'Truth is a Right Wing Concept' | Melanie Phillips
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- British journalist Melanie Phillips argues that we have slipped into an age of "cultural totalitarianism". She bases this off a widespread societal refusal to listen to evidence, accept reason and consider dissenting views, which has the effect of reducing common freedoms for citizens across the Western world.
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Melanie Phillips' column currently appears in The Times, but over the years she has been published by the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times and Daily Mail. She also writes for the Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News Syndicate.
Her best-selling book Londonistan, about the British establishment’s capitulation to Islamist aggression, was published in 2006 by Encounter, New York. She followed this in 2010 with The World Turned Upside Down: the Global Battle over God, Truth and Power, and in 2018 with her first novel, The Legacy. This is the third time she and John have sat down to talk.
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In a post-truth society mental illness is not only enabled, it is cheered on and encouraged. That's not what compassion looks like, that's what cruelty and cowardice looks like.
It's not even recognized as illness anymore. The postmodernists afirm - like Foucault - that every institution that segregates people out of the normal somehow (prisons, mental sanatories, religious communities) are, by definition, an oppressive tool of the dominant class.
This snowball is rolling since, at least, 1970's, and today is consuming we all...
quaint to pigeonhole competition into oblivion
@@ipeteagles When Pilate asked Jesus "what is truth", he was presaging the left by a couple of millenia.
Spot on!
The Book of Romans is the truth of where we are.
"Truth is not whatever you want it to be, it is what it is. You must bend to its power, or live a lie." - Musashi Miyamoto
Always good to see someone dropping some Musashi facts 👍🏻
like what
@@watts18269for real, definitely one of thr greatest Warriors but never gets mentioned.
If every truth is only subjectively true, then the assertion that every truth is only subjectively true, if true, is only subjectively true. If so, the assertion is not worthy to be argued for or against. If the assertion itself is assumed to be objectively true, then it's self-contradictory.
@@James-od5eq It is, many things in language are...but its the practical application of the 'truth', or the economics of truth...If your looking for the truth you are also looking for pure or the holy, that never works out for any large group of people.
We live in an era where denying a grown man to dress up and expose himself to children is seen as bigotry
Thats a good thing, Just let others be wo they want to be, And focus on yourself.
@@robbin9534except when it's other peoples kids at risk, then the culling will begin
@@robbin9534are you really defending child abuse?
@@wtice4632 no
@@robbin9534 it really sounds like you are
This lady, who I must confess, I have never heard of, is spot on in all she says. Especially about political "leaders" needing to call this nonsense out. None of today's crop have any backbone. Maggie Thatcher wasn't everyone's cup of tea, but anyone who was alive during her premiership would have to admit that she wouldn't have stood for this rubbish
If she were still alive and in a position of power, she absolutely would have stood for it. As would Reagan. The ones pulling their strings would have demanded it.
35 years out and people still can’t see how George Sore Ohs and Thatcher worked hand-in-glove to decimate British workers and how that collaboration directly resulted in a Britain where inflation-adjusted wages have been flat since 2005 - something that hasn’t happened since the days of Napoleon
Donald Trump sparked a new interest in pointing it out. So yes she wouldn't have stood for this rubbish or age of unreason.
@@Leathal As we are, at least for the moment, able to have our own opinions, I will have to disagree with you, certainly with regard to Thatcher
Mag Thatch was intolerant and a bit of a fascist and this lady says things like "in getting rid of religion we have unleashed an age of unreason" which is completely backasswards. Not my cup of tea indeed.
Conservatives who seek to debate liberals by relying on facts are beating a dead horse.
At least the horse is dead in the analogy. The Liberals unfortunately are still kicking.
It’s true. The leftist are programmed in a cult-like way to the point they have absolutely no idea how to have an intellectual debate. They are anti-intellectual.
@@EddieVanHalenRulesHave you listened to Thomas Sowell?
@@EddieVanHalenRules Sounds like your'e confusing conservatives with lefties!.
@williamfox1146 That is a gross over-generalization.
If Truth is a right wing concept then a lie must be left wing concept.
I’m not gonna give up my freedom because This little lady said it be a good idea,,,
They don't call it "lying", they call it "socially constructed truth".
Truth and lies are on both sides - never trust anyone!
Youd better read before you make humiliating statements like that. For your deficiency, I recommend Karl Popper. Report back in 30 years
@@dlwseattle What truth has the left ever spoken of?
Her explanation of our age being one of unreason is spot on. We're in another dark age where elites are the only ones allowed independent thought.
😂🤣😂😅🤣😅
@@felixdk8727 must be true. You’ve been reduced to grunting in tiny pictograms.
@@mjt1517 "grunting?? You are not even capable of interpreting pictures.That is why i don't throw pearls before swines.
@@felixdk8727 you must be a very smart person.
@@luisbrujo77 I wish I could say the same about the other contributors to this comment section.
I was on the left for a long time, 2020 became center-right/right wing. I noticed this almost right off the bat and noticing it more and more. I also noticed that everything the left points at and calls the right, is actually who they are. It’s insane.
the left don't do things for other people to make them feel good they do it in order to feel good about themselves , or have the moral upper hand to feel good about themselves , no altruism there
It's in the playbook.
