this. Now, we haven't had as bad of a time with this as a lot of places in Europe do where
they've really let this go. Uh, and and they've opened up the doors of immigration to those countries of is
Islamic um culture and and theocracy essentially into into their western world. And there
is a conflict there. There's no doubt there's a conflict there. And and it's concerning. And we're going to see how this works out. And it may not work out
real well because because for the US, if I'm applying US constitutional principles, that doesn't always go along
with, for example, Sharia law. And so that's a difficulty in bringing that in.
But but coming in here and and bringing these I have no issue in bringing in people
from Islam at all as long as they're willing to adhere to the Constitution.
And and the problem is is that there is feedback and and push from certain groups and online hate groups that that
that go after these individuals and represent the whole of let's say Islam
and and wants to go to any means necessary to carry out a statement of death.
And it's it's horrific. I don't care what side you're on politically.
And these two young men, one of them who is apparently suicidal, it's interesting when these these
individuals that are are mentally ill to some degree, at least in a point of suic being suicidal,
there's a feeling of wanting to take people with you.
They're going to give their last statement and their last statement is one of hate. the ultimate hate.
And it's, you know, whether it's a school shooting, this oftentimes seems to be the same case. They're ready to die and
they want to take out as many people as possible.
And it's it it's concerning. I mean, what do you do about this? What do you do about these
killings? How do we stop this? How do we reduce this uh in in in a melting pot culture where
we have different groups that end up coming in and they seem to congregate which is a natural thing into specific
areas and and there are conflicts between other groups of people. It's like the Turks and the Kurds.
They I I tried to look up this video recently. I couldn't find it, but there is a there was a video. I believe it was
at a United Nations uh meeting. It might have been in DC, but I'm guessing it was in New York. And
you you have uh a a group of Turks that are there, security, that are waved
forward to go ahead and go after a number of Kurds that are there protesting
the Turkish government. And so Erdogan just goes forward and he has everybody go after these Turks. It gets brutal. It
10 minutesgets really brutal and they're fighting and it's it wasn't really covered much and now I can't find these videos anymore. So obviously someone's had some influence and they've been taken down.
But it's the same thing, right? You've got that conflict between the Turks and the Kurds and and and it's brought into
our world, into our our culture. You have of course you have you have the huge one right now is Palestine and
everybody who supports Palestine uh or or the idea of Palestine versus Israel and the Jews and that's
everywhere and the anti-semitism is growing on both sides of the aisle. You though the woke left and the woke right and no wokeness is not dead and it never
died and and it doesn't need a reemergence because it's thriving.
that is thriving and always has been thriving. And so I I you know what is this part of the factionism that is
going to happen in the United States as as we bring in these these millennial long conflicts
that are not ours into the US and and and then as you bring those in they become political to
everyone right be because you have for example the Palestinians aligned with the far
left aligned with universities and and so they're that is going to become political because they're far-left.
And so obviously they're going to have movement and alliances, allegiances that are going to be against the right. And
so the right then rallies and and goes against that group. And so now you have a whole new political dynamic that is
foreign to us that has been brought in to the United States. And yes, there are alliances there, very strong alliances
between Palestinian movements and the far left. It's interesting that what was it back in 2014 when when Black Lives
Matter was was formed? I believe it was 2014. You can check that for me.
By 2015, a year later, here's what I do know. A year after BLM was was was
formed, founded that was focused on uh the treatment of black individuals from
police and from others, right? Uh thus we end up with George the George Floyd incident.
Black Lives Matter met with the the Palestinian leaders in the Middle East. Now, what in the
world does BLM have to do with the Palestinian leaders a year after they're formed?
Well, they have a lot to do with them.
And that's why you see this this coalescing of the far left around the Palestinian movement, right? because
they're both strongly grievanceoriented and want to change the western world.
And so they are they are the enemy of my enemy is my friend, right? And and so
it's that's very closely fundedwise. It's, you know, both money
and ideology really brings together these this odd coupling, right? this this strange
marriage between what is a very far-right group in terms of religion, in
terms of of the the oppression of women, in terms of LGBTQ oppression
and and the far-left, those two are aligned strongly because their greater goal above even identity politics is the
destruction of the Western world. And so it it's a it it makes a lot of sense when you see it that way, when you understand that. And so you have immense
amount of funding for this. You have very strong ties between the Palestinian movement and the universities in the United States and faculty and administration in in those universities.
