0:00:00 - 0:00:29 So from time to time, there's a um a confluence of uh stimuli in the news or in uh the events in my personal life or whatever the case may be. And I see a theme that suggests that there's material that I could produce, that does not require the volume of information that I'm gathering in these books 0:00:29 - 0:00:55 that have not been published and does not overlap totally with what I've already published. Uh And in those cases, I will write a blog post or make a video. In this case, the confluence of topics surrounds uh young people and particularly this, this video is particularly directed to parents, although 0:00:55 - 0:01:28 I think it would be beneficial for anyone to hear. Um And maybe particularly uh their Children to hear. Um So, um let's start with this idea of, of consequences um in the wealthy nations, people in the wealthy nations um are largely drunk on delusion I think is the only way you could say it in terms 0:01:28 - 0:01:57 of their worldviews and their views of themselves and others. It's, it's basically as wrong as it could be, as incorrect as it could be. And part of that delusion is a total inability to correctly see and foresee consequences. So to accurately um measure the consequences of past decisions and to accurately 0:01:56 - 0:02:25 foresee the consequences of decisions before us. Currently, it's an enormous problem and the reason this is so hard is because reality is complex and the complexity of reality continues to increase. Rather, our exposure to the complexity of reality continues to increase as we march through the end times 0:02:24 - 0:03:00 which have already begun. And uh it's extraordinarily important for people to increase their ability to contend with the complexity in our world. Part of this will be through direct changes uh in their way of seeing and interacting with the world. But the larger part will come from changing the way they 0:03:00 - 0:03:36 see other people and changing the way they interact with other people. Particularly what I mean by this is in order to fare better in this world, people need to learn how to see the folks who are wiser than they are and they need to react to them differently than they do. And they also need to react 0:03:35 - 0:04:08 differently to the people who are equally or less wise than them, much differently than they do today. And none of these points are palatable to people who are not wise. And so it's this catch 22 in a sense. So if you are wise, then you recognize desire, search out and accept wisdom that exceeds your 0:04:08 - 0:04:38 own. If you are a fool, you do not. And that's what makes you a fool and that's what makes you wise, right? Because all of these things flow down from heaven. And so in its maximal um in its maximal manifestation. What we're talking about is accessing God's wisdom, which is far above our own indescribably 0:04:37 - 0:05:14 far but perceiving, seeking and receiving his wisdom. And that cascades through all creation down through all people and things to you and to me and wherever we are in this hierarchy of wisdom, and it is a hierarchy, we've ascended to our point that we occupy through seeking, perceiving, receiving in 0:05:14 - 0:05:54 valuing the wisdom that has flown. Uh yeah, flown to us, flowed, not flown, flowed to us from above. So um so there's that and that is a really big deal that I'll speak much more about later. I'm gonna lay it all out. But for now, uh the specific thing I want to talk about is young people. So um before 0:05:53 - 0:06:16 we get there though, just a little bit more in this preamble. So the Lord said in Luke 735 he said wisdom is justified of all her Children. And so one way that you can begin to increase the accuracy of your model of who has wisdom and how much they have, which you probably don't even have a model right 0:06:16 - 0:06:38 now. See the overwhelming the the prevailing presumption in the modern world is that we're all equal in terms of interchangeable. We're all interchangeable it doesn't matter who's making the decisions, it'll all go the same way. Now that's blatantly false on its face. Um It's so false that no one would 0:06:38 - 0:07:08 say that, but almost everyone almost always behaves that way. So I could talk for a very long time about that. But um we'll try to keep things short here. But what the Lord was saying, Luke 735 he's saying basically, you, you measure wisdom in reverse, you look in the rearview mirror and see how things 0:07:08 - 0:07:36 have gone and you adjust your model. So as we proceed through the end times, the distinctions between people continue to increase in intensity and in obviousness, that is a very, very important idea. As we proceed through the end times, distinctions between people will continue to increase in intensity 0:07:35 - 0:08:09 and obviousness. There's a false understanding that somehow this flow of light is going to be like the sun shining on everyone. I say it's false in some ways. That's true. But in most ways that you would imagine it's false. It's a flow through people. It's not a situation where um a lot of people just 0:08:08 - 0:08:35 randomly somehow know more about God than they did before. It's a flow through people. It has always been this way when you understand the pattern which I have not even attempted to lay out here. I'm just touching on points and those with ears will hear, but most of you will not understand this. Uh for 0:08:34 - 0:09:09 quite some time to come if you ever get there. But um it's a flow through people and it's always been that way. So it's important to look for these distinctions and to change your perspectives and how you behave based on them. So let me give you some very practical examples. We depending on how old you 0:09:09 - 0:09:40 are. So I was just coming into adulthood in 2008 when the financial collapse happened. What I mean by that was I was old enough to have an accurate sense of what was going on. And what happened was there were just a few people, none of them were in charge of the financial circumstances of the country 0:09:39 - 0:10:04 , but there were just a few people who were saying, sounding the alarm saying we're going to have a collapse, we're going to have a collapse, we're going to have a collapse. Maybe I should say crash, we're gonna have a crash and no one listened. And then when that happened, all of the experts after the 0:10:04 - 0:10:31 fact said, how could we have known this was coming? And not only did they not see it coming? Uh People like Ben Bernanke said that uh it absolutely would not happen. So, OK, so the pattern here is that the experts have no clue. The the people that are publicly accepted as experts have no clue. And then 0:10:30 - 0:10:50 the catastrophe happens. And then after the fact, all those supposed experts turn back and say, well, who could have known it was impossible and why do I say that's a pattern? Well, just recently, I'm just using recent things. If I took more time, we could lay out a lot more of these. What about the 0:10:50 - 0:11:19 hyperinflation we're currently facing? What about the COVID crisis? What about the potential of war with Russia and China? People? Were, there are people who called out these things before they happen? They said these things are going to happen and the experts all said these things will never happen 0:11:19 - 0:11:55 . Who was right? Not the experts. So here's the real question as each of these things happened. How did you adjust the credibility you place in those who got it right? For most people, there is no change for most people. You still see those pseudo experts as experts. You still see those quote unquote 0:11:55 - 0:12:26 no name, people who called these things, you still see them as people who aren't worth your time to listen to or seek