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Konstantin Kisin

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How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield

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How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield

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How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield

I was going to say, because what you're really talking about here, David, and what we saw in the comedy industry and a lot of other industries have seen, and it's a tragedy, is the death of meritocracy.

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How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield

And what people don't realize is that once you get rid of meritocracy, everything else is doomed.

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How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield

It will eventually crumble.

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How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield

That's why so many people love sport.

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How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield

You go and watch a Premier League or the NBA or UFC or a heavyweight boxing championship.

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How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield

When you buy your ticket, what you're buying is access to the elite level athlete doing things that you couldn't possibly dream of at the highest level.

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How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield

But if diversity comes into, for instance, football or basketball, then it's over.

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How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield

And this is what people don't seem to understand.

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How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield

Cambridge is only Cambridge because it's meant to be the best of the very best.

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How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield

Look, I think it's... The fact is... Because there was still part of me holding on to the fact that it was a vocal minority and that the rest of them were cowed into silence and that it was cowardice, effectively.

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How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield

But the fact that the majority of them believe that...

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How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield

To me, that has completely changed the way I see this discussion because I didn't think the majority of them actually believed this nonsense.

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How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield

And we're not learning the lessons from ancient Greece and ancient Atherans, which is, you mentioned that word, hubris, an excess of pride.

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How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield

And you're looking at the universities.

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How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield

I mean, if that's not an excess of pride to go on TV and go, you know what?

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How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield

You can turn from a man into a woman.