The Real Agenda Of Those In Power - Rob Henderson
Rob Henderson is a PhD graduate from the University of Cambridge, a US Air Force Veteran and an author.
The people who make the rules are not the ones impacted by the rules. Luxury beliefs are ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class, while often inflicting costs on the lower classes. And they're everywhere.
Expect to learn Rob's opinion on the recent catastrophes in American higher education, why luxury beliefs have become more common than ever before, what Rob learned during his journey through all class levels, what it's like to truly be in poverty, Rob's advice for how people can become better readers and much more…
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00:00 The Yale & Harvard Fallout
06:35 The Hierarchy of the Harvard Extension School
14:23 How Rob Explains Luxury Beliefs
20:58 Why Defunding the Police is a Luxury Belief
29:49 The Luxury Belief of Getting Rid of Chivalry
38:10 Why You Shouldn’t Make Yourself a Victim
43:50 Why Rob Succeeded Despite a Hard Upbringing
51:37 What It’s Really Like to Grow Up in Poverty
1:03:23 Did Rob’s Quality of Life Change With More Money?
1:12:03 The Skill of Giving & Receiving Compliments
1:17:05 Alexander DatePsych on Twitter
1:21:06 What Surprised Rob When Studying at Yale
1:33:56 Having Agency in Spite of External Limitations
1:36:43 The Best Way to Read
1:45:18 How to Recall What You Read
1:47:31 Where to Find Rob
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Hello you savages. Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - chriswillx.com/books/ Here’s the timestamps: 00:00 The Yale & Harvard Fallout 06:35 The Hierarchy of the Harvard Extension School 14:23 How Rob Explains Luxury Beliefs 20:58 Why Defunding the Police is a Luxury Belief 29:49 The Luxury Belief of Getting Rid of Chivalry 38:10 Why You Shouldn’t Make Yourself a Victom 43:50 Why Rob Succeeded Despite a Hard Upbringing 51:37 What It’s Really Like to Grow Up in Poverty 1:03:23 Did Rob’s Quality of Life Change With More Money? 1:12:03 The Skill of Giving & Receiving Compliments 1:17:05 Alexander DatePsych on Twitter 1:21:06 What Surprised Rob When Studying at Yale 1:33:56 Having Agency in Spite of External Limitations 1:36:43 The Best Way to Read 1:45:18 How to Recall What You Read 1:47:31 Where to Find Rob
Proclamation: The Wilderness Tabernacle is a picture of Heaven and Earth. Exodus 26:13 makes Pi π 3.14. Pi was first recorded by Moses in 1440 BC. Josephus the Historian's description of the Tabernacle in 94 AD was inaccurate. This oversight was discovered in 2015 AD. 330 Exodus 26 :7 15 Exodus 26:9, 12 - 1 Exodus 26:13 makes Pi = 314 3.14 = 314 circumference/100 diameter ≈ π ratio (100 cubit court per Exodus 27:9-18) ................................... This exciting news is similar to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Martin Luther's 95 Theses. The knowledge of Pi was lost from Exodus near 1000 BC. Josephus the Historian in 94 AD would NOT have had the understanding to properly explain the Tabernacle blueprints. He deferred to, in error, the Temple's structure and not Exodus 26:13 makes Pi. Consider King Josiah & the Prophetess Huldah rediscovering the scriptures, Right? This engineer appears to have caught this oversight or rediscovered Pi from Exodus in 2015. This might be difficult to grasp at first.
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It's not so much the elites don't care. It's their attitude of thinking poor people are poor because they are lazy so we must punish them to get their so called lazy butts to work harder. Yea, I'm not the most eloquent person, but you get the idea. The attitudes towards poverty by rich people is distorted beyond belief. If punishing people for being poor worked, we would not have more homeless people than empty homes in the country. Seriously, why is every person in the country not in some kind of studio apartment at least? Nobody is saying we should all own a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom house, but for godsakes, homelessness should not be a thing in any civilized society. Anyway.... enough ranting.
How could 2015 be the beginning of woke when the first great war against the Social Justice Warriors (Gamergate) began in 2014?
Most brilliant comment I've heard in quite a while... *"Luxury beliefs are ideas and opinions that **_confer status on the affluent_** while often inflicting costs on the lower classes. A core component of a luxury belief is that **_the believer is often sheltered from the consequences_** of his or her belief."* - Rob Henderson
Ever since the rise of social media and the proliferation of wokeness, if said something, albeit not nearly as eloquently similar. In the past material objects were the status symbol of a society. Nowadays, intelligence, or at least the perception of intelligence is the new status symbol. Everyone wants to believe that they are smart. Wokeness has become a proxy for such perceived intellect.