out. Um It can go, well, I won't get into that. Um Now there are some who are finally beginning to change their, their maps of credibility. Uh I've seen so I've, I read comment boards 0:12:25 - 0:12:45 on news articles. That's, that's one place I take the pulse of what people are thinking, at least what they're publicly admitting. But you know, a lot of these things are anonymous and so people don't hold back but, and, and you see, you see a lot of people lately and they say, well, I got, I got the 0:12:45 - 0:13:10 COVID shot and I got boosted and I'll never trust these folks again and I'll never get another one. Well, that's great. But when these things happen, those adjustments, you have to wonder what, which is, it is great. I don't want to downplay that, but you have to ask whether it's too little, too late 0:13:10 - 0:13:35 . So, if you had a heart attack and you died because you got the shot, it's a little too late for you to adjust your perspectives, right? Um Even if it's not, you, so say you're a parent and you believe the hype and you made your kid get the shot or you allowed your kid to get the shot and your kid dropped 0:13:34 - 0:14:02 dead or your kid's handicapped for life. Um Even if they're still alive, your life is vastly reduced in quality and joy and you can't go back and change that. So whatever the circumstances might be, the question becomes, how many more opportunities are you going to get? So, wouldn't it be nice if you 0:14:02 - 0:14:35 could just flip a switch? And um you had this wonderful, wonderfully accurate map of credibility. Well, there is no path for that unfortunately, but what we can do is we can vastly increase the, the the accuracy of our estimation of credibility if we just respond as it corresponds to what has been shown 0:14:35 - 0:00:00 . So if we just start responding more aligned with the value of the evidence provided. So nothing crazy, nothing radical. Nothing out of scope. Just do what makes sense and stop doing the things that don't that, you know. Oh gosh, there's a good quote. It's one of the old ones now, I can't remember. 0:00:00 - 0:15:33 But the paraphrase, someone can put it in the comments. You guys are sleuths. But the paraphrase is um when everyone's insane sane advice sounds insane or something like that, it's, it's phrased much better, but that's the idea. And uh I think most of the things I say are um considered quite radical 0:15:32 - 0:15:58 . And in this case, that's kind of hilarious because what I'm saying is just do what makes sense and don't do what doesn't make sense. And that's faith and I differ from everybody in the world unless they heard me say it and agree. But uh in my definition of faith, it's just doing what you have evidence 0:15:58 - 0:16:21 to do. It's reconciling to what you have evidence for. And other people define that usually the opposite way, which is that faith is the reason you do things when you don't have a reason to do them. And uh of course, that is not in any way based uh in anything God has said about it, but that's just their 0:16:21 - 0:16:47 way of wrapping their heads around their religions that don't make any sense anyway, as we proceed into the end times more and more of the choices people make will lead to larger and larger irreversible consequences. I'll say that one again, more and more of the choices people make will lead to larger 0:16:46 - 0:17:20 and larger irreversible consequences. And so it behooves you to learn how to make better choices. And the most important choice you can learn to make is choosing who you're listening to. Wisdom is known by her Children. Wisdom is justified of all her Children. So you, you see wisdom through seeing the 0:17:20 - 0:17:47 consequences of it. That's how you find out who has it. And we ought to be choosing our actions based on the proven credibility of the sources of the idea. Instead, people are, are, are mostly floating down the, the stream of what everyone else has, has always done or is doing right now because in a 0:17:47 - 0:18:08 lot of ways, what people are doing right now is vastly different from what they used to do. And then they're surprised when they end up at the same place as everyone else. If you don't like how everything is turning out for everyone else, you need to do something different. Now, you get to choose what 0:18:08 - 0:18:32 , what you're going to do different differently. And you can also choose whether you need to invent that idea yourself or just take it from someone who's already figured it out. And if you limit yourself to the ideas that you come up with yourself, you're not going to have a very good life first off 0:18:31 - 0:18:56 you'll be naked because I'm not sure anyone out there knows how to run a loom these days by hand. You'll also starve to death quite quickly because very few people make all of their own food. So you see where I'm going with this, right? It's kind of absurd. Two apply ideas. Unequally. I had a conversation 0:18:55 - 0:19:28 with a native American once who was raging about how, um, white folks should not, um, steel elements of his culture. And I said that's interesting. I see you're wearing blue jeans and you drove here in a car. And thus we see why Rob doesn't have many friends, but we don't have to let people be ridiculous 0:19:27 - 0:19:58 . We should call them out on it when they say stupid things. And that's how we make the world a better place. The only way you can advance to the wisdom you need to overcome the world within the time you have to do so is by finding sources of greater wisdom, life is short for everyone. But in the end 0:19:58 - 0:20:22 times, in a way, it's as if life is shorter because even if the number of years isn't reduced, but for almost everyone, it will be the content of those years is vastly different than generations prior because like I said, more and more of your choices will lead to larger and larger irreversible consequences 0:20:21 - 0:20:46 . And so now more than ever, we see it's always been the case, but now more than ever the only way you can advance to the wisdom you need to overcome the world within the time you have to do so is to find it in someone who already has it. You don't have time to re invent the wheel. You don't have time 0:20:45 - 0:21:14 to figure out, um, everything inside of a modern computer and how to make that yourself on a desert island. Right. I'm speaking, uh, analogously, but you get the point. It's absurd to think that somehow you, you can just summon this stuff out of whole cloth. It's not the way it works. And I'm gonna explain 0:21:13 - 0:21:34 this much more at length later. But the fact is is that we all stand on the shoulders of giants. Um or at least we could. And for some weird reason, some of us prefer just standing on the ground. In fact, most people do and then to make matters much worse, they also insist that they can see everything 0:21:34 - 0:22:07 that those giants can see. And again, what the giants are saying is come stand on my shoulders, not let me stand on you, right? All right. Unpopular ideas. So one of the problems is that people in wealthy nations are glutted in the prosperity that we basically are drowning in. We are glutted by prosperity 0:22:06 - 0:22:32 that we did not earn. An interesting filter to apply on the population of the planet right now is how many people deserve the circumstances they live in. How many people have earned the circumstances they live in. I think that the number of people in the United States for whom. That's true. Yeah, I mean 0:22:31 - 0:23:01 , it sounds crazy. It might be single digits. Very, very, very few as a percentage. Almost everyone doesn't have even just a little bit but is, like, dipped in a bucket chock full of prosperity they did not earn and because of this they're numb