U.S. Debt CRISIS: Is Australia on Its Own When WAR Breaks out with CHINA? | Dr. Steve Turley

Hey, gang. It’s me, Doctor Steve. And obviously, we’re living in the midst of some pretty crazy and insane times, but also ones that are incredibly promising with amazing trends happening all over the world. And joining me to talk about precisely those worldwide dynamics is my fellow youtuber and awesome Aussie Jake Julius, who’s the host of the amazing channel Rattlesnake TV, where he discusses all things culture, politics, and more through a conservative perspective, with a good dash of satire to boot. He’s also the host of the reality based podcast and owner of the reality based Merch store, which you can check out by just clicking on that link below.

Jake, welcome, man. Great to see you again. Such a pleasure. Thanks for having me. Oh, thank you. And thanks for staying up. I know where you’re a little. You’re on the other side of the planet, so I appreciate you taking the time to chat with us. I mean, you’re in Australia, but you’re obviously following politics and cultural trends all over the world. I’m curious if you could start by giving us a sense of the conditions on the ground where you are. Just what are the political and cultural dynamics currently like in Australia? Let’s start domestically. We can get into the wider geopolitical arena, particularly with China, in a bit.

But can you give us just a sense of what’s it like right now in Australia? So I actually don’t live in Australia at the moment. I’m traveling around, and I’m in Istanbul at the moment as we speak. Oh, you in Istanbul. Okay, I knew you weren’t. I got you on. I knew you’ve been traveling. So excellent. Okay. I’m australian, but currently just moving around Europe a little bit. So much more interesting times in Istanbul than it is in Australia. Look, Australia tends to lag behind. I think when you were on my podcast, we talked about this a little bit, how Australia tends to lag behind in terms of culture.

When it comes to America, we tend to do what America does a lot of the time. But unfortunately, one of the things that happened during that virus that we all lived through a few years ago is that Australia became somewhat of a test case for the rest of the world for things like security systems, digital security systems. And also Australia has quite a submissive population, because if you think about it, it’s one of the lucky countries. Absolutely. And things are very prosperous in Australia. Blue collar workers get paid good money. The standard of living is quite high.

We didn’t get overly affected by the global financial crisis of 2008. We haven’t had a major civil war to sort of really give us that visceral sense of fighting for freedom. So we tend to trust the government a lot of. And then we saw that during that time that the australian population was extremely apathetic to the wider political issues. And being on the ground during that time really affirmed that being in Australia during that time, because obviously I had to live through it, was told that I couldn’t go within 5, my house and much more. And I’m sure you would have seen that Tucker Carlson was recently in Australia, and he did a few speeches all around, and he really, for lack of a better term, really gave some truth bombs to the Australians, which was very necessary.

Yeah. Yeah, that was wonderful to see. He’s been traveling like you have in many ways, dropping truth bombs wherever he’s going. Yeah, that’s so true. I never even thought about that. The very conditions, the cultural conditions that Australia and social conditions that Australia has been in for decades, if not centuries, did sort of provide the context for a rather, shall we say, placid response to some pretty brutal crackdowns on freedoms. And it was shocking, I think, for a lot of, particularly the western world, looking at what was happening there. I’m curious to just geopolitically what the role of Australia will be in the growing tensions between the United States and China.

So obviously, China by far is Australia’s biggest trade partner, followed by the states and Japan. But economically, Australia has definitely aligned itself, it seems, with China, but in terms of security, it’s aligned itself with the United States and the collective west, who are increasingly becoming very hostile to China. Obviously, Australia is going to go through a bit of a tug of war here. How do you see that kind of ambiguity working itself out in Australia? Well, I think it’s an interesting one because rhetorically, we’re very aligned with the west and rhetorically were actually quite hostile to China at times.

But it almost seems like a bit of chest beating because, like you said, were very tied economically to China. We send a lot of our resources over to China and then we buy them back the very same resources, and then they cost us a lot more. And, for example, we send a lot of our natural resources to China and then, well, buy back the solar panels. That, and that. That industry is being heavily subsidised by the government. We’ve also had a lot of scandals over the years where australian governments have sold out to chinese companies and to the CCP.

