WEBVTT 00:00.880 --> 00:09.540 So, I was reading a comment from a listener earlier today. Shout out to myself. It's supposed 00:09.540 --> 00:19.080 to. Yeah, it was me that wrote it. But it's just, yeah, we got a lot of stuff to go over 00:19.080 --> 00:27.320 today. And yeah, the main monologue that we're going to talk about in the first section 00:27.320 --> 00:33.520 here, whatever you want to call it, if it's going to be an hour or not. But it's the how 00:37.960 --> 00:51.560 fascism, socialism, communism, any form of government, they're all wrong. And I'm going 00:52.300 --> 01:01.160 since it's the Thanksgiving holiday here in the States, I'm going to cover that too. We're 01:01.160 --> 01:06.940 going to talk about a little unknown. It's not really unknown. It's they just don't teach 01:06.940 --> 01:13.600 it in in history class anymore. And I think it's a good thing to get out there because 01:13.600 --> 01:23.040 it really shows what the true meaning of Thanksgiving is. And then after that, oh, after 01:23.040 --> 01:35.520 that, we are going to have an epic hour long trip into. I don't know what you want to 01:35.520 --> 01:41.020 call it, but it's something I've never done. And it's been the most involved thing that 01:41.020 --> 01:55.600 I've done. I've slept a worked in worked on this story for like really a solid month or 01:55.600 --> 02:04.240 so, just this one single story. And I've finally got it to where it's presentable. And 02:04.240 --> 02:13.180 it's going to be fun. It is fiction, of course, but it's based in reality. And the sad thing 02:13.180 --> 02:22.060 is, it's the current state of affairs that we live our lives in. That's by rebels, one 02:22.060 --> 03:08.960 way protocol. That's all coming up here right here on Liberty tunes live on RLM radio. So I 03:08.960 --> 03:15.220 mentioned already that I was reading the comment from a listener and that I made a comment. And 03:15.220 --> 03:21.300 you know, I got a shout out to myself because my comment was really, I thought really good. 03:21.660 --> 03:31.020 But the other person's comments and what it was was a there's in a chat room in a a 03:32.100 --> 03:39.800 communist and basically a socialist was all going at it back and forth, you know. And 03:40.380 --> 03:49.580 basically it was just them arguing the same shit. And they don't realize they're arguing 03:50.040 --> 03:57.200 the exact same shit. And then you can even bring in a, you know, the fascism into the 03:57.200 --> 04:05.100 argument. And they're essentially all fighting over the same thing. I mean, they they they 04:05.100 --> 04:15.040 operate on the soul supreme, unadulterated arrogance that they offer a better way for the 04:15.040 --> 04:22.520 individual to live. They genuinely believe that they can run your life better than you 04:22.520 --> 04:31.800 can. Now just think about the ego required to believe that to look at a human being this 04:31.800 --> 04:43.820 complex, chaotic, beautiful mass of biology, dreams, contradictions, desires and think I 04:43.820 --> 04:54.280 can optimize that I can put that in a spreadsheet. The listener made made a great 04:54.280 --> 05:01.440 distinction though. They said that the only real difference is the delivery method. The 05:01.440 --> 05:07.640 communist wants to force those ideas on you immediately. They use the boot. They use 05:07.640 --> 05:14.060 the gulag. They use the direct threat of state violence to say you will comply because we 05:14.060 --> 05:21.420 own you. The socialists, they're a little more subtle. They want to course you through 05:21.420 --> 05:27.880 the communal majority. They don't use a boot. They use a guilt trip. They use the sheer 05:27.880 --> 05:35.260 weight of the mob. They use the homeowners association from a hell to nag you into 05:35.260 --> 05:43.920 submission. And the fascists, you know how the fascists are, they just force you with 05:43.920 --> 05:50.460 whatever boot that they can find, the biggest, hardest boot they can find. And 05:50.460 --> 05:58.720 they're all, all three of them will start out and say it's for the greater 05:58.720 --> 06:08.080 good. We want everyone to pay their fair share. But the fatal flaw is identical, 06:09.060 --> 06:14.940 whether it's the political or the planning committee. It is the fatal 06:14.940 --> 06:20.800 conceit that a bureaucrat in a windowless room in Washington D. C. Or 06:20.800 --> 06:26.720 somewhere else, someone who has never run a business, never fixed a truck, 06:26.720 --> 06:34.140 never turned a wrench, never stuck a shovel in the ground, never had to hunt 06:34.140 --> 06:41.740 for their own dinner, knows how to spend your dollar better than you do, knows a 06:41.740 --> 06:49.320 diet better for you, knows a health, knows your health and your personal 06:49.320 --> 06:58.640 health better than you. But here's the problem. They view society as a chess 06:58.640 --> 07:07.120 board, and they view you as a pawn. And the problem with playing chess with 07:07.120 --> 07:13.900 human beings, the pawns have their own plans. The pawns have families. The 07:13.900 --> 07:18.660 pawns have distinct motivations that no central planner can ever predict. 