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Charlie Kirk Exposes the Crisis Between Ages 14 and 30 That Nobody Is Talking About
Charlie Kirk addresses what he calls a slow-motion crisis impacting everyone between ages 14 and 30 in America. Speaking candidly about the consequences of lockdowns, the broken college system, and a generation drowning in debt while being taught to look externally rather than internally for solutions, Kirk offers specific guidance for both young people and parents. He challenges the narrative that college is necessary for everyone, warns about the dangers of social media addiction, and calls out how universities have become the root of many societal problems by exporting secular values that contradict biblical wisdom.
Charlie Kirk opens by acknowledging the many crises dominating American conversation—environmental concerns, pandemic responses—but directs attention to what he describes as a crisis happening in slow motion: the state of Americans between ages 14 and 30. Kirk emphasizes that while personal responsibility matters tremendously, the past year has dealt an unfair hand to far too many young people. He argues that America's reaction to the virus will be remembered as one of the worst mistakes in American history, pointing to closed schools, shuttered businesses, and skyrocketing rates of mental health issues and suicide.
The lockdowns, Kirk explains, made it nearly impossible for young people to follow the traditional advice of working hard and pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. When the entire economy shuts down, young people are left asking where they're supposed to find work. Confined to their homes, they became addicted to their devices, with the average Gen Z or millennial spending 12 to 16 hours per day on screens, becoming what Kirk describes as quasi-cyborgs rather than human beings. More young people died from suicide because of the lockdowns than from the virus itself, with self-inflicted harm at the highest levels ever recorded and dramatic increases in drug usage and opioid addiction.
The College Problem Nobody Wants to Admit
Kirk delivers what he calls a "trigger warning"—a concept he explains is common on university campuses where students are warned before hearing ideas that challenge popular culture. His controversial statement: way too many people are going to college in this country. Kirk, who never attended college himself, argues that college isn't for everyone. While necessary for doctors, engineers, and lawyers, America needs more plumbers, mechanics, electricians, police officers, firefighters, and entrepreneurs—people who work with their hands.
The number one reason Kirk hears from people going to college is troubling: their parents are making them. Young people are borrowing money they don't have to study things that don't matter to find jobs that don't exist, all while playing Russian roulette with their values. The data paints a grim picture: 41% of students who start college drop out, leaving them worse off—hurt financially, damaged in confidence, stuck in a strange middle ground. The average student loan borrower carries $32,000 in debt (per borrower, not graduate). A generation in debt that did everything they were told is easy to command and control.
Kirk's generation, he predicts, will be the least married, most miserable, and least employed generation in multiple decades since the Great Depression. Tens of millions graduate from college with no skills, filled with bad ideas, and migrate to urban areas across the country where they rent rather than own property, spending money without building equity. They're not getting married, largely because of what Kirk identifies as damage from the third-wave feminist movement, which he says is destroying relations between men and women.
Biblical Manhood, Womanhood, and the Population Crisis
Kirk states plainly that biblical men are not women and women are not men, and society should be unafraid to say so. He shares that his fiancée is with him and they're getting married in early May, noting the differences between them as a good thing created by God. Instead, the American feminist movement has created weak men and angry women, resulting in the least married generation in American history. Even when marriages do happen, couples are having fewer children than ever before—500,000 fewer children this year than last.
When Kirk asks young couples why they're not having more children, the top reasons are: first, financial concerns; second, the belief that the world is too problematic to bring children into; and third, what Kirk identifies as the real reason—the secularization of the country. Without belief in God, the motivation to have children diminishes beyond wanting "one of each," as if picking out curtains. America is on the verge of a population collapse.
Where Did We Go Wrong?
Kirk speaks to parents and adults as someone positioned between a 16-year-old and a 60-year-old, stating his belief that baby boomers have largely failed the next generation through public policy decisions and political choices not made in the best interest of younger people. However, he's quick to clarify this isn't an excuse for students to demand free stuff or refuse to work and apply themselves.
The fundamental problem: society taught Kirk's generation self-esteem rather than self-control, teaching young people to do whatever they want however they want without limitations on their behavior. This is a recipe for misery. Kirk points to a quote at Harvard Law School: "The law is the wise restraints that keep men free." This one sentence contradicts everything his generation has been told—that restraint actually produces freedom, that what you prevent yourself from doing gives you true freedom.
Instead, the idea of freedom sold to millennials and Gen Z is: put whatever substance you want in your body whenever you want, behave however you want morally, spend unlimited time on phones and computers, and somehow this will bring peace and happiness. Then society acts shocked when drug use increases and marriage rates plummet. These are secular, anti-biblical values producing predictable results.
