What's expensive about it? Real question. I imagine Douglas and Peter don't do these interviews out of the goodness of their hearts. :) Is that the biggest cost outside the obvious - your time filming, editing etc?
@@guyfromostrava We used four cameras, many lights, 4 mics and had a crew of about 4-5 people - that's what's expensive. Also, renting the space to film in.
No, these guys are just narrators at the end of civilisation. Like sports commentators describe a 20 car f1 race pile up. They have a couple of books and a podcast. The equity diversity and inclusion commissars have the media, the government, universities, schools, and the corporations, and there are millions of them. The game is so lost, and has been lost for at least a decade
With the woke types, the question is never, "Is there racism in this situation?" The question is always, "How does racism manifest itself in this situation?" The underlying assumption of the woke is that racism is ALWAYS present in every situation. It's exhausting.
The question should be, whatever the question is. Not viewed through the lens of a narrow and inaccurate historical frame work. Douglas points out, to these people, if you don't see racism literally everywhere, then they literally call you a racist. P.s. not exaggerating but wish I was.
When you believe that racism is everywhere, you see signs of it everywhere, even when it isn't there... It must be there, because you believe it has to be there. Even in their own mirrors staring back at them. Only racists obsess over people's skin color, and the Woke Left can't stop obsessing over it.
Beyond exhausting living in South Africa. Perpetual blaming and perpetual guilt. Continuously condemned for real and/or imagined racism, meanwhile the black nationalists in government keep promulgating black economic empowerment laws that are divisive and discriminatory with echoes of similar laws under the white nationalist government.. White racism, white racist. Evil settler, evil coloniser, evil perpetrator, on and on .. . world without end. I signed up for the respect, unity and love of the Rainbow Nation, and its guarantees of justice, equality and a new dawn with a Siuth African government of morally superior, honest, principalled humans in 1994. This isn't it.
Douglas Murray is usually spot-on, but when he addresses the "you must understand me, you will never understand me" conundrum I feel he is missing a crucial point. He seems to dismiss this as a silly contradiction and nothing more, but it's much more sinister than that. The activists don't want understanding-- they want obedience. The essence of the trick is this: they first convince you that if you are not one of the oppressed then you are draped in privilege and will never be able to understand their plight. Therefore, you must believe what they tell you and enact the remedies they prescribe.
You couldn't have put it more accurately. On the latest episode of Andrew Gold's "Heretics" Will Storr defined it well as "means of dominance". It's not about kindness, it's not about fighting for social justice, or protecting the oppressed, or the discriminated. It's about using virtue signaling into oppressing others for personal gain (a career, a social status, some form of power, or just in order to feel good about oneself, extort respect and acceptance from the social setting).
JUST WANT TO SAY DOUGLASS MURRAY IS NOT ONLY BRILLIANT BUT IS INSTRUMENTAL IN LEADING THIS RISE OF AWARENESS OF THE THREATS FACING DEMOCRACY!!! HE’S A HERO IN MY OPINION!
Two of my favorite new found people. As an "older person " I'm not black, gay, female etc" . Thanks for the humanist reduction to the fundamentals. We ( humans) will strive to find solutions to "existential "problems ". Keep going ❤
The last 30 minutes of this should be played over a loudspeaker across the country…. It’s both inspiring and helpful. I have immense respect for Douglas Murray
That's a terrible idea. You can't force people to watch the content you're interested in. Also, no disrespect to the speakers, but they should *also* cover alt right ideology and what we can do to fight back. Both extremes are nuts.
@@commandershepard9920 How to deal with the far right has been known, has been done, and continues. There are really only two things that support and increase there numbers. One is, the media seeks them out, gives them voices, and tells the world they are large in numbers and everywhere. This helps the singletons out there find them and encourages them that they have actual power. Second is, the deep and unassailable hatred certain sectors of the population experience in big portions of their lives. These two things feed the alt right. The simple way they are minimized is to starve them. Their ideas are not acceptable in polite society.
@@commandershepard9920 Woke ideology is being spread in our schools and universities and represents an existential threat to free society. 'Alt-right' ideology is a virtually nonexistent problem in comparison.
@@commandershepard9920 Yours is a good point. I am going to post a general comment in this thread and see if anyone responds (sub comments rarely get as much engagement).
@@commandershepard9920The difference is, Alt -Right ideology is a lunatic fringe whereas Woke ideology has captured virtually every major institution of significance on the US. It's like a dystopian social horror movie come to life.
Raised a Catholic in the 1950s, the woke church is more self-righteous, more unforgiving and with more zealotry than anything I experienced in my Catholic girlhood. And that is truly saying something since the Church was still praying the Latin mass.
Learning Latin improves your mind and your understanding of the origins and nuances all Latin based languages and it adds so gravitas to the sermons you hear Sunday mornings, midnight Yule mass etc..
Catholicism celebrates mass in the vernacular since the '60's. Beautiful Latin masses are also available. More significantly, Catholicism is what sanity and truth actually mean. Christ present in His sacraments which He initiated and sustains. Our free wills and minds shows we are spiritual with a physical side, not what modern relativistic materialism asserts incoherently.
This should not be a new insight - all ideas can be attributed as religious in nature - it is a fallacious argument to label somebody else's ideas as religious but not yours and therefore their can be dismissed. I can make that accusation at anyone at anytime. We have excluded "religion" from our public space when it is nothing more than philosophical ideas couched in antiquated language. For instance woke is a repeat of Gnosticism waging war against Atheistic Materialism (Peter Boghossian). And both of those philosophies (religions) suck by the way.
I believe James Lindsey, Helen Pluckrose, and Bogossian kinda coined the term/idea together or really brought that correlation to the forefront. James Lindsey is like friggin Woke Marxism Terminator here lately.
