The UK is a perfect case study of what the total state looks like when it really emerges. The government in the United Kingdom is trying to take control of the citizens of the country, and it s doing so by cracking down on freedom and freedom-loving citizens.
00:00:51.480And unfortunately, I'm not particularly happy about this, but it is the case.
00:00:56.540The UK kind of provides a perfect case study of what the total state looks like when it really emerges.
00:01:03.820The entire point of my book, The Total State, was that while we think of tyranny as something that comes with authoritarianism and all these higher passions,
00:01:14.000it turns out that the liberal democracies around the West are more than happy to go ahead and use tyranny to control their subjects.
00:01:23.780You don't need a strong man, a centralized power into one individual to rule your people through terror.
00:01:31.940In fact, a distributed oligarchy posing itself as a democracy is more than capable of doing so.
00:01:40.300And what's really interesting is the battle over information.
00:01:44.720The UK recognizes that social media is actually the battlefield in a lot of ways and have implemented a massive crackdown.
00:01:53.260You see people like Elon Musk challenging this sovereignty and that has resulted in reciprocal threats from multiple bodies,
00:02:02.280including the European Union and some officials in the UK.
00:02:05.880So why don't we dive into this case study of how the United Kingdom took on these aspects of the total state,
00:02:13.380why the global liberal order is closing its eye, turning its eye away from the tyranny that is being visited upon the citizens of the United Kingdom
00:02:24.520and what we can learn about this process by this live example here in the real world.
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00:05:28.060And this is particularly important because a number of people have called whether or not so-called elite theory
00:05:35.020is actually applicable here, whether it's been called into question,
00:05:40.000because several people, including my friend, academic agent, have applied it in a particular way,
00:05:46.300a way that I've kind of disagreed with from the beginning.
00:05:49.300We have a cigar bet on this, and I haven't really rubbed it in his face because his country is kind of on fire at the moment.
00:05:56.220But events have moved things pretty decisively in the favor of my understanding of how to apply this theory.
00:06:03.920And I want to run through several of the issues, what's going on, how the total state is organizing itself,
00:06:11.180why it's fighting back the way that it is, why we see compliance from other nations who normally would speak out about human rights violations and all these things.
00:06:19.220I want to get into this because, like I said, I think it's very important to explain how the theory actually gets applied.
00:06:25.520This is not just some free-floating thing up in the air.
00:06:29.080This is a real understanding, a real model of how power works itself out in the world as we are observing it.
00:06:36.800That's the only reason to even do this kind of theory because it's useful here.
00:06:41.220So to dive in from the beginning, for those who are unfamiliar with the events that set this off,
00:06:47.760there was a stabbing spree in the United Kingdom.
00:06:52.260We didn't know a lot of information at the time that it happened.
00:06:56.440That was not an accident for two reasons.
00:07:00.360One, the suspect was a 17-year-old, which, as I understand under UK law,
00:07:06.180means that you can't discuss certain details of the crime.
00:07:10.080They have the protection of a minor under UK law.
00:07:13.300The other reason is that the UK government was very aware of the touchy situation they have inside their country.
00:07:23.060The people of the United Kingdom have had to deal with a large amount of migrant crime
00:07:29.400that has largely gone unpunished or underpunished for basically a decade at this point.
00:07:36.000The people of the United Kingdom have repeatedly voted through the democratic mechanism to reduce mass migration.
00:07:46.200They left the European Union for this reason.
00:07:49.460That was the whole reason for the Brexit vote.
00:15:41.560We've seen multiple people going to the jail that the British government has been bragging about the hundreds of people that it has been arresting in connection with these protests and riots.
00:15:53.780So a government is a liberal Western democratic government is openly bragging about how many of its citizens it can gulag for wrong think.
00:16:06.380That's really what's happening in the UK right now, which is a pretty wild thing to observe.
00:16:12.400And it hasn't just been attendance to of these rallies.
00:16:16.220Of course, free speech has been a direct target for the UK government.
00:16:22.480Now, there is a large argument over whether or not the actual instantiation of the freedom of speech in the First Amendment is what is holding the United States back from being completely like this.
