We Just Took A Dramatic Turn Toward Political Collapse, Could There Be A Second Civil War?
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🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 91 minutes
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We Just Took A Dramatic Turn Toward Political Collapse. Many people have been saying that there will be come kind of escalating conflict between left and right, a second civil war, or however you want to describe it.
Eric Weinstein, of intellectual dark web fame, recently tweeted a thread about how he feels the political world is coming apart and he won't make the same error of 2008 when the financial system took a massive hit.
It seems with the dramatic escalation of censorship over the past few weeks and years we are dividing our society in two and that can only lead to one path. The far left social justice activists against the those who oppose them. The "right wing" seems to be a mix of varying ideologies and politics with libertarians, liberals, and conservatives mostly agreeing in their opposition to the regressive left. But the far left activists use powerful institutions to command power and silence opposition under the guise of social justice. Conservatives face bias on social platforms and a double standard in left wing media.
If this continues than I think some kind of conflict is guaranteed, though what form it will take I am unsure of. We may already be in it.
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| 0:00.0 | For the past couple years, I've said that the culture war, what I'm going to call it, is going to escalate. |
| 0:04.8 | And who knows? People might look back in 100 years, and this could be the dawn of a new civil war as some people have called it. |
| 0:11.3 | The rhetoric has been flying around quite a bit. Even recently, people have been talking about the potential for a second civil war. |
| 0:17.3 | I think that's a bit too hyperbolic. I don't know what you could call what's happening, but maybe complete social upheaval, massive change, who knows? |
| 0:26.9 | There's a lot of people who go around saying, Empire has only lasted a few hundred years. I don't believe that's actually true, you know. But people talk about it. |
| 0:34.6 | I want to talk about some of the issues that I believe are causing and caused by this rapid transformation we're seeing society. |
| 0:42.0 | We're seeing news media collapse, we're seeing the spread of new technology. |
| 0:45.5 | Social media is dramatically changing how things function. |
| 0:48.4 | And it's resulting in this weird tribalism. |
| 0:51.2 | One of the things I want to highlight today specifically is how the media exists in two realities. |
| 0:56.8 | And they probably know what don't seem to care. |
| 0:59.5 | And what ends up happening is then you have the right and the left, how do you want to break up the two larger factions where they see the same screen with two different movies to quote Scott Adams or to paraphrase Scott Adams, which will go with that too. |
| 1:13.0 | But this, I want to talk about this because I have this tweet from Eric Weinstein who said, |
| 1:16.9 | In 2001, I began to believe that the financial world is coming apart and started giving talks, but it didn't year after year. |
| 1:24.4 | Around 2005, I lost my conviction waiting. |
| 1:27.4 | He says, at NM to leave told me to stick it out, but I lost my nerve. |
| 1:31.9 | In 2019, I think the political world is coming apart. |
| 1:34.9 | And what exactly does that mean the political world is coming apart? |
| 1:38.1 | Well, what's interesting about Eric Weinstein's tweet and he does go on to elaborate is that in 2008, we know the financial world did face. |
| 1:46.6 | We were hit by the great recession. |
| 1:48.1 | Something did happen and it was devastating to a lot of people. |
| 1:51.7 | We're still here. The world carries on. |
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