00:26:05.180A hodgepodge of various backgrounds, that is.1.00
00:26:08.160They are all the same, only in the sense that they are not European.
00:26:12.260And so they get put in that category, increasing their share in the total population.
00:26:17.600So you can see here, the Maoris are about 17%, but it's the Asian population as well.
00:26:25.220Now, obviously, this includes all sorts of peoples. This is South Asian, Southeast Asian, it's Indian, it's Chinese, it's Filipino, Indonesian, Malaysian, people from all over the Asian continent, which I need to tell you, is a bloody big continent.
00:26:41.120And when you're looking at a country like New Zealand, which has only a population of just beyond 5 million, then you're looking at a situation where, okay, well, this either continues on indefinitely, at which case that entire continuity from the arrival of the European explorers to now is just cut off forever.
00:27:02.200Doesn't 90% of all humanity live in Asia or something like that? I believe I heard that. I don't know whether...
00:27:09.320When you think about it, like India and China alone, a very large proportion of all of humanity, right?
00:27:16.000Yeah, they are. I mean, I don't know. I mean, on the face of it, I get a bit...
00:27:20.340But it's a lot. It's definitely 60, 70.
00:27:23.920And so really, we come to the point where it's like, okay, well, really, what you're looking for then in New Zealand is simply the party that is most aware of the problem of immigration,
00:27:34.960of the fact that framing it, as it rightly should be,0.62
00:27:39.300as something which has been put upon New Zealand
00:28:50.080You can see that the Green Party, they have one of those two because they're always there, aren't they?
00:28:56.380just it does seem to at least in the colors this might be a superficial comparison so do excuse me
00:29:02.400but you've got the national party which is similar to our conservative party i'd imagine
00:29:06.300the labor party which is similar to our labor party the greens are the insurgent left-wing
00:29:10.760party new zealand first are like uh reform or restore perhaps where they're the insurgent
00:29:16.740right-wing party and then act i presume are like the lib dems they're the association of
00:29:22.220consumers and taxpayers. That's what they stand for. From what I understand of it,
00:29:28.460they are actually a part of the coalition government right now, but they are sort of
00:29:32.600centre-right, classical liberal, somewhat fact-right in their economics.
00:29:38.180I imagine the Maori is an ethnic grievance party by any chance.0.65
00:29:42.420Well, we'll come back to that actually a little bit later on. So what we obviously need to know
00:29:47.560is that the head of government is, of course, the prime minister. And he obviously comes from
00:29:52.320the party which gains the chiefest number of votes. But because New Zealand has an MMP as a
00:29:58.120mixed member proportional system, basically, this allows the party, you know, it's the same problem
00:30:06.160that you have on the continent. Invariably, what proportional representation consistently requires
00:30:11.360you to do, is for the winners, who won with a clear majority, to compromise on their own
00:30:17.760positive messaging with a bunch of other smaller parties that didn't win, just so that you can
00:30:25.160implement something approaching what your manifesto policies originally were. And I have
00:30:30.680many criticisms of PR, and as much of a nightmare as it is sometimes in this country, I am actually
00:30:37.900very glad that we have a first pass or post system. No, well, we'll have that another time
00:30:44.060then, because I want to stay focused on this for now. But the point is that, yes, New Zealand first
00:30:49.980is the one that we're going to be focusing on here. And as you can see here, it's on about 11.2%,
00:30:55.620which is certainly not nothing. And it's obviously, you know, staying pretty stable around 11%, 12%
00:31:02.760as the months roll on. So I suppose we ought to talk about it. Now, New Zealand First is the
00:31:11.580leader of the party is a man called Winston Peters. And New Zealand First as well, it's just
00:31:16.980quite important to point out, are also a part of this coalition government right now. So Winston
00:31:23.960Peters is actually the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Now, he's actually occupied this position several
00:31:29.140times in the past. But of course, this is a very helpful thing. Now, when it came to addressing
00:31:36.720this question the last time I did this segment, I was a little bit dismissive, purely out of my
00:31:43.380ignorance, I freely admit, and I should have researched it more thoroughly. But this is what
00:31:47.960I'm trying to make up for now. And you get to the point where, so Peters has basically,
00:31:53.020uh in being in charge of the ministry of foreign affairs he is also obviously it gives him and his
00:32:00.000party much more exposure because he is a leading face in government this is good for his own party
00:32:05.540especially when he actually fights the majority of that coalition government on questions such as
00:32:14.160the india free trade deal which is a good uh battle line to draw to be honest it absolutely
00:32:20.460is. And they are a very, very consistent party. So you can see, as they say, so in fact, if I just
00:32:27.180go back to here, sorry, if I go to About Us and Our Story. So the party, this is quite interesting
00:32:35.720as well, because one of the things that I've obviously been looking for as I go through the
00:32:41.020policies and the sort of speech of New Zealand First is what type of anti-establishment party
00:32:48.980are they? Are they New Zealand's equivalent of Restore Britain? Are they New Zealand's equivalent
00:32:56.320of Reform UK? What are they? To what extent are they the containment party? To what extent do they
00:33:03.820seem to actually have their finger on the pulse of a lot of issues? Now, obviously, I freely admit
00:33:10.320that someone who lives in New Zealand will be more of an authority on this than I am. But ultimately,
00:33:16.480Part of the reason why we live in a world where the West are all encountering the same problems is because of the globalizing, sort of universalizing nature of the financial systems and a lot of the cultural power that academia all across the Western nations have allowed to obviously, you know, seep into the thinking of politicians across the West.