We look at the port of Darwin was they’ve, the Chinese have a massive lease on the port of Darwin for, I think, the next hundred years or something like that. So there is a lot of chest beating in terms of our rhetoric towards China. But the way I see it going in the future is that Australia will basically follow whatever the United States does. And I think that’s just the way that we do things, unfortunately. Yeah, you and Europe as well. That’s the price that was paid in the post World War two. Rules based order. Right, exactly.

We’ll help you rebuild. Same with Japan, where my wife is from. We’ll help you rebuild, but then you’re going to be our lackeys from this point, point forward. Yeah, unfortunately. Are you sensing some growing tension between the states and China, and, by implication, Australia, with possible military action? Obviously, Taiwan’s one of the flashpoints. I mean, we’ve got three major flashpoints right now. We got Ukraine, Israel, and we got Taiwan. Two are hot, one is cold. What are you seeing there in terms of your. Your old neck of the woods there in terms of the heat? Are we seeing war rhetoric starting to ratch up? Yeah, I think that would be a terrible idea for Australia to ratch up that rhetoric anymore, because there already is a little bit of that, and there’s been some barbs thrown between australian politicians and chinese politicians, and I think that there was even something to do with wine or something like that, where the Chinese put some sort of tax or tariff on us.

And so there’s been a few things happen there over the past few years. But it would be a terrible idea, because if we were to get into some sort of conflict with China, we’re much closer to them than the United States are. And if there was a conflict between Australia and China, like, we completely rely on the United States for our defense. So I think the United States have just gone over the $35 trillion mark in debt. And in my opinion, I believe that if there was to be a ground sort of war, a hot war in the Middle east between the United States and Iran at some point, I’m not sure that the United States would survive that, let alone a conflict with China.

So we do very much rely on them militarily. We’ve bought some submarines recently. I’m sure you’re aware of the AuKUS deal, but I think that that would be an absolutely terrible idea. But the problem is that when you look at the coalition between Russia, China, India, South Africa and Brazil, obviously, the BRICS alliance and then the other countries there, it’s predicated upon this notion of these civilizational societies that you and I talked about last time. And Australia is the furthest thing from that. Australia is a very atheist country. The idea of tradition is sort of a dirty word in Australia.

It’s all about progress and diversity and inclusion and all these sorts of things. So ideologically, we don’t align with China at all. We align completely with the west. And if there were to be some sort of a conflict, it would be pretty bad news for Australia. And plus, where this big land with all of these natural resources, small population, easy pickings. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my. Yeah. But you can’t mess with australian wine. I mean, that. That. Those are fighting terms, man. I’m with you. I’m signing up. I used to go. I used to work in a winery called in Western Australia.

When I finished school, I went and picked grapes for a little while and drove the tractor around. It was one of the hardest jobs I’ve ever done. Oh, dang, I love it. Yeah, I love Australia wine. That’s. Oh, that’s so wonderful. No, I think. I think that prepared you for what you’re doing now in geopolitical analysis. Sure. Now, you mentioned you’re doing a lot of traveling. I saw your itinerary. You were covering a lot of the white East, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan. We could chat about that. I’ve been in Japan many times. Got married in Japan, actually, in Tokyo.

I think you were in the States for a while, and now you’re in Turkey. So you really are. You’re making your way around there. Exactly. I’m curious if you’re noticing some patterns, again, both domestic and geopolitical. Are you picking up on as you’re going and visiting these diverse regions, are you seeing some comparable, similar dynamics in these various regions? I think that the ones that are most similar and where the dynamics are most pronounced is in places like South Korea and Taiwan, places that are more liberal eastern asian countries. You’ve got these very, very urbanized places, like Seoul, for example, and like Tokyo and these places are all having very similar problems in terms of the birth rate decline.