00:16:36.880Or whether it is the more spiritual commitment to free speech in the United States that didn't quite exist in the same way in the UK.
00:16:48.900I'm not going to give that debate right now.
00:16:50.800But the point is that the UK, of course, a lot of the tradition of the freedom of speech, the right of the Englishman, is what the American tradition came out of.
00:17:00.500The American patriots, the revolutionaries, were trying to secure their rights as citizens of England.
00:17:09.700They felt like those were what was under attack.
00:17:12.360And initially, they weren't even sure if they wanted independence.
00:17:15.380They just wanted the rights that they thought that they were owed as Englishmen.
00:17:19.240So this tradition of the First Amendment doesn't just pop into existence in the United States.
00:17:25.500This is something that came over from the Anglo heritage of the kind of the first American founding fathers.
00:17:32.720And the fact that this has deteriorated so severely in the UK has been pretty clear for a while now.
00:17:41.180The UK has very stringent laws when it comes to social media posting.
00:17:57.160Even the TV presentation in the UK has kind of an American.
00:18:02.060America had this for a little while called the Fairness Doctrine, where you had to show a certain amount of viewpoint differentiation on every news channel.
00:18:09.760But, of course, as we know, it's that manipulation of procedural outcomes which gives the managerial class its real power.
00:18:20.440So a law that is bringing equal opportunity, free speech equally, actually just continuously turns into censorship for one side.
00:18:28.760So they never really care that much if a left-wing outlet has a properly right-wing representative.
00:18:37.680But they will crack down immediately on any more right-leaning outlet that does not have a hard-left representative.
00:18:45.540And so over time, what this really means is you're required to have left-wing opinions on your right-wing outlets.
00:18:50.840But you don't really need to have any opposing opinions on your left-wing outlets.
00:18:57.380So some of the things that have happened so far, there have been, like I said, several media, several people who have been jailed for their social media posts.
00:19:08.640One guy got 20 months for a social media post.
00:19:13.700Now, he was in some sense advocating for violence there.
00:19:17.880But the real differentiation between that post and other applications of the law is that there are several immigrants who have sexually harassed women, who have sexually assaulted women, these kind of things, and done violence towards Native people in the UK.
00:19:35.160And they have received very small prison sentences, a few months, if anything at all.
00:19:40.920This guy makes a post on social media.
00:19:42.820Whether he should have been making that or not, he ends up with a much harsher sentence.
00:20:05.640And the law is really only something you apply to your political enemies, where you allow your political client classes to get away with pretty much anything you want.
00:20:13.060So selective application of law to benefit your political allies is something that always happens to some extent in any government.
00:20:20.980But now it has gotten so severe and so clear that there's a complete class divide.
00:20:26.760And the Native people of England are getting far harsher sentences for relatively minor violations of the law, as where those who are illegal immigrants or immigrants who came in, but the population does not want them there.
00:20:43.600They're receiving much shorter sentences if they get anything at all.
00:21:35.080But talking about how it's unchristian for people to not want large-scale immigration and the violence and other cultural disruption that comes with it, saying that's unchristian.
00:21:45.420Just a complete turn against the people of Britain.
00:21:50.820We've also seen people talk about how you could be responsible for just posting wrong information.
00:21:58.920I want to play you a video clip here from Sky News where they're talking about a 55-year-old who ends up going to prison or getting charged just because some of the information in their social media post may have been wrong.
00:22:10.960A woman has been arrested by Cheshire police in relation to an inaccurate information on social media about the attacker in the Southport murders.
00:22:23.520It says a 55-year-old woman from near Chester was arrested earlier today, Thursday the 8th, of course, on suspicion of publishing written material to stir up racial hatred and false communications.
00:22:37.340She is currently being held in police custody.
00:22:43.260So charged with just distributing information.
00:22:47.860So if you share a social media post and you don't get everything right and they decide that this is because of racial hatred, which, of course, they're going to decide that's the case because the whole point is to punish anyone who opposes mass immigration, then you can go to jail.
