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Cultural Lysenkoism · Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast

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This is alive. One of my favorite scenes in the
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film Casablanca, which is filled with great scenes.
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By the way, it is my favorite movie is when the older couple
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the loose tugs invite Carl over to the table to have a drink
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with them because they're celebrating, the fact that the
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next day, they're leaving for America.
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And they talked about the fact that they're going Going to
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speak only the English from now on, because that way they will
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feel at home when they get to their new home in America.
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There's a little pause and by way of example, mr.
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Loose dog says to his wife the option which watch and she says,
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10 watch. He says such watch.
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Carl says to them, you'll get along beautifully in America.
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It's a it's an example of assimilation in a way that is
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positive. Assimilation is one of those
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terms that we talked about and depending on the context we're
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talking about it in it can be positive or negative.
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History is full of negative. Assimilation.
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It's full of forced assimilation, we're on a macro
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basis, a culture, a people, and ideology a religion are attacked
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and forced to changed forced to assimilate into something else,
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of course, I'm Jewish. So my mind immediately goes to
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multiple attempts to force Jews to convert to something.
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Else, the Spanish Inquisition in 1492 in the 1490s expulsion Xin.
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The likes of that convert on pain of death or or whatever
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there's that. But of course, there's the whole
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story of Hanukkah, which of course deals.
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With the forced assimilation of the Jewish nation, into the
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Greco world, the Greek ideologies, the elimination of
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certain religious practices, specifically Torah study and
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circumcision, And fighting back to prevent that forced
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assimilation. That's a couple of examples from
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my own faith but there are others as well.
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I mean, throughout American history, we've seen attempts at
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forced assimilation. Think particularly of the
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Conquistadors coming to the new world and forcing.
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The Mayans, the Aztecs, the natives to convert to
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Christianity and the spread of Spanish Catholicism throughout
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the Western Hemisphere particularly in the western
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portions of North America. And South America for that
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matter. Even today, there's a lot of
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controversy about whether or not that forced assimilation, that
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forced conversion was. A crime or not.
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I mean I'm not it's not the place I want to go today, but
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we've seen in recent years in California, where you know what?
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What once was held up as an example of the culture of
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California. The mission culture has now been
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torn down because of the ideas of the Conquistadors and those
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who followed on from. There are of course examples in
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our own United States history of Of forced macro, assimilations,
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where we attempted in many cases to Simply eradicate the Native
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Americans. There were many leaders at the
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Times who said those things. But, but the general idea was to
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convert them to Christianity convert them to the white man's
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ways and force them to live, not as Native Americans.
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But as essentially white Americans, one of the greatest
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songs of the 60s that Paul Revere, and the Raiders Raiders
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is fantastic song talks about this when I was growing up there
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was a story record. We used to have these records
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and it was the story of a young Indian who Grew up in his ways
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and then was forced off his lands and forced to choose
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whether he was going to assimilate or whether he was
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going to essentially die. I wish I could find that record.
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It was had some great songs on it.
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Anyway those are just examples of forced macro assimilations
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throughout history and this idea that you can force people to
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change to be what you want them to be.
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And most cases forced macro assimilations tend to fail
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because they're resisted their seen for what they are.
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And while they might be successful and I'm doing the air
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quote thing here in the sense of forcing a national policy in the
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end. They tend not to work out very
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well. But then, there are micro
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assimilations. The mill sir.
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Prior and I were talking last week.
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It was a, it was a wide-ranging conversation that started by the
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way, about the the Air National Guardsmen who leaked the
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information and I was Venting to him about it and this
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conversation as. So often happens with us, went
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in different directions and the middle surpri, der Mike who has
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a different Background that I do.
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We have a love of History, we share that love of History, we
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share the love of philosophy of History.
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I think that's what I'm really coming to learn is that we have
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a Serious. Desire to study the philosophy
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of history as will Durant would have called it.
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And so our conversations tend to get off in two different
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directions. And one of the things that the
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null surprised her and I were talking about, was this idea of
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assimilation in into societal issues because we were talking
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about how these young people today in the military, don't
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seem to have the same passion for patriotism or nationalism,
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if it whatever, whatever word you want to use there that we
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once had The the idea that he shared with me is that
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assimilation is not always wrong particular, when we consider how
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Society changes through the years, I grew up as, you know,
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in the 1960s and 1970s, this nation is a much different
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Nation today than it was, then we have changed in racial
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issues. Now, I know that there's a lot
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of discussion today about race and those kinds of things, but
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I'm telling you, I grew up in a much different World that
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doesn't exist anymore. That micro assimilation of
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society changed. How we see those things
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politically things have changed. But these micro assimilations
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can also be somewhat Insidious. As I said we we started out
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talking about classified materials and the idea of
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military people young military people in the way that they do
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things. but we ended up talking about this concept of
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assimilation, which I have been thinking about for several weeks
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by the way, And essentially I've been thinking about this concept
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of assimilation particularly from a cultural standpoint.
