Welcome back to Young Heritage. Today I want to talk about chaos and I want to talk about Antifa.

This is going to be kind of a big sprawling episode. We're going to talk about a lot of different

works of literature. Specifically in particular I'm going to focus on the Bakae by Euripides,

which is great ancient Greek tragedy. I've mentioned it before on the show as something with a lot

to say to our present moment, but we've never actually gone into it in detail. We're going to do

that, but I'm also going to bring in a bunch of other stuff because I think that this moment,

which we're in, is a moment that sort of hits at the heart of something very deep in the history

of the West. This flotation with anarchy that we've got going on. We're riding in the streets,

we're tearing statues down, or at least some people are doing that, right? Breaking into storefronts,

destroying businesses. That sort of thing, it's very easy to look at that and think, oh my gosh,

it's all about right now. It's all about our problems from five minutes ago. In fact, that sort of

thing is something that has happened in the past before in the history of the West. It's a dynamic

that recurs. I think that this tragedy has a lot to say about why and what this is. That's why

we're doing this. Let me start out by saying that even the people who support groups like Antifa,

and it should be obvious that I am not one of those people, but there are people obviously out there

that think Antifa, Antifascist is this kind of force for good in our society. Even those people,

and even Antifa themselves, agree that the point of it is to break down the barriers of our society,

because our society is unjust, and so the ways that it is structured need to be deconstructed.

A lot of times, the language around this is the language of disruption. They form,

they perform activities that are supposed to disrupt American civilization and Western civilization

and some of those barriers that are being broken down by Antifa include barriers between

property, personal property, the barrier between my personal property, and public property is

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