00:23:04.120You can go to jail as a 55-year-old woman.
00:23:07.780Boomers don't have to be fed posting on Facebook.
00:23:10.620Just getting the information slightly wrong.
00:23:13.940And, in fact, it extends far more than that.
00:23:16.980They are saying the government is actually threatening people who are just reposting something.
00:23:23.620So you don't even have to be the originator of the post.
00:23:25.800If you see a post on social media and you think, hey, that's something other people should know about and something in there is deemed false by the government, you could go to jail.
00:23:36.360Matthew Thompson now to talk through this.
00:23:39.420So, Matthew, the last point there is crucial, isn't it?
00:23:42.380Some people might be sharing simply to warn their friends, but it could be considered an offense because they're amplifying this.
00:23:48.800Absolutely, and that's the key message is that however you think you're acting innocently on social media, whatever platform it is, you're just sharing something for whatever reason, that could potentially be a criminal offense.
00:24:01.240So, it doesn't matter if you're acting innocently, it doesn't matter if you don't know the information is false, it doesn't matter if you're just sharing something that you find interesting, that could be a thought crime.
00:24:12.300This is a real thing happening in the UK.
00:24:18.920This is not some dystopian future you're talking about.
00:24:22.220This is what's supposed to be happening in free countries.
00:24:24.780The kind of countries that lecture people like Vladimir Putin for being a dictator, an autocrat, a terrible, terrible tyrant.
00:24:34.160This is what's happening in a country run by a government that wants to lecture China for being authoritarian because it might censor some social media posts, right?
00:24:45.300Now, I'm not a fan of Putin or the government of China, but it's pretty thick irony to see these kind of leaders who are more than happy to go ahead and lecture all these other world leaders, but they themselves are imprisoning their own people for making social media posts that the government doesn't like.
00:25:06.160And look, it's not an idle threat either, because the Crime Prosecution Service were keen to point out that they've made a number of charges in relation to stirring up of racial hatred online, one of which this morning was for distributing a recording that could, intending to stir up racial hatred.
00:25:23.640And so this is not an idle threat, says the newscaster.
00:25:44.520And so the government has the right in the in the name of avoiding stirring up racism.
00:25:49.180The government has the right to reach into every one of your digital communications to make sure that they meet a certain standard that is arbitrarily defined by the government itself.
00:25:59.060And if they don't, then you're you know, it's not even about shouting in the public squares and no arguments about fire in a crowded theater here, which, by the way, was a Supreme Court case that eventually the justice who even made that argument abandoned it.
00:26:12.820But but even along those lines, you can't make that argument here.
00:26:16.820Even if you're just sharing this, you're distributing this, you could be in a very serious situation.
00:26:23.200They are actually already bringing charges in relation to this sort of thing.
00:26:26.680So it's a very, very clear message based in the harsh reality, if you like, that if you do this kind of thing, you are potentially committing a criminal offense there.
00:26:35.560They've got teams of people scouring the Internet looking for this sort of thing.
00:26:39.360And if you are in the business of sharing or retweeting whatever platform it might be, potentially criminal material, well, then you could find yourself prosecuted.
00:26:47.880So you've been retweeting some of those some of some of that misinformation looks like you're going to jail, buddy.
00:26:53.900And as wild as this is, this isn't even the limit of this, because, look, one of the reasons that the people in the UK are so furious is like this guy just said they've got teams of people scouring the Internet for this stuff.
00:27:07.060Keir Starmer said the same thing about about the riots and the protests.
00:27:10.560He says we've got a standing army of officers who are going to come after you if you involve yourself in any of this.
00:27:17.300So just like the January 6th stuff, right, whether you think people should have been involved in that, whether you find that to be in violation of the law, whether you think that that got obviously got out of hand.
00:27:27.800But, you know, but the the idea that those people are uniquely guilty in a way that the BLM rioters aren't is insane.
00:27:37.060But the BLM rioters, some have gone to jail, the vast majority have not.
00:27:40.780And those that have gone to jail have gone for very light sentences the majority of the time, as where the January 6 rioters are the ones that have been in jail sometimes for years.
