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slash Ben. Okay. So I think what we are watching in increasing numbers is people converting to the religion of wokeness.

And the religion of wokeness is really exciting stuff. The religion of wokeness has all the other stuff that religions have.

It has catechisms, things that you're just supposed to listen and repeat. You may not understand them, but if you don't repeat them, this means you're bad and you have sin. It's got a nearly impenetrable code. The code is constantly changing and is constantly moving. You have no idea what the standard is from day to day. but that code is brought to you by a priestly case of really intelligent and woke people

who will be able to absolve you of sin so long as you listen to everything they say.

There is an intermediary between you and wokeness.

The intermediary is fairly obvious.

It is all the members of the New York Times editorial board.

It is all the people who tweet angrily on Twitter. It is your late night host. But even they have intermediaries. They have to call in some of their black friends that we saw on all of the late night TV shows last night in order to interpret blackness for them so that they can absolve themselves of their own white privilege. It's got sacrificial rights. People who are bad, who do not, who do not mouth the proper catechism,

are immediately destroyed. And there's no forgiveness. And there's no forgiveness. And it's got

public atonement rituals where you're supposed to come out and make apologies for absolutely

anodyne things. If you do not repeat things loud enough or long enough, then you're considered

bad. The religion of wokeness suggests a bunch of conflicting things and the only way to avoid the conflict is to just listen and repeat. Listen and believe. That's the basic idea here. So we have heard over the past 48 hours a few things. Well, past, I would say several years, but really exacerbated in the last 48 hours. We've heard that speech is violence.

So if I say something you don't like, I've enacted violence upon you. I used to hear this when I would speak at college campuses. People were literally chanting speech as violence when I spoke at UC Berkeley. Also, silence is violence. So if you don't speak, that's a form of violence. So if you do speak and we don't like it, that's violence. If you don't speak, that is also a form of violence.

So America has now adopted tap dancing, apparently, as its new solution, or mimery.

I mean, that, because if you speak, it's violence. If you don't speak, it's violence. So we have to

find some other form of communication. The religious nature of wokeness is incredible. It is a substitute for religion.

People are filling a God-shaped hole in their hearts with performative virtue signaling.

And what the virtue signaling is really designed to do in the end is to separate you off

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