If you are leaning left, you can root your position there and watch the world around you shift to the left, and soon you will be called a conservative. This has probably always been the way of politics, but it is so much faster now.
@@hippiechick73 that way the left will become far left , like those militants who are potentially violent , and wearing a suit
In Spain, the historian Pio Moa began as a communist in his youth, during his early years he participated in the anti-Franco opposition as one of the founding members of the Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization GRAPO. Expelled from it in 1977 and sentenced to one year in prison in 1983, his thinking evolved until he came to hold conservative political positions and defend many aspects of the Franco dictatorship. Ironically, his change was due to his project to write a book on the origin of the civil war, there he collided head-on with the fact that everything he knew about the civil war was full of lies and falsehoods, the popular leftist front began in 1931 fomenting violence and hatred, constantly threatening to do by force what the law could not achieve, did not accept any electoral result that did not favor them and the straw that broke the camel's back was the assassination of the opposition chief Calvo Sotelo , the assassins were the assault guard under the orders of the then president of the courts.
I miss mutual respect and rational debate.
I think I might get that printed on a t-shirt - what a shame. We had a debating society when I was at school back in the eighties, now half the topics we argued about couldn't be touched
I do rational short time gik
You miss mutual respect and rational debate but you are a fan of Melanie Philips?
I miss peace and freedom of mind
@@testudohorsfieldii7052 Stay WOKE, bro😂
I don’t know who this woman is…. BUT I LOVE HER AND HER INTELLIGENCE!!
It is truly scary that facts and the truth have become some type of thing to be attacked by nothing but feelings and some very immature claims with no explanation or even evidence.
Truth is much wider and deeper than meer facts.
In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
So this is the reason why you can’t have a debate with people from the left, they have no concept of what is right or wrong.
In an Empire of Lies truth becomes treason.
@@jimda4910 Those whom you allude to are the LGBTQ ANOMALIES.
"When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination."
Thomas Sowell
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Melanie did not say "Truth is a Right Wing Concept." She said it has become one. And that is fairly accurate.
Those not in power usually have an interest in the truth. Today this in part means the conservatives, but an end to Progressive political dominance doesn't necessarily end the cycle as well.
@@dy031101 You are correct, it absolutely won't. Truth is something those in power need to suppress, and those oppressed want to expose.
Yes, she’s saying that the political orthodoxy has made it a right wing concept in order to discredit it.
Truth should be a concept that’s comprehensible to everyone. If it has become a right wing concept, then the problem is not the right wing.
Yes but that would get less clicks.
And it really speaks volumes that this is thought. Being modern left wing or "progressive" means to go exactly backwards. To even call them progressives is utterly hilarious and ironic
100% I'm proud to be on the side of truth.
Who isn't-in their own mind?
@@rodneyskelly5960 The question isn't who isn't on the side of truth in their own mind. Rather it is who is on the side of truth and willing to say it when confronted by the obvious lies of the current power dynamic of the Liberal world. AKA the LGBTQ community, liberal progressives, left wing Activist, ANTIFA, the liberal media, the majority of academics in our higher education and Teachers in our public schools.....If you are willing to stand up against these people then you are on the side of TRUTH. If not then you are just another Coward talking to his or her self in your own mind.
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” ― George Orwell, 1984
not that's real power. whoever or whatever can do that on regular basis will be king.
@@FazeParticles a king built on false pretenses
Orwell hated the right wing.
Exactly. He was actually a socialist
Yes thats cognitive psychology, the only game in town in that field. It's called social engineering.
She is absolutely right. Our society has gone completely mad and it’s the head that’s rotten.
Never in our lives would we have thought that so many people could engage in such distorted thought.
History should tell you that it is possible and can get much worse. There isn’t any reason to think people today are better than those from the past - we are vulnerable to the same follies
Even a quick detour into the history of the last century shows that this can happen to anyone, in any country. It's the value of history; it teaches us actual human nature, rather than our "rational" ideas about what we are. The Germans or Russians etc weren't suddenly an evil people for twenty or so years, they were normal people led into distorted thoughts. It can happen to anyone.
the right-wing ideology is to play the victim.
Look at 1930/40s Germany, we're seeing the exact same thing.
@@Perrodenyou goddamned right
It's amazing how quickly it all happened.
Actually, it's been in the works for a very long time. The plan to co-opt academia for political purposes originated at least a couple centuries ago.
Thank you, these are very worrying times. We need more principled politicians to challenge these ideologies.
She’s definitely speaking the truth. If someone says Anything truthful in a public place they will be stared at and completely shamed. It’s totally ridiculous! I continue to speak my mind but I’m sure I’ve offended some people just by speaking. It really is a complete loss of freedom of thought and everything else we believe in. Very very sad but true. I wish more people would speak out.
But if truth is just a right wing concept, all that means is she is speaking a right wing conception.
@@waza987 As I understand it, she is expressing what the left wing thinks about moral and truth. Moral and truth have become evil, have become right wing to them.
But I think you already knew that.
She said that truth has become a right wing concept.
She's correct. This has been the real purpose of the 'culture wars'.
What truth? Conservatives lie. They have no truth. Wake up.
Ironically, you point out "freedom of thought" but there is really very little thinking involved. It's more accurate to call it the freedom to be ignorant and the hubris to believe that everyone around you needs to listen.
