The Boyce of Reason | Interview with Benjamin Boyce
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1 hour and 48 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin A. Boyce joins us to talk about American history and current events. We discuss the current state of American politics, and what it means for the future of the country. We also talk about the upcoming election, and whether or not we should be worried about it.
Transcript
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Hello and welcome to this very special interview where it is my pleasure to be speaking to Mr. Benjamin A. Boyce. How are you, sir?
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Fine, yeah. Mr. Conversations, the voice of reason.
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Well, here we are. I made it out to London and you were very generous to offer me a trip to Swindon.
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Well, I mean, you invited me to Swindon. I paid for it myself.
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You can literally get a flight to Turkey for the price it costs to go to London, Nottingham or something. It's stupid.
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If anyone doesn't know, we've made a fair few bits of content over the years.
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Probably four. We've been going through various aspects of American history.
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And I'm hoping to get the progressive era if you ever want to do something on what led up to pre-Franklin Roosevelt and how that.
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It's always deep, deep, beautiful dives that you bring on the channel.
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If there's any particular thing you're interested in, whatever it is, you know, like Daniel Boone, the Hiroshima thing, the Nixon tapes, whatever you want.
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So if you're interested in sort of the pre-war 30s, pre-Rosevelt, Roosevelt stuff.
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I think that what we're experiencing being dismantled right now was put in motion by the progressive era.
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Like what Trump is breaking apart was solidified by FDR, but it was put in motion by the progressive era, by the academics, the experts, the rule of the experts kind of thing in government, in the U.S. government.
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And I don't know what's going to happen in the future, but with America withdrawing its soft power from Europe, I'm wondering how, if Europe's going to be able to correct itself from certain aspects of the progressive era that you guys are experiencing with massive immigration, multiculturalism, left-wing media that apparently is mostly funded by us.
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With Trump 2.0, it's now pretty apparent that we, Europe and Britain, particularly Britain, are just way behind the curve now.
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Well, you guys have a direction to go in, I guess.
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Hopefully, maybe if Le Pen can get in in France, AFD can get in in Germany, if we can get reform or even someone more right than them.
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Yeah, hopefully, Trump, and if it's sort of advanced presidency after that, hopefully they can sort of show us something to aim towards.
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Is reform just kind of the conservative-conservative coalition?
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Do you think that they have, are they particularly strong?
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I was just at this ARC conference, which was kind of a big tent, conservative, classical, liberal-ish umbrella.
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And there wasn't anybody making really strong statements.
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There was a couple of kooky ideas and kind of, Farage was there.
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He was interviewed by Jordan Peterson, but he was very political on what he would say and what he wouldn't say.
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So I'm wondering if you guys have any blustery, Trump-ish, king-like personalities that might...
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There are parties that are ever so slightly more conservative or right-leaning than reform.
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There's the English Democrats, there's UKIP, there's the Homeland Party.
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There are some, but they're sort of small, still small outfits.
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But I don't know if you're aware of my history with reform, so I might not be the best person in the world to ask
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because I'm going to have to give you quite a personal take on it.
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But for me, they're not anywhere near strong enough.
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They are still going to be way better than a Starmer government.
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Like you say, some people in the party are right, like Rupert Lowe is good, but I don't think,
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personally, I don't think Nigel Farage and Richard Tice's leadership is strong enough,
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For example, they were asked, Nigel was asked very specifically about re-migration.
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And he essentially just said, no, we can't do that.
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Well, who knows what's politically possible and impossible?
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No, historically, the forced mass movements of people is very, very common.
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Pakistan deported nearly all their Afghans very recently.
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Russia deported loads and loads of Chechens recently.
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Just because the Nazis deported lots of people, what they considered undesirable people during the war,
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it means it's completely evil and should never, ever be attempted ever again.
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If there's a big population in your country who are subversive or even destroying the fabric of your society,
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But, and so UKIP and Homeland will talk about that sort of thing.
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But for Nigel Farage at reform, apparently it's impossible.
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I mean, I don't know if you know, but I was briefly selected to stand for them in Parliament
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and then deselected because they then discovered something I'd written about re-migration
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But it is, of course, I won't deny, it is still a step in the right direction.
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It's still going to be way better than Lib Dem or even the Conservative government under
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But anyway, hopefully Trump will show us the way.
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Because Trump's going to be deporting loads of people, right?
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I mean, some people are saying it's not happening quick enough, but who knows what needs to be
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But when you talk about incrementalism, it always favours the left.
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Order needs to be established, like making a movie by committee.
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Like, it's just going to fall apart in the end.
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You need a strong central authority that creates order.
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And then everybody else can live within that order.
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Like, we're going to get a little bit more right now, and then we're going to get a little
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bit more right later, and then we're going to get even righter further on down the line.
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Other than maybe the Overton window being shifted a little bit, maybe the specter of
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Hitler kind of becoming more particular to a part of history that is no longer governing
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the minds and the hearts of people in the present that live in this reality, that might
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free up people to make more common sense decisions.
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Even if the common sense isn't necessarily aligned with something a little bit more strong,
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like deporting or re-migrating people who've been here, what, 10 years, 20 years, a generation,
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and then figuring out where to cut off that line.
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I mean, you talk about there, the Overton window.
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I mean, you mentioned just before we started that maybe you'd like to have a conversation
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with an academic agent, because you spoke to him before on your channel.
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It was a very interesting conversation, actually.
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But he talked about or coined the phrase of the boomer truth regime, another way perhaps
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The idea that the Overton window, if it shifts at all, is always to the left, and that there
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will have to be some sort of realigning of that at some point.
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If that is left to go on forever, you end up without a country.
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You end up with a massive welfare system and open borders.
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Which very, very quickly leads to the destruction of your country.
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And that people, it seems, the majority of people, don't want that.
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Where is the democratic, insofar as democracy is viable, where is the democratic will to
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Maybe that was something that was going around on Twitter about what defines an Englishman
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and what defines a Britishman, or one of British persuasion.
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I mean, they're all very interesting and complicated things.
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Well, I mean, if you look at reform, they seem to be, well, in some polls, they are
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So according to some polls, they are the most popular party.
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And although they're still weak on re-migration, as far as I'm concerned, they are at least
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A lot of them talk about how you shouldn't be ashamed to be British or English.
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So this sort of, the stripe of progressivism, which sees any type of patriotism or nationalism
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So, because the argument a lot of people have made is that, no, most people do want
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Just look at how they've voted over the last 30 or 40 years.
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Well, that doesn't make sense on a couple of levels.
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Least of all is that most governments, ever since the 60s, certainly since the 70s, have
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And then they go back on that and do it anyway.
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The massive immigration in Canada was not ever voted for.
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And, well, I wonder, with the dying of the boomer truth regime, with the dying of the
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post-war consensus, something has to come in and replace it.
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There has to be an understanding, a visceral understanding of what is an Englishman.
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And in America, American identity has been formed in the wake of wars.
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Our Revolutionary War, our Civil War, and then World War II is like these big concrescences
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You know, after World War II, we are basically the leaders of the free world.
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And our job is to make sure that the world runs correctly and spends U.S. dollars doing
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With the dismantling of the deep state and the Trumpist kind of, he's being pretty overt.
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They tweeted out a picture with him with a crown on his head.
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And absent of war, we still need some sort of strong identity.
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I don't know what we're talking about here today, but I would really like to hear what
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you think about British identity post-World War II and where that might lead you guys
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I was just walking down Manchester Street, and I think your channel is going to be putting
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out a little documentary on the ground here where you guys do this show, which is rather
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But if you walk around the corner here, there's this place that has definitely been built by
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And it's older buildings, but it's completely staffed or lived in by Pakistanis, I guess.
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You know, like what I love to do when I go to Europe is go to visit the church.
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It's a mosque, so I don't know if I'd even be allowed in there.
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But, you know, like where you would suppose there was a tobacco shop is now a vape shop
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and all the advertisements are showing this identity that isn't of this land.
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So I'm wondering, like, with that around the corner, how does that affect the psyche of
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What is the story of what it is to be a British person?
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When you talk about the psyche, it's extremely demoralizing and alien.
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In fact, we've explicitly said we don't want it ever since the 1960s.
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Yeah, and it's nearly every town and city in the whole country.
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When we flew here, we flew into Heathrow and we took the tube underground and then we
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And the only thing I saw of London was just indistinguishable from Chicago.
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Just this multi-ethnic kind of rundown place with no particularity to it.
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Just a bunch of, there's kind of some older buildings, but most of it is just this kind
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And I really have felt the demoralization of this place.
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Nobody really cares to renovate, but they'll rebuild, they'll build something new.
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And that newness is like indescript, globalist, everything is like an airport that is new
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Everything old is kind of unkempt a little bit.
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Maybe I'm being too strong and I don't want to offend you.
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The thing about that, like when you see, we see footage of somewhere like San Francisco
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But if you go back 10, 15 years, it never used to be the case.
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I mean, one of the reasons in Britain, at least, is that the councils often are run by
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the same foreign people and they don't seem to care or they mismanage the budget terribly.
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So there was like Chinatown in London in like the year 2005 and now.
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And one is the way it always used to be, i.e. well-kempt and clean and tidy.
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And now in 2025, it's just looked like something from San Francisco, just a complete dump.
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I don't, it's so hard to have pride in your country when your country's trashy.
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Actually, that shows a disrespect towards your country when it's trashy.
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When I was a child or even when I was in my 20s, that wasn't really the case.
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So all this is happening recently, I would say.
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I met Edward Dutton at this conference I was at and he said, you know, I'm okay with change
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happening in my lifetime, but over half a decade, that's way too much.
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But when you talk sort of the English identity, yeah, I always think that that's the sort of
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question that usually it just leads down the road of subversion.