DEI is a perfect example of this concept.
@@tensaijuusan4653 - it decribes woke in general, of which DEI is the corporate expression.
It's a version of "leftist elites are never subject to the ramifications of their own policies." - Victor Davis Hanson
15:00 The idea of "Luxury Beliefs, and shelter from consequences of being wrong" is simply paraphrasing what Dr. Thomas Sowell wrote about in his books "Vision of the Anointed" and "Intellectuals and Society". Some excerpts - "...intellectuals are people whose end products are intangible ideas, and they are usually judged by whether those ideas sound good to other intellectuals or resonate with the public. Whether their ideas turn out to work - whether they make life better or worse for others - is another question entirely." "The acclaim given to intellectuals, despite their predictions having failed, is a prime example of the lack of ultimate accountability."
Which is the academic way of saying the same thing. But it's utterly rubbish as a meme. Luxury Belief is short, to the point and intuitive. That's why this guy gets more people to hear the message.
@@DennisNeijmeijer Yes, someone should meme-ify "Analects" to bring age old wisdom and insights to a new generation.
Vebler wrote about this 100 years ago. It is how we are. Even me. Especially me, you peasants.....
@@jackdeniston59Thank you, sire.
If the endeavour prospers point out to your strong leadership. If there is catastrophe it was everything else: the weather, foreign powers, satanic garden gnomes. - Sun Tzu, probably
Before I watch it I'm gonna go on a limb and answer the question... NO.
😂💯 literally
I agree which brings me to ask “so what do we do about it?”.. I hear some say we need to replace the elites in power and I’m always like HOW?!?
@@brianmeen2158 Perhaps they should not be replaced if there is no better alternative available. And of course, who decides "better alternative"?
They all think we are just like them, so we want the same things they want. It’s a form of naivety and narcissism. It explains why they think they know best and feel like heros
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I was a trailer trash kid and haven’t seen my mom since I was twelve ( I’m 55) My sister is my hero , she grabbed me away from my mother ( she moved out at 16) when she was 21 and working at Hardee’s ( burger joint) , I moved out at 18 and have my own business. Sister died at 49 as I held her hand ( pneumonia) she never had health insurance. I’m glad I grew up the way I did if elite life is the alternative. God has always been there for me. Wish he could have left my prostate alone:)
Imagine if you grew up with this evil Left and Democrat Party telling you that your were a perpetual victim every day of your life! Every fool knows that is unhealthy and only keeps people down. I'm sorry you lost your dear heroic sister. Praying your health issue gets cured.
For the prostate maybe look up "saw palmetto" If its cancer look up "Keto Mojo" to measure your glucose ketone index and through diet you can try to reach close to a value of 1. Best of luck to you.
@@barboglesby2162 Do you think "trailer trash kid" is a category of up-bringing that could be erradicated?
I am sorry for your loss. I have had pneumonia twice, and it nearly got me and my wife in January 2023 until I convinced her we needed medical assistance. For those without health insurance, I recommend Urgent Care. They are often open 24/7 and are less expensive than Emergency Room Care. Antibiotics are an inexpensive pneumonia treatment, especially if caught early. We contracted it as part of an Influenza-A infection. Influenza kills about 40,000 Americans each year, so do not ignore it. I wish you a long life.
I didn't grow up in poverty but it was an abusive home. I left home at 16, and took my 14 yo sister with me. By leaving and living independently we gave my mother the courage to finally leave my father and change her life. My father in law successfully fought prostate cancer much older than you, though my country has socialised health care. It's discusting that someone can die from pneumonia in their 40s in your country. I will pray for you and your sisters soul in heaven.
I don't live in poverty, but I've developed friendships with a couple people who do live in poverty. As Henderson says, there is always chaos when a person is poor. Crisis and drama are engendered by situations many people simply never encounter: running out of pet food and not having money to buy more, being unable to come up with money for a child's school field trip, having your belongings stolen by "friends," running out of gas because a "friend" siphoned gas from your vehicle, being unable to heat your home because you've had to sell heating oil to make ends meet. It is a soul-sucking existence.
And these are the minor dramas of poverty. Not the major crisis moments. Like your car needs repairing so you can go to work. Or your refrigerator stops working and a week's food goes rotten. And you have no idea how you can afford a new fridge.
@@grannyannie2948 If you even have a refrigerator. One of my friends is living out of a picnic cooler.