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it ~ Orwell
Funny how we had 1984 come true as well with the Patriot Act.
@@guitarsaremyfriendzzz7077 Umm no?
@@Heretic-007 Right. Because mass surveillance and locking people up without a trial if they were dissidents is not remotely like 1984.
I don’t know who this is but this is the most accurate, well articulated description of what’s going on that I’ve heard from anybody.
Great, explain it to me. Is she opposed to right wing "truth" or left wing "truth"? I thought truth was a good thing.
@@grantfraser5430truth is bad in backwards times
@@tm-pj4eb Truth is bad? One of us doesn't belong in this society. I'm really hoping you're a serial killer or a religious nut so I know it's you, not me.
@@grantfraser5430if you don't listen to the video just shut up.
It's important to remember that truth is like the sun, you can keep it out for a time, but it ain't going away.
"There are 3 things that are not long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth".
The lady has taken the words right out of my brain. I've been thinking this ever since 2016 when things became hyper-polarized.
Openly became polarised. If Clinton had won, we would have continued to sail obliviously over the edge. Love him or hate him, it was the insane reaction to Trump that lifted the curtain.
The Woke Ideology, Leftist intolerance of free speech, moral relativism, loss of absolute truth, oppressor vs oppressed (and thus, anti-whitism) did not begin in 2016, and didn’t manifest only in the U.S. political scene, and surely cannot be ascribed to former President Trump.
It is a Western Hemispheric shift that has roots in proponents and re-envisioners of Marxist ideology and fueled by media, academics, corporations, etc.
2016. How cute sweetie nice of you to wake up. Your late for the bus to school.
@@Heywoodthepeckerwood Your comment makes no sense, but mine does.
@@commanderthorkilj.amundsen3426 sorry but, anyone that thinks this is new from the left has been sleeping. Or they’re slow.
I was canceled, reason was void; I remained because of the reality of serving ,providing, supporting, to the needs of those who labeled me as someone who had nothing to contribute to the conversation, disrespectful to say the least. As the truth comes out I see signs of change but no apologies for deplorable behavior and offensive language. Stay strong ,don’t give in , don’t give up! keep the conversation going please, thank you!!
Maybe you were "canceled" because the others you felt the need to push your opinions on exist at a higher level of consciousness and found your ideas to be repugnant. Maybe a little more time introspecting and less time playing the victim card?
Another "shifting" of the lexicon; "Terrorist" now includes those that think for themselves.
Nail those people with the truth. Remind them of their behaviour and ask for an apology. People need to be held accountable.
Agree totally with your comment. The point you highlight about no apologies coming is well noted. Conservatives/Christians tend to apologize, but we make the mistake of assuming when some from the other side finally wake up and see the light, that they will apologize. Sorry, but to apologize for them is unthinkable, of course they should, but we have to get past that. They won't, be thankful they've changed their minds and we have to just move forward.
I am staying strong and not giving in. I am reminding people not that I was right and they were wrong. I'm reminding them that they listened to certain people and had their strong opinion based on the words of those people. I had a different strong opinion becaue I listened to different people (oh and did hundreds of hours of difficult research). The fact is this: The people they (the sheeple) listened to were wrong. The people I listened to were right.
This simply means that they were believing something false and I was believing and speaking and writing TRUTH.
I spoke the Truth and was persecuted for it. I am beginning to make my rounds explaining this to people.
We need more adults like Melanie to speak up. Take control of the bratty child in control right now.
Melanie is a weak pathetic lowly victim, in her words not mine.
What child? Biden? Trump is no longer your president and no longer an excuse to be a victim for the rest of your life. If you want to sure, but it's a choice you've made, must be a teacher
“Bratty child” 😂😂 ok boomer
Melanie is correct. People are terrified to speak out on the cultural craziness which now engulfs us, as it has very real consequences, loss of employment as a very real example. We've always wondered how supposedly civilised and tolerant societies can be hijacked by a very small groups. Well, the UK in 2023 is a classic example.
She is exactly correct. Each of us must refuse to be silenced, refuse to be bullied. Refuse to be cancelled, stand up for not only your liberty, but the liberty of all.
Amen to that!
Preach. I do not agree with homosexuality but I do believe that they should not be attacked and have general protections under law as anyone else. I fight for them despite the fact that they call me a bigot. For liberty to free for all it must be for all. However, this does come with a general idea of decorum from all members of society. Which is not what we are getting.
TRUE, but easier said than done! cheers
And stand up for truth. In 1984 Orwell wrote that "freedom is the freedom to say two plus two make four."
the right-wing ideology is to play the victim.
Glad to hear decent people speaking truthfully and exposing the lies people are being sold these days. Thank you!!
the right-wing ideology is to play the victim.
The woman didn't say a lot.
The truth does not mind being questioned, a lie does not like being challenged.
The extremes are pulling apart and fueling each other. The most terrible part is that they were allowed to seize the reins and become so prominent because of each other and there was not enough value placed on civility, respect for boundaries, and decorum during our cultural collapse to recognize and reject them as harmful.
That woman is so right on everything she said.
The ideologues simply can't strand truth and reality, because it destroys their cult and ideology.
@@MidNightClub2000 And what that nose has to do with anything ???
@That Guy Yes.
Their typical MO.
In other words, they are pathetic...
chistianitry is cult ideology.
