Get all sides of every story in one place at ground.news/andrew. Try it for as little as $1/month or receive 40% off unlimited access, if you subscribe before the end of May. Who have you noticed employing dominant virtue signalling? Let me know below - and hit like on the video!

@pensador6953

15 күн бұрын

29:55 check Weimar germany. also, Because empire is not enough. also maybe some conspiracy theories are actually true.

@KitKrash

12 күн бұрын

Virtue by it's very meaning (even in Christian virtue) is something you do for yourself, your self-knowledge and or your self-fulfillment. It is not something you can signal. 'Virtue Signalling' is an oxymoron invented by someone undeducated and reactive. We reall should have called it "Goody-good signalling' or something more validation oriented.

@vivienneb6199

10 күн бұрын

Are you censoring comments, andrew?

@andrewgoldheretics

10 күн бұрын

​@@vivienneb6199 never, ever, ever. I never deleted even one in four years! But KZread does...I have no idea why. I wish they wouldn't.

@vivienneb6199

10 күн бұрын

@@andrewgoldheretics ok, thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to respond to me.

"Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole." - Thomas Sowell

@theoutsider6191

14 күн бұрын

That does account rather well for the people on marches in London recently not actually understanding the statement on the placards they were carrying.... The phrase useful idiots came to mind when i watched them fumbing when asked what the statement means and to what it refers..... embarassing that people know so little about a cause they want to join.

@nickbarber2080

14 күн бұрын

@@theoutsider6191 Well,I've long regarded these marches as a form of mass group psychotherapy anyway...

@rightwing707

11 күн бұрын

@@theoutsider6191 Just send them to Israel, they clearly want to be there. Gets them out of us sane people's hair at the very least.

@taiwansivispacemparabellum9546

10 күн бұрын

So like green peace😂

@kimsherlock8969

9 күн бұрын

Great quote 👍

After seeing "be kind" on bags and shirts I want one that says "be kind or I'll fuck you up" 😂

@brodwyntyler4006

14 күн бұрын

Love this

@jellyrcw12

14 күн бұрын

There is a version of that. It says "respect Pronouns or yours will be was/were"

@erikahahn5823

13 күн бұрын

A good rule is never ever ever get within reach distance of a person with that T-shirt saying on. Then you will be safe from overreach.

@Matsyendranath792

13 күн бұрын

it would be more honest.

@donpietruk1517

13 күн бұрын

As a Gen Z we were polite to each other because we understood the implicit threat of violence if we weren't. We need to bring that back

I am loving how successful this channel is getting, especially since you were rejected by the mainstream media for the colour of your skin. Probably why mainstream is cratering.

@vivienneb6199

10 күн бұрын

Can you see my comment?

@baconsarny-geddon8298

10 күн бұрын

Yep​@@vivienneb6199

@baconsarny-geddon8298

10 күн бұрын

Pretty sure this channel had about 2,000 subs, when I signed up just one or two months ago. Crazy growth. It just shows how widely disliked this ideology is, and how desperate people are for dissenting voices.

@HABLA_GUIRRRI

9 күн бұрын

@@vivienneb6199 yes

@HABLA_GUIRRRI

9 күн бұрын

aaaw no.. they'll just say .. well in fact he always was quite a little tiny bit brownish.. beige at least.. ok .. ochre.. burnt sienna then..

Brilliant! I'm 32 and feel like my entire generation should see this.

@satiricgames2129

15 күн бұрын

Im 37 i feel ya on that

@n0namesowhatblerp362

14 күн бұрын

Imagine. We were actually past asking about anyones race at the end of the 2000s. We really were. Until the woke made everything about it again and even wants segregation back. We were this close to greatness until it was deliberately ruined. I firmly believe this was orchestrated. We were taught that labels are evil and grouping up is how you become a nazi. We were shown the original the Wave movie ( based on a true story) and taught to link critically and her eis gen z being like "yas everything needs labels and grouping up" and it is indeed evil, just my teacher taught us like.im 35

@theoutsider6191

14 күн бұрын

It is a clear take on motivations for sure. Another podcast episode i liked a lot which is a different take on leading your best life was Bill Perkins on Modern Wisdom (Chris Williamson's podcast). I liked his take on how to live your life for your own happiness, and therefor success. Will also touches on your own idea of status, and defining that for yourself and what you try to achieve. If you know what motivates you and makes you happy, target doing as much of that as possible. It will make as much a success of your own life as possible. Trying to satisfy other's ideas, or societal ideas of what you should do to achieve status or success, will not.

@patduffyforever

14 күн бұрын

​@@n0namesowhatblerp362truly. They've taken is backwards for sure. It's so sad.

@businessdevil7094

2 күн бұрын

Gen Z is far more affected.

OMG, when Will spoke about sensitivity readers I immediately thought of Winston Smith working in the records department at the ministry of truth

@gypsylee333

13 күн бұрын

I just read that book this weekend for the first time ever finally after hearing everyone reference it so often

@bogarte7185

9 күн бұрын

​@@gypsylee333 I read it 50 years ago as a young teenager. I like to think it inoculated me to a certain extent. If you haven't read it, I recommend Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. A different type of dystopia but very relevant to todays arguments around surrogacy I think.

