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Welcome to the Eric Mataxis show with your host Eric Mataxis.

Folks, I've got a special bonus for you. It's called 10 more minutes with John's Mirac. John,

welcome back. Thanks Eric. We talked a little bit about this last week, but I want to talk about it again.

Is the woke cult just a spastic reaction to Darwinism? And that's kind of a kind of a clunky long title, but I kind of had to put it that way.

The woke cult, would you and I are experiencing, which you and I are afflicted by? It's hysterical, it's moralistic, it's constantly looking for people that for new rights that people have, new sensitivities we have to respect, new restrictions on our behavior that we have to do in order to avoid

to make them more understanding, vulnerable, marginalized people. The woke cult, which is promoting all that, also believes that you and I are cosmic accidents, brain parts of the universe.

We are the result of random genetic mutations and then the survival of the fittest. That's Darwinian materialism.

And this Darwinian materialism produce all these snowflakes who we are supposed to protect and supposed to look out for. Do you see chimpanzees? Be careful not to misgender each other.

Do you see gorillas looking out for the vulnerable and making sure they and book all the males need to get a chance to meet? We're not going to hog all the females.

That's very funny. Do you see gorillas looking out for the vulnerable? John, that should be the title of a book. Can't you write short books with titles like that? I know you could.

You need to do that. That's just too good. Sorry.

I want people who think it's wrong for us to eat animals to extend that to the animal world. I want them to go out and to forest and try to convince the bears to be vegetarian. I want them to have a nice sit down with the lions and the tigers and explain to them that it is speciesist for them to eat antelopes and wildebeests.

And look, if you can convince us of that since we're no different from other animals, right? We have no more rights, no more claims in other animals, then vegetarianism is something that should be evangelized to the animal world. So the predator is out there. And I would love to see our woke friends out there talking to the lions, talking to the bears.

I think it would produce a winery process in society. It would call our herd very effectively and the world would be a better place after wouldn't it be great if the woke people were beaten by bears.

But but but they would sacrifice themselves for the for the virtuous idea of of dying in in a beautiful cause of preaching vegetarian to these 2000 pound strong monsters that want to eat them.

And I think you've gone really crazy. I tried to write a book about this. It was called to serve man and it was a cookbook on how to eat vegetarians and my agent looked at the manuscript, slid it back across the table to me and said never tell anyone about this.

Not even your closest most trusted friends. Wait, it's really, it's really this. Yeah, it was it was a guy. But my theory was if vegetarians think the animals and people are equal moral value.

We should do a compromise with them that instead of eating other animals, we would eat the vegetarians that would save animals. It would let these people act on their conscience. It would less us act on our conscience.

So I had recipe. You have a bad publisher. You should have you should found and find another publisher. I wish I I wish somebody would give me the money. I'm not kidding.

To do a publishing imprint because there's so many things that I would publish and I think they would do well actually. I'm not saying I would just do this as a vanity project. I actually think that a lot of publishers don't have good instincts and they don't know how to make the business work.

Because there are things like what you're talking about. You could do it sarcastically or you can actually write essays as you do explaining this. People need to understand how ideas work.

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