07:19.820 --> 07:25.280 And when you try to force the pawns to move against their nature, you don't 07:25.280 --> 07:32.060 get a checkmate. You get a collapse. History isn't just a suggestion, folks. 07:32.860 --> 07:38.560 It's a crime scene. We're going to look at that evidence because every time 07:38.560 --> 07:44.480 this arrogance takes the wheel, the car ends up in the ditch. Let's talk 07:44.480 --> 07:56.480 about sparrows. You want to see the ultimate example of what we know better 07:56.480 --> 08:04.620 than you? You have to go back to 1958. Mouse China, the Great Leap Forward, 08:05.500 --> 08:12.180 unquote, unquote. Spoiler alert. It wasn't a leap. It was a face plant. 08:13.140 --> 08:17.090 The central planners, the experts, the scientists, the guys with the 08:17.090 --> 08:21.930 board who love the smell of their own ink. They looked at the agriculture 08:21.930 --> 08:27.690 numbers, and they identified a villain, the Eurasian tree sparrow. 08:29.430 --> 08:34.030 See, the government did the math, linear bureaucratic math. They 08:34.030 --> 08:38.150 calculated that a single sparrow eats about four and a half pounds of 08:38.150 --> 08:42.950 grain a year. So naturally, if you kill a million sparrows, you save 08:42.950 --> 08:47.870 four and a half million pounds of food for the people. It's simple. It's 08:47.870 --> 08:55.790 logic. It's moronic. So now drafted the four pest campaign. And here is 08:55.790 --> 09:00.490 where that communal majority comes in that we talked about. They 09:00.490 --> 09:05.770 mobilized the entire country. I'm not exaggerating. They didn't just 09:05.770 --> 09:10.170 shoot the birds. They told citizens to go outside with pots, pans, 09:10.170 --> 09:15.830 drums and gongs. The goal was to make up so much noise that the 09:15.830 --> 09:20.990 sparrows would be too terrified to land. Imagine that an entire 09:20.990 --> 09:25.610 nation banging on cookware, forcing these birds to fly until they 09:25.610 --> 09:29.550 literally dropped out of the sky dead from exhaustion. They 09:29.550 --> 09:33.410 smashed eggs. They destroyed nests. It was a war against 09:33.410 --> 09:38.190 nature. And the state won. They nearly wiped out the sparrow 09:38.190 --> 09:43.690 population. The party officials patted themselves on the back. They 09:43.690 --> 09:49.130 gave each other metals. We fixed the inefficiency of nature. But 09:49.130 --> 09:53.050 they forgot one little variable. The kind of variable the 09:53.050 --> 09:56.450 individual farmer knows. But the bureaucrat in the Capitol 09:56.450 --> 10:04.490 ignores. Sparrows don't just eat grain. They eat locusts. With 10:04.490 --> 10:07.690 no sparrows to act as the Air Force, the locust population 10:07.690 --> 10:13.750 exploded. It was biblical. The swarms covered the sky. They 10:13.750 --> 10:17.390 didn't eat just eat the grain. They ate everything. The 10:17.390 --> 10:23.070 harvest didn't just dip. It vanished. The result wasn't more 10:23.070 --> 10:28.170 food. The result was the great Chinese famine. estimates say 10:28.170 --> 10:34.650 anywhere from 15 to 45 million people died. Start the death 10:34.650 --> 10:38.110 because the government thought they could edit the ecosystem 10:38.110 --> 10:42.830 like a rough draft of a bad speech. And you want to hear the 10:42.830 --> 10:48.830 punchline? The irony that hurts to laugh at. By 1960 the 10:48.830 --> 10:52.150 Chinese government realized their mistake. They had to go to 10:52.150 --> 10:58.150 the Soviet Union and import sparrows. They had to beg to 10:58.150 --> 11:01.790 get the birds back. This is what happens when you trade 11:01.790 --> 11:05.450 individual knowledge for collective arrogance. They 11:05.450 --> 11:09.990 tried to engineer reality and reality hit back with a body 11:09.990 --> 11:17.030 count. And yet people today still think well we would do it 11:17.030 --> 11:26.470 better this time. Don't bet on it. Not gonna happen. Here's 11:26.470 --> 11:28.690 some more historical evidence for you. This is the 11:28.690 --> 11:34.910 Thanksgiving part. I can hear you guys already the 11:34.910 --> 11:38.170 skeptics. But bonehead that was Mao. That was China. That was 11:38.170 --> 