00:33:41.600So, though they will have their own individual particulars, they will also share common concerns with us that are obviously plaguing them.
00:33:50.420No, I just wanted to say that it's also good to sometimes keep an eye on in mind because there are more contingencies.
00:33:58.360You could have two containment parties.
00:34:01.240You could have two anti-establishment parties.
00:34:04.500Just throwing some more possibilities.
00:34:08.480And so New Zealand First were actually formed back in 1993 to represent those New Zealanders concerned about the social and economic direction of our country and who were seeking pragmatic, common sense representation in Parliament.
00:34:22.940In 1990, the National Party, so the Tories of their system, were elected with the largest government majority in New Zealand history, attaining two thirds of the seats in Parliament.
00:34:34.200It was seen as a rejection of the neoliberal policies of the fourth Labour government.
00:34:39.920However, the fourth national government would continue with policies along the same lines.
00:34:48.420It's like when the Conservatives won in 2010 over here, isn't it?
00:34:51.640Not to compare everything to ourselves, of course, but it's quite interesting to me
00:34:58.540The playbook seems to be the same in every country, really, where the same betrayal from the sort of mainstream right wing party carrying on the policies of the left.
00:35:11.140And of course, this isn't just a coincidence, because, of course, there is a global political system whereby all of these people would have met and communicated and shared ideas.
00:35:23.040And so it is ultimately a failure of this way of thinking that has led us to this point.
00:35:29.040And you can see as well, as it says, as a cabinet minister, the Right Honourable Winston Peters spoke out against the economic policies continued by the Minister of Finance, Ruth Richardson.
00:35:40.120Mr. Peters was soon dropped from cabinet, but he continued to question the neoliberal policy agenda and resigned from the National Party leading up to the 1993 general election.
00:35:50.740A by-election in Taranga was triggered, and Mr. Peter regained the seat as an independent with the highest margin of 91% of any election after having held the seat since 1981.
00:36:05.620Now, obviously, what this suggests was is that, you know, certainly based on his own constituents, they believed in what he was trying to do.
00:36:13.660They believed in the rebellion against the consensus of the national government and obviously against the previous Labour Party as well.
00:36:22.160And one of the things that has, I suppose, pleasantly surprised me so much about New Zealand First, actually, is that it is not a continuation of basic Thatcherite neoliberalism.
00:36:35.100In fact, if I were to consider their economics, they're actually much more akin to the SDP here, I would say.
00:36:42.180And so they actually show a healthy scepticism of the extremes of both ends, which I think is welcome, actually, and something that people should be taking seriously.
00:36:52.640And so obviously, well, what are their policies?
00:36:56.300Now, as an example of it, just here, as we say, break up the supermarket duopoly.
00:37:01.620For too long, New Zealanders have faced rising grocery bills, while Woolworths and foodstuffs control more than 80% of the grocery market.
00:37:08.620The Commerce Commission has previously found these supermarkets gain earnings of around £1 million a day in excess profits.
00:37:15.920Well, you should expose Woolworths to our economy, because we used to have a Woolworth.
