ics? Or do you think the media has a lot to do with it? The media. There are young people who literally don't want to have babies because of climate change. Well I bet there's a lot of them. And I don't see the media saying having babies is good and noble and American and necessary. I don't. Even if there's a media story about babies it's going to be how they're too expensive. Or people are way happier without babies. Surprise we found that women are happier without babies. I've seen that story. I don't know how true it is but I've seen that story.

How about the Ukraine war? Do you think we'd be at war if half the country did not support it? And do you think half the country would support it if the media had not told them to? Now everybody's opinion this comes from in the media. All of it. So the only way you have a war is if the media says it's okay. If CNN and Fox News said this is insane stay away from Ukraine, let whatever happens happens. And by the way that's not necessarily my opinion. I'm just saying that the media decides if you're in war, not the government. The government doesn't have the power to create a war and sustain it without media support. Now they only need half of the media. They don't need the left and the right. Either one would be enough probably. But they can't do it without the media. So the media creates our wars. We wouldn't be in Ukraine without them.

And that was just the things that came to my head immediately. What about the bank run? Do you think we'd have a bank run if the news covered it differently? The bank run is completely a media phenomenon. It's not a banking phenomenon. It is a media phenomenon. If the media tells you the banks are failing they will fail. If the media says oh this is one special case don't worry about it the banks will succeed. Now they do have actual structural issues of having enough reserves and all that but I think those are the problems we could figure out. The thing you can't figure out is if everybody tries to withdraw their money at the same time. That you can't figure out. And the media is bringing us very close to the point where that's a risk. I don't think we're there but try to think of any problem in the world that's one of the big ones and see if you can see any problem that isn't either entirely caused by the media or influenced in the wrong way by the media. It's actually everything. It's everything. All of our problems are with the media.

Do you know why we don't talk about this more? Who would do the talking? You're not going to get invited by the media to talk about the media being bad, right? So if it doesn't happen on something like this, an independent livestream, you're not going to hear it. So there's pretty much no issue that isn't being destroyed by the media.

And here's a new poll. Charlie Kirk tweeted about this. New poll for Newsweek shows that 69 percent of Americans believe January 6 was less violent than reported by the fake news media. Just 26 percent believe it was more violent than reported. That spunky little 25, 26 percent, they can get every question wrong.

All right so here's my question. Have you ever noticed that there are a lot of ancient civilizations that left advanced cities, at least advanced by their standards, that just got covered with dirt? Do you ever wonder about that? How is it that so many buried cities exist where there was once this thriving city and now every single person is gone and they've been gone so long that the whole thing covered with dirt so you didn't even know it was there?

Now I assume there are a number of reasons. One of those reasons could be economic. Maybe there's a drought. Maybe there's a natural disaster. In Central and South America maybe it was smallpox that came in from Europe. So there's a bunch of reasons. Volcanoes etc. But collectively in my opinion they don't seem to explain all of it. Now of course this is just a subjective kind of a view but to me it looks like there's something else that wipes out civilizations and it does it reliably. That's the problem. It's the reliable part. Like it seems like they all get wiped out. It makes me wonder if there's a common theme.

And here's what I believe. I believe if you have hundreds of millions of humans running around some of them will have philosophies and mindsets that will drive them towards success where they could build a civilization and some will not. Some will have more tribal, everything's fine the way it is, tomorrow is the same as yesterday. And then they would not drive toward building civilizations. But here's my hypothesis. That when there's a coincidental correct mindset in some group of humans, and let's say early America was the perfect example. The early American mindset was really, really optimized for building economics and civilization and so it did. So America sprang up from that. But here we are highly successful, arguably the strongest nation on Earth at some point. And once you're the strongest nation and you can feed everybody and all of your major problems seem solved then you have the luxury of the useless people having a bigger voice. The useless people or anybody whose view would take you away from the mindset of success. I call those the useless people.

Now you don't have that many useless people until you're really successful. It's like the children of successful people become the useless generation because they don't know what it takes to succeed. They just sort of were born into a good situation but now they're sure that they have good ideas and you should all listen to them. Narcissists mostly.

So my theory is that every successful civilization requires a success mindset. They can be different, right? The success mindset for let's say the Christian biased traditional family would be different from some early Muslim civilization that was also successful. They would have different mindsets but both of them optimized for some kind of success. But once that successful civilization becomes strong enough it breeds the second generation of people who don't get it and they think they need to change the mindset to improve it.

So now we're seeing the viruses, the DEI, the CRT, the ESG, climate alarm, the trans stuff etc. And a hundred percent of it is either anti-population or anti-success, anti-merit, anti-economics, anti-everything that worked. And here's my guess. I bet that's what happened to other civilizations. I'll bet that success breeds a useless class. The useless class gains power because nobody thinks to stop them. It's just talk, right? If you have freedom of speech like oh they're just talking, they're just talking, everybody gets to talk. But at some point that talking becomes so toxic and corrosive that, I'm gonna pull myself back from something I was just going to say right there. But maybe I'll tell you later. Yeah there's something I'm going to tell you later. The locals people already heard it because they get the special stuff but YouTube you're not ready for this information so I'm going to hold back on that. I'll tell you later though. I just have to wait.

So I think that we're heading toward, at least America is heading toward a civilization collapse that is directly caused by the media. The media allowing the mindset of success that drove America to be corrupted because they get more clicks for that, right? So the people complaining about the system and protesting they're causing clicks and then they get more people because the media tells you what's true. And now the media is sort of the winged monkeys of all the people who have the anti-success mindset. They're the ones telling us that the real problem is racism. The only reason we have a racism problem is because, well not the only reason but the biggest reason is because the media told us to. They told us what to think and here we are.

Yeah so I think we're actually heading toward an extinction event in America and everybody can see it. Would you agree everyone can see it? But here's what I think is the good news. Earlier when I said could you talk about Lia Thomas in direct terms even two months ago but today you can. Have you noticed that since I got canceled the discussions about race have expanded? That might be just my impression I don't know but I feel like you can speak more freely about race and gender and more freely about mindset, success mindset. And I'm seeing a little bit more of it emerge. It takes some people to basically get canceled before people will take anything seriously. So I think it can be saved but we are on an extinction path. America is not that we will be extinct but that if we don't change direction, I mean we're running right toward the cliff as fast as we can. And I think that before we get to the cliff these smart people will emerge.

I bring you back to an earlier story about Elon Musk looking to help us, pull us. AI. Elon Musk is not the media. Elon Musk is