11:42.350 a dictatorship. That can't happen here. It already did. 11:43.290 --> 11:46.110 In fact, it's the reason you're about to stuff your face 11:46.110 --> 11:51.190 with turkey and watch football next Thursday. We need to 11:51.190 --> 11:54.490 talk about the real origin of Thanksgiving. Not the 11:54.490 --> 11:57.710 construction paper or hand turkey version you learned in 11:57.710 --> 12:01.390 second grade. Not the sanitized everyone held hands and 12:01.390 --> 12:05.250 shared equally meth. I'm talking about the Plymouth colony 12:05.250 --> 12:10.130 1620. When the pilgrims first landed they didn't just 12:10.130 --> 12:13.670 bring buckles and bibles. They brought a corporate 12:13.670 --> 12:17.270 contract from their sponsors back in London. That 12:17.270 --> 12:20.310 contract mandated a system that would make a modern 12:20.310 --> 12:24.410 socialist blush. It was called the common course and 12:24.410 --> 12:30.150 condition. Here are the rules. No private property. No 12:30.150 --> 12:33.230 personal ownership of land. Everything you grew, 12:33.650 --> 12:36.330 everything you hunted, and everything you built went 12:36.330 --> 12:39.490 into a common storehouse. And then the net rations 12:39.490 --> 12:42.770 were distributed equally. It didn't matter if you 12:42.770 --> 12:46.050 worked 14 hours a day or four. It didn't matter if 12:46.050 --> 12:48.150 you were the best farmer or the laziest slacker. 12:48.150 --> 12:53.530 You got the same share. Sounds fair, right? Sounds 12:53.530 --> 12:57.790 like that communal majority utopia my listener was 12:57.790 --> 13:02.790 talking about. Well, guess what happened? They nearly 13:02.790 --> 13:07.050 starved to death. It was a disaster. Governor William 13:07.050 --> 13:09.470 Bradford, the guy running the show, kept the diary 13:09.470 --> 13:12.630 and he didn't mince words. He wrote that the young 13:12.630 --> 13:15.890 able-bodied men suddenly didn't feel like working. 13:16.470 --> 13:19.990 They resented spreading their sweat or spending their 13:19.990 --> 13:23.930 sweat in time laboring to feed other men's wives and 13:23.930 --> 13:27.730 children without any compensation. They felt used. 13:27.990 --> 13:31.510 They felt like slaves to the community. So they 13:31.510 --> 13:35.610 stopped working. They feigned illness. The 13:35.610 --> 13:37.770 crops rotted. The common storehouse was empty. 13:38.570 --> 13:40.910 The colony was on the brink of extinction because 13:40.910 --> 13:44.590 they tried to outsource individual responsibility to 13:44.590 --> 13:49.650 the collective. So in 1623 was starvation staring at 13:49.650 --> 13:52.590 them in the in the face. Governor Bradford did 13:52.590 --> 13:55.730 something radical. He scrapped the socialist 13:55.730 --> 13:59.910 experiment. He abolished the common course. He 13:59.910 --> 14:03.270 assigned every family their own plot of land. He 14:03.270 --> 14:05.650 told them whatever you grow on this land is yours. 14:06.190 --> 14:08.550 You eat it. You trade it. You sell it. It 14:08.550 --> 14:13.770 belongs to you. The effect was electric. Bradford 14:13.770 --> 14:16.710 wrote that suddenly the women now willingly went 14:16.710 --> 14:18.950 into the field and took their little ones with 14:18.950 --> 14:22.990 them to get corn. People who had claimed that 14:22.990 --> 14:25.270 they were too sick to work under the collective 14:25.270 --> 14:28.290 system were suddenly the hardest workers in the 14:28.290 --> 14:31.930 colony. Productivity didn't just increase. It 14:31.930 --> 14:35.570 exploded. They had a bumper harvest. They 14:35.570 --> 14:37.750 had so much food that they finally had something 14:37.750 --> 14:41.270 to be truly thankful for. That's the real 14:41.270 --> 14:44.710 lessons of Thanksgiving. It wasn't a celebration 14:44.710 --> 14:47.850 of a socialist commune working. It was a 14:47.850 --> 14:50.710 celebration that the socialist commune ended. 14:51.670 --> 14:54.310 They survived because they embraced the only 14:54.310 --> 14:58.210 system that aligns with human nature. Private 14:58.210 --> 15:03.370 property and individual incentive. We feast 15:03.370 --> 15:06.070 next Thursday not because they shared 15:06.070 --> 15:08.590 everything but because they were finally 15:08.590 --> 15:12.150 allowed to keep what they created. It's more 15:12.150 --> 15:14.370 than just Native Americans and settlers coming 15:14.370 --> 15:17.730 together. It was also a celebration of human 15:17.730 --> 15:21.330 ingenuity, private ownership, self-reliance, 15:21.570 --> 15:24.430 and the responsibility of the individual, not 15:24.430 --> 15:28.050 the collective. That makes humanity thrive. 