Workplace speech committees and the new speech policing

0:00It's Six Eastern. It's three o'clock Pacific. We will draw this city closer together. Coast to coast and around the world from the America Out Loud Talk Radio Studios. We will replace the fragility of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. It's time for The Truth Be Told with Booker Scott. I'm Booker Scott and this is The Truth Be Told. Thank you so much for joining us here tonight and every night as you do. If you're listening live, thank you. If you found us on a podcast later, thank you even more for going to that extra effort. You know, as we have come through the last four or five years, it really seems like our speech has been oppressed and maybe that's even being nice. In some cases, I think it was just shut down. I know that as some of us here in America, we were censored. We were shut down by our own government. There has now been proof of that.

1:00We saw that that has happened between the Biden administration, social media, Google. They all tried to silence us, our voices. In regardless of what the subject was, it could have been where COVID came from, whether it came from a Wuhan lab or a wet market, or whether masks were effective or the vaccine was safe and effective. All of those things were shut down or attempted to. Another part of that, though also, and we have seen this in other things, is how corporate world, regardless of where you are, they have taken it on their own to mandate things. We saw that with the vaccines. You know, they mandated shots, they had to get a shot or you couldn't work here. We saw that. But there is also a possibility that they are doing the same thing with speech. Lisa Myron, she is a Canadian and she has written a book. The book is called World on Mewed. How workplace speech committees are destroying our nations and eliminating our civil liberties.

2:02Lisa, welcome to the program. Great to have you. Hi, Booker. Hi, everyone. I'm so glad to be with you tonight. That's wonderful. Well, I'm glad you're here, too. Let's talk a little bit about your thesis. Let's start there. Why do you feel this is happening? And what do you see? And tell us a little bit about this book. So I'm a lawyer of 26 years. And I started to look at the, the speed, what I will call speech committees. And every way to earn a living. I'll say that transoccupationally, every occupation is being sewn up. And that's transnationaly. That's globally. And I started to see that, then they would attract the speech committees. And when you had a speech committee, you could think of the Jordan Peterson case here in Canada, because you know him quite well. Right? And so I started to track this around the world. But these speech committees do something new.

3:04And so I collected all these cases from all, you know, OECD countries all around the world. And what I noticed is, it doesn't matter if you have free speech. It doesn't matter if you have a constitutional order. What they're doing is really inverting our democracy. Or, you know, republic, if that's the case. And giving you communism, was that what I would ever say? Well, let's have a referendum on whether we want this communist identity. Because once you have a situation where you have to agree with your government, in order to hold down a job, I think that's communism. And so, you know, if you have to agree with your government on certain speech dictates, and I looked at all these things that would get you in hot water with the speech committees. And that's it myself. What are the chances that organically, every nation around the world,

4:05is coming up, and harnessing all the people in a certain regulated area, and all of those regulated areas get the same type of speech censorship. And the punishment, of course, is social and economic apartheid. So, you know, you're a debate. You're almost debanked. I give the example of the Canadian truckers, if you donated to the trucker convoy, you know, the government, you know, took the funds right out of your account, closed that account, and then that followed you, and you were stuck, you were out of society. And so, these speech committees, they take away your right to earn a living. And if you're independent, if you're an independent farmer, if you're a small business owner, if you have the ability, your small landowner, or you have independent wealth, somehow you're an entrepreneur, you might not understand

5:06why the rest of the world is silent. So, I wrote the book to explain this mechanism that silencing all the regulated professionals and occupations. And at the same time, I wanted to show that the professions that were independent were being attacked by the same government structure. So, you have a total silencing that's coming around the world. You know, I can give you examples in Switzerland, a guy, Alain Bonnet, called a fellow journalist, a fat lesbian, and for his trouble, he ended up being charged, and he's, you know, faces 60 days in jail. You have to grey in New Zealand, and she had COVID clients, where she's challenging the government, she's a lawyer,

6:06you should be able to do that, and she had a run-in with her, you know, bar association. And again, this is a way to censor speech. If you fear, you know, that you won't be able to earn a living, you'll lose your designation, you're going to be quiet. And we've all seen with DEI, et cetera. Yeah. Let me ask you a question about this workplace speech committee. Is this something that is put together in corporations? Is this coming from the human resource department? What is this committee who makes up the committees? These committees are because you're regulated, like maybe an accountant, or a lawyer, or a doctor, but increasingly even an electrician. These speech committees are with unions, what they do now, if you thought, well, okay, I'm regulated, I just pay these enormous fees for I have no idea what, and I'll get these courses