00:39:52.740we didn't even have to fight um we were just like yeah well you can become part of the british
00:39:57.440empire and it was all paperwork and signing signatures exactly and so you know it's a little
00:40:06.160bit rich doing that sort of thing when actually we we came to a civil and and amicable agreement
00:40:12.260and by by the nature of that mass immigration into new zealand changes the nature of that
00:40:18.920agreement, because then all of a sudden you're not having a conversation between two peoples,
00:40:24.800but many, many different peoples. And a lot of those new arrivals are probably not going to come
00:40:31.020with the same sense of fairness to the Maoris or to the, you know, the white New Zealanders,
00:40:37.460for that matter, you know, as you would have otherwise. But he points out here, additionally,
00:40:42.800the um sorry but the fact is we currently have a record number of maori in parliament and in
00:40:49.400cabinet with 27 of the house having a maori background far higher than the often claimed
00:40:55.56017 of the country's maori population so basically he's just making a point about maori over influence
00:41:02.260and over representation maori occupied government yeah maori occupied um there's also the matter of
00:41:10.660just having a policy for completing the Christchurch Cathedral because it was damaged, I believe,
00:41:16.060in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. And due to the way that government often addresses these
00:41:25.840big development projects, I mean, God, just look at our state with HS2, right? It's just like,
00:41:32.940we're not very good at these sorts of things. And so they basically have a plan for getting
00:41:37.300the cathedral finished um there's also the fact of citizens only voting yep that'd be a really
00:41:43.380good thing actually it's a pretty basic thing to maintain an actual nation is only having your
00:41:49.940citizens able to vote it's kind of insane that there's never a standard that non-citizens can
00:41:56.200vote yes especially when um you ramp up immigration so because look even if um i mean i obviously
00:42:03.940don't endorse it. But if you are having, say, an uptick of about 10,000 people in immigration a
00:42:12.000year, yeah, it might skew the odd council elections or something. But if you're bringing in 100,000
00:42:19.520people a year, that has the potential to very, very rapidly change the nature of the political
00:42:26.540settlement of your country. Especially when the population isn't 100 million, it's 5 million.
00:42:31.360Yes. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And so we can see here, New Zealand First has announced that they will be campaigning to change electoral law to ensure that only citizens have the right to vote.
00:42:41.880Currently, any permanent resident who has gone through the normal process after just, sorry, currently any permanent resident who has gone through the normal process after just two years of living in New Zealand can vote, which is mental, genuinely mental.0.58
00:42:57.040In addition, anyone who is here on certain visas that have no expiry date are technically eligible to vote after just one year of living in New Zealand.0.70
00:43:07.700By the way, ladies and gentlemen, these are the only sorts of policies you would actually implement if you wanted to undermine your own democracy.
00:43:16.940No one who actually cared about their country would ever allow these sorts of things to happen or to take root within their society.
00:43:24.120In a functional society, every party across the political spectrum would say, okay, maybe citizens should be the ones that should vote and no one else.
00:43:34.040No, I just wanted to say that what amazes me is every time we hear the diversity is a strength narrative that is coupled with the let's protect our democracy narrative, it's just there's no consideration of the demos.
00:43:48.240And, you know, that's essentially who is supposed to be the bearer of self-determination.
00:43:54.120yes so without that it's just an economic zone with a number of people living in it but that's
00:44:01.140not what constitutes a people no well and also as well you see this in the example of how
00:44:07.260new zealand first were actually formed the national party came in obviously based on a set
00:44:13.940of policies that were saying we are going to change course from the neoliberalism of the
00:44:19.560Labour Party that we've just won an election against and then continue to do a similar style
00:44:26.460of policies, just like when David Cameron said to us that, you know, oh, there'd be a bonfire of the
00:44:31.880quangos and that we'd get immigration down to the tens of thousands. It's like, OK, but you didn't
00:44:37.840do those things. The opposite. Yeah, you did the opposite of those things. And so it's like,
00:44:42.660doesn't that, I mean, again, it just, it's the sort of thing that makes a voting citizen resentful
00:44:49.060of an establishment. Let's just put it that way. But then we also come to other points like this,
00:44:56.300which is the future-proofing our fuel security. So New Zealand first will be campaigning on an
00:45:01.520initial investment of $1 billion over the term of government into a national subsurface development
00:45:09.520survey to identify and create one national data set across energy, geothermal, and CO2 storage
00:45:17.040sites and create the framework for New Zealand to develop those sites, extract these resources
00:45:22.740and build our own country's resilience and prosperous economic future. So similar to
00:45:30.040what the Norwegians do with their oil, they just sit on all of that money based on their0.62
00:45:36.180activities in the North Sea. Sovereign Wealth Fund is one of the biggest in the world.