So I went and talked to some South Koreans and talked to some Taiwanese as well while I was over there. But those places are the ones that I worry about the most, having gone there, even though they are great to visit. And I’m sure you would have had plenty of experience in Japan as well. But when I went and spoke to the people of Taiwan, I did some street interviews, and we were discussing how they feel about chinese people. And it was really interesting because in the west, we’ve got this whole notion a lot of propaganda around that region of the world where we say that the taiwanese people, these poor little people, just want, like, liberal democracy and the big mean Chinese are going to come and take it away.

But then you look into the history of it a little bit and you realize that it was only 70 years or so that these people actually separated when the Kuomintang went to Taiwan after, obviously, Mao’s great long march. And. Yeah, so you look at these places and you speak to these people, and actually, a lot of these people view the Chinese as their brothers. They have a long, thousand year shared history. And it’s more the young people who have been fed the sort of propaganda about democracy and liberal democracy, and they’ve got transgender people in their political cabinets.

And so it’s quite different to China that way. But the older people very much understand the idea of peaceful reunification. So that was really interesting. And then you’ve got, obviously, South Korea as well. I spoke to them about how they feel about North Koreans, did some interviews in the streets, and the young people are very much. We don’t care about North Koreans. They’re scum. They’re this, they’re that. But the older people are like, I’ve got lots of family in North Korea. It’s basically my family. Basically. Like, we’re kindezhe. So it’s super interesting to see that happening.

And as time goes on and as the new generations come through, they have less and less affinity towards their cultural lineage to those places. Very interesting. Yeah, that’s crazy. Yeah. The second most. Well, I guess technically the opposition party in Taiwan is actually very much more or less a de facto reunification party. They’re very, very pro China in that sense. Yeah, I have been. I’ve been to South Korea once, very briefly through the airport, literally. So I did get to experience the world there, but I noticed Japanese. Japanese are very. They tend to be. You may have come across as.

They tend to be very. I don’t know if the word is suspicious of the Chinese. They feel. Yeah. Bullied by the Chinese, particularly using their past history around world War two, even prior to that. Some of the colonization. Same with South Koreans will tend to use that now to their advantage. This is the way japanese people have told them to be. They’ll play the victims and they’ll cry bully to try to get reparations from Japan in some way, shape or form. Japan’s just like, come on, guys, we got beat. I mean, let’s move on here, you know? But they do tend to have a real sort of bitter sense of China.

And they see China as very aggressive and very, very big. They’ll always say they’ll support. They’ll support whoever for president here in the United States based on their China policy, whether they’re a one, one issue voter, as it were. Yeah, we saw a fair bit of that, actually. The Chinese. The Japanese really don’t like the Chinese. It’s a. It’s quite a cultural clash that they’ve got going on there. I was staying at a place called Hakaba, which is in, like, the snowing, the snowy regions of Japan, for six weeks. And there was a lot of chinese tourists that would come through, and the Japanese would always bad mouth them.

That’s right. Go back. Was that up in Hokkaido in the northernmost island, or is that still on the main island? No, it’s on the main island of Japan. Yeah, main island, okay. But up north. Yeah. Oh, that’s. Yeah, my. My brother in law in the farm up in Hokkaido, which is really beautiful. It’s. A lot of people don’t realize how much snowfall Japan actually gets, that northern part, and then you have Okinawa, which is, you know, going more your old direction, and it’s more polynesian in many respects, so it has a very diverse climate. You brought up something that.

I know you, that concerns you. Concerns me as well. But there’s also some. Some interesting counter dynamics to it, and that’s. That’s this very notable falling fertility rate. It’s. This demographic collapse is certainly happening here in the west. We’re seeing it all throughout Europe, seeing it in the states, seeing it in Australia, but we’re also seeing it, like you mentioned, South Korea, Japan. China is reeling from. From low birth rates. Let’s start by talking, of course, Elon Musk. This is something he’s very concerned about. Let’s start by talking about why a demographic winner is bad news, let’s say, for the west in particular.