The Oppression Olympics and Subjective Truth
Kirk addresses what he calls the "oppression olympics" taught in colleges, noting that by current standards, he represents the ultimate oppressor: white, male, heterosexual, Christian, and Anglo-Saxon. This hierarchy teaches students that everyone has "my truth," but Kirk counters that there's no such thing as "your truth"—there's the truth and then there's your opinion. While shared experiences can be valuable, he prefers objective data and evidence over subjective emotional experiences.
The Bible warns repeatedly about trusting your heart. Proverbs 28:26 states: "He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but whoever walks wisely will be delivered." Kirk challenges young people to define wisdom—something 99% cannot answer. Wisdom is the knowledge of things that never change. There's practical knowledge (who's the governor) and eternal knowledge (anyone who tries to micromanage the decisions of a citizenry will fail). Proverbs is an entire book dedicated to wisdom, and Kirk encourages young people to spend a month in Proverbs to reorient their lives rather than drowning in self-help books that promote self-indulgence and making yourself the center of the universe.
The moment you realize you might be the biggest thing that needs to change—not the world around you—is actually a releasing feeling. Kirk offers another piece of wisdom: if you're more concerned with external problems (climate change, polar bear populations) than your own problems, you live a great life. People in the slums of India aren't concerned about polar bears—they're concerned about sanitary needs and food. When you care more about the external than the internal, you know you're blessed.
The Crisis of Responsibility
Tens of millions of people in America have been taught through top podcasts and television shows not to focus on themselves but to abolish systemic racism—an unspecified objective. While creating better people is worthwhile, it should start with stopping the practice of telling eight-year-olds they're perfect as they are, or telling six-year-olds experiencing gender confusion that taxpayer-funded gender reassignment surgery is the answer. Kirk believes this is child abuse, comparing it to a parent telling a child who eats dirt to stop—parents redirect children toward proper behavior.
The entire educational program directs young people to look externally rather than internally, with no balance whatsoever. This teaches that you are simply and solely a product of every bad thing that happened around you, which isn't true or biblical and gives people an excuse not to take responsibility for their actions. There's a direct correlation between the rise in single motherhood (and Kirk calls single mothers modern heroes) and weak, cowardly men who impregnate women and abandon them. The national conversation runs away from responsibility rather than toward it.
Why are there a million abortions every year? While the tragedy of abortion deserves attention, society is slow to talk about how the rise in abortion is a crisis of responsibility—people afraid to take responsibility for their own actions. This is a macro trend originating from universities.
Universities Are Ruining America
Kirk's next book will explore his conviction that universities are the root of almost all societal problems. If you want to see where destructive arguments are given credibility, originated, and then exported across the country, look at university campuses. What happens on college campuses soon happens in corporate boardrooms and the halls of Congress. If students go to college, they should be able to answer the most important question: not where are you going, but why are you going? Maybe a gap year is appropriate, or starting a business, or taking courses at a local community college.
When young people borrow money to study degrees like North African migratory bird studies or South American lesbian poetry (actual degrees offered), they wonder why they can't find jobs. A politician who acknowledges the system was a predator toward that young person speaks truth. Higher education currently operates as a predator toward middle-class families, with first-generation minority families—especially Hispanic families—falling victim to the lie that children must go to college.
If students go knowing why and pursuing degrees in medicine, engineering, law, or STEM fields, that's fine—but that's less than 12% of all degrees given. Most are in humanities and soft social sciences, where students learn nothing about Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, or the Bible. Instead they read Nietzsche, Angela Davis, and Nikole Hannah-Jones, learning that America is racist, there is no God, there is no moral truth, men are awful, everything is racist—go burn it down. That's what parents are paying for.
While universities have taken over the country, there are exceptions doing good work—Hillsdale College, and a great military school in southeast New Mexico. But they are the vast minority. If you view college as a necessary rite of passage, Kirk challenges your premise. Imagine putting $200,000 in a moderately managed stock portfolio, leaving it untouched for four years, and finding something you have a skill in. Don't follow your heart or passion—follow your skill, and eventually you'll intersect skill with passion. Find something you're good at, not something you enjoy.
The Zoom Class Versus the Muscular Class
There are two classes in America: the Zoom and Skype class (people who work via laptop) and the muscular class. There are 105 million people in the muscular class—people who kept the economy going this past year while the Zoom class ordered packages, called Ubers, and rushed through airports without acknowledging the people serving them. The muscular class keeps America together yet is the least respected, most condemned, most ridiculed portion of American society. When a political figure gives voice to the muscular class, everyone loses their minds, calling them deplorables who must be ostracized.