00:27:52.680And they have gotten in many cases, they had delayed trials.
00:27:57.320When they finally got to their actual representative trial, they got very harsh sentences and many people who didn't even enter the Capitol have been facing prosecution.
00:28:10.300And even if you didn't face the whole giant bit of jail time, the process of being charged and having to defend yourself and dealing with all this is itself a massive deterrent to make sure that you never see right wingers getting involved in any kind of protest.
00:28:26.420And the left knows it can protest more or less with no problem.
00:28:30.000I mean, the vice president who is now running for president, Kamala Harris, literally paid a fund, raised money to bail out criminals in the BLM riots.
00:28:41.940So the person who is currently, for all intents and purposes, the acting president of the United States, in theory, at least, obviously, even she doesn't have any real power at this point.
00:28:53.160She is as much a figurehead as Joe Biden.
00:28:55.120But she is and she is running for president now.
00:28:59.260And she was raising money to get these people out of jail.
00:29:02.820Same thing happening in the UK here where you see large amounts of crime, often very heinous crime from certain immigrant communities.
00:29:29.380But it is there for native UK citizens who want to push back.
00:29:32.880The one thing you're not allowed to believe is that the government should stop importing people from another country and that the people who are there don't have unlimited rights to get away with whatever they want.
00:29:46.040Voicing that opinion is considered racist.
00:29:48.540And therefore, you can shut anything down.
00:29:53.040This is the incredible danger of the civil rights revolution in the United States going global.
00:29:58.380Because I hate to say this, but it's true.
00:30:00.920It's very clear that this obsession has ground zero somewhere inside the US.
00:30:08.340Now, the US is also the most opposed to this.
00:30:10.680Unfortunately, many places like the UK, like Australia, like Canada, folded us before the place where oftentimes it's considered to have originated.
00:30:21.140But nevertheless, this has obviously been ported over.
00:30:24.460The BLM narrative, the colonialization narrative, a large amount of this has been imported into the UK.
00:30:30.700And they are going very hard in the paint to enforce this.
00:30:35.360And so it is it is your mandate to let in as many people from outside your nation as possible.
00:30:41.960They need to have their own justice system that treats them far more leniently for doing far more heinous crimes.
00:30:47.300And if you have any disagreement with that, you're a racist.
00:30:52.060And that means the government has carte blanche, all the power in the world they want to go ahead and investigate you, shut you down, imprison you.
00:31:10.660It's the social media companies all working in tandem to enforce this regime.
00:31:17.200And it's not just in the United States and it's not just in the UK because all of these other nations who normally, again, would be preaching against these violations of human rights, you know, whenever they had the Arab Spring going, the fact that all of these revolutions were being done on social media was this amazing thing.
00:31:38.100What freedom has grown up because and has swelled up and has sprung up because social media is there, right?
00:31:46.060But the minute that it's the Western governments, it's these Western world democracies that are facing the pressure that social media can bring, the disruption of the narrative that social media can bring, that's the real problem.
00:31:57.080And that's what you need to understand about this moment.
00:31:59.320That's what's so important to grasp about what's happening right now.
00:32:02.640The reason that the UK is backlashing this way, having this backlash, is the same reason you saw the United States government treat people horrendously during COVID.
00:32:13.680And, of course, the UK government did that as well.
00:32:15.720But it's this control of the narrative that is critical.
00:32:18.700You see, the total state in its modern incarnation is one of managerial, fox-like, soft power.
00:32:26.440It is based on its ability to manipulate systems and information.
00:32:31.980When you have popular sovereignty, when you have mass democracy, this is the key.
00:32:38.880I just had someone ask me in a group chat, what is the difference between, like, a regular democracy and mass democracy?
00:32:46.180In the ancient conception of democracy, the reason democracies had any weight at all, the reason they were even considered a quasi-legitimate government, and even then, many, like Plato and Aristotle, were not big fans of democracy, did not think it was the best system of government.
