Jeremy Boreing

I'm using constructive here definitionally, not connotatively.

I don't think that it's constructive.

I think it's a bad vision.

But it is a vision to seize power and remake the world order.

It is a vision to end the post-war consensus.

It is a vision to have a post-liberal West.

the fringes they talk about this fairly openly post-liberalism and sort of a reduction in human freedom because they blame human freedom for the excesses of the west over the last generation or two generations and this is this is why i i see a huge alignment between you know antifa thugs tearing down statues of christopher columbus and george washington and thomas jefferson and

people on the so-called new right saying that Churchill is the chief villain of the Second World War or that America shouldn't have used the atomic bomb to end the Second World War or that man didn't, you know, America didn't walk on the moon or that 9-11 was an inside job.

That's just rhetorically tearing down our statues in the same way that Antifa is physically tearing down our statues.

It's saying that the narrative structure on which the country is premised or more broadly, the West is premised.

our sort of shared legacy was either a lie told by evil men to gain power over you, or in some cases it was, well, I'll say that essentially they're saying that those structures were a lie and therefore there is nothing to conserve.

That's why I think it's a fundamentally anti-conservative proposition.

It's a very radical and reactionary proposition.

It's saying everything that has been great about the country was wrong.

All of our greatest achievements were actually immoral.

Because when you have a sort of national identity, that national identity, as it turns out, is an immune system against tyranny.

if you want to bring about a tyrannical post-liberal authoritarian order you have to get rid of that underlying narrative that story that people tell themselves that allows them to see themselves as free to see themselves as being on the side of freedom to see themselves as being on the side of human advancement and human flourishing so i

It is constructive insofar as they are constructing a new governing philosophy and implementing it.

I think it's destructive in the sense that I think everything that actually is good and true about our role in the world is the very thing that will be the first casualty of this new political project.

New year, new systems, right?