00:45:40.540Thank you. Yeah, that's the word I was looking for. The Sovereign Wealth Fund, something
00:45:43.620similar to that. And what a great idea, especially for a smaller country like New Zealand, that
00:45:51.220because of its limited population could easily be dominated by foreign nations such as India and
00:45:59.580China, or Japan for that matter, just any sort of, and of course Australia at the side being
00:46:06.760significantly bigger as well. And so these are the sorts of long-term thinking strategies
00:46:13.020that I actually think would be a positive development for New Zealand to actually
00:46:18.980adopt. And then we get to the overall rhetoric of New Zealand First when it comes to immigration.
00:46:27.780Now, let's make something absolutely clear. Are New Zealand First the party of mass deportations?
00:46:35.980Are they the party of reversing the mass immigration into the country? No, they're not.
00:46:41.540But they are in favour of taking a much more guarded approach against incoming immigration.
00:46:49.600And certainly, as I'll point out in a minute, they're also not in favour of being fleeced on trade deals by India,0.64
00:46:59.080who basically use every free trade agreement to basically shove in, you know, X number of migrants into whatever country they're making a deal with.
00:47:08.600And this is a more sensible and a more encouraging direction of travel than what New Zealand currently finds itself with, which is, of course, a government that is more than happy to sign off on trade deals that do include such addendums, such amendments.
00:47:27.780So let's just listen to what Peter has to say here.
00:47:31.400We were built on the back of focused migration. People came here because they had a job, they had a home to go to, they had a town to go to.
00:47:38.600That's the way it was when we were a great country,
00:47:41.160but what we've got now is utterly unfocused.
00:48:22.060I was going to say, no, I can't explain the Zoomer edits music in the background, ladies and gentlemen.
00:48:28.700But in terms of the messaging, as I say, as a party that is currently at about 11% in the polls, I think it makes far more sense for the time being to basically work with New Zealand first and basically stop these loopholes and exploitations that are being used and that will have much stronger immigration restrictions and allow for them.
00:51:16.040This is good rhetoric at the end of the day
00:51:18.060because it's actually acknowledging the fact
00:51:20.260that it's taking into account, no, but what is the Indian agenda with this? And Modi is very vocal
00:51:27.320about all of this. And yet the Europeans and the Canadians and so on and so forth are all gullible
00:51:32.900enough or complicit enough to go along with it. And so it's an encouraging thing to see him speaking
00:51:38.980about it in terms of a way that actually protects the New Zealand workers. And the other thing as
00:51:44.560well, is that there are obviously a lot of the other things that you would expect a party of
00:51:50.460this character to hold to. Some of the questions that we don't talk about so much these days,
00:51:55.380but I don't know what stage New Zealand is at with its conversation. But when it comes to things like
00:52:00.200stopping puberty blockers in children, obviously, taking men out of women's sports, you know,
00:52:05.840all that low-hanging fruit that just was ridiculous on the face of it. But also as well,
00:52:10.660I think importantly, and some things that certainly shore up the party's anti-establishment credentials, the fact that they want to fight against digital ID.
00:52:21.000They also actually just, Peters himself just uses the word nationalism, very, very easy with the word.
00:52:29.480And also the fact that they want to, would want to create a new select committee inquiry to look at those who have been injured during the COVID era.
00:52:39.780Yeah, due to, well, just how a drunken authority Jacinda Ardern obviously got when all of that was going on down in New Zealand.
00:52:49.780And so I actually see all of these as really encouraging things outside of just purely the lens of the immigration question.
00:52:58.640These are actually really encouraging. And they speak to a party that I think is shows obviously some confidence in having the conversations that perhaps the rest of New Zealand's establishment don't want to have.
00:53:11.000And so it is encouraging. And so, look, I am obviously not a Kiwi, but I am certainly as someone who has now done two New Zealand segments in two weeks.
00:53:21.740I am someone who cares a great deal for them, for your future and for the survival of your people, because it's certainly a country that I dream of going to one day myself and meeting many people there.
00:53:35.120And also as well, it's obviously a nation that shares a very key and special role in the national story of Britain and our own story as well, and the Commonwealth and the Empire.
00:53:46.900And, you know, New Zealand has been for many, many decades such an admirable country.
00:53:53.000And it would be a great pity to see it all go to ruin because of the negligence of but one generation of politicians.
