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00:32:35.240And I'm always amazed at those people, like the Amish, that the guy came in and slaughtered all of their children in school.
00:32:45.240He was a milk truck driver, lived in town, walked in, lost his marbles, shot all of their children.
00:32:52.000And while they were all gathered around the school, their bodies still being pulled out, the family, somebody said to the Amish, oh, my gosh, his wife.
00:33:04.560We're not the only ones that lost somebody.
00:33:07.680His wife and child are at home, probably scared to death.
00:33:12.580And imagine being that woman standing in that house, knowing that your husband just killed all these Amish children and you see coming up your sidewalk all these Amish parents.
00:34:09.220It is amazing that people can find that strength in those moments.
00:34:13.380Maybe it's a hint to us when we get, you know, we get a little annoyed at somebody online that maybe abandoning all of our principles to get the right retort in is not the right approach.
00:34:27.060And I want to talk about this later, maybe tomorrow.
00:34:29.480But Russell Brand was baptized over the weekend.
00:34:33.260Listen to what he said about his baptism.
00:34:35.460As a person that has in the past taken many, many substances and always been disappointed with their inability to deliver the kind of tranquility and peace and even transcendence.
00:34:46.160So I always felt I've been looking for something occurred in the process of baptism that was incredible, overwhelming, literally overwhelming because I was obviously underwater and it was the River Thames at some points.
00:37:12.280I mean, I will tell you, which direction would you rather go down?
00:37:17.920The direction where Russell Brand has changed that much, and he's much more of a peaceful individual, wants to, you know, hear other sides, understand people, he loves people, or the Russell Brand that he was before.
00:37:34.020Well, you know, would you rather be on the Russell Brand path or the one that is happening on our campuses, the ones that are society, wokeness, the high priests of the universities, the gods that are in the White House and the administration and Congress, that they think they are?
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01:04:48.540So it's the Western liberals, right, who are individualistic.
01:04:52.560We believe every individual has the rights to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, control your own conscience, freedom of religion, and so forth.
01:05:03.000All of those individualistic elements, Duggan is rejecting.
01:05:07.380And he's rejecting them agreeing with the theorists of fascism, the theorists of national socialism, and the updated versions that he is in favor of for Russia.
01:05:18.920Now, if you reject individualism, though, the question is, what group forms your identity properly?
01:05:27.420In 2009, in the quotation that you just read, he's pretty open to saying there are lots of different group identities that are possible and legitimate.
01:05:37.280And so there's a direct connection to all of the identity politics that's floating around in Western circle right now.
01:05:52.200And he's open to any form of groupism or collectivism right at that point, as long as it's not valorizing the individual.
01:06:01.120So I want to come back because he is very attractive on some of the things that he says, because he's diagnosing one particular problem that I think is real.
01:06:14.480And we'll get to that here in just a second.
01:06:16.060More with Stephen Hicks on Alexander Dugan.
01:06:18.820Relief factor changed my life during a period where I didn't think anything could.
01:06:23.120It turned days of constant pain into weeks and months and years that I've been able to enjoy myself again.
01:08:07.700He just diagnosed a problem, as Alexander Dugan always does, and enough to open a door to people, have people say, oh, well, I think I might agree with that.
01:09:32.460There are people in Greece and in in the Great Britain that are proud of their country and should be proud of their country.
01:09:40.040And when you say don't fly your flag, fly instead the European Union flag, that's not who they are.
01:09:47.820And they feel like they're being snuffed out, just like Americans now feel that our culture is under attack.
01:09:53.800Our history, our very existence and what we've always stood for is is being wiped out.
01:10:00.240And people can be against that without being haters.
01:10:04.620But he zeroes in on that and and says the collective state image is really important.
01:10:14.160And I think that's where he begins to connect with people.
01:10:17.520And then people don't look any further.
01:10:20.180Do you agree with any of that, Stephen?
01:10:22.600Well, nationalism is a term that needs some some careful delineation.
01:10:27.700And often it gets packaged with all sorts of unsavory stuff.
01:10:31.400And that's partly what Dugan is is doing.
01:10:34.660It's one thing to say we need to have an authoritarian bureaucratic regime centered in Brussels and the European Union.
01:10:43.640Or the United Nations or something like that.
01:10:46.140And that's going to trample over regional differences, national differences, ethnic differences, and turn us all into homogeneous robots of some sort.
01:11:02.340At the same time, nationalism sometimes just means, you know, I happen to have been born in a certain ethnicity within a certain nation.
01:11:10.340And because I was born here, I'm just unthinkingly getting my identity and my allegiance to whatever my my particular government does as well.
01:11:20.020I think both of those are inappropriate right ways to use nationalism.
01:11:24.900So the issue of nations is to me, I think it's a secondary or even a tertiary issue about what level of political organization we should have in place, how much should things should be local at the state or regional level, how much at the national, international level and so on.
01:11:43.440So it's a it's an issue of kind of appropriate bureaucratic and administrative governance.
01:11:51.360But the important content issue is what is the purpose of your governance?
01:11:56.660And it's one thing to say, I live in a nation that takes individuals and their freedoms and their rights very seriously.
01:12:04.500And we have a government that exists to protect individuals in their freedoms and their and their their property rights and so forth.
01:12:12.220And because I live in a nation that is striving for that moral set of principles, I am proud of my nation.
01:12:21.360And that kind of patriotism or nationalism or identification with your country, I think, is perfectly perfectly appropriate.