@joce11

9 күн бұрын

Orwell's book 1984 was essential reading when I was at school as was Animal Farm. These book should be taught to kids at school. Sadly they are not which is sad.

@WinkLinkletter

Күн бұрын

​@@joce11Moreover, more often lately, they have been expressly NOT taught.

I'm dyslexic and nothing annoys me more than people using it as an excuse not to read. You just learn differently, but that doesn't mean you can't read and write. Look at Jimmy Carr etc, plenty of us get degrees and rise up quickly in our professions as we just get on with it.

@colly7963

12 күн бұрын

I'm also lysdexic 😢

@markrymanowski719

10 күн бұрын

Richard Branson was dyslexic and tone deaf. Didn't stop him from being successful with Virgin Records.

@karamlevi

10 күн бұрын

Yep. Same here. 1,000+ books read since I choose to no longer let it affect me poorly. I changed brain. It hurt. And then it healed.

@HABLA_GUIRRRI

9 күн бұрын

im lysdexic too dna i get so pessid off by plpoee mis-disabilitating me as taht oethr wrod taht i cant wtire ---- i tnihk ill sue youtube or sdobemoy lkie yuo

@karmadog4565

7 күн бұрын

@@HABLA_GUIRRRIknow small is your dick?

Not only are most Japanese not opposed to foreigners wearing kimono and obi, they actively encourage it, and are completely chuffed with the optics of it. Same for my Indian friends with saris. They always want me to also wear a sari when I attend a wedding for instance. I suppose it's because these woke people haven't travelled on account of their carbon footprint, that they are so thoroughly and vocally mistaken.

@ashextraordinaire

14 күн бұрын

When my super-purist friends found out I'd worn yukata to a cherry blossom festival (double cancellation!) and a saree to a friend's wedding, they couldn't accuse me of cultural appropriation fast enough. Nevermind that my Japanese friend INSISTED that we all wear yukata or that my Punjabi friend and her family were tickled pink to see all the white girls wearing sarees. It's FUN to share your culture! (At least, I think it's cool when people enjoy baguettes and berets, but what do I know?)

@IVIRnathanreilly

14 күн бұрын

I wouldn't say it's carbon footprint. They tend to spend all their money on "luxury" goods and unnecessarily expensive rent.

@Wandering.Homebody

14 күн бұрын

@@IVIRnathanreilly agreed, though I WAS being facetious.

@Gitn2it

12 күн бұрын

When you're white and "privileged," it's your responsibility to be the self-appointed guardian over everyone who is not white and privileged.

@pamelaroyce5285

12 күн бұрын

no, I my closest gal pal friend is terribly woke, and her wokeness brings us awfully close to a permanent rift. She has already been ghosted by another woman friend and she has no idea why; the other woman will not respond to her. And yet my friend is a musician and she began to realize about a year and a half ago that a lot of criticism of “cultural appropriation” was nonsense. But I won’t go there. Let me point out this, though: worldwide, except for (mainly) Saudi Arabians, male world leaders wear the Western businessman’s suit. And in Japan, there are youngsters who like to dress up like Elvis and James Dean and the girls in poodle skirts, etc. The wokeists are cultists, and they are horrible. Sadly, wokeism has infected administrative levels of school districts, universities, corporations, and licensing organizations. It is going g to take continued courage to push back against this new dark age of ideas.

I am seventy and received a diagnosis of dyspraxia late in life. Not knowing I was as a child makes me both sad & grateful in equal measure. Throughout my life, I have found my own strategies to cope & even succeed. Who knew 😊

@stephenbrookes7268

2 күн бұрын

I am 10 years younger but have the same condition. In our youth only a few academic researchers were just beginning to understand ASDs. Mainstream schools and the general public knew nothing but made judgements. My son has it too but even his mainstream beacon school did not handle him well and we had to pull him out and make better arrangements. Unfortunately, if you don't fit in their pigeon holes you just don't fit in. We have to make our own coping strategies.

I don't seek belonging and acceptance. I really don't mind being left alone. I just don't want to be limited in my options.

@kathyhansen2820

13 күн бұрын

I'm just sick of being lectured to.

@cocoacrispy7802

6 күн бұрын

yet here you are...

@rensha8635

2 күн бұрын

@@cocoacrispy7802what giving a line or two of viewpoint or thought? That’s not desperation for acceptance.

“Sensitivity readers” really? Art will die if we sit back, shrug our shoulders and say “ What can you do but suck it up”. Perhaps Art has died already.

@Nylon_riot

15 күн бұрын

They have already censored Casablanca across all digital media. Removed the slur for blacls, but not Italians.

@bethotoole6569

15 күн бұрын

Comedy has already been killed..

@mardyroux8136

15 күн бұрын

@@bethotoole6569 Marxist comedy is dead. Conservative comedy is knocking it out of the park.

@CommanderRedEXE

13 күн бұрын

​@@mardyroux8136 No. Conservative comedians are heavily censored now. Most have stopped going to most venues because of it.