to the fact that they're woefully incapable of seeing the 0:23:01 - 0:23:33 full list of options before them of accurately assessing the cost and the benefit of each of choosing the most beneficial choice of admitting when they make mistakes or of doing what it takes to fix the problems, their mistakes cause that's a lot of issues, isn't it? And no surprise, that's why the world 0:23:32 - 0:23:58 is in such a trashy state at the moment amongst other things. But th this, if you could subtract this out, you wouldn't even recognize the world. That's how big of a problem this cluster of shortcomings is. So if you are not willing or able to do all of these things, you need to find someone who is and 0:23:58 - 0:24:21 you need to learn how to use their wisdom to advance your own. So again, this is standing on the shoulders of giants thing. It's not someone else is gonna make all my decisions for me. That's, that's not the point, right is to advance you. It's like a, it's like using the moon's gravity to slingshot 0:24:20 - 0:24:49 your own rocket ship, you're still flying the ship, you're still in the ship. So instead of doing that, we're actively doing the opposite. So this is one of very many situations where choosing not to decide is actually an illusion. Instead of actively seeking people who have the greatest wisdom, we are 0:24:49 - 0:25:13 actively placing the reins of power into the hands of the least wise among us. We've got a senator right now who can't even show up to work because he can't cope with life. He has failed to discover the most basic requirements of how to cope with life. And yet he was elected to make decisions on behalf 0:25:13 - 0:25:43 of an entire state of people, many of whom are wiser than him demonstrably because they're actually able to face the vicissitudes of life sufficiently to show up to work. So that's pretty dang pathetic and somehow no one's standing up and saying much about it, which says something about them, but it's 0:25:43 - 0:26:19 not just, uh, it's not just psychological invalids that we're handing the reins of power to. It's young people. We have created a monster, a monstrous mob of vicious vacuous people in those under 30 these people think that they know everything there is to know that they're wiser than everyone who's ever 0:26:19 - 0:26:50 lived. And all of this is the case without having done anything that matters and being woefully unable to manage even their own lives. And, uh, that's pretty crazy. And this is the point we're going to dive deeper into for the rest of the video. We ought to be seeking out those who have evidence of success 0:26:49 - 0:27:20 . However, we define that. I think most people assume when you say the word we're talking about money or um material or the world's definition of power, which I think is ridiculous but whatever. Um it's probably better to think in terms of higher definitions of success, like joy or like the ability to 0:27:20 - 0:27:46 cope in spite of the full range of the malevolence that exists in this world. So having light, in spite of the greatest darkness, that's probably a pretty good definition of success when we find people that have evidence of success. However, we define it, we should listen to them more than those who 0:27:46 - 0:28:15 do not have that evidence of success. This path alone, the shift alone would make a drastic difference in the lives of anyone that practiced it. And we ought to be more active in attempting to share what we have found in terms of uh strategies for success in life with those who have been less successful 0:28:14 - 0:28:41 than us. Again, this is a forbidden taboo topic because if we're all interchangeable, then how dare you suggest that you might know something that someone else doesn't or that you might have succeeded in something that other people have not. If you are a parent, then you absolutely have the duty to do 0:28:40 - 0:29:05 this with your Children, the duty, not just the opportunity or the privilege but the duty. It's not an optional thing. It's kind of the main point of being a parent, you need to structure your kids' lives. So as to most persuasively, encourage them to walk in paths that will lead to the greatest outcomes 0:29:04 - 0:29:31 . Why? Because almost no kid can, excuse me, can figure that out for themselves. Almost no kid, it'd be like uh just laying a baby on a rock to see if it survives. It's not gonna end well. And the things that parents are doing to kids today is the functional equivalent of chucking a baby off a cliff 0:29:30 - 0:30:08 and expecting it to end up as a well balanced adult. It's not gonna happen, right. It's not gonna happen except in the case of a phenomenal, phenomenal quality spirit and those are really rare. It turns out. So to parents, I would say it's time to start thinking about life as the Titanic and to realize 0:30:07 - 0:30:38 that this thing has hit an iceberg and the boat is no longer an option. It's time to find out where the lifeboats are and get on it. Get on the lifeboat, start living your life. Reconcile to the fact that the system is collapsing and it's terminal, it's not going to get better. It's just going to keep 0:30:38 - 0:31:04 getting worse. Although there will be times where it gets worse a little slower than other times. So don't get fooled into thinking things are great because all of a sudden inflation pauses its climb. Just look at the cereal boxes and tell me it's the same as it used to be. It's not gonna get, it's not 0:31:04 - 0:31:25 gonna go back. Things didn't go back after 2008 just zooming in on that random thing. Things never got better. They just stopped getting worse for a little while or they slowed down and how bad they were getting for a little while. You know, the bags of chips never went back to pre 2008 times and I'm 0:31:25 - 0:31:56 still grumpy about it. So, and as it stands to the point, the folks who weren't old enough to understand, to experience the world pre 2008, they don't know what they lost out on their normal, started after that. It's the same thing with, with, uh, 911. Yeah, I was old enough when that happened to have 0:31:56 - 0:32:18 a sense of what was before and what was after to anyone who wasn't an adult or close to an adult before the Patriot Act never knew what life was like before. That they don't know what it's like to go through an airport without getting shaken down like you're in a prison and that's the least of the concerns 0:32:17 - 0:32:45 . Right. Um, those who were not old enough before, social media don't know what that was like. And we just don't think about that. That's probably the best example. If you were old enough before that you weren't poisoned by being raised in a time where all your normal functional growth was all disjoint 0:32:44 - 0:33:07 and mangled by social media. And so you grew up as a relatively well adjusted person and you don't realize what you're doing. When you give your little kid a cell phone, you don't realize that you may as well be giving him a needle filled with, filled with heroin and yet you do it, not realizing the 0:33:07 - 0:33:28 consequences of what you're doing until it's too late. And even then people don't seem to get it because if you did get it and maybe the issue is pride. If you don't want to wrap your head around, the fact that you just terminally toxified your kid, people hate condemning their past selves. Unfortunately 0:33:27 - 0:33:52 , it's a huge barrier to repentance. But if you did get what you've done, you'd probably go on a crusade to make sure other people have not done it. I think one of the best examples of this, uh here's two random examples just from my mind. There's a guy whose graduate work was in ecosystems of the African 0:33:52 - 0:34:15 plains or something. And he had this bright