15:29.450 --> 15:31.790 That's the real reason you were never taught 15:31.790 --> 15:34.350 this in history books. It's also the 15:34.350 --> 15:36.610 reason they focused the story so much on the 15:36.610 --> 15:39.610 Native Americans and not the exact situation 15:39.610 --> 15:43.810 the Plymouth settlers were in. They don't want you to 15:43.810 --> 15:48.110 remember the real history. Now think about that 15:48.490 --> 15:50.230 when you pass the cranberry sauce. 16:15.710 --> 16:18.530 You're screaming for help but no one hears. Just the 16:18.530 --> 16:22.550 echo of your own fears. No one's coming. No 16:22.550 --> 16:24.570 salvation. Just the government's cruel 16:25.330 --> 16:27.690 nationation. Police and military. They guard 16:27.690 --> 16:30.350 not you but the system. The elite. The 16:30.350 --> 16:34.310 chosen few. They promise security. 16:34.790 --> 16:37.910 Peace and order. But all you get is a tighter 16:37.910 --> 16:40.390 border. Soldiers march not for your 16:40.390 --> 16:42.710 protection but to keep the chains on 16:42.710 --> 16:45.610 your reflection. In the dark under neon 16:45.610 --> 16:48.230 lights. I see the fight but no one fights 16:48.230 --> 16:51.310 right. The mask I wear. A symbol of war 16:51.310 --> 16:54.930 against the state against the core. No one's 16:54.930 --> 16:57.450 coming. No salvation. Just the government's 16:57.450 --> 17:00.510 cruel machination. Police and military. They 17:00.510 --> 17:03.490 guard not you but the system. The elite. The 17:03.490 --> 17:07.590 chosen few. Stand up. Stand up. In this 17:07.590 --> 17:32.580 look around. The truth's in plain sight. The 17:32.580 --> 17:34.580 government's here to maintain their might. 17:34.720 --> 17:37.240 You're just a number. A cog in the wheel. 17:37.760 --> 17:40.440 Their control's the only deal they seal. So wear 17:40.440 --> 17:43.280 your mask. Join the rebellion against the 17:43.280 --> 17:46.400 tech. The corporate hellion. In this dystopia 17:46.400 --> 17:49.480 we're on our own. No one's coming. We're 17:49.480 --> 18:13.270 alone. No one's coming. No salvation. Just 18:13.270 --> 18:16.090 the government's cruel machination. Police 18:16.090 --> 18:18.510 and military. They guard not you but the 18:18.510 --> 18:21.830 system. The elite. The chosen few. No one's 18:21.830 --> 18:24.590 coming. No salvation. Just the government's cruel 18:25.170 --> 18:27.690 machination. Police and military. They guard 18:27.690 --> 18:30.310 not you but the system. The elite. The 18:30.310 --> 18:58.680 chosen few. I just realized that I forgot to 18:59.200 --> 19:02.900 download this video of a news report 19:03.400 --> 19:06.560 to play on this part. But no worries. I'll 19:06.560 --> 19:08.900 fix it in post-production or you know 19:08.900 --> 19:12.300 what do you do. Yeah put just put the link in there. 19:12.580 --> 19:15.200 But it's a news report about back in 19:15.200 --> 19:18.320 Venezuela about eight nine years ago 19:18.320 --> 19:20.560 when they started to go south with their 19:20.560 --> 19:23.140 great stuff because they were really a 19:23.140 --> 19:31.360 great superpower and the people got so 19:31.360 --> 19:33.080 hungry because they couldn't afford to 19:33.080 --> 19:34.480 eat that they broke into zoos and 19:34.480 --> 19:36.600 started eating the animals. But anyways 19:36.600 --> 19:42.260 I digress. Yeah before the break you 19:42.260 --> 19:44.320 know I talked about the arrogance of 19:44.320 --> 19:46.900 the leaders. The ones who think they can 19:46.900 --> 19:49.740 calculate a harvest or design a society 19:49.740 --> 19:53.580 from top down. Now I want you I want a 19:53.580 --> 19:56.480 pit of it. I want to talk about the 19:56.480 --> 19:59.040 weapon they use to keep you in line 19:59.040 --> 20:00.940 when they when you when they run out of 20:00.940 --> 20:04.100 bullets or before they even buy them. 20:04.800 --> 20:07.240 My listener back to that comment 20:07.240 --> 20:11.440 earlier. He made a short observation. 