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Since the day the Dylan Dylan Mulvaney beer cans came out.
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One of the things that the mill surprise are said to me was that
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assimilation is or can be a survival skill.
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Now he was talking about specifically the projects
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growing up in the projects. Now, I don't know that Mike grew
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up in the projects, I assume that he did but that's an
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assumption on my part. My experience was much
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different. My experience with that is based
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primarily in dealing in Social Services with people who lived
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in the projects and he was right.
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Assimilation is a survival skill.
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It's something that allows a person who lives in a certain
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environment who may not necessarily agree with the
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concepts, the ideas. The behaviors of that particular
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society to function within it by assimilating and at least
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presenting the idea that they support these things.
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Just by way, of example, when I was in Portsmouth, Virginia, I
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used to take 30 days off every year to run the Salvation Army,
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Christmas Kettle program in Portsmouth Virginia and we hired
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a great number of single mothers many of whom lived in the
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projects and I remember the date very well, it was November 30th.
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I was taking them home that night after the long work day
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and as we pulled into the projects there and Portsmouth
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Keep in mind. I am a sailor from Utah.
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I'm 25 26 years old, maybe I'm not, I'm not very old, don't
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have a lot of life experience, outside of the Navy and
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submarines. But as we pull in there, one of
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the, one of the girl says to me now, you know, we won't be
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working tomorrow. Didn't know that and I, you
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know, kind of said, I kind of went into boss mode.
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Okay, why? And she looked at me and said
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it's Mother's Day. Tomorrow is Mother's Day.
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Now, this was 1980. I want to say nine somewhere in
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there. I had no idea what she was
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talking about, but this is an example of cultural assimilation
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where these gals had assimilated into the culture of living in
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the projects with which meant that on the first of the month,
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you stay at home, you didn't leave, you didn't go anywhere
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until the mail, was delivered. Why?
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Because that was the day that The welfare checks were
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delivered and if you weren't there, it was very likely to
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have been stolen. I didn't know that they thought
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it was funny that I didn't know that they explained it to me and
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I said, okay, well I understand we'll we'll make do without it.
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Will you gotta do what you gotta do.
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Assimilation of that nature. When you when you live in a
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society that dictates how you they didn't want to stay home,
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they wanted to go to work, they want to get paid.
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They wanted both the Dignity of the job and the paycheck, but
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they also knew that if they didn't They would be taken
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advantage of this idea of a simulation is a survival skill,
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which is what most are. Brighter, said to me, really hit
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home with me. I mean, it really did. because,
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The more you look around, the more you see this happening each
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and every day. When we talk about cultural
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assimilation here in the United States, here in the modern
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America, you don't have to look far, you do not have to open up
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much of a newspaper or if you still read a newspaper or a
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website to discover that if you do, not assimilate, if you do
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not accept certain things, if you do not at least present that
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you accept those certain things. You're very quickly going to be
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ostracized, if not in today's language canceled, we saw this
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with the Dylan Mulvaney thing. We continue to see it with the
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lgbtq, and I don't even like that phrase.
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I I would almost limit this to the transgender agenda rather
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than the full lgbtq+ ideology, because it's really the The
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trans agenda that's driving us. If you don't come out in support
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of it, if you don't assimilate, if you don't join in, you're the
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crazy bigot, your the problem, you're the person who is still
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stuck, you know, in the past and you're the problem.
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We continue to see this over and over again.
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After the cans came out, we saw the president of marketing for a
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Bud Light come out and explain to us that it was just a bunch
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of rural, cisgendered Hicks that were objecting to this that that
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this being forced down the throats of beer, drinkers
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everywhere was just you know it was just a bunch of people who
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are bigots and they need to get with the they need to get with
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the agenda and if they're not going to get with the agenda.
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Well then they're the problem. Well, in this particular case it
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didn't quite work out because the AI think what they were
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trying to do was shift from my micro assimilation to a macro
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assimilation. And as we know, macro
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assimilations tend to fail But on a microsystem, we still see
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it every day. Don't we?
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If you don't if you question anything when it comes to the
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transgender agenda, you're the biggest The shooting in
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Nashville, who's the victim here?
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Is that the six people that were killed or the shooter?
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The ideology that's being presented as part of this
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assimilate, that's micro assimilation of cultural
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ideology. We're being told that our right
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to free speech. Our right to free expression is
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no longer important because you can't question these things.
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You cannot do that or else you are the crazy bigoted and you
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need to be canceled. And so we tend to as a society
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maybe not you personally but we tend to adapt an assimilation.