@jelkel25

13 күн бұрын

Sometimes adversity is a great motivator. Of course it's no motivation for a careerist but it's not going to stop those that are doing it because they have to, it's an obsession, compulsion whatever. I may run foul of "sensitivity readers" myself in the future, would this stop me? Nope, I have to do it.

Thomas sowell’s discrimination or disparities will enlighten anyone who reads it. Woke is a simplified version of looking at the world, you peel back one layer and it falls apart….

@bpuryea

3 күн бұрын

Indeed! Sowell more artfully and logically destroys the shiboleths of the left than almost anyone out their. It's why the left despises him. He points out their stupidity, they know it and the hate him for it as they lack the ability to consider any new data that might set their course differently!

About comunist work ethic, in Romania people used to say: "We pretend we're working. They pretend they're paying us" or "Long and frequent breaks are the key to great success". My husband worked as welder for a few years in the late 90s. Every morning he found a glass of vodka in his locker. He would throw it away careful not be seen. They were already making fun of him for being on time, not stealing bits an pieces, going to highschool and dreaming to go to university.

The BBC need a taste of their own medicine. Defund .

@germantoenglish898

14 күн бұрын

They tossed Doctor Who to Disney and now it's Drag Race in Space.

@wobblybobengland

12 күн бұрын

@@germantoenglish898 I stopped watching that rubbish when Colin Baker got the lead

I propose we borrow the term "cope cage" for the proliferation of neurodiversity labels adopted by the young. Not only are these labels often shields for criticism, but they also "trap" the person in dependency.

@mardyroux8136

15 күн бұрын

Nice.

@michaeljameskeating1348

14 күн бұрын

Nice one. I'm already on a debate with someone on FB, I'll sneak in the term

@n0namesowhatblerp362

14 күн бұрын

I remember being taught critical thinking at school. We were taught that labels are evil, and joining groups is how you become a nazi. We watched the original The Wave ( based on a true story) and understood that labels were evil..and then gen z comes and says the opposite..and im sorry, but we were right..the young are wrong. And it's not like we are ancient now either..its just that our pre frontal cortex have now been fully developed and we can understand consequences. Why are we giving creedanc to people whose brains aren't fully developed? it's not a dig, it's a fact that I simply accepted as a 21 year old. you think gen z would now looking it up probably not. We are literally repeating the witch persecutions by believing children has got the answers! Mark my words, history is repeating itself.But this time we have simultaneous witch persecutions, nazis rising in the exact same damn way.. and russia being russia like they have always been just look at Russian history.and we are whst...surprised?We need to learn from. history dsmn it.

@davidballisadickhead

6 күн бұрын

60-year old neurodivergent man here... dyslexia... never was ALLOWED to make it an excuse for anything, so I never did. I am grateful for parents who did not coddle difference or give attention to attention-seeking behavior, and instead focused on the importance of not limiting ones options with self-imposed nonsense.

@thomaslane316

3 сағат бұрын

Woke does not account for human psychology. We do not understand or teach or think of teaching people how to be strong, we just endlessly try to protect them against any weaknesses. As mothers do for their children. It's good as a foundation but it's simply not enough to make a strong person. That's why we need art and literature because they distill the wisdom derived from experience.

Will Storr is great and i can't recommend his book The Status Game enough

@breadiemercury7676

15 күн бұрын

I am going to seek this out !

@MultipleGrievance

15 күн бұрын

What's it about?

@ScramTek

14 күн бұрын

@@MultipleGrievance The historical migratory habits of the East African Swallow and how it dominated the 1973 Scottish Second Division Football transfer market.

@MultipleGrievance

13 күн бұрын

@@ScramTek Doesn't even sound slightly interesting.

@wckd4u

13 күн бұрын

@@MultipleGrievance The title says it all. It breaks down the status games that people play and how everyone is playing it just different things is what gives us status. Its a good book, highly recommend!

I tried to be woke but ended up offending MORE people. People feel less offended, well they complain less when I'm insensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more they will complain. It's a trap, a game nobody can win.

@HABLA_GUIRRRI

9 күн бұрын

yes-- once they hear the virus in ur voice its gameover .. so root it out

@tablescissors67

4 күн бұрын

You've discovered the key to rooting out narcisism.

Churchill said, "Hitler is the child of the rage of an empire......."

@apocalypsator6

15 күн бұрын

Beastie's magical chains. Without the law the apocalypse could happen. The real reveal. " What is man that thou art mindful of him?" --- The bible.

@emawerna

14 күн бұрын

Hitler genuinely believed that the Jews were victimizing the German people. He told a story about how Jews: take whatever they can for themselves, try to control money, and try to undermine his government. In his mind, Jews were the oppressors of the German people. This is very distinctly different than segregation in the Jim Crow south. In the south, racial conflict reads more like a hurtful, disgusting bullying. Physical segregation was really focused on making it so white people saw as few black people as possible in everyday life. Segregation of bathrooms and water fountains was focused on making it so white people didn't touch the same public facilities as black people. Racial stereotypes and name calling of black people were to make fun of them. At the end of the day though, the mammy caricature of the poorly educated cook and nanny was because all those racist white men were raised by black nannies. Even at its worst, there still was a deep connection between the two populations. My point is that you don't stop the holocaust unless you shut down the victimization narratives in addition to preventing racial bullying.

