Coming Apart The State of White America, 1960-2010

There was a book written by Charles Murray years ago called Coming Apart.

And he goes on to say, like, well, he wrote like a whole book about it. But I read kind of his synopsis of the book that he he kind of explains like, here's how this could actually work. He doesn't just say that.

And he goes on to say, like, well, he wrote like a whole book about it.

And all of these things are part of the same exact pattern and trend. And Charles Murray started documenting this with Coming Apart back in 2012, that as we're increasingly isolated by class and sorted by class, we have really come, especially from the people who control the levers of power in this country to disdain each other.

Coming apart is, of course, I think the most important book about journalism that is not particularly a book about journalism.

So I cite some statistics from Charles Murray's book coming apart where one of the most striking ones from that book is that in 1960, 95% of children born in the US regardless of social class, socioeconomic status were raised by both of their birth parents.

and there's a terrific book by Charlie Murray called 'Coming Apart' in which he goes through an analyzes by zip code and says that people from elite universities marry people from elite universities and live in zip codes with people from elite universities

And this is basically Charles Murray's book, Coming Apart. He talks about the fact that you have very liberal elites living off of Sunset Boulevard who promulgate social standards they themselves do not hold by, and so they become rich, and they do really well, and many of them are married, and many of them stay married, and then they promulgate values that everybody else holds by, and those people take those standards seriously, and they wreck their lives.

It's just all the stuff they preach filters into the culture and it undermines marriage and it undermines childbearing under healthy circumstances and it's really stupid. And but this is something that the left has been pushing for a long time and now it's come to its culmination in desexing having children. Right now it is it is a sexless thing to have children, which is an amazing, amazing thing. And again, it was not just Cory Bush, Representative Carolyn Maloney from New York. She says the same thing. America's health system is failing black birthing people. How does one of the most medically advanced nations in the world continue to fail black birthing people at such high rates? To understand, we have to take the blinders off our history and acknowledge that our health care system, including reproductive health care, was built on a legacy of systemic racism. OK, in a second, I'm going to talk about the systemic racism point, but the fact that you just keep saying black birthing, you mean black women? Why are you being so disrespectful to women? I honest to God, don't understand how women could look at this stuff and not feel insulted. It's ridiculous.

The people who are higher on the economic totem pole. Those folks tend to get married and have kids.

This is the point that Charles Murray makes in his book Coming Apart. He talks about cultural differences between white people because he said, listen, I keep getting ripped on for suggesting that culture makes a difference in the outcome of your life because people say that has to do with race.

it's charles murray's point in uh in coming apart right where he talks only about the white community he said that all the people who are in sort of the elite ruling class abide by all the traditional rules of success and then they preach to everybody else about how none of those traditional rules for success apply

What was once termed by james bernham the managerial elite but they have created their own case right they've created their own case and this this case looks down on you they score in you and they wish to ramrod their positions on life down to you by the way never living by those same positions one of the hilarious things about the new upper class as charles moray refers to it in his book coming apart

Coming Apart by Charles Murray, same book, same thing. I highly recommend it.

That one's a little more controversial.

No, no, Charles Murray's controversial for separate things that he wrote, not for Coming Apart.

Coming Apart is one of Joe Biden's favorite books.

I know. Did you know that? That's why I was, you should, I mean, it doesn't show in some of his politics, but I mean, I guess we can take it.

There's an interesting, there's an interesting point to be made about the fact that we have sort of come apart to borrow the language from the book coming apart in socioeconomic ways and that people who are at very different ends of the socioeconomic spectrum are basically living in different worlds within our own country at this point.

Where was Hillary Clinton when Coming Apart came out?

his book is called coming apart this is one of the most important things middlebury students could learn but what happens some middlebury students choose to interpret his visit as a threat as a danger to the African-American students because he did write a book whatever 18 years early whatever it was 20 years earlier that understandably many black people would be offended by many people were offended by so you know I understand the negative reaction to it might do understand that but it's a choice to interpret his coming to campus to speak about social class it's a choice to interpret that as an attack on students and some did interpret it that way

his book is called coming apart this is one of the most important things middlebury students could learn but what happens some middlebury students choose to interpret his visit as a threat as a danger to the African-American students because he did write a book whatever 18 years early whatever it was 20 years earlier that understandably many black people would be offended by many people were offended by