But any population in general, why should we be concerned? I mean, we’re being told by the Greens that this is a good thing, aren’t we? That we’re having too much kids? Well, I mean, when you mean a demographic winner, do you mean a specific part of the world that is having more children and reproducing more? Oh, yeah. So a fertility collapse, as it were, demographic winners, is that we’re losing more and more of our population, so we’re not getting to the 2.1 replacement. Okay. Demographic winter. My bad. Sorry, sorry. I gotcha, I gotcha. So I think that it’s one of the most pressing issues of our time, especially with Europe, because we’re obviously seeing mass migration into Europe from Africa and from the Middle east and these places that are bound to completely rattle the demographics of Europe because the white christian european populations in these places aren’t really reproducing.

And that’s because of a number of things, in my opinion. It’s because of the, obviously, the cost of living crisis that’s happening, as well as urbanization. It’s another big reason as to why people don’t have children, but it’s obviously a huge problem in these places. But then they also don’t really have incentive to have children in many cases because we’ve brought women into the workplace over the last however many decades. And there’s that dynamic going on. And if you’ve got so much competition for people in the workforce and also the, so if you’ve got so much competition happening for positions in the workforce, then that’s going to be one thing.

But also, women aren’t really incentivized to leave the workforce and have children because if they leave the workforce and have children, then theyve worked their whole life so far. Theyve gone to college and theyve gone into the workforce, and now theyre 28, 29. Theyve just established themselves. Why would they want to leave if they dont have any sort of, for example, tax benefits like you see in Hungary? In Hungary, if they have three or four children, they can be completely tax exempt. So if we want to have this sort of liberal world order where women can, you know, be a part of the workforce and pursue a career, but there’s no incentive for them to have children, then they won’t do that and they’ll wait too long.

And this is what we’re seeing at the moment. So in one hand, you need to be able to have incentives to have children. And like I said, we’re seeing that with Hungary a little bit where they’ve got more of an emphasis on tax breaks for women. So I think that’s one, one big thing that we’re seeing. Yeah. Russia’s been doing it as well. Georgia has been able to reverse largely through, through the georgian patriarch, Ilya, and the Georgian Orthodox Church. They’ve been, they still have, the orthodox church is one of it is the most trusted institution in Georgia.

JD Vance actually said this as well the other week. JD Vance just had a clip on Twitter that was sort of going viral that Dave Portnoy retweeted and said, this is a terrible idea or whatever, where JD Vance was just saying, listen, women who have more children shouldn’t be taxed as much. And people who do, who have no children should probably maintain the same tax rate. But if people have children, maybe there should be some sort of tax incentives because it’s a genuinely progressive vision when you look at the future, because otherwise, these places like Europe, it’s a huge problem.

America, it’s a big problem as well. But the native populations are going to just dwindle out, unfortunately. Yeah, yeah. We were able to dodge that bullet up to about, I think it was around the financial crisis, a global financial crisis around 2008. And that’s when we started seeing birth rates just plummet up to that point. We’re just, we’re still around 2.22.3 kids per couple. And then it just plummeted. And so yeah, we locked in with what was happening in Europe and Brazil and the like and we’re just seeing just these imploding rates. It was interesting with Georgia, the patriarch there promised that he would personally baptize the children of Georgians who had three or more kids.

Wow. Okay. So somehow that still has that, that sanctity still has some, some persuasion power in Georgia and they were able to do a, they saw significant and of course with some government benefits as well. But yeah, in the west right now, I mean, you were to say that the woke mind virus sets in and just, it goes ape just hearing anything. You remotely suggesting that children, having children is somehow worthy of tax deference. Yeah, I think Georgia is an interesting one as well because they do have some very progressive policies. And when I say progressive, I don’t mean in the left wing progressive sense, I mean genuinely looking at progress.

