Douglas Murray and Stephen Blackwood: On Ideological Madness and Its Antidote

A conversation between Douglas Murray and Stephen Blackwood, recorded on September 6th, 2019. Murray and Blackwood discuss Murray’s new book, ‘The Madness of Crowds', which explores the ideological madness of our moment. They also speak about the metaphysical assumptions driving that madness, and about truth and forgiveness as fundamental to its antidote. Please accept our apologies for the occasional distortion in the first few minutes in Murray’s microphone; the problem was corrected as soon as it was noticed.
You can order a copy of ‘The Madness of Crowds’ or listen to it, read by Douglas Murray himself, as an audio book here: www.amazon.com...
Works mentioned:
Literature: T. S. Eliot, especially The Four Quartets; Philip Larkin; C. Day-Lewis; Shakespeare
Music: Palestrina; Orlando Gibbons; Thomas Tallis, especially Spem in Alium and Lamentations of Jeremiah; Bach, BWV 622 (O Mensch); Gustav Mahler, especially Symphony No. 3; Igor Stravinsky; Olivier Messiaen; Johannes Brahms, piano; Benjamin Britten; Michael Tippett
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[@michaelweber5702]

Again as i am sitting here in San Francisco , 75 years old and listening to Douglas Murray , I still thrill at my possibilities for apprehending more of life's meaning , in no small part thanks to Mr. Murray ... Thanks gentlemen .

[@AG-tj8ew]

I’m very pleased you do what you do Mr Murray, your contribution to helping us ordinary folks understand the unhinged developments which are currently taking over our society, as well as calling it out, is immensely important. Yours is a life well lived 😊.

[@mc.8391]

i wish there were more voices like Douglas Murray... he always enables me to see more clearly through the mess than anybody else...… such an articulate man thank you

[@BUTTHEAD81COL]

F.e: Jordan B Peterson, Milo Yiannopoulos, Ben shapiro. In spanish: Agustín Laje, Nicolás Márquez

[@baeX900]

​@@BUTTHEAD81COLNot Ben Shapiro please.😂

[@ManInTheBigHat]

Don't you just love Douglas... I know I do. I'm reading "The Madness of Crowds" and it's great.

[@monaarora3947]

I love him and I fancy him

[@luyolomify]

@@monaarora3947 he’s gay, mate.

[@didinx8417]

@@luyolomify one can dream!

[@ericsonofjohn9384]

@@monaarora3947 I’m straight and I fancy him

[@patbonny1175]

I thank Douglas for his recognition of the problems our young people face today at all levels of what remains of our culture. I speak as a man of 69 yrs, I have children and grandchildren who are being abused before my helpless eyes.

[@jj-nh8lz]

Hey, 58 year old male with three adult children I am genuinely curious what do you mean by “your children and grandchildren being abused…”

[@lustforlow-end6022]

@j j I’d reckon it’s all this woke/trans nonsense that’s being taught to, or rather imposed upon today’s generations.

[@jjuniper274]

I read Murray's book during lockdown and it was so thoroughly entertaining and enlightening, I couldn't put it down!

[@AMikeStein]

I bought it and read it finally in the last few weeks and it was so good. Definitely something to read again.

[@PhenHarrison]

Listened to this whilst raking leaves and acorns in New England. Thank you for discussing this. So needed.

[@philliphayden2727]

Perfect...hope it's not a bad acorn year for you, they can be far worse than the leaves!

[@cinderelladevil1687]

You are very lucky to have figures like Murray, Scruton or T. Darylmple. They are articulated, brave and educated to expose the truth and reverse this tide of madness. I hope this wave reaches soon my country. We are in dire need of some honesty and common sense.

[@TheChippewa77]

I would add John McWhorter and Glenn Loury to that list :-)

[@badgerlife9541]

Which country/ region are you referring to that needs the rationality of Murray?

[@TheRaveMusicArchive]

@@badgerlife9541 Anywhere in the West.

[@kbeetles]

The deeper and braver Douglas gets, the more impressive and lovable he becomes!

This is how Truth manifests itself. Somebody once said something about the Truth, the Way and the Light....

[@cinderelladevil1687]

@ the Truth the Way and Life.

[@WLynn-su2fs]

..and important.

[@NinjaKittyBonks]

"... weaponization of men against women suggests if the men can have a bit of a worse time the women would be better off...." VERY wise words from Douglas and is undoubtedly what most men sense when up against radical feminist views today. Although a relatively small minority, they have an extremely loud voice and spend much energy indoctrinating those who would be moderate into radicals themselves. Thanks to both of you and those who made this conversation possible.

