The David Knight Show - From Marxism to Gender Delusion: Societal Collapse

Episode Date: September 10, 2025

Dr. Richard Kradin warns that the left’s crusade against religion isn’t politics—it’s pathology. He traces how Marxists infiltrated schools, corporations, and medicine, replacing truth with mo...ral relativism and producing a generation plagued by depression, narcissism, and gender delusion. From trans “treatments” he compares to Nazi medicine to COVID’s junk science and captured regulators, Kradin calls for families to reclaim education and restore a moral foundation before society collapses into technocratic control. Follow the show on Kick and watch live every weekday 9:00am EST – 12:00pm EST https://kick.com/davidknightshow Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code KNIGHTFind out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The book is a godless crusade, The Progressive Campaign to Rid the World of Religion. I guess any religion except theirs. Thank you so much for joining us. And, of course, Dr. Richard Cradin is a psychologist and a psychoanalyst, and I'm not really sure what the difference is between those two. He is Professor Emeritus from Harvard Medical School. we won't hold that against you
Starting point is 00:00:30 sorry but give us an idea of what you see as a problem with the left and you say I diagnose it as a psychological disorder I think we can all see elements of it
Starting point is 00:00:44 but give us your take on it as a psychoanalyst you know I think one of the problems that we have with understanding the left is understanding their version of reality the diagnosis of a mental disorder really revolves around a certain consensual understanding of what reality is and if you're dealing with a group that has a separate reality or has a whole different set of tenets that make up their reality
Starting point is 00:01:14 then it's almost impossible to use the usual diagnostic approach to understanding what they're about so from the perspective of the conservative mind, the left is clearly at some level mentally disturbed. On the other hand, they're not playing by the same rules that we are. And so if you can't get a consensual agreement about what the rules are, then it's impossible to really even define what mental disorder is. That's right. They constantly tell us that they've got their own truth. They've got their own reality, right? Yeah, well, this is what the neo-Marxist postmodern philosophies are about. They're about the idea that there is no truth, that there's moral relativism.
Starting point is 00:02:02 And again, I think it speaks to what I've been listening to you talking about. The whole idea of promoting conflict. And the conflict is persistent. And as a result, there's no possibility of producing a coherent society, which is how they intend to transform the society by undermining it. Yes, yes. And the conflict is key. How did these people get in charge of everything?
Starting point is 00:02:29 I have people ask me that all the time, and it's like, you know, as you point out, they've infiltrated the universities, they've infiltrated politics, even churches, corporations, and so forth. How did they get in charge at all this stuff? Well, I think I'm old enough to realize where it began, at least from my perspective, and that was probably back in the 60s. And the idea of a violent revolution was not seen as something that was likely to be workable in the United States or in the West. And so the approach was instead to infiltrate the institutions and to produce this conflict around race in particular and around any other division that they could inject into society. And as a result, rather than being active on the streets, the activists entered the institutions. They entered higher education in particular.
Starting point is 00:03:29 And from there, they just moved on to all positions of leadership. And so at this point, again, virtually all of the institutions have been markedly infiltrated by this type of thought. I agree. I think it really is, you know, the... The educational institutions are really seminal in this. They act as seminaries for this type of thing. And I always think back to Bill Ayers. Do you see that as part?
Starting point is 00:03:56 You mentioned how they switched from kind of a class-based struggle, which the Marxist used in Europe, to a race-based struggle. And they were the ones who really kind of popularized. I think somebody else came up with the term white-skinned privilege. They just shortened it to white privilege. And Bill Ayers and his group there stopped bombing buildings, and they decided they would start bombing mines
Starting point is 00:04:17 and they got involved in education, right? Yeah, Herbert Marquise, who was part of the Frankfurt School coming over from Europe back in the 60s, became prominent in the educational system in California. Angela Davis was one of his students, Bill Ayers, again of the same mindset, and Barack Obama, you know, really is, you know, just a generation removed from that. Yes. And so, again, this has been a systematic infiltration of the institutions. And I think, unfortunately, most Americans have been naive and probably good-natured enough
Starting point is 00:04:56 and not to believe that this is truly happening. That's right. People don't want to believe that this is, they don't want to believe the worst of people. And we typically will project our values onto them. I remember at the end of Barack Obama's administration, I think it was, Harry Belafonte, I believe, who would support him, who was very leftist. And he said, I don't know who this guy is. We just projected our values on him.