@@helloitsme98 Slight of hand ”all ideas can be attributed as religious”, followed by something about fallacies. ...and if they all ”can” be labeled as such, of course they equally merit the label, or do they? By your standard, Galileo's teachings or a multilateral nuclear nonproliferation plan ”could” always be construed as being religious in nature, just as much as the Woke movement. Conveniently rendering the term meaningless for the duration of the argument. The fact remains that for all not using an obtuse semantic filter, certain ideas stand out as being more religious than others and thus merit observing for the psychosocial functions they fulfill besides for just the truths they assert or knowledge they might add. While not an exact science, typical religious behavior is a human thing that can be separated from a non-religious one. Here's Durkheim's definition: ”...a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things […] set apart and forbidden - beliefs and practices which unite in one single moral community called a church, all those who adhere to them.” Similarly to the categorization of personality disorders, the ”family resemblance” checklist lens will add items like the supernatural, awe, sacred rituals, a map of humanity's role in the universe etc as probable if not mandatory ingredients. On this note there does e.g. exist a widespread idea or social ”belief” that air traffic safety merits our attention. ”Truths” are repeatedly asserted in the field, with claims of irrefutable evidence about GPS nav being an important addition in the pursuit of safeguarding alleged "airborne" souls, with TCAS instructions said to deserve to be treated by all pilots as the final overruling commandments on which vertical path to take in life. But despite this, there is little evidence that the aviation- or traveling communities revere the TCAS as a sacred relic or morally infused deity. Few think TCAS or its founding engineers have lessons to teach about the origin or future of modern society, the role of women or the final destination of the living. There are no demonstrations or violent clashes on the streets in the name of the greater TCAS Vision Zero, and few wars fought in its name. There are no labels of shame ascribed to TCAS-deniers or -revisionists, and no ostracized TCAS family black sheep. Few politicians ever campaigned on empowering the TCAS community and few lost souls have gotten back on track citing the exhilarating new purpose in life they found after reading the TCAS wiring diagram and landing in the warm embrace of the nightshift avionics maintenance unit. So as much as you ”could” accuse airline safety systems and the ideas underpinning those to be a religious undertaking, there is no guarantee that sane people would find your argument compelling, whereas if all the conditional "no's" above got substituted for "many", things would look a whole lot differently. This is not to say that modern air travel safety doesn't fill an intricate, closely monitored and key structural role in society, or that violating all its tenets would have nothing to do with morality or politics. It's just not a very religiously natured (see above definitions) way of handling moral codes and social structures, whereas the Woke movement to a large extent is. Most people who are not idiots understand this and other matters of religious vs non-religious behaviors intuitively and through life experience, whether they know how to put the obvious into words in the face of semantic babble or not. It's unclear BTW who the ”we” are in ”We have excluded "religion" from our public space when it is nothing more than philosophical ideas couched in antiquated language.” It's apparent however that this ”antiquated language” is popular today both among rapidly growing portions of the inhabitants of the West as well as in large parts of the rest of the world.
I listen to conversations like this and I feel reassured that sanity will prevail. But then I show up at work, surrounded by suburban middle class New Englanders, supposedly smart liberals - puritanical, narcissistic, spiritually bankrupt do-gooders. My mental health suffers.
im the same as you Dale, im a natural left of center liberal but nowadays i feel like a right wing conservative because everything has gone way beyond what is logical or common sense
30:51- Intellectual Intimidation - my point exactly ! “They’re so much more educated and smarter than me, so they must be right !” Douglas Murray sums up their insidious tactics perfectly. He puts my gut feelings into words. Now I feel empowered to stand up to this obscurantist nonsense !
It also happens towards people who are highly qualified and demonstrably much smarter, but who are dependent on organisational and professional environments the fanatics have infiltrated. The mechanism of intimidation is always the same: Infallible Righteous Purity, setting you up to be hounded and character assassinated to your professional destruction if you dare to point out the simplest absurdity, particularly if you are male. The research literature supports me in saying that I understand these fanatics in terms of the manifestations of extreme personality disorders, particularly narcissism and psychopathy.
Great conversation. I really like Douglas' suggestions on how to respond to folks pushing these toxic topics. My wife and I just went through whether or not to put our kids in public school. The school system changed it from CRT to CRF (framework) so we decided not to subject them to that poison. We're going to keep home schooling.
My old private school that I attended 50 years ago has gone woke too! Nowhere is safe but home schooling and watch they will make indoctrination be part of home schooling curriculum!
My wife, who is a woman, Asian and an immigrant was poached from one giant multibillion tech company by another who offered almost double the salary. A testament to her skills and hard work. When she gave her notice to quit her boss told her that her leaving would fuck up his diversity numbers. Fucked with her self confidence a little bit...she kind of questioned whether her skills and hard work even mattered when her boss csn check off 3 boxes on the diverse list by having her there. When she was told by her new boss that yearly bonuses alone would be higher than my yearly pay as a psychotherapist those doubts fortunately went away.
and the former is a cop out by weak minded fools. there IS no forgiveness! you MEANT TO DO IT. or you would not have done it. period. some cultures have no word for forgiveness for that very reason.
I'm not taking anything away from him here: he manifests nothing other than the kind of reasoned informed approach to discussion that scientists are supposed to engage in every day, but even here, it's increasingly being undermined by tantrum-throwing righteousness-police who are as openly hostile to rational thought and evidence as they are towards men.
Thanks for this FULL conversation! I was wating wile watching the cut ones. It brights my soul to see that is it possible to talk about life in a rational way. Thanks again! ^{^
24:54 This is such an important point. The political left has completely abandoned class-based politics in favor of identity-based politics, effectively handing class over to the political right. In other words: Proletariat=Right, Bourgeois=Left. What a hilarious postmodern inversion. We live in strange times.
If I could have anyone in the world replace the voice of my inner dialogue in my head...Douglass Murray would definitely be top three. Just listening to him makes me feel smarter, lol.
Thanks for this upload! As I commented in a shorter episode, I want to hear a ten-hour conversation between these two extraordinarily insightful gentlemen. Now, I only have to look for the other missing nine hours...
@@derbar7051 Oh, thanks! This is a bit geeky, but here it goes - the name settles it as C minor: Do + Ut (= Do; from Guido D'Arezzo) + Sol + Do + Me ( = Eb; from the Movable Do scheme) --> C minor chord 😁
@@derbar7051 Ah, a music teacher! Cool! Physicist, here. I play a little bit of piano, though. This is a cliché, I know, but music was my first love, and - cliché or not - it's the truth.