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As a survival skill, we don't want to get into these stupid
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arguments and so we tend to go along to get along.
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Because we don't want to be labeled as the crazy bigot.
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Back in the 1930s and Soviet Union. there was a guy who
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decided, That genetics was nonsense.
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He did. He determined that this idea of
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crossbreeding grain to create a more robust wheat.
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All of that stuff was was nonsense.
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He decided that you could simply teach not making this up, folks,
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you can go. Look it up yourself, you could
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simply teach communist Marxist principles to plants.
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And they would adopt those plant those ideologies.
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They would convert as it were to Marxism socialism and that they
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would begin to function as good Marxist plants.
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This guy's name was Li Cinco and his idea was simply to force
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plants to assimilate into Marxist Society.
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Now this was complete nonsense, of course.
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And the truth, was that, every scientist in the Soviet Union
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knew that it was nonsense. But the danger was that Li Cinco
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was good friends with Joseph Stalin.
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And so, if you disagreed with lisak, oh you were likely to get
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thrown in the gulag if not shot. And so they began to assimilate
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into this complete and utter nonsense.
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This idea that you could teach a plant, an orange tree to bloom
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in November and December in the Soviet Union because the orange
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tree had adopted Marxist principles.
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You know, you hear the story about The Emperor's New Clothes,
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you go all. It's just a, you know, so
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metaphor this actually happened, folks, and millions of people
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starved to death, because the Soviet Union couldn't grow any
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grain. Because Li Cinco had convinced
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them that all they had to do was teach the grains.
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All they had to do is teach the plants, Marxist principles and
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everything, would be great. And the scientists who knew
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better, we're forced to assimilate.
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And the truth. Got suppressed and common-sense
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got erased. And the truth went away.
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You know it's a it's a sad fact Liberty cannot survive cultural
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assimilation. It just can't if we put
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ourselves in the position where we can't question anything where
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we can't talk about anything with it with a right to free
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speech goes away because it might offend some on, we lose
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liver, Liberty goes away, you can no longer determine
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yourself. Plan your self-determination
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anymore. If you're being told that, if
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you do not accept crazy stuff, you're just a bigot, and you
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need to assimilate, And reality is most people are going to
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because it's a survival skill and they don't want to be
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canceled, they don't want to lose their jobs, they don't want
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to be ostracized by Society. Even though you have as in the
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Soviet Union, you have one guy teaching this.
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It's a very small percentage of America teaching this idea that
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a man can be a woman and a woman can be a man. but it's loud
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enough and it's crazy enough that it's forcing.
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This cultural assimilation. This is how you end up with
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Dylan Mulvaney on a beer can not.
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Because Dylan Mulvaney has ever done anything worthwhile.
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Certainly hasn't done anything for this nation, but he's an
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influencer and by definition influencers, like like Cinco are
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out sized. They have more influence than
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they should. Because what they're teaching is
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crazy. And yet somehow or another
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because we assimilate into this cultural idea, we go along with
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Liberty, can't survive that And especially on this day April
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19th. We are reminded that we as
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Americans hold Liberty Above All Else.
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You have the Liberty to pretend that you're a woman.
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If you're a guy, And you have the Liberty to pretend you're a
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guy. If you're a girl, you can do
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that if you want, what you cannot do.
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Is tell everybody else that they have to go along with it because
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otherwise, it's literally no different than Li Cinco ISM.
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It's no different than forced assimilation you are.
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Forcing people to give up their own self-determination for your
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own desires. That's not Liberty, that's
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tyranny. And it was this day in 1775 that
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Minute. Men stood on Lexington Green and
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said, you're not going to do that to us.
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You are not going to force us to assimilate into what you want us
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to be. We are free men.
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We have Liberty above all else, we are fighting for Liberty, I
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really think that it's that lack of understanding that
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unwillingness to accept Liberty, not just Freedom Liberty, which
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is why so many people are trying to make us culturally
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assimilate, and force us to shut up and just to not be able to
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say the truth. The question is like the Soviet
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Union, how many people are going to die?
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Because of the stupidity, how many people are going to die?
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Because some people want to force their will on everyone
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else. Rather than to Simply as Thomas
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Jefferson would have said, allow people to live their own lives,
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the way they want to live them without forcing their way into
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my pockets or forcing their way into my belief system.
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I don't know where this is going to end up.
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I really doubt, but I do know that assimilation is a survival
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skill and as more and more Americans, assimilate into this
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idea that a man can be a woman. It will erase more and more
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Liberty that should concern us deeply.
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Take the time right now. Tell the people that matter in
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your life. You love them very much.
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You'd miss them if they weren't there.
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So don't pass up those opportunities.
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You don't want to have that regret plausibly live.
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I'm Dave, Bowman will see you next time, Dave Bowman show.