Starting point is 00:05:20 And, of course, he was disappointed that Obama had not been radical enough. But I think we all wind up doing that to some degree. We can't believe that somebody would do the types of things that people will do out there. But how do you see this happening with the various adoptions that are happening right now with Gen Z? got a stat in your book, 42% of Gen Z is struggling with depression, which is double the rate of older adults. What is causing that? Well, there's a number of causes. Clearly, the internet and social media and the iPhone has played a role. And you can look at the statistics and you can see that as people spend more time on their screens,
Starting point is 00:06:14 they become more and more anxious and more depressed. But in addition, again, the loss of a commonly held set of religious values, moral values, I think, has left most young people with the sense that there's no meaning in their life. And so they can't look to any defined sort of meaning. And as a result, you know, the human psyche is, is essentially conservative and it's unable to keep up with some of the technological advances that have been made over the last 20, 30 years.
Starting point is 00:06:52 And so as a result, you know, we're seeing a kind of revolt of the mind that really can't absorb what the technological changes are that have been incurring. And it's really going to accelerate with artificial intelligence, isn't it? Absolutely. I think that's going to be a huge problem. Yeah, we look at, you know, this generation that is constantly online, as you point out, you know, on social media, it's making them anxious, they've lost a moral foundation, they don't have a framework of what's right or wrong, you know, and they're just kind of a drift. And then we bring into this mix, this tool that can be used. It's not necessarily, you know, that it's going to do its own thing, but it is being wielded by people. They have people who are setting a bias into this thing, and yet people don't understand.
Starting point is 00:07:42 I mean, I've done some recent searches on AI just to see whether or not there is a clearly artificially induced bias within the system, and there's no doubt about it. You know, you get questions that really just mimic the propaganda of the left when you get an answer. Yes, and they pay people to do that. I mean, it is a deliberate thing. What I find so dangerous about it is that it operates under the veneer that it is objective when it is anything other than that. As an engineer, we would constantly be warned by our professors garbage in, garbage out, right? Don't take this as something that is objective fact simply because you've got a computer print out.
Starting point is 00:08:27 And yet people will do that with artificial intelligence. It sounds very intelligent. It sounds very authoritative. well unfortunately most people will trade almost anything for for comfort and ease yeah and so if it's easy if it helps them write their papers helps them do their studies help them helps them with whatever they're trying to do they'll defer to that and without being critical about what you know they're absorbing let's talk a little bit about the corporations because we just had cracker barrel update this first they changed the logo and I saw
Starting point is 00:09:04 that and I thought, yeah, but are they going to still change the interior of the buildings because that's not what the customers want? And now the Cracker Barrel CEO has tapped out. So we're not going to spend all this money remodeling all these things. But there's a lot of corporations that maybe they've learned from what Bud Light and some of the others did. What do you think is going on with this? Over and over again, we see corporations counter programming and going head to head with
Starting point is 00:09:31 the perspectives and the cultures. and the opinions of their own base. We see that, especially like with NASCAR, for example. Why are they doing that? I think there are two sometimes conflicting motivations for the corporations. One, obviously, is the profit motive, which one would think would be the driving force, and I think underlying it for most corporations it actually is. But the other issue, I think, is that you're seeing that the people who come to head
Starting point is 00:09:59 these corporations have gone through the institutions, and they've actually absorbed, you know, this leftist propaganda and left this ideology as their way of being in the world. And so they're really out of touch with the consumer in many cases, such as Cracker Barrel or Bud Light. But, you know, they're so isolated and insulated from the rest of the world that, you know, they don't see that as an issue. But ultimately, again, I think for people like the Zuckerbergs and the cooks, you know, they realize that the bottom line is, you know, you You know, they need to make money. And they've got a globalist agenda with respect to money.
