Laurence Fox | Is Wokeness a Cult? |
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- Eminent actor, musician and political candidate Laurence Fox discusses the importance of upholding fundamental principles like free speech, defending British institutions from creeping cultural Marxism and promoting a positive image of the United Kingdom and its many achievements.
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This man talks such sense.
*Both men talk such sense.
Truly great actor, as well , that I miss.
@@abpgrace Product of nepotism suffering early mid-life crisis and desperate to remain relevant...Produced a truly appalling album..What to do when the acting gig is up...Played the side-kick of a side-kick..badly..A male version of Katie Hopkins...
@@abpgrace Truly great actor?????? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤮🤮 CRINGERAMA!!!!
@Lee78 Hero? What has he done???
I whole-heartedly agree. If I can add to this, please keep in mind that I'm an American-born citizen in my mid 50's. When I was a kid, we were given a lot of freedom, but we were taught about consequences for our actions, self-evaluation, and competition. We were taught to be tough. We recited the Pledge of Allegiance in school, feared the principal, and the concept of school shootings NEVER crossed our minds. Whether people were racist or not, the paradigm of Allegiance had us all working side by side in a common way of life as Americans. We had a solid sense of unity and safety that we were all rallying toward living that common zeitgeist. Then, in steps the experiment of psychotherapy. Don't get me wrong, there are good things about psychotherapy, however, its tenants took away the reality that we are imperfect and that competition exists. Young people were no longer fairly critiqued or told to self evaluate because that could damage the self esteem and uncomfortable feelings could arise. Everyone got a trophy regardless of performance. Everyone's child was special and belonged in gifted classes. Mom and Dad were no longer the disciplinarians. They were made to be friends with their children, and the children had opinions and started calling the shots. Psychotherapy, in all of their compassion, did a great job at concocting a recipe to create generations of clinical narcissists, and they killed God in the process of being the all-knowing authorities on human psychology and behavior. And then the introduction of the internet taught them to be envious of celebrities in reality TV shows, their gluttony, and glamour. They learned to be entitled. They stopped going outside to play and sat indoors playing violent video games. They learned to be disrespectful to elders. And the global elites found their way to start brainwashing even more. And then these spoiled little undisciplined ruffian sociopaths committed the unthinkable act that went viral over the internet...the first school shooting. That event...that display of violence, control, and power became the iconic marking point that epitomized how unruly, undisciplined, egotistical, brazen, and out of control youth and society as whole had become. Parents and communities were disempowered because of the overreach from schools, government, and the "expertise" of the mental health community. Now, these solidly self-righteous narcissists are the "adults" who are in government office. The globalists and the CCP have not only planted this agenda but are able to assess it from afar and further capitalize on what they've created. We now have some of the most toxic oligarchs sitting in Congress defiling the Constitution with hypocrisy and childish illogic and narcissistic gaslighting that is literally burning the nation to the ground. But this game is far from over. 75 plus million Americans are woke, and we far out number the side that disregard the Constitution, the law, and are happy to have a Communist puppet usurper who had to commit mass election fraud to get in the White House. Tides turn. The criminals are exposed. They're scared, and they had damn well better be. Yes, home school your children. Contact Hillsdale College and inquire with them about charter schools in your area that teach classical, well-rounded education without overreach. GET INVOLVED. Write and call representatives. Join civics groups. Become a poll employee and a poll watcher and never, never let these Leftists out speak you. Stay in their face with common sense logic until you shut them down. Stand up for your rights. Don't take one iota of their narcissistic, delusional shit.
Tina thumbs up, good read. We are of the same generation however I am from across the pond, Australian and I agree with your assessment of the state of affairs with respect to the young today, I feel sorry for them, my youth was wonderful with discipline and the understanding that with freedom comes a commensurate amount of responsibility, there was also unbridled optimism, however today, that is being erode, which brings me to my next point. The perennial toxic LEFT/RIGHT paradigm has to be transcended, the reason for this is that a foundational principle for the continued viability of 'capitalism' is seeing it's demise by emergent AI directed autonomous technologies & that principle under threat is *'labour for income'.* We ain't seen anything yet!! America had one 2020 democratic presidential candidate that understood this 4th industrial revolution, Andrew Yang & it implications. I'm an automation technologist and with the harnessing of AI, millions like me are going to make capitalism no longer viable and quite frankly irrelevant as we erode a foundational principle for its continued viability, *'labour for income'.* As Eric Weinstein put it, *_“We think of capitalism as being locked in an ideological battle with socialism, but we never really saw that capitalism might be defeated by its own child - technology.”_* This inevitable demise of capitalism isn't out of some enmity, it is simply that the foundational incentive structure inherent in capitalism demands it. For example in the USA where there are 3.5 million truck drivers, what to speak of 100s of thousands of ancillary worker whose livelihoods depend on truckers, it is estimated the savings of AI directed autonomous vehicular freight delivery to be $168 billion/year in saved fuel ($35 billion), reduced labor costs ($70 billion), fewer accidents ($36 billion) and increased productivity and equipment utilization ($27 billion). That is an incredibly high incentive to oust drivers - in fact the efficiencies gained would actually be enough to pay the drivers their $40,000 a year salary to stay home and still save almost $100 billion per year. Its not just drivers in the cross-hairs, lawyers, radiologists, doctors, call center workers, accountants, most manufacturing jobs, teachers, clerical, retail, chefs...etc. Think cognitive repetitive and manual repetitive or essentially 40% of all US jobs are in the cross-hairs to be done by AI directed automation. The current technological context I would argue makes all historical socioeconomic models irrelevant & obsolete.