00:33:02.140But, even in those scenarios, the only reason it was considered to be a legitimate form of government was because the people of the city-state, really, that's really the maximum level of political organization that existed at the time.
00:33:19.900So the people who lived in the city were the ones that voted.
00:33:24.080And you couldn't just immigrate into the city and vote next year.
00:33:27.380You had to have been basically born through several generations into a land-holding family, and, of course, you had to be male, right?
00:33:36.200So it was not just, like, anyone could walk in and vote.
00:33:40.240And it certainly wasn't that you could immigrate and, like, three or five years later, you could vote.
00:33:45.940You had to be from the city, of the city.
00:33:50.160In fact, in Athenian democracy, it was literally the fact that you were connected to the soil and to the heritage that actually gave you the right to vote.
00:33:58.960That's what made your vote matter at all.
00:34:03.560So democracy was a principle that was based directly in your membership in the tribe, in the community, for an extended period of time.
00:34:12.060You had heritage, you had tradition, you had it all tied directly in.
00:34:16.380And even then, it was actually a relatively small percentage of those inside the community that were allowed to express their franchise.
00:34:25.780The idea that every single person who walked in and had been there and said some kind of oath or believed in some kind of idea for 10 minutes would get to vote was deemed insane.
00:34:37.100Mass democracy is the idea that you enfranchise everyone.
00:34:39.880Everybody's involved, everybody, even oftentimes those from outside, right?
00:34:44.560We're seeing that in the United States now.
00:34:46.220Well, you really want immigrants to be able to have a voice.
00:34:48.660Ultimately, you know, citizenship shouldn't really be a barrier to voting.
00:34:52.640So when we're talking about mass democracy, that's what we're talking about.
00:34:55.700And when you get to mass democracy, control is all about the narrative.
00:34:59.840When I need to coordinate the votes of hundreds of millions of people, the way to do it is through constant propaganda.
00:35:07.980And the reason that so many of these mass democracies were willing to turn the government over to the people, in theory, is that in practice, they knew they could control the beliefs of the people.
00:35:22.800There are only so many television shows, only so many radio stations, only so many major newspapers with wide circulation.
00:35:29.760And so a very small number of people, a very small number of nodes of power, could control a large amount of the information that got out to people.
00:35:38.920Along with academia, the universities, and public education, they were able to manipulate the way in which people voted, the way in which they understood the events that were happening.
00:35:49.020And so they could control the window in which allowable opinion was kept.
00:35:54.520But what we've seen is that digital technology has actually disintermediated the news and the people.
00:36:09.360You don't have to go to the New York Times.
00:36:10.880I get my news on Twitter, and I get it faster than all of those outlets.
00:36:14.740I will regularly have people who watch the cable news channels or read these major papers, and I know things three, four hours ahead before they do.
00:36:29.000And so that disruption, that digital disruption of the information monopoly is very, very dangerous to the total state, which is why they're cracking down so hard, because they know if people can consistently get their information from outside of that monopoly, things can get wild very quickly.
00:36:47.980They saw what happened in the Arab Spring.
00:36:50.340They know how they get color revolutions in Ukraine, and they want to make sure that technology can't come back to bite them.
00:36:56.460They want to make sure that they don't get overthrown by the very same technology that they've used to cause revolutions in other places.
00:37:03.400They are very aware of what this digital disruption can do to the total state's monopoly on what's happening.
00:37:12.500And so the battle that has erupted now has actually been between Elon Musk and many members of the British government, because all these other social media platforms don't care.
00:37:33.580Whatever they have about being some free speech platform, blah, blah, blah.
00:37:38.980They really are on board with the plan.
00:37:42.340Now, there are others, I should say, guys like Gab and Mines do have alternatives.
00:37:47.860They're good, but they just don't have the reach.
00:37:49.480They don't have the universal user base of Twitter, and while it's important for those alternatives to exist, ultimately the impact of a social media platform rests in the hands of its reach.
00:38:01.380That is really what defines its impact.
00:38:03.880And so the fact that Twitter has the format that it does that allows news to travel so quickly and in this very decentralized way means that it is a highly disruptive tool.