Starting point is 00:10:39 Corporations, you know, basically run the West. They run this country. They run the countries in the West. I mean, there's nothing new there. It's just become more overt. Yeah, it's something that I saw. We had video stores about 30 years ago, more than 30 years ago. And we would see this with Hollywood.
Starting point is 00:10:58 You know, they would increasingly make films that would not do well. and they seem to revel in offending people and stuff that you see coming out of Bud Light or NASCAR or whatever these movie studios loved to offend people or at least the directors that were there loved to do it and as you point out they're true believers in this stuff but there's also this peer pressure they wanted to be respected by their peers in the industry
Starting point is 00:11:29 and the way that they would be respected by their peers in the industry It's just to show how awful the middle class is and how awful religion is and to deconstruct all these things in a very Marxist way. And the audience, even if they didn't analyze it along those kinds of lines, still could understand that they hated them. It's pretty obvious that they hated their audience and their audience didn't like their films either. But they wouldn't change. Even when you talk to them and say, you know, we'd make more money if you would make movies that were not combative. with your audience, but they just continued to go down that route, because it was, as you pointed out, it's like a religion.
Starting point is 00:12:08 I like the analogy that you had about the religious aspects of this. It's most definitely a religion, and the most cynical aspect of it is that this neo-Marxist ideology, which, again, is a secular humanist religion, has adopted many of the Judeo-Christian Christian elements of social justice as their goal without crediting a traditional religion for it, but that's where it's coming from. But it's a very cynical adaptation, if you will, because it really has nothing to do with social justice as it was understood in traditional religious mode. So let me ask you, what do we do to reclaim a religious foundation in this thing. How do we get that old-time religion?
Starting point is 00:13:03 You know, is it based on what we do in terms of education? I think that is fundamental, but how do you see it? You know, I really can't say that I know the answer to that. I think one of the things that I tend to believe is that the ideas coming out of the woke left at this point are so bizarre and so unnatural, if you will, that it may reach the point where the minds of people will just rebel against it
Starting point is 00:13:35 and seek another form of meaning and to find that meaning they're going to have to go back to traditional religion because in the West and Western civilization that's where it comes from. You can't find anyone who has real moral values that won't trace
Starting point is 00:13:51 them at some level back to traditional religion. I agree. So I'm hoping that at some point, and maybe it's beginning to occur, there's some evidence, perhaps, that it is, that people are just getting fed up with this nonsense, because it makes no sense. It's not improving their life, and they will begin to seek other modes of meaning. It seems like the danger is that as people realize that this moral relativism, that this
Starting point is 00:14:20 humanism, that this transhumanism, whatever, you know, all these different elements don't make any sense that they can't produce anything that anyone wants there's no good to be found in them that they'll start seeking around for other failed modes you know we might wind up with a religion of the state or something like that and so that that's the key thing when I look at it uh Dr. Creighton I think that um so often you know we want to make a major change in our life and we take off all these different things that we want to do and we try to do them all once. And I think, you know, the wise people have said, you pick one of these things that you want to change in your life and focus on that one at a time. And I think that when we look at
Starting point is 00:15:06 society, this is this big, nebulous thing, I don't think anybody can change society. It's like trying to move this gigantic ship that has massive momentum and see with a little tiny boat or something. But I think that we can make a change if we accept that we're going to do the small things and fix those one-on-one in people's lives. I think that is maybe the perspective that we need to have. We can't fix society, but we can fix maybe one person here, another person there, or maybe a family here and a family there. And as you point out, that is going to be with a foundation that has a moral foundation that is rooted, most likely in a religious belief. well I think if there's one thing that probably needs to be done and it's a small thing
