Okay, welcome to the Eric Mataxe Show. Eric is in disposal at the moment. I'm afraid he's been having GI problems in uncomfortable bloating, but I'm sure he'll be out in a jiff. Oh, here he is now. Looking pale and shaken. Oh, you okay little buddy? The Eric Mataxe Show.

Hey, folks, welcome to the program. I'm continuing my conversation with my friend Alex McFarland. We're talking about his book, The Assault on America. Some really foundational issues. We always talk about politics and current events, but they it has to go back to what do we believe and why do we believe it and you Alex have been talking about the issue of natural law, the issue of a moral order, which as I said previously, we used to all mostly

yet, even if we didn't understand it philosophically, we understood it fundamentally, basically intrinsically as a culture, that stopped happening mainly in the 60s. And today, we have many people who have no idea of this. And of course, it's why we're drifting to the brink of collapse, but you were saying earlier that you think that there's that there's hope that people maybe I'm interpreting it this way. But when things get so bad,

people tend to say, wait a minute, I must have missed something. The idea that a man can declare himself a woman. It's kind of like if I cut off my arm and I declare myself, belonging to species of one armed people, it's like, well, you can cut off your arm, but you're still part of a species every cell within you says that you're part of a species where where we have two arms, just because you cut off your arm, you can't change that.

We kind of need to make this case that there are things that are immutable, and that's what you do in your book, the assault on America. There's a moral order, and we have to continue to make that case because many people don't get it anymore.

Yeah, yeah. And you know, one of the fallacies is reductionism. A reductionistic fallacy is a fallacy that implies nothing but. Well, you know, doctors are nothing but quacks.

Preachers are nothing but lazy people out for your money. And you know, there can be some preachers that are lazy people out for your money, but not all.

So let me say this. A lot of our modern pop noise is rather than doing the heavy lifting of critical thinking, they're just series of slogans and reductionistic fallacies.

So we say, well, men or men and women are women and also well, that is nothing but some social construct. America was nothing but systemic entity designed to exploit people.

Corporations and capitalism is nothing but, you know, ugly profits and the exploitation of people.

We've got to be able to look beyond this and do what I say is kind of the heavy lifting of critical thinking and realize, look, it's a fallen world.

It is a fallen world, but principled capitalism. And that's what we have had.

So principled capitalism has done more to enable people to rise above poverty, to create wealth in families after generations perhaps of indigence.

And America, she's not perfect, but my goodness, I often say this, Eric, I think the two greatest nations in world history were Israel under King Solomon and the United States of America.

And what I talk about in the book, so many now millennials and younger and even some of the boomers, some of the younger boomers, they've never seen an America at her best.

They've never seen an America where in media and journalism, the country was appreciated and affirmed, certainly not in the public school classrooms.

Eric, I remember in the 80s when I was doing my undergrad program at a state university, I remember professors denigrating America even back then.

And so, you know, I like your analogy of a man cuts his arm off and says, I'm a species of one armed, you know, people or creatures.

We're living in a time right now, the progressives from Bernie to AOC to Kamala Harris.

It's like America has problems, so let's burn the whole house down.

You know, if you find an ant in your kitchen, you don't fix the problem by burning the entire structure down.

That's what people want to do.

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