Capitalism Is the Antidote to ‘Black-Pilled’ Internet Pessimists
The movie The Matrix gave us the “red pill” and the “blue pill.” The red wakes you up to reality; the blue keeps you indoctrinated.
Internet culture then invented a black pill. Those who take it think the world is doomed.
So, podcaster Michael Malice wrote the book The White Pill, calling it a “symbol of hope.”
“Young people in recent years,” he tells me, “were discouraged about the future of this country. But people in a far worse position than us won a far greater victory in our lifetime, and no one talks about it.”
He refers to the fall of the Soviet Union. We talk about that in my new video.
Malice was born in Russia. He’s researched how even ruthless tyrannies can be toppled.
I say to Malice, “What I find unbelievable about the Berlin Wall being torn down is that I thought, ‘Finally, people wised up to the evil of central planning and socialism.’ Yet [today] academically smart college students want socialism!”
“You go to school,” Malice quips, “and then leave four years later as a swamp walrus who can’t have a conversation with their parents.”
He calls universities “the real villains.”
Universities do “black-pill” students about capitalism. Professors emphasize its problems and downplay its many benefits. A Pew study found that the more education Americans have, the more they prefer socialism.
“One thing that drives me crazy,” says Malice, “is when people say, ‘communism works in theory.’… Everything works in theory. Reality is how you determine how something works or not!”
I once thought we’d learn about reality from media. But reporters like central planning. It’s easy to cover. We spend time with politicians and often interview them about their plans.
“Intellectuals” tend to grab media jobs, and for some reason, intellectuals want to believe
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