They had massive tax incentives for entrepreneurs as well and it was really great for their economy. And they, they did zero tax below a certain amount. And there were a lot of foreign, there was a lot of foreign investment coming in to Georgia. But yeah, just to tie it up with the birth rates, on one hand you’ve got what we were talking about before in terms of a lack of incentive, and then on the other hand you’ve got a lack of tradition with these places. So as they’re moving away from tradition, that obviously as people become less religious, they have less kids.

All of the, all of the stats show that. But then there’s obviously a lack of incentive as well. And you have to, in my opinion, meet somewhere halfway with that one because if there’s slight incentives and slight culture, then. But if, but if you’ve got neither, then you’re in big trouble. So you’re in big trouble. Yeah. And that’s what Georgia and Russia and Hungary to a certain point, to a certain extent have in common is they still have those, a deep, rich appreciation for tradition in a way that, yes. So much of the west has lost.

I noticed that you did find a very interesting exception to this rule in Israel. This has actually been written about quite a bit. They’re actually having a bit of a baby boom right now. They’re going through some fertility flourishing. What do you think’s going on there? Well, I think that the incentive for Israel to do this is much higher, especially over the, since probably the lifespan of the country, to be honest, because they’re obviously surrounded by arab states and the arab states tend to breed quite a lot. And even the people in the Golan Heights who Israel obviously wants sovereignty over that place and then Gaza, these people, they breed a lot.

And I think that it might have been one of the politicians in Gaza who said that his greatest weapon is the woman’s womb. So they had much more of an incentive to really think about this problem because it was going to really hit them in the face. The orthodox jewish community, I think, has something like six or seven children per woman, which is pretty astounding. It’s a real throwback. And then even the atheist jewish community has something like two women, two children perhaps. Yeah, I heard that as well. It’s astonishing. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So I think that they’ve got a big emphasis on family as well.

Family units in terms of the grandparents will help out and the aunties and uncles will help out. They’ve got a big IVF program that they’ve been running in Israel as well, which, which helps women to have more children. They also have, I think, what we’d call cultural shame, which is something that I think we kind of need to bring back a little bit in the west where it’s actually really frowned upon to have children outside of wedlock as well and to be a single parent. So it just comes back to that thing that we were talking about before in terms of you’ve got incentive and tradition, and I think Israel kind of realized that and they’ve got tradition, but then they’re also using the incentive card as well.

So if we could clock that in the west and we could understand that those are the two things that we need to be sort of looking at, how do we provide incentive and how do we sort of make tradition great again, if you will, then I think that we could clock this problem. Yeah, that’s wonder. Well, China’s doing, trying to tap into that as well, bringing back Confucianism, bringing back this sense of tradition, a sense of the. Well, Confucianism has the family at the center of it, which is so fascinating. The family’s a microcosm of the harmony of society as a whole, and then they’re bringing in the incentives with the IVF as well.

So, yeah, I think you’ve identified absolutely the sort of the secret sauce, as it were, to kind of getting back demographically, it’s really the. Have you come across Eric Hoffman’s work on the religious show inherit the earth? No. Oh, you’ll love it. Oh, you absolutely love it. So he’s a canadian expat, he lives out, he lives in Britain. I think he was at the University of London for a while, but now he’s at Buckingham College and he wrote a book called the Religious shall inherit the earth. And it’s pretty exactly on what you’re talking about with Israel in particular.

I think Heredi Jews, when they first settled, just say early fifties, I think there were only about an 8th of the schoolchildren. The classroom, in your typical israeli classroom today, they’re almost half. So you can actually see it in real time, this having four, five, six kids per couple. For the orthodox jewish tradition, you can just see it. I mean, by 2050, they’re going to be the majority, easily, of the country, which means the country goes more and more. Right. There’s this connection between political movements and demography, given who’s actually having the kids. And so. Yeah, so he traces out the study in this book.

