‘Does having children change your perspective on history, politics, philosophy, and the future of humanity? If so, is part of the problem facing Western nations the reality that decision-making is being led by a mostly young and childless generation?’

This was the question I posed to Carl Benjamin during my interview on Saturday morning (which you can watch in full here) after he recently welcomed another child into the world. Also known by his YouTube persona of Sargon of Akkad, Carl is the Director of LotusEaters.com and a talented voice in the global political discourse.

Essentially the question addresses the ‘wisdom of the elders’ – a concept that was once common to most civilisations. Those individuals who managed to survive adulthood and enter their twilight years were approached by the rest of society with a level of respect and reverence, partly because surviving used to require a great deal of skill in a dangerous world.

“@Sargon_of_Akkad, does having #children change your perspective on history, politics, philosophy and the future of humanity? If so, is part of the problem with the #West a mostly young and childless generation leading the decisions of civilisation?”

WATCH NOW:… pic.twitter.com/znkHR9G0nU — ADH TV (@adhtvaus) April 8, 2023

Traditionally, religious leaders and senior political positions were held by these elders who had the benefit of experience rather than the fire of youthful passion (often unhinged from tempering forces such as reason and tolerance).

It is not a good idea to put a tantrumming toddler in charge of complicated geopolitical arrangements or allow an irresponsible youth to loosen the State purse strings for passing whims. When it comes to the stability of domestic society, revolutions are generally the business of young men and they are typically bloody and chaotic affairs.

The young value excitement, rather than safety – which makes them perfect warriors and lousy leaders.

Western nations, perhaps feeling stuffy and bored after centuries of success, have decided to preference young leaders who look good, speak loudly, and bully their way to power using the fist of identity politics to make up for their lack of wisdom.

Carl offered an interesting answer to the problem of youth.

‘Yes, having children definitely changes your perspective. Frankly, you realise how much of an adolescent you are until you have children. Fundamentally it is about being responsible for someone who is not yourself.’

He goes on to discuss the difference between being a ‘functional’ single adult in society and an adult raising the next generation – a far more important endeavour for the future of civilisation. It is an activity that comes with a perspective that values stability. Very few parents want to see their children grow up in an era of uncertainty.

Given what’s on offer by those with radical politics, it is somewhat perplexing how often young, inexperienced, childless politicians talk about the ‘future of the planet’. They then emotionally employ thousands of school children, terrifying them into acting as ideological soldiers in whatever social trend appears likely to win the next election.

I guess, in this way, these radicals are attempting to appeal to society and its parents as if they are building a responsible future. A word of warning… Death cults – which is what eco-fascism and the cult of Climate Change really are – rarely care about stability after the votes are cast. It is more about the energy of fear rather than the hard work of restoration. The words of its political architects are those of Marxist revolutionaries demanding ‘system change’ and the ‘eating of the rich’.

Extinction Rebellion, for example, has a ‘list of demands’ on its website – which is how dictatorships, not democracies, operate.

They admit to: ‘Mobilising 3.5 per cent of the population to achieve system change … no regime in the 20th Century managed to stand against an uprising which had an active participation of up to 3.5 per cent of the population … the world is deeply unequal, with wealth and power levers concentrated in a small minority … we recognise that our job may be less about “saving the world” and more about trying to develop our resilience as multiple collapses take place.’

It is apocalyptic nonsense that frames an artificial revolution aimed at stealing wealth from the middle and working classes that built Western nations and worse, it is the children of these classes who are being coerced into tearing down the civilisation that made them safe and free.

After all, Extinction Rebellion talks about wealth and inequality, but who are the wealthy ruling class – the class that are getting richer? The Climate Change barons and Net Zero corporate priests. Public money is being taken from the poor and gifted to these individuals by the trillion.

Besides, personal wealth is hardly a concern for the environment. Its inclusion in the Climate Change debate is an admission, at least in part, that those who get down on their knees and smear the pavement in fake blood are cosplaying the socialist revolutions of old rather than weeping for the natural world.

This is the politics of destruction, chaos, social change, and civilisational collapse. The idea of the oft-repeated ‘Build Back Better’ by its nature requires some great cataclysm to desecrate the institutions it wishes to reconstruct.

I sat down for a chat with @Sargon_of_Akkad ? How can we resolve some of these severe social politics facing society when it is nearly impossible to conduct a sensible conversation with the [screeching] leftwing activist class? WATCH: https://t.co/OE3E9PsC9c pic.twitter.com/x5gG6HnWti

— ADH TV (@adhtvaus) April 10, 2023

Typically, parents do not want their children to grow up in a world that is being ripped apart by dangerous ideological movements vying for power. Who, in their right mind, would want to see their offspring folded into the radicalised mob and reduced to the status of a mindless pawn instead of a free-thinking, prosperous adult?