[@MoonBurn13]

NinjaKitty I’m gonna make some people pissy here because I’ll never get tired of saying it: The rapid erosion and now complete loss, of the natural loving relationship between men and women, is, I believe, at the core of the loss of meaning, higher purpose and will in western civilization.

[@NinjaKittyBonks]

@Jinn Bottle.... I could not possibly disagree or have said it better.... cheers :)

[@jonathanbarnes3061]

Very quotable for certain...

[@neillambert8713]

Douglas Murray has fantastic insight into modern life . Great wisdom and courage.

[@academyofchampions1]

Much respect to the greatness and integrity of Stephen Blackwood. This man stands as a modern hero to what true intellectualism should represent.

[@johnthorpe163]

My favorite Murray quote: "A society in which your deepest feelings can be trodden upon is the only society worth living in."

[@tammys8711]

True, he has a lovely way of saying the hard things.

[@imnotsmartbutimdumb]

Ya I’m wondering what he means, it sounds quite authoritarian to say the things you care about most should be walked over like nothing? I would’ve agreed pre-lockdown maybe in a Ben Shapiro facts don’t care about your feelings sorta way, but literally our freedom to live life has been squished on a global scale??? Perhaps he just never imagined such a ridiculous idea, I mean the people who thought this trash was feasible was a very very small group, alas v for vendetta did bring it up so it wasn’t like nobody knew

[@marysueeasteregg]

@@imnotsmartbutimdumb The correct quote is: "Societies in which even your deepest beliefs and feelings can be questioned and trodden upon are the only societies worth living in." The exact quote makes clear that Murray is talking about feelings being trodden upon BY FREE SPEECH. Far from being authoritarian, his comment is deeply liberal in the classical, historic sense. I'll give a concrete example: I am Christian. My sensibilities are offended (to use a mild term) by artists who have portrayed Christ covered with feces or urine. But I fully grant the right of the artist to do so.

[@pureenergy4578]

I had a NDE or near death experience because my deepest feelings were trodden upon. Is it liberalism to allow no one to rescue me because I was free to be hurt? Do you say child abuse is worth living? Everyone I have met says that I shouldn't 'KILL" myself because that is crazy, as if any of us live forever. What is called suicide is just the freedom to leave sooner. I say to not be on this earth would be the smartest thing to do. I wish I had never been born to a world that condones a lack of compassion. The antidote to that is studying quantum physics that says we can't die because we are electrical energy fields constantly being created. Having a NDE and being totally anti social for many, many years caused me to pick up many books about NDEs and god and existence and holistics and the reason we are here. Those billion dollar energy colliders built around the world never find solidity. How do you think you are going to die if you are not solid/physical? Is it liberalism to let everyone think that they are physical and then will die? Should I not interfere with your beliefs in death? You don't believe me anyway. I tried to tell everyone as a child that there is no such thing as death, but I was harshly ostracized and condemned for thinking differently. That is not liberalism, that is nazism AND that was in america. That was when I was around 8 to 18 and now I am what is called 67. But energy doesn't die and it doesn't age. Beliefs do. Energy exists for millions and billions of years, or whatever the people on this planet say. But then I like what the books I read say, and that is time is simultaneous. All of you think there is time because the earth spins. You have been lied to. Time is a ponzi scheme just like death and just like germs/viruses. You see it is not me that has the ideological madness. It is YOU ! ALL of you have been conned into believing what the cruel oligarchs of this world want you to believe so that you will continue to give them all your tax money, and fees and fines, etc. I have read many articles that say the federal reserve is a private set up in 1913 to be a cartel, a mafia against us. They have been allowed to break banks and the stock market on purpose. They have been allowed to save this money overseas where no taxes can be taken. It is set up that way. Is it madness to let them abuse us? to stomp on the middle class so hard that they become the "lower" class as if any of us is NOT eternal energy ALL THE FREAKING TIME. To say there are different classes is ideological madness. The physicist Kenneth Ford wrote the book THE QUANTUM WORLD to create a diagram of simultaneous time. He also wrote the words: "magically bursting forth are quarks spinning billions of times a second as 3 points of light forming protons and neutrons". There are many books that say we are eternal light, but it means a lot when a physicist says it. The physicist Barbara Brennan wrote the book HANDS OF LIGHT to say we are eternal, electromagnetic, multidimensional and holographic. What else could we be when quarks/atoms are spinning/vibrating/pulsating/or whatever -- billions of times a second with positive and negative poles? In this book are many diagrams/pictures of what we look like as eternal holograms and eternal electrical energy field beings. If this is not true, why are my words constantly being deleted? These words are not even MY words. They belong to physicists. Are children really children before 18? I think money says they are not. After 18, this society thinks that a child does not exist anymore. In fact, if a child supposedly murders someone before the age of 18 or 19, often they are put in prisons just like "adults". I quote that because to put anyone in prison is a very, very cruel, diabolical thing to do. They cannot be called "adult" which implies compassion. After all, those prisons are for profit, meaning there are people making lots of money from their cruelty to others. This should never had happened. AND when you believe in death, which is only an idea, you set up this whole planet to then live their whole lives with this fear of death, which ironically gives everyone the idea that to kill is okay -- IF you are into the habit of creating wars around the world. OR if you are a police person, quiet often you get let off from your crime. You see, to know there is no such thing is death lets everyone off because how can you condemn someone when they didn't know that they are eternal light to begin with?