Starting point is 00:15:56 but it's at the same time a huge thing and that is to focus on the education of our children because they are the future and if they're not educated properly we're going to go down the wrong path in the future I agree so either changing the public educational system or pulling one's children out of the public educational system and educating them either at home or in religious schools, I think is probably an important task and something that needs to be seriously considered by most parents at this point. I absolutely agree with you. And I think we can see that the other side agrees with that as well
Starting point is 00:16:33 because that's where they began. You know, they look at some of the utopian societies in the middle 1800s. And they said, well, you know, this society that we're trying to set up here failed because we didn't get to the kids early enough. and they were entrenched with the values of their parents, which are antithetical to this utopian society that we're trying to set up, typically socialist. And so they began in the educational system,
Starting point is 00:16:59 and I think that we're going to have to begin there as well, and we're going to have to gradually unroll that, as you said, family by family, they're going to have to have the determination that they are going to take control of their children's education. Maybe that's going to be homeschool, or if they want to create some other structure in conjunction with other people that, you know, they want to have some kind of a charter school or something that's not as formal. And I think a key issue with all that is going to be, it's going to have to be the kind of mindset
Starting point is 00:17:31 where people don't place money first. In other words, if they go begging for financial support from the government, it's doomed to failure because the government's going to then drag them right back into some, frame of reference that it's going to be antithetical to what they're trying to do. What do you think about that? Well, I agree with you. And again, you know, the educational system is one critical part of this. But the other critical part is what takes place in the home.
Starting point is 00:18:01 You know, what values are the parents actually conveying to their children? And it's not clear to me that even conservatives these days have really adhered to the proper morality to instill in their children. I mean, they've given a lot over to the left and the propaganda of the left and the acceptance of homosexuality, same-sex marriage, all of these types of things. They're all problematic.
Starting point is 00:18:29 Yes. You know, even the homosexual population, which, again, I think almost everyone will kind of agree is kind of accepted as normal these days or even celebrated, there are problems with the homosexual population. I've treated many homosexuals in my practice, and they all, virtually all, have major psychological issues.
Starting point is 00:18:58 And much of what's detrimental to the morality in society today is coming from the LGBTQ community, not just the transgender community, but the homosexual community. Yes, I agree. I agree. So, you know, when we look at what is happening, you've talked about what may be happening and the blowback as we see these people who have been gaslit as young children or teenagers into mutilating themselves. We're starting to see people as they grow up. I say, wait a minute, you did this to me and I was taken advantage of. We've even seen that from a former Navy SEAL
Starting point is 00:19:40 who they convinced to transition as an adult. And he came out against that and attacking the people who pushed them in that direction and speaking about how, well, he said, if they can do that to me as an adult Navy SEAL, imagine what they can do to children. What do you think is going to happen in that regard in terms of how that's going to blow back
Starting point is 00:20:03 against the institutions, both educational and even medical? the transsexual transgender community is a community that suffers from severe mental disorder and this was generally accepted by the psychiatric community until it was infiltrated as well and taken over by leftist ideology and again it links directly to the acceptance of homosexuality back in the 1970s. when it also was considered a normal lifestyle instead of a neurotic type of disorder. The fact that people can even accept the idea of transgender as a transsexuality just shows how far gone we are as a community, as a society, and even entertaining the idea.
Starting point is 00:21:03 Yes. And I blame the mental health profession in large measure for this because the mental health profession has really taken on the role of Nazi doctors back in Germany who were working for the state without any concern for the welfare of their patients or individuals. Yes, yes. So that transgender are treated in any way other than with some type of psychological support is abhorrent, frankly.
