TRIGGERnometry - It's Political Extremism All the Way Down - Konstantin Kisin

As we move towards chaos, our craving for order is guaranteed to rise once again to the top of the agenda. In continental Europe, anti-immigration parties are progressing at a rapid rate. At the time of recording, Nigel Farage is leading the polls in a surge in the polls on a platform of reducing net immigration to zero, and he was recently immediately attacked for it. Why is this happening? Throughout the last decade, the legacy media answer has been the same. We don t know, and we don t care.

00:00:00.000 As we trend towards chaos, our craving for order is guaranteed to rise once again to the top of

00:00:09.880 the agenda. In continental Europe, anti-immigration, anti-Muslim parties are progressing at a rapid

00:00:15.760 rate. At the time of recording, Nigel Farage is leading the Reform Party in a surge in the polls

00:00:21.300 on a platform of reducing net immigration to zero, and he was recently immediately physically

00:00:26.780 attacked for it. Why is this happening? Throughout the last decade, the legacy media answer has been

00:00:31.500 the same. We don't know, and we don't care. The rise of anti-immigration sentiment and growing

00:00:36.760 concerns about the Islamification of Europe has seemed not as a predictable reaction to

00:00:41.380 unprecedented immigration levels, but as some sort of inexplicable evil emerging once again 1.00

00:00:47.420 from the racist underbelly of a deeply suspect body politic. Despite being obviously true and

00:00:53.080 confirmed by both ancient and recent history, the idea that right-wing extremism, the forces of order,

00:00:59.400 is rising as a response to left-wing extremism, the forces of chaos, is outside the bounds of

00:01:05.000 acceptability among the chattering classes. This is largely a product of the fact that left-wing

00:01:10.060 extremism is never actually described as extremism. It is not considered extreme to throw open the

00:01:15.900 borders resulting in more people coming to Britain in 11 years of the Blair government than came into

00:01:21.340 Britain between the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and 1950. It is not considered extreme to double

00:01:27.740 Sweden's foreign-born population since the turn of the century. It is not considered extreme that

00:01:32.820 this has resulted in Sweden having the highest rate of gang killings in Europe. It is not considered

00:01:37.200 extreme that the governor of the Bank of Sweden was forced to acknowledge in an interview with the

00:01:41.380 Financial Times that the growing crime problem is so serious it risks damaging the country's long-term

00:01:47.320 economic growth. It is not considered extreme that the United States has had over 8 million illegal

00:01:53.080 immigrant encounters under the Biden administration, with over 1.7 million known gotaways, that is illegal

00:01:59.780 immigrants who evaded border patrols, currently residing in the U.S. without proper documentation

00:02:05.220 or being vetted by immigration. It is not considered extreme to introduce overtly sexual content into schools

00:02:11.440 up and down the United States. It is not considered extreme to promote the idea that children are

00:02:16.960 capable of consenting to life-changing surgeries and hormonal interference in their bodies to treat

00:02:22.440 mental disorders. It is not considered extreme to replace pedestrian crossing lights in central London

00:02:27.440 with LGBTQ plus signs. It is not considered extreme to teach several generations of children to hate

00:02:33.720 their country. It is not considered extreme to prosecute and imprison people for making offensive jokes and

00:02:39.000 private WhatsApp messages. It is not considered extreme to put male rapists in female prison. It is not

00:02:45.680 considered extreme to pass speech restrictive legislation that could result in the police arresting

00:02:50.540 comedians for jokes. What is considered extreme is pointing out that there's a problem with any of

00:02:55.740 this. As my readers and viewers will know, objecting publicly to any of this will immediately earn you the

00:03:01.480 dismissive label of culture warrior. Because destroying your country's history and culture is not considered

00:03:06.800 extreme, but defending it is. So where is all this taking us? Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt reminded us in a

00:03:13.540 soon-to-be-released trigonometry interview that human societies have historically been united by three

00:03:18.340 things. Common blood, common gods, and common enemies. Mass immigration and the endless celebration of what 0.99

00:03:24.880 we euphemistically call diversity is increasingly eroding two of these. We do not have common blood in the way that

00:03:30.920 our society is used to within living memory. As for common gods, our own growing atheism might have been

00:03:36.720 sustainable had we not been busily importing people who have a very strong sense of faith in gods that are quite

00:03:42.040 different from ours. Absent common blood and common gods, we increasingly look for enemies within rather

00:03:47.780 than uniting around the challenges we face from outside. But the extremism has not only been cultural.

00:03:53.440 Peter Thiel has argued, as he does in another of our upcoming interviews, that much of our current

00:03:58.180 political and cultural strife is the result of deep economic stagnation in anything other than computing

00:04:03.780 and AI. While the world of bits has driven our economies, the world of atoms has stood still. As a result, the

00:04:10.280 United States, Britain and most other Western countries are running eye-watering levels of debt, which we

00:04:15.500 keep adding to every day. The US, for example, increases its national debt by a trillion dollars

00:04:21.500 every hundred days, while Britain's debt is bigger than its economy and rising too. While Peter Thiel sees

00:04:27.980 this as a product of economics first and foremost, I believe it is unwise to ignore the societal dimension.

00:04:34.280 Fundamentally, overspending is a collective action problem, and our failure to deal with it is a reflection of

00:04:39.860 our inability to act in our common interest. Absent common blood and common gods, why would we give

00:04:45.740 of ourselves for our fellow citizens? This is what we mean when we lament the decline of social

00:04:50.840 solidarity. The inevitable product of economic stagnation and social atomization is the allure

00:04:56.460 of Marxism in all its forms. The screams about the rich getting richer, white privilege and so on

00:05:02.300 are not only attempts to divide society, they are also a consequence of it being divided. This will

00:05:08.780 inevitably lead to the emergence of more extreme political movements of both stripes. May you live

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TRIGGERnometry - July 26, 2024

It's Political Extremism All the Way Down - Konstantin Kisin

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