7:06that I have to take once a year, and I have to do my filings. And that might have been the purpose before for regulating different areas. But now they've added this speech committee, which is an authorization, I call them truth stampers. And there's key areas. There's, you know, terrible things that get set all over the place, and terrible things that get posted all over the Internet. But they only care about a certain kind of speech. What I found was if you were pro-nation state, you know, you were a patriot, if you were up, you know, anti, you know, you wanted medical consent before you took a job, right? If you wanted, you could talk about the vaccine till you blew in the face, but only one side of the topic. You could talk about COVID till you blew in the face, but only one thought topic. And then the same thing was,

8:07you know, LGBT, you could talk gay all day, but you can't go across the transgender movement. You know, there's key areas. And so what my thesis ended up showing was that these, the areas that you couldn't speak were pillars of the global estate. Yeah. That's what it sounds like. Yeah. Yeah, the censorship is too a perp. So it does sound like, and it felt like it living through it, that everything that had to do with the one world order, the world economic form, as long as you were on their side with your speech, then you were safe and you were free to go with what you wanted to say. You challenged that in any way, even with a question, then you were against them and you were silenced, you were censored, and that is what your study to write this book has showed you. It's not just the censorship, it's the idea that you lose the right to earn a living,

9:07because that's really different. And their self-sensorship as well, Lisa. You know, the self-sensorship, I think we have all felt. I know that I did, I would imagine that you did too. So that also was a part of it, isn't it? And it's a part of it. And so the book, of course, covers four different areas. And the self-sensorship is evident in all four areas. The first is medical. And of course, you know all the doctors that lost their licenses or in Canada, we had a lot. And one of the examples is Dr. Hoff, that I give. And he, you know, in April of 2021, he says, well, look, I've got, I'm very sorry to write this letter, but I've got all of these patients who've had, you know, several very sad side effects from the vaccine, some very tragic, and he writes the Chief Medical Officer of Health,

10:07you know, the Fauci in Canada of one of our provinces. In 24 hours, she writes to her, you know, without the FOIs, her, his lawyers got the FOIs, freedom of information. She writes within 24 hours, let's report him to his college, right? So for his trouble, to let everybody know about the side effects that he was observing directly in his practice, he goes through law fair, he gets reported to his college and they want his license, they want to pull his license. So anyone who's a doctor watching this, they're not going to want to speak up. Right. Right. Right. The media takes them through. So it's, they take the titans in all of our professions, the ones who have confidence and who can speak, and they dress them down publicly so everybody else is silent. We have, we have some here on the network that are very familiar with that. So we have shows from Dr. Mary Talley Bowden,

11:08we have Dr. Peter McCullough, who has shows here on the network. We have Nurse Jody O'Malley, who is one of the first whistleblowers that was a nurse during COVID, and they all experienced that. They all came through that. Exactly what you're talking about. Yeah. And Mary Talley Bowden has her own chapter. Really? Okay. Well, she's, she's on Monday nights right here at five o'clock Eastern time, on America out loud talk radio. Oh, that's wonderful. And I've been one with Dr. McCullough as well. He's such a, such a lion, a lion-hearted man. And so at the end, so I decided, well, what's, let me scratch the surface. What's behind medical? And what I found was an organization called TETAS, T-E-H-D-A-S. And they have been mapping out, along with the OECD, healthcare by AI. And the goal is,

12:09and they set out the laws that you need in place, the AI laws that you need in place, the goal is to eliminate our current healthcare system in its entirety, right? So this is what I found. And I found that, so healthcare is defined as nine sectoral data spaces. So you're not, you're not healthy. You just have a certain set of data. And you're not sick. You have a different set of data. You're not dead. That's another set of data, right? So it's so dehumanizing where they're going. And I need to warn the world because the silent doctors, the silent nurses, the silent medical professionals who are afraid of their regulatory body and their speech committees, or afraid of losing their license, will be objective behind this whole speech committee, is to keep them silent. So there's no counterpoint. And we had towards this AI healthcare.

