Episode 043: Loneliness TED - Part Free

In Part 3 of the Loneliness TED Talks mini-series, Jeremiah Gunn continues his exploration of the growing loneliness epidemic and what it means to belong—to family, to community, and to something greater than ourselves.

This episode examines loneliness not simply as being alone, but as a deeper sense of isolation: the feeling of not being seen, understood, or connected. Jeremiah reflects on belonging, identity, purpose, and the cultural shifts that have contributed to growing disconnection in modern life.

Drawing on history, philosophy, faith, and personal observation, Jeremiah discusses how community has changed—from neighborhoods and churches to corporations and social media—and why genuine human connection is becoming harder to find. He also explores how loneliness impacts both men and women differently, and how the search for meaning and purpose remains central to overcoming isolation.

Referencing historical figures like John Adams and Alexis de Tocqueville, thinkers such as C. S. Lewis and Jonathan Haidt, and lyrics from “Lonely People” by America, this episode continues the conversation about what it means to find belonging in an increasingly fragmented world.

Topics include:

•  The loneliness epidemic and the human need to belong 
•  Isolation vs. true community 
•  Identity, purpose, and belonging 
•  Family, faith, and social connection 
•  The changing role of churches and institutions 
•  Social media and its impact on loneliness 
•  Community fragmentation in modern culture 
•  The importance of voluntary associations and shared purpose 
•  Historical perspectives on freedom and belonging 
•  Finding hope and connection in uncertain times 

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Transcript

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All right. Thank you for tuning into the Jeremia Gun Show. Thank you. This is the Jeremia Gun Show on CSN. This is CSN, the Common Sense Network. Part of the ISI Network. Part of the ISI network. It's CSN, the CSN, where you learn the truth. This is the Jeremia Gun Show. Trigger warning, you're at a gun show. You are at a gun show. And you don't want to see these howitzers. That's why you won't see me in the image. I'm not going to take up three-quarters of the image and point to the little thing that I'm trying to call attention to. Anyway, if you saw these howitzers, they would they would I mean you'd need a box of Kleenex to stop crying. This is rough. If you see me coming, you better step aside. A lot of men didn't. A lot of men died. I've got one fist of iron and the other of steel. If the right don't get you, the left one will. It'll always be the left that gets you. Did you know that the word left in Latin is sinister? And if you look at Michelangelo's David, he's facing the left. He's facing the left because the right is covered by God. By God? The right is covered by God. So the left is where evil comes from. The good book says that all over the place. Wisdom literature. A man's uh evil comes from the left. Goodness is on the right. It's not like we've been left with no clues, like Jimanji or something. Anyway, this is Jeremy Gunn Show dedicated to Charlie Kirk on the CSN ISI Network. We are broadcasting behind enemy lines in the war of 1776, 1864, and 1984. It's a perfect storm. This is a war on men. You know, we're talking about loneliness, Ted. That's the bottom line. Loneliness, Ted. Ted is uh an acronym, you know, TED Talks, TED Talks. They were pretty popular for a while. I don't know if they're a thing anymore, but it stood for technology, engineering, and design. And then they branched out to have other sort of preachers with a headset prancing around the stage, talking about I I heard one talking about sex and marriage and so forth. You know, so there's a lot. But uh not not bad, uh not a bad idea, but it's just part of this. Loneliness Ted. This is loneliness Ted Part Free. You know, Charlie Kirk, his family and all of us were made lonely by a loner who was a self-centered narcissist who decided uh kind of like George Carlin talked about class clowns. Um they'd be they'd be saying, uh, I'm not I'm not enjoying this education, I'll deprive others of it. You know? Um he decided to steal. The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. We are told, we are warned. And that's what he did. He took away, he created loneliness because of, I guess, his loneliness. The loner didn't fit in, didn't fit in. So we're broadcasting behind enemy lines to the resistance, talking to you men, because this is a war on men. Now I want to uh quick disclaimer. I believe that God's greatest creations are dogs, some women, some men, and then natural wonders, great, great things. Nature can be beautiful, it can be devastating, just like people. It can be life-giving, it can be destroying, destructive. It's like they talk about a river. A river there's almost nothing more beautiful than a river as it flows and creates life all around, within, without, on the sides, underneath, on top.

