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Is This The Most Absurd Time In History? - Rudyard Lynch - #832
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Rudyard Lynch is a YouTuber and a historian.
Is the modern world weird? Whether it's incels, brat summer, a broken media landscape, godlessness or a decline in institutional trust it seems like lots of modernity is kind of odd. From the fall of empires to the rise of new world orders, how does our current timeline compare to the rest of recent history?
Expect to learn whether we are actually living in a unique time in history, what a far-right backlash might look like, why the left is seen as more feminine, what would have happened if Trump actually had been killed, what it will take for young men to feel happy and fulfilled again and much more…
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Timestamps:
(00:00) How Unusual is the Time We’re In?
(05:37) The Coming Crisis of the 21st Century
(12:55) What Could’ve Happened if Trump Was Shot
(26:04) Why There Will Be a Far-Right Backlash
(32:43) Why People Are So Easily Swayed
(44:40) The Primary Issues of the Left
(48:57) Anti-Human Agenda of Climate Activists
(53:22) How Dangerous is the Declining Birth Rate?
(01:04:53) What is the Right Getting Wrong?
(01:14:39) Why the Left Has Become Feminine
(01:18:29) The Impact of Multiculturalism
(01:25:09) Explaining the Rise of Antisemitism
(01:30:17) Why Nick Fuentes Might Be a Fed
(01:34:34) How Young Men Can Stay Positive
(01:43:04) Rudyard’s Recommended Books
(01:45:27) Where to Find Rudyard
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