My nephew who is studying philosophy tells me it is very hard to get papers published in that discipline because of the tremendous rigor which is demanded by experts in the field. Culturally, it appears that all worldviews are now accepted without question, as long as they don’t smell of Christianity or conservatism (traditional ideologies that progressives mistakenly believe oppose progress and innovation). Since it is human nature to want to find new members for your team in order to gain political power, PEOPLE WILL COMPROMISE WHAT THEY KNOW TO BE TRUE OR RATIONAL IN ORDER TO RECRUIT NEW MEMBERS.
As someone who has both studied and taught philosophy for 20+ years, I have learned that it depends entirely on which journal you wrote for. There are many academic journals that value a more traditional, logically rigorous approach; there are also more ideologically-leaning ones. The problem isn’t that the latter exist; rather, it’s that they are aiming to become more credible than the former. However, the only way to do so is by attempting to undermine the idea of rigour and truth (though it should be remembered that philosophers over the centuries have shown that the idea of truth is extremely precarious and might not operate in the way we think it should).
@@thefuturist8864 Ideology of the modern world is more and more pure communism with equality of outcomes as the goal, instead of equality of opportunity with individual responsibility for your situation caused by a person's bad choices.
All about getting what YOU want at the expense of others & yourself to achieve victory to that end. A lot of the TV shows show exactly that. It's all in there to annihilate your opponent at any cost. Disgusting & frightening also because it teaches very bad things.
@@thefuturist8864 It's also an easy concept to equivocate. I'm really not sure that our modern, pragmatic sense of the word is the same concept that Descartes through the German Idealists were talking about.
@@thefuturist8864 No philosopher has yet to undermine truth or bring it into precariousness. Some like Nietzsche have made a case for an alternative truth one based on power and will but it doesn't actually track well with how things truly developed.
People like Spinoza laid out truth a long time ago and modern philosophers have refused to engage with it or any of the ancients and instead have chosen to write them off as "old and outdated" without even touching the arguments. This is for one purpose only to drive an ideology not based on truth but based on desire.
Philosophy has a meaning "the love of wisdom" and many "modern" philosophers are not philosophers at all they don't even believe in wisdom because wisdom evades fools they believe in power and bedazzlement or the magic of psychological warfare
When an event is soooo true that, questioning it is a crime!!
It’s more than truth vs lies- it’s good vs evil.
Those attempting to speak up are being silenced, threatened, or canceled, including leaders. The worst part is that the younger generation is seeing this and being raised to believe that this type of reasoning and behavior is acceptable.
I feel like its worse than that. I don't see a whole lot of silencing going on because they don't need to silence anyone, the views they espouse play to what makes people feel good and most people aren't equipped to question anything that sounds sweet to their ears
Oh don't forget the BILLIONS of foreign money that has been funneled into our universities from a very specific red flagged country 😮 there is a reason the youth are coming out of college so incredibly twisted.
I am not concerned about left or right.
If the current situation of intolerance for a different viewpoint continues with all its prejudice and derailed logic system then a totalitarian take-over is inevitable.
We need to contemplate what would be the state of the USA if either the left or right gained total unchallenged control.
@@rodneyskelly5960 I'm more concerned about authoritarianism vs libertarianism, and while I can see how both sides can be authoritarian, I view the left as inherently authoritarian.
Because all left wing policy is essentially statist policy that aims to make people more dependent on the state and to give the state more power and economic control. Policy like that will inevitably result in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes.
In essence I agree with you.
The answer lies in our agreeing what we want (values), electing people,left or right,who place service above self and having a media committed to reporting not taking a party line.
I am not an American and am saddened by the hatred and self-doubt which has gripped the USA.Don't repudiate your proud history.
4mins 54secs of pure gold. I watched it twice just to take all that wisdom in. Makes absolute sense to me.
We ALL know what is right and good. The 'culture war' is a construct to draw in idiots and the self-loathers?
I have the answer to what she's talking about but no one would listen to me. It's really sad to be honest.
@@meowchat6175 No one? Are you sure?
@Martin Denham yes, I'm absolutely sure.
@@meowchat6175 That's a shame.
Truth is not a concept, it's an absolute.
Your truth is, in your mind only.
@@katieandnick4113There's no such thing as 'your truth' or 'my truth.' There is only THE truth.
Very nice summary of what we are up against and why you can't have a discussion with these people. I am 63 and retired by I identify as a 75 year old so I should be able to collect double my current social security. What does the age-phobic social security administration thinks of this?
Feeling lost and searching for my purpose lately.
@Rose Allen Wilford helped me join a brotherhood that changed my life.
@@wonhur885 What kind of organisation was it?
@@LanceNRusso A group dedicated to making a positive impact. I can’t really say much about it.
@Rose Allen You can search for him online Wilford Robert Taylor and ask for guidance. He's always willing to help.
Future former leftist? Seeing this play out? Sorry you fell for it. Maybe you were too smug to see before? High on your own self righteousness? A little humility will do you good. Welcome to sanity.
A new era of unreason. Exactly. Perfectly put. That's exactly how I feel as I read through the news and listen to the conversations around me every single day.
She said more in 5 minutes than most people think in a lifetime
She is a very smart lady.
Never heard of her before, but she makes a very good and solid argument.
