TRIGGERnometry - August 13, 2024


Douglas Murray Was Right - Konstantin Kisin


Episode Stats

Length

6 minutes

Words per Minute

179.23985

Word Count

1,245

Sentence Count

63

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Let's shoot the messenger!
00:00:05.200 In a book appropriately titled Is Reality Optional, Thomas Sowell once wrote,
00:00:11.220 People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right,
00:00:15.700 especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong.
00:00:18.960 It is therefore unsurprising that in the wake of the violent riots which have shaken Britain in recent days,
00:00:24.200 the people who predicted all of this are in the crosshairs.
00:00:27.380 Over the weekend, Alistair Campbell suggested that the police should investigate Douglas Murray
00:00:32.620 for writing and promoting the strange death of Europe.
00:00:36.240 Campbell is supposedly a mental health campaigner.
00:00:39.940 He was known for screaming at underlings during his time in Downing Street
00:00:43.220 and is currently positioning himself as the voice of Britain's moral conscience.
00:00:48.580 He was the spin doctor you'll remember who helped Tony Blair lie the country into invading Iraq,
00:00:53.860 causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
00:00:56.300 Murray's great crime, on the other hand, is writing a book which predicted with great accuracy
00:01:01.500 everything that is happening across our continent today.
00:01:04.900 And the people who ignored and dismissed him have the audacity to blame him
00:01:08.900 for what is happening instead of themselves.
00:01:11.400 As you know, I'm rarely lost for words, but the hypocrisy on display here is stunning.
00:01:17.100 Let me therefore condemn myself to a place in a cell next to Douglas Murray
00:01:20.900 by sharing with you again the preface to my book written over three years ago now.
00:01:26.100 The Guamir Mausoleum stands in the heart of the ancient city of Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan.
00:01:32.380 The magnificent structure, known colloquially as Tomb of the Commander,
00:01:36.380 was built to preserve the remains of Tamerlane,
00:01:39.040 a terrifying conqueror who modeled himself on Genghis Khan.
00:01:42.460 His tomb is inscribed with the words,
00:01:44.400 When I rise from the dead, the whole world shall tremble.
00:01:47.540 On the 21st of June, 1941, Soviet anthropologists led by Mikhail Gerasimov
00:01:53.260 opened the tomb on the orders of Joseph Stalin and began exhuming Tamerlane's body.
00:01:58.720 As the scent of frankincense, rose, camphor, and resin filled the air,
00:02:02.580 Gerasimov and his team discovered an additional inscription inside the casket.
00:02:07.020 Whoever disturbs my tomb will unleash an invader more terrible than I.
00:02:11.300 The following morning, Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
00:02:16.100 The history of humanity is a series of unopened tombs,
00:02:19.120 which hold not only the stories of our past, but also stark warnings about our future.
00:02:23.960 As I write this in January 2021, the West is suffering from a global pandemic.
00:02:29.040 COVID-19, a virus of the body, has brought devastation to millions of people around the world
00:02:34.140 and forced our governments into unprecedented measures
00:02:37.100 whose consequences will become apparent in the years to come.
00:02:40.160 The virus and our zealous response have ravaged the global economy,
00:02:44.120 deprived us of our civil liberties, and caused untold damage in every area of our lives.
00:02:49.160 But another devastating epidemic has spread like wildfire through the Western world,
00:02:53.460 particularly the Anglosphere, and shows no signs of abating.
00:02:57.000 Unlike COVID, this is a virus of the mind.
00:02:59.760 If you're fortunate enough to have avoided Twitter,
00:03:02.340 do not work in the progressive industry, and are not a recent graduate,
00:03:05.660 your awareness of this virus may be peripheral.
00:03:07.740 You may not yet be familiar with terms like critical race theory,
00:03:11.740 social justice, and wokeness.
00:03:13.480 I envy you.
00:03:14.340 But even so, if you're reading this book,
00:03:16.580 you've likely spotted that the world around us is changing at unprecedented speed.
00:03:20.840 You may have noticed a dramatic change in tone in our public discourse.