I don’t know if he’s updated it. It was published about ten years ago, but it’s brilliant. I think you’ll realize we’re seeing it here in the states with the Amish. The Amish double every ten years. They literally double every ten. And it’s compound, you know, is the way it works, and it’s not through conversions. Right. It’s funny, isn’t it? It’s kind of a bit of a dark joke, but you sort of think that the atheists get bred out of existence and it’s like this strange form of Darwinism. Exactly. But you also. He also underscored the point that secular Jews, this is what makes, I think, Israel so interesting, that the more secular Jews are having lots of kids as well.

So it seems to be, like you said, that incentive and tradition seem to combine to affect everyone. It really does become a culture. Yeah. And I think the other thing that they’ve got as well, is extreme nationalism and patriotism. And there’s a sense of having children for Israel and for the country because they understand the demographic problems that they’re having. Whereas in the United States and in Australia and places in Europe as well, people don’t really think that this is a problem because we’ve been constantly brainwashed with the propaganda that we have too many people on the earth.

Climate change. Having children is bad. Having children is bad for the earth, when that is the total. I mean, if you really wanted to, like, get rid of vast swaths of your population, and that would be the messaging that you should feed them, which is a bit suspicious, but it’s the opposite of what we should be telling people. Absolutely, yeah. And we turn the enemies our enemy. Our enemies are not like, you know, countries that hate us, surrounding us. Our enemies are, you know, climate and global warming and, you know, extremism, and we turn it on to these weird abstractions that’s just so divorced from material life and the earth.

Again, that’s why I really dig the fact that you worked at the winery. You’re dealing with earth and vegetation and creation, so that this notion of harmony, this cosmic harmony that we have, is very powerful and palatable and material and tangible. It’s not ideological, where we’re just kind of living. We’re living in a network kind of reality. Virtual reality. Exactly. I’m wondering if we can actually even just sort of close the loop on this, just in terms. I know you’ve been, you’re a young fellow, and I know you are very much in touch with the conservative zoomer, especially in Europe.

One of the inconvenient truths that the left has had to deal with, especially of late, in european politics, is the way we’re seeing Gen. Z disalline itself from the more mainstream center right, center left parties and actually be very inclined towards the so called far right. We know them as simply nationalist, populist parties. We’re seeing that here in the states. Trump is actually seeing some of his highest support right now in the under 30 vote. And we’re certainly seeing it with Nigel Farage. We’re seeing it with marine, Le Penitent, Georgia Maloney. Even in Poland, young people tend to be much more attracted to the confederacy or even law and justice.

Can you flesh that out for what do you think is going on there? Could it be that it’s because the religious are having the kids now? The kids are growing up and they were conditioned with more conservative views or something else, something more broad happening here? That’s inclining young people towards the more nationalist, populist parties. Yeah, it’s such a good question. And there’s so many different fronts that you could speak to with this. I just think that the cultural pendulum has swung to the point where now it’s a little bit radical and edgy. This is just one facet of it now that it’s a little bit radical and edgy to be right wing, because the boomers who sort of give the top down messaging, they sort of expect that the young people are very malleable to the ideas of climate change, et cetera.

And a lot of my generation, the millennials, are very malleable in that regard. However, I think the next generations that are coming through are much more edgy and radical. And I think that social media has a massive role to play in this, because a lot of these kids are finding themselves on things like four chan and not finding themselves on Twitter and getting politically involved, because a lot of these people are looking around and saying, things aren’t exactly laid out for me like they were for you, mum and dad. I mean, it’s not exactly easy for us to buy a house these days, and sort of the american dream, or whatever other dream, is not as accessible to us, because now we’re paying all of this money for groceries and there’s all these wars going on around us everywhere.

So I think that people are getting politically active. And another thing that I think is slept on a little bit is the dating crisis that’s happening. And we talked before about birth rates dating these days. Doctor Steve, since the advent of Tinder and bumble and all of these different apps, it’s just a different world. And Instagram, the dating market has become globalized, and there’s a real shift going on where especially females are able to gain massive amounts of attention online through their social media profiles. And then young men are able to look at porn, which is.