@@oldbutstillyoung2170 Yes. In my country charities are constantly asked to give people ice. Especially people living in cars. They have no other way to keep food fresh.
It can get to the point where it's really bad. But having some poverty in your life is not always a bad thing, because you learn to use your creativity and your ingenuity to solve these problems. People who never have to deal with problems, budgeting challenges or crises go into adulthood unprepared to handle real life and it's challenges. They become dependent, herd-like creatures, easily led. I would not trade the "education" I got from growing up poor for an easy existence, and my adult children say the same.
@LadyIarConnacht I 100% agree. Though I've never actually been "poor," money has been very tight for me at various times in my life, and I've always had to make my own way in the world. I am a resourceful person because I've had to be. In contrast, people I know whose parents have always made life easy are not resourceful and are easily led (as you said).
1:23:15 showing up at a university campus after being in the military really is like that meme with Steve Buscemi saying “how do you do fellow kids?”
Not only do they not care, many of them are actively working against everyone else.
I've never been quite so grateful that i was raised working class, and rose up. I will say that it has been difficult to make friends. Indeed, most friends i have made over the years I've had to disconnect from because of the absolute insanity that they fell into. I've stood toe to toe with these pillars of intellect, and all they had for me was isms, with no substantiation. It all started with "oh no, you're one of those", and went downhill from there.
Somewhere along about 15:30, Rob talks about those having luxury beliefs also having been raised in households with at least one parent who went to university, and those folks have no clue what life is like for anyone who is not aiming for, working on, or completed at least one degree at a high prestige/difficulty school. He is so correct -- and that situation has been around for ages and includes a wider range of schools. And they never really do fathom the degree of separation unless they enlist in the military or fall on hard times. Their ignorance is no different than that of someone in a more humble situation except that the uni person believes she understands the lives of others.
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The people in a "humble situation" are far smarter, they just use shorter words.
The system isn't broken. It was built this way on purpose..
@b4zz3d59 OH NO MERITOCRACY
I grew up in the lower working class, with an alcoholic machinist father, and a gas station attendant mom who ultimately worked her way up to bank teller. I joined the army as soon as I graduated high school, eventually going to a local college on the GI Bill in my 30's. I had a daughter in high school that we put up for adoption. She grew up in a rich suburb, went to private schools until getting her undergrad at ST Andrew's, and her master's from Cambridge. We got into an argument about some of this woke/luxury belief shit, and she straight up told me to check my privilege. She had her path laid down in front of her to two of the most exclusive universities in the English speaking world, and I'm working on a master's from an online university you've probably seen advertised online. But, I'm the privileged one. This shit is a mind virus, not a blind spot.
I’m a first-generation college grad, and law school was the first time I recognized the “luxury belief” phenomenon. It was comical listening to rich kids circle jerk each other about how to solve problems I grew up witnessing as self-inflicted.
The extension school part of the conversation is fascinating. UCLA has an extension school and we've noticed the same attitudes. Like it's this money grab but the professors don't take it seriously and the admin keeps saying it's the "Same" when selling it but don't treat it the same on the other end of certificate recognition.
This is where you have a class lawsuit and claim misleading and/or deceptive conduct. Discovery would be a gold mine, and knowing prestigious academics and admins, they are terribly honest in their internal communications.
I was in university in 2007. I saw that shit back then also but it was really confined and came up in conversation rarely. I specifically remember a guy from marching band back then talking about how his prof in women’s studies would essentially shame the white males in the room. I remember thinking back then it was screwed up but never imagined we would be where we are today. Boy was I naïve.
This and Triggernometry are the best KZhead channels for open honest discussions
I agree! Cheers bud
Andrew gold has a new channel called Heretics which is good too.
Thank you for getting Rob in person! I honestly think he is one of the most important young intellectuals in the western world today. Thrilled to read his book!
Take it like everything else, with a grain of salt.
Those aren't the elites. They're simply the henchmen.
Precisely. So many don't understand or won't accept there is group that works in the shadows exclusively, and has enough wealth and knowledge to control the richest people in view. And I think that group has figured how to make us all sacrifice ourselves and own for them.
@@brandonmay3094 They are the ones clambering to get into / back into the elite.
You say that now. But will you feel the same after getting a taste of Beagling?
I think the sad part is this: The mere fact that even the "academic elite" (university students/professors and all derivative professions) are so easy to manipulate may just confirm "how much we are in need of being controlled" - how we could not do without a shepherd from on high. And for so many people that is true. Few people can really think for themselves and possess the skill of critical thinking.@@brandonmay3094
Nope, they're elite.