13:10And what they had was the idea of semantic, so they're all the same labels, interoperability. They had technical interoperability, so all the computer programs around the world would have the same operability. They had nomenclature semantic. They had legal. All the laws. That need to be in place in order to upload AI healthcare, or in that chapter. And that's, you know, when Musk was talking about AI, we have to really see that there is a real dehumanization that we become nearly our data and we're going into a huge operating system. And so, you know, I decided that we really need to warn all the medical professionals while we still have strength in the medical profession, so that they can outlaw these speech committees

14:11and these bodies, because we're not discussing the most important things in our society. I'd like to say that we're going from a right-based existence to an access-based existence. And the mechanisms of how we're doing it are disclosed in the book. The name of the book is World on Mewd. And you're listening to Lisa Myron. She's talking about the book and the things that she has found. And, you know, the arguments that she makes in the book, I tell you to go and go to Amazon and find this book. It's $8 for the electronic version. $24 and $28 for the hardcopies is the hardback is $28. I want to go back to something. And by the way, I think the argument could be made that artificial intelligence health care may have a better bedside manner than some of the doctors that I've had. I'll just throw that out there. Inverting democracy, you brought that up. Can you talk about that a little bit? What does that mean to someone listening to this right now?

15:12Yeah, it's really important that when I go into the legal and political, other speech committees right around the world for, you know, your ABA, your Bar Association, your LSO, the Law Society of Ontario, all across the world, the Bar Association, are checking out certain kinds of lawyers. They're checking out the pro-nation state lawyers, they're checking out the free speech lawyers, and you know, they're checking out the ones who'd have the balls to bring the cases against any of the globalist mechanisms. And so, I want you to just envision that you have a constitution, but if you can use a rogue power, this power is not defined in our constitution, or your constitution is rogue power. It fits aside. It's a political branch. If anything, it's a administrative branch, and I say it's a global beast. It's no longer belongs to any one body. It's a global beast.

16:12And they can check out the lawyers by saying, well, that's speech you can't have since you said it. That's it. No more lawyer. And then you wouldn't have checks on executive, administrative, or pharma, or any of the other areas. And so, you could literally, jerrymanager, all of society, and that's what they're doing in every single profession. And I thought to myself, well, what would be the worst example? Because when I started thinking about the speech committees, how awful they were, I thought, well, what would be the worst example? I thought, well, what if you couldn't take something even in a pleading? Right? But the remedy is always, you know, the court says no. Right. And what I saw was, lawyers disbarred, you know, you could just look at the Trump cases. What could be less of an insurrection

17:12than asking a court to take a look at a fact pattern and put the law there and hand it over very politely in your high heel shoes or your great suit and make your arguments and wait for the judge. The idea that you disbarred Trump's lawyers really gave me the idea. Well, geez, that's pleading speech. And then, the lawyers that I spoke to who are bringing, you know, vaccine cases around the world, what I was seeing is that they're getting punished themselves. And so then you have, yeah, there are cases where people can't even find lawyers because they're too afraid of their professional body. Yeah, I believe that. I believe that's probably the case. No doubt about that. Attorney Lynn Wood, do you remember him? Do you know him? Are you familiar with his story? That's right. Yeah, I mean, that was everything that you're talking about on steroids. You know, the bar association of Georgia, really they ended up basically taking his law license.

18:15Although he said he was retiring it, he was in a huge fight there because he challenged the election of 2020. And I think that's a great example of exactly what you're talking about. Her name is Lisa Myron. The name of the book is World on Mute. You can find it at Amazon in Lisa. I want to thank you so much for doing this work, for getting it out there, letting people consider it, and have this perception. And I also want to thank you for coming on the program tonight. It has been a pleasure to talk to you. Thank you so much for having me, and you can also find me at lawyerrelease.substack.com and I would love all your support. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, Booker. We pray for rain, thank you when it's falling because it brings a grain in a little bit of money. We put it back in the plate. I guess that's why they call it God's country. More truth be told with Booker Scott in minutes on America Out Loud. We'll get ready, my fellow Americans, July 2nd, 3rd and 4th,

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22:22Not at all. Not at all. There was in a million years I would have never guessed this would happen. So you go to Washington DC, you go to stop the steel rally with Donald Trump and you end up at the Capitol. You end up inside the Capitol and eventually you're arrested and charged. When were you arrested and charged? When did that happen after January 6? So I was one of the early people that I was really hit hard in the media because I had so much content that I was live streaming the whole time because I'm so vocal and I had a little audience, a local audience in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with my own radio show and whatnot. And just always been social media friendly, butterfly kind of thing. So I had a lot of content that the media was able to seize upon and use for clickbait and also to scapegoat me and make me look horrible. And also I'm very prolific on social media so they were able to take my content