So it's it's it's you know again we're we're bringing in foreign ideologies
and foreign biases that all of a sudden we are now having to deal with I I think Europe is in a in a much worse place than we are on this.
But it's it's that's what a melting pot is going to produce if you're not careful. Again, I'll bring up the fact that the UAE,
the the the most moderate perhaps uh uh Islamic country,
United Arab Emirate, uh and I've had a couple represent a couple of representatives from there on
the show, but they were sending money to individuals from their own country to
go and study in the West in in in the UK for example, right? So, if they were going to get a a
degree somewhere, a an advanced degree, uh they'd been sending money to the
those individuals to help them pay for their tuition and their cost of living. They've got the money. They can do that. And hey, why not educate your base more?
And this is something we need to think about when it comes to education. Well, what was happening? What ended up happening is that they were getting
radicalized. See, they don't allow the radicalization in their own country.
They're very much against it. The Muslim Brotherhood, no, nowhere. They don't give an inch to that group. But in the UK, in other parts of Europe, oh, the
Muslim Brotherhood runs loose, right? Rampant.
And so they're getting radicalized in a western country and at the universities
because again that tie between that Palestinian movement and the Muslim Brotherhood and the campuses in the West is very very strong.
And so they stopped doing it. The UAE said no more money. We will not send any more
money. I don't know if this goes to the US as well, but it probably should.
But they will not send any more money for their young men and women to go get educated with degrees at in the UK and
and I believe other European countries as well. So, you can see where that where that tie is really something very real
uh between the universities and and the Islamists. And so, they're they're being very very careful about it. And and I so
I want to touch on this is kind of setting the stage here for this idea of wokeness dying.
17 minutesAnd I I remember uh James Lindsay several years ago. This is someone I have followed for years. I've had him on
the show, but he's someone who really has his ear to the ground on things woke, right? He he's the first person I
heard talking about the dangers of wokeness entering into the right politically. Uh and sure enough, we we
this is what has happened, right? It has entered in with what we would actually call toxic masculinity and other areas of anti-semitism.
This is uh this is happening on the right and and we can see the evolution of this happening even moving a little bit into the mainstream a little bit if
you look at certain uh certain podcasters, right? And so you have a a
uh an individual that that that has his ear to the ground. Yet I remember him
saying way back in about 2020ish 2021 that that wokeism was dead. That it
was dying. It was going away. And I thought to myself, you know, James, the problem is is you haven't been in this game long enough. You haven't been
sitting on the side of the train track watching this progressive train go by, seeing how fast it is and understanding
what it would take to actually slow it down. And you think because a couple of events have happened in a in a dialectic
movement that have pulled back a little bit in that dialectic, you think that it's dying. Well, of course, he's come
back and said, "No, it it's not." And and you get the same thing from several authors that have that have talked about this. This isn't true. I mean, wokeness
is on the rise. It is it is not as prevalent in the news media because everyone's kind of holding back
and waiting for them to get Trump out of office is what's happening. And the I the fact that Trump actually is in office and he actually does do something
19 minutesabout gender identity and LGBTQ issues and and and race issues and etc. where
he's actually making improvements on things I believe right a lot of things I don't like with him but but in those
areas I think there's been a strong improvement I think they've focused very much on this then it seems that through government
programs and executive orders that the wokeness has has died down to some degree the problem is is down below the
cancer is growing still growing greatly and It's it's just look at the universities look at look at the numbers
of with academia and and and the faculty who is being hired still. Uh it's it's
not going away. It's not going away. It never went away. There there's a little bit of a different uh you know faceelift
that's been given to the movement because of government.
But outside of that, you know, you've got a little bit of a ripple effect from that those government changes right now. But what happens when
you you have a honestly a Democrat that comes into office where what who's getting supported by those that wants to
push a woke agenda. It's never gone away and it's not going to go away. You can fight it. Fine. I should fight it. I
want to fight it. I do fight it. But it's it's not going to go away on either side. I don't think on either side of the aisle is it going going to go away.