*_I agree with these blokes Wokeness isn't the answer, but then neither is religiosity it is too divisive for multiracial societies._* For any *multiracial* society, I hope you agree *multiculturalism* should not & cannot be the headline goal, what should be the goal is *unity of vision for the future where we don't encourage diversity of thought(Steve Jobs was wrong)* for its own sake usually borne of culture, but instead we nurture *_'thinking correctly' i.e. thinking that is in line with the most successful methodology historically for arriving at solutions to problems, science._* Science is our last best hope to objectively resolve the many issues we all face today including the toxicity of the LEFT/RIGHT narrative.
Well written Tina. Could not agree with you more. 👍👍👍
Totally agree with you Tina Huston. I'm a grandmother and a christian and so concerned for my grandchildren and their generation. At present they attend a christian primary school but i would love for them to be home schooled by the time they reach secondary school age. However it's not up to me. I appreciate Laurence's courage in mentioning Christianity because there is such a move to silence Christians today that it may not belong before we see the persecution that is prophesied in the Bible.
Amazing well put. Thank you.
What a great comment Tina. I'm also in my mid 50s and a school teacher to boot. I've spent a goodly part of my career teaching adults overseas to escape the nonsense that is teaching in Australia. You diagnosis of the origins of the origins of the problem in America, I suspect, are spot on and apply equally to Australia. Even many of the so called grown ups I've taught overseas have been infected or carry on from their school days with a highly entitled , 'I deserve good results simply for breathing" attitude, even in Russia would you believe. I'd love to start or get involved in an Australian equivalent of Charter schools but I suspect they are not allowed here. Time for me to find out, perhaps?
Thank you gentlemen for giving voice to my thoughts. Couldn't be more proud or admiring of you.
These two are so wise I can't believe it.
lol
I have tremendous respect for these two intelligent men.
The whole idea of multiculturalism is so divisive. I am the grandchild of immigrants. I still retain parts of their traditions, but my grandparents didn’t come to America to re-create the life they left. You can respect other cultures and traditions without letting them become sacred cows that must must be idolized and protected.
100% agree with the comments made about multiculturalism.
They destroyed traditional means of faith. They had to replace it with something...
They replaced it with the experiment of psychotherapy and created generations of flaccid, delusional weaklings who haven't developed the backbone to make it out of their parent's basements. They believe they should be given everything and still told how wonderful they are.
*_I agree with these blokes Wokeness isn't the answer, but then neither is religiosity._* For any *multiracial* society, *multiculturalism* shouldn't be the headline goal, what should be the goal is *unity of vision* for the future where *we don't encourage diversity of thought(Steve Jobs was wrong)* for its own sake usually borne of culture, but instead we nurture *_'thinking correctly' i.e. thinking that is in line with the most successful methodology historically for arriving at solutions to problems, science._* Science is our last best hope to objectively resolve the many issues we all face today.
Work with nature, be kind, honest, be true and have freedom.
@@gabrielleheard6366 Yes. And be tough and don't be afraid of healthy discipline.
@@BlackKettleRanch I am now tough old bird. People should recognise also the similarities in the human race are more than what divides us so if people pursue the divisions we feel excluded ... Be strong enough to continue when the going is tough, a need for self-reliance and not to be molly coddled. Children are the ones who at risk they need confidence that means good parental care...makes good adult people, the right balance, not outside the family so parents work from dawn til dusk...like it was always said it takes a village to bring up a child.
Always good to hear from Lawrence Fox. His father is very interesting too.
Was it his father that starred in 'Day Of The Jackal'?
@@Lawful_Rebel No, I think that was his uncle Edward Fox.
