David Butterfield

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TRIGGERnometry · How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield · 20 May 2026 podcast

Why are you pulling that face?

We know this.

You can see it.

The world around you is governed by that principle.

You can see it.

But the only reason I'm interjecting here is like everything you're talking about, the inability to exclude people who ought to be excluded.

Look at our government policy.

Look at the borders of Western countries.

One is a direct consequence of the other because... It's the same phenomenon, right?

It's the same thing in government policy.

Exactly.

But frankly, Francis, the wheels have just kept turning.

So what initially sounded like a conspiracy...

actually was a conspiracy.

But what's surprising is that it was completely successful.

So this goes back to Rudi Dutschke, the long march through the institutions, the cultural turn of the Frankfurt School, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, fundamentally realizing that in order to set the conditions for a wholesale

revolution of society to a particular set of political principles, the culture is what needs the erosion.

And since the late 60s, a certain particular kind of

left-wing academic has not only found access, but actually been much the most successful in terms of propagating their own school and bringing in colleagues.

And so what really would have been a minority view when I entered Cambridge early 2000s has simply replicated in such a way and become standard among those educated there who are now academics, that it really is the majority view.

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