[@editorrbr2107]

@@pureenergy4578 it’s about free speech. I have no idea what you are babbling about, but you should get back on your meds.

[@roberthollands7863]

Such a good listen is an understatement.

[@draziraphale]

Great interview. I think he nailed it with Brett Weinstein's distinction between Debate and Dialectic, where Debate is an engagement of two opposing viewpoints with the intention of one prevailing over the other, whereas Dialectic has the intention of using the engagement to find the truth, and that we have a fearful culture where Debate is chosen over Dialectic because of a perception that Nazis are coming through the door. I'm halfway through his Madness of Crowds book, excellent so far.

[@gerrystevens9041]

its the other way round. debate is a meeting. dialetic is a weapon. the only truth it can find is the murder of its victim.

[@chris-mg5ui]

It seems as though those in control have the emotional responses of teenagers to the real world - probably for the same reasons. Those reasons being that they have not experienced the real world

[@wonksliver]

@@gerrystevens9041 Nope

[@iggle6448]

​@@chris-mg5ui A parent's role has almost always been to raise a child to be capable of grasping adulthood and managing all its benefits, responsibilities and limitations in sensible, mature ways. Starting in the 80s there was a movement to wrest control of this natural process of guided maturation from the parents. Not only that, but parents were under constant pressure (often under pain of serious legal penalties) to refrain from chastising their children, they were under great pressure by both local authority leftist idealogues and corporate consumerism to, frankly, pander to all their children's wants and whims. Meanwhile, children were encouraged to report their parents at the first inkling of 'abuse'. In one ludicrous episode, I found my 8yo calling a childrens' helpline because I'd asked him to tidy up his room! He was waving the yellow helpline card (given to all pupils at his school) at me like a soccer ref sending off a miscreant player. He decided that he was offended and being abused by having to tidy his room. It's interesting that Dr Jordan Peterson's first rule of life to young people is 'tidy your room'! In practice that's where self-respect and self-discipline start. Many of today's 30-40yos are suffering from this full-on attack on natural parenthood and the consequences which include an unmanageable sort of split - on the one hand they've been taught to expect their wants and whims to be met instantly and on the other they're struggling with the effects of curtailed parenting. Essentially, we parents were not allowed to do a proper job in teaching self-discipline and the tools they needed for adulthood. So they're stuck in this ill-equipped adult with teenage emotions sort of half-way house. It appears to me that if you're in this bind, one way to deal with its confusions and inadequacies is to loudly and persistently demand that the world works in the way you want, when you want. Instead, these younger people need to adult themselves. Starting with learning that you have to fit into the real world rather than smashing this difficult, messy real world into submission to your comfort-seeking whims. Seriously, as a parent who parented through the 80s-00s, I see these wokeist tantrummers as you see them, Chris - as people struggling with teenage world views and teenage emotions. Yet many of we crumblies have rolled over and acquiesced to these immature, self-centred children - and largely without awareness that both we and they are victims of the abuse of former gov idealogues and the rapaciousness of consumerism.

[@squigglyline2813]

I wish every video had audio this good.

[@timothyh7053]

I’ve listened to all of the Madness of Crowds podcasts, and this was my favorite. I appreciate the interview going beyond the narrative and we learned more about the author on a personal level. Excellent! -thank you!