23:24and do some really wacky, weird wicked things with it to try to create a narrative about the events and about our intentions to the world and manipulate perspective. Well, Jenna, you know, in some ways became the face of January 6. You're a pretty lady. You're a rilter from Dallas, Texas. You're flying on a private jet. And the next thing you know, you are literally blown up on every mainstream media and legacy media site and on the news. What was that like for your life at that time? Well, thank you for the compliment. That's very nice. I appreciate you saying that. It was as far as the experience of becoming infamous overnight like that, that was really strange. That was an experience because, you know, with the advent of social media on top of that event

24:25that was so, in my opinion, where I was, it was so different from what they were showing on the news. It was very frustrating. And it reminded me of a, it reminded me of a, have you ever seen that show, Three's Company? Oh, yeah, of course. Okay, so that's show. It's like a comedy of errors. It's like that's the truth is, you know, we're, you know, so one of the, one of the characters over here is another character and thinks one thing. So it was like this bizarre experience of, I have a truth of what I experienced and these people are putting this label on me that is not mine. And I just wanted so much to say, no, no, it's like this. But every time I would say anything, I would dig myself a deeper hole in the PR nightmare that was my life, because I knew nothing about PR and I knew nothing about what you call it, zingers like one liners

25:25and what goes viral. And I thought I was a social media coach, which I used to be, but I had no clue about regular media. I knew how to do social media, but not regular media. Yeah, and they would take things out of context too. I think you had an exposed that they completely took out of context, or at least one part of it and kind of blew that up. What you're describing to us right now, it sounds like it is almost like an out of body experience when it first blew up, because you were almost sitting back watching a different story than the life that you were living. Is that fair? Correct. Yeah, I was in my body. I received every second a phone call. So my phone was ringing like this, with people all over the nation calling me to tune me out. And I guess I thought I was like a congressman or a congressman. I think of them right now with that omnibus bill, and their phones are blowing up. And I'm like, this is how they blew me up.

26:26But I was getting blown up with all of these accusations. You are a racist. You are a white blonde expletive. A lot of very harsh attacks. I was ambushed because the media was giving the cues of what to say and who I was. So the media was like, they were saying there was five officers murdered in the beginning. Never happened. And never happened comes to find out, come to find out it was a lie. And hundreds were injured. And so people were coming after me saying I deserve life in prison. I was like, well, I wasn't even there. I just, I didn't even go in. But really I just walked in and I said Jesus Jesus and walked out. I mean, I pray how far into the capital were you? Like four or two steps. Yeah. And I was standing right next to a police officer. And so it was just so bizarre that in where I was,

27:28there wasn't any violence. And there wasn't anything bad other than people getting sprayed. And so what happens whenever you are in a mob? I have since found I've read that you get something called, I've read this book called mob mentality. And anybody in a mob gets a lower level of intelligence. Your brain just kicks in and your intelligence gets lowered. It's human nature. And I think that there were agent provocateurs in the crowd that took advantage of that aspect of humanity. And so for example, you know, I didn't really do anything. But I knew that I felt like it was antifa that broke that window. And I didn't see who broke it. But I felt like we wouldn't do this because half the people I was around were so peaceful and sweet and saying, excuse me. But even though I, you know, but still I, I just, you kind of get caught up in the moment and stuff like that. So it was hard to explain anything in that whole process.

28:32And I was in my body. The rally itself or the capital right itself, I was out of body. That was not, you know, that was intense. It was passionate. It was phenomenal. But it was also like, oh my gosh, what did I do? You know, it's almost like you got swept away. Yeah. Well, when you go back and think about what had happened, we had the election that happened in November. And then we had all the things going on in the court. They were saying there was no widespread election fraud. There was a fever pitch that built up to that moment. And then you are there with thousands and thousands of people. And we know what happened there. Now for you and your life, how did it affect you from that moment on? Once you were charged and arrested. I was just completely like a rag doll in a system that I would, I had no control over anything.