So, let's talk a second about this. Here we've got Tyler Cowan who wrote for the free press here
uh put an article out very recently yesterday. Okay? And this is what Tyler
Cowan says on the free press. He says, "Wokeness has peaked. What follows is worse."
So again, what he wrote an article several years ago saying, I think in 2022, four years ago, saying that
wokeness was dying. So now he's trying to say, well, wokeness already peaked, but now what's coming next is is worse.
No, it's the same thing. He's just trying to steal man his own argument for wokeness peaking and then now something
worse is coming. No, it's just the new iteration. There's always a new iteration of this. It's a virus that that obvious
uh always adapts to and and and becomes inoculated to some degree against the new arguments
and truths that are pushed against it and it changes words and it uses new words, new ideas, new mediums. Uh that's all it is. It's the same thing.
Okay, this is what he says about the waves of violence. And this has to do with uh what happened in San Diego too.
He says, "Today's wave of political violence reveals how much of the left has shifted from shaming its opponents to taking
more overt action." So the idea is that it's moving from shaming, which is very powerful. It happens
within our church all the time. You're afraid to say something. Oh, do I bring up the family proclamation?
Do I bring up gender roles?
do you know what who am I going to offend you know there's a tactful way to do these things and it should be done
tactfully but but that shame is very very powerful and it's it is it is going
to get stronger and stronger I believe right this is Lehi's vision this is Lehi's dream of the great and spacious building but let's go over this
here for a second here early in this article early in 2022 I argued that wokeism had peaked at the
time. That suggestion was met with a mix of skepticism and hostility as wokeism still seemed to bring rising to many people to be rising to many people.
Corporate boards were still adopting racial equity audits, for example, and young employees were pressuring companies to adopt progressive stances.
Now, things have changed in that area, right? Again, there's a dialectic. That's how you have to look at this.
There's a dialectic where you have progress, and I'm going to use progress as progressivism. the way that they would look at it because that's what
progressivism is. Progressivism is simply using the Hegelian dialectic and understanding that and pushing forward
toward a utopia, right? It is cultural evolution. That's how they view the world. And so anytime there is a
pullback a from what they're trying to accomplish, it's very difficult for them to handle it because it's a pull away
from what they view as a cultural evolution toward utopia, right? But the dialectic always plays a role in this. And the dialectic is this.
24 minutesIt says, okay, well, the progressives are going to push way out here, way out beyond the norm. and and they're going
to maybe have a little bit of a hold there for a little bit, but they can't quite hold it completely, but the rest of the world moves up a little bit here
toward the center between the two the two points. So, you have a thesis and then you push forward to a antithesis or
anti-thesis and then you end up synthesizing to a new place that is toward that progressive point of view.
And that's what we've been doing for decades in the United States.
Right? And now you have a new status quo, a new world view of things. And then progressivism goes out and reaches
out further. That seems ludicrous and crazy and they push it and they push it through several different means and and
they can't hold it all the way out there, but the general population moves a little toward them and now you've got a new status quo.
That's that's how it works. and and so they have a view of cultural evolution in a way that is uh you know moving
toward utopia whereas the gospel for example does not see cultural evolution and and it it's it's diffusionism it's
the opposite is everything was given to Adam over time branches broke off from that one
central truth around the gospel of Jesus Christ restored scripture tells us that and it breaks off and there's apostasy
and there's corruption, perversion, changes that happen to these things. You can see this in ancient near east
religion, right? Where there are some central things that are good and then there's this perversion of different gods and and and different ideas and a
lack of repentance and a lack of a savior, right? And and so there's diffusionism.
And so what ends up happening is we end up with dispensationalism where now a prophet and his partner and
his wife are now going to be holding everything up and going through hell quite frankly to bring back a
restoration of the priesthood authority and of the truth of the gospel.
And then from there that strength and everything that's poured out in that new dispensation, the dispensation is
dispensing of priesthood authority and dispensation of the truth, right? The
keys and the truth, the gospel plan, and it builds out and grows and grows
and grows. And then spiritual atrophy comes in and takes over and and and now you've got factions and different groups
and problems arise and and you've left the truth. And in every case that we know of, it's always left the truth.
