CHRIS ROCK, COMEDIAN: The problem with wokeness is, we're in the Old Testament right now, OK? And the Old Testament has no forgiveness. The Old Testament didn't work, so they had to write a remix called the New Testament. It's great to help those that need help. That is an amazing -- we need more of that.

The problem is when you institutionalize it. Salem witch-hunts, I'm sure the first three witches they caught were actually (EXPLETIVE DELETED) witches. But then you open up a witch office, and now you got to start lying.

CAIN: So we institutionalize destruction. We leave chaos. And what's left when you destroy? A void. It's empty. It's a blank slate. And it's a blankness that we can see on the faces of our children.

LL COOL J, ACTOR AND MUSICIAN: The Internet is like a script, right?

JOE ROGAN, HOST, "THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE": Yes.

LL COOL J: But real life is on its feet. And with kids a lot of times, not all, because a lot of -- there are a lot of animals out there that want it, but a lot of them, they want real life to work like the Internet, instant validation. Everybody loves me, instant this, instant that.

ROGAN: Yes.

LL COOL J: The Internet will reward you for chopping down trees in the wrong forest.

ROGAN: Yes. Yes. Yes.

LL COOL J: But in real life, you got to put your ladder against the right wall, right?

CAIN: Down trees in the wrong floors. Such a thing can be done with a blank face, because, from that void, the worst can become and build suggestible people into what? Into anything.

Thankfully, though, this fight is not surrendered. This fight is also not new. And we have been here before. That means we can and know how to still win.

RUBIO: The threats we face today are every bit as real as they were on the dramatic stage of antiquity. We must rebuild our institutions and our alliances to face these threats together, understanding that the purpose of these things is not to abolish the sovereignty of the nations that constitute them. It is to defend them, and that nations need not abandon their distinct identities in order to recognize their common interests.