I enjoyed this whole conversation. Thank you sharing this clip as a reminder...
Bravo, Laurence! How honest. And the problem with wokeness is that there is no objective norm. Therefore, there are always shifting sands to which one must conform and one never knows how far left to go to be accepted.
I think it is strange that people will believe alsorts of things but if you mention to them about looking in the Bible at things, they are always 'Ooh NO no I don't have anything to do with all that stuff ' !!!
I notice the British media have no time for the eminently sensible and sincere Mr Fox these days, too close to the target I guess!
He has my support anyway.
Wokeness is an elitist language code. It is how they recognize each other. The words change frequently, according to the dictates of elitist institutions, such as Yale and Harvard and elitist think tanks. It is designed to exclude the bourgeois and the proletariat working classes.
Very Clever!
It Makes sense for me now...
Nietzsche foresaw this over 100 years ago - "How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?" (Parable of the Madman)
We are now inventing those 'sacred games.'
Left wing politics have morphed into a weird type of religion that believe the ends justify the means, they seek a type of righteousness or purity that does not exist in the real world, and anyone that isn't perceived as what they see as ideologically pure, or tick the right intersectional boxes are either the enemy, or not relevant within the race, gender and class categorization which feeds into this idea of purity, its delusional and ends with the death and destruction of a free society and its people,
Sensible and down to earth... two attributes which seem to be sadly lacking in many so called commentators.
@@paulmuaddib3470 Very true, and the "ends justify the means" logic is epitomised in the actions taken in the various phases of the USSR and PRC. Oddly, the closest major parallels in recent Western European history have been Nazi Germany (which originated in a "socialist" party) and Franco's Spain; both being the right wing mirrors of the other two. As you say, it seems to stem from the construction of a cult or religion, the sustenance of which then depends on the manufacture and brutal enforcement of shibboleths.
@@InArcadiaSum agreed and well said 👍
Oh and I had to look up shibboleths 😁
You’re really an insightful and noble person, Hathaway!
Great conversation! This is sanity in a world of craziness.
YESSSSS
Way too much common sense. 🙂
Christopher Hitchins is so needed at this time.
Life was so much easier growing up in the 60s and 70s now the world as gone mad
I think it started in the 60's. Young people rejecting the "establishment" and thinking they knew better. Remember "Don't trust anyone over 30"?
@@gwenj5419 cheers for that 🤩
“Toxic Compassion” to embrace and extend a bit of woke-speak, is what seems to motivate a great deal of very dangerous nonsense.
His mind is attractive, the fact that he's handsome is a bonus :)
It is the greatest work of literature ever. The Song of Songs is an erotic poem. It is not one books but many books. It is a disgrace that it is not in every Literature Department at University. I studied Milton, with no Bible in the library. The Psalms are sublime. I never read the Gospels until I was over 50 what a terrible loss.
Well said, James!
What is being discussed is nothing more than a continuation of what has been for the past six-thousand plus years. It is time to reassess dared near everything that has been taught. Since teen years my focus has been on making a better me.
That was pretty GREAT.
Never truer words spoken. 👍
I didn't realize that James Hathaway who I watched every weekend is not just a pretty face! :)
Makes sense to me.
A dialogue of what we use to call in Great Britain Gentlemen.
Excellent bloke.
With justice must come mercy. That's been often forgotten.
Good stuff, the closing statements remind me of the best of the IB educational program. The program is rarely taught in Britain, barring a few private senior schools. The secondary school IB program includes two very important fields of study and activity one is a course in the Theory of Knowledge, the other is where students have to demonstrate a practical service to their wider community. I taught IB and I might disagree about multicultural education being a failure Lawrence-in Wembley schools London, where I also taught, it enabled children to celebrate diverse religious festivals authentically e.g Hannukah, Divali, and the Christian festivals and occasionally Sikh.
Keep it up
Fantastic
He talks about the Cain & Able story representing forgiveness and repentance. I feel it's important to note that Cain never repented for killing his brother Able, and yet God still forgave him, and more than that, forbade any harm among him from others. Forgiveness despite his lack of repentance. Powerful.
I agree.
love it
Those of the Centre and Right need to start using the world multiracialism and introduce it into the conversation when talking about matters pertaining to immigration. We need to get society, as a whole, to draw a distinction between multiculturalism and multiracialism - until this distinction is mainstreamed the Left will call anyone who is against multiculturalism a "racist".
Good point.
A sane mind can n a crazy world.
People are so arrogant and egocentric. They think they know better and can replace the norms and wisdom of the ages without consequence.
Laurance Fox would be a good politician.