Rob Henderson's insights on luxury beliefs are eye-opening. Entrepreneurs should note that understanding the social dynamics of your market can be as crucial as the product itself. For instance, aligning your brand with values that resonate authentically with your target audience can significantly enhance trust and loyalty.
If you don't organically share the values of your target market, they will find out.
Or your product is political naturally, and the market is fairly predetermined ideologically. That's what I went with anyway. 👍
"That's the modal case". Dealing with someone who *understands* statistics is always refreshing.
40:45 "Monk mode is a great tool but a bad master." Love this. There's some lyrics from Zack Hemsey that made this clear for me: "If you gather all the teachings that the wise have told Compile every scripture from the books of old And muse upon the meaning of the truths you've sewn You will germinate the mind, but the fields won't grow" Song is Zack Hemsey - "Lesson From A Nomad"
I'm glad someone wrote a book about luxury beliefs.
About growing up poor: It's much more about the internal stress level and being in survival mode rather than "not being able to afford a toy". There may also be factors of social exclusion but personally i think it was just a heightened sense of chronic stress. I experienced both: middle/upper middle class and lowest class (foodstamps) while growing up, to the point where I felt the compulsive urge to grab the last slice of bread in the basket on the table even if I had already been satiated. While economic conditions and home life were good i was best in class, later on i stopped attending school, barely passed or failed. Make or break, sink or swim.
Ive not struggled like that, much anyway, but ive seen it and yes, you nailed it. Its the short term sight bc you cant trust the essentials will be available. Its scarcity mindset reinforced through experiences.
Yes - and that also has an impact on brain development. Basically each developmental phase of childhood is meant to foster certain skills/qualities/dimensions of the person. A dysfunctional and unstable environment is a completely different primer. Chronic stress can also reduce IQ by up to -14 points so that is quite a significant impact. @@BigTyronie
I once read about this hypothesis for cancer that stipulates that a cell turns into a cancer cell because it can no longer rely on it's environment to supply it's needs. So the cell will stop cooperating and become "egotistical" because it gets forced into survival mode. I find it a really good analogy. @@BigTyronie
I agree that people at all levels of the socio-economic spectrum have their cross to bear. The wallop to the physiological system gleaned from low status in society is a uniquely thorny cross. Though status vs. neighbor may be a more impactful influence on wellbeing.
Your comment about the slice of bread in the basket struck a note. You could have been describing my mother. Her father broke his back when she was six. And she was bitterly poor most of her childhood. She was quite obese in old age but still perpetually afraid of getting hungry.
You just called abortion birth control and called the preference for its restriction a luxury position. As a Non-American lower socio-economic class citizen, I can tell you that this is pretty much never the case. Everyone that I talk to that feels as strongly as I do that abortion is wrong, feels that way because they have a visceral response to the idea of killing the unborn. It's a moral position. Perhaps it's not as well-reasoned as it could be, but that doesn't make it wrong. There are other forms of birth control. I've seen the heartbeats of my daughters on ultrasound, it changed me.
I stopped the video when he said that and immediately began scrolling the comments. I was heartened to see your well stated response. Thank you! Wish there were many more such responses.
@@davebramble2444 Cheers, Dave! Same here. The flippancy with which abortion is viewed in the West is downright disgusting. This is what is wrong with these podcasts though. Too much ground to cover for any set of people to have expertise in or sensitivity to.
I like Chris William's podcast but I don't know if he realizes that he conflated abortion access as a form of birth control... Even the pro-abortion crowd avoids doing this. Also, the wealthy elites in our country are overwhelmingly in favor of abortion access, particularly for people in low-income neighborhoods. Bad take Chris. Still like your podcast though.
@@stevenstratton4804 It could be an honest mistake. Chris seems like a good guy. As a podcast host you have to be somewhat adaptive to your guests, perhaps he went a little overboard with it and misspoke.
When I was young, I was walking down a road with a couple of my classmates. One said her father was VP of such a company, the other said her father was editor at a prestigious industry magazine, so I told them my father was a janitor. We came from different worlds but still studied together.
@12:10 “We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.” - Lionel Trilling
Sounds like double speak to me, centuries before the term was coined
We are all equal but I am better than you in every way!
@@raumograeywolf5477You have it wrong. It was an attempt at absurdity, unfortunately absurdity doesn't register in an absurd world.
there is no equality when one has a plate of food and another is going hungry.