29:32All I could do, I'm single. I'm independent. I take care of myself. My signs were defaced. Like I had a beautiful billboard. On your real estate. On your real estate sign. The real estate sign. I had a beautiful billboard. And I was just, you know, they put, they, they put. Slurs all over it. And they smeared me everywhere. And I ended up having to, and they tried to take my license. Thousands of people called the real estate, Texas real estate board. So they had to create an entire board. Or I don't know, what do you call it? Committee, probably. Committee. That's it. Committee to decide. And they put me in a band. And they were, they made a statement that they do not. You know, this is not something that they would take someone's license for. And I was so happy about that. Thank God. Because I'm just one lady by myself. And my mother was dying from breast cancer.

30:33And she did pass in July of 2021. So I was right in the middle of a lot of life. Very large life things. And I had to change my name to exist. I had, I changed my name to Jennifer Rogers, which is my maiden name. And hid from the media. And then I checked close my company. I tried to raise some money on PayPal. I mean, on Twitter. And I just said, hey, y'all can send money to my PayPal link. And because people were wanting to help. And PayPal goes and. Immediately cancels me that night. I raised $200. Yeah. PayPal. You know, I would have probably done a lot better. But they really nipped it in the bud. And they came and they emailed me and said, you can no longer do business with this. I called my mom. And I was like, oh, my gosh, you know, this is the end of the world. I'm canceled out of the economic system,

31:33the financial system of the world. And, you know, it's revelations. And it was very, very mortifying. That big old PayPal would even care about me. I mean, I did not notice. I didn't realize my impact at that level. And so I was like. So they said, I said, I'm not going to tell us all. And then 30 minutes later, CNET calls me, which is a very big tech, tech Silicon Valley publication. They're like, we understand that PayPal has canceled you. Do you have a comment? And I was just like, oh, my God. Then I went on. The news travels fast. News travels fast, doesn't it? No, I went on the internet and it was national CBS, which was a big deal for me at that moment. Like it was just bizarre. Like I am in some other land. And it was like general Ryan booted real estate agent, general Ryan booted from PayPal. So then the next day within one hour, it became world news. So it was in like India.

32:33And it was because I had a Google alert on my name. And I would see I was going in all of these places. In foreign languages. And, you know, my neighbors were taking my picture. Like I was a, I felt like I was in a communist country. And I was. Yeah. Well, we, a lot of us went through those times. And glad we were past it. And it's in our rearview mirror. I want to back up a few minutes ago to something you said. You said your mom was, was dying. And she did pass away in July of 2021. So she is going through this with you at the same time. And it dawns on me that both of you guys are fighting for your lives in a different kind of way. What was she like seeing you go through this? At a time when she is fighting for her life? Well, she knows me. And so it was right after January 6th. My mother was very proud woman. And she never wanted to let anyone know she was ill. And so she'd never let me see that she was hurting.

33:36Because that's when you know you're. I mean, we knew the time was coming. But we knew that. And she never let me see her hurt. So it was interesting because all this was happening. And she was so proud of me. Yeah. So it's like you are hero Jenny. And she goes, you know, I'm so proud of you. That's what she said. That's great. I just, I was curious how she reacted to everything that you were going through. Eventually you plead to one charge of a misdemeanor. Is that correct? Misdemeanor was demonstrating in a restricted area. And you serve what 60 days in jail prison? Did you actually serve the full 60 or was it cut short? I did serve every moment of 60 days. And I was tortured in prison. Tortured how? I was made to stay in one room for 60 days freezing cold, like 45 degrees with pajamas. Not a paper thin blanket for 60 days with 30 to 50 other women.

34:38They used COVID as the excuse. But I wasn't a lot of phone call. And I wasn't allowed to go outside. So that's, you know, that's in the handbook. But they said because of omnichron, that they just used to, they used that as an excuse to hold me. That wasn't a typical thing. Nobody stayed in quarantine 60 days. So we stayed in there and at times they starved us. And the interesting part about my, my case is that I was supposed to be going to probation, not prison, but I did a tweet because somebody was chewing me out and saying, you, what race is blah, blah, blah. And so I tweeted, I'm not going to jail because I had just found out from my attorney that I wasn't going to be recommended for jail. And I said, I'm not going to jail in the next day. CNN was like, General Ryan says she's not going to jail because she's white. Yeah. That's the post that I was talking about earlier. The one they kind of got you in trouble.

