This is CRT, hosted by me and produced by Voz Media. This podcast will air every Friday afternoon (note this was filmed last week, but I’m just getting this off the ground so bear with me!)
Note: The show will consist of commentary and an in-depth interview. As many of my readers know, I’m looking to interview CEOs, investors or executives in academia and government who had a throughline moment. Those are moments when a person realizes that there’s a concerted effort to subvert the truth. Please send them my way! Please also follow WeOverMe and bambi100 on X!
CRT typically stands for critical race theory, that controversial idea that some people like to argue is some complex legal and academic and obscure theory. But it’s really not. Simply put - it’s a way of looking at the world through the lens of two groups: the oppressor and the oppressed.
And to live a life that seeks to actively flip those roles around so the oppressor becomes the oppressed. And the oppressed become liberated.
But there’s a problem with that. Those who push CRT believe these two groups can be defined by someone’s race or gender. For example, all women would be considered the oppressed class. That’s of course - silly. You can’t say all women (like myself) are oppressed nor can you say all caucasian males are the oppressors. The numbers just don’t add up. So I want to change CRT to mean culture, religion and technology - because we need to talk about all 3 - especially religion.
So why am I hosting this show? The idea started around 2021, when I held the first Culture, Religion & Technology event in Miami with my friends Peter Thiel and Paul Martino.
Recall it was the height of COVID - the height of lockdowns, mask and vaccine mandates, restrictions on our freedoms and free speech, and a very censorious environment for people who didn’t fall in line with the government’s narrative.
It was the time Anthony Fauci said anyone questioning him was questioning science itself. And traditional values largely rooted in the Judeo-Christian faith were being challenged in America. It felt like a religious war of values had begun. So we felt there was a need to talk about religion because it seemed our very values - our view of truth was being criticized as not just unscientific but uncaring and unenlightened.
On that stage in 2021, Peter and I talked about the challenge of knowing what was true given the lockdown on free expression. And even though it was hard to know what to believe, he and I both agreed that we preferred conspiracy theories over a Ministry of Truth.
Then of course, the following year — we found out that was exactly what the Biden administration had in mind. Remember Nina Jankowicz, the head of Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board?
It was a week before the presidential elections. And it was then in October when Peter said to me on stage that among his very influential tech investors and CEOs - there was a shift right in politics at least in private. At that event, many guests and speakers said we needed more of these discussions. We need to talk more about religion as it relates to the decisions we make: from innovation to politics to national security to education to healthcare.
One guest - Jade Kadet - said it well. His takeaways from that event were spot on:
It was such great feedback. And it was a testimony to the need to get more of these conversations going. Because it is our religious beliefs that shape our culture, which then creates our politics, and then it’s the politics that create the environment to innovate and build new technologies. Now most people know that from a political standpoint, the vibe has changed. There is a Republican president in the White House.
Some people say it’s because of the economy: high inflation, high interest rates. And it is… but I think it’s more about the religious and cultural shift. Over the last decade, and especially in the last four years – culture, which is downstream from religion, dramatically shifted to view tradition and traditional values as oppressive, as stifling, as wrong – as driven by the privileged class.
These are values like traditional family, traditional views on gender roles and traditional views of the American dream. Culture also viewed any group - from the homeless to vandalizers, petty theft criminals, to violent offenders - as a protected class no matter the circumstances. And the more this was pushed, the more many people on the political left found themselves with no political party.
There was a lot of soul-searching, and scales falling from the eyes, and in the end, there were what I call – “throughline moments” which refers to an awakening to a concerted and coordinated effort by institutions to dramatically change American governance away from democracy, free speech, free markets and closer to a Marxist communist utopia.
In the past several years, there were many throughline moments. Most notable converts include Elon Musk, Joe Rogan and Ben Ackman.
So whether it was the 2014 fight over bathrooms, the decades-long character assassination of Trump, to 2020 Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to the 2022 support for Palestine, to acceptability of men competing against women in sports, to indoctrinating kids in schools, to overreach by the government - something caused a throughline moment for hundreds of thousands over the last decade.
What were those moments? Who are those people? How did culture and politics get to this point? Why and how did it slow down technological progress?
How can we learn from them as the 21st century unfolds and worldviews clash amidst an internet that widely disseminates more and more information that confuses us?
Those are the goals of this podcast and show.
So we’ll talk about politics and religion - two subjects most people want to avoid. And probably one of the most important goals for this podcast is: Talking about what is the nature of the human condition. Are we inherently good or are we inherently fallen or broken? We’ve spent many centuries thinking in the ways of the former. And that may be one reason we find ourselves very polarized politically.
We’re not all inherently good and people are starting to question that foundation.
You can check out the YouTube version of this podcast here, which includes my commentary on Pete Hegseth, the paltry California fire budget and Davos.
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