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And uh it's it's a provider.

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And and yet if it overflows the banks, if it takes over and blows past the constraints, it destroys everything. You've all seen pictures of floods. I've been seeing 'em since the mid-1900s. And why we never channeled that water where they have too much to where we don't have enough is really puzzling. With all of the work we did with our tax dollars under FDR, WPA, NRA, blah blah blah, blah blah blah, CCCP. Anyway. So so this is a war on men, about a hundred years old, maybe a little more, and uh men are lonely. Men are lonely. There's a loneliness epidemic. This is part free of loneliness, Ted. That's the bottom line. Anyway, uh women are lonely because they've destroyed men, they've destroyed the women, they've destroyed the side, they joined the wrong side. They they don't know their enemy. They pick the side that destroys civilizations. The side without natural affection, as the wisdom literature puts it. Reminder, we I'm talking to everybody because I'm not I'm not preaching, I'm not Bible thumping, because this is a unique, this country is a unique dream in all the world. The USA. We are we have dual citizenship. C. S. Lewis, the brilliant C. S. Lewis, said we are like amphibians, part fish and part something else, human. We're part spiritual and we're part physical. And uh we've let the wrong side take over and dictate to us. We're we're we're dual citizens of the USA first, America first, and then and the kingdom of God. And by extension, the world. Everyone is my brother and sister, because we all have the same creator, and we're endowed by that creator with inalienable rights, etc., etc. Oh, you know the thing. So so we belong to that. Loneliness is well, you know what? I I'd like to start with a song. I'm having technical difficulties musically speaking here with my system, and I haven't fixed it yet, and I want to keep talking. So I'll just read the lines from this great song by a group called America. How about that? Imagine that. This is for all the lonely people, thinking that life has passed them by. Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup and ride that highway in the sky. This song is so beautiful, such a folk song, if you can just hear the instrumental. Maybe you know it, maybe you don't, but I was riding with my kids one day, my wife and I, driving them to school, high school, junior high, and they said, I said, why do you love our generation's music so much? And they said, because ours sucks. Well, I have to say the sixties and seventies, uh I'm not a big fan of the fifties, but the sixties, seventies, even some of the eighties. It was it was a it was a renaissance, it was a golden age. Anyway, this is for all the lonely people thinking that life has passed them by. Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup and ride that highway in the sky. This is for all the single people thinking that love has left them dry. Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup. You never know until you try. Well I'm on my way. Yes, I'm back to stay.

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I'm on my way back home. This is for all the lonely people thinking that life has passed them by.

SPEAKER_01 7:48

Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup. Never take you down, never give you up. That's for sure. We won't. Never know until you try. So So loneliness is not you know, we talked last time about John. John Adams was writing in the diary, he was about to uh with his handful of farmers and merchants and ship shipbuilders and fishermen, he was about to attack. And lawyers, he was about to attack the world's greatest military. And uh, if you think that Iran versus United States and Israel isn't fair or something, uh uh you know, uh this is a whole nother level. The greatest military in the history of the world, and a little group of ragtag people who just had a dream, had an idea. They had a dream that one day they would let their posterity have freedom. Something that they came here for asylum. Anyway. And he was writing in his diary, John Adams, he's kind of thinking, like, what have we done? What have we done? And he and he he he felt lonely. He had to go and he had to go argue every day with his Continental Congress about whether we should do this or not, and how do we do it, and what do we do if, and all that. Anyway, he he just wrote he wrote in his diary one night, just kind of crying out, is anybody there? Is anybody here? Does anybody care? Does anybody see what I see? They built this into a great a great movie, uh, a great uh musical, if you get a chance to see 1776. It's a little corny, but seven years in the making, and it was a labor of love. But anyway, does anybody see what I see? That that's what loneliness comes from. We there's no question. You know, facts are stubborn things, said John Adams. There's no question there is a loneliness epidemic. I read a uh Forbes or Fortune did a full la full issue on a thing called uh the fraying of America. What why do we feel so bad when we have it so good? No one's ever had the quality of life we have today. Nobody. Never, ever. No king, no Solomon the wise, nobody. Um why why do we why do we feel so bad if we have so good? Why are we having a loneliness epidemic? Because it's intentional. They've been they've been trying to destroy us. So loneliness is an absence of belonging. It's an isolation. If you don't know that you belong to us, and whenever I say us, it's United States, US. Whenever you hear me say US, understand that it's us. Okay. So how how how do they do it? Um they get us to not know who we are and not know whose we are. We belong to the United States, E. Pluribus Unum, out of many, one. One family. One family. We can be a family of man, but we have to be a citizen of the United States, a family of the United States, because it is exceptional, despite the left like Obama saying that it isn't. Anyway, uh if you don't know whose you are and who who you are, you you don't belong. There was a book called The Man Without a Country. I didn't have a country. It's a lonely feeling. It's a lonely feeling.