35:38Yeah. And it was like, but it wasn't. It was so. Oh, okay. That was the most. Tweet. I mean, I still am trying to get my mind around. How? What's the psychological game? That because I'm really astute. I don't. You don't realize you're going to get caught. And I'm not used to all this. So, you know, I was just trying to take up for myself because I, but the thing is, is that they were attacking me with hundreds and thousands of phone calls. Yeah. And millions of tweets. Oh, and I was just looking at all the, the stuff they were saying. And I was like, I'm sorry. I'm white. But I wasn't talking to that one person per say. I was talking to all these people that had the same thing they were saying to me. So I'm in. But it's just like anybody can find anything about anyone and pick them apart. If they are looking for something. Of course. Yeah. Right. So Jenna, we have gone through your story. We go to prison.

36:38You get out of prison. Here we are years later. You're doing okay. You're doing okay after all this. But we look at Donald Trump coming into office here in January. And so many people want every J6 or pardoned. And I know that you're looking for that. What are your thoughts on getting pardoned by Donald Trump? Do you want that he raised off your record? You know, I am blown away. I am absolutely stunned. This is not what I expected in a million years. I thought a whole different, I mean, I was totally different trajectory. But now that we are where we are, I realized that good can come in life. And that we do have a free country. And we are the people. And so I'm so blessed. I'm so happy. I am feeling so rejuvenated and free. And I have been really working on building my platform, this, you know, platform that's been created negatively and turning that around and using my skills to, you know,

37:42build my own little empire here of, you know, shows and, and my voice using my voice and my passion for America and God and all the things. And so I think it's phenomenal. I'm not, I'm not so concerned about having a misdemeanor on my record. However, what I'm most concerned about is justice. And to see, just, to be treated in such horrible ways and not be able to find an attorney that would even take my case because the enormity of the media onslaught. And because my reputation was so destroyed and not even be able to get representation and not even have money because I'm just barely scraping by trying to, you know, call myself another name. And, you know, calling all the people trying to get business, but do they like me? Well, they hate me. You know, just trying to find a way and going from that to, to being pardoned, which is a sense of justice,

38:48because I, I didn't really do anything. I mean, they set that up, in my opinion. And I was standing next to a police officer and I walked in and walked out. And then I was forced to go before the judge and, and grovel. And, and say I was remorseful like I was in North Korea. So that was very humiliating. And I was ostracized from society. And so integrating back into society is difficult still because I'm still seen as, you know, this image that's not who I am necessarily. By a lot of society. Some people love me. Yeah. Some people love me, but. And the people that don't like you and don't love you, they're probably not going to change their mind over a pardon. But as you're talking, I'm thinking how maybe important January 6 was to opening more eyes for more Americans. And without it, we may not be to the point we are now where we have Donald Trump back in office. It is, I think it's a cog in the wheel that is going to be very important in history, especially as we're starting to get more truth coming out.

39:57We had the IG report from Michael Horowitz a couple of weeks ago. There are, there were 26 confidential informants that were there the day of and they were hired by the FBI. We don't know how many more were there, but we know for a fact that he has admitted that the inspector general for the Department of Justice has done that. Right. So we're getting truth. We see what's happening with Liz Cheney and the evidence that she has tampered with a witness. Right. So, you know, we're starting to see the other side of the story that we were trying to tell for so long is starting to come to the forefront. So maybe as we look back to January 6 and the price that you paid will be an important part of American history getting America back on track. Absolutely. I really feel like we changed the world. I mean, I told one of my friends, I mean, we changed the world because had that not have happened, people wouldn't have, a whole lot of people wouldn't have woken up. I guarantee people did not like seeing people all over the nation pop, pop, pop, get arrested every day.

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43:19You know as we look around this country, there are a lot of scary things going on. And if I said we're living in a negative world, what would come to your mind? Probably a lot of things and probably none of them are what we're about to get into. I'm going to bring into the conversation now the guy who wrote the book, living in the negative world. His name is Aaron Ren. Aaron, welcome to the conversation. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. I think one thing that you wrote in this book, we've entered a new and unprecedented era in America. And it's one you call the negative world. And if you would just dumb it down for everybody, what is this negative world? I'd be happy to do that. So the negative world specifically refers to the way that sort of society views Christianity. In my book Life in the negative world, I lay out a model looking at the last 60 to 70 years of American history, where we started out in the 1950s, where although we didn't have a state church, we did have a sort of softly institutionalized generic, you know, Protestant Christianity is our de facto national religion.

