We Live in an Assassination Culture
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The speaker introduces the idea that assassination and violence are rising in political discourse and public life, expressing concern about the trend and intention to revisit this video in the future.
Asmongold argues that a growing culture of violence and lawlessness has taken root in Western society, warns it could lead to a future police state, and calls for a return to foundational Western values to curb this trend.
Summary
Asmongold lays out a provocative thesis: modern culture is normalizing violence and antisocial behavior to the point where it could threaten Western civilization as we know it. He ties the trend to recent political violence against public figures and links it to post-BLM social dynamics, arguing that people now justify destructive actions as righteous acts. The video blends cultural critique with a warning about surveillance, safety, and civil liberties, reflecting his concern that safety-seeking instincts could erode privacy and freedom. He rails against what he calls third-worldist thinking and urges listeners to channel frustration into voting and civic engagement rather than escalation. Throughout, he contrasts Western ideals—Roman law, Greek philosophy, Christian morality—with perceived current dysfunction, using vivid examples like theft, looting, and street violence to illustrate his point. Asmongold also riffs on everyday observations (e.g., Walmart underwear shopping) to underscore how normalization of dysfunction feels in ordinary life. He closes with a plea to rein in destructive behavior and to restore a society where such extremes are no longer accepted. The video is both a cultural critique and a call to action for better collective behavior and political engagement.
Key Takeaways
- Normalization of violence and antisocial behavior is framed as a social problem that could cascade into policy and governance changes if left unchecked.
- The speaker links rising unrest to shifts in civil discourse since the era of BLM protests and argues that many people now view destruction as a justified means of protest.
- A future police-state scenario is suggested, with concerns about surveillance, vehicle automation, and data-driven policing that could erode privacy.
- He argues for returning to foundational Western values (Roman law, Greek philosophy, Christian morality) as a remedy for current dysfunction.
- The text uses everyday anecdotes (e.g., Walmart underwear episode) to illustrate how social norms are eroding in ordinary settings.
- The speaker critiques social media culture and the perception of revolution as dangerous bravado rather than a practical political strategy.
- There is a practical appeal to engage in voting and political processes instead of violent or destructive actions to achieve goals.
Who Is This For?
Essential viewing for viewers concerned about the cultural and political trajectory of Western democracies, especially those who follow Asmongold and are interested in how social unrest, civil liberties, and civic engagement intersect.
Notable Quotes
""assassination culture. That's what I'm calling it. It's bad now and it's going to get a whole lot worse.""
—Opening thesis: current culture is moving toward more violence and more extreme actions.
""This is a problem inside of all of Western civilization because I think that we have culturally not been willing to just put our foot down with these freaks.""
—Critique of societal tolerance for violence and disruptive behavior.
""Let's not shoot anybody. How about just bring a better candidate next time and get more of your guys out to vote...""
—Advocates civically constructive alternatives to violence.
""I don't want to live in 1984. I don't want to live in China. But then I'm thinking to myself, well, if you look at Dubai, if you look at China...""
—Fear of surveillance and authoritarian tendencies across different regions.
""Please stop allowing our culture to be colonized by absolute savages.""
—Call to action against perceived societal collapse and violent actors.
Questions This Video Answers
- How is violence shaping political discourse according to Asmongold?
- What does 'assassination culture' mean in Western society?
- Can Western values like Roman law and Christian morality really curb street-level violence?
- What are the risks of surveillance and privacy erosion discussed by Asmongold?
- What practical steps can be taken to reduce civil unrest without compromising freedoms?
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Full Transcript
assassination culture. That's what I'm calling it. It's bad now and it's going to get a whole lot worse. I want to make this video because in two, five, three, 10 years from now, I want to be able to go back to this video and say, "See guys, I told you so." And if I'm not right, I'm going to delete the video. So, anyway, uh, this has been, I think, escalating. It's been going crazier and crazier. We've had now the third or fifth or I I lose count how many attempts on Donald Trump's life. Somebody, well, I'm really mad.
I'm gonna shoot the president. Oh boy, that's going to solve all your problems. And so you have these people that are doing this and this has really really escalated ever since. And I mean, let's guys, let's be honest here. It's been escalating ever since BLM. That's whenever being a crazy [ __ ] became the socially acceptable thing to do. And now everybody's a crazy [ __ ] And these are people who think that they are fighting for civil rights. It's like, you know, you're not Rosa Parks sitting at the front of the bus whenever you're burning down a Uber driver's Tesla because Elon Musk made you mad.
You're not fighting for civil rights. You're trying to take them away. Everybody wants to have an election. You don't like the way it turns out. Time to burn everything down. Well, can you imagine what it would be like if everybody did this? Oh my god, it would be crazy. And this is the form of third worldism. And I talk about this a lot, less so on Twitch now. And I talk about this though because this is the mentality of when the existing systems do not create the outcome that you like, even though all of the systems are working properly.