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Okay?

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People leave their country to come here so they can be. I I just met a Vietnamese neighbor the other day. Been here six years, been a citizen six years. Um just started the process as soon as he got here. That's all he wanted. It's all he ever wanted was to be a citizen. And what a wonderful man, what a great guy. You gotta go talk to the real people. Don't watch the news. Don't don't get a degree if it's gonna be caca de la vaca, which is one of the things we'll cover is glossary here. We used to say bull crap, caca del toro, but we have to say now caca de la vaca, cow crap. Because women, one, they need to have they need to have their moment in the sun, right? They've been trying to get it. So now we can and most most BS doesn't come from bulls anymore, it comes from cows. And and and bulls that think they're cows. So let's let's understand that. So you know, so so take Francis Scott Key for a minute. Here he was, he was a Baltimore lawyer, and there's tribute to to the whole um uh Star Spangled Banner, as you've never heard it before or something. Anyway, it tells the whole story of this guy. He was a Baltimore lawyer who went on board this English ship with the prisoners, and he let some of the prisoners go, and he watched as they bombarded. They probably got a big kick out of having him on board bombarding the uh the Fort McHenry. You know, uh my I took my family to the Smithsonian in Washington, and we saw the actual flag. They have the gigantic it's huge, and it's being worked on by the at the time, and the and the the the level of air conditioning, humidification, no humidification. I mean, just and the chemicals they have to use, working on this giant scaffold, working thread by thread to keep that thing. It's beautiful reverence for that thing. But he spent a lonely, lonely night wondering when the sun came up. Here I I substitute myself as a uh hostage for them. I I allowed them to become free by taking their place and negotiating, trying to negotiate peace. But as I'm watching this bombarding, I got to see if that when the sun comes up, if if is it still there? Is our flag still there? Because if it ain't, we don't have a country. He's the man without a country. They just stole that was called the second revolution, because in 1812, you know, England England uh attacked us again and tried to take over. Uh they tried to take it back. They were not too happy with the revolution. Uh Canadian troops came and burned the White House. That's why it's called the White House, because they burned it. They burned it and it turned black from the flames, so they painted it white to cover it. It was called the Executive Mansion until then. Dolly Madison re uh rescued a bunch of artifacts from there on her way out of uh James Madison's uh wife, first lady. Wonderful. Founding mother. There's founding mothers, too. But uh interesting, it was Canadians that burned the White House. A Canadian friend of mine, tongue in cheek, kind of reminded me of that. Well, what do you do in here, pal? I mean, I don't know, whatever. He can't figure out what country he belongs to. So anyway, uh just just as we are members of a of a corporation, maybe at work, and we we can when we are, we can feel like a a faceless, nameless number. And uh let's um let's go back to the definition of loneliness again, just as a recap. It it's not the absence of people. New York, LA, Chicago, Boston, you know, these are the Minnesota. I mean, sorry, Mogadishu. These are the loneliest places on earth. The density is inversely proportional to the loneliness because you don't feel like you belong. And because the rulers don't love you as much as they love anybody else that they think can do a favor for them, can help them out and move their agenda forward. So just just as we are members of a corporation, and we can feel like a faceless, nameless number without a voice, remember that? They took our voice. Oh, they just want to have a voice. That's why they're burning down their own city, their own community, and killing their own race who are security guards or whatever, trying to stop them. And and just like that, it's same with it with the church. Church and state, take your pick. Corporation, you know, a church is called a corporation. Uh family. This is kind of the foundation. We're we're we're on a war. This war has three fronts: family, faith, and founders. Um, the the state, the country, your country. Family, faith, and country. I was just trying to get three F's, but your family, your God, and your country. You gotta get those in the right order. You might have to fight against your family. Just like Kimmy Kimmel's wife can't even go home for Thanksgiving. So she writes scripts to him and runs to her therapist on how much she hates Trump because she hates Trump. She hates her family. And he has to take part in that psychosis because he's not a man.

