Are we seeing the revitalization of conservative civilization all over the world has been a massive backlash against globalization, its leftist leadership, and its anti-cultural liberal values, and it's just the beginning.

I'm Dr. Steve Turley. I believe the liberal globalist world is at its brink and a new conservative age is rising.

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Hey gang, it's me, Dr. Steve, and today we're going to see one of the great intellectuals of our age, Thomas Sol, blow our minds on the origins of wokeness.

The vision of the anointed. Now that's an interesting title. Who are the anointed?

They are the elite and the media and the politics. All of those who think that third parties ought to be making people's decisions for them.

The subtitle is self-congratulation as a basis for social policy. In other words, people who think that everything that's wrong with the country is due to the fact that other people are just not as smart as they are.

And if only they could, you know, or people like them could take over and make our decisions, we'd be so much better wrong.

But in the early, in early America, didn't this sort of educated class make the decisions for everybody?

As far as governmental decisions. But the government itself didn't make the decisions for everyone. Now, you know, you can't decide where your kids are going to school, you can't decide whether or not they can move a halfway house for drug users, next door to you or whatnot.

It's out of your control. The government decides. That's right. The government decides too many things. They decide also how your children will be raised.

You may have an idea about what age children should be introduced to sex. And in what manner, with what kind of moral commitment?

You mean as a parent, you have a parent, a parent, yes. The schools have taken that over. By the time you even think about it, they've already had years, you know, of showing...

They're passing out condoms to these kids. They're showing motion pictures of naked couples engaging in sex, both homosexual and heterosexual in the seventh grade.

And if you complain about it, that's considered to be censorship.

Now, why I find this interview so fascinating is because it's actually from 30 years ago. And everything that Saul is saying there about what he calls the anointed, the anointed class, and particularly their mindset, their worldview, was like an ominous warning of what was to come.

The anointed have forged a social order today that scholars call refutalization. It's a term that refers to the ways in which the structure of our society is increasingly reflecting the kind of social structure that characterizes the feudal middle ages.

So for example, today, like then, we have an astonishing concentration of wealth and power. We're very, very few people control pretty much everything.

Five years ago, about 400 billionaires own half of the world's assets. Today, that number has dropped to just 100 billionaires.

So you have this tremendous concentration of wealth and power where bureaucrats and billionaires are teaming up to create a top-down governance structure.

And next to that, we're seeing the rise of a comparable kind of religious fundamentalism. But of course, the fundamentalism today involves all things woke, the environment, gender, race, LGBT.

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