[@6663000]

Douglas Murray is a great man.

[@joostvandegoor150]

Wonderful long talk, covering the new book and many other important topics. Inspiring and comforting.

[@philliphayden2727]

Even if Douglas repeats himself again after the recent podcasts I've listen to him converse, that's okay. Good man.

[@NinjaKittyBonks]

Agreed :) I have heard the train pulling into the station the speeding away and others a number of times, but each one of these conversations has a handful of gems. Each one of those gems gives insight to a remarkable man.

[@sumthingwickedly]

Shows he means what he says he doesn't say something different the loony leftists have a new pile of tripe to spill every other day

[@saidsadly2400]

This was brilliant. I love listening to long form interviews with Douglas Murray. It really inspires me.

[@chriskii12344]

Just an absolutely amazing conversation, deep, well thought out & addresses the philosophical problems of the current orthodoxy on the left. Brilliant.

[@jj-nh8lz]

This is so very well done. Since all of erosion of free speech happened over time, I did not fully appreciate how bad it has become until listening to this. I am grateful for the Ralston College content, but I wonder how soon social media content moderators will begin to restrict access because they want to promote their pseudo truth over the facts

[@vizveebee]

I'm always pleased when a new reel pops up for me on my 'fave' Douglas Murray. When Douglas speaks, it's so clear and understandable. Since this, his latest book War on the West is an amazing book and as with this one he reads it himself on Audible. Brilliant listening.

[@TheDionysianFields]

I've been tryin' to get down To the heart of the matter But my will gets weak And my thoughts seem to scatter But I think it's about...forgiveness Forgiveness -Don Henley

[@magenta6754]

After watching Laurence Fox on Question Time I learnt from the reaction of someone in the audience that it is now racist to like your own country. How did that happen? So we are supposed to hate ourselves or we are racist. Any psychologist would tell you that is not healthy. I think Woke people are dysfunctional and they are trying to spread their own self-loathing. I don’t want to give a Woke person too much of a shock, but I like Britain and I am happy to be English and am proud of what my country has achieved.

[@sisiphas]

Me too!

[@pauloliver2695]

Me too !

[@johnatkinson4287]

Douglas is superb

[@petersolomon5227]

Superb podcast by two articulate, thoughtful, and not to mention spiritual men.

[@benbellelogan]

Your discussion of forgiveness has given me hope . I have learned so much from both of you. Thank you for making this available to all of us.

[@tammys8711]

@@Slimc74 I frequently go back and listen to Ricky Gervais give Hollywood heck at the awards, he's a genius too!

[@MFYouTube683]

I’ve listened to so many speeches, debates, interviews and read Douglas Murray’s work and to me (not going to state «as a so-and-so» to drive home my point, because I frankly can’t be arsed to bicker on KZbin), this man is the voice of our time that needs to - yes, MUST be heard. I never feel defeated when I discuss against both friends and strangers with different points of view, because he and other brilliant people like Lionel Shriver, Ralph Ghadban, Cllr Sarah Fields, Julia Hartley-Brewer a.s.o. are equipping us with strong arguments based on reason and facts, that never crumble. Sadly, people are increasingly just declaring me a lost cause and walk out instead of questioning their problems finding a good counter-argument or different perspective based on science and factual, confirmed information.

[@soniavadnjal7553]

Douglas Murray's tone of voice is as telling as what he says.

[@jamesguy1030]

Sonia V ~ Yeah, How do you mean Sonia ?

[@chuggermagic]

His tone was disdainful and dirisive.

[@plekkchand]

Right. Let's have someone else tell us what the OP's uselessly cryptic comment means.

[@soniavadnjal7553]

@@jamesguy1030 His voice is just very expressive. He sounds as if what he is talking about really concerns him. He genuinely cares about the issues. Some public speakers become so used to their task they sound like those computerized voices reading the news. Murray is very well read, researches his subject exhaustively, so speaks with authority, but also objectively.

[@soniavadnjal7553]

@@chuggermagic I didn't find it so, though sometimes Murray appears tired, answering a call from the other side of the world, and it shows a little. But as a gay man, he is able to understand lbgt issues. Where political agendas are concerned, he seems to prefer moderation - in everything.

[@michaelh3926]

Great! Something to listen to in this blizzard.

[@freeandcriticalthinker4431]

Why doesn’t this channel get ALOT more views? I guess it’s YT suppression as usual, but Stephen has an excellent channel. Very insightful questions as well as incredible guest. Keep it up Stephen!

