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Grammys. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro show.

Well, folks, last night was the Grammys. And I know that pretty much no one in my audience listened or watched the Grammys last night

because we had better things to do, shampooing our hair, hanging ourselves.

I mean, there are many things that would have been better than watching the Grammys last night.

But it is important to note what happens at major cultural events, largely because it exposes

the minds and the

souls of the people who produce these events and the people who shape your kids. Because while you

may not be listening to the music of Harry Styles, while you may not be engaging with the absurdities

of Sam Smith, there's a good shot that your kids are or that their friends are or that people in the

culture who shape them are. And that's a real problem. Because, you know, well, we can easily say it's performed of pearl clutching me, worrying about what they do at the Grammys. They're obviously trying to be provocative. They're trying to be transgressive. You can go all the way back to David Bowie and Madonna. What we saw last night at the Grammys was actually something that was rather new in kind because it wasn't

just transgressivism in the sense that it was adopting symbols of religion, for example,

in order to sort of shame those symbols of religion the same way that Madonna sort of tried to

cross the virgin whore boundaries in her imagistics. What we saw last night was a full-scale embrace

of Satanism on a major

American network show. That's an amazing thing. And it's amazing thing because what it really

speaks to in a much deeper way is what Western culture now has to say about evil and the nature

of good. Because it is one thing to say that you don't like the structures of religion.

It is another thing to full-on embrace Satanism. And people can say, again, it's just imagery. What are you making a big deal here for? Why do you think this is a big? This is the thing the left loves to do. I've talked about it a lot on the show. The face tattoo syndrome, they do something unbelievably transgressive, something that is supposed to be shocking. And then when you are shocked and appalled by it, they say, why are you so shocked? Why are you paying attention to it? Why are you even noticing? We're noticing because what, you said it's important to do this. It was you. You decided this was an important thing to do. And now we're noticing it. And now we're analyzing why it's an important thing. And it really is an important thing because of course course, the imagery of Satan is nothing new. The imagery of Satan goes back several thousand years.

Their references to Satan in the Hebrew Bible. Their references obviously throughout Christian

theology to Satan. But it's the picture of the sort of modern Satan as a good character

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