idea being a young pseudo scientist that he would, um I guess he vindicated himself and I shouldn't be too hard on him. So we'll call him a young scientist. He had a hypothesis, it got proven wrong and he backtracked. So, um he said that if we want to help 0:34:15 - 0:34:36 the environment in the African plains, we should kill all the elephants because they're trashing the place. And um, elephants do indeed trash the place. They, they trample things and they eat a lot. But, um, so he convinced a whole lot of people that this was the way to go and he's single handedly responsible 0:34:35 - 0:34:53 for, for killing tons of elephants. Uh, because it all happened under his watch. He had this program and that's what they did for years. And he gave a TED talk. It's one of the, it's one of the best TED talks because he, he sets this up like he's gonna give this positive talk about how they changed the 0:34:53 - 0:35:13 world and it was all good and he doesn't, after the setup, he says, oh, I was dead wrong and we made a massive mistake and it's, it's all my fault. And now I'm gonna spend the rest of the talk showing you how we, we, we've um tried to fix our mistake. And the point of the talk was that the best way to 0:35:13 - 0:35:36 re rehabilitate planes is intensive grazing and elephants are really great at that. So, um anyway, it's really interesting. But um, and then the other example I was gonna give is this lady who was an abortionist at Planned Parenthood for whatever span of time. And then it just got to her and she decided 0:35:35 - 0:35:59 this was wrong and she's a very vocal advocate for, um, for, uh, baby's rights and she's an antiabortionist now and she's testified to Congress. She's very public and, um, I think her name is Abby, but I don't remember her full name anyway. Um, this is a great example of, of doing exactly what we should 0:35:59 - 0:36:26 , owning our mistakes, but that's not what we do today. It's very counterculture to admit your failure. So, um, but we, we ought to, we ought to be more focused on changing ourselves than we are on blaming others when things obviously go wrong. The first step is Lord, is it? I, so it's not to point the 0:36:26 - 0:36:49 finger at somebody else. You start with yourself and you say, well, what could I have done better? So is a counterexample of this to show how we're doing the absolute opposite, open the news and look at it and what you're gonna see on any given day, there's a whole cohort of parents who are raging against 0:36:48 - 0:37:12 the system, blaming the system for what is actually their fault. So when you put your kids into public school and then public school outcomes happen to your kid, you should not be surprised and you should not rage against the system. Now, I'm not saying that you shouldn't be advocating for school choice 0:37:12 - 0:37:37 or things like that. That's absolutely a great idea. But you can't turn an evil system into a good system. It doesn't work that way. You have to remove the system and give an alternative because the system is chock full of evil people who want to do evil things and things flow down. You're not going 0:37:37 - 0:38:01 to get a school superintendent and members of a school board and all the teachers who were intentionally generated in an intentionally designed system to be degenerates. You're not gonna magically change that over to a good system. You cannot change something like that from within. You have to do something 0:38:00 - 0:38:23 different. Now, you don't have to be too clever or creative to think of what the difference might be. It's homeschooling some people do private school and that's great if it works for you, whatever. But the natural way of doing things is for mothers to teach their young Children. That's the way it's 0:38:22 - 0:38:48 always been. That's the way it's designed to be. You put your kids into public school and then they end up offering themselves, you have to place the blame where it lies. And this is another very unpopular position. But we need to say things as they actually are. Someone who decides to end their life 0:38:47 - 0:39:16 is the one making the choice. It's the most selfish thing that anyone could ever do. It inflicts much more pain on everyone else than it relieves for the person doing it. And we need to make that clear. It used to be clear. It used to be seen as a massive sign of cowardice. And now it's something that 0:39:16 - 0:39:48 engenders tons of sympathy for, who knows what reason and it encourages people to do it. So the fault lies with the actor. But if you're gonna blame someone else, the first person you should blame is yourself. If you're that child's parent, whatever's not, their fault becomes your fault. First, it's 0:39:47 - 0:40:11 only after you've gone through all of that and assured yourself 100 and 10% that you actually did everything you could do, which if your kid is still in public schools, you probably haven't done, then you get to blame someone else which could be the principal at the school or some kid who said or did 0:40:10 - 0:40:41 something or some random person on tiktok that never even met your kid. It's obscene the way we are shifting around blame in society today, it's obscene. People can get charged with murder because of something they said and then something that person did to themselves as a result. That is absurd. And 0:40:41 - 0:41:11 how do you think the world is going to go as people who believe these absurdities become adults, not just voting, which is scary enough, but in the workplace, in the home, it's a terminal condition. Folks. The things that we have as a society absolutely positively cannot coexist with these beliefs as 0:41:11 - 0:41:47 far as consequences go. You can't get more serious, you can't get more serious. All right, the final point I wanna make here in general to parents is um how to address this, the, the pattern I see quite clearly over and over and over again is you've got the general population and in some small sliver 0:41:46 - 0:42:10 of that, I'm talking about the adult population, some small sliver of that are interested in greater light and truth. And so these people take an uncommon share of their time and effort to learn more about God to repent of their sins and so on. For some reason, there seems to be this major disconnect 0:42:09 - 0:42:46 between them in their efforts for themselves, in their efforts towards their Children and towards their grandchildren. And that really needs to change. I'm going to try to say an idea here as briefly as I can. They are on earth right now. A contingent of people who were saved for the end times, God reserved 0:42:45 - 0:43:11 these people because of the amount of light that they had acquired before this life to come here at this time. What about everyone else? Well, it turns out that on the earth right now, we actually have both extremes of the distribution. Yeah, I'm gonna make a video about this at some point. I already 0:43:11 - 0:43:39 did the slides for it quite a while ago, but I'm just trying to keep prioritized with the things that are most important. So this is a very, very brief, just touching on this idea. So if you have a distribution of people, mm people through all time, excuse me, you have the most righteous and the least 0:43:39 - 0:44:01 righteous and it's a very small groups of people. They're both on the earth right now. So generally speaking, the most righteous people who have ever lived are on the earth right now. And generally speaking, the least righteous people who've ever lived are on the earth right now. These are small groups 0:44:01 - 0:44:37 of people. Now, what about everyone else? Everyone else is across the distribution. And what I'm saying about all this is odds are, if you're watching this, you're on the