You're being represented. You just simply don't have the numbers to achieve your goals. Whenever this happens to you, the result is not, well, I guess I have to work harder. I have to get more people to agree with me. No, the result is now I'm going to set something on fire. I'm going to try to shoot somebody. I'm going to try to cause some sort of I'm gonna stand, get this, guys. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the road for Iran. Thank God. Thank God. That's going to save them. Oh, for sure. Exactly. And if anything, it's going to make the gas prices go even higher.
So anyway, this is what I think is happening is that people have socially normalized the act of bad behavior, violence, aggression, hostility, and they've done so with a righteous indignation that has enabled them to justify doing so as being the heroes of their own story. Is it too many Marvel movies? I don't know. But it's too many something. Maybe it's too many anti-depressants. I have no idea. But I know it's a big issue and I think I know where things are going with this because we can't live in a society that's like this. You can't have a society where people steal things, people are being violent randomly and people decide to kill elected representatives.
If you want to if you want a country like that, go to Africa. There's plenty of them. They're called PvP servers. I preferably don't want to be on one. So these people are trying to turn our normal country and this is happening in Europe, too. So, if you're European and you're like, "Oh, this doesn't apply to me. We don't have this problem." Yeah, you do. They're driving through the [ __ ] crowds with with trucks instead of guns. Oh, wow. That's so much better. You guys have problems, too. This is a problem inside of all of Western civilization because I think that we have culturally not been willing to just put our foot down with these [ __ ] freaks.
these absolute [ __ ] deranged, mentally ill, violent, psychotic freaks that need to be put in a mental institution and locked up indefinitely. And everybody else, by the way, if we did this, everybody would be living in paradise. Everything would be great. Everything would be amazing. Oh, wow. I go to CVS. Oh, I want to buy a candy bar. Well, let me go speak to the manager's manager so he can get the special key that was made by uh you know the Wizard of Oz to open it up for me to get A Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
Uh no, I don't think so, guys. And before you say, "Oh, well, they're stealing because they're poor." Uh yeah, I'm pretty sure you can't eat makeup. All right. No, they're not. They're stealing because they can and because they're getting away with it. And so we have a world where we have enabled and allowed this completely destructive behavior because people have been mentally guilt tripped and emotionally manipulated into thinking that this is somehow the only outcome that a person can have. Well, I had things hard as a kid. That means I steal Kia and I drive them down the highway at 150 m an hour.
Well, you know what? My dad wasn't around, so that means I get to burn down the 7-Eleven. Uh, I don't [ __ ] think so, guys. I don't. And I don't think anybody else likes this either. I have what I call the 7-Eleven aclair index. Let me explain what that is. We all know 7-Eleven's, right? Right. I I think we all hopefully I'm not the only fat piece of [ __ ] here. I'm not fat. I'm trans fat, but it's the same thing. And you go to you go to 7-Eleven and they have the acclaires in the little bakery goods thing.
Well, I found that if you want to go late at night and you want to get one of those aclairs, you have to go to a 7-Eleven that doesn't have any hobos or anybody around like any of these random, oh, somebody's talking to their knife. There's not going to be any Claire's in that 7-Eleven, let me tell you that. And so, nobody wants to be around this [ __ ] Nobody wants to deal with this, but nobody wants to say it because they've created this sort of like uh you know some sort of moral cache in complete societal dysfunction.
And I think that it's reaching a fever pitch. I think if they ever succeed, oh, let's say you shoot Trump. Oh yeah, all your problems are going to go away now with President JD Vance. Yeah. Oh, you you shoot him. Oh, well now you've got Marco Rubio. It's not going to work, right? you you're going to have to shoot a lot more people than that, right? And my opinion on this is let's not shoot anybody. How about just bring a better candidate next time and get more of your guys out to vote and maybe something will happen that's in your favor.
But oh well, we can't do that. And so anyway, uh this is where I think things are going is that we are reaching a position where there is so much just daytoday societal dysfunction, just average dysfunction. Like you go to the store, like I went to Walmart. I went to Walmart and I went to buy a pack of underwear. Now I'm a 35 year old man. This doesn't embarrass me anymore because, you know, I've got a few gray hairs, but if I was 18, I would have been mortified by this. The woman had to unlock the underwear case, pull out the underwear, and I said, "Okay, can I have them?" She says, "Yes, you can have them.
I have to walk them up to the [ __ ] register." And of course, you know, you have like 17 different registers at the Walmart. Three of them, no, that's not true. One of them is open. And so I have to go there. I'm sitting in this long line. And she says, "Yeah, he's buying underwear at these underwear for him." And it's like, "Oh my god, this is it's it's mortifying. It's embarrassing." Right? And again, like it's the kind of thing that, you know, you get old enough and you just laugh at it. But whenever you're younger, it's ridiculous.
And I still laugh at it, but it's for a different [ __ ] reason. I'm mortified for a different reason. I'm mortified that I'm living in a minimum security prison. The entire world is being turned into a minimum security prison so we can accommodate the bottom 2% of the bad actors in our society. Everybody has to live in this because we don't want to put them in it. It drives me [ __ ] crazy. It makes me so angry. And I think people are getting tired of this. I think eventually what's going to happen is people are there's going to be somebody that runs for government, somebody that runs for office that says I'm gonna stop this and they will and it's not going to be a good thing.