Starting point is 00:21:32 yeah it'd be blowback absolutely there's going to be blowback but you we want to be careful that the blowback doesn't take the form of another element of victimization within society because we have enough of that yes that's right um it's kind of interesting you know when all this stuff started I used to play clips of a corporal clinger from mash all the time because he was deliberately dressing up in a woman's outfit as a cross-dressing so he could get a section eight meaning that he'd be declared insane and kicked out of the military because he wanted to get out of the Korean war and go home and that was the running joke with him and they didn't do it because they all knew it was an act and so it's kind of it's kind of funny that we see this coming
Starting point is 00:22:16 back in that way we know that you know it is an act by the people who are running the institutions now rather than the individual who wants to get out of the institution they're trying to institutionalize them but it was always as you point out it was a mental disorder and and it still is quite frankly it is making the people as we've seen the violence that's been done recently again targeting religion and the transgender shootings that we had in Nashville and the other one that was up in Minneapolis do you want to comment on that well once again as I said you know these this population is seriously mentally disturbed and they're very angry.
Starting point is 00:23:01 That generally goes along with serious mental illness. It's a bit not unusual for seriously, mentally ill individuals to be extremely angry and paranoid. And I think it's the paranoia that you're seeing in this population, you know, when they feel that they're being threatened in some way, you know, again, artificially, but being threatened by conservatives or being threatened by traditional religious ideas, and they last out. I mean, they see this is self-defense on their part. So again, it's just indicative of how mentally disturbed these individuals are and how in need they are of treatment and how
Starting point is 00:23:40 abominable it is that the mental health profession has gone along with this idea that this is essentially a lifestyle choice. Yes. Yeah, that was something that really surprised me when that began about a decade ago. And then five years ago, what we saw was the informed consent. attack, how the government started using medicine as a weapon where they removed people's informed consent. Talk about that and the damage that's done to the institutions and how do we pull that back. How do we, you know, RFK Jr. said that his mission was to restore confidence in the, in HHS, and by extension, I guess, the CDC and FDA and others underneath that umbrella.
Starting point is 00:24:26 but how do they get that kind of confidence back? We have to see some real change, don't we? Absolutely. You know, I've written two other books. One dedicated to this whole issue of what's taking place in the mental health profession and the other in terms of what's going on in the general medical profession. Because in addition to being a psychotherapist, I am actually a pulmonologist. I'm a lung doctor.
Starting point is 00:24:53 Oh, wow. What do you think of the ventilators? Of the ventilators. The ventilators being pushed for people who had respiratory issues at the beginning of the lockdown. There was a big push for ventilators, and I've been told that they had a very, very high casualty rate. What do you think of ventilators? I'd seen one pulmonologist who said we've never done that type of thing typically. Well, you know, I forgive a lot of the confusion that occurred at the beginning of the pandemic,
Starting point is 00:25:21 Because I think when you're faced with a serious disease and with people dying at an increased rate, it's easy to make mistakes. Ventilators are absolutely life-saving when they're used properly and when they're used for the right populations. When they're not used properly and overused or used with the incorrect settings, which is often the case, then they can produce increased lung injury. and they can produce death. So again, I don't know exactly how to evaluate each and every case. You'd have to look at the specifics of that. Sure.
Starting point is 00:26:01 But certainly what the medical profession did with respect to the COVID epidemic, again, is another abomination. And it just speaks to how readily that particular profession, and maybe the population in general is to just conform to what, is expected of them. But the decisions that were made were obviously contrary to general scientific thought. The idea that acquired immunity was not effective for a virus is something that I never heard of. It was very obvious, I think, to some of us, that what was going on with COVID was just the scientific decisions were just totally incorrect.
Starting point is 00:26:49 the masking, the distancing, the lack of isolation of the people who were sick and mandating vaccines, or a vaccine that you had to take endless numbers of times. I mean, no one had ever seen anything like that. And the fact that the medical profession was on board with that is just extraordinary. Yes. But if you read the medical... Anybody who questioned the safety or the efficacy or why they would roll something out without sufficient testing of it in a very radically different approach.