20:11.440 --> 20:14.540 He noted that while Communism uses the 20:14.540 --> 20:17.300 government boot socialism often relies 20:17.300 --> 20:19.000 on being coerced through a communal 20:19.000 --> 20:22.940 majority. Now pause and think about that 20:22.940 --> 20:25.060 phrase coerced through a communal 20:25.060 --> 20:30.440 majority. It sounds so nice doesn't it 20:31.170 --> 20:34.460 communal. Sounds like a potluck dinner 20:35.980 --> 20:38.760 sounds like barring a cup of sugar from 20:38.760 --> 20:40.880 your neighbor. But in practice 20:42.680 --> 20:46.420 is it the soft tyranny of the mob. Yes 20:47.340 --> 20:51.600 it is. See the brilliance of this system 20:51.600 --> 20:53.640 is that the state doesn't always have 20:53.640 --> 20:56.700 to be the bad guy. They outsource the 20:56.700 --> 21:00.120 enforcement to you to your neighbors 21:00.780 --> 21:03.800 to your co-workers. They create a 21:03.800 --> 21:04.340 culture 21:07.730 --> 21:10.940 where conforming is moral and dissenting 21:10.940 --> 21:14.220 is dangerous. They're doing that right 21:14.220 --> 21:17.740 now. Even remember what was back 21:17.740 --> 21:24.640 I think it was obamas or late obamas 21:25.330 --> 21:28.180 second term. If you see something say 21:28.180 --> 21:28.580 something 21:31.020 --> 21:34.260 and then that carried into Trump's 21:34.260 --> 21:36.500 first term and obviously Biden's you 21:36.500 --> 21:38.360 know it's always if you see see see 21:38.360 --> 21:39.280 something say something. 21:42.040 --> 21:45.020 Like the red flag laws for guns. 21:48.300 --> 21:51.100 I just got to remind everybody 21:52.340 --> 21:54.410 you know everybody talks about the 21:54.410 --> 21:55.150 story of Anne Frank. 21:58.070 --> 22:00.950 The people who turned in Anne Frank the 22:00.950 --> 22:04.070 dude. Yeah he was following the law. 22:06.530 --> 22:09.870 He was he was the actual one that was 22:09.870 --> 22:11.290 legally and they're correct. 22:13.890 --> 22:15.950 Just because something's legal does not 22:15.950 --> 22:16.630 mean it's right. 22:20.050 --> 22:22.050 The people that were hiding Anne Frank 22:22.050 --> 22:25.790 in her family they were they were 22:25.790 --> 22:28.950 breaking the law and everybody 22:28.950 --> 22:31.650 celebrates. It's like everybody goes to 22:31.650 --> 22:35.150 the movies like I don't know I don't 22:35.150 --> 22:36.810 pick your favorite Marvel superhero 22:38.210 --> 22:39.610 or you know Batman. 22:41.790 --> 22:45.810 You know they're everybody's for the 22:45.810 --> 22:49.330 rebel in the movies. They stand up 22:49.330 --> 22:51.970 they cheer you know fight the big 22:51.970 --> 22:55.330 man but then in reality when the 22:55.330 --> 22:56.590 government comes up and says say 22:56.590 --> 22:58.750 something see something say something 22:58.750 --> 23:02.610 let us know. Everybody bends a knee. 23:09.290 --> 23:10.970 They tell you that true freedom is 23:10.970 --> 23:13.550 selfish. They tell you that relying on 23:13.550 --> 23:14.650 yourself is suspicious. 23:15.690 --> 23:17.370 They want you to believe that the 23:17.370 --> 23:19.930 social contract a contract by the 23:19.930 --> 23:21.750 way that none of us ever signed 23:22.790 --> 23:26.110 requires you to subject or submit 23:26.110 --> 23:30.010 to group think. If you succeed too 23:30.010 --> 23:32.850 much you're greedy. If you want to keep 23:32.850 --> 23:36.790 what you earn you're anti-social. If you 23:36.790 --> 23:38.910 want to educate your own kids you're 23:38.910 --> 23:40.730 undermining your public the truck 23:40.730 --> 23:44.650 public trust. It's a psychological prison. 23:44.910 --> 23:46.730 The walls aren't made of concrete 23:46.730 --> 23:50.070 they're made of shame. They're made of 23:50.070 --> 23:52.470 the fear of being the outsider. 23:53.730 --> 23:56.430 They sell you this idea of a safety net. 23:57.110 --> 23:58.910 Let the community take care of you if 23:58.910 --> 24:01.570 they say. Let the majority decide. 24:03.590 --> 24:07.670 I still say the majority and the 24:07.670 --> 24:10.050 democracy is gang rape. 24:14.050 --> 24:15.710 But let me tell you something about 24:15.710 --> 24:18.990 nets. If a net is tight enough to 24:18.990 --> 24:19.730 catch you in 24:20.770 --> 24:23.490 when you fall it's tight enough to 24:23.490 --> 24:25.930 strangle you when you try to stand up. 24:26.230 --> 24:29.430 That safety net is a spider web. Once 24:29.430 --> 24:31.790 you're in it you owe the spider. 24:34.350 --> 24:36.670 Listener ended his comment with only 24:37.430 --> 24:39.050 with the only truth that really matters 24:39.050 --> 24:42.290 really. The only real freedom is that 24:42.290 --> 24:44.590 of the individual and he's right. 24:45.650 --> 24:48.390 Freedom isn't about voting for the guy 24:48.390 --> 24:50.390 who promises to give you the most free 24:50.390 --> 24:53.730 shit. Freedom is the ability to look at 24:53.730 --> 24:56.510 the communal majority. Look at the mob 24:56.510 --> 24:58.590 look at the collective and say the 24:58.590 --> 25:00.410 most powerful word in the English 25:00.410 --> 25:06.030 language. No. No I won't participate. 