[@dethkon]

Good point. This stuff is right up my alley, but it’s never been recommended to me by the algorithm, and so I never heard of this show before now.

[@dolphineachonga8724]

Tribal politics has infused itself into Western politics. For us who've lived in countries divided into little clans that are used by politicians to gain power, we've witnessed just how bad it can go. In recent times, Rwanda and Kenya experienced just what damage clan/tribal/identity politics can do. Politicians literally turned tribes on each other resulting in mass slaughter over perceived grievances. People killed their neighbors, close friends, some even spouses who weren't part of their tribes. Once it starts, it gets stuck and every election year in Kenya people are apprehensive about violence errupting again. It's becoming a cycle that we prepare for every election year. I hope it never gets there for you.

[@catherineoconnell3213]

Madness of crowds...........Douglas Murray ................Impeccable insight into the END GAME!

[@stephenvince9994]

The bit about poor young people not being able to afford a house, poor darlings... When I was a kid people had lodgers.... why was that you might ask?..... The person renting the room couldnt afford the mortgage, the lodger of course couldnt afford the deposit. Buying a house then meant scrimping and saving. Driving a car? Weekends only. Go to work in the bus or a bicycle. Clubbing? try a couple of pints on a Friday night. Holidays? Camping was popular. Mummy run you to school? Try the bus / the train / walking. Worrying about the climate, poor darlings? We grew up with a four minute warning. (Look it up if you dont know.) Im fed up of listening to Marshmallows whining.

[@nnovo3122]

@gerard dearie I'm in their parents age group and no one in their EARLY 20s had the capital to buy a house. Also, not as many people graduated from college. Most people started working right out of highschool. The people I see buying houses in their 20s now became plumbers or electricians. They have skills that are marketable because they're needed. There's too much competition for those with fine arts or political science degrees to find jobs. Everyone cannot be employed in teaching. Someone has to keep the lights on.

[@70galaxie]

"it doesn't matter, I'm not interested..." always gets my undivided attention

[@redpillcascade5883]

Would somebody kindly tell me what the piece of music at the intro and conclusion of the broadcast is called, please? I recognize it but, I can't even recall its author!

[@cabinfourful]

I thought I was going to die of old age waiting for the host to find the right word and/or formulate a question.

[@MikeWalker]

I love the fact that someone, waits to find exactly the right question, and how to articulate it, and how that results in new pathways in the answers from Douglas. This is extremely underrated in todays social ping pong interactions.

[@nnovo3122]

That's because you have become inculturated to the 15 second sound bite.

[@lukejones3587]

Great interview. Really enjoy it.

[@d.marques4700]

"Life is unfair, so someone must be there to be blamed of!" - Douglas Murray

[@nullset560]

That Seamus heaney part might be the best aside I've heard from Douglas!

[@MikeWalker]

Subscribers quadrupled in just a couple of months. What a fantastic talk. Go with Stephen's pauses.... he wants to get to meaning... and he wants to get the question clear, so the answer has the wings that Douglas can afford it.

[@louisehaley5105]

1:20- unfortunately COVID-19 has exacerbated our addiction to social media, and the inability to meet people face to face.

[@smacky1966]

I support and am excited about the Ralston College Project and hope that it takes off but, Steven Blackwood needs to hire someone to grow his brand. Only 946 subscribers with the level of guests he has interviewed is way too low. I implore him to hire the talent to build this channel and brand.

[@MoonBurn13]

~ 20:00 “It’s never quite clear what this ideal world will be...” Exactly. They’re right at the forefront when it comes to “smashing”, “dismantling”, “feminist-critiquing” etc etc, but when you ask them “to make way for what?” You get crickets. Which is fitting, because that prettymuch describes what they’re building.

[@Jason-Scott]

Legend 👍🏻

[@jayturner3397]

Just be good to people..pay it forward...

[@IsomerSoma]

Got to love this for music selection alone.

[@alecchapin9071]

I need the name to that fire intro

[@ff6173]

Mr Blackwood made Douglas earn his keep in this interview

[@theheck5176]

Douglas Murray = Nxt lvl IDW.

[@MsStack42]

Speaking as a Human Being*, I quite enjoyed THAT ! * other opinions are available....

[@bentleycharles779]

"Something like an agreement"...