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Usually if you're a born and bred British person, you don't even need to ask the question.
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You've got more than a thousand years of glorious tradition to look back upon.
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It's only since the war, World War II, I mean, where there's ever been a question.
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We used to have, and again, I'm talking in the first half of the 20th century or whatever,
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used to have an extremely strong sense of identity, extremely strong.
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It seemed unassailable, you would have thought, if you'd asked someone pre-1914 what it means
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to be an Englishman, what it means to be British.
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They probably would have snorted with derision at the very question.
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They exuded Britishness, like in how they comported themselves.
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But now, of course, there's a million and one things you could point to.
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But now, of course, ever since, well, perhaps more since the 60s and the 70s, where there's
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a type of almost a civilizational level of a falling confidence where now questions like
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And if you've got a whole, a whole trunch of fifth columnists that are constantly trying
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to undermine you as well, then suddenly the question seems a poignant one.
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You know, it's self-evident what is, who is and who isn't an Englishman, what is and what
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But then, you know, subversives do just endlessly say that.
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They'll go further and say that you have no heritage, you have no culture.
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We talked to you just before we came on here about Westminster Abbey.
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Don't tell me we haven't got any history or heritage.
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But as you say, for going forward, for younger people, for like the Zuma generations or whatever,
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And I mean, what a crying shame that it even needs to be addressed.
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It's similar to the thing of, similar-ish, conceptually, to the idea that the very concept
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of what a man and a woman is, is now under question.
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I think there is that thousand years of glorious tradition, as I said, to point to.
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What, what, um, this, you're talking about a thousand years.
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So what defines that thousand, thousands of years?
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Was it political upheaval or innovation or expansion?
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Like, what is, what is the, what is the heart, the beating heart, the changing heart of Britain
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Well, that term, a thousand years of glorious tradition, is almost a cliche.
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They're obviously referring to the Norman conquest onwards.
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But the story of the British people, the story of Britain, of these islands, obviously goes
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back much, much further than the Norman conquest.
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I mean, the Anglo-Saxon period, the Roman period.
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You can go back to the early Bellbeaker people.
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You can point to stone megaliths older than Stonehenge.
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You can point back to peoples that were on these islands hundreds of thousands of years
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ago, when there was no channel, when there was still a land bridge between Europe and
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So, so just like anywhere in the world, it has a contiguous story.
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You can point to peoples and cultures that were in the United States, the Clovis people,
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That you can't, well, you can, people do, but I would say it's invalid to come over
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from the Caribbean or West Africa or Puerto Rico and come to the mainland United States
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and say, you have no history or heritage or culture, or it's all based on liars or something.
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It's like, no, there were native people here, Native American peoples, or like Clovis era,
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pre-Clovis era people, going back to time immemorial, going back to when there was a land
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It's, it's just a, it's an ahistorical thing that people that want to destroy your culture
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And it's, it's up to us to say, to stand up against it and say, no, all of that is nonsense.
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We see what you're doing and we're not going to have it.
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But yeah, if you talk about just the thousand years, if you want to just start at the normal conquest.
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Well, isn't that a history of incursions and people coming over, like the Romans came over
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and found a bunch of swamp people, I think, Caesar, somebody, somebody was talking about that.
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Well, I've done a fair bit of content about Caesar's conquest and Caesar's incursions into Britain in 55 and 54 BC.
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But I'm just saying part of the story is being incurred upon, is, is being overwhelmed by some foreign force and then a reintegration happens.
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So I'm wondering if this is not just the latest Roman conquest, it's just oddly done by like this invading force that is, that somehow your, your rulers are supplanting.
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Of course, there's always been waves and movements of people.
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And that's true of, again, everywhere in the world.
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But so, but what's happening to us at the moment, or what's the trend that has started in 1997, i.e. just mass immigration into this country, that is entirely unprecedented.
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So if you look at the Roman invasion, for example, a tiny number of Romans compared to the 700,000, 900,000 million odd people we import year on year here.
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So what happened, what the Romans did was a tiny amount.
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And in the end, they all left in 409 or 410 BC.
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If you look at the, the Anglo-Saxon and Jewish invasions, they only, it was only really on the east coast of Britain and it was, it was limited.
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And once again, tiny numbers compared to what's happening today.
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If you look at the Viking incursions, once again, it's not that they didn't leave an imprint on the land or on the language in all sorts of ways on the architecture.
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But the numbers were tiny and it was over a very, quite a long period.
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Sometimes people who are pro-mass migration might mention like a wave of Dutch immigration that came in, in like the 18th century.
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It's a few thousand people, a few tens of thousands of people at most.
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It's not hundreds of thousands of people year on year that never leave, that never go home or don't intend to.
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So, yeah, there's always been waves of migration and re-migration and movements of people.
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Go back to the era of Stonehenge, when there were sort of original Neolithic farmer people seem to have been invaded by European Bell Beaker culture people.
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So there's always been movements of people to and from these islands.
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But nothing ever on the scale of what's happened since 1997 or has been ramped up in the last few years.
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The Boris wave, people are calling it now and all those things.
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Like what you said about Manchester Road in Swindon or any town or city up and down the country.
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It's happened very suddenly and on a scale never experienced before.
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A failure, a pre-failure, like a pre-demoralization of leadership?
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Yeah, so there's all these different reasons why.
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And I mean, we've got very strict laws in this country.
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If I gave you my real opinion of why, I might fall foul of some...
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I might not be able to leave because they put me in prison.
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Throw you in the clink for hearing me speak the truth.
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No, I mean, well, it's because our ruling classes have been traitorous.
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They genuinely thought Tony Blair and some of his governments wanted to, and it's literally a quote,
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They still try to make the argument, even now, don't they, that diversity is a strength,
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that our very economy will collapse unless we import hundreds of thousands of low-skilled people that hate our values.
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I mean, the same in the United States or in Canada.
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Why has the Trudeau government decided to import so many foreign people?
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I mean, if you've got an answer for that, it would be the same reason.
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It's because there's a cabal of people with shadowy motivations that are doing it against the will of the people.
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At some level, one could suppose, I think, I don't want to reveal who was telling me about this,
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but they were just riffing about how maybe because Britain went around and colonized the world,
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But the people who colonized the world were the elite,
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and the people who were colonized Britain are the same people, the same elite.
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So it's the elite that are doing this, not the British people.
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The British people didn't sign up for either of this.
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I'm sure they benefited from colonization, and that's a big topic with a lot more nuance
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than I see willfully discussed about on Reddit, of all places.
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That argument is flawed and disgusting on a number of levels.
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Yeah, I mean, I could say a number of things about that.
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First of all, so if that is the rationale, i.e. it's a revenge for colonialism or for the empire,
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okay, so what, two wrongs do make a right, do they?
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If it was wrong for us to have an empire and colonize countries, other places in the world,
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if that was morally repugnant in the first place.
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And again, children aren't guilty of the crimes of their parents.
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So even if our great, even if you do think that our, which I don't,
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but even if you did think that our great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents
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did something wrong, still, we now are not guilty of those crimes.
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That argument I have a hard time with because I can see it being rejiggered.
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I mean, I agree with it, but I could just see like a counter that the kids who are born here of immigrants,
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they shouldn't be punished for the sins of their parents.
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Their parents came over here illegally, maybe, but the child shouldn't have to suffer
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from, you know, deportation or re-immigration, which still feels a little Orwellian to me.
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And similarly, the people who are, who were born in Pakistan, they don't, this is very Rawlsian.
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They don't deserve the inefficiencies or the inaction of their parents.
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But the case is that our forefathers do establish the conditions under which we have to deal with, right?
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So not necessarily the sins of our fathers, but to an extent the productivity or the laziness of our fathers, we do have to.
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Well, if you look at, I'll give two examples of the British Raj in India,
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when the British actually had government, controlled government in India.
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Or if you look at white South Africans in South Africa, in both those cases, when the government falls,
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the native populations then do expel them, even if they were born there,
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even if they're third, fourth, fifth generation.
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Now, if you do stay, we'll start murdering you.
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But I'm saying there's historical precedent for that.
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Why is it a unique situation in Britain that you can't have your country back after being essentially invaded?
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If you go to some of the big cities in, you know, all over London, all over Britain, you know, Blackburn,
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Well, then perhaps they can go back against theirs.
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Now, that might sound like an extremely authoritarian, extremely harsh idea or policy.
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It's that or you lose your country for all time.
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You end up in what's happening in South Africa.
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When you set a country or down a path like that.
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I didn't realize we'd be talking about all this.
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I thought we'd talk about your channel and the interviews you've done.
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No, I'm thinking about this because I walked through Manchester Street and I just saw like
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every brick, every house, every roof shingle, it's all falling apart.
00:28:29.660
And not only is it naturally falling apart, but they're actively breaking apart roads.
00:28:34.920
So at some point, when law and order are eroded, because there's too many people that don't
00:28:41.380
believe or don't have a consensus to follow that rule of law, then that natural entropy
00:28:50.780
And what you were saying earlier before we started about, was it Serbia, the Balkans?
00:28:56.820
You know, like eventually there is going to be internecine racial conflict.
00:29:00.780
And eventually the native Britons are going to either have to move out, stand their ground
00:29:07.440
or actively pursue deportation, if not retaliatory violence, which nobody wants.
00:29:19.860
I mean, that's one of the things I said in the piece I wrote, which got me deselected from
00:29:24.980
I said I was calling for mass remigration or mass deportations.
00:29:27.860
But I said explicitly, it needs to be bloodless or as bloodless as possible.
00:29:32.520
It needs to pour as little shame on us as possible.