I enjoy DM so much. I laughed out loud when the ‘Baptist’ comments were brought up. I grew up as an existential anarchist (as one does as a girl in the midwest) in an agnostic household and became a Christian at 19. Went to a baptist college where I then discovered I was Catholic in a comparative Christianity class. From there, I studied and served the church for 15 years before becoming disenchanted with authoritarianism and spent the last 5 years sifting through the various worldly perspectives I had rejected as a believer -and from a phenomenologist’s perspective, heavily steeped in moral theology. lol. It was as exhausting as it sounds. I suppose I’ve now landed back at a sort of conservative but skeptic theism, which feels much more comfortable: rational, cogent, rooted, but still free. Such minutiae to contend with from an intellectual perspective. In any case, I laughed out loud as these comments (Baptist) tied so much of my experiential learnings together and said out loud ecstatically and in reminiscent revelation, ‘wow, I’ve lived such an interesting life.’ As perhaps only one trying to discern the how, what, and why if humanity might. DM, let’s get coffee if you come to the Midwest. (In a non-sexual way), I’ll make it worth your while. Am I just a random person out here asking an important person by ‘the world’s’ standards this forward question? Yes, but you never know. :) perhaps we may be of some service and encouragement to one another, if you’d like an acquaintance, who needs nothing from you but has a kind heart and enjoys ideas.
Brilliant conversation from two people that have a true and genuine interest in helping our societies grow and flourish. I salute you both. I will carry this flag and reach out to those who so passionately follow woke ideology and offer them alternatives. Peace, love and the commitment to the endless pursuit of truth and knowledge.
It's really refreshing to hear these issues being discussed in a grounded and thoughtful manner. It's such necessary modeling. Keep up the great work, all of you.
@@userxyz64post modernism and critical theory were founded by Marxists. You may think that a good thing or and bad thing, but Marxism and Woke are related
Two of my favourite men having a great conversation, superb. It lifts my spirits knowing that there are great thinkers in the world like these two men, who are trying to fight back against the woke insanity that now prevails in western societies.
Murray's point on viewpoint homogeneity produced by DEI is spot on. At MIT there are many DEI admissions and hires, and I was shocked to find that nearly 100% of these admissions/hires came from the same economic class (very wealthy). The result was a staggering viewpoint homogeneity and general ignorance wrt working class and impoverished experiences, e.g. what it's like living in govt subsidized housing or dealing with driveby shootings on a weekly basis or living in urban environments without water/electricity. These kinds of experiences are crucial to incorporate into the university's viewpoint but they are damn near nonexistent, all so they can pretend they are diverse. Skin color is meaningless, yet MIT and similar institutions place it on a pedestal as if it is a more accurate proxy for disenfranchisement than economic class.
Great conversation about the complex and many shades of Grey along the continuum of our human and cultural existence over the range of our knowable history, thanks
8/7/23 These two wise and thoughtful men give me hope that we ( humanity)has capacity to resolve these frustrating issues. This is a strange conjunction in time when our instinct for unity, if realised, would put us on a sound footing to navigate the advancement of AI. It’s all a horrible distraction and I think we may be sufficiently distracted to not be unified in matters that will affect us all regardless of ideology. We are so vulnerable.
How refreshingly awesome (for lack of a better word) to listen to 2 Incredibly robustly intelligence on display. I’ve been despairing for our country of late. This is At least a momentary moment of utter common sense. Thank you for this discussion. I’m forwarding this link to 10 of my wokiest friends…then I’ll see what response I get.
I am appalled by what has become of the university. I even see it in hospitals where the CEO has started to use "preferred pronouns". This is woke ideology and agenda. I was not amused by his entries to the rest of the hospital with this agenda. Sickened by it actually. How the halls of education and health care have fallen.
Where is that hospital funded? Tablet magazine just had a great piece about Illinois governor's family funding a lot of the push for this kind of ideology in the medical field and education, including normalizing trans and Synthetic Sexual Identities.
I told my 14 year old niece that men cannot get pregnant by their girlfriends. She didn't believe me. I had to watch a lot of TH-cam to understand the way she looked at me. Her school had warned her about people like me, who use hate speech so casually.
Why do I feel like I’m living in the world that CS Lewis was trying to warn us about in the “Abolition of Man”. That the world we inhabit is that Green Book he said was on his shelf
This idea of speaking " my truth, " or not being able to understand " your truth, " gives me the willy's. Thinking about driving down a two lane highway, and every driver coming from the other direction has their own version of the truth, and can only operate within their own unique version of reality, like where the center line might be.
The frustrating thing is, we were there. We recognised that unnatural hierarchies based on arbitrary characteristics like race, sex, sexuality were wrong. We put laws in place to make it illegal to discriminate on those grounds, and in what appears to be a movement without a cause, just kept going over the other side. We brought back unnatural hierarchies and said it was to benefit some groups, ignoring all along that the entire point was not to benefit or hinder the "Individual". Treating individuals based on the group identity was the thing we were trying to avoid in the first place, but went straight back to it the moment our guard was down. I've had that conversation with an acquaintance who is admittedly very far left, and a perfectly nice guy. He's fully behind state led racial discrimination because he believes it's a force for good, and any individual thus discriminated against is a price he's willing to pay. Naturally he balks when I point out this is fundamentally racist, but is unable to explain why it isn't because he just hasn't had to think that deeply into it before. Frankly, it ended our friendship. We're back to racism, back to bigotry, and just as racists throughout history have said they're doing it for a good cause, the modern racists, the modern bigots are doing exactly the same thing.
Thank you for posting the entire conversation. Really great. I wish you many views. For my own part - the thing I've really been intellectually gnawing over lately is one of the main foundations of all this, namely the theory of social constructionism. Somehow, someway, the acolytes of this theory have missed the blindingly obvious fact that - if everything is indeed a social construct - that has to include social constructionism itself. And then they go about "freeing" everyone from meaningless, arbitrary social constructs by inventing dozens and dozens of more meaningless, arbitrary social constructs, all the while remaining cheerfully oblivious to what they're doing. If everything is indeed a social construct, well, um, that has to include woke social constructs as well. In much the same way that the woke narrative that there are no grand narratives is - you know - just another grand narrative. P.S. I'm so happy I managed to squeeze out a great liberal arts education before all this took root. My education was truly diverse and I was taught by every kind of instructor with every point of view. And while there is something to be gained by strains of postmodernism and maybe even reductionist thought, when you turn it on all of life and reality it's just a snake eating its own tail. And to absolutely no end. It's so simplistic and one sided. You can use it to deconstruct the world, but then what? You're left holding nothing but dust and ashes. Like Iain Mcgilchrist so eloquently put it, it's like looking at the stars through a magnifying glass and then complaining the universe is just a big meaningless black smudge
P.P.S. true story. In the three hours since I posted this, I had to take my 81 year old uncle to the doctor. When we arrived, the paperwork full on devoted an entire page to gender, gender identity, and preferred pronouns. I tried to explain what was being asked for, but good luck with that. I did criticize it quite loudly near the front desk. And yeah, there wasn't a single patient under 60 in the place being subjected to this, and they had no clue what it was about. But yeah. You can't even go to an ear nose throat doctor without being politically coerced into participating.