We have leaders who make their living through lies. Truth is the only way out of this miasma.
Isn't that the truth, speaking to truth and confident of your own beliefs is an a anathema, to today's so called leaders, fearful of being destroyed by it. As the popular
group think in these times , is shrill, tantrum screams of the hysterically entitled herd, who have been groomed into this millue of Socialist dysforia, where the
sense of victimisation, makes debate, a paralysis, because we are no longer dealing with thought of mind, but a ritual burning down of so called perceived wrongs.
As now the lies , can be seen, but the cognitive ability to accept the magnitude of the lies and the Phantasm of the reality, is beyond most to rationalise, so it is easier
to create a reality, where those bad things can't get in, an insanity, bereft of belief or cultural roots, this is what has been the aim of the Controllers , the fearful
Controllers , time is running out for them.
We lost Roger Scruton . We still have Melanie Phillips . Protect this lady .
Yes!
Ayn Rand is the philosopher of the focused mind.
@@TeaParty1776 Ayn Rand is the philosopher of narcissistic American speculators and she nothing to do with real conservatism. She was a degenerate, selfish, sexually immoral individualist who hated traditional families.
Been waiting to see this. The full interview has now been added the queue.
"Critical theory."
-John Anderson 2023
You always leave me with so much think about, your profound insights really elevate the guests.
What baffles me the most, is that anyone that has read 1984, or Animal Farm, will see what is happening. I am let down by journalists that aren't brave enough to stand up and investigate the reasoning behind this, who are instead just walking in line with the sheep. And no, I am not right-wing. I want reason and truth, not idealism and utopia.
UTOPIA IS A GREAT BIG LIE.
You want YOUR 'truth and reason". You want YOUR ideal world and a utopia based on 'reason and truth" whatever tf that means. Here's a reason and truth for you. If you right now are not extremely wealthy or in a position of power then you are inferior. Genetically, spiritually, mentally. The truth and reason is that the very best of humanity are currently directing it to something they want. These are people that have bloodlines since Egypt atleast. Even Boris had his lineage traced to the Ottoman empire.
Uh-huh !! Animal Farm , 1984 and Lord Of The Flies was required reading in the sixth and seventh grade back in my day .1966 a 67 .
I find it hard to believe highschool kids today and for that matter college kids could even comprehend those books .
@@todd3285I luckily was introduced to it by my history teacher! I’m 25 currently! But that and his books on philosophy really taught me to think for myself and always use logic in my thought process. We need more quality in our school systems, hopefully it’s not too late.
And my generation read all of those stories in school. It was required reading. Middle/High School level education has completely disappeared from political discourse in the U.S. It's all "red" vs. "blue."
Years ego I helped my mother with a massive legal battle against Dutch social workers ( we won in the end ). Social workers one time actually wrote down that they considered that my mother lacked parental skills because she could not keep me on a leash in my fight for justice ( their literal words translated from Dutch ).
So because my mother raised me with traditional values they considered her a bad parent. Obviously they were liberal left wingers
This is absolutely crazy!
Loving her take on things up until the 3:24. Every person should focus on their own happiness, their own flourishing and reaching their potential. If being charitable makes you happy, be charitable. If fulfilling the needs of others helps you grow as a human being and makes you a more complete person, then by all means fulfill the needs of others. But, we should not feel required to do anything for anyone else. We are not the slaves to the needy.
None of us are obligated to fulfill the needs of anyone else.
our own happiness is irrelevant. we are obligated to help others, actually.
@@AR15andGOD completely disagree.
I remember when Melanie left the Guardian...this should have been a huge alarm bell for us all. What she said about the metamorphosis of liberal to far left within that organisation and its speed!! was terrifying and that was 5yrs ago !!! I used to love that paper in the 90s/2000s and now its just a huge propaganda leaflet. Massive shame
All of the mainstream media is now left wing propaganda. It's been this way for 30 years but it's only getting worse.
People call it the RedGuardian for a reason.
every leftist i know says it's fine if you believe in religion. just don't ask me to believe in it. but the right demands that the left has to agree about all things religious. that our children must repeat the pledge of allegiance with its trust in god addition. the right demanding prayer in schools by the schools. the right demanding all people do as they say they do. and anyone saying that's not for me is somehow saying destroy religion. rather self-serving denial of what the left believes. whereas the right seems to want a theocracy. which isn't going to happen.
@@jensonee As an atheist I feel a certian sympathy to the right in these situations...I wonder what's gonna last longer, a bunch of 2000+ year old doctrines or Dylan Mulvaney? Its going be a great show
@@CouchCoop128 as long as people don't have the tools to reason with, we will have religions. quality public education is a threat to those in power.
My step daughter was indoctrinated in the university system and she can't debate an issue ,she just rants ,of course she absolutely hates Trump but can't explain why.
What a shame another young mind brainwashed, like Melanie Phillips educated idiots
Plenty of people can explain why - if you disagree and disregard it - doesn't make it not an explanation.
There's a reason one side uses more emotional arguments than factual ones. It's been all culture war since Reagan, as that's been a useful tool for the monied interests.