And the thing is that and everybody will be happy for this because you have to remember I think it was Benjamin Franklin that said the people who desire safety over freedom deserve neither right or something some some variation of that right well this is the problem with what Benjamin Franklin said back then they didn't have universal suffrage now they do and when everybody can vote most people are going to choose safety every single [ __ ] time. So, we have a society of people that will, I think, whenever the time is right, willingly and beg for minority report.
And and not I don't mean reporting a black person. I mean the movie. I'm talking about somebody going and actually having uh you know like databases on them like eyetracking. I don't know if you guys have seen this, but they're now mandating uh you know, cameras and cars now to be able to detect and turn on and turn off cars at will and to be able to detect things like drowsiness and other types of inattentive driving behavior. So, this is where things are going. And the problem is that if you have enough drunk driving and if you have enough texting and driving and you have enough of everything in between, you're going to have people that are asking for that.
And I think that's the world that we're going towards. And I think this is a very sad thing. I don't want to live in 1984. I don't want to live in I mean honestly in some cases and I think a lot of people like I say I don't want to live in China. But then I'm thinking to myself, well, if you look at Dubai, if you look at China, you look at Singapore, and you look at El Salvador now, you you go Google Maps, go Google Maps, and I'm not saying everywhere, but many of these places, they're very nice, and there's not [ __ ] everywhere, and there aren't a bunch of people sitting around uh you know, having a fire with um uh plastic and tires.
And so this isn't happening. And they're like passed out like fent zombies. And so I think that what's happening is that this is either a colossal amount of mismanagement that is so bad that it will be seen historically as like an age of decline or it is being done intentionally. this dysfunction, this unrest, all of these problems are being done intentionally so they can manifest the reality of the next police state, the Patriot Act too, the uh you know, the furthering of the reduction in privacy, you know, do do you want to be texting your friend and then you make a joke and it's about something blowing something up and then immediately you have the police coming and they're shutting down your service because it's been AI parsed and they have like a complete apparatus and They're using telemetry and they're trying to figure out, well, wait a minute.
This guy, I think he's the one. This could be al-Qaeda. He could be radicalized. It could be one of those incelss with a bomb. And then before you know it, you're on a list and you can't use an airplane. And no, I don't want to be in that world. I don't want to live in that world. It's ridiculous. But the problem is that because we're not taking the reasonable countermeasures to solve this, I think that the only outcome is that we will have an unreasonable consequence for not solving it because it will be solved in a more extreme way.
Fundamentally, this type of lifestyle cannot continue. This level of dysfunction cannot continue. You can't have people that are just stealing things wantingly out of every store. Stores are going to be closing and they already do. And then what happens when that happens? Well, people lose their jobs. What happens when they lose their jobs? Well, they're stealing from the remaining stores. So then the remaining You see how this happens? You see, this is the third worldism that I'm talking about. We can't live in this world. This isn't going to work. And so my plea and my ask for so many people, and these are people in the government, people that listen to me and everybody, is that please stop allowing our culture to be colonized by absolute [ __ ] savages.
Why are we allowing ourselves to be totally ruled over by the bottom 2% of people that should be locked in a box for the rest of their life at least? And this is the thing. I think that this is the most reasonable and the most uh like acceptable way to do this. And the reason why is because if we don't have that, those people rule over you. They rule over you. I don't think you're going to have some big mass uh, you know, class awakening. You're not going to have the communist revolution. No. If it worst case scenario, the rich people will pay half the poor people to kill the other half.
So, I'm not really getting excited and I don't think you should either. I always see all these people on TikTok and stuff like that. I get this stuff sent to me and they're saying, "Oh, I can't wait for the Revolution." And somebody has a, you know, like a a 9 mm gun and a Kevlar vest that they got off of Teeu. Oh, yeah. You're definitely ready for the revolution, buddy. So, we have this overwhelming just sense of just complete hubris and bravado that people have on these social media apps like this is going to be anything other than a complete crime against humanity.
And all I'm saying is that I would rather this problem be a page in the history books instead of an entire chapter. And I think we're moving towards the chapter. Please, can we please just [ __ ] can we get these crazy people under control before we all have to be under control? Can we please do this? And I had to make a video and talk about this because it's outrageous. It's absolutely outrageous what's going on and how we've allowed this to happen. And I I want to make this this is a plea to everybody. This is this is a very important value system that I have.
I think this is the core tenant of Western civilization. What is Western civilization? Roman law, Greek philosophy, Christian morality. That's what it is. Is there deviation? Absolutely. Is that the rule? Yes, it is. And I would like to go back to that. I would I would like to go back to that. And I'd like to live in a place where I don't have to go through checks and balances to purchase underwear at Walmart. So anyway guys, I wanted to make this video in light of the recent assassination and the other amounts of just complete and total unrest that I've seen recently.
And I wanted to talk about it and kind of get everybody's opinion and hear what you guys have to think. So gentlemen, thank you all so much for watching. I appreciate it. Make sure to leave your comments in the section below. I might actually read some of them and I will see you all in the next one. Peace.
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