Kirk would take a plumber with wisdom over a person from Harvard with a doctorate any day. But here's the root problem: parents get nervous about their children becoming plumbers. Kirk spoke at an upper-middle-class area north of Chicago and asked how many would be okay with their kids becoming plumbers—no hands went up. That's the problem. Parents would rather have their kid become an atheist liberal than a plumber because they're not okay at cocktail parties saying their child is a carpenter, electrician, or HVAC technician, even if the child is doing great. Parents live vicariously through their kids, which is normal, but sacrificing what's best for their kids for their own ego is not normal, not moral, and not good.
Advice for Young People and Parents
For young people going to college: do it right, do it quickly, keep your values, read books of wisdom, listen to the right things, and stay close to your parents. Totalitarians always try to turn children against their parents, and college perfects this—teaching kids their parents were wrong about everything, America is terrible, there are no genders, there is no God. Parents know more than young people think. Honor your mother and father—the only commandment in the Ten Commandments that comes with a promise: "so that you might live long and prosper in the land."
Kirk believes God is calling him to tell people it's okay if they don't go to college. Anyone who looks down on you has more problems than you'll ever have. Your value isn't based on accreditation—not which schools you attended, which country club you belong to, or which part of town you're from. Character and actions matter far more than accreditation or which college you attended.
The Social Media Threat
Social media is destroying the country. Tech companies hate traditional values and are monetizing children. Kirk begs parents to take phones out of their children's hands. Google, Facebook, and Twitter employ full-time neuroscientists earning a million dollars a year—hundreds of them—whose job is to make devices and applications more chemically addictive to eight-year-olds. This is drug dealing. Parents wouldn't allow their eight-year-old to take opioids but allow drug dealers from Menlo Park into their homes.
Kirk didn't get a smartphone until he was 18, which he considers a gift from God. For those 15, 16, or 17 with phones: limit time, practice self-control, put up barriers, monitor screen time, reduce it by 30%, take phone sabbaths. Social media is a death spiral. Kirk has public-facing apps managed by a team but looks at none of the feeds. Stopping was one of the greatest things he did. There's nothing of long-term wisdom or value in 12 hours of screen time or 30 minutes flipping through TikTok lip-syncing videos. It might momentarily entertain but won't make you a better person.
Cheerfulness and optimism result from wisdom. Everyone is miserable because there's no wisdom anymore. Proverbs says wisdom begins at the fear of the Lord. For students, it's tempting to view the Bible, God, and Jesus as thousand-year-old mythology. Kirk challenges them: go on a hunt, try to find something better than Jesus—you never will. Travel, read, do whatever you want, but every truth of the Bible remains true your whole life.
No More Excuses
In summary, Kirk offers different guidance for different groups. For young people and students: no more excuses. Apply yourself correctly with self-discipline every day and try to improve. For parents: take a timeout and hard stop to ask if you're actually leaving a better country for your kids. The pressure is on both sides because the consequences come from both directions.
Kirk emphasizes that being a Christian is the most important thing in his life. The gospel in four words: Jesus took my place. Three words: Him for me. Two words: substitutionary atonement. One word: grace. This is why Christianity differs from every other religion in the world, though no college will tell you this. People say all religions are the same, but Christianity is unique—all other religions involve you trying to get closer to God; Christianity is God who came to you.
What is grace? Justice is when you break into a store and get what you deserve—a month in prison. Mercy is when the judge gives you a week instead. Grace is different. When you die and face your Creator with a list of everything wrong you've ever done, and judgment is about to be given, someone steps up and says, "Hold on, I know him, I know her, I'll serve that prison sentence—you can go live free." That is grace, and only Jesus Christ can give you that.
Kirk closes by mentioning the fight against big tech companies trying to silence him and the content he's discussed. He does two podcasts a day on 200 radio stations and encourages people to subscribe on podcast apps or Spotify, making his message harder to censor. He summarizes his message: be courageous and stand up for what you believe in—New Mexico is on the verge of something very special, and the church is essential. Fight for it.