00:29:44.380
And I mentioned what happened with the breakup of Yugoslavia, where you've got Croats and Serbs
00:29:49.860
and Albanians and Kosovars and just a multicultural, multi-religious, multi-ethnic mishmash.
00:29:56.840
And they all just start ethnically cleansing each other.
00:30:06.880
Does that make me a far-right fantasist that I see that down the road and I don't want it?
00:30:12.460
Well, it does seem that that's the way it's going, that you get bigger and bigger foreign
00:30:17.560
enclaves and smaller and smaller, almost certainly rural, native enclaves.
00:30:22.660
And at what point does it all spark off and go crazy like what happened in Yugoslavia in
00:30:34.440
How many, how many, yeah, along racial and ethnic lines?
00:30:38.700
How many terrorist incidents do there have to be before it explodes into a Yugoslavia,
00:30:48.520
You know, I think when one thinks of Britain, so I'm from the West Coast and my exposure
00:30:54.000
to British culture is mostly through movies, some through music.
00:30:57.540
While I was walking around, I put on Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd album.
00:31:02.120
It was this interesting kind of vibe, like exchange with that.
00:31:07.200
But, you know, I think of why, why the elite or the upper middle class British person would
00:31:14.820
allow this to happen and not, you know, not disturb anything, disturb the peace.
00:31:19.200
Because there's this prevailing politeness, British politeness, perhaps, perhaps, I don't
00:31:24.940
But if you look at Britain in a larger picture, there's also a British, a particular British
00:31:31.300
nobility, and not just the British nobility, but a nobility of character, a dignity of character,
00:31:43.560
And it calls upon a more masculine, I guess one could say calloused, or one could say thicker
00:31:59.140
There are going to be photos of crying children, and there will be resistance, and then that resistance
00:32:06.120
And until, and I've spoken about this when I interview British gentlemen, usually, about,
00:32:13.860
you know, the fate of the British male right now, I wonder to what degree, I just lost my
00:32:22.320
Well, you saw a fair few people at ARC, didn't you, not, that are sort of prepared to stand
00:32:26.640
up and say these more difficult, more hardline things?
00:32:29.240
You guys, I think courage begins with speech, and it's really interesting that you guys are
00:32:38.580
That disconnects you from your courage, because then you're only left with action, and then
00:32:43.020
you cannot justify your action beforehand if you can't speak your action.
00:32:46.520
If you can't say, if you don't do this, then this will happen.
00:32:50.160
If you can't speak that, then when you follow, when there's an outburst and all you can do
00:32:58.620
It looks like mindless violence, and it doesn't have any human character or nobility or courage
00:33:05.420
So I think it's incredibly courageous for you guys to speak first as much as you can.
00:33:11.380
But the courage, if that speech doesn't lead into action, then true courage, you're going
00:33:17.720
to have to call upon the certain parts of your history where perhaps, you know, armor is,
00:33:23.580
where skin as thick as armor comes out, and the word, the sharp word is replaced by harder
00:33:32.320
Well, when we look back through history in the English example, some people say the
00:33:36.360
English never, because we didn't get involved in the French Revolution, and there weren't
00:33:42.100
Some people think Britain's never revolt and never push back against the state.
00:33:46.100
But there's loads and loads of examples to that history when they have indeed.
00:33:51.400
Britain has fallen into a type of anarchy and or civil war.
00:33:55.280
There are lots and lots and lots of examples of it.
00:33:57.160
So, okay, we've got the peasants' revolt, the civil war, Wyatt's rebellion.
00:34:05.780
And again, if you look back throughout history, talking about not being able to speak, so oppression
00:34:14.860
or repression or censorship, if you look back through just a couple of examples off the top
00:34:19.980
of my head, if you look at the collapse of the Soviet Union, yeah, a very repressive system.
00:34:25.820
But when it collapsed, it collapsed quick, because everyone already knew and everyone among
00:34:33.020
themselves had already been talking about it for years and years and years.
00:34:37.880
There's many examples of dictatorships or oppressive, censorious regimes collapsing very,
00:34:44.220
very quickly when it seemed that they were as strong as they ever were.
00:34:50.280
You know, look at Franco's Spain, or you look at Yugoslavia with Tite, or you look at
00:34:55.320
Ceausescu, or again, there are just lots and lots of examples of where it seems that people
00:35:08.420
I mean, even Tsarist Russia teetered for a while.
00:35:12.040
Tsarist Russia was nowhere near as oppressive as the Soviet era.
00:35:15.540
But nonetheless, when it collapsed, it collapsed quick, because real people, real men, had been
00:35:21.140
talking about it and thinking about it for a long time already.
00:35:24.160
Yeah, well, one wonders about the economics of such a regime change or change of things.
00:35:31.840
I mean, it calls upon the relinquishing of one's comfortableness, being comfortable.
00:35:38.360
But if the world is already, if your comforts are already declining, there might be a time
00:35:46.680
People say that we won't rise up and do anything because it's too easy not to, because everyone's
00:35:56.560
What about when inflation is so high you can't afford to buy a bloody block of cheese?
00:36:03.020
Your wife or sister or daughter has been raped.
00:36:07.900
You've been forced out of the place your forefathers have lived in for generations.
00:36:13.780
You've been forced to live somewhere else because you've been intimidated out of that
00:36:25.200
You know, we were in the other studio, your, like, Starship studio.
00:36:40.420
And you're like, it's usually so many black pills and I try to bring a white pill.
00:36:48.160
I thought I'd be interviewing you all about you.
00:36:51.100
And we started off just straight up talking about Trump and then the state of England.
00:36:55.200
But, yeah, no, so there's loads of things I wanted to ask you.
00:37:06.320
I was in Killarney, Ireland a couple of years ago for a Genspect conference around the gender
00:37:13.500
An organization that's working on the various aspects of gender ideology and its effects on
00:37:19.240
people's bodies and families and stuff like that.
00:37:21.740
But, yeah, this is the first time I've been to London.
00:37:26.780
So, I'm getting, I'm absorbing more actual London and getting to see the Abbey and the
00:37:36.740
Sorry, I was just saying, I think your wife is at the British Museum today.
00:37:44.760
I think the two best things you can go to in London is the British Museum and Westminster
00:37:49.840
And, again, while we were, just before we were called in, I pressed upon you that you
00:37:56.740
I mean, sometimes I actually have mass in there and stuff.
00:38:12.320
I've been to France and Austria and a couple other places, briefly.
00:38:19.880
It's odd to be so far from home and yet so close to the culture.
00:38:23.940
Like, I don't, there's, everything's in English.
00:38:26.500
And the kind of, there's some older architecture, but mostly it's just people dress better.
00:38:31.660
Like, there's not like a distance between me and this culture.
00:38:41.100
Like, when I went to France or I went to a monastery or a monkery, what's it called?
00:38:54.800
Like, there was enough distance for me to appreciate that.
00:38:58.880
So, I'm having a hard time absorbing it because it just feels so close to who I am in a way.
00:39:06.300
Are your ancestors English or Irish, Scottish, Dutch?
00:39:29.380
So, did you like ARC or did you find it a bit of a waste of time or it was better than
00:39:37.420
It was, so they kept on bringing up Noah Harari, this transhumanist guy who's featured in the
00:39:50.140
And ARC is kind of, like, they mentioned Harari quite a lot, kind of like as their foil.
00:40:03.740
Eats the bugs, you know, kind of Schwab's right hand.
00:40:15.960
And ARC, I think, was pretty explicitly modeled as a response to the WEF.
00:40:24.600
But ARC kept on talking about, we're going to save the West.
00:40:28.140
And I think that saving the West is just one meridian shy of trying to save the world.
00:40:36.880
It's basically this huge tent where we're going to kind of say a bunch of things, but
00:40:43.300
we're not going to really say anything really explicitly.
00:40:45.720
We're not going to take a really strong stand on any given one of these things, but we're
00:40:50.780
We're going to mention how kids need to not be on phones and pornography needs to be banned,
00:41:04.540
I'm like, well, what do you guys really, really, what are we here for?
00:41:10.000
When we talk about Christianity, what Christianity are we talking about?
00:41:12.760
When we talk about saving the West, what is the West?
00:41:17.200
I guess it's basically after World War II, it's a bunch of American satellite states in
00:41:26.420
We're not going to say Europe because, you know, Americans are there.
00:41:30.980
But I think it needs to be broad enough for ideas to percolate.
00:41:36.180
Like, in the, you know, in the schmoozing place.
00:41:41.780
And in the schmoozing place, there's 4,000 people there.
00:41:44.460
And I was trying to figure out who all these people were.
00:41:46.560
There was a lot of young people and a lot of older people in suits.
00:41:50.040
And so I think that what it was being used for, whether intentionally or unintentionally,
00:41:55.340
was for young people who are looking for opportunity to meet older people who are looking for something
00:42:01.280
And so just allowing some sort of coalition building in with regard to career.
00:42:09.060
And what I think is very important while Trump is going through and dismantling the deep state,
00:42:16.640
so-called, and just kind of like dissolving a lot of these positions,
00:42:22.400
is that there's, until we, just like I said, until we have a new order,
00:42:28.000
until there are, until somebody can see a whole career path in this new institution,
00:42:35.220
in this new American institution, or whatever that's going to be,
00:42:39.280
there's really, it lacks longevity until you have that.
00:42:44.640
And so art was very light on myth, like myth building.
00:42:48.960
Like they talked about, we need a new story, but like nobody,
00:42:57.780
I think it's more important in order to not be globalist is to be more particularist
00:43:02.960
and say that Hungarians are Hungarian, British are British, French are French.
00:43:07.300
And until we remember who we are as people and build our strength and our identity,
00:43:16.140
return to our identity, just like I'm saying with what needs to happen in Britain
00:43:19.780
in order to change the flow of events, until those particularities are revitalized,
00:43:32.000
Then those different particular things can go up and have a coalition.