righteous side of that curve. But also, statistically speaking, you're unlikely to be in the most righteous segment and that will 0:44:37 - 0:45:05 change over time. But my point is as far as you go, you need to ask yourself why God put you here right now. Now, the easy answer for that is that everyone's placed on earth at the time that will be most beneficial for themselves and others. Now, the themselves part you can figure out for yourself or 0:45:05 - 0:45:32 maybe we'll talk about it later. The other part is what I'm gonna zoom into right now. You need to understand that it's extremely likely that a major reason why you were born right now is the contribution you could make to those people who are more righteous than you, but who are also younger than you 0:45:32 - 0:46:06 . And they need mentors. They're like Manchurian candidates and they don't get switched on until they get blasted with light from others. It's very much like that. So some of these people might be your kids or your grandkids. So think for example of Lehi and Nephi, the elder versions, you could ask yourself 0:46:05 - 0:46:33 whether Nei would have done everything he did or become everyone, he everyone, everything he became without Lehi, maybe he would have but he probably wouldn't have. But Nei was greater than Lehi. He did more, he ascended further than Leigh. And that's the pattern that you ought to be actively looking 0:46:32 - 0:46:59 for in your life. Where are the younger folks who you can help to sort through all this mess and find greater light and just like a boat to a lifeboat. Proportionally speaking, those people obviously will be a minority. And that is all the more reason for you to find them and help them find them and 0:46:59 - 0:47:33 help them. So I began this video saying something about how the differences between people will uh accelerate and accentuate over time. And what you're going to see is that the bulk of young people on the planet right now are not good people and are clearly worse than prior generations. But you will 0:47:32 - 0:47:55 see diamonds in the rough and though they are rare, they are extraordinarily valuable because it will be apparent over time, more apparent that the quality of those people vastly exceeds generations before them. You have to find these people and you have to help them. It's very likely that this is the 0:47:55 - 0:48:20 central purpose of why you were born today. And I'd say for the most part, you're not doing a very good job. That's not a universal comment, but I think everyone can do better for sure. A part of this. The biggest part of this, the first thing to focus on is what you're doing with your own kids and for 0:48:20 - 0:48:52 some of you with your own grandkids. So now we're going to switch to a little conversation. We're in transition to a conversation about the state of things with young people. Um We don't have the time to make this an exhaustive conversation, but I hope it gets the point across. Nevertheless, a recent 0:48:51 - 0:49:22 report came out and it shows 57% of high school girls experience persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. 57%. Now, I've jumped out of airplanes before and if someone handed me a parachute and they said there's a 57% chance that this thing will not open, I would not jump out of that plane unless 0:49:22 - 0:49:46 the plane was crashing. Right. And I know that there are a lot of people who think that my stance on public schools is overly harsh that I'm being ridiculous or whatever. There are a lot of people that think a lot of my positions are ridiculous. And here's a funny thing about wisdom. It's vindicated 0:49:45 - 0:50:13 over time. It's vindicated over time when someone comes out and says that something is a certain way on many somes and as time passes, they just keep stacking up vindication. If you're a reasonable and honest person, you have no choice but to increase the credibility you attribute to that individual 0:50:13 - 0:50:45 . I am telling you that to have your Children in public schools today and tomorrow especially, it's not that different than choosing a babysitter who, you know, is a sexual sexual predator who, you know, is a pedophile. It's not that different, that's how serious this is. And now the date is coming out 0:50:44 - 0:51:12 , I'm gonna share some with you and I promise you it will get worse as time goes on. If there's anything reasonable that you have left undone in doing all you can to remove your Children from this situation, you really need to get on it and I promise you if you don't, you will regret it. 57% of high 0:51:12 - 0:51:49 school girls experience persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. It was not this way before in 2001 37% of schoolgirls had um serious. What was the exact phrase? I'm trying to remember. I didn't write it down seriously considered committing suicide. 37% in 2021 in nine, it was 19% in 2011. So 0:51:49 - 0:52:20 it doubled, it doubled and now it's, it's uh almost four out of 10, 2 out of five. Now there's two interesting points about this. So, so one is, you know, how many of them actually did the deed? That's a different question, right? But 37% you get back to the parachute question. At what percent will you 0:52:19 - 0:52:44 agree that it's bad for, for kids? We're talking about girls in this case to be in public school. At what percent? What would it take? What's your red line? Because if your kid kills themselves, you'll probably agree with me that it wasn't a good idea for them to be there because it probably wouldn't 0:52:43 - 0:00:00 have happened if they were home school. Ok. Second point is this percent increase did not happen with boys. It didn't double in a decade with boys. You know how much it went up. 1% it started lower and it only went up by 1%. 2011, it was 19% for girls, 14% for boys, 2021 37% for girls, 15% for boys. 0:00:00 - 0:53:41 And this is one piece of evidence that supports the idea that the changes that have occurred in our society are much more damaging to women than they are to men. And I think you could make a very broad case for that. It's not my point in this video, but it's important. And then here's another little 0:53:40 - 0:54:12 factoid that might be even more surprising than the other two. The levels of self reported sexual violence in young women has skyrocketed uh lately during this this survey period. But interestingly, the reports, the the reported with the police, the reports of sexual violence have not changed. The self 0:54:12 - 0:54:38 reports have exploded but the police reports have not changed. That's very interesting. And it's one of these interesting data points that uh people with an agenda like to hand wave away and say things like, you know, when, when nontraditional sexual orientations, when people with those uh explode in 0:54:38 - 0:55:02 suicide rates and other things like that, they say, well, uh that's because there's not, there's a social stigma and when you say, yeah, but over the period in which they exploded, there's never been greater acceptance and celebration of these things. They, they just sort of wave it away anyway and say 0:55:02 - 0:55:26 yeah, but it's still, it's still stigma. That's the problem. OK. But this one has been a problem. Most people are unaware of this, this culture of magnifying things into something they're not. Uh I would say that in general, young women have a huge problem with delusion and there are many data points 0:55:26 - 0:55:58 that support this many data points. In this specific case, the specific delusion is this culture of revising past experiences that you're ashamed of choices you made consensually revising those into crimes by the person who you experience them with. And as absurd as this seems, uh it's happening big 0:55:58 - 