@guser7137

13 күн бұрын

But then again he did more to destroy Britain for his American masters than that angry chap

@d-pooly79

13 күн бұрын

Dumbledorf said “You’re a wizard Harry”

@CommanderRedEXE

13 күн бұрын

​@@guser7137 Nah, he did that to his country of his own volition. The US had nothing to do with that.

Sooooooo weird To see people on the left finally calling it out and pretty much using the exact same language we all did nine years ago......

@angelmessenger8240

14 күн бұрын

Everything goes full circle given time.

@oldskoolaspie

14 күн бұрын

@@angelmessenger8240 Because time is a flat circle.

@MultipleGrievance

14 күн бұрын

@angelmessenger8240 On the one hand it's awesome to see the left losing so many battles on all of the important fronts, but it's also a bummer in a way, Because now we've entered the easy phase....... Where are all the cowards and the people who kept silent are jumping the bandwagon. Now we get to hear from people who should have spoken up when it mattered.

@theshrubberer

13 күн бұрын

hopefully woke is just a fever dream we will "wake up" from 😂

@vivienneb6199

10 күн бұрын

I think that is your bias showing. Can you see my comment?

I just watched the video Andrew, great interview……….oh no!, my social score just dropped 8 points, now I can’t buy bread or milk. Oh well, great guest, just common sense and critical thinking in a world where it’s waning.

@erikahahn5823

13 күн бұрын

Well not drinking milk or buying bread may save your health so the agenda fails yet again

What a weird and unreal world if existence. What happened to moral and ethical standards based on humanity or upon religious/spiritual belief. It is like people no longer know what to believe and resort to dominance tactics to acquire status. That's a short route to isolation and ignominy.

@brek5

15 күн бұрын

Well, I think this whole thing that everything is dominance and status is a load of crap and passes in some circles as a kind of cheap type of philosophy. Not saying it doesn't play a role. That would be dumb. But like people going on about "Sex is status. X, Y, and Z are status," well, maybe, but sex is kind of fun whether anyone else knows you did it or not, and a meal tastes good whether you posted it on Facebook or not, and on and on. Thiis idea that we're status-seeking atomatons is ridiculous.

@triggered577

15 күн бұрын

(Organized) Religion is a cult and very much predicated on dominance though.

@markshepperson3603

15 күн бұрын

Religious beliefs such as women as voiceless cattle class, slavery instructions, killing of homosexuals, genocide, racism and human sacrifice (numbers 11) ‘Spiritual’ is a nonsense term btw.

@NNM-sc3rj

15 күн бұрын

​@triggered577 or common belief and moral code. Nothing wrong g with the 10 commandments.

@markshepperson3603

14 күн бұрын

@@NNM-sc3rj 4 of the 10 are how to kiss gods arse. One is don’t kill but god kills and orders killings.

Oh my gosh! This is ABSOLUTELY correct! It IS a status game! So spot on. It’s high school level social politics. So disgusting.

38:50 Two things. None of the stars people idolise got there without dedication and back breaking effort. Fulfilling a dream doesn’t mean you have to rise to the utmost top. I have loads of friends who are good musicians but you’ll have never heard of. Same for many other professions. The myth is that you can become good at something without a lot of effort, not that you can’t do whatever you want or be whatever you want to become. The other is that failure it’s somehow bad. Failure is how everyone learns. If you want something badly enough you will pursue it regardless of the failures until you achieve it.

I wish everyone would watch this. Talking about now having to be so ambitious because it's not about being the best for every single person, just about being good and enjoying something and feeling fulfilled in that. For some reason it made me cry. It's so much more encouraging than the message out there right now. It makes me think about that quote "and now that you know you don't have to be perfect, you can be good." 💗

@pineappleTARDIS

15 күн бұрын

This applies to the advice part, I forgot to tag the time.

@bethotoole6569

15 күн бұрын

Well said..

Good one. The addition of the plants on set is a welcome aesthetic 😎

“Be kind” is a cloak for some very unsavoury characters. The guy who runs the absurd and extremist “hope not hate” outfit for example used to run the British national party. I’d bet good money that he hasn’t had an epiphany and has flipped his politics, no, it is the extremism bit that he finds appealing. From hard right to hard left, the constant is the extreme positioning.

@user-it7lf7kk8m

14 күн бұрын

Is that right? Didn't know he used to be bnp..

@turbolevo8703

14 күн бұрын

@@user-it7lf7kk8m Mathew Collins is his name. Worked for the National Front and then the BNP. Although he claims his time at the BNP was to bring them down.

@user-it7lf7kk8m

14 күн бұрын

@@turbolevo8703 thanks, will look into it

@British_Dragon-Simulations

9 күн бұрын

It’s about power. This is why they switch sides from extreme Right to Left. They know that the Left have the most power.