Video Transcript
we hear a lot about all the crises happening in america that is a common refrain we hear about the environmental crisis we hear about the pandemic crisis i want to talk to you about a crisis that is happening in slow motion in front of us that is going to impact all of our lives and that is a crisis of anyone between the ages of 14 and 30. and there's different problems all up and down here and i'm going to talk about them and talk about solutions i'm going to talk about what the bible has to say about it but first i'm going to diagnose the problem so now in the speech prior i talked about don't be a victim the biggest problem in the world is you that your decisions your actions are incredibly important but i nuanced that i said that what we have done in the last year is evidence real evidence of an unfair hand that has been dealt to far too many people what i mean is not the virus the virus is terrible i know people that have died from the chinese coronavirus i know people that have suffered from it but it's our reaction to it and i will make the argument that our reaction to this virus will go down as one of the worst mistakes in american history the closure of schools businesses mental health suicide and then it only is played further into so many underlying troubling trends that already exist with students and young people in this country and so i'm going to give you your trigger warning right now if you're not on a university campus you don't know what this means and do we have any turning point usa students here we have a couple i know we in the prior service we did i encourage all of you to get to know about turning point usa and the work we're doing on high school and college campuses a trigger warning is when i give you a warning that i'm going to say things that are not allowed to be said in popular culture so here's me saying things giving you a warning that i might offend you okay locking down america this last year and what it's done with students and young people is difficult to even describe let's dive into it so i'm a big believer in telling young people college graduates work harder play by the rules and pull yourself up by the bootstraps i think that's critically important however in the last year we've made that nearly impossible when you shut down the entire american economy they say where am i supposed to go find the work you shudder them into home you addict them to their devices an average gen z or millennials spending 12 14 16 hours a day on their screen almost descending into a quasi-cyborg not a human being more young people have died from suicide because of the lockdowns than from the virus itself young people self-inflicted harm is at the highest it's ever been you know here in this state all too well drug usage addiction opioids dramatic increase and this was all generally self-inflicted but the trend was already happening before we did all of this so how is why is this happening why do we have this crisis with students all right here's where the trigger warning was for we have way too many people going to college in this country way too many people parse golf applause i never went to college i ended up okay college is not for everyone for some people if you want to be a doctor an engineer or a lawyer but we need more plumbers mechanics electricians police officers firefighters entrepreneurs people that work at their hands college could be for you but it's not for most people that go to college you know what the number one reason i get when i talk to people that are going to go to college number one reason i say why why are you going to school my parents are making me number one reason to go borrow money you don't have to study things that don't matter go find jobs that don't exist for parents to go play russian roulette with their kids values now and baked into a lot of first generation americans of which i know there are a lot of people in this room the belief is college entrance to success right that is the formula that is sold to you the data doesn't support it 41 of kids that go to college drop out how many people know someone that dropped out of college and they ended up worse because of it nearly half the hands go up it hurts their confidence hurts them financially and they're kind of in this strange middle ground where they're not sure what to do next we have more people going to college than ever before it's dipped down a little bit because of the virus and we the average student loan debt borrower in this country is 32 000 per borrower not graduate well a generation that is in debt that did everything they were told to do is very easy to command and control so hear me out here my our generation my generation i'm 27 is going to be the least married most miserable least employed generation in multiple decades since the great depression we've never seen it never seen how well when you graduate tens of millions of people from college with no skills filled with bad ideas and send them to urban areas across the country denver dallas atlanta philadelphia and they rent and not own property renting so they're spending all their money on some that doesn't build equity they're not getting married largely because of the damage and here's another trigger warning for you the damage of the third wave feminist movement which is destroying relations between men and women in this country absolutely destroying relations let me tell you something [Applause] biblical men are not women and women are not men i should be unafraid to say that right and my fiance is here she's unbelievable we're getting married in early may and in fact this is her clothing line that i'm wearing it's proclaimed street wear it's an amazing company all made in america and it's the most comfortable thing and there's differences between us that's a good thing we should be unafraid to admit that until god made us and instead the american feminist movement has created weak men and angry women where you have the least married generation in american history and then sometimes when the marriages do happen see pastor steve says give him the hook that's it get him off stage when they do get married we're having less children than ever before you know we're on the verge of a population collapse we're having 500 000 less children this year than last year 500 000 how's that possible first of all the number one reason why you ask young couples they say why are you gonna have more kids financial second reason as i say this world is so screwed up i don't wanna bring more kids into this world the third and real reason is the secularization of our country if you don't believe in god what is the real reason to have kids why replicate your values more so than i want one of each as if you're like picking out curtains for your house