TRIGGERnometry - July 26, 2024


Why I Fear the Future - Konstantin Kisin


Episode Stats

Length

5 minutes

Words per Minute

160.1595

Word Count

897

Sentence Count

65

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
00:00:00.000 One plus one equals more of the greatest stories.
00:00:03.000 Hulu on Disney Plus.
00:00:05.000 Stories about...
00:00:06.000 Survivors.
00:00:07.000 Monsters.
00:00:08.000 The most dangerous planet.
00:00:09.000 Family.
00:00:10.000 Retribution.
00:00:11.000 Murder.
00:00:12.000 Prophecy.
00:00:13.000 Fear and propane.
00:00:14.000 Bobby Miller!
00:00:15.000 Black Panther.
00:00:16.000 The Thunderbolts!
00:00:18.000 The ultimate soldier.
00:00:20.000 Chicago, alright?
00:00:22.000 The best of the best stories now with even more from Hulu.
00:00:25.000 Amazing!
00:00:26.000 Have it all with Hulu on Disney Plus.
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.
00:01:02.000 Lempicka thrives in this capital of hedonism, maintaining her marriage while also falling in love with a female prostitute
00:01:08.000 who introduces her to the joys of opium.
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,
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,
00:02:59.000 they produce grandiose masculine art in architecture
00:03:02.000 and put the woman back in her rightful place of wife and mother.
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.
00:04:29.000 If we do not work together, we will not survive what is coming.
00:04:33.000 And what is coming exactly?
00:04:35.000 More on that in my next video.
00:04:36.000 I love shopping for new jackets and boots this season.
00:04:39.000 And when I do, I always make sure I get cash back with Rakuten.
00:04:43.000 And it's not just fashion.
00:04:45.000 You can earn cash back on electronics, beauty, travel, and more
00:04:48.000 at stores like Sephora, Old Navy, and Expedia.
00:04:51.000 It's so easy to save that I always shop through Rakuten.
00:04:54.000 Join for free at Rakuten.ca
00:04:56.000 and get your cash back by Interact eTransfer, PayPal, or check.
00:05:00.000 Download the Rakuten app or sign up at Rakuten.ca.
00:05:03.000 That's R-A-K-U-T-E-N dot C-A.
00:05:07.000 .
00:05:18.000 .
00:05:24.000 .
00:05:27.000 .
00:05:29.000 .
00:05:31.000 .
00:05:36.000 .