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So you got you got you know, in the Civil War you had to decide if you were going to shoot against your own brother.

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You can't you know Robert E. Lee decided of his own state. He took he took his state over his family, his faith, and his country. You can't get it out of order. It starts with God and then and then and then your country and then your family. I mean, hopefully hopefully your family is on board with your country, but they're not not anymore. Not anymore, not then, not now. So if y you know, you you c you can't say, well, I'll uh I'll take up arms against my country if my family does. This is why you had fathers and sons. They called it the war brother against brother. That's how they called that war, because some people had to say, hey, look, hey, I got I come from a big family. I got some that are just absolutely in left field, left field. They're crazy. Like like Trump said in the like Trump said in the uh in the State of the Union, you people are crazy. You're crazy. He who stands for nothing will fall for anything. But you don't have a right to sell out my country. You don't have a right to sell us down the river like we're slaves. I'm not. You might be, I'm not. So anyway, so you you could be in a church, you could be in a corporation. Uh, but you're under attack. Didn't didn't Marxist BLM attack the family? Didn't they attack the family? Didn't we find out later? Did anybody spend 15 seconds to find out what the charter of BLM was before corporations gave them a bunch of money? Some people joked later that it stood for blacks living in mansions because the two heads of it, the lesbian Marxists who were attacking the family with their charter, their organization, they they they did real nice. They got a nice crib, a nice hookup, nice swag, nice income. Because of this transaction that Shelby Steele brilliantly describes, it's a transaction of we'll we'll we'll assuage your guilt for a fee. That's why the NFL paints end racism in the end zone when they made all of these races multimillionaires. Figure that out. It's pandering. They call it the they call the Democrats the Black Pander Party. So where were we, BLM? So awful. They don't even know they're an awful. It's like that movie, the Sixth Sense. I ruined that for my family. I can't believe it. Spoiler alert. I I just blurted it out, and I they don't they won't let they won't forgive me. But anyway, I see dead people, they don't know they're dead. When when uh Gore was running against Bush, people made a meme that said, I see dumb people walking around, they don't know they're dumb. So so you can be a useful idiot. Awful, awful, again, stands for affluent white female urbane leftist. Um maybe they're they're probably urbane because they were educated in a in a uh a university. So you could change urbane to university because maybe it was out in the flyover country, but still they were warped, they were polluted, they were inverted. One of them said to me, Well, I think BLM means different things. I mean, I think uh no, I feel like they think BLM means something else. Well, does don't you think that the charter should inform us on what they mean? Why do we have to attribute something to them that isn't what they mean and say, I think that's what they mean? Why do we do that? Because we have to think. The left has to think for the uh The left has to think for the for the poor colored people. They have to infantilize them just like the brown people. They know they can't learn English, they can't do well in school. We'll we'll take care of them, let's keep them on the plantation. We'll either patronize them or we'll ignore them. So business has started I mean, that's racism. If you want a definition of racism, that's it. Malcolm X said that the worst enemy of the Negro, I think he said Negro in those days. Uh the worst enemy of the Negro is this white leftist who thinks I think they use the word liberal. They used to be liberal, who thinks that they're doing us a favor and they're walking around foaming at the mouth trying to help us. Frederick Douglass, 1860s, said, Stop helping us. That's what we want. We want to be left alone. Stop uh taking from us that to do more to us, as Margaret Thatcher brilliantly put it. So businesses started studying success and failure, you know, s and and what to do about it. They started these business movements and things like that where they you know the the a in search of excellence and all this stuff. Anyway, they a CEO said to me, he said, uh, I want you to be happy because we were talking about who I would report to, and he wanted me involved in the process when we were doing a reorganization number 106.5. Uh it's like a movement. You know, it's not really necessary, but it makes you feel like something's happening. So they do it. They get excited in the movement. And they justify their position of the underlings who study management are consultants. You know, they say a consultant is somebody who borrows your watch and then tells you what time it is. So so he but anyway, this it was very nice. The CEO met with me personally and said, you know, who do you want to report to in this re-org? He said, I want you to be happy. But I mean, I want you to be productive, but I want you to be happy because he knows that happy people are productive people. And so and businesses found out, they studied this, that anything over a hundred people was a bureaucracy. A soul-stifling bureaucracy. Remember a bureaucracy, um a a bureaucracy, what what does it do? It it uh shoot. Man, that's it's a crazy thing about memory. Bureaucracy um, you know, reveres the status quo long after the quo has lost its status. So bureaucracies stifle you. That that's what George Orwell worked in when he wrote 1984 on Animal Farm. They're soul crushing. And so they found out that anything over a hundred people was a bureaucracy, and it became redundant and um duplication of effort, inefficiency, and and people just weren't happy. They weren't fulfilled. So they said break your corporation into groups of 100. One of them does manufacturing, maybe purchasing, one of one of them does finance, one of them does one kind of engineering, one does another kind, and let them rip. Don't don't keep this massive thing. What do they say? A bureaucracy is a massive mechanism or run by pygmies. So so churches did the same thing. They they said, hey, we want to run like a business, we want to be efficient, we want to be profitable, we want to grow. You know, grow, you die. You know, the legend the learn the lesson of the dinosaur, be great or be extinct. So so the my megachurch did the same thing. I think the the Baptist organization hired a consultant, just like the corporations did. Corporation means remember, corporation means body. So you have a body of believers in a church, you have a body of people. We get the word corpse from corporation. Corpus Christi, Texas. Can you believe that's still on the map? We have the ACLU hasn't gotten rid of that yet, huh? Corpus Christi, the body of Christ, literally in