Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Joe Rogan DESTROYS Woke Culture!" video.

  1. I remember in the '60s and '70s, when the free expression crowd all ended up looking, talking, and dressing alike. They were trying to be bold and be different, but they all ended up more conformist than the establishment they rejected. Now, that generation is the new establishment, and for all its protestations to the contrary, is more conformist and authoritarian than their extremely permissive parents. The thing about so-called "progressivism" is that everything it stands for hearkens back to the principles operating during very regressive, authoritarian days, when the king's word was law, and all of his minions were free to run roughshod over us peasants, at will, by law. They put pretty words around it, but it all boils down to "We, the political class, will 'take care of you,' and you, in your turn, will obey us in all things, even silly things (like wearing masks during COVID)." True liberalism, with minimalist government, IS the innovation. The ball really got rolling with Locke and Hobbes, in the Age of Enlightenment, about 300 years ago, culminating in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, which was the first and remains the only constitution with anything like a Bill of Rights. No other nation has that, and the political class would love to take that away from us, starting with the right to criticize the government, and the right to keep and bear arms right behind THAT.
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  2. Whatever you think of Graham Hancock, our species dates back a long time, and there's a lot of our history buried under the ground and especially under the water. Whatever you think of Noah's Ark, it wasn't that long ago that we were ALL flooded out, if we lived very close to sea level during the ice age(s), and it stands to reason that most of us DID live closer to the sea than farther from it. Fish protein from an easy source might be why we have big brains! But even if only SOME of us lived close to the ocean, the flooding that took place after the end of the last ice age inundated any and every civilization in that zone, and it stands to reason that it would be the richest zone of human activity during the last ice age. For all we know, there may be more than one ice-age-and-interglacial period on our back trail, but have no evidence for it because we've never spent much time looking, offshore.
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  3. "Cultural appropriation" as a BAD thing is the crazy part. Appropriating features of another culture used to be called "learning" and a show of respect to the culture from which you were appropriating things. Do we deny all races every invention by white people? Of course not! Do we abandon Arabic numerals because they're "owned" by Arabs? Of course not! We see something good, we adopt it! Disrespecting someone for adding layers to their identities from other cultures is just plain stupid.
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