25:07.050 --> 25:11.810 No I won't conform. No I won't pretend 25:11.810 --> 25:14.910 your lie is the truth just to fit in. 25:18.630 --> 25:22.050 But be warned when you say no to the 25:22.050 --> 25:25.130 collective things get ugly and if you 25:25.130 --> 25:26.790 think the communal majority is just 25:26.790 --> 25:29.430 about peer pressure you haven't looked 25:29.430 --> 25:32.890 at East Germany. Let's let's take a look 25:32.890 --> 25:34.510 at what happens when the community 25:35.310 --> 25:37.170 becomes the informant. 25:40.770 --> 25:42.550 I always watch out for 25:44.050 --> 25:45.730 countries that have to put the word 25:45.730 --> 25:48.590 democratic in their name. It's like a 25:48.590 --> 25:50.710 used car salesman telling you a car is 25:50.710 --> 25:53.430 reliable. They have to say it probably 25:53.430 --> 25:55.790 isn't. So let's take a trip to East 25:55.790 --> 25:58.310 Germany the GDR the German Democratic 25:58.310 --> 26:00.950 Republic. We're talking about the 26:00.950 --> 26:03.590 Stasi the Ministry for State 26:03.590 --> 26:07.610 Security. Now most people have to think 26:07.610 --> 26:09.870 of the Stasi as the secret police. 26:10.530 --> 26:13.490 Minutes stretch coats, bugging phones, 26:13.690 --> 26:17.330 opening mail. Sure they did that but 26:17.330 --> 26:19.350 that wasn't their true power. Their 26:19.350 --> 26:22.090 true power was what they weaponized 26:22.790 --> 26:26.470 the community. See the Stasi didn't 26:26.470 --> 26:28.770 have enough officers to watch everyone. 26:29.210 --> 26:32.230 No government does. So they recruited 26:32.230 --> 26:36.150 the I'm going to butcher these words. In 26:36.150 --> 26:39.470 Appasio meet Peter the informal 26:39.470 --> 26:42.650 collaborators. These weren't uniformed 26:42.650 --> 26:45.350 officers. These were your neighbors, your 26:45.350 --> 26:47.830 co-workers, your teachers, even your 26:47.830 --> 26:51.430 family members. History tells us by 26:51.430 --> 26:53.250 that by the time the wall came down 26:53.250 --> 26:57.370 in 1989 the Stasi had about 90,000 26:57.370 --> 27:00.090 official officers but they had over 27:01.890 --> 27:07.150 170,000 informants. Think about that 27:07.150 --> 27:12.150 ratio including part-time snitches. It's 27:12.150 --> 27:14.450 estimated that there was one informer 27:14.450 --> 27:17.770 for every six and a half citizens. If 27:17.770 --> 27:19.830 you sat down for dinner with six 27:19.830 --> 27:22.910 friends statistically one of them was 27:22.910 --> 27:26.130 writing a report on you. This was the 27:26.130 --> 27:27.830 ultimate perversion of the communal 27:27.830 --> 27:30.170 majority. They convinced people that 27:30.170 --> 27:32.490 loyalty to the state was more 27:32.490 --> 27:34.310 important than loyalty to their own 27:34.310 --> 27:39.150 blood. There are files, miles of files 27:39.820 --> 27:41.650 that people found after the wall fell. 27:42.630 --> 27:44.570 Women found out their husbands had been 27:44.570 --> 27:46.130 reporting on them for years. 27:46.650 --> 27:48.630 Kids found out their parents were 27:48.630 --> 27:50.270 informants. Best friends realized 27:50.270 --> 27:52.870 their confidential late night chats 27:52.870 --> 27:55.890 about politics were transcribed in a 27:55.890 --> 27:57.370 government basement the next morning. 27:58.830 --> 28:02.570 Why did they do it? Coercion. The state 28:02.570 --> 28:05.770 said if you want that promotion, if you 28:05.770 --> 28:07.350 want your kid to get into university, 28:07.940 --> 28:10.550 if you want a new apartment, you help 28:10.550 --> 28:12.510 the collective, you help the majority 28:12.510 --> 28:14.010 root out the dissents. 28:17.110 --> 28:18.990 They destroyed the most fundamental 28:18.990 --> 28:24.030 unit of freedom. Trust. They created a 28:24.030 --> 28:26.130 society where nobody spoke the truth 28:26.130 --> 28:28.030 because the community was listening. 28:28.710 --> 28:31.390 And if the community is listening, the 28:31.390 --> 28:34.870 individual will go silent. That is the 28:34.870 --> 28:37.550 end game of community coercion. It's not 28:37.550 --> 28:39.530 a neighborhood watch. It's a prison 28:39.990 --> 28:42.190 where the inmates guard each other. 28:43.070 --> 28:45.170 And the moment you stop trusting your 28:45.170 --> 28:47.810 neighbor is the moment the state has 28:47.810 --> 28:50.890 won. But hey, at least they had free 28:50.890 --> 28:54.610 health care, right? Got one more stop on 28:54.610 --> 28:56.430 this tour of good intentions. 28:59.150 --> 29:01.730 Happy Thanksgiving everybody. And this one 29:01.730 --> 29:04.470 isn't in the history books yet because 29:04.470 --> 32:49.030 it's happening right now. Let's bring 32:49.030 --> 32:52.530 this home. Let's bring us to the 21st 32:52.530 --> 32:56.110 century. Because I know some of what 32:56.110 --> 32:59.430 you're thinking. Bonad, you're talking 32:59.430 --> 33:02.230 about pilgrims Cold War relics. We're 33:02.230 --> 33:05.670 modern. We have iPhones. We're smarter 33:05.670 --> 33:06.010 now. 33:09.390 --> 33:13.070 Tell that to Venezuela. Not long ago, I'm 33:13.070 --> 33:14.450 talking historically yesterday. 