in Spanish, in Latin. That would be Spanish. So Corpus Christi is a Latin phrase. Just like when you go to California, every freaking state, I'm sorry, every city is named after something. But you know, here's a little trivia. You you're gonna get stuff that's not trivia, but it's history. You know what the real name of Los Angeles is? La Ciudad de Nuestra Señora, La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncola. La Ciudad de Nuestra Senora, La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula. So it's the city of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula was a river in Spain. Sacramento means something to do with, you know, Sacramento River, which was the Blessed Sacrament, San Bernardino, Saint Bernard, San Francisco, Saint Francis. And we didn't have to get rid of all these names. We just had to get rid of any notion of God or the Ten Commandments or anything else. So so churches started looking at this and said anything over a hundred people is a bureaucracy, just like business. Huzzah. And uh, so they said, break them up. Take your junior assistant, assistant junior pastors, and have them go off on what they call church plant. Break it up so that people can be together, can be a family, not at just a number. Not looking every Sunday at the side of someone's face or the or the back of their head that you'll never really talk to or connect with. And so they started to have these things, they started to emphasize uh growth groups, uh cells, as if you know you're a body and those are the cells and little groups. And uh at about the same time, megacorporations started calling people who are really only numbers, especially in the huge organizations, but they started calling them associates, as if they're like partners in a law firm or something. As if giving them a name change changes their real life status and their day-to-day experience. About the same time, HR changed personnel to human resource. You're you're a human resource, you're not a piece of equipment, machinery, utilities, uh paper, copier, stapler, staple. You're a human resource. So I guess that was supposed to make people feel more human, calling them changing from personhood, personnel, to human resources. And megachurches started to emphasize home fellowship, small groups. You know, just as an aside note, Gutfeld was on the other night. They they said he said that young dudes are turning to God. 42% I think Gallup found that 42% of men, 42% of men 18 to 29. This shot way up. It was a hockey stick chart they showed. 42% of men 18 to 29 turned to God. Turning point. I think Charlie probably had a lot to do with that. He was uh Pied Piper to a lost generation of bullied, bullied men and women. Bullied by the government, education, media attainment complex. The ones who were on the throne organizing no kings rallies. So so so churches did this, but then but then the churches kind of stratified. They kind of they kind of said, well, yeah, you can't be in that in that home fellowship group because they are already at 10 and we limit it to 10 so that we'll make sure that people have belonging. Not 12, not eleven, not not not even if you knew the guy your whole life and wanted to be in with their family. It doesn't matter. And they split you up, you know, they you pull up in the car and you split up into different rooms. Young married, old married, never married, formerly married, won't be married, um, widows, widowers, widowes, widowos, um jazz, rock, easy listening, old-timey gospel. Just go to your separate room, as long as you come here and fill the seats. So anyway, I'm not bashing um what we call churchianity in in our circles. But, you know, it's worth looking at. It's worth looking at. It's worth thinking about. You know, when one of the greatest movies ever made was called Idiocracy. Uh, what they ought to do is go into the high school's junior highs and get rid of the stuff that was created by Howard Zinn or whatever, BLM or CRT or whatever the latest fad de jour of the left and put in just show idiocracy. That's it. Nobody explained it any better than that of what's going on. That was based on a book. That movie was based on a book called The Marching Morons. It's by the guy who created King of the Hill. And uh just magnificent. Well, King of the Hill did a magnificent show called Church Shopping. You can find it on YouTube or whatever. And they, you know, bottom line at the end of it, the the main patriarch, I don't even know his name, but he's this he's got a crew cut and glasses and a t-shirt. Anyway, he he went from this untraditional, traditional church. It was traditional church. He was going his whole life with his family, and then they brought in a liberal leftist pastor woman from Wisconsin. He was from Wisconsin, of course, of course, or Minnesota, and she, you know, upended the whole thing. And uh So his tr traditional church. So he started church shopping and went to the Super Mega Church. And it was like a it was like a mall of America, this massive mall where you can get on a tram and drive past the bookstore, the candy store, the coffee shop, the movie theater, the music room, whatever. And uh and they they had a massive staff that was always calling them, asking them, are you fully satisfied, partly satisfied? What do you think of our gym? What did you think of our soccer field? What do you think of our landscaping? How did you like the service? You know, so he he kind of at the end of the day, he's kind of like you know, he he sums it up. He says, you know, my old church didn't know I even existed, and this new one, they won't leave me alone. So, you know, sometimes community efforts destroy community. I got a family member. She's a very sweet woman, mother, and uh daughter, uh all this stuff anyway. She she jokes about my community is the local supermarket. It's a very diverse, very diverse group of people. I mean, very diverse. And I'm like really tight friends with all of the associates. And I don't know if they call them associates in that corporation, but they're my associates. I associate with them. You know, uh one of the greatest books Alexis Tocqueville wrote on Democracy in America, I think a couple of volumes. And he came here and he said, How how does this thing work in the 1800s, 1830s? What what what makes America go? And it and it supposedly is attributed to him that he said, America is good, uh, is great because she's good, godly. And if she ever stops being good, she'll stop being great. And he wrote a lot about associations, you know, clubs, guilds, you know. Uh Dennis Prager talks about uh what great experiences he had with Kiwanis. I I talk about the YMCA, uh, and especially with the Indian guides, my kids, or, you know, the these associations, these voluntary associations where you get together, pull together, help each other out. It's a beautiful thing. So she she kind of jokes about it, but I think she means well that you know that that's neat that I have a community. But, you know, I love people. I love finding out about them, what what what they're into, what they're struggling from, you know, how how's it going for you? We're