@@persallnas5408 (sadly you're not even entirely sarcastic - the "Logic must apply equally" has been denounced on certain parts of the internet as indeed a biased, privileged, toxic, problematic idea. To level the playing field completely and wiping out systemic privilege I suppose we should all just go back to pointing and grunting ... )
@@bookchaser1103 Well this sucks and its mostly eminating from the upperclasses of the United States. You guys need to rise up and oppose it bcs it has allready poisend the rest of the anglosphere but the rest of the west s still holding the line.
Whew. This conversation had a heady whiff of magic. I think I'm learning HOW to think. Anyway, I took notes in order to revisit this wonderful collection of words. Thank you gentlemen.
If only the people who practice Woke were able to see even 5 minutes into the future, they would understand that they are only making things much worse. They're even creating new problems that didn't previously exist.
Thank you for posting this wonderful interview. I find so much here to consider and reflect upon and help open up one’s mind to ideas discussed in different ways . The ideas here have create far reaching principles to aid greater understanding.
Indoctrination must be done early or it can’t be done at all. Parents must take back the public and private schools. Arizona has moved to a system where educational funding is to follow the student, allowing the student (student’s parents) to choose which school gets that funding. If the parents don’t like the school, the school just lost X amount of money.
A very illuminating exchange - thanks to all involved, it commanded my full attention - I'll forward this to others and reflect on the content myself.......
I’m not a physicist or a mathematician but through education, I understand physics and math. When you are not making sense or even lying, you can hide your lack of truth by claiming others are ignorant.
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What's expensive about it? Real question. I imagine Douglas and Peter don't do these interviews out of the goodness of their hearts. :) Is that the biggest cost outside the obvious - your time filming, editing etc?
@@guyfromostrava We used four cameras, many lights, 4 mics and had a crew of about 4-5 people - that's what's expensive. Also, renting the space to film in.
@@thesignalproductions You rent the equipment? Anyways, thanks for the videos. Very much appreciated!
WHEN did this conversation take place?
Thank you, awesome sound and video quality, which makes this so much easier to share. And of course, excellent discussion!
As long as the world has men like these two Gentlemen you know there is still hope!
The problem is they don't get the exposure and coverage needed to reach more people.
And many women support them
We are many engaged in this fight against madness !
Isn’t is amazing . Were it not for Wokism most of us would have never heard of Peterson, Murray,Prager, Rubin, Weinstein.
No, these guys are just narrators at the end of civilisation. Like sports commentators describe a 20 car f1 race pile up.
They have a couple of books and a podcast. The equity diversity and inclusion commissars have the media, the government, universities, schools, and the corporations, and there are millions of them.
The game is so lost, and has been lost for at least a decade
I love Douglas Murray
Douglas is an edifying pleasure to hear and watch.
With the woke types, the question is never, "Is there racism in this situation?" The question is always, "How does racism manifest itself in this situation?" The underlying assumption of the woke is that racism is ALWAYS present in every situation. It's exhausting.
The question should be, whatever the question is. Not viewed through the lens of a narrow and inaccurate historical frame work. Douglas points out, to these people, if you don't see racism literally everywhere, then they literally call you a racist. P.s. not exaggerating but wish I was.
When you believe that racism is everywhere, you see signs of it everywhere, even when it isn't there...
It must be there, because you believe it has to be there. Even in their own mirrors staring back at them.
Only racists obsess over people's skin color, and the Woke Left can't stop obsessing over it.
While actual racism goes unchecked. It's mind boggling
Beyond exhausting living in South Africa. Perpetual blaming and perpetual guilt. Continuously condemned for real and/or imagined racism, meanwhile
the black nationalists in government keep promulgating black economic empowerment laws that are divisive and discriminatory with echoes of similar laws under the white nationalist government.. White racism, white racist. Evil settler, evil coloniser, evil perpetrator, on and on ..
. world without end. I signed up for the respect, unity and love of the Rainbow Nation, and its guarantees of justice, equality and a new dawn with a Siuth African government of morally superior, honest, principalled humans in 1994. This isn't it.
Similar to religion, they put the conclusion first.
Douglas Murray is usually spot-on, but when he addresses the "you must understand me, you will never understand me" conundrum I feel he is missing a crucial point. He seems to dismiss this as a silly contradiction and nothing more, but it's much more sinister than that. The activists don't want understanding-- they want obedience. The essence of the trick is this: they first convince you that if you are not one of the oppressed then you are draped in privilege and will never be able to understand their plight. Therefore, you must believe what they tell you and enact the remedies they prescribe.
Very dark intentions going on
2+2 = 5
You couldn't have put it more accurately. On the latest episode of Andrew Gold's "Heretics" Will Storr defined it well as "means of dominance". It's not about kindness, it's not about fighting for social justice, or protecting the oppressed, or the discriminated. It's about using virtue signaling into oppressing others for personal gain (a career, a social status, some form of power, or just in order to feel good about oneself, extort respect and acceptance from the social setting).
It’s an extreme form of gaslighting in the political sphere, and the aim is indeed silencing and controlling anyone who might disagree.
I think you are misreading his chosen position in this particular discussion.
JUST WANT TO SAY DOUGLASS MURRAY IS NOT ONLY BRILLIANT BUT IS INSTRUMENTAL IN LEADING THIS RISE OF AWARENESS OF THE THREATS FACING DEMOCRACY!!! HE’S A HERO IN MY OPINION!
Two of my favorite new found people. As an "older person " I'm not black, gay, female etc" . Thanks for the humanist reduction to the fundamentals. We ( humans) will strive to find solutions to "existential "problems ". Keep going ❤
They are both in my must watch list, I also watch Konstantin Kissin for the same reason.