Starting point is 00:27:22 They were vilified and canceled. Well, they were vilified not only by the government, but by the medical profession itself, by professional societies. Yes. You know, the fact that they were threatening cancellation of one's licensure, if you prescribed ibupectin, you mean, it's just nonsense. Yeah. And nothing that we'd ever seen before.
Starting point is 00:27:43 And so the medical profession, if you read the medical journals, these days. Half of the articles are about DEI in medicine. They're no longer about medical issues. They're all about, you know, distributing care equitably to minority populations. So, I mean, the whole, the whole profession has been co-opted by progressive thought. It's a travesty. Yes. And I think what Robert Kennedy is doing, what Robert Kennedy is doing is extremely important. You know, he may not be right on every issue, but he's certainly right in terms of realizing that what we're doing and prescribing for people has no scientific basis anymore. And, you know, much of this has been because it's been co-opted again by money.
Starting point is 00:28:31 It's been corrupted, and corrupted largely by the influences of foreign governments, particularly China. When I worked at Harvard, you know, most of the people who were working in laboratories were Chinese. The Americans no longer wanted to work in the laboratories. There wasn't enough money in it for them. So the Chinese Communist Party was sending people over here, and they were filling up the laboratories. So the researchers were perfectly happy to have these people here, but they were taking the information and sending it back to China, you know.
Starting point is 00:29:02 And so the money was coming from other places, and it just corrupted the whole institution. Well, you know, we were talking about the insanity of the left and especially of transgenderism. But it really was truly insane. I mean, even with the virology paradigm, the purpose of a vaccine was to train your immune system. So how in the world can they say,
Starting point is 00:29:27 according to that paradigm, that if you have actually been exposed to the thing that they're trying to protect you from and you've recovered, how is your immune system not been trained by that? That's the whole idea of natural immunity. So do we have to go back and rethink the whole? whole field of virology now with these people? Or is it, was it clearly a case that they had a
Starting point is 00:29:49 political agenda that had nothing to do with any of their scientific beliefs or teachings? It's the latter. Yeah. I mean, I'm trained also as an immunologist. I did research for many years in respiratory immunology. Immunologists understand how the immune system works. And it doesn't worked the way that the people were telling us it worked during the COVID epidemic. So it was clearly political. It was clearly ideological. It was clearly being driven by the drug companies and the corruption within the NIH with Dr. Fauci and others. So I mean, again, it's just a travesty. And I don't know what it's going to take to restore America's faith in the health profession. Yeah, I think when you go back and we look at it, you know, people began to look more closely at what was happening
Starting point is 00:30:40 with the pediatricians and the vaccine schedule and other things like that. I was really surprised at how they wanted to do multiple boosters with the COVID thing. I said, you know, what is up with that? But when I went back and looked at the standard vaccine schedule for children, you see the same vaccines being given over and over and over and over again, sometimes multiple times a year for these childhood diseases. And that begins to raise questions as to what not what the real motivation is for this and whether or not these things are have any efficacy
Starting point is 00:31:15 at all. I think that's one of the reasons why people are looking at the vaccine schedule. Well, two things along those lines. First of all, the children, for the most part, virtually none of them developed any lethal disorder from COVID. So to keep vaccinating them was just improper. Second of all, the MRNA vaccination by itself is it was clearly experimental. It had never been used. It'd never been used on people. And so to use the entire world as a guinea pig to see whether or not this vaccine worked without any knowledge whatsoever as to its efficacy or the complications that might ensue. It's just extraordinary. And yet you see this. The WHO and the globalists went along with that is just, you know,
Starting point is 00:32:02 it just tells you what it's about. I agree. Yes. Yeah, Moderna had been around for a decade and they had never been able to get past any safety testing. So with this, they just skipped it. But now we're at the situation where, and you've got a lot of people in the current administration who were trying to remove all of the concerns about AI and rush it as quickly as possible. Peter Thiel says that he's trying to tie it into Christian eschatology and saying that if you try to regulate AI, you're going to have to do it with the global government, which is
Starting point is 00:32:35 going to actually be the beast itself, not the AI, but the global. government. And so there's a move to get rid of any oversight of AI. And there's also a move to get rid of oversight of MRA. And you've got people who are rushing to apply this in a lot of places. Trump's very first event that he had was Stargate, where they wanted to use AI to design MRNA. And it's like, whoa, you know, I could possibly go wrong with this. How do we Can you know, I think people need to begin to re-evaluate what progress actually means. Progress is not solely some advance in technology. I agree.