@GodwynDi

4 күн бұрын

The "right" isn't at all right is part of the problem. Especially the UK. Their right is barely a centrist party by any real measure.

What people perceive as success is skewed by celebrity cult.

This should be required viewing by everyone, especially the young.

"The starting line is not the same." But, every competent parent on the planet has wanted to make a better life for their children. Achieve so that their children have a better start at success. It's the greedy and lazy who want to take that from them for themselves. If you want to help someone up, help them. If you need the resources of others as well, persuade them. If you just take their money, you're not an altruist; you're a thief.

Fabulous interview!!❤

Hey Gold, I live your interviews. But I gotta say, your set is fabulous. That semi-tropical, rustic furniture, nostalgia signs works. Whoever did your decorating, give them a Gold star (pun intended.)

The only status you need to work out is what you value most and makes you happy, and make that your priority over everything else. If that is your wife and kids, make sure the work you do gives as much time as possible with them. If that status is a passion of yours, like sport, music, art, or even your career related staus itself - pursue that as much as possible. An interesting take on life strategies for "success" i watched was a Chris Williamson inteview with Bill Perkins. And he hits the nail on the head for me.

Love your channel. You bring on such interesting guests. Great food for thought!

Going out to pick his book up! Wow! Great interview ❤

Ha! The thumbnail quote is 🎯!!!

When did ‘virtue is its own reward’, become virtue is a tool of dominance?

@Libertariun

15 күн бұрын

Since the tempermentally left wing claimed they held the moral high ground

Woke is just the new way to bully and stay on your high horse while doing so.

@user-zh1th8sz2l

7 күн бұрын

Sort of. I don't think that's really it at all. On social media I guess you can bully people with it, if you feel particularly insecure and needy, which a lot of people do. But in the workplace it's been embraced so as to be weaponized, so that PMC types can wield it when infighting amongst themselves. It's less about 'status' than about people with hiring/firing authority having ammunition at their disposal. And if wasn't for institutional embrace of woke ideology, if wouldn't even really exist. It would be a joke. The only thing that matters about woke conformity is that you can hurt people with it if they don't obey. You can cancel them and expel them, or you can fire them. Without that it's nothing. And that's its only utility and the only reason anyone promotes it or espouses it or defends it. Everything about the actual substance of it is absolutely absurd, and perverse, and naturally no one takes it seriously on the merits, but for the implicit threat of the consequences should you defy it. That's why woke administrators and executives are sometimes called 'maoists'. Because non-believers get subjected to modern-day neo-struggle sessions. Truth is these people couldn't be any more capitalist careerists if you dipped them in gold leaf....

@kate60

2 күн бұрын

Correct

"It's a sort of creative cancer"- what a great phrase to describe the virtue signalling type of woke! I'm adopting it.

@queztocoaxial

13 күн бұрын

Yes, parrot the talking points like a good little puppet

@jimdavis8391

12 күн бұрын

​@@queztocoaxial Are you OK?

always enjoy your videos.

27:17 even if someone has a leg up to start from their parents wealth they're merit will still be displayed in whether or not they're competent to keep that sucess or that wealth..

@moozerk1264

15 күн бұрын

Case in point Karl Marx (founder of communism) came from a wealthy family and he died broke, drunk, an adulterer (multiple times) and a looser.

Andrew; Bravo 👏 my friend. Enjoyed every minute of this 👌. Please keep up the great work 👍. So informative. Thanks mate.

Great interview, as usual. Love so much that format. Thank you!

I'm sure Sikhs had the idea of meritocracy 400+ years ago, where we don't look at caste, colour, religion, kings & peasants, etc.

Great chat! I also loved The Science Of Storytelling by Will Storr which is also worth reading. I just like how he thinks and looking forward to reading The Status Game and Selfie as soon as I've finished Iain McGilchrist's two volume magnum opus - The Matter With Things. It's taken me two years to fully digest!

I like how Will explains that hard work leads to the creation of great things and then follows the respect for its creator. The problem with Woke people is that they want to skip the "hard work" part and think they automatically deserve respect for anything they create regardless of the quality or morality. I think it all started with the awarding of participation trophies in competitive events. Losers are just as good as winners.

Just discovered this channel and subscribed 10 minutes in to this video! Keep up the good fight!

So happy for your success. Keep up the real investigative interviews

Hello Andrew. What a pleasure to be here listening to the two of you today. I see that this was released a few days ago although I am just now receiving it .. Of course I keep my notifications turned on .. Although UT strikes again? I don’t know.. I don’t like being paranoid about such things as how I get my information via KZread .. But they have been known to do some of the strangers controlling moderation/mediating, unfortunately they target the wrong people .. Either way a few days late or receiving it now .. I am very pleased that you are both here discussing a topic that is massively important to understand .. Woke .. A culture .. Virtuous, angry, victim hood, demanding, entitled, lowbrow .. Several years ago I understood the agenda was to get us all to wear their badges in uniforms.. We were all to represent their desires by acknowledging with either virtue signalling .. Are clothing, our hair, anything to say that we understood … Since the beginning of time we’ve always had the others with us … There was not a problem they were highly revered in almost each culture for their own uniqueness .. For instance even now those who are 10 minute in some cultures will tell you, I am a lady man .. They know they’re not a woman .. Their cultures don’t persecute them for being a lady man .. The Hawaiian culture .. It’s similar to that of Native American culture … There are those who are different within our tribes but we don’t set out to destroy them … The woke culture … It is self defeating … They’ve had their “power” all along… There was no need to force feed.. As to what’s happening recently .. Within your elementary schools high schools universities .. Don’t think for a minute this hadn’t been well thought out over two decades ago …

Status also doesn't have to be measured externally. You can feel worth and status through your own internal standards that people wouldn't even know about.