Discrimination and hate is part of class society. What Nazis like Douglas Murray cannot accept. 🤮🤮😡😡
It’s wicked “..to encourage people to be more at odds with the world than they already are”
The last 30 minutes of this should be played over a loudspeaker across the country…. It’s both inspiring and helpful. I have immense respect for Douglas Murray
That's a terrible idea. You can't force people to watch the content you're interested in.
Also, no disrespect to the speakers, but they should *also* cover alt right ideology and what we can do to fight back. Both extremes are nuts.
@@commandershepard9920 How to deal with the far right has been known, has been done, and continues. There are really only two things that support and increase there numbers. One is, the media seeks them out, gives them voices, and tells the world they are large in numbers and everywhere. This helps the singletons out there find them and encourages them that they have actual power. Second is, the deep and unassailable hatred certain sectors of the population experience in big portions of their lives.
These two things feed the alt right. The simple way they are minimized is to starve them. Their ideas are not acceptable in polite society.
@@commandershepard9920 Woke ideology is being spread in our schools and universities and represents an existential threat to free society. 'Alt-right' ideology is a virtually nonexistent problem in comparison.
@@commandershepard9920 Yours is a good point. I am going to post a general comment in this thread and see if anyone responds (sub comments rarely get as much engagement).
@@commandershepard9920The difference is, Alt -Right ideology is a lunatic fringe whereas Woke ideology has captured virtually every major institution of significance on the US. It's like a dystopian social horror movie come to life.
Love to hear people, NOT afraid to LOOK at PROBLEMS In the face, to ASK DIFFICULT questions and try
to find answers.
Raised a Catholic in the 1950s, the woke church is more self-righteous, more unforgiving and with more zealotry than anything I experienced in my Catholic girlhood. And that is truly saying something since the Church was still praying the Latin mass.
That’s cause the new religion is really just satanic
Learning Latin improves your mind and your understanding of the origins and nuances all Latin based languages and it adds so gravitas to the sermons you hear Sunday mornings, midnight Yule mass etc..
I have had the same experience as you, but from the Protestant perspective.
Catholicism celebrates mass in the vernacular since the '60's. Beautiful Latin masses are also available. More significantly, Catholicism is what sanity and truth actually mean. Christ present in His sacraments which He initiated and sustains. Our free wills and minds shows we are spiritual with a physical side, not what modern relativistic materialism asserts incoherently.
Another way of controlling the masses.
John McWhorter would be a brilliant addition to this conversation. He’s been speaking of the religious nature of this movement for quite some time.
This should not be a new insight - all ideas can be attributed as religious in nature - it is a fallacious argument to label somebody else's ideas as religious but not yours and therefore their can be dismissed. I can make that accusation at anyone at anytime. We have excluded "religion" from our public space when it is nothing more than philosophical ideas couched in antiquated language. For instance woke is a repeat of Gnosticism waging war against Atheistic Materialism (Peter Boghossian). And both of those philosophies (religions) suck by the way.
I believe James Lindsey, Helen Pluckrose, and Bogossian kinda coined the term/idea together or really brought that correlation to the forefront. James Lindsey is like friggin Woke Marxism Terminator here lately.
@@helloitsme98 Slight of hand ”all ideas can be attributed as religious”, followed by something about fallacies. ...and if they all ”can” be labeled as such, of course they equally merit the label, or do they? By your standard, Galileo's teachings or a multilateral nuclear nonproliferation plan ”could” always be construed as being religious in nature, just as much as the Woke movement. Conveniently rendering the term meaningless for the duration of the argument. The fact remains that for all not using an obtuse semantic filter, certain ideas stand out as being more religious than others and thus merit observing for the psychosocial functions they fulfill besides for just the truths they assert or knowledge they might add.
While not an exact science, typical religious behavior is a human thing that can be separated from a non-religious one. Here's Durkheim's definition: ”...a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things […] set apart and forbidden - beliefs and practices which unite in one single moral community called a church, all those who adhere to them.” Similarly to the categorization of personality disorders, the ”family resemblance” checklist lens will add items like the supernatural, awe, sacred rituals, a map of humanity's role in the universe etc as probable if not mandatory ingredients.
On this note there does e.g. exist a widespread idea or social ”belief” that air traffic safety merits our attention. ”Truths” are repeatedly asserted in the field, with claims of irrefutable evidence about GPS nav being an important addition in the pursuit of safeguarding alleged "airborne" souls, with TCAS instructions said to deserve to be treated by all pilots as the final overruling commandments on which vertical path to take in life. But despite this, there is little evidence that the aviation- or traveling communities revere the TCAS as a sacred relic or morally infused deity. Few think TCAS or its founding engineers have lessons to teach about the origin or future of modern society, the role of women or the final destination of the living. There are no demonstrations or violent clashes on the streets in the name of the greater TCAS Vision Zero, and few wars fought in its name. There are no labels of shame ascribed to TCAS-deniers or -revisionists, and no ostracized TCAS family black sheep. Few politicians ever campaigned on empowering the TCAS community and few lost souls have gotten back on track citing the exhilarating new purpose in life they found after reading the TCAS wiring diagram and landing in the warm embrace of the nightshift avionics maintenance unit.
So as much as you ”could” accuse airline safety systems and the ideas underpinning those to be a religious undertaking, there is no guarantee that sane people would find your argument compelling, whereas if all the conditional "no's" above got substituted for "many", things would look a whole lot differently. This is not to say that modern air travel safety doesn't fill an intricate, closely monitored and key structural role in society, or that violating all its tenets would have nothing to do with morality or politics. It's just not a very religiously natured (see above definitions) way of handling moral codes and social structures, whereas the Woke movement to a large extent is. Most people who are not idiots understand this and other matters of religious vs non-religious behaviors intuitively and through life experience, whether they know how to put the obvious into words in the face of semantic babble or not.
It's unclear BTW who the ”we” are in ”We have excluded "religion" from our public space when it is nothing more than philosophical ideas couched in antiquated language.” It's apparent however that this ”antiquated language” is popular today both among rapidly growing portions of the inhabitants of the West as well as in large parts of the rest of the world.
@@hide3reptiles365 Did you want a response from me?