all in this together. That's what MLK said. So so there's this guy named Jonathan Height. He wrote a he wrote a couple of books, The Anxious Generation, The Happiness Hypotheses. Of course, I read them both. And uh I think he wrote one called The Coddling of the American Mind. I think he was involved in that. So it's the idea of you infantilize people, you don't let them grow up. They do two, they do two things to you, the left. They take children, and I heard this, I think it was John MacArthur. I don't I don't remember if it was him, but he was talking about if you if you make it's sort of like the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but that's maybe that's a metaphor, maybe that's a parable, maybe it's really true. It doesn't matter. He said, when you take children and you unlike Dennis Prager said, children should live in the Garden of Eden as long as possible. You don't have to dump on them with adult themes. Especially, I'd recommend not mutilating them and giving them chemical castration that you don't even know what does any more than you knew what the vaccine for COVID does. So um when you take a child and you tell them something, mean my my brother was teaching a young grade, second grade, third grade, he said something that wound up being a double entente. What that means is is like a joke, like you know, Johnny Carson made famous, where it sounds like it means something, but it means something else funny, you know, like like sticking on the end of something. That's what she said. Or hello, you know, it just becomes a double entente. That's not what I meant, but I get you. So anyway, he was just talking to them, just lecturing to second grader, I think, second, third, fourth grade, young. And he said something and they all started laughing. And he he couldn't even figure out what they were laughing at. He just said, you know, I I'm sorry, I feel sorry for you. I feel sorry for you. And they could say, sorry for us, you old fart, you know. Yeah, because you don't have a childhood. You don't have a child. If you if you if you warp, if you introduce adult themes, wh wh why do they put that on Netflix or whatever? Adult themes, flashing lights, smoking. Why do they do that? Because they don't want to they don't want to ruin the child. Isn't that what Socrates was um executed for? Warping the gen the youth? Perverting the youth? He he he said, what you teach to children you do to society. So so anyway. So they so so here's what they're doing. They're they're they're trying to force them to grow up, but they're stripping their childhood by making them adults. If if they know the same thing an adult knows, they're not a they're not a child anymore. Isn't it that simple? It's transactional. So, you know, and here you're here you're teaching them to mutilate their bodies or take drugs or think completely differently. Don't tell your parents and and and and and and you know? And say so so they're trying to protect them. They want you on your parents' health care. Because they know you won't be able to buy your own until you're twenty six, but they want to lower the age of consent. What are they trying to make fifteen-year-olds vote? You can't be president until you're thirty-five. You should you shouldn't be able to vote for president until you're thirty-five. There's a reason for these things. So they're driving they're driving the age of consent lower, and then they're trying to protect you longer. Some 18, nine, 18-year-old kills, a 19-year-old kills a bunch of people mercilessly, and then, oh, it's a child. It's a child, it's a child. He'll be tried as a child. He's sick. He's sick. Anyway. So he wrote this book, The Anxious Generation. Remember our definition of loneliness. It's not the absence of people, it's the feeling that nobody gets you, that you don't belong. That you don't belong. It's always loners and outsiders that do these horrible things. We've taken our eye off of them. We've let them out of the collective and just fend for yourself. Take a dump up uh in front of someone else's business, shoot up under a blue tarp. I don't really, I'm not responsible for you. And then they come around if you try to cut any of their funding, the left, the Democrats, communists, government, education, media attainment complex, they go, Oh, aren't you your brother's keeper? Now all of a sudden they're gonna pour some religion into it. They're gonna do Christian charity and good works with your money on their terms. They'll define the word compassion. Didn't Mom Dummy the warmth of collectivism? Think about this for irony. Didn't he let 16, 13 people freeze to death this last winter? No other mayor did that. Just the one that says the warmth of collectivism. Smile, smile like a snake. Anyway, so so in the anxious generation, if you look it up, it says, what's the quote from the Anxious Generation? I love the way questions are formed in there. I don't know if that came from China or whatever. What is the quote from the Anxious Generation? Okay, I guess I know what they mean. Well, they came back with this. People don't get depressed when they face threats collectively. They get depressed when they feel isolated, lonely, or useless. Can you think of any that's not a law firm, isolated, lonely, or useless. It's not an ACLU law firm. It's it's what they did. So this guy Jonathan Haidt, speaking of loneliness, voluntary loneliness, or whatever, he he decided in high school, since he was so brilliant, that there is no God. There's no God. It's a joke. There's no God. Then, when he gets older, he goes and studies, you know, he goes and studies uh psychology and philosophy and spirituality, but he goes to the East like the Beatles, like these, these religions that uh say that the world rides on the back of a giant of a turtle, and a blue god named Hare Krishna came from came from somewhere and and had a bunch of sex with a bunch of people, kind of much whatever he wanted. And that those are the places where we'll find it, you know. So they went from the frying pan to the fire. We have all the answers right here. We have all the answers right here. But but why do they tear it down? Ask yourself why they want to tear this down. Jesse Jackass, he was a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference that was founded by Martin Luther King and other folks. I don't know, maybe Andrew Young was involved. James Baldwin. I don't know. But anyway, Jesse Jackass, Reverend, Reverend, Reverend, Christian Reverend, right? MLK was a uh Marxist, and then he watered it down a little bit and said he's a socialist. Just like, you know, Mom Dummy, Bernie, Folkahannis. You know, listen to someone who knows Ayn Rand. She said, there's no difference. One is death by suicide, one's death by murder, homicide. They'll both get you. So anyway, he he goes to Berkeley and he jumps in and he's yelling, hey, hey, ho, ho, Western civists gotta go. Anybody ever ask him why? Anybody ask him why? Just like when when Obama, the Marxist, came and said, uh, we are just five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America. And and of course the media said, What what?

