JD Vance

We're the hardware.

And the software is the ideas that we have in our head.

And certain software promotes human flourishing and certain software destroys human flourishing.

And I think that the good kind of ideas tend to promote human flourishing.

What most world religions have but the woke stuff doesn't have is forgiveness and redemption.

Right.

It has the excommunication part, but it doesn't have the forgiveness and redemption part.

Most people recognize that even if you violate some fundamental moral value that I have, if you apologize and try to be a good person, we're going to be forgiving.

We want people to be able to live together.

There is this weird thing with the woke stuff where when – and you see this and I feel bad when like comedians in particular do it.

I'm sure you've seen this.

But when anybody does this where they'll go and say, well, I'm really sorry.

They'll sort of prostrate themselves when they make an offensive joke or they do something they're not supposed to do and they expect redemption.

But no, no, no.

They don't get forgiveness.

What they get is you need to do even more forgiveness.

of what you've already done.

It becomes this self-defeating, self-flagellating cycle.

And I think that's what's most destructive about this is you can't be friends with people if you think they're only ever wrong.

They can only ever wrong you.