@@helloitsme98 it's not the ideas that seam religious, it's the actions and dogmatic following of those ideas.
I listen to conversations like this and I feel reassured that sanity will prevail. But then I show up at work, surrounded by suburban middle class New Englanders, supposedly smart liberals - puritanical, narcissistic, spiritually bankrupt do-gooders. My mental health suffers.
I agree. . . but like the amazing animal with whom you share a name, we can't ever surrender.
Get another job, life is too short.
Just move - We will welcome you in Lincoln, Nebraska. I am a former communist from seattle who has been converted. Praise you! Lord Jesus Christ!
@@helloitsme98 What was it that finally changed your outlook?
Flee that place
Literally everybody has historical grievances. Everybody. Each individual has grievances. Deep seated existential grievances.
“BUT MINE ARE WORSE CUZ MUH RACISM!”
What a joy to hear such a deep conversation. Thank you from a left of centre long time activist who prefers the old gods.
im the same as you Dale, im a natural left of center liberal but nowadays i feel like a right wing conservative because everything has gone way beyond what is logical or common sense
30:51- Intellectual Intimidation - my point exactly !
“They’re so much more educated and smarter than me, so they must be right !”
Douglas Murray sums up their insidious tactics perfectly.
He puts my gut feelings into words. Now I feel empowered to stand up to this obscurantist nonsense !
It also happens towards people who are highly qualified and demonstrably much smarter, but who are dependent on organisational and professional environments the fanatics have infiltrated. The mechanism of intimidation is always the same: Infallible Righteous Purity, setting you up to be hounded and character assassinated to your professional destruction if you dare to point out the simplest absurdity, particularly if you are male.
The research literature supports me in saying that I understand these fanatics in terms of the manifestations of extreme personality disorders, particularly narcissism and psychopathy.
Douglas Murray for Prime Minister!!!!🙏🙏🙏
Great conversation. I really like Douglas' suggestions on how to respond to folks pushing these toxic topics. My wife and I just went through whether or not to put our kids in public school. The school system changed it from CRT to CRF (framework) so we decided not to subject them to that poison. We're going to keep home schooling.
My old private school that I attended 50 years ago has gone woke too! Nowhere is safe but home schooling and watch they will make indoctrination be part of home schooling curriculum!
Better make sure your kids don’t suffer in a fast paced, quickly changing world, because you don’t have a healthy respect for education.
@Jason Barnett Healthier maybe. Better educated maybe. But they may have no place in the new world.
The new world is not of that much worth. The culture is deteriorating really fast, we see it degenerate into something alien.
How sad that in some countries, public schools are distributing such biased views! 😮 Thankfully not in my country, at least as of yet, and afaik.
My wife, who is a woman, Asian and an immigrant was poached from one giant multibillion tech company by another who offered almost double the salary. A testament to her skills and hard work. When she gave her notice to quit her boss told her that her leaving would fuck up his diversity numbers. Fucked with her self confidence a little bit...she kind of questioned whether her skills and hard work even mattered when her boss csn check off 3 boxes on the diverse list by having her there. When she was told by her new boss that yearly bonuses alone would be higher than my yearly pay as a psychotherapist those doubts fortunately went away.
Was your wife a 'twofer' or a 'threefer'?
The fact you had to clarify that your wife is a woman..... made me laugh.
When battling woke socialist justice activists...Never apologize. Don't surrender. Counter-attack. Always!
I had a good laugh at the quibble over the size of Douglas' island... great conversation, thank you!
The difference between Christinanity and woke religion is that the latter has no forgiveness and redemption
and the former is a cop out by weak minded fools. there IS no forgiveness! you MEANT TO DO IT. or you would not have done it. period. some cultures have no word for forgiveness for that very reason.
@@kantraxoikol6914 what a load of complete and utter bollocks
Douglas Murray is one of those people like Orson Welles where I could listen to him opine on the municipal drainage system and it's just music
Murray has a brilliant way of understanding and explaining a viewpoint.
Especially about his bowel issues.
If he didn't have a posh accent and used shorter words, it would be obvious what a pseudo-intellectual blowhard he is.
@@minbari73 I didn't notice. I confused it for woke ideology.
I'm not taking anything away from him here: he manifests nothing other than the kind of reasoned informed approach to discussion that scientists are supposed to engage in every day, but even here, it's increasingly being undermined by tantrum-throwing righteousness-police who are as openly hostile to rational thought and evidence as they are towards men.
Thanks for this FULL conversation! I was wating wile watching the cut ones. It brights my soul to see that is it possible to talk about life in a rational way. Thanks again! ^{^
Best part 38:00 two atheists saying they miss Christianity
You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.
Satan is a counterfeiter, and a cheap one at that.
This should be mandatory watching for every school child
From what age school children watch this ? Many young people don’t have much awareness of theseissues
24:54 This is such an important point. The political left has completely abandoned class-based politics in favor of identity-based politics, effectively handing class over to the political right. In other words: Proletariat=Right, Bourgeois=Left. What a hilarious postmodern inversion. We live in strange times.
If I could have anyone in the world replace the voice of my inner dialogue in my head...Douglass Murray would definitely be top three. Just listening to him makes me feel smarter, lol.
51:25 wow. extremely well put "I will not take part in thr re-racialization of my society"
These men are intellectual giants of our day
God bless both these two.
Thanks for this upload! As I commented in a shorter episode, I want to hear a ten-hour conversation between these two extraordinarily insightful gentlemen. Now, I only have to look for the other missing nine hours...
absolute garbage.
1 minute in and he's described himself as a CIS male.
you Sir, are the problem.
Love your Eb major / C minor picture 😍
@@derbar7051 Oh, thanks! This is a bit geeky, but here it goes - the name settles it as C minor:
Do + Ut (= Do; from Guido D'Arezzo) + Sol + Do + Me ( = Eb; from the Movable Do scheme) --> C minor chord
😁
@@Doutsoldome absolutely amazing stuff. I’m a music teacher and this makes me soooo happy! And you’re based! Awesome!!
@@derbar7051 Ah, a music teacher! Cool! Physicist, here. I play a little bit of piano, though. This is a cliché, I know, but music was my first love, and - cliché or not - it's the truth.
Oops started reading comment threads again!
Keep up the great work, gentlemen.