[@paulpeele8387]

Like so many people I enjoyed his books enormously. I enjoyed his appearances on various interviews and events for years. So i am accordingly disappointed in his inability to recognize the Davos and Covidian coup for what it is. I've seen him denying that anything organized and totalitarian is taking place; on an earlier interview. It made me wonder if even the most free thinking and intelligent person still must have some limits to the courage they can bring to bare under extreme threats.

[@richardkuehn7015]

I think it’s pretty fair to say that Douglas Murray has picked up the baton from our fallen soldier Christopher Hitchins..

[@nnovo3122]

Douglas Murray is not at all fond of in your face atheists.

[@markcollins2704]

Fuck Christopher Hitchens.

[@tammys8711]

I might mention Roger Scruton, also a lovely man. I think he and Douglas were friends. Douglas seemed to think highly of him.

[@kepeb1]

Captain Kirk should do more interviews.

[@friskygringo2031]

Seriously! At times he paused for so long I thought the video was buffering.

[@EBM4545]

He has several interviews out there if you look.

[@WestQuinte]

I would love to hear Stephen Blackwood sing.

[@Ahabite]

I recommend anyone also read True Believer, by Eric Hoffer. What we face is nothing new and we can right this ship.

[@dethkon]

I have that book! It’s very good, I agree.

[@MrNiuj]

Murray offers a fine view, much like a painting, little past or future is present. More dynamism is required before he becomes a true great.

[@mikeschnobrich1807]

What's so difficult about this subject is there doesn't seem to be any on topic rebuttal from the post modernists. We can't truly understand what's at stake as as civilization or to defend it by only hearing one perspective.

[@YO3A007]

The speech hesitation pattern was difficult to listen to and the questions were as painful.

[@kingclover1395]

I came to the same conclusion that this guy did. Which is that for some people, especially on the Left, being an activist is their whole identity and way of life. And it's also a way of showing their moral superiority to everybody else. And also, they are just using these identity groups as stand-ins for themselves. It's really themselves who they feel aren't getting the recognition and rewards that they deserve. Being a gay person in my late 40s, I've always noticed this about people who claim to be fighting for justice. In reality, it seems to be all about them rather than the people they claim to be fighting for.

[@crazyduck1254]

i love these microphones, can someone at ralston please tell me which brand the mics are.

[@ComeAlongKay]

It’s hilarious they think wearing a Chinese dress is appropriating when Asian people nearly exclusively wear western style clothing, some of them celebrate western holidays like Christmas, and basically the majority of the modern world is based on the western world which invented the modern world, through the renaissance and the industrial ages when other parts of the world which had been advanced at one point were then basically sitting in dirt sharpening their spears. Wearing their clothes is appropriating when their entire modern society is based on ours from tv to shopping markets to pant to cars to airplanes to you name it the west did it. Other people often try to act like those cultures are better, more humane or even advanced, and it’s so the opposite of that it’s crazy. And black people can create a rap group that directly steals the name of the Wu-Tang Clan and no one even mentions that. They didn’t do a name in Chinese they took the name of an existing thing in China of a series of Kung-Fu movies. That’s how not creative they are. A lot of rap steals melodies from songs white people made, and then steals stuff like gangster from the mob, and many other things and no one seems to think they’re appropriating, and the music is by in large terrible and vapid.

[@70galaxie]

the word itself is free

[@rhez_]

“profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus about ca 46:00 bit...

[@d.marques4700]

"This is creating HELL, and it'll become worse!" - Douglas Murray

[@editorrbr2107]

It’s already absolute hell. We’ve not even remotely reached saturation. An inflection point is going to occur, and as happens with humans, we’ll overreact in an opposite manner - rarely do we arrive at “more freedom” as our collective response.

Impeccable as usual. I have to differ with Douglas Murray's taste in English poetry, as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Keats certainly deserve mentioning before Philip Larkin, and, obviously, William Shakespeare overwhelms T. S. Eliot.

[@MikeWalker]

I like carrots, but not peas - You?

[@Paradox_Sol]

Well said Douglas, now what should we do about all that?

[@artrequired]

Forgive like Jesus

[@felixfedre518]

I like Douglas Murray but you have to realise that he is what is known as a "gatekeeper", whether he is aware of it or not. He rightly points out what is happening but then tries to claim it is due to some indefinable error that things have gone the way they have, that "gay rights", "women's rights", "racial equality" all began with good intent but somehow went off the rails. The reality, of course, is that they were artificially hammered into society with the intent of creating the havoc they are creating now and done by forces that should be exposed.