44:31Half of all the people went to church, we were adding in God, we trust to our money, we were adding under God of the pledge of religions, we had prayer in schools, we had Bible reading in schools. Then in the 60s, I dated to 1964, I believe you can equip it with the days, but roughly in that era, Christianity began to go into decline in America in terms of attendance, adherence and people beginning to question Christian sort of moral norms and moral frameworks. And I divide this period of decline from 1964 to the present into three areas or worlds that I call the positive neutral negative world. The positive world is 64 to 94. That is a period of decline for Christianity. I want to be clear about that. At the same time, society, especially at the elite, kind of official level, still basically views Christianity positively to be known as a good church going man makes you seem like an upstanding member of society. And Christian moral norms are still the basic moral norms of society. In 1994, we hit a tipping point in it or what I call the neutral world, which lasted from 1994 to 2014 or Christianity is no longer seeing positively, but it's not really viewed negatively yet either.

45:41It's essentially one more lifestyle choice among many in a pluralistic public square. And Christian moral norms sort of had a residual effect of that era. And then in 2014, we hit a second tipping point where for the first time in really the 400 year history of, you know, settlement in America, official elite culture now views Christianity negatively, we're in this negative world. Right. So to be known as a Bible believing Christian does not help you get a job at Goldman Sachs or Google quite the opposite. In fact, Christian moral norms are now expressly repudiated. And in fact, in some respects, certain segments of Christianity are now viewed as the leading threat to the new moral order. You see a lot of the hand-rearing about Christian nationalism very much in this vein. And so this entry into a place where sort of Christianity with, you know, certainly with the evangelical world that I am most familiar with, sort of viewed itself as the moral majority and now has to face the fact that's kind of on the outs.

46:49And this has been very dislocating. Will you go back to 1964? Are you able to put your finger on anything that happened that changed the narrative to change that period from 1964 to 1994? What was it that happened in our country? Was there anything that you've been able to define? Yeah, I don't subscribe to the where did it all go wrong theory. I don't try to necessarily go back. And, you know, some people go back a long way. Some people say it was William of Aachen, Aachen, Monomenalisms where it all went wrong. Charles Taylor, this Canadian philosopher wrote a book called A Secular Age that told us, since we have a 500-year story of secularization. I mean, I would say look, the trends were moving sort of away from Christianity in the West for a long time. I mean, even going back to the, you know, the founding fathers, a lot of those guys were not necessarily in private, you know, the most enthusiastic about Christianity.

47:49But the key is, you know, the elite never really was as interested in Christianity in many respects. But they felt the need to honor it publicly. And they said, well, we need to have this religion in the country to really have a coherent country. What happened precisely in the 60s? A lot of things happened. Obviously we had the upheavals, you know, of the late 1960s, the sexual revolutions there. The generation gap with that, the Vietnam War, we saw the sort of collapse of the old, what they called wasp establishment, the white and those sex and Protestant establishment that had sort of controlled the country in one form or another from a very long time. I mean, there's, there's this guy who was president of Yale University during the Vietnam War, for example, was a guy named Kingman Brewster. And he was the 11th generation descendant of elder William Brewster on the Mayflower. And so there were still like into the 1950s, maybe even the 1960s members of the Adams family that played prominent roles.

48:55I think it was Charles Francis Adams the fourth that was the CEO of Raytheon, for example, for a very long time. And so, you know, that all collapsed. And, you know, there's just a lot of things that started happening in the culture in the 1960s. And then I think that the next major event that comes along that is really important is the fall of Soviet Union in 1989. You know, the reason we're adding under God and stuff to the pledging, God, we trust the money. It was part of the Cold War. It was part of our competition against this easiest communist system. You know, Christianity was sort of bound up with the West war on communism. And once communism went away, you know, we thought, okay, Western culture is going to be triumphant and caring forward. And people might have assumed Christianity would be part of that. But what it actually gave was essentially a little bit of a green light start rewriting the relationship between Christianity and culture.