00:38:16.280And that's why the UK government has been attacking social media so relentlessly, because they understand that.
00:38:23.040They know that their control of the populace is really, really one of information.
00:38:28.820Though we are seeing the use of hard power now, right?
00:38:42.520They recognize that their soft power is failing.
00:38:44.980That's why they're panicking, because they know they don't have this kind of control.
00:38:48.240And that means they've actually gone after people like Elon Musk, who has stood up against them.
00:38:56.200Elon Musk has been routinely criticizing the UK government from his platform.
00:39:02.500He has been sharing posts, showing their violations, showing their human rights violations, showing their attacks on free speech, jailing dissidents, this kind of thing.
00:39:10.340And so he's been a consistent thorn in their side, to the point where we've seen threats from multiple officials in the UK government directed at Elon Musk.
00:39:20.500So the first thing that happened was we had the London Metro chief, the police chief there.
00:39:25.180And someone asked him, well, what is your plan to deal with people like Elon Musk, who might be stirring up distress outside the UK?
00:39:36.180So, yeah, we know you can get to UK citizens.
00:39:38.240Yeah, we know you're fine with throwing UK citizens in jail.
00:39:54.460And he didn't say explicitly we will extradite people.
00:39:57.620But that was very obviously the implication is the idea that you could go out and extradite people who live in a different country like Elon Musk, who are U.S. citizens for the crime of saying something that the British government doesn't like.
00:40:13.080You know, if a if a if the Russian government said, well, we're just going to extradite anybody in the United States who disagrees with us, then the then the first they would need an extradition treaty.
00:40:25.720But if if that was the case, the United States government would immediately be like, no, we're not going to honor that.
00:40:33.780The people of the United States have free speech, but they're not saying that they're not saying that in in for people in the UK.
00:40:40.380Now, I don't think they're going to start extraditing people to the UK, but it's very clear that the United States wants to be aligned with what the UK is doing.
00:40:50.620In fact, it has tried many of these things on its own.
00:41:06.680They've constructed their states in pretty much the same way, which is why you have this.
00:41:11.100Everybody who's connected to this kind of global American empire, connected through these international organizations, many of which, you know, NATO is not quite as uniform.
00:41:20.180But the EU, these things, they all have structured their states in a very similar way to be these these mass democracies supposed to be these mass Western liberal democracies based on popular sovereignty, but actually governed by the manipulation of information and soft power inside the total state.
00:41:39.800So these total states are everywhere, but some of them are further along places like like Australia or the UK have allowed themselves to go much further down this road.
00:41:50.960Same thing with Canada than than a place like the United States, even though many people could argue that the ideology at play is itself originating somewhere inside the United States.
00:42:01.360So it not only has the the London police chief made this threat, but we also saw the former Scottish leader, whom's a Youssef.
00:42:28.860And the funny thing is, when when when one news outlet, I think it was the Huffington Post, reported that he was interested in that the that Youssef was interested in bringing these charges against Musk, Musk actually responded saying, I'd love him to try.
00:42:43.920Discovery will reveal how racist he has been to white people on a regular basis.
00:43:52.620Sorry, guys, I'm just never calling it X.
00:43:54.140We have already brought charges against Twitter because we think it's violating certain aspects of this.
00:44:01.020And you guys probably already know this, but Donald Trump is supposed to be interviewed by Elon Musk on Twitter tonight.
00:44:10.220And in anticipation of that, the EU has basically said Donald Trump is himself just this walking violation of our policies, right?
00:44:19.220He he is a walking violation of our Internet protocols.
00:44:23.720And so before you even put that on there, we would like to let you know that if you make this content available to anyone in the EU, you're probably breaking the law.
00:44:33.400So just hearing Donald Trump speak at all is the is a violation of our laws.
00:44:41.280And we would like to do to go ahead and warn you of that in advance, that you'll probably suffer severe penalties for this.
00:44:47.240So I don't know if you remember this, but we got pretty angry, got got real worked up, had to hear endless speeches from liberals, especially Keith Oberman.