00:54:01.780and so i would encourage you to um you know get the message out there about new zealand first
00:54:08.980because actually upon a closer inspection i think they are a party that uh you know may
00:54:16.260actually fight your corner on a few issues i didn't mention that it's home to middle earth
00:54:22.380as well blimey no i showed incredible restraint okay let's go to the video comments i like the
00:54:29.000that this comment i don't know if it's i think i think we can say it what do you think josh what
00:54:35.160where are you that's a random name one with the alien yeah you can say that one right okay so um
00:54:40.300for once not a fed post someone well done if ever we don't want aliens to visit us just blast
00:54:47.600the maori hacker through deep space then again the noise pollution might actually get the aliens to
00:54:53.720purge your planet which that's a random name finds tempting um it also says uh sigil stone
00:55:01.660of two dollars says uh never mind that was oh right sorry yes below first that would make sense
00:55:06.800he says how is new zealand's migrant uh government going to address the wallabies0.64
00:55:11.340high on heroin making crop circles um yeah never mind that was tasmania can't keep australia's0.56
01:10:32.360one of the UK's leading defamation law firms, to send Times Higher Education a letter.
01:10:38.600The publication spiked the story, according to three sources who spoke to a retraction watch.
01:10:44.900One of the sources was David Sanders, a biochemist at Purdue University in Indiana,
01:10:50.060and a sleuth who contributes to the Times Higher Education on topics related to academic misconduct.
01:10:56.340And the allegations against R-Day finally emerged last week following a sub-stack post by Nathan Kofnes, a philosopher at the University of Ghent in Belgium.
01:11:08.240Kofnas, who is known for his controversial writings on racial differences, independently
01:11:13.120identified dozens of passages in R.D.'s 2015 dissertation that were taken nearly verbatim
01:11:22.120from the 2009 dissertation of Paula Zwozdiak-Meyers, now a reader at Brunel University of London.
01:11:31.620Now, without further ado, I want us to say one thing that he replied by saying that this is racism.
01:19:18.260So it's the same. You'll tell me, well, Stelios, he is quoting some people here, but they're the same people quoted in the other. And when you're supposed to quote the works of the work of other people, or you're supposed to comment on the comments of other people that other people have made about the works of others, you're the third person talking about the person who makes a comment about Socrates, for instance.
01:19:42.120you have to sort of paraphrase and you have to change it substantially to show that you
01:19:48.260something is actually working up there i mean also you the way you could have quoted that
01:19:53.780verbatim is if you quote it and acknowledge who wrote it originally yeah although it's sort of
01:19:59.040bad form to just quote large tracts of text anyway yeah so here uh the text on the right says
01:20:05.860tinning 1995 page 27 draws a parallel between van mannen's interpretation of technical
01:20:13.280reflection and the first level of reflective teaching identified by grimmert 1990 which
01:20:20.780applies research finding to practice and essentially represents thoughtfulness about
01:20:25.880action so all he changed was he took the inverted commas out yes i mean isn't that uh isn't that
01:20:34.560showing a proper engagement with it well that's that it's making it grammatically incorrect really
01:20:42.180yeah but also it shows that it you know it's it's the kind of the mistake that singers who often
01:20:48.520use playback they will occasionally say a name and everyone will say hey the star is gonna clap
01:20:54.840hey this isn't playback okay so moon argues that the acquisition of knowledge which accommodates
01:21:02.180emancipatory interests aim to bring about a transformation in the self or in the personal
01:21:07.840social or world situation or any combination of these oh this is such rubbish as well like
01:21:13.100a lot of the things that have been plagiarized don't even mean anything in the first place like
01:21:17.740it's just jargonistic nonsense so instead of bring about a he wrote produce streamlined it
01:21:25.980it did improve it just so i'll scroll down and you see the yellow and the and the green it's just
01:21:33.760endless you know you know it's just it's what you said green is not original work
01:21:40.480no it's just slightly amended from yes the original so none of it is original yeah um so
01:21:49.320look at it here price reports the student teachers encountered several challenges
01:21:53.440finding time to reflect on the lessons, blah, blah, blah. It's the same thing. It's just added
01:21:58.020a with regards to. So this is just, you know, when I was doing my PhD and I completed it in 2020,
01:22:06.880you know, I was really annoyed to find, you know, mid PhD that someone published a book
01:22:14.200saying something really similar. So I essentially changed the entire thing,
01:22:19.420the way I went about it. It took me two years and actually did it. And it was a, it was a different
01:22:26.600thing. So, you know, it's when you're actually, when you actually care about what you're doing,
01:22:34.460you, you, you, you don't want to, you don't want to give in to the imposter syndrome. The imposter
01:22:40.100syndrome is one of the syndromes that plagues people who do PhD researches the most. And they
01:22:46.520Those who care about the research, they actually care about doing something different and actually adding something to a field, even if it's something small.
