Michael Shellenberger
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first heard Oct 2024
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after 2020 europe's slightly different story but um you know i think it's just what it looks like there's just this woke religion has just absolutely displaced the older story that we had of western civilization which is that christianity gave way to the enlightenment the enlightenment secularized a whole bunch of christian values including the idea that we're all born
with dignity and rights and we just that old story just got replaced by this really ugly story which is that humans are a cancer on the earth that western civilization is just genocidal and um you know it's just the opposite of really what it's been historically which is a massively liberating phenomenon
we got stuck in this awful story got taught in the schools it got taught in the universities and it's just that beautiful open society vision from 1946 just became its complete totalitarian opposite and i think britain really exemplifies that and it's worth knowing by the way too because i think you've done such a good job here tucker point out
the left and right origins of this certainly like what we call the foreign policy establishment the blob they were behind the online safety act in britain that passed in 2023 it was the conservative government that that got it done but it was the same foreign policy blob that was behind our censorship industrial complex and that was clearly emerged out of this effort to govern the american empire and then was reacting to this just massive populist unrest to
you know out of control migration policies energy policies that were aimed at creating scarcity and high prices the trans madness were literally i mean that is just one where i mean if you really want to like it's like a david cronenberg movie you know it's like it's these atrocities physical atrocities that you're then not allowed to talk about like that you're then if you actually deny if you actually i mean they wanted censorship on all of it we had a twitter they censored megan murphy for saying but a man is not a woman
Like, that's what she said.
And they like de-platformed her.
So, I mean, you talk about like a terrifying scenario where a scenario where it's like these hideous medical experiments are being conducted on the bodies of adolescents and mentally ill people.
And they were then trying to censor people talking about it and demanding that you believe that it's possible to change your sex.
I mean, that's just how you kind of go.
That's how far gone we've gone.
we got as a civilization you know it's that we convinced ourselves that you could perform you know biological alchemy and then we wanted to silence and suppress anybody who told the truth about it so you know i it's there's i think there's a black pill moment where one could say that we're pretty far gone you know if you're already at this place but i do think
know thanks to you know uh what you're saying to the opening of the platform to the success of people like you and joe rogan and the creation of this alternative media universe i do think we have a chance to to remake that case not just for free speech but really for this amazing
tiny moment in history where actually everybody that's a citizen of a country got to be free.
That's a beautiful, wonderful thing.
Anybody that's ever traveled outside the United States, I think can see that and appreciate it.
Yeah, I mean, you know, as you probably remember in one of my last book on the homeless crisis, I put a lot of emphasis on this desire from the left to be compassionate and to think of ourselves as good people.
And that really the idea, and it's really this immediate emotive, you know, like with addiction,
people that are crying out there saying i'm fine and i'm fine in my living in my waist and being sexually assaulted every night i'm just fine let me just smoke some more fentanyl uh every everybody should know that that person needs an intervention so that they stop harming themselves in public um but the emotionalism and the sentimentality that immediate appeal to oh no it's somehow cruel oops
it's somehow cruel to allow uh you know to enforce laws and mandate care for people so on one hand it does seem like this empathy of like oh we have to protect people but i also think there is something you know darker and more selfish and frankly more hedonistic than that which is as you were saying i mean the the the ability to censor somebody is an incredible act of power and domination
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