@pcap8810

15 күн бұрын

status is inherently a social thing. you're just talking about self esteem

@lottie2525

14 күн бұрын

@@pcap8810 I can set my own status. You won't necessarily agree with it and it can be nothing to do with self-worth. For example, my measure of status may be educational attainment. That's just a fact nothing to do with how I feel about myself. I have a degree, someone else has A levels. I don't feel self-worth about my degree as I feel it was a complete waste of my time and energy getting it and wish I'd chosen a different subject say.

@pcap8810

14 күн бұрын

@@lottie2525 no you can't, if everyone else thinks you are a loser they will treat you as such. that's why we talk about people seeking status, it's not something you just make up in your head. the word means 'standing', as in the place where you stand among other people. a high status person is objectively so in a given social context. you are not high status just because you decided to be so. you can be king or queen in your head but if nobody else agrees then you're not that.

@lottie2525

14 күн бұрын

@@pcap8810 Okay, I can see you and I will never agree on this one. My status vs yours has increased - in my head. And you can't change that. 🤣

@pcap8810

14 күн бұрын

@@lottie2525 yeah well you can be solipsistic if you like, the real world will be out here waiting for you when you are ready to rejoin

Meritocracy is where you are rewarded for the value you offer to the human family. -Storr

This was a great episode and I can tell you enjoyed it! I will have to get a couple of his books as everything he says makes so much sense!!

@andrewgoldheretics

11 күн бұрын

Thanks! He’s one of my favourite writers, so good!!

That's got me thinking. What is a book store's censorship policy? The public library system I work for has a written policy stance of censorship that we are not the arbiters of morality (and it does cut both ways, I search questionable books from time to time to make sure). The only time they take a stance and refuse to put an item in the collection is if it has the potential to cause immediate harm i.e. Under this criteria an idea no matter how morally reprehensible will not be removed or barred from the collections but something like a book on drug making or bomb making would.

The long and short of it is this. And it's very simple. They are 'Religious Fundamentalist'... it's that simple.

@donpietruk1517

13 күн бұрын

See the book The New Puritans which lays out that thesis in detail. Author was Andrew Doyle.

@rfphill

7 күн бұрын

Absolutely... John McWhorter has a book with a similar take..

Loved this Really great interview and discussion 👏

Great interview once again.

I saw you on Paula M and you caught my interest. Looked up your book and made a purchase. Looking forward to your Chanel.

So sad that at the end he had to aim for the cheap virtue of condemning Israel while being clearly ignorant about the facts on the ground. Let's see how quickly his admirers will set out to cancel me for pointing out it.

@shawngarber8155

7 күн бұрын

Does he? I will stop watching now

@DianInHerOrb

4 күн бұрын

You totally misrepresented what he said 46:02 and I think you know that, you just want to virtue-signal. Me pointing this out is not cancelling you, because clearly there is nothing there worth cancelling.

@rys2754

4 күн бұрын

Truth hurts, eh?

@DianInHerOrb

4 күн бұрын

@@rys2754 Oh, sorry you’re hurting 😭 (Not really)

@benh6452

3 күн бұрын

So he talks shit about virtue signaling before partaking from the trough

Here's the thing underpinning all of this; you can't reason with that type of contempt. There is only one cure for that. We all know it and we're all just waiting for that moment. "The anticipation of a battle I cannot avoid is worse than the battle, itself."

Very weird, I was talking about Will Storr the other day. His book I read many years ago, the science of storytelling, didn't just help me become a better writer but changed my perceptions on why we write stories, and the importance they are to the human conscious.

love this broadcast ...as usual

Perhaps, instead of tolerating it and putting up with it, we should all just openly reject and open up wokeness to the ridicule it deserves.

@drwhatson

Күн бұрын

I do my best to do just that...

Love Will Storr. Great catch!

William Storr, thanks for enabling to place confidence in myself again.❤❤❤

I’ve been actually diagnosed autistic and have ADHD after seeking multiple opinions to be sure. I didn’t want to be lumped with everyone diagnosing themselves without seeking the validity of their suspicions. So I saved money, worked harder than I should have with too many bad days, and was finally accepting of it after so many different doctors, psyche med doctor and therapists/psychiatrists all said i meet the criteria of the DSM5. It’s harmful and will take away the supports those who went through the process. I already deal with a lot a problems since the self-diagnosis plague.