I would have thought explaining why someone dislikes trump would be simple. He's a narcissistic man baby who cares for no one but himself. I believe he wanted to be president, not to help anyone or to make America great again, but for the childish thrill he got from it. He loves to brag to show off to be the center of attention. He doesn't seem to be able to control himself and just says whatever pops into his head. I realize that this is one thing that he and Biden share, but I'm not a Biden fan either. But let me ask you. What is so great about trump?
@@Alarik52 Fine. Tell us why.
@@dreadcthulhu5 that’s *really* easy. It happened predictably this week. And he said it himself; “Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this” What kind of PotUS shows off *top secret documents*? This is not someone who should be PotUS.
Bout ten years ago when the university culture was conspicuously spilling into the public discourse, and popular media was trying to deny that there was any potential negativity to forcing believe what others do because "right side of history." On numerous occasions ibw heard ppl say that facts are some form of ist.
Kingcrockoduck has a very good series on how science had been infected by ideology, and how often the ppl claiming what science are often not scientists, and have no clue what they are talking about.
There is one phrase that should immediately put one on guard as to how well someone understand science, and that's: "the science says..." Most of the time person is just sleaking generically about rhe consensus, but once in a while rhat person will take any scientofic claim as gospel without knowong anything about how science is conducted.
Remember folks, Truth, Justice, and Logic are team "Not See." Welcome to the team.
Something I have realized as time goes on is people are only bothered by the truth.
Only if it inconveniences them or the agenda they wanna push in any way.
Funny, I hate it when people lie, and especially when the truth is ignored and those that lie are supported by others. THAT infuriates me but I must be an anomaly.
@@icestationzebra8636 NO! You are certainly not alone.
Conservatives are especially bothered by truth. The second they get fact checked or asked for sources, they lose their minds lol
@@icestationzebra8636 natural state of humans - lie lie, deceit, lie lie.
This is the most succinct explanation of where we are at as a society that I've heard yet. Brilliant.
Ah, she's an old Brit who sees the hegemony crumbling. She and others will try to intellectualize their marginalization of those with darker hue in an attempt to absolve themselves from what they know happened. She's just upset that things ain't what they used to be.AND THEN BREXIT THREW A ROD!
wow, this is most succinct explanation... you have a narrow world view that is myopic to north america and trump derangement syndrome. There is a entire world out there. Not just the center of the universe.
Don't have your morality defined by others, particularly political movements.Conservatives and Left both take the moral high ground as their basic justification and what distinguishes their position vis a vis the other side.
Actually it is about power and has nothing to do with any concern for society at large.
@@rodneyskelly5960 Why do i see so many of these types of comments come from accounts less than three years old, with no playlists, uploads, etc? Did you make your youtube acocunt just to post comments? Genuinely curious.
@@tread140 To satisfy your genuine interest:-
My interest in TH-cam arose when I was driving my ancient Volvo over the mountains in Australia and radio reception was patchy at best but I could get on the Net.
Finding a Linda Ronstadt program was a great joy and thereafter I became a TH-cam follower and started responding to notifications.
This was about 2 years ago.
Soon,as my addiction took hold,I was sliding down the slippery slope of making comments.
Hope this helps.
The recent debacle of the Bud Light campaign hopefully was/is an indication that there exists a large undertow in the American society that still believes that truth can still be told.
I find it funny that the whole time she is alone on screen “John Anderson” is on the screen in the same spot her name would normally be. 😄😄
We're in the age of Idioacracy.. The average western has been brought up through the Homer Simpson era and we are now seeing the effects...
When I have children they will not watch such things I will only allow things from a better age.
Plus their schools are propaganda camps for Cultural Marxist movements, as are the mass media and social media.
@Britanical what age is that..is that the glory day that Trump dribbles on about, hung coloured people in the town square. Your all bonkers.
@@Britanical1your only hope is to educate your children yourself and avoid public education...
When someone says, “my truth,” they’re referring to their “psychotically disconnected personal narrative that defines their ineffectual life and idiotic choices.”
And sadly it used to mean the truth as they see it. The left only gets this far because they're really good at manipulation through word games, a lot of the terms they use have double meanings.
A study got into the public eye recently that basically says there's a connection between left wing extremism and Psychopathy and Narcissism. Doesn't surprise me at all, but I don't think those traits are limited to just the extremes on the left, seems to me like the left in general shares those traits to some degree and of course people on the right can share those traits too, it's just far more prevalent on the left.
I have a feeling she didn't mean what we think she meant. But if she did .... wow.
I like the way she articulates these issues, and I agree.
I refuse to use the term "my truth or your truth". No. There is truth, falsehood and belief.
Incredibly well said. An age of unreason. Resist all aspects of it..
give me an example
A very reasonable lady, and she's right. It is always a pleasure to listen to her.
Wonderful. I could listen to her all day.
Well, she is saying all the things you wish to be true.
I’m sorry to hear that. There are medications or treatments for that. It is possible to change your life and be on the right side of history ❤️
@@autumndelicious4998 hahah that's funny. You should do stand up.
@@michaelmcnish9367 thanks Mike! 😘
The line - you can't handle the truth , has never been so true .
And he was the very bad guy.
From the very beginning of the movie they made it clear who the good guys were. There was no cause for alarm at the time.
So they ran with it.
Grace without truth is deadly. Truth without grace is cruel. Both are needed, but the post-modern move to eliminate truth, well any truth you don't like at the moment, leads, literally, to death. Death to reason, death to compassion, death to cooperation, death to learning, etc. etc. And yet, they seem to see it as noble and moral. Curious. Thank you, Ms. Phillips!