[@shawnaweesner3759]

Felix Fedre, then why didn’t you expose those forces here by writing them.

[@felixfedre518]

@@shawnaweesner3759 Comments have to be short and succinct. The comment is already too long for most people to bother reading.

[@retribution999]

What is the opening piece of music please?

[@jamesbuchanan3888]

At 1hour 23 minutes ... If truth is subjective, can there be a dialectic?

[@heatherthaxton451]

Love Douglas of course, but the interviewer makes his questions difficult to follow. It's like he is trying to be too intellectual in his questioning... so the questions drag on unnecessarily. Was a tad distracting trying to follow.

[@dbcoco]

‘only harmless’ > is not harmless!! in fact it builds up into a sum where any harmful thing can come to pass-by and manifest itself. Arendt’s concept of ‘the banality of evil’ points exactly to this danger, where all the ‘harmless’ actions accumulate into a dreadful outcome.

[@Ubu987]

That is not what Arendt meant when she used the expression 'the banality of evil' to describe Adolph Eichmann's murderous cruelty.

[@AB89DIK]

What is the name of painting on the thumbnail??

[@net4216]

Who played the piano piece at the beginning

[@mateozeppelin]

What is the name of your opening song?

[@jeannepoulet9063]

Jeanne Poulet Love BACH ALL MY LIFE!!!

[@ladylyonteeth3952]

I don’t like him at all, but I can’t stop listening. Damned British!

[@MikeWalker]

We're hated because we're loved. And we're hated even more, for understanding your hate, and forgiving you.

[@boudecia22]

Thats ok, we know. 😊

[@almostafa4725]

@@MikeWalker That doesn’t even make sense lol

[@MikeWalker]

@@almostafa4725 Al.... Quite right. A glass too many!! lol

[@dgh5760]

Stephen Blackwood sounds so much like Sam Harris I had to keep telling myself it was not Sam Harris interviewing Mr. Murray. Would probably not have done so if there was video to see the speakers rather than just listening.

[@dethkon]

2:40 “Gay was coming in to dock” 😆🤣

[@Deepfake820]

Who is Artist on the thumbnail?

[@markcollins2704]

What is the piano at the beginning?

[@tenholindberg9862]

Marxism is a materialist view of history and world (particulary dialectical materialism). Thats it. Problem is, that didnt in the end explain, many of the societys pathologies. Hence critical theory attempted to explain, why do we submit to strong men like hitler etc, who points us a ones who blame, and promise to return us, to some grand vision.etc. As materialism alone wasnt able to explain this. Then there came a certain Strand of this bourguoise anti materialist, idealism, or subjective idealism, called postmodernism. Now it is stupid to assume it to be strand of marxism, bcoz it value the concerns of sexual minorities etc. Why bcoz it is inherently anti materialist or anti marxist, in its objection of objective reality, and grand historical narrative, wich is marxism. Closely look makes it clear, it is exactly an extreme vers of right wing bourgoise idealism ie subjective idealism. Just bcoz right wing worldview traditionally sircles around intuition, and base pre assumptions, instead of knowledge, doesnt make this postmodernism left wing.

[@Ubu987]

Marxism is first and foremost a collectivist world-view, regardless of its claim to be materialistic. It posits history as a dialectical struggle between economic classes tending towards revolution and Utopia. Identity politics just extends the collectivist conflict theory to include race, sexual orientation, and various other victim/oppressor groups. Otherwise, it is not very different from Marxism. Postmodernism just builds on Marx's assertion that economic class determines the mind, and so different group ideologies are incommensurate and mutually incomprehensible. It's funny that the woke left are attacking the postmodernists as 'right wing' since it is all just insane leftism.

[@tenholindberg9862]