I enjoy DM so much.
I laughed out loud when the ‘Baptist’ comments were brought up.
I grew up as an existential anarchist (as one does as a girl in the midwest) in an agnostic household and became a Christian at 19. Went to a baptist college where I then discovered I was Catholic in a comparative Christianity class.
From there, I studied and served the church for 15 years before becoming disenchanted with authoritarianism and spent the last 5 years sifting through the various worldly perspectives I had rejected as a believer -and from a phenomenologist’s perspective, heavily steeped in moral theology. lol. It was as exhausting as it sounds.
I suppose I’ve now landed back at a sort of conservative but skeptic theism, which feels much more comfortable: rational, cogent, rooted, but still free. Such minutiae to contend with from an intellectual perspective.
In any case, I laughed out loud as these comments (Baptist) tied so much of my experiential learnings together and said out loud ecstatically and in reminiscent revelation, ‘wow, I’ve lived such an interesting life.’ As perhaps only one trying to discern the how, what, and why if humanity might.
DM, let’s get coffee if you come to the Midwest. (In a non-sexual way), I’ll make it worth your while.
Am I just a random person out here asking an important person by ‘the world’s’ standards this forward question? Yes, but you never know. :) perhaps we may be of some service and encouragement to one another, if you’d like an acquaintance, who needs nothing from you but has a kind heart and enjoys ideas.
Brilliant conversation from two people that have a true and genuine interest in helping our societies grow and flourish. I salute you both. I will carry this flag and reach out to those who so passionately follow woke ideology and offer them alternatives. Peace, love and the commitment to the endless pursuit of truth and knowledge.
Brilliant!! Love this dialogue. Douglas should never stop having these conversations even if it’s a bit preaching to choir. I pray the choir grows.
It's really refreshing to hear these issues being discussed in a grounded and thoughtful manner. It's such necessary modeling. Keep up the great work, all of you.
Equity is the left's euphemism for communism.
As James Lindsay says we share the same vocabulary but we have different dictionaries.
I don't think it's a euphemism for communism, but sure equity requires communism to inact.
Nonsense. Two completely different things!
@@userxyz64post modernism and critical theory were founded by Marxists. You may think that a good thing or and bad thing, but Marxism and Woke are related
The God bless Douglas Murray. Amen.
What a fantastic important convocation, between two brilliant honest intellectuals! 👍
This is absolutely brilliant! The world needs to hear more of these kinds of conversations!
Yes...forgiveness... "for they know not what they do". Thank you. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Two of my favourite men having a great conversation, superb. It lifts my spirits knowing that there are great thinkers in the world like these two men, who are trying to fight back against the woke insanity that now prevails in western societies.
“We have frogs. We can boil water.” Lmao wow Douglas is a gem
45:00 "It's not that small...." Oh Douglas we love you
Incredible full Conversation. This is what I love about TH-cam.
Thank you to everyone involved for this amazing content!
Now point out all the videos banned by TH-cam. Love it?
Doug and Peter’s combined insights in this video are absolutely deadly. Illumination overload.
excellent presentation gents. So essential and appreciated. It's the difference between being non-racist and anti-racist. Here's to non-racism.
Amen what I grew up with and what I believe in my entire life
Regretfully I have only just found your insightful channel, which just goes to show how the algorithms are doing their masters bidding.
Murray's point on viewpoint homogeneity produced by DEI is spot on. At MIT there are many DEI admissions and hires, and I was shocked to find that nearly 100% of these admissions/hires came from the same economic class (very wealthy). The result was a staggering viewpoint homogeneity and general ignorance wrt working class and impoverished experiences, e.g. what it's like living in govt subsidized housing or dealing with driveby shootings on a weekly basis or living in urban environments without water/electricity. These kinds of experiences are crucial to incorporate into the university's viewpoint but they are damn near nonexistent, all so they can pretend they are diverse. Skin color is meaningless, yet MIT and similar institutions place it on a pedestal as if it is a more accurate proxy for disenfranchisement than economic class.
Great conversation about the complex and many shades of Grey along the continuum of our human and cultural existence over the range of our knowable history, thanks
This was a wonderful discussion by two very thoughtful men. What a pleasure to listen to and watch. What a breath of fresh air! Thank you!
I am always impressed by Douglas Murray's clarity of thought and argument. Rational and logical perspects.
8/7/23 These two wise and thoughtful men give me hope that we ( humanity)has capacity to resolve these frustrating issues. This is a strange conjunction in time when our instinct for unity, if realised, would put us on a sound footing to navigate the advancement of AI.
It’s all a horrible distraction and I think we may be sufficiently distracted to not be unified in matters that will affect us all regardless of ideology.
We are so vulnerable.
How refreshingly awesome (for lack of a better word) to listen to 2
Incredibly robustly intelligence on display. I’ve been despairing for our country of late. This is
At least a momentary moment of utter common sense. Thank you for this discussion. I’m forwarding this link to 10 of my wokiest friends…then I’ll see what response I get.
I am appalled by what has become of the university. I even see it in hospitals where the CEO has started to use "preferred pronouns". This is woke ideology and agenda. I was not amused by his entries to the rest of the hospital with this agenda. Sickened by it actually. How the halls of education and health care have fallen.
Where is that hospital funded? Tablet magazine just had a great piece about Illinois governor's family funding a lot of the push for this kind of ideology in the medical field and education, including normalizing trans and Synthetic Sexual Identities.
“The academy“*
Those institutions are so broken and inflected with evil that they are beyond repair. Burn it down and start over
military too
I told my 14 year old niece that men cannot get pregnant by their girlfriends. She didn't believe me. I had to watch a lot of TH-cam to understand the way she looked at me. Her school had warned her about people like me, who use hate speech so casually.
Two of my favourite speakers making sense together.
Bravo. Bravo. I found this to be a profound conversation.
4:53 it's always 100 percent about communication, this has been the case since square 1.
Why do I feel like I’m living in the world that CS Lewis was trying to warn us about in the “Abolition of Man”. That the world we inhabit is that Green Book he said was on his shelf
"You must understand me, you will never understand me" - similar to the short hand descriptor for BPD, "I hate you, please don't leave me"
I enjoyed the most beneficial, informative, intelligent and civilised discussion between these two gentlemen. Thank you for sharing.
