The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1127
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 30 minutes
Words per Minute
182.79117
Summary
The Lotus Eaters are joined by Carl and Stelios to discuss the rise of radicalised 13-year-olds on the streets of the UK, the online harms bill, and the manosphere. Also, there's a new addition to the Monkey World catalogue.
Transcript
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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 24th of March 2025.
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And today we're talking about how there are barbarians inside the gates,
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which is something I've heard about but not actually seen,
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so I'm looking forward to being made very miserable.
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And then Stelios is going to lift us all back up again,
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probably screeching in a padded room somewhere.
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Yes, we're going to have good fun with the third one.
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thank you very much for sending me these two things.
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He's given me the winter issue of Monkey World.
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I haven't had a chance to sit down and read it because I'm at work.
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But when I get home, I'm going to look forward to reading this.
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Anything Monkey related, other than maybe feces,
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It was actually written by a Japanese person and liked their new game.
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And they're going to continue making our lives more miserable
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And the question is, when do we get to that point?
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Because at the moment, you'll notice that the political class of Britain
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is deeply obsessed with the idea that 13-year-old white English boys are the problem.
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As if they're causing all of the stresses and dangers that society currently faces.
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Because guardianistas like Martha Gill here live in a strange abstract world
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in which they think the Handmaid's Tale is coming.
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Whereas, in fact, the real threat is actually on the ground
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when they're going to the, you know, traveling in London on the tube or something like that.
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Or walking home at night or something like this.
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Because it's actually not coming from 13-year-old English boys.
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And she's, of course, talking about adolescence has brought the attention of the manosphere
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But this is just emblematic of the current discourse that our political system is having.
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Whereas, in reality, the youth on the streets of the UK are currently engaging in machete fights.
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I think it was two days ago this first went viral.
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And you can see here two groups of radicalized 13-year-olds.
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They're just Andrew Tate-enjoyers, aren't they?
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Yeah, devotees of the manosphere, men's rights activists,
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fighting on the streets of Britain in England with machetes.
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And this, I'm not going to play it because it's pretty violent.
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Why do these people have no concept of what's going on?
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Either they're afraid to admit the racial disparity in participation in these chicken shop stab events
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or the thing that I think is more likely is that they're aware of it
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but what they're doing is they're appealing to children.
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And this is a sort of iron law of politics that if anyone ever brings up children
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it's because they want to basically take more power for themselves.
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It's always used as a rhetorical device for someone to give up something.
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But I think that the issue that Martha has is that she's not part of this community.
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She doesn't feel that she has any moral authority over this community.
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She doesn't feel that their issues are in any way connected to her.
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She doesn't look like she goes out stabbing people with machetes.
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Yeah, but no one in her family is going to be involved in this kind of event, right?
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Yeah, and she's not going to see it around her or so she thinks.
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However, things are changing because you may think,
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OK, well, the machete fights on the streets of Birmingham,
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It will come to those areas of England that are still predominantly white English
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and concerned with television shows in the manosphere radicalizing young boys, right?
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And as you can see, if we zoom out a little bit,
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the area is dark blue here because I'm looking for who self-identifies
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as English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British.
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And of course, these people are going to be majority English.
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There is a small amount of diversity in this area here.
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As you can see, it's about half English in this area.
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And the other half is, it's about quarter Asian and then 10% African.
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And so this is actually not a very diverse area,
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As you can see, the darker the blue is, the more English it is.
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You can see it's only 30% English and even less in some places, right?
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So this is the diversification of London going out
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and essentially kind of forcing people to flee.
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Well, it's like a cancerous tumour, isn't it, at the minute?
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Where London is sort of infecting the other parts of the body of the country.
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But anyway, you can see that this is sort of, you know,
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an English refuge outside of London, this area of Essex.
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that the residents here found that apparently 200 young urban youths
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decided to get their machetes, get their knives,
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and go rampaging through their village, through their little area.
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Here's Peter, who lives on the same road as Elm Park Primary School.
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And on Saturday, it was apparently a 16th birthday party
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running up and down the road being chased by police.
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This is going to come to those areas of the country
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this primary school was hosting a party of some sort on Saturday evening
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I'm not going to play the video just because lots of machete-wielding.
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Also, a primary school, if you're outside of the UK,
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So something like 5 to 11 is primary school age.
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And I'm just going to read through this article.
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Just feel free to jump in whenever you're sufficiently annoyed.
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If there was any last vestige of liberalism within me,
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and out of the 400 or so that were running up and down the road,
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After a gang of youths crashed a birthday party at a school