The One Thing Gen Z Must Do to Save Civilization | Ep. 30

Two weeks ago, Thomas Massie lost his Kentucky primary. The night he conceded, Marjorie Taylor Greene posted that the Republican Party was "destroyed" and prayed for the “these creatures” — i.e. the boomers and her own party's voters — to be gone so the country could be "saved" by the young. A few weeks ago, Tucker Carlson called the boomers "the most loathsome, mediocre generation this country has ever produced."

Burn down the old so we can be saved by the young is the most cynical lie in American politics today, and it's the same lie the left – Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Margaret Mead, and Yuval Harari – has been selling for sixty years. This episode is Jeremy's case for why Gen Z is being sold a Marxist con dressed in right-wing sheep's clothing, and what it would actually look like to save civilization instead of burning it down.

Jeremy gets into: the MTG "these creatures" post and what it really means; the $30 million primary Massie still lost; the blame-the-boomers movement and the numbers that disprove its central claims (Gen Z owns less than 10% of student debt, the homebuying gap is a 6-percentage-point spread not 66, millennial wealth tripled between 2019 and 2023); Tucker Carlson on the right and Jon Stewart on the left running the same Gen Z chase; the two kinds of historical progress — building on what came before versus the perpetual revolution that always ends in mass graves; why the American founders kept English common law and the French revolutionaries burned the calendar and sent 20,000 to the guillotine; Edmund Burke's "monster of monsters" and his partnership of the living, the dead, and the unborn; the Comanche as a case study in what happens to cultures that worship the young (they don't build civilizations); the sixty-year preaching tradition from Margaret Mead's Culture and Commitment through Oprah's "they just have to die" to Evan Sayet, Robert Fulghum, Eric Weinstein, and Yuval Harari telling kids not to rely on the adults; Abigail Schrier's Bad Therapy and the data on what telling Gen Z to ignore their parents has actually produced; the totalitarian playbook for breaking the parent-child bond, from Pavlik Morozov to the Hitler Youth to Mao's Cultural Revolution to Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge; the Fifth Commandment, Dennis Prager and the Apostle Paul on the only commandment that comes with a promise; what conservatism — per Roger Scruton and Russell Kirk — has actually conserved, including the world Gen Z woke up in; the boomers' real failures (no-fault divorce, abortion on demand, the COVID lockdowns) and the world-defining things they also built (Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Tim Berners-Lee, the internet, the longest peace and prosperity in human history, Vietnam paid in 58,000 sons); the $84 trillion intergenerational wealth transfer coming over the next two decades; why the doom narrative about millennials was wrong and why the same story is being told about Gen Z now; and the closing call: don't be the doom generation, build the future, live long in the land.

Also referenced: King George III, Robespierre, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Winston Churchill, and Donald Trump.

0:00 The MTG, Tucker, and Massie Moment That Sparked This Episode

2:10 The Most Cynical Pitch in American Politics

5:24 Tucker on the Right, Jon Stewart on the Left

6:41 The Two Kinds of Progress: Building vs. Burning It Down

10:00 American Founders vs. French Revolutionaries

13:03 The Comanche and What Happens to Cultures That Worship the Young

15:26 Sixty Years of "Don't Listen to Your Elders" — Mead, Oprah, Obama, Harari

20:44 The Totalitarian Playbook: Pavlik Morozov, Hitler Youth, Mao, Pol Pot

22:27 The Only Commandment That Comes With a Promise

25:15 What Has Conservatism Actually Conserved? The World.

29:13 The Boomers' Real Failures — and What They Built Despite Them

35:10 The Millennials Proved the Doom Story Wrong. Gen Z Can Too.

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