@@Ubu987 marx do not talk about economic classes, but hierarchical ones. Lase fare classical liberalism is actually utopian view of the world. While marx is is more closely ,a scientifical view of the world. You said that postmodernism build identity politics as a contiuation of marxist class struggle, therefore you are saying that every stance that has basis in struggle against someone, is marxist. By these stanards, spartacus, ming dynasty, early sogunate, etc were somehow marxist. Postmodernism is totally against marxismz coz marxismis a comprehensive understanding of the world, wich is independent of our subjective experiences, thus it is a view of objective reality, whereas pomo, is denying this from the start, claiming that world cannot be understanded by any grand narrative, and that everything is primary connected to our subjective experiences, there is no any serious reality outside of that. Thats why it is subjective idealism, as it is denying any possibility of objective claims, and material understing, that it is just extreme vers of same proto religious, bourgoise idealism, in other words, that same pseudo individualism from the right, taken to the most extreme, wich isthe original cause why ppl seek their identity, and try to find meaning, wheres marxism answers pretty coprehencively to these questions, and make a case for developemental individualism, as some child in africa may have liberty to diefrom ebola, that dont make this sort of nagative freedom somethingto be valued. Identity politics is at play yes with libs worldview but so is too with right wing. Isntwhite grievance politics, that rise from this "conservatives are being victimized" identity politics? One shouldnt be so lazy as toseriously claim, that everysort of conflict, in worldviews, makes it marxist, class structure based not oppression, marx didnt talk anythingtis sort about nothing, but exploitation (wich is not meaning something bad is made against you etc, it simply means all the surplus value, that comes from ppls labour, currently goes in the pockets of few, not the majority). Marx primar today is been discussed, as hes deep analysis, and understanding, tht is selfevident in present day, for exmple alienation. God bless.

[@megg.6651]

32:10 warning for times ahead

[@fallingsky9242]

Whats that intro song?

[@dbcoco]

let’s look at the countries that live by the remnants and destructive legacies of marxist ideology: North Korea, China, Russia; the latter two having recently combined their entrenched ideologies with rampant destructive capitalism to become very unhealthy societies. Does anything further need to be said?

[@yassinemotaouakkil3530]

Where's the piano intro from?

[@greggfiller1]

Yassine Motaouakkil Bach Toccata and Fugue in D-minor. Here’s a version of it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWTEemqFpJh6g9E

[@gerrystevens9041]

i have 100% empathy. so i can forgive. [its my coffin]. but the evil of their own accord have clarted up love with lust and forgiveness with contract law..

[@endpc5166]

Yeah Bach!

[@HaIsKuL]

1:29:49 What was that yiddish word? Tuchlus?

[@rogerscottcathey]

He doesnt say anything close to that that I can detect. You have the right time stamp?

[@HaIsKuL]

@@rogerscottcathey It's been corrected now.

[@rogerscottcathey]

Found it at last. Searched google with "yiddish words starting with T". And it gave me translationdictionary, everyday Yiddish. Link below. Tachlis, (many spellings) meaning bottom line, essence, brass tacks, basis, etc. I tried the google translator for English -> Yiddish and typed in all the words meaning "meat of the matter", including "basis", "essence", etc. given by the Yiddish dictionary, but google translate couldnt come close. I even accidently tried the exact spelling give by the dictionary, and google couldnt find a meaning, kept suggesting Turkish, Croatian, Romanian. lol. www.translationdirectory.com/dictionaries/dictionary004_t.htm

[@TJ-kk5zf]

100 percent heterosexual, but if I weren't..........

[@saidsadly2400]

T J I am a lesbian and I totally would 🤷🏼‍♀️ Murray seems to have that way with people.

[@charlespeterson3798]

I putter around with an idea like a cat with a spool of twine and Mr. Muuray, says in three words what I develop into a complete mess. ¨That you have read Plato¨, et. al. does not make you superior to Plato,as one example. I have been looking for that for a decade. He is a very bright man.

[@epwlod777]

Great video. But seriously.. 'gays docking' Epic choice of words lmfao 😂😆😂

[@ericadler9680]

It's highly questionable to discuss gays and trans together with sex and race because a sex, say, women, is about 50% of the population, race is also very high, whereas gays are just about 2% of the population (according to Dr. Debra Soh, sex researcher), and trans are just about 0,2%. These two last "groups" do not at all deserve the attention that the first two "groups" deserve. The whole discussion is flawed from the beginning.

[@kevinratay8285]

We compensate for our freedoms by tolerating ideologies we disagree with; and the personalities that deliver them; for no other reason than the principles they're encapsulated in that make our democracy sustainable. If this weren't true the whole world wouldn't be lined up at the border trying to get into such a "horrible systemic racist country"....unless they're in line to get out, but I'd guess otherwise

[@shawnaweesner3759]

The whole world is not lined up at the US borders trying to get into our country, just the Southern border, and many of these people are the worst of the lot, and/or the most defenseless.

[@jeannepoulet9063]

Shakespeare and Mozart…

[@evilways961]

Gods among men