Frank Wright
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jun
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But, you know, we didn't have things like income tax, passports, universal suffrage, and so on.
And that might sound like a terrible thing.
But at the height of the British Empire, most of our political arguments at the elite level were about how to interpret Christianity in the form of the management of the state and the world.
And they really were.
And even a liberal like Robert Toombs in his history of the English admits that.
And his chapter on that is absolutely fascinating.
So what basically the liberal system replaced after the great industrial revolution of the First World War was the Christian civilization that we'd inherited from the monastic tradition of the church a thousand years ago.
You had a Catholic hierarchy in Belgium.
You had Catholic monarchies in Europe.
You had Christian nations.
And we had a very different way of living, which didn't have this administrative bureaucracy infused with this mad ideology that taxes us to death, to police us with this kind of awful commissariat lanyard class, for example.
So it became bureaucratized, managerialized, and formalized, and gradually normalized.
Because what that system has done...
is it subtracted practically every historical memory that we had, that there was ever anything before it, and also that there could be ever anything else after it.
And so it gives itself this idea of a false eternity or permanence, and that's basically evil.
And it reminds me of the title of a book about the end of the Soviet Union, written by a bloke called Yurchak.
It's a terrible book, don't buy it, but the title's brilliant.
And it says, everything was forever until it was no more.
And that's the moment that we live in now.
Oh, yes.
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