01:22:56.600So to do a PhD and just copy-paste, allegedly, copy-paste entire passages from another text and not attributing it to the person you steal it from.
01:23:14.500It's just, it's just insane. And also it's just really low term. Yeah. Short term thinking. It's just, yeah, there are AI models. If you are a teacher and you know that in academia.
01:23:27.900low time preference behavior yes or high time preference behavior exactly i mean i've way around
01:23:32.660i remember i uh some people when i was teaching a course in philosophy of mind some people were
01:23:38.940um using this and they found an 86 percent overlap of an of a submitted essay uh with something else
01:23:48.640so yeah that's a fail i mean instead of a fail cambridge now said well
01:23:54.640probably if it happened let's make them man a professor i mean some degree of overlap is
01:24:00.860inevitable because when i submitted my dissertation there were certain phrases that were just like
01:24:07.140clinical psychological phrases or specialist phrases that will come up as as plagiarism but
01:24:12.860you can't put it any other way like specialist terminology and turns of phrases that are just
01:24:19.180the done way of doing it so some degree is warranted but not to that degree but that you
01:24:25.300know to sort of give the devil his due here a little bit the thing that he was writing about
01:24:30.420did look like utter nonsense and so it's very difficult to add to something that is so removed
01:24:34.900from reality that um you know you can't necessarily do the same logical inference and figure out what
01:24:42.980is this missing from the real world um how can i add to this when it's already something that is
01:24:48.480sort of sociological and basically soft woolly and yeah and i hate and uh you know it isn't just
01:24:56.820when he isn't um engaging in alleged uh plagiarism he writes things like this dismantling power and
01:25:06.660privilege through reflexivity negotiating normative whiteness the eurocentric curriculum
01:25:11.960and racial microaggressions within the academy well as a european i'm actually a fan of the
01:25:17.260eurocentric curriculum yeah in fact um why wouldn't you study the culture that has divine
01:25:23.540basically i nearly said divined but i meant uh defined um the modern era the reason that
01:25:30.860whiteness is they say it doesn't exist is because it is basically the modern period you like you
01:25:37.920know it's schrodingers these screens you like you'd like technology well um i hate to say it
01:25:44.220But a European has made it, even if, you know, it's a European in North America or elsewhere.0.53
01:25:53.000Josh, I'll say this now, because you do say this, and, you know, I don't disagree.
01:25:58.420But one of the things I saw in academia is that wokeness and this whole thing is primarily, and this may sound controversial, but let me just be very clear.
01:26:12.500They don't want another Thomas Sowell, right? They don't want Thomas Sowell. This is something that happens predominantly from white people against other white people.
01:26:26.540So one of the things I saw, this has been one of the experiences I have had in academia is that when you have, there is a very low supply of positions and an incredible and a very large demand of positions.0.58
01:26:43.780So you have 30, 50, 100 people competing for one position.
01:26:52.940If you have 100 people competing for one position, at some point, some of them will understand that they can't stand out with the research.
01:27:00.900So they'll become diversity officers and start saying, hey, the department is incredibly racist.
01:27:07.120You need to give the job to me because I want to modernize it and don't care about the other guys who are doing good research.
01:27:13.340because they're racist hire me that strategy wouldn't really work for us straight white men
01:27:18.320though so we're forced to be competent instead which is a terrible thing you know speaking of
01:27:24.260competence but you do have many uh white people in academia who are promoting this it's mostly
01:27:31.400them so uh i'll say i'm very happy that i'm not i don't have to deal with that anymore and i'm here
01:27:39.060at the Lotus Seaters, and this is a course that I did, Ancient Greek Virtue Ethics. I'm doing
01:27:45.000philosophical work outside academia, which is a blessing. I also don't have to mark.
01:27:52.840So check it out if you want, if you're interested in a philosophical course
01:27:57.060from someone who isn't going to tell you that Western civilization is the worst thing ever,0.87
01:28:02.560that it's the Schrodinger civilization that simultaneously doesn't exist, and also is so0.53
01:28:08.200guilty that he has to atone for its past uh in committed injustices and atrocities so do consider
01:28:16.900that i will just say as well as someone who has actually um watched many of the lectures on this
01:28:22.180course it is genuinely wonderfully detailed and you do a great job with it so yeah i endorse it
01:28:27.660too thank you brother luca that's i i got the the brother luca that's all right i'll just just buy