1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: During the decade of the nineteen twenties, people's lives changed profoundly. 2 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: Tens of millions of them got electric appliances. People got automobiles, 3 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: The aviation industry was born, the jazz age flourished. It 4 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: was a time of unprecedented creativity. One hundred years later, 5 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: it would not be unfair to call this decade the 6 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: twenty twenties the angry decade. Everywhere we look in public 7 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: life projected by the American media is anger, rage, resentment, 8 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: and grievance. Take this man, for example, Russell Verbrandt. He 9 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: appeared on his Conspiracy Theorist podcast to preempt becoming news 10 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: the serious allegations of rape published in multiple British newspapers 11 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: that include the sexual assault of a sixteen year old 12 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:10,559 Speaker 1: who apparently he referred to as the child in emails. Now, 13 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: Russell brand In. These allegations even two years ago would 14 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: have been immediately condemned by the culture at large, but 15 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: that's not what happened. Hours after these allegations, Russell brand 16 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:34,320 Speaker 1: strove triumphantly into a Wembley Theater in London, where he 17 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: was cheered wildly by two thousand people. Two thousand people 18 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: cheered wildly for a man who just had been credibly 19 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: accused of multiple sexual assaults, including the rape of a 20 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 1: sixteen year old. What does that say about the culture? 21 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: What does that say about a degradation of character? Does 22 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: anybody else feel like the society is in a type 23 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: of free fall? Why is it that would have been 24 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 1: condemned eighteen months ago is now celebrated And why has 25 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 1: a rape allegation that is so credible been politicized? Because, 26 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: of course, immediately the ubiquitous Elon Musk weighed in on 27 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:34,519 Speaker 1: the matter. Elon Musk we waid in on the side 28 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 1: of the alleged rapist. A week ago Elon Musk was 29 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: attacking the Anti Defamation League with overt acts of anti Semitism, 30 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: and of the week before that he was interfering in 31 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: the ability of the Ukrainian nation to defend itself, and 32 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: the week before that it was something else. And of 33 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: course Andrew Tate weighed in. This low person who seeks 34 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: to model himself as an exemplar of manhood to young 35 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 1: men globally weighed in on the side of the rapist. 36 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: And of course there was Tucker Carlson from his basement 37 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: redoubt weighing it as well, Tucker Carlson, joining the acutoseexual 38 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: trafficker Tate and Elon Musk to say that the accusations 39 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:34,679 Speaker 1: against Brands were, in fact all part of a giant 40 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: mainstream media conspiracy to silence the truth about the pharmaceutical companies, 41 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: about the war in Iraq, and about the ever present, 42 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: ubiquitous day that menaces the people at all hours every day. 43 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 1: Though the only people, it seems who can really see 44 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 1: the day are Donald Trump and his accolytes, who are 45 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: taking tens of millions of people for the ride of 46 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: their life on the longest running con in American history. 47 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 1: So how did it come to be in our decade 48 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: the angry twenties, eighteen months after the peak of the 49 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 1: Me Too movement, that an accused rapist Russell Brand, in 50 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: fact and accused child rapist, somebody accused of sexually assaulting 51 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,679 Speaker 1: a sixteen year old girl which he was a thirty 52 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:43,040 Speaker 1: one year old man, is cheered wildly as he takes 53 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 1: the stage in front of two thousand people in the 54 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:52,600 Speaker 1: city of London in the year twenty twenty three. What 55 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 1: does that say about our Anglo American societies? Is it 56 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: an indication of healthy us of wellness, of morality. One 57 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: thing is for sure. I cannot remember a previous instance 58 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 1: in my lifetime when somebody, immediately after being accused of 59 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 1: very very serious sexual assault charges is wildly cheered at 60 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: their next performance. Is the crowd nealistic? Is there a 61 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:34,719 Speaker 1: backlash against women? What is happening and why? By the way, 62 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 1: is Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, and Andrew Kate rallying together 63 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: in defense of an accused comedian and British rapist? What 64 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 1: do to these three people conceivably sharing comment that could 65 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: find them so quickly absent any noe facts on their 66 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 1: part to the car of the acutest rapist? What could 67 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 1: it be? All of these people are conspiracy theorists and 68 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: advocates who want power, and the power that they crave 69 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: more than anything else is the power of the authoritarian, 70 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: the power of the divider, the power to make you 71 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 1: stop believing what you clearly see with your own eyes 72 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 1: in favor of what they tell you is true. These 73 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 1: people are manipulators of the highest order. These are people 74 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: with an agenda, and it's an agenda that menaces society, 75 00:06:55,640 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: not an agenda that lifts it up. People are wolves. 76 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: They are predators. They are blood suckers feeding on the 77 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: purpose of our decaying civilization. They feed on the lives, 78 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 1: they feed on the anger, they feed on the hate, 79 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: They sow confusion for profit. They are malignancies, all of them. 80 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: But more broadly than that, this moment clarifies and identifies 81 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: the connective tissues that have grown beyond Trump's cult of 82 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: personality and the core of the mag of movement, which 83 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: was in its inception a political project. It is created 84 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 1: in the hole, a malignant swamp where dishonesty, conspiracy thrives. 85 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 1: We're confusion and his profit, and where chaos is the 86 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: route to power. That's what these people have in power. 87 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: And they believe that everybody that is in front of 88 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: them is stupid. They believe they can say anything to 89 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: anyone at any time and be believed. Elon Musk thinks 90 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:34,440 Speaker 1: he can attack the Anti Defamation League, he can blame 91 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: the Jews for the consequences of his mismanagement and his 92 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:46,680 Speaker 1: erratic brain. But people see this clearly. They know who 93 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 1: he is, as they know who Tucker Carlson is, as 94 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 1: they knew who Andrew Tait is, as they know who 95 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: Russell brand is Why are two thousand people cheering this man? 96 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 1: Why is Donald Trump in an even race for the 97 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 1: presidency of the United States three years after inciting an insurrection, 98 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: after a presidency where he lied thirty five thousand times. 99 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 1: Why is it that seven years on, nobody can effectively 100 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 1: challenge him? Ask him a question. Why can't anybody make 101 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: an argument for decency, for ethics, for integrity, for a 102 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:38,680 Speaker 1: society that is as good as the majority of the 103 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: people that live in it. Make no mistake, there are 104 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 1: far far more decent people in America and in Britain 105 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: than there are the Tucker Carlson's, the Russell Brands, the 106 00:09:56,120 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: Andrew Tates in the Elon Musk. Yet these people, who 107 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:05,079 Speaker 1: are now deeply connected to each other, in each other's causes, 108 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: in each other's conspiracies, are a threat that is growing, 109 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: that is undiminished, that is unfaced, It is unheeded. When 110 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 1: the President of the United States is incredibly accused rapist, 111 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 1: When any conduct, no matter what, is excused on the 112 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: basis of politics and political expediency, the result is a 113 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 1: collapse of faith in the law, in decency, and in 114 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: the end the country. Syniticism is the cancer that we 115 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: have to deal with in cynicism is driven by conspiracies 116 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: and by misconduct of the type we see play out 117 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: at the highest levels of media and government every day. 118 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:09,599 Speaker 1: It's time we start facing it unless we suffer the consequences, 119 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,559 Speaker 1: and those consequences will be severe.