01:12:30.200There are some nations that are much better on that and some nations that are much worse on that.
01:12:36.000At the same time, there are lots of levels of organization that should be international.
01:12:41.780So we should be able to trade with people in different parts of the world.
01:12:47.100We should have business agreements and so forth that are international and any sort of my nation is going to block off access to your nation and so forth.
01:13:25.600That's what the quotation you earlier alluded to is is all about.
01:13:29.880He does see it as collective entities that are organized at the ethnic level for the most part of his career.
01:13:38.200He thought the nation state was the right level of analysis and that the different collective national identities are at war with each other or at least at conflict with each other.
01:13:49.860And so one needs to be willing to enter into the into that fray and be violent with respect to other nations to put up borders to try to sabotage them in in various ways.
01:14:01.800Now, that kind of nationalism takes him back to the fascism, takes him back to the to the to the national socialism.
01:14:09.800It takes him back even to some versions of Marxist communism where they wanted to argue that it was our nation where the Marxist revolution is going to have to happen first.
01:14:20.900And we are in a bloody conflict with all of the other nations that are more capitalist and democratic and so forth.
01:14:26.840And then and only after we have succeeded at making the Marxist revolution in this one nation, can we start thinking about being more broadly, broadly internationalist.
01:14:38.700Now, Dugan, though, I think the nationalism for him is partly tactical because one of the things that he has been doing in the last 10 years, maybe 15 years now,
01:14:49.320is broadening and no longer just seeing that Russia in some sense has a special ethnic identity, that it is the world historical nation that's going to lead us to a bright and better future.
01:15:02.380He started to talk more like a pan Eurasianist, that the right level of analysis is not Russia as a nation, but more broadly, the Eurasian continent and all of its constituent peoples.
01:15:18.060So there we start to see him thinking more in terms of empire, the old Russian empire.
01:15:24.580Of course, Russia will have a special place at that.
01:15:27.820But you see him in his rhetoric and in his arguments, not wanting to say that it's Russia, say, against the Ukrainians or Russia against the Kazakh nation and so forth.
01:15:41.560That he wants to incorporate all of them into a pan Eurasian empire.
01:15:47.060And that's going to be the right level of analysis.
01:15:49.780That's what will be pitted against the Western liberal alliance.
01:15:54.480So that is when I when I heard the first Tucker interview with Putin, I thought that's what he was going for.
01:16:26.940So we're so blessed to have you for 45 minutes.
01:16:28.880I don't know if you have time tomorrow to do another session with us, because the next part of Dugan is where it gets where it goes way off the rails and gets even more terrifying than fascism with not without compromise.
01:16:44.300And that is his religious angles that he puts on top of it, where he says the United States is the Antichrist.
01:16:54.060And we can hate the great Satan that we are that that we need to kind of hasten the apocalypse because it just won't happen on its own.
01:17:06.660And the world I mean, this sounds like a twelver from from Iran, but they need to wash the world in blood because it will only be through extreme violence that will be able to reset the world in a in a world that we only saw before modernity.
01:17:30.660Yeah, they put Putin's use of religion and Dugan's ideological understanding of religion and strategizing about religion certainly worth another 45 minutes so we can plan that if you want.
01:17:44.940Thank you so much for everything you do.
01:17:46.280And thanks for making this easy to understand.
01:17:47.980I would you would you agree that Dugan, if you know, he's he's the guy behind Crimea, he's the really the kind of the guy connecting Russia to Iran and his philosophy, if it if it actually takes root in the West, that I think I think he's one of the most dangerous men in the world.
01:18:14.320Well, I yeah, I think philosophers are often underrated.
01:18:18.900We we can see John Locke's importance to the American revolutionaries, Rousseau's importance to the French revolutionaries, Marx's importance and so on.
01:18:29.840So this is a little crystal ball gazing.
01:18:32.380But yes, Dugan is a clear, inspirational writer.
01:18:37.300I don't know what level of access he has to Dugan's inner circle and so forth.
01:18:41.960But yeah, when you are speaking to thousands and millions of alert, aspirational idea, ideological people, philosophers like Dugan can have an outsized impact.
01:18:54.540So it's really important that we get them right and understand exactly what we're up against.
01:18:59.820I feel a little like the Germans have never understood.
01:19:03.140How could you possibly read Mein Kampf and not know?
01:19:06.780I mean, you knew he said it, but I think it's the human it's human nature to say, oh, well, he didn't mean that part or the he'll never get that done.
01:19:31.120So we can't underestimate liberalism and modernity in the West.
01:19:35.380One of our great weaknesses is, in fact, that we are sometimes naive, sometimes benevolent and willing to give people the benefit of the doubt when they make it clear they don't deserve it.
01:19:50.540And I want to concentrate on his what his definition of modernity is, because if it's if it is what I think it is, that is pre-enlightenment kind of modernity, kind of going back into some of the dark ages stuff and his religious beliefs, his connections to kind of a Christian nationalism.
01:20:15.520If you will, in a very, very dark way.
01:20:28.000He has a deep understanding of of who Alexander Dugan is.
01:20:32.940If you watch that episode from Tucker, which I highly recommend, if you watch that, know that you're getting the soft side of Alexander Dugan.
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01:26:06.280And this particular hour, Stephen Hicks comes by, and we get to the really spooky stuff of Alexander Dugan and his connections to Iran and how he sees this all unfolding.