that's what i hear i want one of each like your have a car like okay well you might get one of each but whatever god wants the point is that we are going to we are on the verge of a population collapse and so all of these trends are coming together with young people in our country and so this is mostly to the parents and adults the first thing is this and i say this as kind of an intermediary between a 16 year old and a 60 year old i don't mean this condescendingly at all but i believe that the baby boomers have largely failed this next generation that the public policy decisions the political choices have not been in the best interest of the younger generation now for all the students out here that's not an excuse to go demand free stuff and not work and not apply yourself i'll get to that in a second it's a very important distinction and there's plenty of wisdom to be learned intergenerationally in fact one of the things i'm going to talk about is honoring your mother and father and the important the true incredible biblical wisdom behind that what does that actually mean it's the only commandment in the ten commandments that comes with a promise so that you might live live long and prosper in the land of which you are in it's the only ten commandments that gives you only the ten commandments that gives you a specific promise and so where did we go wrong we taught my generation self-esteem not self-control we taught my generation what you do do whatever you want to do however you want to do it you're perfect the way you are and you don't need to put up limitations on your own behavior that is a recipe for misery there's a great quote at the harvard law school and you're walking down it makes you stop when you're probably going to remove it because that's what hap that's what happens now it's way too much wisdom for a college it says the law is the wise restraints that keep men free think about how contradicting that yet true that statement is the law restraint free you're trying to tell me i could be restrained and then that will make me free that one sentence is the opposite of everything my generation has been told so when you think about it it's what you prevent yourself from doing that can actually give you true freedom that's what the law is instead the idea of freedom that we've told millennials and gen z what i'm right on the precipice of it is put whatever substance you want your body whenever you want to do it do whatever you want morally however you want to do it spend a limited time on your phone or your computer and that will bring you to a place of peace and happiness then somehow we're shocked we say why is drug use going up why is people not getting married and all this what's the values that we taught were secular and quite honestly anti-biblical values throughout our entire country we're somehow stunned at the result so that comes from the top down from the bottom up from young people out there i have some very specific pieces of advice and so the first thing is this is that i i am completely understanding of the lockdown criticism of saying that it's difficult to find work what's happening in college i'll get more into that in a second but if i have to hear a continued narrative from still the most blessed generation in american history about how oppressed you are i'm gonna lose it seriously you are the luckiest people ever to live on i get all the challenges okay every generation has different challenges the challenge for this generation is they have not been taught american values and the country locked down the challenge of the generation a couple prior the greatest generation is you got to go serve in a war and storm normandy beach and you're going to learn american values every generation has different challenges and what is being taught in our colleges is we train kids for the oppression olympics so you're looking at the ultimate oppressor i'm white a man heterosexual and christian and on top of it i'm anglo-saxon whoa that is it's called you are looking at what they consider to be the most the personification of an oppressor in this country and any then there's a hierarchy of this and any of you on college campuses have seen this in one way or the other that there's a thing that says i have my truth there is no such thing as your truth there's the truth and then there's your opinion it's that simple well you don't know what it's like to walk and i think shared experiences can be fine but i much prefer objective data and evidence than subjective emotive experiences in fact the bible tells us this clearly multiple times the bible warns us about listening to your heart how many times have you heard this in society follow your heart your heart will get your heart your heart will mis-misguide you in proverbs it says proverbs 28 26 he who trusts in his own heart is a fool but whoever walks wisely will be delivered what is wisdom it's a question that 99 of young people can't answer wisdom is the knowledge of things that never change that's wisdom there's practical knowledge and there's eternal knowledge practical knowledge is who's the governor i don't know practical knowledge no it's true i don't and i don't care she's a tyrant and a fool and all those sorts of things no serious true and eternal knowledge it's true eternal knowledge is anyone who tries to micromanage the decisions of a citizenry is going to fail those things don't change so wisdom we find was a whole book dedicated to wisdom proverbs which i tell every young person out there if you just want to re-center your life and reorient your life just spend a whole month in proverbs and apply what it says to your life truly and we have all these self-help books and i think some of them are fine but most of them are this cacophony of self-indulgence and you being the center of the universe the moment that you realize that you actually might be the biggest thing that needs change not the world around you it's actually a very releasing feeling here's another rule another piece of wisdom if you are more concerned with the world around you climate change polar bears disappearing which is not true by the way polar bears are multiplying the polar bears had a great decade unlike what i have a whole speech on polar bears you want me to give me that steve i got an old polar bear i'm not gonna give the polar bear speech it's true i have a whole slide it's great um if you're more concerned with existential problems than your own problems you live a great life do you think that people living in the slums of india are concerned about polar bear population no they're concerned about sanitary needs and eating you want to know that you're lucky you care more about the external than the internal that's how you know you're blessed three meals a day shower one or two