TRIGGERnometry - July 26, 2024


Why I Fear the Future - Konstantin Kisin

Hosted by
Francis Foster Konstantin Kisin
Guests
Konstantin Kisin
Mentioned
James Orr Diana Fleischman Jordan Peterson Black Panther Stephen Hicks Bob Mueller Expedia
Is This the Death of Harvard？ - Steven Pinker ＂The Real Risk is Totalitarian World Government＂ - Peter Thiel

Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

160.16

Word count

897

Sentence count

69

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

sentences flagged

Toxicity

3

sentences flagged

Hate speech

3

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Summary

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In New York, Frances and I were invited to see a musical about the artist Tamara de Lempicka. The wife of a Polish noble, flees the Russian Revolution and ends up in Paris. With her husband struggling to adjust to his loss of status and wealth, the family lives in poverty until Lem Picka gradually finds her feet and eventually thrives in the rapidly changing world of the 1920s.

Transcript

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00:00:30.000 In New York, Frances and I were invited to see a musical about the artist Tamara de Lempicka.
00:00:35.000 Lempicka, the wife of a Polish noble, flees the Russian Revolution and ends up in Paris.
00:00:41.000 With her husband struggling to adjust to his loss of status and wealth,
00:00:44.000 the family lives in poverty until Lempicka is discovered as an artist.
00:00:48.000 She gradually finds her feet and eventually thrives in the rapidly changing world of the 1920s.
00:00:53.000 Convinced that the unimaginable horrors of the past can never be repeated,
00:00:57.000 Parisians cope with the trauma of World War I by what we would now call living their best lives. 0.92
00:01:02.000 Lempicka thrives in this capital of hedonism, maintaining her marriage while also falling in love with a female prostitute 1.00
00:01:08.000 who introduces her to the joys of opium. 0.51
00:01:11.000 Celebrated as a female artist who finally gives voice to the power of the feminine through her work,
00:01:16.000 she secures both wealth and popular acclaim.
00:01:20.000 This entire period is depicted in the musical as a time in which the boring old ways are abandoned
00:01:25.000 and favour exploring variety, or as we would now call it, diversity.
00:01:30.000 In a scene that sums up the mood of the times,
00:01:32.000 the proprietor of a lavish lesbian and transgender bar that Lempicka frequents,
00:01:36.000 opens it with the words fraternité, égalité, lesbianité.
00:01:41.000 While mainstream society remains sceptical,
00:01:43.000 Parisian socialites do not just accept these minority sexual practices,
00:01:47.000 they celebrate them as the antidote to the staleness of the old order.
00:01:51.000 An order which put unity and social cohesion above the unlimited freedom of the individual.
00:01:57.000 Until I found myself sitting in the audience of Lempicka, 0.99
00:01:59.000 I never really understood why Jordan Peterson spent so much time
00:02:03.000 focusing on the duality of order and chaos.
00:02:06.000 I do now.
00:02:07.000 Regular readers of my substack will remember that in the exchange I hosted there
00:02:11.000 between James Orr and Stephen Hicks about conservatism versus liberalism,
00:02:16.000 James Orr explained that the primary concern of conservatives is the preservation of order.
00:02:21.000 We also know from evolutionary psychologists like our former guest Diana Fleischmann
00:02:25.000 that societies which experience an increase in disease become more conservative with a small c.
00:02:30.000 A statement which hardly needs explaining to anyone who was alive during a COVID pandemic.
00:02:34.000 Put simply, as we ratchet up the amount of chaos, order rises to the top of people's concerns.
00:02:40.000 As Lempicka's story unravels, fascists and communists fight over the future of Europe,
00:02:45.000 replacing the joys of chaos with the enforcement of order.
00:02:49.000 Instead of celebrating variety and diversity, they detest and punish it.
00:02:53.000 Instead of embracing difference, they suppress it.
00:02:56.000 Instead of worshipping the strong, independent woman, 1.00
00:02:59.000 they produce grandiose masculine art in architecture 1.00
00:03:02.000 and put the woman back in her rightful place of wife and mother. 0.99
00:03:07.000 They have no tolerance for individual differences.
00:03:10.000 On the contrary, they believe that a nation can only function
00:03:13.000 if people submit themselves to the good of society.
00:03:16.000 Anyone who refuses must naturally be eliminated.
00:03:19.000 People on the left frequently accuse me of being a conservative.
00:03:23.000 Conservatives, on the other hand, claim me as one of their own
00:03:26.000 and are inevitably disappointed when they discover that I am not.
00:03:29.000 Why am I not a conservative?
00:03:31.000 First, I am not averse to chaos. In fact, I like it.
00:03:35.000 I like offensive, sacrilegious jokes.
00:03:38.000 I am in favour of decriminalising cannabis and psychedelics which I have never taken,
00:03:42.000 precisely because they allow us to transcend the rigidity of our thinking.
00:03:45.000 I am not threatened by the existence of sexual minorities.
00:03:49.000 I do not believe that the institution of marriage is materially undermined
00:03:52.000 by being extended to non-heterosexual couples.
00:03:55.000 I have zero respect for unowned authority
00:03:57.000 and am deeply suspicious of any hierarchy
00:04:00.000 that is not explicitly based on merit and competence and them alone.
00:04:04.000 I do not crave order and I do not fear chaos.
00:04:08.000 What I fear is a lack of order and an excess of chaos.
00:04:11.000 Like a bird with one wing, a society that fails to strike a balance
00:04:15.000 between the forces of empathy on the one hand and pragmatism on the other
00:04:19.000 will plummet to its death.
00:04:21.000 Western culture is increasingly based on the idea that one of its wings is good
00:04:25.000 and the other is evil.
00:04:27.000 Whichever wing you personally favour is irrelevant.
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00:04:33.000 And what is coming exactly?
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