@gotmelikezoiinks

14 күн бұрын

Ask yourself why anxiety, autism and adhd go together. These are often hand in hand; you can even have those who are autistic and can have BPD as well; or NPD. You need to spend time researching before you go saying things so flippantly. Why do people wonder things, but never actually obtain information? They just plant a thought and leave it to die without watering it with knowledge gained. It’s just barren and pointless seed not well thought out at all.

@gotmelikezoiinks

14 күн бұрын

When you frame it that way you’re harmful to people who do have this diagnosis formally. It’s a disability under the ADA. It’s ignorant to assume it as just a quirk. Tell me you know nothing about neuroscience and neurodevelopmental disabilities without telling me you know nothing about these things. It’s not what you see all over tiktok. I was following up until this point in the conversation. It was poor. Not getting your book. If this is the stream of logic you run along I know I’ll be missing things. I’ll find others who share you talking points that might have more critical thinking and their talking points more fleshed out.

@rclaws3230

13 күн бұрын

Congratulations on getting blessed by the social science priesthood with the vaunted benediction of medicalized helplessness that grants you access to the holy tithe of public funding and special needs considerations.

@iklijkwelgekmetmijneigennaam

5 күн бұрын

The funny thing is that most( actually) autistic people could not care less about status or being " special".

@iklijkwelgekmetmijneigennaam

5 күн бұрын

@@rclaws3230 Just because a lot of people want to have labels to feel " special" and get benefits doesn't make all people with the label frauds or pretenders. A lot of people with a label get no help or special treatment at all. Don't tar everybody with the same brush please, that is a big problem (thanks to the pretenders) already.

The Japanese don't care if you wear a kimono because they see attempts of outsiders to emulate them as reaffirming the superiority of their culture. Poorly emulating them isn't seen as mocking them because they don't think you have the ability to emulate them and they'll mock you with platitudes.

Love this channel..quality💜

Great talk

So good about what success means. Sucess is just achieving any level of anything that gives you satisfaction and joy. Its not about being remarkable necessarily.

@pathacker4963

9 күн бұрын

Well said!❤

Thank you, you asked the question that I have been thinking about for a while.

Middle of the road is the way to go 😊. Mediocrity is seriously underrated.

@oldskoolaspie

14 күн бұрын

How about radical centrism?

@Amazology

14 күн бұрын

@@oldskoolaspie beats me. Center = right afaik and "the left" is in bad shape. I'm inclined to think "left and right" politics is mostly window dressing anyhow.

@angelh5762

13 күн бұрын

Yup I think the west has threaded the needle between far right and far left. Things have gone a bit tits up😅

@kate60

2 күн бұрын

Funny

I admire heretics who were not completely stupid in the first place.

I take offense with the statement that “all” people are seeking a connection and status among others. I’m not. I don’t care if anyone else wants to be around me or thinks I’m valuable. I KNOW I’M VALUABLE! I am a child of God and my identity is found in Him. He knit me together in my mother’s womb. I am created in His image. I have a purpose in Him. We should not let others decide how we feel. It gives them all the power. “Validate me”. NO! If everyone would just treat everyone else with love - which includes truth - maybe this world wouldn’t be so messed up. But satan is doing his best to destroy humans. AND WE’RE LETTING HIM. Find your place with Jesus. Serve Him and you will find joy. Life may still be difficult, but you will have hope for eternity.

@newtonshiggers

10 күн бұрын

Truth. Being obsessed with status is kinda gay.

Hmmm, my in laws did not go to work to drink vodka, I think that's an exaggeration. Although the reasons why communism doesn't work well ring true. I'm glad he recognises the damaging side of individualistic thinking and me, me, me culture.

People will only reflect respect back to you if they think associating with you will rub off on them and give them greater status.

Hi Andrew. Love your content. One suggestion: perhaps start each video with a short introduction of your guest? I don't know most of the people you have on the show.

The folks who get offended on the behalf of those who do care, are usually just narcissists, and get off on it.

I'm still puzzled about the woke even made it that far with their weird theories

@jimdavis8391

12 күн бұрын

Mass delusion, powerful stuff. ...and fear.

@honkytonk4465

8 күн бұрын

Bell curve plus cowardly politicians.

@iklijkwelgekmetmijneigennaam

5 күн бұрын

They got a lot of help from the media , celebrities and universities, and other organisations.

31:49 Going from high status to low status rapidly ..🤔 This is narcissistic abuse at its finest .. You get to fall in love with yourself because “they” are able to mirror your best parts of you .. Little did you know within that entity which was mirroring was a void .. The abyss .. The land of no return .. When you enter, you didn’t realise what was happening .. You have become the epitome of a desire of perfection .. You might even admire yourself for how well you are doing in this “relationship“ this fantasy.. Soon you will become mortified and a psychological sense .. You’ll find yourself without your own thoughts or desires .. You’ll find yourself so confused being taken from the high to the low .. You may contemplate something awful .. Why would you do that to your own self? There’s nothing worse than self-deception .. The shame that goes along with it is barely tolerable .. The reality of your willingness to be accepted, then realising it was nothing but a supply for a cause you really didn’t understand… To be controlled by a culture such as Nazi Germany, no I don’t think it was mass hypnosis .. It was as the author has described ..