@@lindaostrom570 There is no food when Commies enforce their “equality”
2 mil! Congratulations man. I subbed at around 50k when I believe the channel name wasn't modern wisdom yet. lol 😅 you're fkn crushing it. 💪👏👏👏👏
I have to say some of the things your where talking about how wonderful life is as a academic. And how horrible it is to be a middle class or even lower class people. You can have a satisfying life as a someone that works with their hands I could survive with out academics but could you survive without carpenters or mechanics and many other tradesmen or even laborers. Not everyone is Einstein some of us have to keep the roads rolling
Not all abuser are from the lower classes. Ask any police officer their isn’t a typical profile of a abuser. What does a abuser look like. Just like what does a serial killer look like. Also how many illegitimate children does the Kennedy and Biden families have not all baby daddies wear wife beaters some wear Brooks brothers.
It's the elitism that he's talking about. He's completely clueless. I'd like to take a minute to remind any middle or upper class readers of this comment that the world only keeps turning because of the WORKING class. "Elite's" have caused every problem ever in the world - farmers never declared war or committed genocides.
They have a REAL lack of class distinction and class consciousness.@@rafalrocks
@@rafalrocksi have tons of friends with good podcasts. Its your perspective thats rendering your experience.
100%. What's more, a graduate job you do on a laptop can be offshored in a heartbeat. But when you need a plumber or an electrician someone on a laptop in India is no use to you. And in my country, Australia by the age of 40 a tradesman is wealthier than a university graduate of the same age. They were earning money instead of running up student loans. Women with degrees often marry tradesmen, as socially they are viewed as equal.
The sun tan status symbol has been known for many decades. My dad told me about it in the 80s. Nice to see intellectuals rediscovering the wheel.
Also the "full tan" in contrast to the farmer's tan or working man's tan. Similar thing with hands
Entitlement is not limited to the rich or those who attend Ivy League universities - it is growing out of control in children as well. And not just those who attend private schools but also in inner city public schools- kids are defiantly proclaiming my feeling are more important than your rules and policies
there's the door. or let me call childrens services for you. i will never allow myself to be manipulated by a kid in this manner ( because i have been manipulated by kids through my affection) there are some lines though that YOU DO NOT CROSS.
Good point
I always learn new words when I listen to Chris. This video's Word for the Day is: concatenation- a series of interconnected things or events.
Oregon passed a law in 2019 that just went into effect this January 1 that all egg farmers have to be free range. I wasn't even aware it had passed as a law back then, wasn't aware it was going into effect now, and all of a sudden my eggs cost $5 a dozen instead of $1.29 Democrats do not care about the poor.
Hold up though. Factory farmed eggs are garbage. It’s an exploitative industry for humans and animals… We should go back to free range. It needs to be implemented carefully and correctly though.. They shouldn’t force it in the entire state and consumers though… They should’ve found a way to make it a bit more affordable.. It’s not the idea, it’s the implementation… People in charge that aren’t qualified. It’s not necessarily just the democrats fault. Sorry you’re going through that. Every one deserves high quality affordable food. It’s BS. It could be a win win win win for everyone..
As someone who is transitioning away from the party life on a similar arc to yourself and having always been intrigued by the mechanics of life and higher thinking - thank you Chris. My weekly diet of your content is very thought provoking and often bang on the money
Great conversation. Thoroughly enjoyed listening. Much respect to both participants.
Henderson's memoir was REALLY good; I recommend it in the strongest terms.
I was in the Army from 17 to 22 then was in the Guard until 24. Being a college freshman qt that point in liffe is tough enough but I went to the commuter campus if a state university. Most of the kids around me did not come from money. I couldn't imagine being thrust into a place like Yale.
"Action is the only truth" Marcus Aurelius
Never heard of Rob before, but wow, 1000% agree. I can "pass" but the energy drain has become more than I can bear
Rob is a good example of how the military, even with its wokeness, can be a great stepping stone to adulthood for young men who grow up in chaos. Extreme discipline, self awareness of consequences, predictability, etc.
Don’t believe the Fox News story. The military has a few woke policies but on a day-to-day basis, wokeness is not really a topic.
Only a matter of time before this is corrupted into uselessness. Like most everything else the Progressives have ever touched.
19:34 You guys missed the crucial part: the relationship between tan and class has flipped post-industrual revolution. In Feudal times, a tan would actually signify being a peasant - as the Sun was strongest during the Summer - their work season, while the noble class could afford to remain indoors year-round made a pale skin a status of power. And this pattern can be observed in other cultural spheres; from Sub-Saharan Africa to the Arab World, Persia, India and the Far-East.