It's always left the core principles behind. And and so it's, you know, whether whether it's leaving out Christ
or whether it's changing Christ into something that he's not.
and which we've seen happen in most of Christianity.
So, it's it's the the progressive movement is a is a dialectic that's always moving forward in a what what
they would view as archaic and immature civilization
filled with things like religion and myth.
moving all the way up to a point of secularism and academia of course holding the
banner of that secularism and moving toward the final frontier right the utopia that is looked for those are the
two different competing movements and that's a reality that's and that may not be in everybody's mind but that's
the way things are happening right as God looks down and sees he sees those two things apostasy restoration, dispensationalism
versus the dialectic of heaven of of of cultural evolution, civil civil
revolution and and evolution. So, when you've been around long enough and you've stood on the side of the train
track and you've seen the locomotive pulling and going at a high speed for a very long time, even though it hits some
hills, it is still moving forward. And as soon as it hits that hill, it goes downhill after that and picks up more speed.
And so you have people that look out, look on this, and usually they're from the left originally because they so they've been on the train. They don't they haven't watched it go by them.
They've been on the train and haven't noticed it, right? Relativity. They haven't noticed it because they've been
on it. And and so that's that's what I think we're getting here from Tyler Cowan in this. Let me go a little
further in this article. He says, "If we fast forward to May 2026, my prediction seems pretty good. Wokeism is hardly
gone as a visit to most universities still can demonstrate, but it does seem to have peaked in 2022 or so." It
depends on what you're talking about. Is there been a push back on say for example men and women's sports? Yes. And
you're getting laws put into place. you have dransition a dransitioning center being uh put into built and put into uh
the state of Texas right now. So there are things that are going there but just remember the dialectic little bit of pullback here and there and then keep
moving forward right that's that's how it works. He says President Donald Trump has been reelected and the Republicans hold a trifecta in government which is a
big reason for this. Universities have retreated from cancel culture and diversity, equity and inclusion. A lot of that has to do with law and funding.
Look at the University of Utah. It's it's about funding.
Elon Musk bought Twitter now X and shifted its content sharply to the right. The media in general have moved right.
If you're talking about a I I I would question that quite a bit. As far as the legacy media, I do not think it has
moved at all. In fact, it's gone further to the left. So when you say the media, I think what you're saying is is you've got now podcasts that are let loose from
a a straight jacket of this is what you're going to say. This is the story we're going to put up. This is the
headline. These are the words. These are the rallying cries we're going to put out as propaganda to the citizens.
So I don't think that's true. All right.
Which includes more libertarian Washington Post. There has been a change there. But again, the free press is independent. That's been a big difference, right? They are independent.
31 minutesThey don't have to worry about the constraints of Barry Weiss doesn't have to worry about the constraints of her former employer at the New York Times.
He goes on and says, "The political left itself stopped seeing wokeism as a vote winner. I think that's BS." Sorry. You mean like Mom Donnie?
That's as far as you can get. That that just isn't true. There's going to be a backlash from the left on all of this
and and and everything that all of the executive orders, every all of the laws being changed. You've got remember right now you have got a a conservative
president. You have a conservative Senate. You have a conservative House of Representatives. You have a conservative bench for the Supreme Court.
your your that's a major part of all of this, right? It's a major part of all of it
because you got everything from executive orders and the propaganda because it is propaganda. You may like it, but it's propaganda from the
executive branch all the way over to law with the Senate and the House and then
codifying the law with the Supreme Court in their final decisions.
So that definitely makes a difference in things if things shift.
What's going to be let loose? I I honestly believe that the left will say after Donald Trump, if they were to get
back into office and get power in at least a couple of those branches, then what is going to happen there,
right, is they're going to say, "We will never let this happen again." in that dialectic, we will never be pulled that far back again by government.
And in order to accomplish that, we're going to have to do X, Y, and Z. And they're going to be more overt than they've ever been before.
And and I don't and they they have the ground force to do that. They have the alliances to do that.
Now, he says here, and this is where I'm going to disagree. If wokeism has dwindled, what has replaced it?
Years ago, I worried that wokeism might be followed by something worse. It's the same people, Tyler. It's the same people. It's the same mantra.
I fear we are now moving to a new culture of anger and resentment.
You think there was an anger and resentment with wokeism?