0:56:28 time. And if you want to look into that, you can uh find any video by some generation Z person on youtube about any topic vaguely related to um relationships. And you will find comment after comment after comment by young women who say something like my first experience with a male was at such and such 0:56:27 - 0:56:56 and here's detail and it wasn't until years later or months later that I realized that that was actually um not a good thing and that he manipulated me and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blame shift. So you have this revision into assault and that is a huge, huge landmine that's gonna blow up in a lot 0:56:56 - 0:57:24 of people's faces. So, um again, parents uh largely out of touch with reality and the actual consequences floating around and you're not prepping your young men to be aware of these traps that absolutely are going to snare many of them because, you know, call us old fashioned. But when someone agrees 0:57:23 - 0:57:48 to something, uh, in the moment, you would assume that that would count as agreeing for things. Uh, as time goes on looking back, it's a weird thing to think that someone could sign a contract and then a week later or a month later or a year later or 20 years later say. Yeah, but I, in retrospect, I 0:57:48 - 0:58:09 wouldn't have signed that contract. And then all of a sudden it's, uh, it's whatever you got out of the contract becomes illegal and maybe even you committed a crime. And that is absolutely the situation today and it's something that the seeds of this were planted way back when, I mean, you can watch 0:58:09 - 0:58:31 the Clarence Thomas proceedings to see this happen, uh, this sort of thing very bad. The uh Clarence Thomas uh confirmation hearing, that's what I'm talking about so that these sorts of things have been happening for a very long time. But now they're mainstream and they pick these things up at school 0:58:30 - 0:59:03 , the, this culture, these insane ideas about, well, it's not reality but delusions in place of reality. They are prolific and, and ubiquitous. They, they are universal at this point. And so, um anyway, ok, so, so um things are pretty bad. Um The the boys side, the boys side you could talk about too 0:59:02 - 0:59:26 and you just kind of have to look around to see the problems there. Um But for the most part, maybe the biggest problem is that guys are just opting out, young men are just opting out. They have no desire to do anything except play video games and watch porn. And uh that is a big problem as well. Uh 0:59:25 - 0:59:47 This is a detailed issue that I'm not gonna sit here and go through everything on. But you should educate yourself on these things, especially if you're a parent because many, many, many parents are just passively floating with their kids through life assuming that what worked for them is going to work 0:59:47 - 1:00:17 for their kids. And I don't know how they can't look around and see what's going on. It's tragic. So one other facet is getting along. Um One other facet of this discussion is as these things change dramatically over time and the quality differences in people becomes more apparent. And what we're going 1:00:16 - 1:00:45 to see is that the number of people worth your time just is going to keep decreasing. And with young people, what that means is that boys and girls with their heads on straight will be realizing more and more that their social groups, they're not just sort of, uh, random selections of what's out there 1:00:45 - 1:01:09 . They're going to realize that in terms of friends and romantic partners, what they're doing is they're hunting for, uh, drastic exceptions to the rule. They're not gonna be interested in most of what's out there. And why does this matter? Because as parents, you're either setting them up to know that's 1:01:09 - 1:01:36 the game they're playing and to be advantaged in this game or you're allowing them to exit the game because they're not qualified to play. And it's really important because basically what we've got, we've got a growing pile of things that you could call red flags that would show any quality male female 1:01:35 - 1:02:02 that this person, your son or daughter is completely unqualified to be their romantic partner or even their friend and they just don't want to be around them. And, and this isn't a case of being snobby or stuck up or whatever. These are things that almost guarantee that that person will not be able to 1:02:02 - 1:02:26 function properly in life and therefore to chain yourself to them, to bind yourself to them would be to chain yourself to a dead weight and then jump in like chain yourself to a cannonball and then jump in deep water and, and they're going to realize this. And so now as we go over some of these things 1:02:25 - 1:02:43 , you need to think about what you're doing with your son or daughter to prevent this stuff from happening, from, prevent them from taking on these attributes. And also you need to think about what you're teaching your sons and daughters about how to spot these things in other people so that they stay 1:02:43 - 1:03:12 away from troublesome folks who are just gonna cause them harm. Ok. The things I'm about to mention are going to be extremely offensive. So, but if you made it this far, that probably shouldn't surprise you. Ok? So more and more, more and more the things that end up being negative, the consequences of 1:03:12 - 1:03:38 them are getting increasingly negative. So some of these things are not new, but they're a lot worse than they used to be because it's so obvious what they lead to. Ok. So, uh there is this, this dispute in the nineties, I guess about having more than one earring and like did that mean something? Um 1:03:38 - 1:04:04 So now the question is like a nose ring in, in a girl, what does that indicate? Right? Is that just the same as piercing your ears or is that a totally different cultural thing? Um or tattoos, right? People have gotten tattoos for a long time. But uh if you, if you meet someone and they have a tattoo 1:04:03 - 1:04:28 , does that mean something about them? Um people have dyed their hair for a long time but is there something in particular about blue or pink hair? Right? A guy or girl? Does that mean something? So those are things to think about, right? But then there are things that are less controversial that are 1:04:28 - 1:05:01 more backed by data. So first off, um what about uh use of, of of prescribed drugs to treat? So allegedly, these are all, so all of these words are loaded. So I'm gonna try to address this without using any of the loaded words, use of prescription drugs to influence how you feel. How about that one or 1:05:01 - 1:05:33 how you think? So it turns out that there's a major difference between using these things as an adult and using these things as a child because it turns out that when you are most predispose to be able to cope with new exposure to the vicissitudes of life, which is as an adolescent, you have every beneficial 1:05:32 - 1:05:55 hormone pumping through your body and nothing but things to be excited about in life because you're grossly ignorant of what those things are really like, but you're excited about the future and about the opposite sex and about the the growth that you're gonna experience over time, the things you have 1:05:55 - 1:06:18 to look forward to. It's the best possible time in life to have darkness dumped on you in terms of disappointment and challenge and things that were harder than you thought they were gonna be and heartbreak and all these things. What if you mask all of it with a drug? And now you've robbed that young 1:06:18 - 1:06:44 person of the training that they can receive at the most beneficial point in their time in their lifetime. And you've