00:43:37.640
I think, I think American hegemony being withdrawn is going to probably make Europe suffer.
00:43:44.340
But, but that suffering, like no longer being basically vassals of America is going to give
00:43:49.580
you guys the opportunity to really say, who are we?
00:43:53.320
And I think ARC in, ARC was an umbrella for that to start to take place.
00:44:01.160
I mean, you use the word particular, some people might say regionalist or even nationalist.
00:44:06.200
I would like to see the word nationalist or nationalism lose its connotations of being evil or something.
00:44:17.820
But somehow the word patriot is okay, but the word nationalist isn't.
00:44:22.600
I've never really thought that because there is also the connotation of national socialism.
00:44:26.840
You guys need to get over, you keep on bringing up Nazi, you keep on bringing up Hitler.
00:44:33.920
You need to, I think, I completely agree with what you said.
00:44:44.300
I know Carl doesn't particularly like the word nationalist or nationalism, but just be completely
00:44:53.900
I think that on a deeper level, a lot of people brought up Christianity and brought
00:44:58.880
up spirituality, and I don't know to what extent you guys are secularists.
00:45:22.180
But I think, I find it fascinating how he, he bags on atheists and he's like, we need
00:45:27.640
to have a Christian, he's like, he's pointing in the Christian direction, but he can't be
00:45:32.900
So he never used to be, he used to be sort of very, very, fairly vocally atheist.
00:45:40.780
Um, I think that there is a, there is some need for, for whatever nationalism or community
00:45:50.380
is to be bounded by a particular mythos and a particular forms and rituals.
00:45:57.880
And in my estimation, um, if you're going to establish rituals, you should establish some
00:46:05.360
direction for those rituals that is higher than, let's say, uh, a car or even a nation.
00:46:11.100
And that, that transcendent value, you could use words like truth or justice or something
00:46:17.360
But God is a pretty good direction if it's properly conceived, but without humbling oneself
00:46:23.820
and, and syncing up with, with your fellow man and having some sort of relationship that
00:46:30.040
isn't just language based, just ethnicity based, just sports teams based, um, there needs
00:46:40.820
And I think that, I can't not be a Christian, but I can't be a Christian because I have a
00:46:53.900
I have a really hard time with that, but I believe that, I believe that there is a spiritual
00:46:58.140
dimension to life that allows for people to connect on it, on a deeper level.
00:47:02.400
And, and I think any sort of community, uh, or communal action that doesn't have, um, a
00:47:10.640
spiritual component is going to go down the path of entropic hell.
00:47:16.040
I think that without, without some sort of value and aim that's higher than, than will
00:47:22.500
to power, the nationalism or any other sort of, of movement of power will.
00:47:27.580
And you end up being very materialistic and, and very inhumane.
00:47:33.740
Um, I think Christopher Hitchie talked about, um, like the, the numinous, the idea that the
00:47:40.440
spiritualism in the very broadest sense, the idea that there is something bigger than
00:47:47.960
There's something bigger and more important and the, the human condition, uh, isn't divorced
00:47:53.120
from something, something like that, but not sort of, because I, I, again, I, without
00:47:59.500
thinking, describe myself as an atheist a moment ago.
00:48:01.920
I'm not an atheist because an atheist says there certainly isn't a God.
00:48:16.460
The galaxy is spiraling through the cosmos, but there's a meaning, whether there's, whether
00:48:20.680
the theology and the words that were written in the, the scriptures and the gospel.
00:48:25.900
No, I'm not, I don't, I'm not particularly interested in that.
00:48:29.440
If I was to worship anything, it might be the sun.
00:48:35.280
I'm not, I'm not a pagan, but I don't, yeah, I don't buy the dogma, the Christian dogma.
00:48:45.320
You're asked to have a type of blind faith and I can't, I can't do it.
00:48:50.200
I can't, if I'm honest with myself, deep down, all I can say, I believe in, or I have
00:48:56.780
faith, the images that Hubble or, um, the James Webb have sent back to us.
00:49:01.200
That seems to be what the cosmos is, um, not what, uh, not, not what I'm told by Tertullian.
00:49:10.280
I'm not saying there's no, there might be a God.
00:49:15.220
In fact, it's unknowable whether there is or not.
00:49:18.340
I feel like that's the only sort of honest position to hold.
00:49:22.260
But as you said, I think it is absolutely important to have something like a spirituality,
00:49:30.280
some sort of narrative or story that's bigger than us, that's bigger than merely materialism
00:49:36.900
Otherwise you go, you descend into some type of hell.
00:49:47.980
Well, in your country, in your country, in your country.
00:49:53.020
And look at California, some places in California.
00:49:55.100
Well, I mean, look at the mental health of our youth, right?
00:50:00.480
There's, you, so when you talk about Britain, when you, when you talk about what it is to
00:50:07.880
be British, you, you, you, you talk about history because you're a historian.
00:50:19.200
Uh, but when, when I asked you, well, what is that?
00:50:24.520
You can point to all these places on a time map, right?
00:50:27.440
Where this thing happened and this thing happened, this thing happened.
00:50:29.880
And you can tell all these different stories in these relationships and you can point to
00:50:32.980
all these sites and who built them and stuff like that.
00:50:37.280
There's a spirit of the people that is more than the sum of its parts.
00:50:43.380
And I think that even when the conversation that erupted on Twitter about what is a British
00:50:48.540
person and does it, is that necessarily a, an ethnicity, there is a, there's a style
00:50:54.380
and a, and a, and a tone of voice and a way of looking at the world and a way of interacting
00:51:01.880
Post-modernism, but it's true that, that you have a, you are a part of the people that
00:51:07.400
has a particular taste and smell and tone of voice and a set of values to you.
00:51:16.200
And by spiritual, I just mean that is an aggregate sense that you have of the thing.
00:51:21.400
And I think that, that it would be really difficult to convey that to young men in order
00:51:29.800
for them to take pride in their land without reducing it into story.
00:51:34.900
And I think that the Bible or any sort of religious document is the attempt to communicate a very
00:51:42.120
big reality through these little tiny stories of this happened.
00:51:47.640
And you see the nature of reality through all of these different stories.
00:51:51.500
And, and the problem that I have with dogma is like, it's distilling those stories, which
00:51:57.080
They're distilled into stories and then distilling those stories into little statements.
00:52:02.200
Like the stories should lead up, not down into dogma, but up into experience.
00:52:08.840
So that's, that's where I stand with, with religion probably.
00:52:18.280
So the other thing I wanted to talk to you all about, which I actually in my mind thought
00:52:21.980
we'd only be talking about is your channel and your content and your journey.
00:52:29.680
So I thought my first question, I actually thought as soon as we start, I'd say, I'm
00:52:33.280
talking to Benjamin Boyce to tell me about, about your uni days.
00:52:39.820
And how you started, how you started making content.
00:52:49.120
Um, cause that was really how you started making content, right?
00:52:53.720
I remember cause you've been doing it for quite a few years now.
00:52:59.720
And your channel knocking very close to a hundred thousand, big 100K.
00:53:07.820
You don't have to turn on the notification or something, but if you subscribe, that'd be
00:53:23.520
I mean, even for eight years, that's quite a lot.
00:53:28.160
I think it's over 500 interviews and I mainly just do interviews now, but yeah.
00:53:33.740
Um, well, once you get into it, you just have to create content.
00:53:40.140
So, you know, the work is to keep the content flowing, you know?
00:53:54.020
I see a lot of people who started after me, like get really big, really quick.
00:54:07.640
And they're now seven times, 20 times bigger than my channel.
00:54:14.540
I mean, I'm not just blowing smoke up your ass for the sake of it.
00:54:27.660
Like you're, you've never, I've never seen you lose your temper or come close.
00:54:32.120
I was, I, I, I've been retarded before and I kind of, I, I, I've failed certain interviews.
00:54:39.180
I interviewed Constantine Kissin and I still just in my craw.
00:54:51.020
And like, there's something about like misconnection.
00:54:55.400
I don't want to talk about that necessarily, but I'll just say that why, what I try to
00:55:01.540
I spent a lot of time, probably one of my landmark things besides the Evergreen State College
00:55:07.060
I did a landmark documentary because I was at that college and that was peak wokeness.
00:55:12.520
That in that probably that, that documentary that's pretty extensive that occurred in 20,
00:55:21.180
That's the period I cover at the Evergreen State College, small little super progressive
00:55:28.700
Everything that happened there happened on the world stage in 2020.
00:55:32.860
Everything that happened in 2020, aside from a novel coronavirus that...
00:55:41.780
But all the BLM stuff, all the racial awakening.
00:55:45.660
So that was my bread and butter for a really long time.
00:55:47.780
I got sick of racial politics and somehow I moved on to gender.
00:55:52.260
And in the gender discussion, I found this group of individuals that are kind of called
00:55:58.740
Have had usually in their teens or twenties developed a trans identity or transfixation and
00:56:06.000
went to a certain degree down that transitional path.
00:56:08.840
And in those interviews, it was really interesting topic to see what's happening with this group
00:56:14.640
But the most important thing about the interview was to, to really get a portrait of who this
00:56:19.660
person was and, you know, the ideology and like what they ended up doing and how that
00:56:30.720
And this is the, the topic is this detransition.
00:56:33.320
And so with the kissing thing, like I didn't get to that, that, that connection.
00:56:41.280
And I, I'm not a good arguer and, and there's a certain things that he was arguing that I
00:56:47.640
And so like I was really, I got egg all over my face because I couldn't argue with him.
