Islam is the sanctification of man’s most corrupted instincts.
It takes what is base in human nature and give it a divine sanction.
Man’s desire to dominate women? Islam codifies it. Veiling, polygamy, child marriage, testimony worth half a man’s, all justified as God’s will.
The tribal impulse of “my group over yours”? Islam raises it to the level of theology: believers vs. infidels, the ummah against the world.
The lust for supremacy and conquest? Islam call it jihad and makes it a religious demand.
The primal rage at dissent? Islam turns it into law: apostasy punishable by death.
Man’s lust for unlimited sex? Islam provides it: four wives, temporary marriages, concubines, sex slaves, and the promise of virgins in paradise.
This is why Islam went global, beside the sword, it spread because it indulged what was already animal in humans.
It is like pornography, irresistible to the flesh, destructive to the soul.
It thrives because it removes all discipline from sexuality, power and ego.
It appeals to the raw, the unrefined, the barbaric impulse in man, and calls it holy.
The West, by contrast, was built on the exact opposite impulse. The Judeo-Christian tradition does not legitimize man’s depravity, it restrains it.
Western civilization is not the freedom of instincts but the discipline of them.
It is the recognition that man’s raw impulses lead to tyranny, slavery, and barbarism unless they are checked by higher law.
The clash between Islam and the West is not merely geopolitical. It is civilizational at the deepest level:
Whether human nature should be indulged or disciplined, whether man’s lowest instincts are to be worshipped or restrained.
@pw_mcgovern@stephenwitt … When asked about his success, redirects it to the people under him.
… He eats at small businesses, and mom and pops. Hides the fact that he’s leaving a massive tip from anyone..
And somehow that’s viewed as arrogance?
Am I missing something?
Almost 16 years ago @JensenHuang looked me right in the eyes, paused, super intense, and said "I would do anything for this company."
I'd started my career at @nvidia working directly with him, managing the demos at all of his keynotes, customer meetings, investor events and tradeshows like NVISION and GTC.
I was on a trip with Jensen flying from San Jose to Phoenix and NVIDIA's travel policy was that all employees flew coach... which I was fine with but I assumed the founder of the company would be flying in biz.
I board the plane in group six and as I'm boarding I start to get worried because I don't see Jensen in any of the first class seats on this flight... I wonder if he missed it, if we are still going etc.. and as I walk to my seat in the back of the plane, somewhere around row 14 I see Jensen in a middle seat in coach, working on his blackberry.
We were going to Phoenix for a small Consumer Electronics Association meeting (goal was to present here so that Jensen could get an invite from CEA to keynote CES the next year.. it ended up being two years later). It was super clear that the sparsely populated room had no idea who Jensen was either and the response to the presentation was tepid at best..
Afterwards at the airport on the way back to San Jose he ordered me my first ever martini (which was the strongest drink I've ever had in my life up to that point) and I mustered up the courage to asked him why we went all this way to demo some tech to a few random CEA members .... and that's when he looked at me and said that he'd do anything for this company.
I was blown away. This is the CEO, flying in coach (on the flight back he had an aisle seat) pitching a room of people that barely cared, and he's dead serious.. he really would do anything and sacrifice anything to make NVIDIA successful.
I can't really imagine NVIDIA without him. But the people who've lasted there that long are winners and the culture is literally one of a kind.. they'll get through this.
I hope him stepping down is only temporary.
I have so many more stories and lessons Jensen taught me and that I witnessed being around him. Will share more later.. some of the best are around GTC / NVISION
i know a kid in Iowa making 38k/mo stealing from Russians
Google shut off all Youtube ad payouts in Russia back in 2022
which means thousands of Russian videos get 20,000,000+ views and make $0 from Youtube, and Americans never see them cause the titles are in fucking Cyrillic
so he just translates their scripts into English and cashes the US ad checks they aren't allowed to touch:
why tf would Russian creators still spend 60 hours editing a crazy video if Youtube pays them $0??
they just switched how they get paid
instead of ad revenue, they use Youtube as a traffic funnel to sell $15-$30 low ticket products inside Telegram, Boosty subscriptions (the Russian Patreon), or local crypto/betting sponsors burned into the video
and since they only make money if a viewer actually clicks their link and buys a $19 product, their storytelling and retention had to get 10x better than lazy American channels that just coast on passive ad checks.
a Russian guy selling a $19 Telegram product in rubles has zero use for English viewers
so they never dub their videos into English, and Youtube's algorithm never recommends a video titled in Cyrillic to an American home feed
you know what that means?
there are thousands of 10/10 viral videos sitting behind a language wall right now that already proved they can pull 10M+ views, and 100% of the US ad revenue on them is sitting unclaimed
this is how the kid in iowa runs this shit:
1. open DeepL or ChatGPT and translate high RPM topic words into Russian
-катастрофа (engineering disaster)
-миллиардер (billionaire scandal)
-афера (heist / fraud)
-секретный проект (secret project)
2. paste those Cyrillic words into Youtube search, filter by "This month" and sort by view count
you will instantly see channels with 40k subs pulling 5M to 20M views on stories about Soviet submarine disasters, oligarch scams, crazy mechanical failures etc that zero English channels have ever covered
3. click "Show transcript" under the Russian video, copy the whole thing, and drop it into Claude
tell Claude to translate the transcript into English, strip out the 20-second Russian Telegram product pitch in the middle, and rewrite the story into a tight 45-second Short script (or a 12-minute longform script)
4. run the English script through ElevenLabs for a clean American voiceover
(do NOT just rip their raw mp4 file and slap an English voice over it btw, Youtube's hash detector will flag your channel for reused content in a week. grab the same public news clips and archival photos they used, throw them into CapCut with fresh zoom cuts and English captions so Youtube sees a brand new file)
5. post it to a US channel
some Russian dude got 15 million views, made $0 from Google, and relied on Tg sales to eat
you post the exact same proven story in English to 35 year old Americans, pull a $0.42 Shorts RPM (or $16+ per 1,000 views on longform), and Google wires you $6k to $10k from a single video that was already guaranteed to blow up before you even opened Capcut
i run about 20 faceless channels and make over $100k/mo from them
everything i do to build and monetize them is in my FREE Telegram
tg link in bio