parents so there's tens of millions of people in india that are orphans there's orphans in this country but we've reduced the orphan population thank goodness and we're trying you know the christian community is largely to thank for that but the entire popular culture narrative through the top podcasts the top television shows and everything is don't focus on yourself let's go abolish systemic racism which is an unspecified objective now if you want to talk about creating better people i'm fa all for that i think creating good people is a great task and challenge let's start with stopping telling eight-year-olds you're perfect the way you are or telling a six-year-old i feel like a girl yeah cut it out you're a guy that's that's how that should go it's that simple not have taxpayer-funded gender reassignment surgery which is gender dysphoria and it's child abuse i really do i believe that it's child abuse to play into the confusion of young kids i saw i saw a kid eat dirt a couple weeks ago you know what the parents said cut it out stop it that's what parents do they redirect them towards proper behavior should be exactly the same for gender so steve you're going to love the articles after this it'll be great it's biblical wisdom again proverbs says he who trusts in his own heart is a fool but whoever walks wisely will be delivered your heart will deceive you he will god gave us both not saying the heart is irrelevant we need the heart to appreciate beauty and music romance those things are not irrelevant it's a very bad way to make consequential decisions so we have an entire public policy conversation and an entire educational program towards young people that is dedicated on them look externally and not internally and i'm all for changing things externally there's plenty of problems and i told you that those problems are legitimate here in this state however with no balance whatsoever saying you are a product simply and solely of every single bad thing that happened around you it's not just not true it's just not biblical and it gives people an excuse to not take responsibility for their actions there's a direct correlation with the rise in single motherhood and single mothers are modern heroes i really believe that and weak cowardly men that impregnate women and abandon them why because our entire national conversation is around running away from responsibility not running towards responsibility why are there a million abortions every single year we're quick to single out the tragedy of abortion and i'm happy to go through that at every different time however we're slow to talk about how the rise in abortion is really a crisis of responsibility in our country of people that are afraid to take responsibility for their own actions so it's a macro trend so where does that originate well this is my next book and i'm gonna really have fun writing finishing writing it and publicizing it i believe that universities are ruining our country i do i believe that colleges are the root of almost all of this i do if you want to see where these arguments are given credibility they're started originated and then exported across the country it's university campuses what happens what happens on college campuses will soon happen in corporate boardrooms and the halls of congress so if you want to go to college great be able to answer the most important question that we should ask our high schoolers why are you going to college not where are you going to college why maybe a gap year is for you maybe starting a business maybe you need to take a deep breath and to get a couple courses down at a local community college but what ends up happening is when you borrow a bunch of money and study really bad ideas and you go study north african migratory bird studies or south african lesbian poetry and you wonder why you can't find a job a politician who walks on stage and says the reason you can't find a job south af south american lesbian poet whatever and these are some of the degrees you'd be amazed at them it's actually quite quite stunning the reason you can't find a job might be because of the system that actually was a predator towards that young person the way that higher education works right now is a predator towards middle class families and minority families are falling victim at this first generation minority families specifically hispanic families are being fed a lie that your kid must go to college now if they go that's if they know why they're going and they're going for a doctor an engineer or a lawyer or stem great you know that's less than 12 percent of all degrees that are given out most are in the humanities of the soft social sciences most so what do you learn in the humanities nothing i've talked about in the last three services no socrates no plato no aristotle no aquinas no bible instead you read nietzsche angela davis nicole hannah jones america's racist i'm going to motivate you to become an activist there is no god there is no moral there is no truth men are awful everything's racist go burn it down that's what you're paying for and so when the university has basically taken over the entire country so we send our kids voluntarily and there's plenty of colleges that do a good job hillsdale college is one of them you've got a great military school in southeast new mexico but they are the vast minority they are the exception and yes there's good professors and there's good reasons to go to school do so affordably and do so quickly but if you view college as a necessary rite of passage i'm going to challenge your premise i want you to imagine a scenario the scenario is that instead of going to college immediately you put 200 000 in a moderately managed stock portfolio you put it away and don't look at it for four years and you go find something you have a skill i tell young people all the time don't follow your heart don't follow your passion follow your skill and eventually you'll intersect your skill with your passion can we find something you're good at not something you enjoy i enjoy basketball it wasn't for me okay i'm pretty good better than most but my skill was communicating organizing and i said that's what i'm good at and now i get to go to whatever basketball game i like whatever the point is that we say well i really enjoy 12th century medieval art great what are you good at well i'm really good at math okay so why don't you go study something where you can find a job and by the way let me just rant on this for a second this whole side hustle thing drives me nuts okay well i have a side hustle go get a job okay it's like oh i'm doing like 30 side like stop it like go get an actual job okay anyway just have to drives me absolutely awful wall like oh i'm like you're not doing anything except posting on instagram and