The Wisdom Wall

“conflating a nation state with an ethnic group is not a long-term strategy. It's not wise, because you are tied to the, to the temporal politics, the politics of the moment.”

“The atom bomb killed religion. Hiroshima killed, killed, killed the West. Because, of course, you're God now. And every, every assumption we've made since August of 1945, 80 years ago, has been based on the core, often unstated belief that we're in full control of nature.”

“any society where people have to be encouraged to have sex, Is a society that has decided to extinguish itself”

“Like we care more about foreign wars and trans lives as like the obvious things that hold our society together start to fall apart. Cause like, how do you even deal with that? Am I, I'm, I don't know if I'm being very articulate, but I think that's what's happening.”

“There's something about affluence that over time convinces people to kill themselves.”

“And when the majority discovered it could steal the goods of whomever it wanted, legally, legally, um, you would wind up with dictatorship.”

“having grown up Both around inherited money and welfare, you know, both are, you know, two sides of the same coin. Like, people need to feel like they're contributing and that their lives have meaning”

“we can't have too many, you know, high profile murders or attempted murders that don't have firm, believable resolutions. The, the, the social fabric can't handle that because then people become totally postmodern in their thinking and don't believe anything.”

“Debate and politics are the alternative to violence. You get two choices. We're gonna do it by arguing about it, or we're gonna do it by force, okay? So, so I absolutely think it's essential to debate things. Um, because if we don't, then we just have to shoot each other, and I'm against that.”

“you can't kind of give the finger to everybody, um, and persist in a, in a corporate job.”