34:44 I believe the expression you wanted was "suckling at the teat"

Not just the BBC local government too, both local councils and the DWP. This is also what has happened in South Africa 🤦‍♀️ reversed prejudice

Joseph Campbell promoted following one’s bliss. Wise words to follow.

Success and virtue does blur, on the level of "what is valuable and what does it mean to be useful for others?” And when people are getting tired of the industrial revolution, wanting other ways to go forward it's not strange there's experiments going on but lacking humility they can go too far.

Such a lucid and coherent take.

14:18 this is lack of bullying, we have to show by being very vocal that the majority of people won't tolerate censuring, that our virtue : free speech

Remember Dr Iain Gilchrist said the more they go in that woke direction the more the paradox of realizing the opposite in the public and increase in resentment.

@bigwheeliejumper

2 күн бұрын

iain should be more widely popular..the left brained vs right brained is a real thing ...and little known

Wow. Now I understand my mother in law. Thanks!

Great Show

Great interview!!

Its fascism. Liberal fascism by Jonah Goldberg called in in like 2006.

@NowioART

13 күн бұрын

During the 3rd Reich the fascist elements in the german army have regularly resqued citizens from the national-socialist SS and SA troops, including jews. They also tried more assassinations against the mustache man than all the allied forces combined. Fascists and Nazis are two different groups, both are generally evil but they are not friends.

Pedantic I know...but sex not gender if we are talking about reality...

He lost me the moment he said those who provided Vs are working on behalf of humanity and are to be admired.

@selkiegal406

11 күн бұрын

Thank you, I was scrolling to see if there was anyone else who had been immediately put off. Of all the examples he could have chosen, with regard to medicine especially, why that one as the narrative around them crumbles and many former proponents start to see the issues?

@CosmicRay111

11 күн бұрын

@@selkiegal406 Everyone is in some sort of a cult they just don't realise it.

@pathacker4963

9 күн бұрын

Especially since they have redefined the word vaccine. It’s meaningless today.

Looking forward to this 😏

17:24 Like that episode of Black Mirror

Loved the book. Many conversations with my "friends" begin and end with their little status games about the houses they live in, the jobs they do, the cars they drive, the size of their wallets etc. It's extremely subtle but it's always there bubbling under the surface. The biggest status game in virtue that's being played at the moment is how much "everyone" hates UKGOV and wants to kick them out whilst completely ignoring the fact that politicians of all parties seem far less capable of improving the lives of many with the traditional levers of "tax" and "spend" in a digital global economy.

03:45 Most status seeking is covert, while a lot of research has been done to female covert status seeking it is largely ignored in males, this is despite the fact that overt status seeking is costly for everyone, meaning that most male status seeking is also covert.

As correct as he is the root of the problem hasnt been solved by being nice about it. And we should be very upset with ourselves, everyone. We've learned of things that can inform and help us and we still cant get on the same plane of existence due to lack of follow through:/ some things work for some others for others its an individual journey and some people need that jolt/tough love those people bring. Takes ALL kinds 🌍

@MultipleGrievance

15 күн бұрын

Well, This fight was never going to be won by the nice people. Hell, From my perspective , it took far too many years for the moderate left To finally open their mouths & start calling this out.

I disagree about his President Trump comments. He was very effective in turning around a faltering American economy and reducing overall unemployment to virtually zero.

@riffmondo9733

9 күн бұрын

Yes but his cabinet a d forign policy were crap. Not to mention his siding with the WHO with Warp Speed covid response.

@matthewwisniewski2962

9 күн бұрын

@@riffmondo9733 His Foreign policy measues were very effective. What about the Abraham Accords? They're still in force despite creepy Joe

@dougkaterankin2450

Күн бұрын

Yes, if the speakers assesment is dodgy on something that obvious how much credibility does the rest of his pater have.

Remember words are flexible. Words have special meanings in different contexts especially Relgion/ political parties/ sexuality ....ongoing . One word can create serious differential understanding of the relationship between other people.

I really like Joe Rogan… there is a reason why he is the most successful podcaster… he interviews some of the most amazing guests…

@thereselarfield7177

15 күн бұрын

I get amongst the woke pages quite often…. I call them out when need be on their hypocrisy and their offensive racist rhetoric against Christians, Jews, white men (white people in general) and the unvaccinated ….I point out the fine line they are walking and where this Mass formation psychosis could led them….some I can debate (they are typically university educated so much more educated then me, it’s a challenge) some become the misogynist white males they really hate…. they come for me on my social media pages, no debate just insults and bullying…. It’s the weirdest thing… Their currency is victimhood… The bear in the woods is their current thing, they bring related memes up multiple times a day… and then they make fun of men… it’s like all men are raging rapists …. I’m trying to get my head around how they think…. I just can’t … they certainly are cultish !!!

@bethotoole6569

15 күн бұрын

It also took a long time to get to that point.

Guys you are absolutely correct