reselling the same five products okay like go find a job okay please and anyway that's totally off course but the the college system is currently supremely broken it will only fix if middle-income families which a lot of you are start to weigh the value proposition and you say huh maybe i'm okay with my kid being in the muscular class there's two classes in this country there's the zoom and skype class people that open up their laptop and the muscular class you know there's 105 million people in our muscular class 105 million people they're the people many of whom in our audience right now kept the economy going while the zoom and skype class ordered them their packages the last year the zoom the zoom and skype class are the ones that call them for the uber and demand it in two seconds or less the zoom and skype class are the ones that blitz through the airport and don't say anything to the people that are bringing the bags on and off the plane the people that are serving them their food the muscular class keeps us together yet they are the least respected most condemned most made fun of portion of american society and all of a sudden a guy in politics comes and starts to give a little bit of voice to the muscular class just a little bit and every everyone loses their mind as if no they can't have a voice they're deplorable they should be condemned they must be ostracized i will take a plumber with wisdom in a second over a person from harvard with a doctorate any day [Applause] but here's the root of it the root of it is this this is for parents a lot of parents get nervous about their kid becoming a plumber it's true you laugh how many i i spoke at winnetka north north chicago upper middle very very upper middle class like beverly hills of chicago i said how many of you here would be okay with your kids becoming a plumber no hands went up i said that's the problem you'd rather have your kid become an atheist liberal than a plumber you are not okay going to the cocktail party saying oh yeah sally sue's at dartmouth she doesn't know what gender she is but she's doing great brian smith is at stanford and he's at a climate protest or ron is at university wisconsin madison and he got arrested after throwing a molotov cocktail at the police but no one wants to talk about at the cocktail party yeah my kid decided to go learn a skill carpenter electrician hvac and he's doing great parents are afraid to have that conversation because parents live vicariously to their kids that's normal what's not normal is them sacrificing what's best for their kids for their own ego that is not normal and it's not moral and it's not good and so now it's time for a serious introspection and self-examination for the young people out there here's my advice to you if you go to college awesome do it right do it quickly keep your values read books of wisdom for goodness sake because you won't get it at most colleges listen to the right things stay close to your parents they know they know more than you might think because what do totalitarians always try to do they try to turn their kids against the parents we talked about this in the last service right what place teaches kids to rebel against their parents college it's perfected your parents were wrong about everything america's terrible there are no genders there is no god let me tell you about all these authors you've never heard of you've never heard of them because they're all a bunch of fools that's why you've never heard of them most of them my time is running short so let me wrap a lot of this together so if you go to college do it right do it affordably do it quickly but not everyone needs to go to college and so part of what i think god is drawing me to do i got lucky i didn't go i was gonna go to west point didn't get in best thing that ever happened to me i'm the type of guy that should have went right eagle scout football basketball captain good grades i should have went i didn't i didn't feel right to me at the time i lucked out i think part of what god is calling me to do is tell you it's okay if you don't go that if anyone that looks down at you has more problems than you will ever have and anyone tells you that you must go you must get that piece of paper no you don't it does not make you a better person might give you a skill probably won't and that goes to a deeper problem in american society which is by definition unbiblical which is that your value is based on accreditation that i went through a certain sequence of schools or i went to a certain country club i'm born from a certain part of town therefore i'm a better person than you are no you're not not even close i care about your character and i care about your actions far more than i care about your accreditation or what college you went to so here's some specific advice for young people okay social media is destroying our country period these tech companies hate you they hate your values and they're monetizing your children parents i beg you take the kid phones out of your kids hands i beg you you have no idea do you know that google facebook and twitter has full-time neuropsyc no it's true neuroscientists earning a million dollars a year hundreds of them you know what their job is to make their devices and applications more chemically addictive to your eight-year-old this is drug dealing you wouldn't allow your eight-year-old to take opioids but you have a drug dealer from menlo park take the phones out of their hands i didn't get a smartphone until i was 18 and it was a gift from god it really was now if you're 15 16 or 17 you have the phones then limit your time self control put barriers monitor your screen time reduce it by 30 take a phone sabbath social media is a death spiral i i have all my public front-facing apps i have a team that helps management i'm lucky i i look at none of the feeds none of it the moment i stopped doing it it was one of the greatest things i ever did i was like shackles there is there is nothing of long-term wisdom or value of 12 hours of screen screen time a day of 30 minutes of flipping through tick-tock for another lip-syncing video that's not going to bring you to be a better person it's just not might momentarily entertain you but it's not there's a great quote which is cheerfulness optimism is a result of wisdom you want to know why everyone's so miserable there's no wisdom anymore in proverbs it says wisdom begins at the fear of the lord so for students out there it's so tempting to want to act as if the bible god jesus all that stuff's a bunch of thousand-year-old mythology i will challenge you go on a hunt go try to find something better than jesus and you never will don't try at all go travel read do whatever [Applause] every truth of the bible remains truth your whole life and so in summary