I remember the expression "everything which is not allowed is forbidden" and see that being manifest in the culture war of today.
I have said this for years, you can't talk, discuss or debate with these people, if these lunatics get into power we're done as a normal society.
I imagine that the era when the brownshirts roamed the streets of Berlin must have felt similar to what we are experiencing now. My great fear is that it may follow the same mass psychosis path to oblivion. It’s no coincidence to me that the last of the generation forged in the fire of WW2 are leaving us now and we appear set on a repeat. Is the collective memory really so limited?
Bad times bring good men. Good men bring good times. Good times bring weak men. Weak men bring bad times...repeat. 😢
@@DeliciouslyMild national socialists or communists? You pays your money, you takes your choice. It’s now a battle royal for survival of the reasonable man worldwide. Baring in mind that NATO’s paramilitary allies in Ukraine who have been fighting for a decade to ethnically cleanse the Donbas of ethnic Russians are proud self confessed neo Nazis, I will stand by my selection.
I always had the impression that the allied nations of last century had their fair share of fascist sympathisers including at least one possible monarch (could history be repeating here too?) before we chose the side of the reasonable man. I think that was a closer run thing than we care to imagine.
Also, research Mao's Cultural Revolution in China and the activities of the Red Guards. An era that has been memory holed because it has no utility value to the current western regime. In fact, because of the similarities, it's downright detrimental to it.
@@robinwells8879 The truth about Ukraine since 2014 has been wilfully silenced by the western media. Shameful.
Yes without God that is exactly what happens.
@@jonathanj.7344 year zero is just around the bend!
As I grow a little older now, I love to hear intelligence like this. Sensible plain speaking individuals, who make sense, by speaking sense. I think that's the beautiful thing about Debate and Democracy, is that it allows us that most precious thing called freedom . As Bob hoskins once said,"it's good to talk".🌄😀☮️
Is there anyplace to get a transcript of this video?
Iain McGilchrist said that we've got from an age of reason to an age of hyper-rationalization. I quite agree with that assessment, and this age of hyper-rationalization is just as unreasonable.
Eloquence. Clarity. Thoughtfulness. Rational. Listening to Melanie Phillips is like listening to Thomas Sowell. Brilliant.
yaawn, trivial pursuit. Reading your nonsense is like watching paint dry.
No she isnt .
Absolutely no integrity
@@redsword1659 becuase you disagree with her. Why not step aside and stop licking the liberal boot and gain back some common sense that you've lost watching CNN ...
@@karmaking4633 December 20, 2020...🤣
She is a true treasure. Listened to Douglas Murray yesterday, Melanie Phillips today - I am truly doomed.
Grab a Bible and read...there is a Loving Creator who gives us HOPE....despite what our eyes see.
@@suziqw139 the Holy Bible is the only fact checker you'll ever need 😊
Why grab a bible when you can get the lord of the rings and learn much more about morality and compassion. It was also written by a real person, which always helps ☺️
@@watts18269 Sorry if this disappoints you...one is fiction and the other reality...it's crucial to know the difference. Your place in ETERNITY rests on getting that right.
So well said. Good job Melanie Phillips.
Some people just can't handle the truth because it shatters the delusional bubble they live in.
You don't have to like it, but you do have to accept it at some point.
Trump stood up to all this nonsense, and look how the people reacted to him...
Did he? He was his own ideology...
He did, he was a slap to the face to the machine and thats why he was hated
@@matswessling6600 Trump has no ideology beyond a vague adherence to American exceptionalism and a strong belief that usually good deals can be made where everybody profits, together with a non-ideological, but common-sense dislike for war and left-wing BS.
@@matswessling6600 Says you. Why don't you tell Mike Tyson, Snoop Dog, Candace Owens etc - just a few mentioned CLOSE friends of Trump who happen to be Black Americans.
@@runnyhunny786 LOL. Trump isnt bright enough to realize that his playmates are black...
Thank you so much John for sitting with Melanie on a day when she was on such top form and for uploading this excellent clip. She is a very clarified thinker and her articulation is much appreciated. I admire her courage and feel so uplifted by being exposed to someone with strong character, intellectual rigour, coherence in thought and the strength of personality which enables them to self-propel against the grain, able to think for themselves without needing to constantly make reference to trendy talking points, received opinion and the rule book that attends the live action board game that is contemporary ideological warfare/identity politics. I enjoy the transcendent critique of the entire awful psychological playing field. That is where the gaze should be directed and where the answers and solutions ultimately lie. Thank you very much for the clip.
Why are you so weak and meek that you need to be validated by nobody. You do your own thing. Harm no one, abuse no one. Everyone has their opinions, just like you.
Actually Mel is a bigot and on the wrong side of history.
She is spot on, In the USA they are still pushing for it, but not quite there
The more I hear about this kind of thing, the more I'm reminded of the novel 1984 and the more I wondrr if that kind of double-think is where we're headed.
Melanie is a great thinker and made me understand where we were in the west about 13 years ago! Thank you Melanie!
There is no such thing as a female who is a great thinker. That is why we put them to work washing dishes.