00:44:59.040It's Russia about a foreign country getting involved in our elections, right, getting involved in the United States and its elections.
00:45:05.740And here we have an entire foreign body, right, this this supranational conglomeration of countries and their ruling body who is not democratically elected.
00:45:17.240So it doesn't have any of this this kind of facade of popular sovereignty is directly threatening our own elections.
00:45:26.020The ability of people to speak and talk about what is happening in the United States because they want to go ahead and try to shut it down by saying, if you involve yourself in this, basically we'll ban your product in our countries.
00:45:40.600We'll go ahead or we'll censor it so severely, bring so many legal challenges that it'll bear you.
00:45:46.500They're trying to intimidate the the owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, into not platforming Donald Trump because they'll be serious.
00:46:53.080They are swallowing this media black pill that the mainstream media is just saying, oh, well, J.D. Vance is weird and Trump's poll numbers are bad.
00:47:02.240And Kamala Harris is the most popular person in the world.
00:47:05.000And somehow people who are Trump supporters are believing this.
00:48:54.520They're going to use another arm of the total state public education to try to shore themselves up against any breakthroughs from in their in their control through social media.
00:49:04.380So the idea is if you can go ahead and code social media posts from the wrong sources as dangerous and immoral and especially low class, that's the most effective one.
00:49:17.260You won't be cool if you pay attention to this stuff.
00:50:27.260Your government have the monopoly on violence inside your country.
00:50:31.600And that's what gave you sovereignty over your nation.
00:50:35.120However, at this point, people are realizing that actually narrative control is even more important than a hard power in our current system.
00:50:43.360Now, that might not always be the case.
00:50:45.640The total state might not always be ruled through soft power.
00:50:49.280It's soft power might not forever be a tool that is wielded effectively.
00:50:55.000But as it is now, the way that we have structured our societies now, information is key.
00:51:03.600And so digital sovereignty, the ability to control the information that comes in and out of your country through digital portals, ends up being just as important as securing your physical control, your physical sovereignty over the nation.
00:51:18.780In fact, because our FOX style elites are so scared of often using a large amount of force, it's much more important to have that digital sovereignty.
00:51:31.120And so the U.S. will ban something like TikTok.
00:51:33.460England will say, you know, you better have these particular controls on Twitter or we're not allowing it here.
00:51:40.160This is something that we're going to see more and more of.
00:51:43.100And VPNs and these kind of things are cutouts, right?
00:51:45.320They allow people to move around and violate this digital sovereignty even when it's established.
00:51:50.680But we're probably going to see crackdowns across that kind of stuff, too.
00:51:54.080And ultimately, this is this is a very dangerous overreaction because I have friends in the U.K. right now who say I can't even retweet you.
00:52:07.120Like, I'm scared of retweeting your posts because it could I could be breaking the law.
00:52:11.600I could go to jail because I retweeted something that you said on Twitter.
00:52:16.500That's that's an amazing place to be, especially for countries that are pretending that they have some kind of advantage in freedom.
00:52:22.740You know, we got rid of all those kings, man.
00:52:32.920And I want to wrap this up really quickly.
00:52:34.340This has gone on much longer than I intended it to.
00:52:37.040But I want to wrap this up really quickly because some people have asked me, why did you see this coming when academic agent and some of his friends didn't?
00:52:48.980What is it about your application of elite theory that was different?
00:53:51.100This is part of the reason that NEMA, that academic agent, involved himself in this kind of zero seats movement is he thought that acceleration would ultimately stabilize the country.
00:54:04.340Because it's not like the left is not going to keep pushing this that hard, right?
00:54:08.820They're not going to go for even more massacre immigration.
00:54:11.020They're not going to start jailing the native population in large swaths.
00:54:14.860They're not going to gulag everybody who Facebook posts against them, right?
00:54:18.800There's no way that's going to happen because even the left recognizes that they need to dial this stuff back.
00:54:23.560Ultimately, the elites are after power.
00:56:47.460And so if you factor out those justifications, if you factor out that aspect of human nature, if you don't factor in that most people are actually religious at their core, then even when they lie to you and tell you that they're atheists or whatever, then you will fail.