It is important to distinguish between the positive side of wokeism and the unreasonable side.
What he's talking about here is he's talking about the message of compassion and empathy that is given and the
tolerance of things that are that that supply some good change. The problem is is that is never the final message and that's never the actual objective.
Equity is not even first of all equity is a horrific horrific principle.
Horrific principle. It is it that is everything everything about equity has to do with the war in heaven the premortal world. It's the same thing.
It's all about equity. A forced equity by a removal of agency.
And that's never really the end goal. I mean look at women right now. the the the goal of social justice for women to
have them what? Represented more in education, to have them represented more in certain fields of of work, to have them more out in the career workplace.
We're not we're not even at we're moving beyond this. I mean, boys don't flourish in school anymore. Girls do. You're at a
6040 split in education. In higher education, for every man in higher
education, there are 1.5 women in education, right? Every man in education, higher
education, there are one there's 1.5 women in education. We now have the latest news about women up to a certain
age, younger women are now being paid more than men. We're turning everything on its head.
And and some of you will say, "Good.
That's equity. That is that's what we want it to go." No, it doesn't stop there. It keeps going and it keeps going. Where are the individuals pushing
for equity and saying that we want men to be as represented in higher education as women? Why Why aren't those same
individuals who were fighting for an equitable position in in in education, why aren't they fighting for men now?
Because equity is not the real goal.
Equity is the real goal when you have a minor position in something and then once you have achieved that or beyond
that it is not equity anymore. You cannot say equity in that in that position. What you now say are women's
rights or you go back in history and say well look at all the history we have to make up for.
It's not equity. That that is not the final goal. It never is. its power. So Tyler says here in the article, the
positive side of wokeism supported gay rights and discouraged racism in the public sphere. I would like him to give
examples of this, how wokeism helped to do this. I I I as far as gay rights, it depends on what gay rights you're
talking about. again, are we moving beyond something that is universal rights, constitutional rights,
where where you're lifting one group up higher with additional rights than any other group? That's not that's not a constitutional uh I'm not going to say it's
anti-constitutional, but I am going to say it's not a it's not a constitutional principle of universal rights.
The unreasonable side, he says, brought us cancel cultural culture, stifled discussion, insisted on very particular views of race and gender identity,
boosted DEI and other race discriminatory policies, and generally made America a more intolerant place,
right? Tolerance that that mantra of tolerance always ends up being intolerance because ultimately it's
power that is looked for. He goes on here to say, well, what is happening now? The forces behind wokeism no longer command so much of public attention and
respect when they argue about terms and pronouns. Instead, left adjacent movements have arisen with a contrasting
emphasis on action and often action of a terrible sort. This is false. There was always action in place. This hasn't
changed at all. Nothing here has changed. It's just they're they're reaching a little bit further on their own objectives. They're reaching out
further because that's what the dialectic does.
He gives the example of California considering an unworkable tax on billionaires in the state, one that even
most left-leaning Democratic politicians do not support. It might nevertheless pass through via a referendum.
So this is this is just like mom Donny's, you know, tax the rich. That's what we're going to do. And look at all the success we're having because you
know, as if this hasn't been tried before, because we're taxing the rich more, which is bollocks. It It's
ridiculous. I mean, take a look at a chart here.
This chart shows you who pays taxes and how much of the tax burden is given to se different groups of wealthy
individuals. Right? So, the top 1% 1% in the country right now pays 38.4% of federal taxes.
The top 1% pays 38.4% of taxes.
If you go to the top 10%, they cover double. 70.5%
39 minutesof all of federal taxes are paid by the top 10% uh wage earners each year.
Top 20%. We go to an 8020 rule right here. Well, you're at 82.5%.
All federal taxes are paid by the top 20%.
Now, how about those that are at the lower end of the tax burden? The bottom
50% the bottom 50% of wage earners pay 3.3% of federal taxes.
So here's a question is the question is is how far do you want to go to put that burden on the rich
right the billionaires you're going to go further uh on this this of course doesn't include their state tax and and other other issues of social security
issues with their companies and etc etc how how how far are we going to go with this how far how much further is good do
we go to 50% 50% of the of the federal taxes go to the 1% top 1% and
and the top 10% are they going to go to 80% of the total federal tax base or tax revenue.