Pretty much all status signals, especially for women, are indicators of NOT having to work. Long fingernails etc. In my case, I do not wear a tie anymore.
Just like being fat signified royalty. Whilst everyone was starving you were feeding your face :P
@@stevrgrsYeah, pretty much!
@@stevrgrs King George IV, probably the UK's heaviest king.
Chris, please reach out to Thomas Sowell while we still have him.
There are about... say 100 other people I would rather see interview the legendary Thomas Sowell than Chris Williamson.. No disrespect to Chris, but I doubt he read even one of Dr.Sowell books. At 93, Sowell is still sharp as a tack.. I do wish he would grant more interviews in his advanced age. Kind of like how Charlie Munger did many interviews over the last several years before he passed at 99
I will take Thomas Sowell being interviewed by anyone. Just as long as I can hear Thomas Sowell. There is indeed a sense of urgency given Sowell's advanced age.
@@ebonypenguin2899 I agree.. I really give the legendary Charlie Munger mad respect for granting so many interviews before he died. I think he did at least 10 to 20 interviews in 2023 alone.. The last interview Sowell did was six months ago and before that like 2 years. I truly hope he does grant more interviews in his final years.. His popularity has been surging as of late..
@@ousamaabdu794especially younger Black generation. The sort of Post, Post Civil Rights absolutists. The children who have either been the victims of the Great Society or seen the worst affects of it. And maybe were confused how their parents could still blindly support it considering the GOP was the party of Lincoln and was founded to fight Slavery and most of the worst of Jim Crow was perpetrated by Democrats, not Republicans.
@@ousamaabdu794 Would love to see Mr. Sowell ad Jordan Peterson get together at LEAST once.
Great episode between you guys, as usual. I love Rob & his backstory. Very inspirational and incredibly interesting guy!
Reading Erich Fromm The Art of Being while listening to this. I thought I was weird for reading this and putting it down and reading two other books along the same lines and then your guest talked about "peculiar" reading approaches. Definitely pursuing this episode later and taking notes. All the best!
I know someone who studied at Duke who was unusual in that he was lower middle class and homeschooled. Some interesting things I heard from someone who knew him there. He was infinitely wiser, more mature, and a better thinker than other students who had been born to luxury. (They sought him out for help academically and in life). Students who surrounded him in classes and the dorms, were dead-serious, obnoxious, and dedicated lots of time to protesting and meetings about how terrible poverty was, and were rage-filled about how little the govt was doing about it, yet they spent thousands on luxury travel, luxury expenses, and never once donated even a penny to anyone in the actual city of Duke, which had an enormous population of poor (black and white). Quite hypocritical.
This is normal today. It’s easy to outwardly want or demand someone else to do something, but not do anything themselves. This isn’t hypocritical, it’s straight up status projection.
Such a great calm conversation! New to your channel and so happy to find you! Stay the course……
I see Rob Henderson, I click ❤
Been doing some great interviews lately Chris you deserve the success. Even the Piers interview was good you more than held your own.
Thanks for your clever statements and superior choice of guests!
Chris is a great interviewer, great questions, a more refined rogan, apleasure to listen to.❤
On the topic of "Monk Mode". The real problem with it is that society has told me, and women too, to get a job, get a job, get a job. The reason so many men aren't pursuing relationships is because our schools and society just tells them to study and then work while assuming that people will just somehow figure out how to form relationships. Men will work hard jobs to provide for people they have a relationship with already, we've put that cart before the horse and it has severe negative consequences for people.
What is poverty? Digging through the couch cushions hoping to find enough change for school lunch. Eating a mayo sandwich with 1 folded piece of bread
Ain't nothing like a mayo sandwich 😂 start running out of ANY liquid, add water. Honestly I feel like I would be much less of who I am today if it weren't for those times. Sounds cliché, but it builds character
Or the good 'ol jam sandwich if the bread is about to go too moldy to continue scraping it off. Jam a slice between two others, dry if Mayo is already gone until payday.
Poverty is a continuing downward spiral. When you have to borrow money, for instance, you get bankrupting rates because you don’t have or didn’t inherit assets to borrow against. The check engine light coming on can be a life altering experience. The affluent middle class and wealthy put you down because they don’t understand this constant anxiety and fear you deal with every day. They think there’s something wrong with you and that you simply need a vacation and to practice more self care… ha ha.
I love this guy, thanks for interviewing him
Chris you need to stop interrupting guests just to say what you think they were going to say anyways.
Just came back to say I bought and read the book Troubled. Eye opening.
1:33:00 Thomas Sowell spent three books talking about how damaging certain cultures can be.