done it in a way or with a substance that's guaranteed to lose its efficacy over time because your body will get used to it. You have basically exploded. The likelihood that your kid 1:06:44 - 1:07:09 is going to end up a worthless junkie, a junkie because they'll have to keep upping their dose to have the same effect over time. And they will absolutely end that with addiction in some cases, with some drugs that cannot be undone ever. I'm not saying the addiction can't be undone. I'm saying that the 1:07:09 - 1:07:35 , the physiological effects of withdrawal will never be undone. There are drugs that you can go on where your brain chemicals never go back to normal. And you're so you're literally robbing them of joy and setting a ceiling on their joy for life. In some cases, in the worthless part is because they never 1:07:34 - 1:07:59 learned how to cope with the absolute basic realities of life. And so you, you're not going to be able to play chess if your brain can't think of moves and critically think about, you know how to how to strategize for that if you can't even wrap your head around the basics of reality, how are you going 1:07:59 - 1:08:28 to be successful in any way and surprise? They're not. Ok. So that's a huge red flag. I'll tell you again, these numbers are way worse for women than men. One in 10, women from 18 to 39 use antidepressants. One in 10. It goes up to one in five from 40 to 59 and one in 4/60. And those numbers strongly 1:08:27 - 1:08:52 correlate with whether the woman had Children or not, childless women are much more likely to be on antidepressants. I wonder why that is. Ok. So that ends up being a pretty big red flag, pretty big red flag. Um More could be said about that, but that, that was a long point. So I'll leave it there. What 1:08:52 - 1:09:26 else? Poor news. That is an enormous problem. Um Things today aren't like they used to be in that regard. Um Just like the junk food industry. A lot of money has been spent in discovering ways to more effectively addict people and the outcomes of that just like with junk food are significantly worse 1:09:26 - 1:09:51 than they were decades ago. This is increasingly becoming a red flag. Uh Meaning that increasingly if a person was to ask a potential romantic partner, hey, have you ever been, have you ever used porn? And they say yes, increasingly that is a sign that you should not spend your time with that person 1:09:50 - 1:10:26 , um, especially in a romantic partner situation. Um because it increasingly indicates, um, it increasingly indicates a probability that you will never have a certain level of the beneficial outcomes of that relationship. Other drug use. We talked about prescription drugs, other drug use falls into that 1:10:26 - 1:10:53 category too. Increasingly. Um, what else? Obesity, obesity is in this category if someone can't sort out? Um, well, I have to make clear here the younger the kid, the more fault the parent has, right. A five year old kid doesn't get to decide what they eat. An eight year old kid shouldn't be deciding 1:10:52 - 1:11:17 what they eat. If your kid is obese, the younger they are, the more it's your fault as a parent, as they get older, it, it gets more and more onto their own shoulders. A 17 year old, um, that's not that, that might have come out of the parents' choices, but let's say the kid is perfectly healthy at 16 1:11:16 - 1:11:42 and at 17 they weigh 100 and £50 more. Well, uh, that, that probably was, I mean, in that case, something's really wrong, but that probably wasn't the parents choices that made that happen. Right. But, um, that's a red flag because when you date someone, it's a job interview for marriage and if you're 1:11:42 - 1:12:02 on a date with someone and it's obvious that they can't even manage themselves. How are they going to manage a family? It's true for the guy. It's true for the girl. Right. It's a big deal and we need to treat it like a big deal because it's a big deal. You, you really shouldn't walk into that. It doesn't 1:12:02 - 1:12:29 make any sense whatsoever. And you know, the thing about obesity is it doesn't happen in one choice that, I mean, it takes serious effort to get obese that you're talking, you're talking a persistent effort over a long time. And each and every time there are signs that what you're doing is wrong. That's 1:12:28 - 1:12:51 why this is such a huge deal. If you saw someone who's a heroin addict, you're like, man, that person, that's not the kind of person that I want, encouraging my kids or influencing my kids. That'd be a normal position to take. I've seen a lot of people react that way to heroin addicts, but no one says 1:12:51 - 1:13:14 the same thing for obese people, but which is worse because that heroin addict might have gotten hooked in in the first time they tried it, which admittedly was a very stupid thing to do admittedly. But that obese person is causing comparable problems in his or her life. And if they have kids or spouse 1:13:13 - 1:13:41 in the life of their loved ones and their choices came over over many, many, many, many, many repeated mistakes, intentional mistakes over a long time. So which is worse objectively? But how do we treat this as a society? No one's going around saying heroin is healthy, right? Or beautiful. No one takes 1:13:41 - 1:14:06 pictures of people with the bands on their arm, like hunched over in an alley with their homeless cart next to them and saying this is beautiful. Let's put it on the cover of sports illustrated swimsuit, right. All right. And then, um, I think the last thing that's obvious for both sex is, is, is just 1:14:05 - 1:14:34 the general category of anything that's even a whiff of woke whiff of woke. Here's your phrase. That's everything from the words they use to the ideas they have. I mean, non conforming, gender roles, victimhood, grievance, culture, pronouns, all that garbage, that's deconstructed history, any of that 1:14:34 - 1:14:57 stuff, you get a whiff of that, you walk the other way. And so this is another thing back to public schools. Uh You know, if a whiff of this is enough to consider a person ineligible to be a romantic partner, how are you gonna send a kid who gets bombarded by this stuff every single day, every single 1:14:57 - 1:15:25 day? Can you go through that fire unscathed? A kid who, who really can't figure things out? So it's no wonder they're, they're, it's like they're schools are basically license plate factories and they get imprinted with the ideologies of their teachers. So it's, it's in no way, a balanced conversation 1:15:24 - 1:16:00 . All right. So what other things? Well, uh here's some specifics for, for red flags in young males. So if a guy is unemployed. That's a red flag. Um If, if a, if a young woman, now I have to kind of be specific about what I'm saying. Here, girls, 18 or over, it's not a girl, a woman, 18 or over is evaluating 1:16:00 - 0:00:00 potential spousal candidates. She absolutely should have a dollar amount in mind of the minimum he needs to make. And that should be based on first and foremost what she qualifies for. Uh, But after that, she ought to be thinking about the kind of life she wants to live. How many kids does she want? 0:00:00 - 1:16:51 What does that cost? Where does she want to live? What does that cost? Does she want to have the option to homeschool her kids? What does that cost? Et cetera, et cetera with inflation? This you need to understand that kids are freaking expensive, right? And as parents, you do understand that. But are 1:16:51 - 1:17:12 you conveying that message adequately to your Children? Because Children particularly in middle class or better situations are woefully ignorant of the vicissitudes of life? They're very much sheltered from that, which in some ways is a great thing, but