49:55And he sort of, you know, de-centering and pushing out Christianity a little bit. I actually debated whether I should put the beginning of the neutral world in 1989, because the Berlin wall. You know, you can, you can make some, some debates about some of these things. But there certainly been a lot of, you know, a lot of shifts in the culture over that time that really did transform, you know, society in that way. And again, it's not that the 1950s was some great high watermark of American morality. Right. Probably it wasn't. No, right after World War II, the guy was coming back. There was a lot of hypocrisy. There was a lot of, you know, people didn't necessarily believe. But there was still this idea that, you know, we had a sort of public religion in the United States, which was sort of a generic kind of a generic Protestantism generic Christianity. And like now, the people who are running into country, you know, kind of the elites have decided they don't need that anymore. You know, we can dispense with that. And, you know, to the extent that we have a sort of moral order, that moral order is based on ideologies.

51:03And the problem with these ideologies is they change all the time. You know, thou shalt not steal is kind of a, you know, a timeless, a timeless principle, if you will. They're what there really was sort of a moral system that had prevailed for a long time. Of course, there's like infacies and changes here and there. But there is sort of an idea that like, okay, great. You can anchor back to the Ten Commandments or something. Well, now it's like whenever the flavor of the month is, everybody's got to like all of a sudden tack into the new direction. You see that in cities in this country right now, where they're not prosecuting and holding people accountable for going in and in shoplifting. And now we see these shops moving out. So you can steal in America now. Right. It's like, you can, you can walk into a CVS with, you know, a couple of huge trash bags, load them up and walk right out with impunity. But then again, there are people, for example, that said all live matter on a company conference called fire. So, you know, it's, you're more likely to, you're more likely to get fired for an ideological transgression and some respects that you are.

52:09For, you know, for actually being yet, you know, and more all in some ways, as we would have normally understood it. You're listening to Aaron Rinn and Aaron writes on substack Aaron Rinn.com also, by the way, that last name is spelled R-E-N-N. So Aaron Rinn.com. Aaron, you wrote something in your book. The negative world poses a profound challenge to American evangelicals and their churches. And it also helps to explain why there's been so much turmoil and conflict within the evangelical world. Can you talk about that? Sure. Well, again, you know, evangelicals are used to thinking of themselves as the cultural mainstream, as the moral majority. And so having to make this shift from being a moral majority to a moral minority is quite dislocating. And because, you know, sort of Protestants, Christians were the majority for so long.

53:09They essentially, you know, were relied on sort of the mainstream institutions of society to sort of reinforce their values. And those are the institutions they looked to. Whereas, you know, minority groups, although they participate in and look to mainstream institutions, always had like their own unique institutions by their community to sustain community identity life. And so the example I use is probably 20th century Catholicism, where there was still a lot of anti-Catholic sentiment at that time. So they had to create their own Catholic schools. They had to create their own, you know, Catholic charitable groups. They had to create their own fraternal society. They said to create their own Catholic universities. They had all these practices like abstaining from me on Fridays or praying rosaries that really identify and sustain their community life in a Protestant nation. And so even evangelicals struggle in part because they never had these to nearly the same extent.

54:10So that's, that's, you know, part, part of the problem right there. It's a big psychological adjustment and then the lack of these institutions. And then, you know, the best bulk of evangelical churches and institutions and ministries were built for cultural realities that no longer exist. And so they need to change. It's just like how technology comes along and revolutions nice is everything. First, there's the smartphone, right? So if you don't have that, you, you know, if you can't adapt to the smartphone revolution, maybe you're an old landline telephone company, you're in trouble, right? Now AI, who knows what that's going to do. So, you know, if you have like a business or, you know, a church or anything built for an old reality, new realities, you know, force the need for change. And so I think that has really put a lot of pressure on the evangelical church and the various different groups that make it up. And I go through some of them in the book and talk about them a little bit, have sort of deformed. And they're now starting to essentially fight with each other, maybe, you know, a little bit.

55:14And so I think it's, it's just an uncertain time. Well, Aaron, thank you very much for joining us. The name of the book is life in the negative world confronting challenges in an anti-Christian culture. And Aaron, tell everybody where they can find your work. Oh, just the book is available wherever find books are sold at Amazon or where your local book shop. And, you know, definitely sign up for my website at AaronRen.com. And you'll be able to see all my work posted there. As we come to the end of this hour, we are also coming to the end of another week. Thank you so much for joining America out loud talk radio. And also the truth be told every night. I really do appreciate it. I'm Booker Scott and don't go anywhere. Unleash the political news hour. It's coming up next. Don't forget all new programming all weekend Saturday and Sunday. So take us along with you wherever you go. Don't forget there's also an app you can download. You can go to either one of the Play Store's Google or an Apple.

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