It's it's it's a preposterous idea to to to say we're going to push this even further. That does not help growth. That doesn't do anything.
it it's you're taking from a very small 1% group of people to try and increase the tax base more
and and it affects very few people so it's easier to pass it's easier to get done right
he's also got this this is again I it's it's it's a false premises that he's saying here as if none of these things were being done
before of these different ideas he he's he's steelmanning his position from four years ago. He says, "Or take
another example. Senator Bernie Sanders wants to halt the progress of AI using the law if necessary. And in the meantime, he and others of the
progressive left are undercutting the construction of new data centers." It's interesting you see what's going on in Utah right now. There are different reasons for most of the opposition of
the data centers in there than than what Bernie Sanders has to offer. Right. The ideology, this is interesting, of third worldism is on the rise. And it takes
the form of anti-semitic demonstrations and concrete violent attacks on individual Jews or groups of Jews who
appear in predictable locations such as going to and from synagogues or in Jewish neighborhoods. Such attacks have
risen steadily. Now, what we saw today in the news from yesterday on the three uh Muslims that were killed at a mosque
is is a a is a crazy person's reaction to to maybe some of this and what's
going on here. It's usually going the other way. It's not good either way. Either way is completely unacceptable.
So, what he's saying here is are things that in one way or another. I mean, AI is very new. So of course in 2022 you weren't talking much about it but as it
has matured and become more a part of most people's lives then yeah you can start talking about that and and and we understand the future of AI and how
people are concerned about that. He goes on with the new culture of assassinations which is very concerning and yes it comes mostly from the left
very concerning about what's happening there. Uh I would say that what happened in San Diego was almost certainly from
the right. I don't know but almost certainly from the right in in that case and this is also false what he claims
here I I I don't like this statement at all he says the older wokeism reflected stronger female influences with its use
of collective social pressures social media adds to this immensely women are much more on social media and and have a
little bit more of that mindset than men do that collectivism than men do and it's obsessions over in groups and out groups.
Uh that definitely, you know, putting a much higher percentage of women into the workforce and into positions of
leadership. If you think that didn't have anything to do with wokeism and DEI and everything else that's going on in the in corporate America, then you have
your head in the sand, right? I And again, I have no issue with everybody having an equal opportunity at jobs and
careers and and everything else. I'm just stating a fact that is the primary reason for wokeism entering into the
corporate world which used to be a much more of a conservative haven uh as an industry compared to all of the
rest of the industries that that in religion both of business and religion now are infiltrated completely completely.
the new approaches of pessimism, confrontation, and violence have more masculine overtones. No, most
I I I completely disagree with this. Uh if you look at the protests from the left, you're going to you're not going to see more men pushing these things
than you are women in their aggression and blowing the whistles and getting in people's faces and spitting on them and everything else. You're not going to see
that. In this regard, much of society, including the more radical political left, is shifting toward fa fascist fascistic approaches and away from
touchyfey universalism. This guy has got his head in the sand. You're telling me that wokeism during the BLM riots was a touchyfey universalism?
The these people that come from this background where they have not been on the side of the train tracks watching it go, they they have no idea what they're saying. no clue what they're saying.
This guy has no idea what he's saying.
Uh he he sees a short frame of of a few years and decides that wokeism is dead and has no context whatsoever on this.
Wokeism unfortunately is not dead and it's going to come back even stronger. I believe he's saying this as well. It's going to come back even stronger and in
a worse iteration. That's the way it works. That's the way the dialectic works. And and and moving forward, we should be aware of that. That doesn't
mean that you give up. That doesn't mean that you are a doomsdayer. It means that you're aware of the way culture evolves.
And and our certain culture is evolving in one direction with some dialectic push back here and there. Religion is an
example, right? Religion attendance is up throughout Christianity uh and within the church as well, right? And and more
men are returning to religion. That is a push back. something that's happened as a reaction as they look for some kind of belonging in a very feminized world. So
there are positives, right, that we look to and and we see in this dialectic. But if you think that it's not going to keep pushing forward or that wokeism died at
some point, um I think your head's in the sand. I really do. What do you think? Put it in the comments. We'll talk to you later.