Is social popularity really more important than the world we leave behind for the next generation? In 2023, it may very well be the case that yes, there is a thick layer of society willing to burn the nation down in exchange for ‘likes’ on Twitter. The silent majority must understand that this is the voice politicians listen to.

‘Who actually relies on you? That’s the real test of adulthood,’ insisted Carl.

I would add that when you have an entire generation of politicians who have never been responsible for anyone else, they lack the skills required to be the leader of a nation wholly reliant on the policy decisions they make.

While, as a conservative, I hesitate to call the State ‘a parent’ as the communists do, the State is certainly performing some of the parental duties as far as maintaining stability and order. If it cannot fulfil these functions, and instead starts playing favourites with its children, there is no longer any argument for the existence of the State.

‘[When you have a child] you have to see yourself in the wider scheme of things. You aren’t just an isolated individual. You are actually someone who is part of a community – part of a family. The one thing that children need is predictability. They need to know that every morning when they get up, things are going to be as they were yesterday. It is essential for them to be happy, confident, and self-assured.’

This sentiment is the antithesis of Labor, Green, and Teal politics in Australia where the message is ‘change’. Change for the sake of change. Change for any reason. Change at any cost.

Let me ask the readers a question: are kids happier, more self-assured, and confident after twenty years of leftist thinking in our schools? Are they calm and emotionally stable now that we teach four-year-olds that the world is going to end?

We have never seen a generation of children with more social, mental, and emotional problems than in the modern West – children who are so delusional that they have decided to use their identity as a fashion accessory, play-act at severe mental disorders to attract attention on TikTok, and routinely engage in a social arms race of ‘torment’ where they compete in theatrical anguish to prove they ‘care’ about the environment.

I say ‘theatrical’ because after everyone has taken their Instagram selfies, those same crying and screaming children unstick themselves from the tarmac and head off to the shops where they spend the rest of the afternoon spending their parents’ money in the capitalist world they pretend to hate.

It is as ridiculous as the university Marxist groups preaching that they are ‘the oppressed workers of the evil capitalist State’ despite most of them being unemployed students.

At the same time our kids are becoming experts in activism, the standards of measurable education – literacy, numeracy, and critical thinking – have slipped lower than the pre-digital age. A child born today has unprecedented access to information, and yet they perceive themselves as a class of victims, campaigning for censorship, trigger warnings, safe spaces, and sensitivity readers to protect them from knowledge. Education is so appalling that university students deplatform speakers and cluster together in gangs to scream and swear incoherently at those who have a different opinion.

It is not an exaggeration to say that teachers, with nothing but a blackboard, did a better job of educating children than Australia’s education system which receives a fortune for each child. What they lack is discipline, respect, and sane role models.

‘[Stability] is something that left-wing activists are deliberately trying to deny to children. The abolition of category is one of the primary methods of attack that the left take on. You see this, of course, when you ask anyone on the left to define what a woman is… A normal person says, “An adult human female. I don’t know why you’re even asking…”

‘But the reason they are abolishing these categories is so that anyone can be in it. That’s actually bad for children because that takes away their ability to understand their environment. That takes away their ability to generate this predictable nature of the world around them. And that leaves them kind of lost, alone, and vulnerable. And that is how the left want these children to be. They want to be able to groom them into believing radical things that clearly aren’t true.’

‘Truth’ is where Western Civilisation went wrong.

At some point, ‘political correctness’ turned into the passing of legislation that makes it a crime to hurt people’s feelings even when they are forcing others to partake in private delusions.

I joined the wonderful @Sargon_of_Akkad. Is it time the West stood up for #truth?

“Is it ‘good’ to deceive people? Is it ‘good’ to play into delusion? Is it ‘good’ to speak about the world in a way that is fundamentally untrue? When you build a house on an edifice of lies, it… pic.twitter.com/ao9IRQax02 — Alexandra Marshall (@ellymelly) April 8, 2023

When I asked Carl if it was ‘good to deceive people’, even if it is for the purpose of protecting their feelings and being perceived as a good citizen, he replied:

‘Is it “good” to deceive people? Is it “good” to play into delusion? Is it “good” to speak about the world in a way that is fundamentally untrue? Sometimes you have to be tough and you have to be realistic about things and that’s actually the kind thing to do because when you build a house on an edifice of lies, it will eventually come tumbling down.’

He is correct. The longer the West’s media and politicians sustain a web of lies to placate activist causes, the deeper this state of social madness will become.

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