Starting point is 00:33:19 Progress needs to have some evaluation with respect to whether or not it improves, you know, the welfare of society. And if it doesn't do that, then that's not necessarily progress. I mean, Chesterton wrote about that, you know, years ago. And so I think people need to get beyond their individual comforts and ease and really see, you know, is what's being introduced into my life, into this society, improving it or not. I agree, I agree, yes. The book is A Godless Crusade, the Progressive Campaign to Rid the World of Religion.
Starting point is 00:33:59 We're talking to Dr. Richard Cradon. That's K-R-A-D-I-N. Do you have a website that you sell of that, or a campaign? people find this on Amazon only or best. You can find it on Amazon and Barnes and Novel. Okay, great, great. Well, it's a fascinating book, and I think it is important for us to keep pointing back to the foundation that we must have. We are a society that is cut adrift, and we're being tossed about by every new wave of ideas or technology that come in. We're going to have to have an anchor somewhere, and that has always been religion. You're right about that.
Starting point is 00:34:35 And I think an anchorless society is a very dangerous society. And I think we're approaching a very dangerous time. And people need to start looking at what is really going to be necessary for us to move forward in all this. I agree. I thank you so much for focusing on that. And I think it's very important that you see it for what it is, I think, and that is a crusade. It really is their religion, and they really are on crusade with it. And they seem to be, even though they deny any objective truth in their moral relativism,
Starting point is 00:35:11 they hold that, if you want to call it a truth, that truth is totally absolute. And a few other things that they push out there. And they seem to have a greater conviction, unfortunately, in this religious lack of religion or lack of any moral beliefs, they have more of a conviction to that religion than, and the people who profess to have a connection to religion, too. I think that's one of the reasons why we're losing the battle. So thank you so much for picking that up and pointing out the different aspects of that. And one of the things that you talked about was the narcissism of the left and the woke technology.
Starting point is 00:35:52 Talk a little bit about that from a psychological standpoint. I think people are very fascinated by narcissism. It's kind of hard to get our heads around it. But just briefly, what do you think, because we're almost out of time, as a parting thing here, what do you see the narcissism of the left? How does it manifest itself? You know, one of the basic tenets of virtually all traditional religions is an abhorrence of narcissism. That is, you know, the idea that one is egotistic, prideful,
Starting point is 00:36:25 thinks that things revolve around oneself and totally involved, engaged with oneself. That was one of the messages, critical messages of religion. As religion is basically ignored, narcissism emerges and replaces it. And Christopher Lash wrote about this back in the 70s that we've become a culture of narcissism. And I don't think there's any question about it. All you need to do is see people out on the street or see what's on social media or on the TV screens or in the movies. It's all about self-absorption.
Starting point is 00:37:08 Yes. So, again, in the absence of religious ideas that counter that, one comes up, one comes to a society where individuals just are completely, self-absorbed and not particularly concerned about the welfare of others. I mean, that's really what narcissism is. I think exactly right. We end the interview on a very important insight, I think. You know, we see that in Christianity.
Starting point is 00:37:37 We see the pride of Satan from the very beginning, and we're told that in the last days, people will become lovers of themselves. And that we now call that narcissism, but that's exactly what it is. Lovers of themselves, more than they love God. or each other or anything else. And that really is where we are. So thank you very much. Again, the book is A Godless Crusade,
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