00:56:54.300
And so that like in relief, that kind of shows you what I'm trying to do, not necessarily
00:56:59.560
consciously, but in an interview, when it gets to a place where things like go into
00:57:07.460
And then maybe if, if the conversation is really good, like I'll ask a question and you get
00:57:13.500
this person like looking at things and they just look at it in a whole different way.
00:57:18.120
And so I'm really interested in how people look at the world.
00:57:20.600
And my job is to be, and I call it like the stage is like the stage is theirs, but like,
00:57:29.280
So I, I give the, I give them and I'm just kind of setting up the lights and the, and
00:57:33.320
the attitude and the atmosphere for, for something more human and hopefully to kind of break
00:57:38.480
through a little bit of the shallowness of our age, or at least of our current way of
00:57:46.480
And especially when you come on my, my show, even though we're not talking about you specifically
00:57:50.300
every once in a while, like try to peek into your, into your life, you know, but like we
00:57:54.840
just really get into the story of who Grant was, you know, and like who this person was
00:58:02.400
That's what, that's how I organize information and organize the values of my life.
00:58:11.440
Um, I mean, when the first time we spoke was the, I think it was the war of 1812 one.
00:58:17.560
I'm pretty sure that was our first long form conversation.
00:58:28.920
You set up the stage and the lights for me and perfectly, I thought.
00:58:35.160
Um, because some people often I find, cause I've done a bit of interviewing myself, been
00:58:40.880
interviewed once or twice and, and done a few fair few interviews.
00:58:44.080
And, um, it is quite often a different dynamic.
00:58:47.320
Sometimes the person really wants to dominate and you can barely get a word in.
00:58:55.840
But usually if I'm, if I'm the interviewee and it's history, I'm going to want to, I'm probably
00:59:02.840
most comfortable doing the vast majority of the lifting and just seamlessly with nothing
00:59:13.100
And just tweaked me in the right direction every now and again, keep me on, keep me
00:59:19.420
And it was just, it just worked perfectly for me.
00:59:21.680
And I see nearly all the interviews you do, you, you pull that off.
00:59:27.240
I can't think of an example when I was like, oh, Boyce is ruining this.
00:59:36.200
That, that, uh, the content isn't necessarily, well, I mean, if somebody subscribes to me,
00:59:41.960
I don't, you hear like, I watched your content, but not all of them.
00:59:53.060
I just like that pure like hour and a half or so, but it's not for everybody and it's not
00:59:58.480
for the algorithm either, but it's like, I think there's this concept of the long tail
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of, uh, you know, like, and I, I heard this a while ago and the example uses that Britney
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Spears gets a whole bunch of attention, but like in these rare bands get a lot less attention,
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If you make really good content in that long tail, because, because of the way that media
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is accessed so easily now you can, you can afford, you can make kind of a mom and pop
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living off of not, not doing anything too big and just like, just following your interests,
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Right now I'm mapping out what would be called the dissident, right?
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So they need to stop being dissidents and actually like put where the rubber meets the road, the
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E right, the more, um, like, like what's on the edge of the, uh, the right edge of the
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I've been interviewing that because I think there's a lot of ideas there, even though the people
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might not be articulating them in a way that it will be accessible to the centrists or even
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allowable and polite society, there's still a lot over there.
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I'm really fascinated and especially I'm fascinated in the, in the contention between the classical
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liberals and the more further right individuals, such as, uh, such as Carl's arc from kind of
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One of the things I love to do is to have people on repeatedly over time, every couple of
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years or so, and just to watch and get a portrait of somebody in time.
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And that's something that the woke cancel culture era, uh, kind of overlooked about human
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nature is that you can be a 15 year old racist and then a 25 year old humanitarian, you know,
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like there's this huge trajectory that we're always going on and intellectually, how much
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more complex somebody, somebody, and if you're not developing and if you're regressing that,
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The way like, for example, um, the various dialogues between James Lindsay and Carl Benjamin.
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I was in inverted commas debate they had and you've had them both on before and since.
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And so, you know, I've been on a couple of three, three times or whatever, and, uh, you've
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done that with a whole bunch of different people.
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And, um, yeah, it's great because everyone's on a journey.
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I always think it's one of the worst things in the world when you're expected to form
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your entire worldview and all your politics by the time you're 18 or by the time you're 22.
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You have to stick with that until the end of your life.
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Otherwise you're a hypocrite or you're an idiot or something.
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Everyone's on a journey and you need to be able to change your mind and even profoundly change
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I think one of the, one of the best aspects of our interviews, like, let's say with Hamilton
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or Grant, I feel like we both like, you're telling a story and you're, you're telling
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the story and I'm asking you questions and, and it seems like we've, we've taken pictures
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Like with Ulysses, I remember like at this period of time he was here and I love the history
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Um, and the biography is like, who was he at this point in time?
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And then he goes and he's in this other completely different place.
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And then he was in charge of like routing out the South, you know, like what, what, what pressures
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are those two individuals under and how does one inform the other and the other informed
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the one that's, uh, I love doing that because I do quite a lot of my history themed content
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I mean, not always that sometimes it's something else or war or broader themes, but often I'm
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just looking at something like the life of Ulysses S. Grant or the life of Henry IV or the life
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And so you do it, it's obvious really to sort of do it chronologically.
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And if I can ever do that, just, I'm glad you like it.
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Um, uh, if I, you know, try to blow my own trumpet, you know, I feel a bit self-conscious,
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but I, hopefully I do these stories some justice.
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I do hope to, yeah, to see someone's journey from, from childhood to death.
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I think, I think our work is always fascinating.
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I mean, the, the historian always flavors or colors the subject matter.
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And I was, I, I was thinking about this because one of the, one of the arguments that I had
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around Kissin was about this, uh, internet creator, Daryl Cooper, martyr maid.
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And he's made some salacious statements about Churchill.
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I would love to hear your, your thoughts on Churchill.
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He's, and Daryl's, uh, kind of challenged the Churchill, uh, God likeness and the savior of
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And, and, um, and, and the, the, the argument with Kissin was whether or not Daryl was lying
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I'm like, history is, history is a string of facts.
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So I'm interested in the narrative and, and it's not as clean as we want, but it's not
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It's going to, you're going to have competing facts.
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I'm sure either because the way that the documents are handed down to us and stuff.
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So in a, in a sense, there's a way that we can embrace our, our meddling hands and, and do
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There's a way I'm trying to, I'm trying to take all my detransitioner interviews and turn
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And I realized that I can't just transcribe that.
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I need to really relive that and, and get into the head of the experience of a 14 year
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old girl bullied at school, obsessed with the internet, and then just discovers that she's
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And then goes through this whole fever dream up to and including injecting herself with
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testosterone and growing a little bit of the beard and changing her voice.
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Like what is, what is it to feel in that head to be, to really like embrace that?
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It'd be based on these historical, historical experiences, but trying to convey to the audience,
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not just the facts and not even just the story, but the being there, which is more of the novelists
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I mean, talking about sort of the nature of history and the kissing and the Churchill thing.
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I mean, the reality is that there's no such thing as an objective view of the past.
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As you say, the historian, there will always be the historian's hand is in the narrative
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So the job of an honest or a good, quote unquote, good historian is to minimize that as much as
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And that's all, that's the best you can ever hope for.
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We can't agree what happened yesterday, even though it's on camera.
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So we certainly won't, won't, will not be able to agree exactly what was the objective truth
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But I would say with, with, I mean, history never stands still.
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So that it will always be the narratives that any historian ways, not only will he leave his
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own imprint, his own voice on the story, but it will also be a product of his time and his politics.
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So, for example, you look back at Churchill through the lens of the 1970s will be quite different
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to looking back at him through the lens of the 2020s.
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You know, the view that certain, for just an example, the view of, let's say, Julius Caesar,
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at one point is extremely popular, extremely popular.
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Or someone like Cicero might be, might be a better example.
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At some point, he's one of the most famous, one of the most beloved figures in history.
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And then actually he's a, he's a bit, later in another period, he's a bit gauche and un, un, un popular.
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And, and then it was, the pendulum will swing back.
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I mean, just for me, just, if I just throw in my two pence on Churchill, I'm not much of a fan.
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I don't buy the narrative that he's the greatest Briton that ever lived, for example.
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I've got many, many criticisms, but that's just me.
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It's not, well, it's not possible to retrieve one.
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The past is profoundly lost to us and will always remain.
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So, so you're only going to be constructing an image, a shadow.
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Well, from, from the point of view of a historian, that is the noble and humble way of viewing things.
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But from the point of view of a people, we need those myths.
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You know, we need to have somebody who's the standard bearer of why, how we got here and why we belong here, why we deserve this, whether ill or good.
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And so I wonder, and maybe, maybe people don't need a figure like Washington or like any of these great historical figures.
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Maybe, maybe, maybe we don't necessarily need those great men to, to define our history, but it's a very politically valuable tool to have somebody that stated or that embodied the spirit of the country for a period of time and set the standard.
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And I think that's one of the beloved aspects of monarchy and one of the sad things about monarchy, you know, being here is that you had somebody who aspired to and was, was expected to be the embodiment of, and the soul of, of the, of the people on some level.
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And we lost, I think we lose a little bit of direction without having that, you know, and that's why somebody like Elon Musk is very galvanizing because that, that man runs all these companies and they're all, he's a responsible for all of them and they're responsible to him.
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There's this really direct Elon-ness that he's, that he's fulfilling.
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That's why Trump is actually so scary to people.
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And I think that's why he's flirting with autocracy and the trappings of Kingsmanship because that there's, he's tapping into something that we long for, which is a leader, which is somebody that's great.
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That's going to push us forward that we can still say, well, he's flawed, but he's, he's put, he's driving us somewhere.