This idea of speaking " my truth, " or not being able to understand " your truth, " gives me the willy's. Thinking about driving down a two lane highway, and every driver coming from the other direction has their own version of the truth, and can only operate within their own unique version of reality, like where the center line might be.
That's literally the future that those type of people are laying out for us.
Thanks!
I've been putting off watching the clips hoping there would be a full interview. Thanks for posting the whole thing!
"Crete is small. Malta is small. The United Kingdom isn't small. Outrageous."
Douglas, you're a delight. You guys are great together.
Excellent discussion. Both of you.
Thank You Sooooooooo Much for the full conversation on this.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH for uploading the FULL conversation. You got a new subscriber.
What a great conversation. Thanks.
Douglas is so smart and spot on
So grateful to have the opportunity to listen to two wise truthful men.Thank You
The frustrating thing is, we were there. We recognised that unnatural hierarchies based on arbitrary characteristics like race, sex, sexuality were wrong. We put laws in place to make it illegal to discriminate on those grounds, and in what appears to be a movement without a cause, just kept going over the other side. We brought back unnatural hierarchies and said it was to benefit some groups, ignoring all along that the entire point was not to benefit or hinder the "Individual". Treating individuals based on the group identity was the thing we were trying to avoid in the first place, but went straight back to it the moment our guard was down.
I've had that conversation with an acquaintance who is admittedly very far left, and a perfectly nice guy. He's fully behind state led racial discrimination because he believes it's a force for good, and any individual thus discriminated against is a price he's willing to pay. Naturally he balks when I point out this is fundamentally racist, but is unable to explain why it isn't because he just hasn't had to think that deeply into it before. Frankly, it ended our friendship.
We're back to racism, back to bigotry, and just as racists throughout history have said they're doing it for a good cause, the modern racists, the modern bigots are doing exactly the same thing.
What a brilliant conversation! Thanks
I need so much more of this. Thank you.
Great metaphor / that’s exactly what he was doing.
Fantastic, thank you so much for this absolute treasure from two towers of intellect of our time.
Thank you, an interesting and enjoyable conversation.
this talk right here should be going global.
The real goal is to have everyone divided and fighting with the ultimate solution of making everyone the same.
THIS was such a wonderfully informative discussion. Two of my favorite thinkers.
Thank you for this conversation and the laughs. Ha! What a relief to laugh. 💛
Two brilliant men. Great conversation
Thank you for posting the entire conversation. Really great. I wish you many views.
For my own part - the thing I've really been intellectually gnawing over lately is one of the main foundations of all this, namely the theory of social constructionism. Somehow, someway, the acolytes of this theory have missed the blindingly obvious fact that - if everything is indeed a social construct - that has to include social constructionism itself. And then they go about "freeing" everyone from meaningless, arbitrary social constructs by inventing dozens and dozens of more meaningless, arbitrary social constructs, all the while remaining cheerfully oblivious to what they're doing. If everything is indeed a social construct, well, um, that has to include woke social constructs as well.
In much the same way that the woke narrative that there are no grand narratives is - you know - just another grand narrative.
P.S. I'm so happy I managed to squeeze out a great liberal arts education before all this took root. My education was truly diverse and I was taught by every kind of instructor with every point of view. And while there is something to be gained by strains of postmodernism and maybe even reductionist thought, when you turn it on all of life and reality it's just a snake eating its own tail. And to absolutely no end. It's so simplistic and one sided. You can use it to deconstruct the world, but then what? You're left holding nothing but dust and ashes. Like Iain Mcgilchrist so eloquently put it, it's like looking at the stars through a magnifying glass and then complaining the universe is just a big meaningless black smudge
P.P.S. true story. In the three hours since I posted this, I had to take my 81 year old uncle to the doctor. When we arrived, the paperwork full on devoted an entire page to gender, gender identity, and preferred pronouns. I tried to explain what was being asked for, but good luck with that. I did criticize it quite loudly near the front desk. And yeah, there wasn't a single patient under 60 in the place being subjected to this, and they had no clue what it was about. But yeah. You can't even go to an ear nose throat doctor without being politically coerced into participating.
Hey hey, you are using logics here wich is obviously a social construct of the white male patriarchy 🧐
@@persallnas5408 (sadly you're not even entirely sarcastic - the "Logic must apply equally" has been denounced on certain parts of the internet as indeed a biased, privileged, toxic, problematic idea.
To level the playing field completely and wiping out systemic privilege I suppose we should all just go back to pointing and grunting ... )
@@bookchaser1103 Well this sucks and its mostly eminating from the upperclasses of the United States. You guys need to rise up and oppose it bcs it has allready poisend the rest of the anglosphere but the rest of the west s still holding the line.
@@bookchaser1103 I'm always delighted nowadays to receive a form that only gives you two options, but they're fast becoming a rarity.
Loved this talk.
great interview!
This was an amazing video
I love listening to thoughtful conversations like this. Great job!
Wonderful discussion: Broad, rich and detailed. Thanks you both!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Superb minds, framing the problem, considering solutions. All for our betterment. Thank you, Gentlemen
Whew. This conversation had a heady whiff of magic. I think I'm learning HOW to think. Anyway, I took notes in order to revisit this wonderful collection of words. Thank you gentlemen.
This is honestly epic. Thanks for uploading. I am grateful.
51:30 For this one moment alone there’s a lot to think about
If only the people who practice Woke were able to see even 5 minutes into the future, they would understand that they are only making things much worse. They're even creating new problems that didn't previously exist.
Thank you for posting this wonderful interview. I find so much here to consider and reflect upon and help open up one’s mind to ideas discussed in different ways . The ideas here have create far reaching principles to aid greater understanding.
Indoctrination must be done early or it can’t be done at all. Parents must take back the public and private schools. Arizona has moved to a system where educational funding is to follow the student, allowing the student (student’s parents) to choose which school gets that funding. If the parents don’t like the school, the school just lost X amount of money.
Love how you get to the day-to-day applications: ask questions. challenge it in a friendly manner, trust your instincts etc...
A very illuminating exchange - thanks to all involved, it commanded my full attention - I'll forward this to others and reflect on the content myself.......
I’m not a physicist or a mathematician but through education, I understand physics and math. When you are not making sense or even lying, you can hide your lack of truth by claiming others are ignorant.