Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Leading the Counter-Woke Revolution | Konstantin Kisin | EP 333" video.

  1. "I'm not saying you must do these things, I'm not your dad" That's hilarious Konstantin, you just gave the whole game away by admitting that there was somebody who had the role of requiring good actions of someone.
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  2. "We live in a society where adults are afraid to stand up and tell young people what they need to hear." Absolutely. The "Generation Gap" between the experience of the Depression / War generation, and the Boomers, meant that the Boomers couldn't understand what their parents were teaching them. The Boomers don't have what's necessary to pass down, too much of GenX is similarly ignorant, and Millennials have gone off the deep end. We're in a world where the Kipling poems "If" and "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" need to be read and re-read to young people until they sink in.
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  3. "Young people won't accept anything normative" That's their problem. Norms are normative, and the durable ones typically exist for a reason that makes them difficult to dispense with.
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  4. "There are no solutions, only trade-offs" That's a function of growing up. When you're small and still getting the hang of life, you have to learn all the no-brainer solutions, or at least the situations where the trade-offs are so absurdly one-sided as to make them solutions. As you get older, the marginal value of the remaining trade-off choices get smaller and smaller, and your information gets less and less reliable. Eventually you get to adulthood where you're stuck with the most difficult questions where moving forward in one direction hurts someone who doesn't want to be hurt. This doesn't mean that new things don't crop up where there really is a solution, but that's a whole lot more rare than you'd like.
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  5. "If two cans of Coke are the same, are they connected?" Sure, they were both created by the same logic.
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  6. "Conservatives can't be afraid to say what they're for" Ah, Konstantin, but then you accuse us of "theocracy".
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  7. "You can't just be normative and declare you must have children, people respond to the incentives in front of them" 1. Not all norms are uniformly "must". Not all have, or ought to have, the force of law. 2. Sometimes you have to awaken people to proper incentives -- I'm reasonably certain you'd agree that sometimes people are too aware of the incentives of booze or drugs, and not aware enough of the incentives of hard work.
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  8. "The religious narrative is that the planet is a helpless female facing a ra*acious humanity, and individuals are nothing but parasites on it" If a baby is never born, never leaves the womb, then there is a problem here. We need to extend beyond Earth. The greens would have us ab*rted, or at least st*angle ourselves in our cradle.
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  9. "To be a scientist you have to pursue the truth above all else" No, to be a scientist you have to reject faith above all else. You can't be a scientist if you just go around believing in things. It's a radical skepticism, a Socratic knowing-you-know-nothing, which often leads you do something closer to the truth. However, "Science" has been so successful that even if your instrumentation is bad or insufficient, if your computer programs are trying to model something that can't be modeled, or if an unequivocal experiment simply isn't designable, "scientists" still claim to know "The Truth". Wir mussen wissen as Hilbert asserted, without evidence... only ignoramus et ignorabimus is still with us.
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  10. "Hypnosis lets you change your identity" It lets you try on your understanding of a different persona. "Identity" is bunk. You are not identical to anything or anyone else, and what is uniquely "you" is a stack of a whole bunch of other things that would take your lifetime to describe.
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  11. "When you start talking about family you start talking about the normative point of view, you must have children" You do realize, don't you, that the trade-off for not having children is the collapse of your society? Since I have a stake in that, I'm perfectly comfortable establishing that as a norm. What we do about those who do not follow the norm, is an interesting question. There's a huge spectrum, from the absurd extreme of e**cution, to coercive participation, to justified disincentives like depriving the childless of old age benefits, to taxing them at the level of expense of 2.1 children, to portraying them as villains in popular media, to denying them any socially acceptable access to s*x, to merely lecturing them about duty, to neglecting to represent them at all in popular constructive media. The distance up that spectrum we should embrace, should depend on the degree to which we've fallen below a 2.1 replacement rate. The idea that we're not enforcing this norm at all, is a predictable disaster that future societies will see as one of this era's most foolish ideas.
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  12. "The Christian apocalypse is a spiritual reality that occurs in some heavenly place" - You need to read CS Lewis' "Doctrine of the World's Last Night" "For what comes is Judgment: happy are those whom it finds labouring in their vocations, whether they were merely going out to feed the pigs or laying good plans to deliver humanity a hundred years hence from some great evil. The curtain has indeed now fallen. Those pigs will never in fact be fed, the great campaign against White Slavery or Governmental Tyranny will never in fact proceed to victory. No matter; you were at your post when the Inspection came." Also, from Lewis' "Living in an Atomic Age" “In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.’ In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty. This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
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  13. "We need five Earths to support everyone at the level that we currently enjoy" Prof. John Lewis (author of "Mining the Sky") did a rough calculation of the carrying capacity of nearby planets and asteroids, and determined that we could support about 400 quadrillion people at an American standard of living, using the resources of our solar system. So the good news is, we have billions of Earth's worth of resources available, whenever we bother to develop the technology to put it to use.
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  14. "I don't need a middleman to deal with God" Do you truly contain all the universe though, to the extent you have nothing to learn (including about God) from another perspective?
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