00:57:07.240You won't understand the moment that you're looking at.
00:57:09.420So I think that that's really important.
00:57:11.780And that's why my understanding of the total state, I think, worked.
00:57:16.200The argument I make in the total state is that ultimately progressive secular humanism is necessary to the managerial regime.
00:57:25.260It's not some weird thing that they believed in for 10 minutes to get more power and they're going to discard.
00:57:30.740It is actually a driving force behind the structure of these states.
00:57:36.720And for them to continue to do what they want to do, they have to continue to advance this idea.
00:58:17.460It is all of these places together, forging one narrative, using the soft power of banks, using the soft power of technology, all of these things.
00:58:28.920That is the total state, not just the deep state.
00:58:32.120It's not just unelected bureaucrats of the government, though that's there.
00:58:35.360It's not just the government's strong arm tactics itself.
00:58:39.320It's all of these institutions working together, and not just inside the nation now, but a global network of these institutions, working simultaneously towards the same goal.
00:58:50.700That is what we're up against, and we can see that directly.
01:00:40.980So I don't think – I think a lot of people who would – a lot of people who are themselves irreligious don't like the religious argument.
01:00:49.700Though I don't think, ultimately, that Tommy Robinson is really, like, crusading for Christian nationalism or Britain or something.
01:00:55.600But they just don't like that that's the focus.
01:00:58.600And to be fair, that, you know, the Rwandan immigrant isn't a Muslim.
01:01:03.120Rwanda is a Catholic country above most for the most part.
01:01:07.620So it's not like it's just Islam that's the problem.
01:01:11.080But I understand why Tommy Robinson would focus on that.
01:01:13.980I understand why it's a shelling point for a lot of British people who oppose what's happening.
01:01:18.380And if that shelling point is working, then maybe you should just go with the thing that's working largely and take as much as you can get.
01:01:25.180And then apply your criticisms on top of that to the wider immigration problem.
01:01:46.460Again, like I said, Britain obviously has the tradition of an unwritten constitution.
01:01:51.780And I made the argument in my book, again, to be fair.
01:01:55.140That the power is not the writing or lack of writing in the constitution.
01:01:59.520In fact, Joseph de Maester, who I say in the book, specifically says that written constitutions are themselves a danger because they make people think that it's only what's written down that matters.
01:02:09.140Ultimately, whether the constitution is written or unwritten, the thing that matters about the constitution is that the people believe in it.
01:02:17.240The constitution is a reflection of the ways of the people, of the way of being of the people, the traditions, the folk ways, the history, the moral vision of the people.
01:03:39.600It's not that much, but I know times are tight.
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01:05:11.220The chance of a public struggle session like that, where the parents have to come out and publicly deny their own daughters, renounce the violence against their own daughters and accept the violence against them, because ultimately the melting pot of the UK, the multiculturalism of the UK, is the most important thing.
01:05:31.160Yeah, unfortunately, honestly, the chances of that are extremely high.
01:05:35.020I'm very sad to say that, but that is probably not without a possibility in the future.
01:05:59.380You know, there's a great quote from Julius Caesar, and I'll butcher it in the moment here, but to paraphrase it, he says something like,
01:06:06.640You know, it's very easy to find a man who will die for a cause he believes in.
01:06:11.220It's very difficult to find a man who will suffer every day for a cause he believes in.
01:06:16.060And the problem with the battle against a lot of this managerial stuff is that ultimately the distributed network of soft power is very difficult to strike at, right?
01:06:28.200Like, again, the people on January 6th, I don't think they were actually there to overthrow the government.
01:06:32.340But assuming that they were, and they actually captured the Capitol building and started, I don't know, like passing legislation or something, would that have really taken over the United States?
01:07:20.360If there was some, you know, grand battle against a very particular force that you could fight off, it would be a lot easier, much more heroic.
01:07:29.160But what we really have is a long battle that has many different fronts and may require very many incremental wins.
01:07:39.860It requires a large amount of discipline and focus across a long period of time.