the parents need to be educating their kids about 1:17:11 - 1:17:38 the need to make money if you're a man and to not pay attention to guys that don't if you're a woman, I got to put a huge caveat on that. The very first thing I said was that you qualify for, for the ladies and the fact is that it's cruel and whatever, but it is just the way it is that your past decisions 1:17:38 - 1:18:10 and your, um, current physical condition, uh, are absolutely going to influence this. So, if, if you're a two on the 10 scale, you're not gonna nab a millionaire and that's just life. Right? But, um, offensive truths. Right. Also, if you've had 20 serious relationships, we'll just call it serious relationships 1:18:09 - 1:18:36 with men. Um, no, man who's successful should pay any attention to you. You should be invisible to them, uh, because you cannot provide what that person deserves. And that's just a fact you can't get around it. Um, anyway, men should also have a written life purpose and this is like a huge disqualifier 1:18:35 - 1:18:56 . But it's also like all of these things. You, it's, it's, it, it shows you exactly who you're looking for and it makes your life really easy by sorting out the Riff raff. If a guy can't tell you what his purpose is in life, you should move on. Um, and there's other things that you could put on this 1:18:55 - 1:19:19 list, like how many books have they read and what have they been about and what have they learned? You know, are they thinkers are they doers, are they, those aren't meant to be exclusive in any way. Um, but do they know how to think? Do they know how to do? Are they courageous and so on? Uh, switching 1:19:19 - 1:19:40 over to, to women again? This is just touching on things. This, this video is so long um things that would instantly disqualify. A young lady is like, what's her social media use? II I know there are guys out there who say if a lady has an Instagram account, I'm not interested and this is because they 1:19:40 - 1:20:02 just get hooked on that dopamine hit from, from social media. They can't put their phones down parents for, for boys and girls. Like, what are you thinking? Giving your kids cell phones? That is something just like I mentioned, uh we'll, we'll call them performance enhancing drugs. So I'm not talking 1:20:01 - 1:20:21 about antidepressants there but you know, stimulants and things. Um Why would you give that to a kid when a kid doesn't need a cup of coffee, kid doesn't need Adderall. Kid needs to learn how to cope with life when you're older. It's a different story. All those things. It's a different story. You're 1:20:20 - 1:20:38 mature enough, you have learned the coping strategies and now it's just a performance enhancing drug. That's what I would call it, which is funny to call it that because in sports, obviously it has a bad rap. But why wouldn't you use the advantages that are available to you subject to cost benefit analysis 1:20:37 - 1:20:58 . You sleep in a bed and you take hot showers, don't you? Like, why don't you just sleep on a dirt floor and not shower? Right? Do you, do you, do you wear technologically advanced shoes or clothing. Do you drive a car? Why don't you just walk? But, but there's a difference in doing this stuff as kids 1:20:58 - 1:21:22 . Like, we don't give driver's license to 12 year olds. Why? Right. It's the same idea. So, with social media cell phones as they're mature enough, sure give it to them. But, uh, when they're too young to pay for it, that's, that's a good line to draw in the sand. Can they pay for it? If not, they're 1:21:22 - 1:21:42 probably not ready for it. Boy, that would, uh, there's a lot of 30 year olds that shouldn't have iphones by that criteria. But, um, anyway, that's, that's a big problem. Social media is a huge problem for women. It's not such a problem for men. It's a huge problem for women. And, uh, a lot of ladies 1:21:41 - 1:22:01 just can't put down their phones and it's really messed up. So, if you're a young man and you're on a date with a young lady and she picks up her phone more than a certain number of times during the date, I'd say the number of times is one. I mean, what's that? Telling you? This is a first date ought 1:22:01 - 1:22:20 to be the most exciting experience a young lady ever has with her future spouse. That's, I mean, it shouldn't be that way, but I'm saying it is that way. It is that way. And so when she's the most excited she's ever gonna be, she can't even not look at her phone. What do you think that implies for the 1:22:20 - 1:22:39 rest of your life? And unfortunately for the lives of your Children, because neither you nor your Children will be the most important thing in her life. The likes and messages from random people, she doesn't actually care about all that stuff is going to take precedence and she's gonna be an instant 1:22:39 - 1:23:03 zombie for the rest of her life. So, move on. Or what about the Cloud of Orbiters? I think I've mentioned that one before. So there's this tendency in young women, young modern women to have tons of guy friends. And it's funny because in the social circles where physical relationships are seen differently 1:23:02 - 1:23:30 than they are by religious people. I like how I danced around that. Um These Orbiters become willing candidates when the lady would like some physical attention. Um, but even in groups where women aren't physically promiscuous, they're emotionally promiscuous. They tend to be emotionally promiscuous 1:23:29 - 1:23:55 and this, this group of guy friends is always available to give them compliments or to tell them they're great or tell them how pretty they are or just to be nice to them. And they use that as a bank of uh masculine emotional attention and it absolutely ruins them because they cease to develop a deep 1:23:55 - 1:24:17 relationship with anyone. And no matter how they treat any particular person in their life, there are always several people available to tell them how wonderful. They are. And you can just imagine what that would be like to any person to have that kind of feedback system. So, let's say, um, let's say 1:24:17 - 1:24:45 a young man got a job as a grocery bagger at a grocery store as a first job. And, um, on the first day of work, he told his boss um, to stuff it or whatever and got fired. And the second he walked out the door, five other prospective bosses gave him $1000 for nothing. So that person is never gonna learn 1:24:44 - 1:25:12 that there's a certain way you have to behave at work or to appreciate a job. Right. It's exactly the same. And so no wonder these people end up disastrous lives because why wouldn't they? And incidentally, although that young man analogy was totally contrived. Reality is not far from that because more 1:25:12 - 1:25:35 often than not today, when young men make really terrible decisions that, uh, that determine their financial future, their parents step in a half a second later and prop them up and insulate them from the consequences of their bad choice and surprise they never learn. So maybe you should stop letting 1:25:35 - 1:25:54 your kids live in your house if it's uh hampering their development. Um That's not always the case. Of course, there, their arrangements that can be mutually beneficial to parents and Children. But I have drawn on for a very long time and I didn't intend for this to be this long, but that's the content 1:25:54 - 1:26:19 I had written down to cover. Um, so I hope you think about these things and I hope you apply them. Um, and I hope that in particular things that you find offensive, that I've said that you think about those things because typically offense is more indicative of areas for growth in yourself than they 1:26:19 - 1:26:26 are actual causes of offense in the other person. So take care.