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What?

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Where where do you get the idea and what do you want to transform it to? I want to give you hope and change. Well who who said we have no hope? What kind of change? You think we're just supposed to even if you're in a store, bodega, and they say, Here's your change, you're kind of interested in what it is, aren't you? Let alone the greatest civilization in the history of of womankind? The last best hope of mankind on earth, womankind on earth? Don't you think so? But the Marxists have to destroy everything. A thief comes, the wisdom literature says a thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy, just like Charlie Kirk's killer and all his enablers. There was a study that showed that teachers and professors led the charge to celebrate Charlie Kirk's murder. They're the enablers of these lonely losers, these self-centered narcissists by coddling their mind. And uh so we're gonna talk about uh, you know, in the anxious generation, um he he talked about how devastating, how devastating uh social media was to women in particular, both men and women, but not far and away more. By far more to women. Because he found out boys and girls both desire agency and communion, but girls tend to favor communion, and boys tend to lean more into agency. That's why they play video games and you know, and do UFC fighting or martial arts, whatever. And and and and competitive smash mouth sports and things like that. But they and and go into the service more. Um the agency is like independence, like our revolution, action leadership, like our civil war, servanthood, sacrifice, like wanting to serve. Wanted to give of yourself. That's why that's what men want. They want a purpose. They want agency. Women are women were destroyed by the social media.