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And so I wonder, I wonder again, if that's not what is going to be necessary for all these different European countries to have a rallying point, to have, have a strong man to lead us forward.
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I mean, talk about the Napoleon quote he came up.
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I think Cicero said it after the Catalan conspiracy.
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I've got a whole video on Catalan conspiracy and spoken about Cicero many times.
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I think, I think Cicero said that after, or perhaps when he was put on trial for his, his, uh, his role in the Catalan conspiracy.
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Um, yeah, I think, uh, I think you're absolutely right about the sort of the, the need for a strong leader.
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I mean, again, when you look back at history, look back at the pre-modern world, at least, um, or the ancient world, um, it was sort of a, a, a, a, a struggle for survival.
01:11:37.060
Until you get a surplus of food, and then you can have artisans, teachers, doctors, and leaders.
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Any sort of large collective does need leadership.
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There's this idea of the left, which is odd because there's so many examples like Stalin or Mao, but the left think that the idea of having a strong man, of having a leader is somehow intrinsically wrongheaded and evil and a slippery slope to, I don't know what, the Holocaust again or something.
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Again, it's sort of hot, hard baked into our, into our being because we're, we're a pack animal.
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So you're going to need, you're going to need a leadership.
01:12:29.200
Isn't it a particular quality of British history that, um, well, one aspect of British history is, is not only the kings, but the developments, the political innovations of accountability around the king?
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I mean, of course, ever since the Glorious Revolution or certainly since Queen Victoria.
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Is that an ironic title or was it really glorious?
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Oh, well, if you're a Protestant pro-parliamentarian, it was pretty glorious.
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I think for the average person, it didn't make much, much difference in various ways.
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If you're a Catholic, it's certainly not glorious.
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It depends who you are, depends how you're looking at it.
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But yeah, if you're a Protestant Church of England, uh, pro-parliament person, then it was pretty damn glorious.
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But anyway, um, ever since then, it's been parliament, not the king.
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But it doesn't matter whether it, whether you call it a president, a king, a chancellor, a prime minister.
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The cockpit of power, the cockpit of policymaking sits with this individual, which sort of doesn't matter as much what their name is.
01:13:32.740
But, um, uh, yeah, I wanted to, I realize we've been going for already, uh, a bit of time.
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I don't know how much, um, time or when you need to get.
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Usually these conversations are about 90 minutes, so we can, like, start to.
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We don't have a female pilot, so we don't have to worry about the landing.
01:13:49.020
One thing I did really want to ask you about, and I was a bit worried that it might be somewhere between annoying for you or outright, can we just not, uh, was about Evergreen.
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But I'm still, because on your channel, there's so much content there, but, um, you've got sort of pinged towards the top, sort of that 12 part.
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Um, I've watched it all the way through myself.
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And I rewatched all of it probably about a year ago, something like that.
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And, but I'd like to, uh, just talk about it for a bit, because, uh, if it's not too annoying for you.
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No, it'd be great to talk to it to a fan of history.
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Because there it was, I mean, there's a, God, there's so much to say, but just, if I give you a really, really, my understanding, a really, really brief, super brief overview of it, and if you can sort of build that out a little bit, pad that out a little bit.
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It seems to me that there was one or two members of the faculty, particular members of the faculty, who were, I am happy to judge them as sort of, insane is too strong, but just an arch, arch, sort of got a massive, the racial resentment.
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And they used the, some of the students as foot soldiers, and then the president and the sort of very, very senior leadership allowed it to play out.
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And, uh, it, it, it all, it all, in the end, imploded into some sort of mass hysteria, or that's not quite right, but some sort of, uh, nightmarish, bouldering on nightmarish scenario, and got a tiny bit violent, but it didn't, it didn't end up with, like, any giant riots and loads and loads of people getting killed or anything like that.
01:15:46.760
That nearly got there, and the police had to get involved, and the whole thing was like a microcosm of all the nonsense we've had during the Biden administration or so.
01:15:59.780
Is that a fair reading of basically how it went down?
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Uh, yeah, well, that's a, this is another way that history is complex, and you can look at it, and some people, so one of the people that emerged from it, and has been very successful in life,
01:16:16.760
post-Evergreen, was not any, uh, not, not, not the institution itself.
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Um, and he went on to be part of that IDW thing, and then he's tackled other controversial issues, like the response to COVID, and, uh, certain novel medical, um, interventions.
01:16:42.340
Well, he's got a big podcast of his own, hasn't he?
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He's got a very big podcast called, uh, Dark Horse.
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He's sort of internet famous, or just famous, isn't he?
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Yeah, he's rather, he's rather famous, he's, he's recognized on the street from what I, from what he tells me.
01:16:55.500
Um, but when somebody wants to make a hit piece about him, they'll tell the, they'll tell the Evergreen story in a very particular way.
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And when somebody wants to make a hero out of him, they'll probably tell the Evergreen story a little bit closer to my way.
01:17:10.480
But his part of the whole story was actually just one piece of it.
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When they confronted him outside his class that time.
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It was that he became the venue by way, or the, the modus, or the, the way in which the events went viral to a certain audience.
01:17:33.300
So, this was 2017, at that time, it was post-Gamergate, uh, Gamergate, which is a part of this, this building right here, part of your project right here, is really, uh, part of what's going on now, in a way.
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Gamergate led the way to a bunch of content creators, your boss among them, making these SJW cringe videos.
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You know, where, where the social justice warriors, usually on a college campus, were just acting badly, behaving badly.
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Uh, fatties acting badly, or something like that.
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You know, the blue-haired freakazoids, or whatever like that.
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So, when Evergreen happened, the students recorded the whole thing and put it on the internet, because they thought they were doing the righteous, just thing.
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Because they had been taught that they are on the right side of history, no matter what, because of their skin color, because they're fighting this oppression.
01:18:21.180
Um, that, so that would have gone really viral, because it was so cringe.
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But, because you had Brett Weinstein deciding to speak to Tucker, deciding to go on Rogan, go on Dave Rubin, and giving it a more intellectual, uh, answer to that.
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It led the, it led the people who were not just, not what, what AA would call, like, people who just love slop, you know?
01:18:49.860
That SJJW cringe compilation, it was just slop.
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But Brett, Brett gave it to an audience that was a little bit more, what the heck is going on?
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And he kind of legitimized it in a way, or legitimized the critique by leading it to another audience.
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And I don't think he understood that that's what he was doing.
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I was there when it happened, and I was listening to professors trying to figure out how to respond to Brett, because Brett went on Tucker, and they thought that was totally wrong.
01:19:20.460
He should have just accepted his fate as a racist, uh, Jewish supremacist, well, white supremacist Jew.
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And they, they had, they were formulating a public response, this open letter public response, where they basically said that the students didn't do anything wrong.
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We need to rewrite the student code of conduct to make sure that they don't get in trouble.
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And we need to rewrite our faculty handbook so that we can get him in trouble.
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And, and I remember being in the room while they were composing this document, because I was talking to one of the, one of the professors and his wife was, was, uh, composing this document.
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I'm like, Brett's going to be on Rogan tomorrow.
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And they're like, we have to release this right now.
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I'm like, I don't think nobody understood the power of the internet.
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In 2017, the teachers and the administration had no idea the media frenzy they were about to be involved in.
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They thought it was just some viral videos and some stupid people on Fox calling it in.
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They had no idea that there's this huge network.
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And so what happened at Evergreen was a very, it was a particular beat in our story that, that involves Trump, that involves gamer gear.
01:20:38.980
It was a particular beat where people are still not aware of the power of social media and still not aware that recording all this stuff and opening up to not just the slop hounds that are eating it as slop, but to the intellectual class who are worried about what is going on.
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And then also witnessing, and then my job, when it was time for me to step up, because I was really pissed off, I went there to get a degree.
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I went there and I thought that education meant something.
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And when I got there, I realized that, no, it's just high school plus.
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And this is a bunch of, this is a fairy land of racial resentment.
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And they turned my entire degree into a racial justice degree where I went in there.
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Were you just finishing up when it all happened, right?
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Or you just finished the summer before, was it?
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I just, I'd finished a few months before I had like a capstone project and I finished it.
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I finished it and I'm like, well, what do I do now?
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And I'm like, well, I'll just do one more semester and then figure out what's next.
01:21:46.540
Little did I know that the entire school system, somebody criticized me very recently for going to Evergreen College and not realizing that it was woke.
01:21:56.360
So no matter where you go, it's going to be woke.
01:21:58.820
I mean, just a little bit less woke than Evergreen.
01:22:01.220
But Harvard is, since George Floyd, it's all just as woke, if not more so.
01:22:07.200
Plus on paper, Evergreen looked, would have looked lovely.
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On paper, it's like, this is a, this is a paradise.
01:22:14.280
Follow, just, uh, you, it's basically master's level work for undergraduate prices.
01:22:18.800
You get like a couple of teachers, then you go really deep, as deep as possible.
01:22:30.780
You couldn't have known that it would, that the time you spent there, at least towards the very end, descended into nonsense.
01:22:38.740
And so, so Brett, Brett had a particular role and you can call him a hero or a villain based on his response to that.
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But I think he, he served a particular function for the story.
01:22:49.220
There's other things that he did for himself, but for the story, for the historical moment, he served it in a particular way.
01:22:55.600
Um, and my job was to take all of, I, I worked in the media department while I was there and I was on camera recording all of these workshops, seminars, and lectures of just basic Maoist revolutionaryism.
01:23:17.280
You guys have to watch, if you watch nothing, watch the, uh, the canoe meeting.
01:23:21.820
Where they worship the black person, uh, and they, they, they just, they start to worship the black people.
01:23:29.900
And so it's not just a bunch of students behaving badly.