33:15.730 --> 33:18.950 Venezuela wasn't just a country. It was 33:18.950 --> 33:22.050 a jewel of South America and sat on the 33:22.050 --> 33:24.010 largest proven oil reserves on the 33:24.010 --> 33:27.110 planet. They were wealthy. They were 33:27.110 --> 33:29.530 modern. They didn't start with gulags. 33:30.550 --> 33:33.970 They didn't start with a coup. They started 33:33.970 --> 33:38.370 with a vote. They voted for socialism of 33:38.370 --> 33:41.850 the 21st century. That was the brand name. 33:42.310 --> 33:45.690 It was a shiny. They promised that the 33:45.690 --> 33:48.190 common communal majority would finally 33:48.190 --> 33:51.950 get their fair share. They cheered when 33:51.950 --> 33:53.890 the government seized the oil companies. 33:54.430 --> 33:57.630 Take that corporate greed. They cheered 33:57.630 --> 33:59.990 when they seized the farms. Land for the 33:59.990 --> 34:03.550 people. They cheered when they set price 34:03.550 --> 34:06.730 controls on food. Finally fair prices 34:06.730 --> 34:07.470 for everyone. 34:09.470 --> 34:13.870 And then the math showed up. You see 34:13.870 --> 34:16.370 when you seize a business, you don't 34:16.370 --> 34:18.450 seize the knowledge of how to run it. 34:19.290 --> 34:21.770 When you demonize profit, you destroy 34:21.770 --> 34:25.790 the incentive to produce the result, the 34:25.790 --> 34:31.270 Maduro diet. That's a real term. In 2016, a 34:31.270 --> 34:34.230 university study found that 75% of the 34:34.230 --> 34:37.270 population of Venezuela had lost an 34:37.270 --> 34:40.510 average of 19 pounds. Not because they 34:40.510 --> 34:44.050 were hitting the gym, but because there 34:44.050 --> 34:46.790 was nothing to eat. We're talking 34:46.790 --> 34:48.570 about a country they used to export 34:48.570 --> 34:51.930 food, now digging through trash bins. 34:57.410 --> 34:58.790 Remember those zoo animals I mentioned 34:58.790 --> 35:02.210 a while ago? There are confirmed reports 35:02.870 --> 35:06.130 from the state of Zulia, from Caracos, 35:06.810 --> 35:08.950 Caracas, however you pronounce it, of 35:08.950 --> 35:12.590 people breaking into zoos. Not to steal 35:12.590 --> 35:14.570 the cash register, but to steal the 35:14.570 --> 35:19.050 animals, to eat them. Imagine the 35:19.050 --> 35:21.130 desperation required to look at a zoo 35:21.130 --> 35:23.870 exhibit and see a grocery aisle. 35:27.710 --> 35:30.390 I know what you're thinking. You just 35:30.390 --> 35:32.730 know, bonehead, you only know what you 35:32.730 --> 35:36.850 saw online. No, I've got friends that 35:36.850 --> 35:40.130 live in Venezuela. If you don't, if 35:40.130 --> 35:42.890 you've listened to me a while, you know 35:42.890 --> 35:44.550 I did a show called Loud and Proud. 35:47.730 --> 35:51.270 One of the members of our hosts on 35:51.270 --> 35:55.750 that show was this new girl. Everybody 35:55.750 --> 35:57.630 called her Andy, because her name was 35:57.630 --> 36:01.130 Angelice, and she lived in Venezuela 36:02.230 --> 36:04.230 while this was all going on. 36:07.150 --> 36:09.230 I don't know if she's still in Venezuela. 36:09.510 --> 36:12.850 I hope to hell not, but she couldn't 36:12.850 --> 36:13.890 leave because of her mom. 36:18.170 --> 36:21.930 She lived through this. She told us 36:21.930 --> 36:24.350 about this stuff as it was happening. 36:27.130 --> 36:30.550 Another frequent, frequent person that 36:30.550 --> 36:33.230 was on the show was Nahupuku. 36:34.790 --> 36:38.490 He lived in Venezuela at the same time. 36:39.750 --> 36:42.850 A different part from where Andy was at. 36:44.490 --> 36:47.090 But the same shit was going on in his city. 36:50.350 --> 36:54.170 They couldn't eat. Nahupuku was a big dude 36:55.150 --> 36:56.810 when he first came on the show. 36:58.970 --> 37:01.050 He wasn't a big dude the last time we 37:01.050 --> 37:02.010 had a show with him. 37:06.370 --> 37:07.130 It's 37:10.870 --> 37:14.630 this thick rim reality of quote unquote 37:14.630 --> 37:15.710 the better way. 37:17.350 --> 37:19.870 They traded their economic freedom for 37:19.870 --> 37:22.650 a promise of security, and they end up 37:22.650 --> 37:25.250 eating zoo animals in the dark. 37:28.150 --> 37:32.390 Just remember, if you ever vote your way into 37:32.390 --> 37:35.470 socialism, you're going to have to shoot 37:35.470 --> 37:36.510 your way out of it. 37:37.290 --> 37:39.250 If you vote your way into communism, 37:40.330 --> 37:42.710 you're going to have to shoot your way out of it. 37:43.710 --> 37:46.110 If you vote your way into fascism, 37:47.090 --> 37:49.290 you're going to have to shoot your way out of it. 37:52.790 --> 37:54.830 That's just the reality. 