And I think the two are sort of equivalent in a way. I think social media for women is kind of like what porn is for young guys. So we’re seeing a lot of young men check out of the dating market and not necessarily want to engage because it’s so difficult. And then we’re seeing a lot of women who are more sort of boss babes workforce, and also on social media and dating around and waiting till later till they get married. And. And there’s just this huge fracturing that’s happened in terms of the dating market. So I think that’s another reason that young guys in particular are looking around and saying, this isn’t really working for me.

And when there’s a lot of young guys who don’t really have much to do, they’re going to get active. And if it’s not a violent revolution, it’s going to be an online four Chan revolution. So I think a lot of that is happening. And people are being, people are just being, becoming a little bit more politically active, younger. And I’d say that they’re going more towards the, what they perceive to be more edgy, which is right wing politics. I’ve heard them referred to as the Jordan Peterson generation. They’ve been really, Peterson awakened them to how pernicious and horrid political correctness and wokeness really is and how stifling and how tyrannical and how irrational it is.

And so there’s a pushback. There’s a blowback to that. And the civilizationalist, right, as it were, just tends to provide the frames of reference to help them with that pushback. Going back, the whole tradwife trend that’s going on right now, just kind of going back like you’re saying it’s cool to be retraditionalized right now, as opposed to just, it seems just the, the progressive left is just, well, we saw it with the bit with the Paris Olympics opening ceremonies. It’s just gotten so bizarre. It’s gotten so weird that I think it’s, I think it just, it’s, let’s be blunt.

It’s, it’s ugly. And a lot of people are just, they’re very, they’re not inclined, they’re not persuaded by the ugly. We’re all, we’re wired to be persuaded by the beautiful and the lovely. And it used to be the bad things tried to cloak themselves in light, whereas now it’s just, the mask is off. And they’ve just gotten so weird and bizarre. And I just noticed a lot of young people, my, my nephews in particular, who get, who are at school, who are trying to get, who the teachers are trying to, you know, condition them into this kind of woke ideology.

He’s, they’re telling me all, all our friends, we just laugh at it. We just think they’re just a bunch of idiots. And, and what do they do? They go, they go on their, they go on their, on their video games and they play, like, civilization or they, you know, or they play war with a european map from the 14th century. I haven’t thought about that. Yeah. Right. They get really, they get into tradition and civilization and society and culture they’re done with destroying it and dismembering it. Absolutely. Yeah. I think that young men in particular are actually inherently repulsed by the ideas of political correctness because it tends to constrict you.

And young men have a natural call to adventure. If you’re a young guy who’s a teenager or in your early twenties or so, you want to go out and have that sort of hero’s journey. And political correctness is the antithesis to that. Political correctness is. No, stay in your lane. Don’t say anything out of turn. And this is another reason why it’s a little bit off topic, but I believe that woke comedy is actually something that just doesn’t exist because comedy is another one of those things that’s a little bit rebellious. Whereas political correctness is inherently constrictive.

Whereas comedy, we’re meant to be able to go to the. To the edges and to the sidelines, and young guys are kind of like this as well, and they’ll poke around and say, what’s over there? What’s over there? Let’s go over here. Whereas wokeness is going to just constrict you. So I do think that it’s just repulsive to young guys, particular. Yes. And may their rebellion, may their revolt be successful, for sure. And you’re certainly, Jake, you are certainly helping with that each and every day. You’ve been very generous with your time. Let our viewers know how they can connect with you and access your amazing work online.

Yeah. Thank you very much. It’s Jake Ruddlesnk on Instagram and also Twitter, or x, we call it these days, obviously, rattlesnake tv on YouTube. And my podcast, which Doctor Steve has been a great guest on, is the reality based podcast. You can find that rally based podcast is a YouTube channel in itself and also Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, and all those great places. Awesome. We’ll have all those links down below, gang, so you can subscribe to Jake’s work and keep up with this amazing analysis he has of geopolitics, culture, society, you name it. So, Jake, thanks for spending some time with us.

Enjoy Istanbul. Thanks, Dr. Steve. Thank you, Jake.
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