01:23:33.360
It's this entire institution implementing a particular ideology, intersectionality, uh, critical theory, whatever you want to call it, which is a whole story that we've probably, everybody's covered ad nauseum now, but to tie the students behavior to the professors.
01:23:49.080
And one key part of the documentary, one of the protesters, they, they go in and they take over this faculty meeting and they start eating the cake, uh, that was for somebody who was retiring.
01:23:59.940
And they say, you know, aren't you all, isn't, aren't we doing what you taught us?
01:24:05.240
You taught us to change the, on the, on the evergreen website, it says, it says to change the world.
01:24:15.260
Why are you not storming the best deal as well?
01:24:18.240
Not that she knew what that would mean, but why are you not like rallying against us?
01:24:23.160
And the thing is that nobody really knows, like the really frustrating part of the documentary, the students are really upset about something and you never find out what they're actually upset about or what they actually want.
01:24:40.060
And there are professors to get back to your point.
01:24:42.460
There were professors who were aching that on, but what happened was that when George Bridges, the president at the time came in at 2015, he empowered.
01:24:50.740
He said, he said his first opening statement was that the history of racial justice is, is, is really great, but racism still controls everything in America right now.
01:25:01.980
And why we're here at this college is to solve racism.
01:25:05.760
And so he said that the purpose of the college was to end racism and he empowered these hyper anti-racist, racist teachers to, to take over the college.
01:25:17.020
And, and, and so when the students saw that, well, we can Machiavelli and they were all intuitively seeing that they could get infinite power by following these steps, the steps were already put in place by the doofus at the top.
01:25:31.920
And so when he's agreeing with them during the struggle sessions, he's not just allowing it to go forward.
01:25:39.040
He set it in motion and he wants it to go forward because this is how racism is solved.
01:25:44.420
These struggle sessions, this white guilt in, in, in a vice documentary.
01:25:48.600
And then I'll stop going on, but in the vice documentary, uh, the interviewer says, the students say that you're a white supremacist.
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And George Bridges, the president says, no, well, well, depends on how you define that, you know?
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So they were so indoctrinated in this all the way up and down.
01:26:10.460
And I remember after that thing happened where they took over the campus and they had that struggle session and I go back on campus to do my little thing.
01:26:20.780
And I saw a black man walking across campus and I physically got scared and it was the most racist thing I've ever felt.
01:26:29.700
Like that man is a threat to me based purely on his skin.
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And I, after feeling that that's what got me really angry because I, I don't think, I mean, everybody's a little racist.
01:26:39.540
I'm pretty sure, but they put me in that position to be viscerally hyper aware of racial tension.
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And, and it was like, that was just totally inexcusable.
01:26:51.060
The way I go on screes about the Pakistani community or something.
01:27:03.980
Um, so who was the, who was the female black member of staff who was?
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Is it fair to say that sort of a nexus between Bridges and her, neither could have done it on their own?
01:27:21.460
I mean, the students, the foot soldiers, of course, big part of it and something else.
01:27:29.020
You needed both the, the, the, the super sort of the president really to allow it to happen.
01:27:35.780
And then, and then the actual, the actual catalyst or the actual agitator to live it out and make
01:27:46.260
Uh, Naomi Lowe worked in the media department too.
01:27:52.700
I, I helped her out of any sort of interaction with, I, we had one interaction.
01:27:58.340
She needed my help for a technical, her whole job was to teach how to use Final Cut Pro and
01:28:05.960
She just like, of course, she didn't know how to do anything.
01:28:09.260
I mean, her, her films are technically okay, but they worship ugliness, um, which is just
01:28:15.100
really interesting because she's a postmodernist.
01:28:19.460
But some, one of the, one of the staff said, you know, she, she teaches 16 credits in eight.
01:28:24.200
Like the students go in wanting to learn anti-racist who is in fact a massive racist.
01:28:32.660
I went to, I went to one of the showings earlier on, like my first quarter there, I went to one
01:28:37.200
of the showings of her, of her students to go and check out like the art that's happening
01:28:42.140
Cause I want to be involved in the creative aspects of life.
01:28:46.400
That's why I was there to take time off of the real world and figure out how to possibly
01:28:54.420
So I went there and they just talked about themselves the whole time.
01:29:02.520
And, and Naima Lowe has a particular, and you can see this just supreme resentment, supreme
01:29:12.140
And, and when I did my first video, which I didn't know, I didn't even know what I was
01:29:17.440
I'm just like, everybody thinks this is a bunch of students going wild, but there's a huge
01:29:22.840
So I started publishing videos and when I got around to, well, I need to make a video about
01:29:26.720
Naima cause I have all this footage of Naima giving all these, all these lectures about
01:29:32.060
power and, and, and racial resentment and how you can't escape the fact that I'm a black
01:29:37.880
woman in a white world and how I fear for my life every time I step out of the door.
01:29:48.580
A lie that turns into like total psychosis because it's not based on truth.
01:29:52.880
I mean, if she believed it, but there was a shooting a year before the protests where
01:29:58.100
two black, two young black drunk men assaulted a police officer with a skateboard.
01:30:03.640
They ran after a police officer with a skateboard and got shot and it's the police officer's fault.
01:30:09.300
Cause like, why are these black youths going around getting shot everywhere?
01:30:12.560
It's like, well, don't assault a police officer with your skateboard.
01:30:20.960
And then they ended up going to prison because they ended up fighting over a cell phone.
01:30:25.780
It's just, the whole thing's a train wreck, but Naima Lo saw that, latched onto it.
01:30:30.200
It's like finally something that I can make my, my project.
01:30:35.460
It's just, it's cringe upon cringe upon cringe upon cringe upon cringe upon cringe.
01:30:41.460
Well, everything about evergreen is sort of, you know, in a bad negative way.
01:30:51.800
It's like, how many, again, throughout history, so many times where I think of something like,
01:30:56.920
I don't know, maybe like the Jim Jones thing, or I think of the, the, the events that went
01:31:05.020
down at, Dan Carlin did a great podcast about it, at Munster in the, in the 16th century,
01:31:14.400
there was a very particular set of events went down in Munster.
01:31:17.060
Something similar, a relatively small community that descends into madness and hell because
01:31:22.460
two or three very, very key people make it happen.
01:31:27.800
And they, all the events are manipulated and contrived to go down and down and down.
01:31:37.160
Thank God that evergreen didn't end in sort of some terrible, terrible violence.
01:31:45.520
Cause I had to go through with all this really crappy footage and transcribe it.
01:31:50.780
And there's this one extended like three or four hour long struggle session where you
01:32:00.820
And they, they had Robin DiAngelo come in and teach them how to do this, which is no great
01:32:09.540
But still you, you watch them like a pack of hyenas, like taking nips, taking nips.
01:32:14.700
Like, why don't they, I just wonder, why aren't they, why don't they, why don't they cross
01:32:24.940
There was one kind of alteration, which was really silly.
01:32:30.820
It's like, you guys have to watch the documentary.
01:32:32.920
It's just, everything is so just like this comedy of terror.
01:32:41.580
But there, uh, somebody was telling me about why they don't go violent and he watched the
01:32:46.420
And he was, I think he was a biologist and he talked about like some dog packs when the
01:32:51.220
youth are like learning how to be violent together.
01:32:55.120
They'll, they'll like go after like something and, and not quite get violent, but just like
01:32:59.360
kind of tease each other and mimic violence, but they're not right, quite ready to be violent.
01:33:04.220
And they know they can, and they already know that they can go as far as possible.
01:33:07.940
Not as long as they don't cross that line, they're totally good.
01:33:10.760
They can get away with anything, um, because obviously that's just how the power structure
01:33:18.060
But yeah, I just want to return to the point that when you see hit pieces on Brett, they
01:33:23.300
will pin a lot of the responsibility of what happened on him.
01:33:26.020
And he was not even, they, the protesters even said he was not the point of this thing.
01:33:30.760
They just picked the wrong guy to pick on because he, because he didn't think that the equity
01:33:36.760
committee, which is the, there's gotta be like some sort of like,
01:33:42.180
Like some sort of like this political body that then rules the entire corporation.
01:33:47.580
He didn't think that the equity committee should be in charge of firing and hiring people.
01:33:51.680
He didn't think that we should have these race, anti-racist statements in our yearly portfolio,
01:33:56.760
because that could be grounds to politically fire somebody because they weren't significantly
01:34:04.720
And he just like typed some letters that were very well-meaning.
01:34:13.240
That's something that's almost funny from someone looking out.
01:34:20.060
So like when you say there are a few key peoples, he's a key people, he's a key person
01:34:24.820
in turning it into what it turned into, like on a media level and allowing the sunlight
01:34:29.480
But the actual thing that happened were a couple of key students, a couple of key faculty,
01:34:36.180
and then George Bridges setting up the institution.
01:34:39.240
And then actually you can't, you can't forget that this was 2017.
01:34:46.940
Everybody on campus was really certain that concentration camps were going to be set up.
01:34:52.440
That's how, and that is the fault of Hillary Clinton, her super PACs, and the media industrial
01:34:59.960
complex or the cathedral, whatever you want to call it, that is this very day paying the
01:35:14.680
It's not enough to be a libertarian because you're never going to be able to grill until
01:35:17.900
you get that Chesterton's fence up and electrified now.
01:35:23.180
I think you described it brilliant when you said it was a beat.
01:35:26.080
It was a beat in the greater song of what's happening.
01:35:32.900
I would advise anyone who doesn't know to go back and watch those.
01:35:36.160
They're in sort of 20, the 24 part series you hear in sort of 20 minute blocks.
01:35:43.900
If you're, if you're hungry to return to like a cringe, like the high seas of cringe days,
01:35:48.640
the leftists, unfortunately, after Trump won again, aren't supplying too many tears for us.