this i know this speech was a lot different than the other ones and it was intentionally different right for young people and students no more excuses okay you apply yourself correctly self-discipline every day you try to improve for parents try to do a timeout and a hard stop and say am i actually leaving a better country for my kids so there's an ask for both right the pressure is not on either side because the consequence of what we're living through is coming from both directions and so i want to give this opportunity here so being a being a christian is the most important thing in my life and i said this last service and i'll repeat it again the gospel in four words is jesus took my place three words is him for me two words is substitutionary atonement one word is grace this is why christianity is different than every other religion in the world and no college will tell you this people say all the religions are the same no christianity unlike any others all the other religions as you trying to get closer to god christianity is god who came to you what is grace we know what justice is you break into a store and you get what you deserve you get a month in prison mercy you go in front of the judge and he says you know i'll give you a week in prison now grace is something different grace is that when you die and you face your creator and they have a list of everything wrong you've ever done ever private and public omniscient omnipotent all of it and a judgment is about to be given you're about to get your sentencing and instead of mercy instead of justice all of a sudden someone steps up and says hold on i know him i know her i'll serve that prison sentence you can go live free that is grace and only jesus christ can give you that i want to thank you guys the these these last two days have been unbelievable we are on the verge of something very special here in new mexico pastor steve mentioned it i know it might sound silly or super you know kind of not important but every day i fight these big tech companies and i do two podcasts a day we're on 200 radio stations a day and there is a massive effort to try to silence me and everything i just talked about through social media there's one way that can push back against it which is kind of a circumvent it is when people on their own individual devices on the podcast apps actually subscribe if we become a lot harder to censor and so every phone has a podcast app or spotify app apple has it and i encourage you guys we do a lot of content and so to summarize the last four talks be courageous and stand up for what you believe in new mexico's on the verge of something very very special and the church is essential fight for it thank you guys appreciate it can we give it up for charlie kirk thank you for being here sir did a phenomenal phenomenal job if y'all have a seat for me for just a moment i have two things that i'm going to do the first one is if you're in here and and you say you know what i actually don't know jesus and you say you know i've never actually given my life to him the one who offered me grace the one who offered me the substitution for what i deserve the penalty of my sin which the bible tells us is hell in the grave but jesus came and gave us life and eternal life in heaven and so if you're in here and you say i don't know jesus and today i want to make that decision maybe something through uh the sermon and the message today or to the worship today or whatever maybe you've just had questions as charlie mentioned it's okay to question because when we follow those questions through we always end up getting an answer from god see god doesn't need us to defend him he defends himself his truths are true his promises are true whether we believe them or not whether we question them or not and i know in my own life i went through a season of questioning god and asking him questions and and oftentimes i would hear from people don't do that don't ask questions but when i asked the questions he answered them and at a certain point in my life i got to give my life to jesus not because my dad is a pastor not because he was a christian not because anybody else told me to but because i experienced jesus for myself and when i did i realized the forgiveness that he gives to me because grace is the reality that i'm a butt head but that he still loves me that i do dumb things but he still uses me that i'm not perfect but that he offers me eternal life so if you're in here if you would bow your heads and close your eyes and you say steve pray with me that i could receive jesus today maybe you've given him your life before and you've walked away and you say today i want to recommit my life to him if that's you wherever you're at the grace of jesus is for you god is for you he's not mad at you he's mad about you he died for this moment so that you could begin a relationship with him so if that's you all the way from the bottom to the top watching online if that's you and you want to give your life to jesus if you would just raise your hand right where you're at just to acknowledge this moment and say i want to give my heart to to god i want to give my life to jesus thank you i see those hands i see this hand i see that hand said look across the bottom i see that hand all across the top thank you i see that hand i see this hand is there anybody else that says i want to give my life to jesus want to make a decision for heaven i see that hand up there this is your moment your opportunity if there's something inside of you saying hey get it right just just just answer that no pride let it all go and just say jesus i just need you i don't have it together but i'm going to come to you and that's the beautiful thing about him we don't have to have it all together to come to him we come to him and then he helps us put those pieces together one last time is there anybody else if you're watching online is there anybody else if you raised your hand i'm gonna ask that you would do me a favor i'm gonna ask that you would repeat this prayer after me aloud so you can hear your own voice more importantly i'm gonna ask that you believe it in your heart for those of you that jesus is already your lord and savior if you would also repeat this in support of those who raise their hand if everybody would say father i come to you now seeking salvation so right now i confess with my mouth and believe in my heart that jesus is lord that you sent him to down the cross for my sin and that you raised him from the dead so jesus i give you my life ask that you forgive me of my sin and that you would fill me with your holy spirit teach me and guide me in all your ways and all your truth in jesus name amen can we celebrate with those who gave their life to jesus
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