The Death of Culture: Marxism, Economics, and the Looming Crisis in America - WhatIfAltHist X Tom Bileyu on Impact Theory

And Doug. Here we have the limu emu in its natural habitat, helping people customize their car insurance and save hundreds with Liberty Mutual. Fascinating. It's accompanied by his natural ally, Doug. Li Mu? Is that guy with the binoculars watching us? Cut the camera. They see us. Only pay for what you need at libertymutual.com. Liberty, Liberty, Liberty, Liberty. Savings Bureau. Unwritten by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and affiliates excludes Massachusetts. Rudyard Lynch, welcome back. Thank you so much for having me. It's a real pleasure. It is amazing to have you. Part of the fun of sitting with you is the research that I do coming up to this. I think you're thinking a lot through a historical lens about what's going on right now in the foundational way of what is creating the moment that we're living in, which I think is a pretty distressed moment, maybe diseased would be a more accurate word of what I think is happening. You've said a quote though that I think is really powerful, which is there's no historic society that has looked like us that didn't have a revolution. And I wanna get a sense of what is it that we look like? The best example I've gotten recently since we last spoke is that Nietzsche had a term called the age of the last men, and he was writing in the eighteen eighties. And and he said that no one would truly understand his work until the year 2000. Really? And yeah. Yeah. Woah. And so the age of the last men is in the twenty first century, and it's a society where, he said the West would be dying because it would push envy and crabs in the bucket and lack of ambition and conformity to a point where there wouldn't be space to live. People would not be procreating. The West would not be able to survive. It would be the most dangerous period in our history because it would be so complacent. And it's really interesting when he frames the age of the last men that all these things which we see as moral are actually profoundly immoral because there is lots of things where not doing something is immoral, and we're a society where we're not doing a lot of things. And so I think we're a we're a profoundly sick and, endangered culture. So what are the things that we're not doing that we should be doing? Traditional human societies, and I wanna sort of set a frame for this where our cultural frame as a society is, like, 30. We can pull music from the eighties, and we're still running out of eighties music. And, we can't go back further. The furthest we can imagine is sort of World War two. But at the same time, the scale of human history is thousands of years around the world. And if you're only looking at us, you're gonna think we're less than we …