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Yeah, you know, Churchill how so?

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They they they go online and they see their friends, you know, their mean girls showing a picture of them unflattering at a party or in a bathing suit or something, and and and or their makeup or their hair, you know. My my daughter was like in fourth grade and she came home very sad. And the the mean girls said, Don't you you probably don't even know what a mall is because of the dress that she was very proud of that she walked out of the house that day on the first day of school. They just trashed her. I I didn't sign up to have somebody else's kids raise my kids. Did you? Maybe you don't care. Maybe you don't have any kids. But what what what are some other ways it's happened? You know, my my Churchill said, when you're 20, you think that everybody's thinking about you. And you care what their opinion of you is. When you're 40, you don't care. Uh well, you you realize when you're 40, you that you don't that they're not talking about you all the time. And when you're 60, you don't care whether they are or not. There's a very freeing thing about being over 60 or 60 is that you just don't have to care that much about what people think of you. The good book says uh wisdom literature, the fear of man bringeth a snare. It's a trap, being afraid of what people think of you. We homeschooled our kids before we put them in charter schools that were good. And uh uh the the headmaster of this homeschool group, he talked about peer pressure. He said your kids would rather be wrong than different. Every day the kids have to make a choice. They're with them, they're with their gang, their peers. By God, they gotta fit in. That's why we went into homeschooling. That's not, I don't want them raising my kids. Their parents are absentee. Why would I want them to do it? Kids would rather be wrong than different. Uh we're gonna pick it up next time with a couple of examples here that I think I think will be pretty convincing uh to you. So anyway, thank you for listening. This is the Jeremiah Gunn Show, and I greatly, greatly, greatly appreciate you listening. Thank you. We're in this together. We got a country and a and a world to save. So uh thank you for listening. It means a lot. It's not really for me, it's for you. It's for us, the United States. Jeremiah Gunn Show, signing off. Thank you. Thank you.