00:03:24.840 Nearly two-thirds of Americans now say that they fear expressing their political views,
00:03:29.600 including a majority of Democrats at 52%,
00:03:32.640 Independents at 59%,
00:03:34.760 and Republicans at 77%.
00:03:37.220 In Britain, nearly half of us feel less free to speak our minds,
00:03:41.120 while only 20% feel more free to do so than we did a few years ago.
00:03:45.280 Perhaps you've watched in confusion as men and women have been positioned not as partners,
00:03:49.380 but opponents in some kind of battle of the sexes.
00:03:52.260 It may have struck you that our conversations about race
00:03:54.780 have become a way to separate us rather than bring us together.
00:03:57.520 You may have watched in confusion as statues of historical figures
00:04:01.020 were defaced or torn down by angry mobs.
00:04:03.240 Perhaps your employer brought in someone to explain
00:04:05.980 that being white imbues you with some sort of original sin,
00:04:09.380 or that being black or brown makes you a victim of life.
00:04:12.480 You may even have been on the right side of these issues for years.
00:04:16.260 Perhaps you thought that only bigots worry about expressing their problematic beliefs,
00:04:20.440 that men are toxic and white people should atone for the terrible crimes of their ancestors
00:04:24.580 and their inherited privileges in society.
00:04:27.300 You may have spent your life supporting progressive causes,
00:04:29.980 giving money to charities for disadvantaged groups and being on the right side of history.
00:04:34.760 And yet, as J.K. Rowling discovered,
00:04:37.020 your belief in basic biology may be your undoing nonetheless.
00:04:40.500 Even if you're fortunate enough to have avoided direct contact with these issues,
00:04:44.140 you may have noticed an odd feeling.
00:04:46.360 What it is you can't explain exactly, and for now, it is relatively easy to ignore.
00:04:51.260 As you busy yourself with daily life,
00:04:53.340 you reassure yourself that things can only get better.
00:04:55.760 And yet, in those rare moments of reflection, you cannot help feeling a sense of foreboding.
00:05:01.360 It is hard to put into words how you know this,
00:05:03.860 but someone somewhere has opened another cursed tomb.
00:05:07.120 The initial phases of Operation Barbarossa,
00:05:09.720 Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union,
00:05:11.720 which began on the 22nd of June 1941,
00:05:15.120 were a huge success.
00:05:16.480 German armoured formations,
00:05:17.860 which had blitzkrieged their way through France, Belgium and the Netherlands in 1940,
00:05:21.820 were now speeding towards Moscow,
00:05:24.260 crushing disorganised Soviet resistance as they went.
00:05:27.140 My great-grandfather, who had just returned home from the winter war with Finland,
00:05:31.080 was thrown into the meat grinder of the Eastern Front,
00:05:33.880 along with millions of others,
00:05:35.400 to stop the German advance.
00:05:37.200 Like him, most of them never returned.
00:05:39.720 If you've ever travelled from Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport into the city,
00:05:43.400 you may have noticed three odd-looking metal structures along the road.
00:05:47.060 These anti-tank obstacles mark how close the enemy came to take in the city.
00:05:51.180 Across the entire front, the Soviet Union fought for its survival.
00:05:55.700 Nowhere was the war more intense than at Stalingrad.
00:05:58.920 Fierce fighting in the city went on for months,
00:06:01.380 with Stalin sacrificing more and more men and materiel in recognition of a simple fact.
00:06:06.940 Retreat was no longer an option.
00:06:09.080 As the Battle of Stalingrad hung in the balance on the 20th of December 1942,
00:06:14.500 the body of Tamerlane was returned to his tomb and given a full Islamic burial.
00:06:18.860 Within days, the Soviet Union mounted a successful counterattack at Stalingrad
00:06:23.480 and went on an offensive that would not stop until it reached Berlin,
00:06:28.280 saving the world from Nazi domination.
00:06:30.540 Today, the fate of Western civilization hangs in the balance once again.
00:06:34.580 The tomb of discord and division has been forced to open
00:06:37.300 by a small group of ideological zealots.
00:06:40.260 Retreat is no longer an option.
00:06:42.640 Either we bury the hatchet and heal,
00:06:44.840 or the whole world shall tremble once more.
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