I love your conversations with Rob
My parents began having kids at 16 and both dropped out and got GED’s, while I went to law school and became a small town attorney. As comparatively well as I have done, my classmates who had parents with graduate degrees (and beyond) were much wiser to the importance of things like participating in extracurriculars, such as Law Review and Moot Court. They also were pre-plugged into elite internships. I realized these things were critical to elite job opportunities, too late. They seemed to have known since birth.
Thanks for your anecdotes. They sound very aloof to the world that most occupy…
@@ConfusedIceberg-vd7qc If you took my comment as aloof, you missed the point.
So Great to hear Rags to riches stories, So eloquent ❤
Er.....no. Id say they want you dead. Its beyond dislike or not caring. Id settle for indifference rather than active malevolence
I 100% believe it
If you’re talking about conservatives, then I would agree with you. Libs always seem to be trying to make it easier for poor people to get access to healthcare so they don’t die. I’m a poor white American born guy and my state (Washington) covered my visit to the ER last year. All while giving more to federal government than it takes as a state. If I lived in Texas I’d probably be homeless after that 9K bill, guess I’m lucky that the “elites” where I live care enough about their fellow Americans.
Active benevolence. (They think it's benevolence.)
I generally agree with you, Chris, but I think you miss the point on the abortion issue. The anti-abortion crowd isn’t making an economic argument like you are making. They consider it a moral issue of taking a human life, and think a better route are birth control and adoption. Those solutions satisfy your economic argument, so the anti-abortion crowd would consider your position a straw man. Edit: Testing for censorship.
I can't speak directly for Chris, but I do think that it was an accidental conflation, and sadly, much of the pro life movement packs contraception and pregnancy termination together, and it shouldn't be. Of course one can avoid sex, but in a loving relationship why, and hold in mind that most terminations in the UK happen in that setting, and the driver for the procedure is lacking in funds. And strangely, at the other and often sordid end of this, the surrogate industry is often terribly misogynist (check Julie Bindel) and down right cruel and one that serves the privilege class. I am sure there are exceptions in all these issues, but the norm is important to serve the needs of women and their individual physical autonomy.
Since I have been aware in my work, a society that fascinates itself with depravity and violence, is going to get more of it!
Brilliant interview, thanks guys!!
47:50 "From '17 to '25[...]" That's the first time I'm hearing someone using 2010s and 2020s years in double digits. And it's the first time I'm hearing the prophetic perfect tense spontaneously in a contemporary setting.
Considering that it's not yet 2025 and Rob is already out of the military, I'm pretty sure it's safe to assume that he meant between the *ages* of 17 to 25.
@@moonlightray8493 Right. That's a lot more likely actually.
I immediately think- brain dead sheep -when I hear someone say “defund the….” Also- chivalry is NEVER, EVER patronizing. I can’t believe you just said that! It’s polite and loving and thoughtful. I can open my own door has always felt psycho lady to me! - and I’m female.
1:43:34 - if you look at an orchestral part from an actual working professional orchestra, you will find the notes that have accumulated through many performances. Curating these is an art practiced by librarians trained in just how and when to save, erase, and edit these notes, which are tailored to the players performing that specific part.
This guest was fantastic.
Grew up poor and bounced around from family member to family member. I've always hated cops almost all my encounters with them have been negative. Most of it was domestic disputs as a kid, I ran away once, my mom had schizophrenia. They were the enemy. Not much changed as I got older. Always treating people like they were guilty until proven innocent. Treating the victims like they were criminals. I might be considered middle class now still hate them. There might be only a couple of bad apples but all of them are complicit in the crimes of their fellows. If they were held accountable for the bad actors then I would be more willing to support them but they won't. So I was and will always be till something changes be in support of defund the police. I absolutely hate authority in most cases because in most cases they're all corrupt.
Rob Henderson is the guy!
Luxury Beliefs are Beliefs that Reality is one particular way, which in truth fly in the face of reality, and which in turn causes Reality especially the 'Ugly' therein to knock, and it knocks for them who deny it the most.
Happy Birthday Chris! 🥳
Great conversation. Luxury beliefs. God help us!!
So you're telling me bro was literally the most disadvantaged person on campus? Legit. The case and the point.
51:34 is why I like Eren Jaeger. He was disciplined and did what he had to despite his feelings.