Had never even thought about it in those terms , but Melanie, as always, hits the nail on the - we are living in an age of 'unreason' and cultural totalitarianism. The only thing I might disagree with is when she talks about how we have got rid of religion. To a degree she is right but actually it is a determination to get rid of one religion - Christianity.
It never ceases to astound me how specifically progressives do so, too. Somehow, some way, it appears to love and accept all others, including religions that loudly deny the most basic of progressive beliefs (to say nothing of any concept of universal human rights).
How contradictory of you
So in your ideological view just one religion ?
Your one of the people she is talking about
That would make you a dictator
@@Dinadino994 I think the OP is stating the fact that in the USA specifically, people on the left will demonize Christianity while leaving (currently) all other religions alone and off limits. There is a very specific reason for this. The foundation of USA is based upon Christianity practiced by the founding fathers. Rip the soul of a country to shreds and it is much easier to change and control.
Being a Buddhist I’m going to ask what about when Christianity did got ride of all native religions during colonialism. Or even before that. Do you realise how many people were killed just because Christianity didn’t approve of any other religion? Just asking.
I can quote lines after lines of filth spewed by Christian missionaries about my religion. And the shameless cultural appropriation that Christianity conducts.
I am sorry. It is called Karma. You rip what you sow. You started the hatred when burning innocent ppl at stake coz they were witches was righteous. Wasn’t that cancel culture? Silencing people whose views were at odds with yours?
Not really bro she's a victim and you agree you are one as well. So if that's the nail... You got nailed alright! LOL
Когда правда заменяется тишиной, тишина оказывается ложью.
Евгений Евтушенко
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Very, very well said!!
Finally - someone put into words what's happening. I have never in my life been terrified to open my mouth.
I was a registered Democrat for almost fifty years. Most of my friends stopped inviting me over. - My people - turned on me - for disagreeing. No one is allowed to disagree. It's like the family I grew up in and I can't believe I have to deal with this -AGAIN. No disagreement allowed.
Censorship of wrong think is the only defense for people who espouse diametrically opposed ideologies, simultaneously.
“Terrified” 😂😂 after all those victimized words, the translation is that you just hate trans people and are against human rights 😘😘
I used to be a Democrat too but not anymore thanks to first Obama and now Biden
People disagreed with you about what? I can't figure out who's left and who's right. Who is supposedly telling truth and who is being a cultural totalitarian? I think each side is as bad as the other. Yet she only calls out or supports the right, I couldn't establish which.
@@grantfraser5430 her track record is who she’s pals with. Hint: it’s not trans people.
This is my introduction to Melanie Phillips and I think she's brilliant.
Polly Toynbee hated her, that was good enough for me.
same here
She's a fruitcake right-wing loony.
Ditto.
This woman is 100% correct, from a American
I posted this on several Social Media Sites. One of them “blocked” it. Now, can you guess which one? 🤣😂
She is spitting facts.
Ermmmm... no, she isn't. She's spitting "playing the victim card".
@@EddieVanHalenRules No she isn't. She's calling out Leftist totalitarian traits packaged as reason.
No she isn't. She's calling out Leftist totalitarian for Exactly what it is.
@@jonathanj.7344 She is indeed but she only comes across as rational when it suits her. When her religion kicks in she is as irrational as any other "believer" and she conveniently forgets the Right encompasses such profound liars as Trump and Boris Johnson.
@Anonymous Yeah a average leftists neo natzi will surely concur that right
Wasn't there a guy once who said "the truth will set you free"?
Yes there was. However it doesn't feel like it does. Someone else said "Ignorance is bliss"
That man was of course The Lord Jesus Christ and the truth of the gospel will set you free from your sins, if you believe. Romans 1:16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes
John 14:6 KJV - 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
That quote is plastered on the wall of the lobby of
CIA headquarters.
free of reality
Let’s tighten up the phraseology. It’s not an age of unreason. We’re in a new DARK AGES.
Where do I find this leader ship and where can I get a ticket?
She puts this so well, in such Sharp focus… and clarity!
"Man is not a rational creature. He is a RATIONLIZING creature" - Robert Heinlein. The human psyche is highly malleable.
@jonathanroberson3406 and a rationalization is a cognitive distortion used to excuse bad behavior, avoiding change, and staying stuck in something bad.
Great quote from a great scifi writer, engineer, and philosopher. 🙂
@@vickils9571 Or it can be cognitive behavioural therapy to manage reality.
@@johnthrelfall5 Agreed. There is a reason he is considered to be part of the "Trinity" of SF (Azimov and Clarke being the other two).BTW, imho, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is his best book, not "Stranger in a Strange Land" (although that is great too).
@johnthrelfall5 yes, when the reality is not ideal. We use rationalization to self-protect.
What Melanie Phillips is saying is spot on...this is what is overwhelming society, now.
I was a patient in a hospital recently after suffering my fifth heart attack. I questioned transgenderism and the suicides of thousands of American soldiers. I was labeled by the E.R. doctor as 'psychotic'. A behavioral health nurse who was called to consult the next day labeled me as delusional and paranoid. Here I am, more than a month later. Not a single issue since I left that hospital. And not a single mental health issue ever before I entered that hospital. I have had one pastor use two big security guards to protect himself from speaking to me. I have had another pastor of a church send out four armed State Troopers to essentially tell me to shut up.