37:55.670 --> 37:57.490 Of the world that we live in. 38:01.230 --> 38:02.950 Because it's, it's, 38:05.430 --> 38:11.070 I get so tired of the left versus right bullshit. 38:13.930 --> 38:16.530 My side, my ruler is better than your ruler. 38:18.670 --> 38:21.890 And it's, you've got to understand. 38:24.410 --> 38:26.430 It's not left versus right. 38:26.670 --> 38:28.230 It's not red versus blue. 38:29.870 --> 38:33.410 It's the state versus you. 42:13.600 --> 42:15.100 So what have we learned today? 42:15.980 --> 42:17.820 We've looked at the pilgrims starving 42:17.820 --> 42:19.380 in their common storehouse. 42:19.900 --> 42:22.320 We looked at Mao fighting a war against 42:22.320 --> 42:23.460 sparrows and losing. 42:24.900 --> 42:26.960 We've looked at the stasi turning 42:26.960 --> 42:28.980 neighbors into snitches and Venezuela 42:28.980 --> 42:31.000 turning zoos into butcher shops. 42:32.060 --> 42:33.340 The scenery changes. 42:34.060 --> 42:35.060 The uniforms change. 42:35.360 --> 42:36.320 The slogans change. 42:36.860 --> 42:39.700 But the math never changes. 42:40.520 --> 42:42.880 You cannot calculate the human spirit. 42:43.520 --> 42:46.640 You cannot centralize the human drive to survive. 42:47.680 --> 42:50.960 My listener who started this whole rant for today 42:51.360 --> 42:52.220 said it best. 42:52.800 --> 42:56.320 The only real freedom is that of the individual. 42:57.340 --> 42:59.220 That isn't just a bumper sticker. 42:59.860 --> 43:02.700 It's the only surviving survival strategy 43:03.200 --> 43:05.540 that has ever worked. 43:06.640 --> 43:09.280 So stop looking for a savior in the government. 43:09.900 --> 43:12.240 Stop looking for meaning in the collective. 43:13.160 --> 43:15.140 The collective doesn't care if you eat. 43:15.840 --> 43:18.600 The collective doesn't care if you dream. 43:19.780 --> 43:23.200 The only person coming to save you is you. 43:24.060 --> 43:26.020 And frankly, that's the only person 43:26.020 --> 43:27.340 qualified for the job. 43:29.220 --> 43:30.060 A monkey bonehead. 43:30.680 --> 43:31.940 Keep your head on a swivel. 43:32.420 --> 43:33.800 Keep your hands on the wheel. 43:34.180 --> 43:37.800 And for the love of God, don't eat the sparrows. 43:38.640 --> 43:39.780 We'll see you next time. 43:41.000 --> 43:42.040 They're too small. 43:43.340 --> 43:44.300 No, I don't care. 43:44.600 --> 43:46.540 The sparrows are too small. 43:46.820 --> 43:47.320 What is that? 43:47.420 --> 43:48.360 It's like an appetizer. 43:49.200 --> 43:50.320 You want to eat a turkey. 43:52.240 --> 43:53.540 I mean forget the turkey. 43:53.760 --> 43:54.400 Eat an ostrich. 43:55.180 --> 43:56.880 My God, how many could you 43:57.500 --> 44:00.300 how many people can you feed on an ostrich leg? 44:01.020 --> 44:02.000 Good Lord. 44:04.160 --> 44:04.940 Or an emu. 44:05.460 --> 44:07.060 I wonder what an emu tastes like. 44:08.420 --> 44:09.860 I wonder if you could barbecue it. 44:10.560 --> 44:11.300 That would be awesome. 44:12.300 --> 44:14.160 Anyways, we're going to take a break 44:14.160 --> 44:15.760 and then we're going to come back and... 44:18.620 --> 44:20.900 Dude, I don't know what to call this. 44:21.920 --> 44:25.980 I don't know if I should call this an audio book. 44:26.920 --> 44:28.420 A rock opera? 44:29.660 --> 44:31.640 I have no clue what to call it. 44:31.900 --> 44:36.880 It's the playthrough of the album 44:37.440 --> 44:40.140 by Rebels newest album, One Way Protocol. 44:40.760 --> 44:43.580 But it tells a complete story. 44:43.760 --> 44:47.040 I haven't done this at all. 44:47.400 --> 44:49.080 I mean, I've done a couple of things 44:49.080 --> 44:51.260 where all the songs are all kind of 44:51.840 --> 44:54.200 fit along the same concept. 44:54.200 --> 44:57.820 But this actually tells a story. 44:58.200 --> 45:03.140 And I have a story narration to go between the songs. 45:04.500 --> 45:08.600 So there's just 56 minutes of music for it. 45:10.220 --> 45:12.560 And no, 51 minutes of music. 45:13.860 --> 45:16.360 And I don't know how long it's going to take me to read 45:16.360 --> 45:17.640 the narration. 45:17.920 --> 45:18.980 But we're going to take a break 45:18.980 --> 45:20.320 and we're going to come right back 45:20.320 --> 45:24.060 and jump in to by Rebels One Way Protocol. 45:24.060 --> 45:28.360 I hope you enjoy it because I've worked my ass off on it.