01:35:53.640
So if you want to revisit that point in history where things were totally unhinged.
01:36:00.300
This is, this is when they still had a wad blow, so to speak.
01:36:03.580
So one last, a couple of last things before we wrap up, because I could, I could chat
01:36:11.600
I wanted to ask you, you've mentioned that you've, in your opinion anyway, the constant
01:36:22.080
But anyway, is there anything that sticks out in your mind as one of your favorite ones
01:36:26.280
or once you, any interview or any bit of content you made that you thought was particularly
01:36:29.760
good or you're particularly happy with, or you very much enjoyed that conversation or
01:36:36.160
anything like, or any, even topics like, are you sick of the gender stuff now or, or are
01:36:41.900
you like, you know, does anything particularly stick out in your mind over the years of that
01:36:48.460
Well, it's probably, it speaks to my excellent, humble character that I don't have one on hand
01:36:58.700
because I don't, because I keep on like, I keep on thinking, well, what's next?
01:37:02.700
There's a couple of key moments in the detransition series where you get to this, such this raw state
01:37:10.120
of this, this kid who got subjected to some terrible treatment and like recognizing that
01:37:21.740
I just, I, I always wanted love and I didn't want to, I, and I never knew how to love myself.
01:37:29.420
And the, this really like a hallmark moment, but when a human being is like really on that
01:37:34.740
level of vulnerability and it just feels like to be able to, to receive and to broadcast
01:37:42.240
that level of humanity, I just feel so blessed and gifted to be able to facilitate that.
01:37:50.780
And then I guess there's a couple of moments where, you know, I, sometimes I, I just, I,
01:37:57.560
So I see, I hear of somebody and before watching, you know, maybe I'll like just listen to a 30
01:38:07.300
And there's something there and I just reach out and I have them on and, and then I totally
01:38:12.580
And I look them up like 20 minutes before I'm like, Oh, I have this person.
01:38:16.000
And I just get quiet and, and I go through like an hour and a half and I'm just blown
01:38:20.780
I just, I have no idea what's going to happen in the interview.
01:38:26.620
That was, I just feel bigger or better, uh, for having met that person.
01:38:34.600
It's, it's, and that's, that's something that, that, um,
01:38:38.000
that's why I'm not like one of the top tier interviewers on, on, uh, on YouTube or anywhere.
01:38:44.660
I don't want to, I, and I could do prep and I'm kind of, it's partly because I'm lazy and
01:38:48.680
it's partly because I don't, I want to just, I want the, I loved writing for the first half
01:38:57.640
And the best part of writing was seeing that blank page and having no idea what was going
01:39:02.980
And then the worst part is like having a marked up page that I have to then rewrite and rewrite
01:39:07.360
And I had my biggest lesson that I learned at evergreen was that you just have to rewrite
01:39:12.560
and just go over and over and over and just really love that, which you've made and make
01:39:18.080
Um, instead of shying away, it's like, it has to be perfect the first time, like really
01:39:21.960
understanding, like to, to really sink myself into something.
01:39:25.860
Um, but with the interviews I love, cause you know, like you had an idea when we walked
01:39:32.660
in here, but if you were closed minded that you only had that idea, and that's why I hate
01:39:38.500
When I watch an interview, like they have an idea of how to, what they want to talk about.
01:39:42.180
And so they'll go and somebody will say something and then they'll like, okay, next question.
01:39:49.760
And then it's just like, okay, let's, let's see what happens.
01:40:02.800
I don't know who it's from, but expectations are premeditated resentment in a way.
01:40:09.060
And in the context of a marriage or a relationship, it's really something I'm trying to like really
01:40:14.320
understand, but I think in little day-to-day things like having an expectation, it leads
01:40:19.400
to like a feeling of disappointment that wouldn't be there.
01:40:22.840
But at the same time, it's kind of like my fault for not being as prepared.
01:40:26.720
I could be a lot better professional if I was a little bit more prepared, but I think
01:40:31.680
there's a, there's this balance that I'm playing around with.
01:40:33.840
I like that raw, dirty, YouTube-y kind of just see what happens kind of.
01:40:41.280
I mean, that's sort of one, if I've got any sort of philosophy for interviewing people,
01:40:45.680
it is simply to have a conversation, not to try and railroad them in any real way.
01:40:52.680
I've got an idea of how I want a conversation to go.
01:40:54.960
That's what I do when, sometimes when I do my history theme content, quite often, at least
01:40:58.800
in recent times, it's just me or my own monologuing, but often it's in a conversation with someone.
01:41:12.720
I hate it when someone, they pose a question, wait for them to say until they've finished
01:41:16.380
speaking and then just go on to their next question.
01:41:20.380
Just speak to the person, just have an interaction with them.
01:41:28.340
So one last thing before we go, what is your sort of, have you got any sort of vision for
01:41:33.640
the future or any sort of ideas of what you want to do next?
01:41:38.000
Or what, what can we really expect to see from you and your channel going forward?
01:41:46.220
I get to this point where I, I get to the point in my calendar where it just gets empty.
01:41:59.480
I'm hungry for something like when the plates clean, then I get hungry.
01:42:02.960
But when I, then I'll stock it all up and then I'll not want to, and then I'll get exhausted
01:42:08.560
And then, and then that empty calendar will come up and then I get hungry again.
01:42:12.520
So, uh, I'm really interested in, I, I, I have a love affair with, there's this writer
01:42:24.160
And I, I continually go back to his early work.
01:42:28.300
Um, he has this, uh, essay on like this huge nine hour, well, somebody turned it into an
01:42:35.380
AI Orson Welles reading the whole thing, which is just hilarious to read Yarvin through Orson
01:42:41.000
But I, there's something in his early work that saw everything that happened at Evergreen
01:42:45.860
and saw everything that happened with Trump and with describing the power structure as
01:42:52.180
And he's been recently rather wrong about how to undo that.
01:42:57.860
And Trump's coming in like a wrecking ball, but it seems like what Curtis was describing
01:43:02.660
with regard to American power was really on point.
01:43:06.960
And I think, I think he, I think he's one of the most important thinkers or theoreticians,
01:43:13.560
So he sparked this, he's, his work led to a number of different other people reading
01:43:22.300
And those, those are the people who are described, who I described as the descendant, right?
01:43:27.060
And they've gone in all these different directions.
01:43:29.160
Like there's more Christian nationalists, more race realist people, uh, more people that are
01:43:33.520
in the center, more, uh, kind of post-liberalists, which I think is probably the correct term for
01:43:44.820
I've had like, I've had him on for hours and hours and hours.
01:43:49.060
I really disagree with that, but whatever he's talking about post-right, he means, uh,
01:43:55.720
So we're in a post-liberal moment and there's, there's this on the, on the not left, let's
01:44:03.000
say there's a lot of discussion and there's a lot of ideas and there's a lot of energy there.
01:44:08.180
I've just, I've done so much on the anti-woke stuff and I've done so much on the woke stuff
01:44:15.960
And I think the positive vision comes from the sparks between different personalities.
01:44:20.380
And I think I'm uniquely positioned and that's why I've tried to do this to establish friends,
01:44:25.480
friendship with this group of people and to really capture their personalities because
01:44:31.200
they're really, they're personality people and they, they run on charisma and intelligence
01:44:37.860
and so I just really want to continue to map out that domain.
01:44:41.840
And there's probably some other things that I'm not aware of, but I am looking for the
01:44:46.260
I think right now that's really salient with what's happening with Trump, but I don't know
01:44:52.400
So I'm always open to where's, where's something that the attention's, where's the puck going?
01:44:57.320
Like with the detransitioner stuff, I got ahead of that puck and now it's pretty mainstream.
01:45:09.160
So it's basically, and I've gone through that and I was, I was ahead of the curve because
01:45:13.740
I want to like be able to continue that and maybe go into like kind of dangerous waters.
01:45:19.200
But I think, I think, oh, look at Peterson hands, Peterson hands.
01:45:27.180
I think if you follow your curiosity and you keep yourself clean in a way, you can sense,
01:45:32.340
you can sense signals that otherwise you couldn't perceive with your mind.
01:45:39.740
And I don't want, I'm fine with a bunch of people coming in afterwards when the audience
01:45:45.240
is ripe and reaping the rewards of the attention on that.
01:45:48.760
I really want to be the forward guard on the, not the culture war, but of the culture growth,
01:45:58.420
Myself have started to think about and will begin to start writing about post-Trump.
01:46:06.100
Because it's not that long, in the scheme of things, that's not that long, long way.
01:46:10.340
When you get to sort of our age, four years isn't any time.
01:46:15.140
So looking forward, not as in looking forward, I can't wait.
01:46:19.380
I mean, looking forward to what happens post-Trump, what will that be?
01:46:29.540
I would love to have you on to talk about whatever historical personage or event you would want
01:46:37.200
to, but also just to riff on your lay of the land.
01:46:41.740
I mean, historically, there's got to be a historical lens that can be used to shore up our vision
01:46:50.420
And then also, if you're working on this, you have to have some sense of stability with
01:46:57.880
Like, if Trump's doing this here, there's these other structures that are going to be
01:47:02.340
So it'd be fun to riff on that when and if you're ready to do that.
01:47:08.240
It could just be the implosion and death of the Republic and Civil War, or it could be
01:47:13.200
a new golden age, an absolute better than America, more successful in every metric than
01:47:24.460
A true hegemon of the earth for centuries to come, or a complete implosion.
01:47:30.920
So unfortunately, that's taken us up right up to the end of the time.
01:47:35.000
We can't go much longer because of what our producers have to do before they can go home.
01:47:51.840
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01:48:00.900
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