My history podcast reconstructs the Great Depression. It took almost a year for people to realize things were not going to reverse, and the worst still hadn't happened yet. Things kept getting worser every year with 1933 being one of the darkest times. It would take decades to recover to pre-Crash times. Ironically, I tell the stories through the lives of a set of heirs & heiresses. First b/c they were the first media celebrities, stripped from anonymity and obsessions due to their wealth gave more documented accounts that could connect and compare effectively. But overall, out of the 5 main fortunes much misery came about, and 3 will have cases of elder abuse by the end of their lives.
Chris, would you consider bringing Charles Murray on? Coming apart is a book written over a decade ago where he touches a lot on luxury beliefs in practice
Re: ~ 21:50 consequences, specifically, 23:30 homicide rates at early '90s levels. Happened to take martial arts instruction from a Minneapolis man as a kid in the late 80s. He would say his degree was in social psych. He stated something like this to a few of us: social psychologists are predicting the 90s are going to be rough ... the way you raise children is to tell them you're a good person and you do things like this and you don’t do things like that because it's what good persons are like. Black kids were being told instead it doesn’t matter cuz they're going to screw you anyway. That last part he said with some emphasis, seemingly saying they were being told that --well-- really *hard*. That still captures something ongoing/still relevant. Especially if you're still in a major US inner-city. E.g. there are young people (usually the predictable bunch) who have trouble hearing 'no' on the street.
Just saw you with Michael Malice. I relate bro
As someone from a private school I can %100 vouch for this, My secondary school pulled me out of gsce French so they could maintain their languages league table position. Now realise that this was only during the final exams and It took for me to tell them I will cheat and flunk AND THEN ACTUALLY DO IT for them to actually strike me from the gcse.
The hire and acquire class doesnt think. Theyve been to institutions that teach them they are better than others. They are a problem because someone else gets stuck with fixing theirs!
1:02:42 think of it this way. Ppl werent having sex as often so the failure risk wasn't so high, or if it was, you were married. Now ppl have more "protected sex", but that still has a failure % that is increased with each incident of intercourse. The failure rate is magnified by the higher incident rates
Excellent interview
I worked at a very exclusive country club. Seeing what actual billionaires are like when they're completely comfortable cemented my opinion that rich people are completely unaware of the insulation their money provides. They are clueless and often careless about the implications of the decisions they make.
That whole luxury beliefs things is on point tho. People just need to stop standing up for things they know nothing about
I have to know this guy's secret. He said he barely graduated high school but got into Yale. I had a 4.0, also went into the military, and still got denied by half the schools I applied for, let alone an Ivy school.
"...Pentagram Dancers..." EXCELLENT!!!
I think Jordan Peterson became more aware when he did an interview with the young lady who escaped from North Korea as she discussed her experiences with higher education. I apologize for not recalling her name. The interview was both eye opening and interesting.
Yeonmi Park, I think
@@Zzyzzyx yes. Thank you.
Great convo
When did Rob lose his left arm? 🙃
😂😂😂
When he lost his mamma
I propose further cathegorisation. Regular tier elites - career politcians, CEO's / management Top tier elites - owners, trust fund babies / families with their own foundations
Great episode
Chris is exactly backwards on the luxury beliefs around abortion: It is overwhelmingly the wealthier classes who vehemently push abortion onto everyone and never suffer an abortion. **Abortion is a luxury belief.**
Abortion originated with the wealthy. Peasants had dozens of kids. Scandal and family bloodlines with wealthy sought abortions to keep things proper. Income has nothing to do with secret love affairs and unexpected pregnancies
Absolutely
I an older and I can draw a line from WW2 but I believe it's much deeper.
I’m mid build of an ice cream truck, people are craving comfort and joy, a lot, so that’s where I’m putting my focus.
20:35 coined the term Luxury Beliefs
From what I've read, crime has long been commissioned and pardoned by heads of state. Marriage was primarily to protect and promote wealth and power. His comments that the present day chatter is coming from the haves and not the have nots makes sense. As for opening the door, what goes on the public eye isn't always reality. If the graciousness between a couple is only for public display, what is it?
Amazing interview Chris! "The luxury of beliefs" isn't that another word for modern communists/the woke?
The honest truth about extension schools is that they will relax their test standards for admission. If the student body of the Extension School is one standard deviation below the average Harvard undergraduate, there needs to be some way to indicate it. Hence the coded language.
1:10:40 what episode is he talking about?
I saw this way back in the early 90's, but that is because my first 35 years of life was spent in the SF Bay Area.
Just doing a bang up job - new sub here
Why are we even making that question? Why are people expecting anyone to care for them (in exchange for 40% of their income, by the way)?
Because they say they care, and they *feel* that they care, and they create horrible social policies from that virtuous feeling of care.