Peter Hitchens
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Sep
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I would think it's unlikely, but it's possible.
You can rule things out which are plainly impossible, but what you can't rule out is something which is theoretically possible.
Why do that?
Yes.
And people have been encouraged to be deluded.
It's been going on for a very long time.
This is part of the point where I harp on about my Bolshevik training.
I mean, the fundamental thing that we were told, apart from some basic Machiavellianism, and how many people in the modern world have read Machiavellianist The Prince?
It's very short.
It doesn't take long.
But there are people who don't read it.
They think they know, but they haven't read it.
So there's so many books of that kind.
But the other thing we were told
was how to tell pretext from motive and distinguish pretext from reality.
And we're constantly bombarded with politicians giving us pretext for actions they're undertaking, which is fundamentally unbelievable, particularly in foreign policy.
People don't see through them.
Then again, we have an education system.
which is, instead of challenging the intelligent of all classes to understand more and know more, encouraged them in a child-centered myth of unknowing.
They're never actually compelled to learn things they didn't know, to find out that the books they've heard of contain things they didn't realize were in there.
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