The woke is all about righteousness as a Jew I support thos fabulous conversation not one righteous person is looking within themselves and asking themselves why am i so afraid and angry
Where ignorance is bliss it's follies to be wise
Yes it is.
well ahm just gonna pick up my one and only guitar and have a little strum
The difference between thesheep and the goats often fools the man with no direction home
Blessed are the cheese makers.....
What did he say blessed are the Greek.
Love laurence fox
Hi DS Hathaway !
@Tina huston ....thats quite a comment, only one like mine ?
Yes, but they say the "unwoke" are a cult.
But obviously not.
@Brenda Hachiya. Yet another case of the leftists protecting onto others exactly what they are doing.
the "unwoke" are infidel...
"us against them" mentallity
everyone are Brainwashed and Wrong... only the Woke people know the TRUTH!
Can we get on with voting you in and the cult out
What is his policy ideas for the NHS? Also whats his thoughts on the Middle East? Any other policy ideas he has appart from banning "wokeness"?
@@geekylove3603 Are you saying we actually have a functional policy on any of these issues presently? All I can see is useless people in all aspects of government and a decadent society filled with entitled narcissists with nothing to complain about other than pronouns.
No. But something that sounds very similar.
It cannot be said enough that wokeness hasn't a system of repentance or forgiveness. All the public figures that tearfully apologize (like Paula Deen) and beg forgiveness are pleading from their knowledge and experience of Christianity and a system supported by Judeo/Christian thought. They might as well whistle into the wind. The woke's idea of repentance is holding your sins until public exposure is beneficial.
Faith makes all things possible, love makes all things easy. - Dwight L Moody. The bible was not given for our information but for our transformation. I agree it’s a cult. Whatever you love more than God is your idol. D. Moody. The bible will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from the bible. Laurence you will make the best Prime Minister we need a Godly leader. You cannot go to a country and force your culture on them you have to adapt to their culture otherwise don’t live there. The racist card is just an excuse for anything.
You have to stand up to bullies or they will take over.
I'm an atheist so I have no respect for religion. HOWEVER that doesn't mean I don't see or understand the human need for it or that I don't see absolutely the parallels in wokeness and its dangerous lack of forgiveness and compassion that Christianity does give us.
What can our Queen Elizabeth do for us?
Sigh, a Les Paul and a Gretsche, right? I used to own a Gibson ES335. Before my horrible divorce.
Divorce ruins mo everything worse than politics.
The same with my religion that is why we have a month of high holidays Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kipper. I feel woke righteousness is an extension of righteousness catholic priests of the last century.
Most woke have be victims of abuse who have not recovered from all the pain.
*_Wokeness isn't the answer and neither is religiosity._* For any *multiracial* society, *multiculturalism* shouldn't be the headline goal, what should be the goal is *unity of vision* for the future where *we don't encourage diversity of thought* for its own sake usually borne of culture, but instead we nurture *_'thinking correctly' i.e. thinking that is in line with the most successful methodology historically for arriving at solutions to problems, science._* Science is our last best hope to objectively resolve the many issues we all face today.
Much of science has been taken over by commercial interests and often influenced by market forces .
@@garyvlahos635 you are correct as was the case with VW falsifying vehicle emission levels. Unfortunately we would need to solve the atrocious incentive structure inherent in our socioeconomic model in order to dispense with such falsification. I believe this should be possible in the not too distant future with the advent of AI directed autonomous robotic systems.
Agreed Lawrence. Bible stories,ideas and code of life is definitely missing. It is more about respect and morals for living life. Christian values are a part of English life. In Hoc Signo Vinces ✝️. Deus Vult ✝️
Unrepented habitual sin dulls our intellect. Our Lord's parable of the Prodigal Son is the way home to Faith, hope, charity & reason rooted in reality.
It's a beautiful parable. So simple but infinitely powerful.
I loved this. Please God people realise the value of the Bible.
People who promote conspiracy and violence should be kicked back to the fringe where they belong. We need more people talking about the responsibilities associated with our rights instead of how to become and than play the victim. Fear and hate rules the day.
The Bible is a book of enlightened religious teachings, under spiritually Divine LAW, through the guidance of our Lord Jesus Christ✨"Love is the answer" not violence and hate, seen in Multiculturalism.
I am a Christian~Spiritualist, Christened & Confirmed in my C&E Church School, from 9 years old, spent 7 years in the church choir, happy soulful times singing. Now at 64 years old, I cannot believe the evil that has spread amongst us, altruism is all but dead. I believe in English family values.
LOVE & Support of my Country as a (Patriot), I follow Common Law, the Bill of Rights >English Culture of our beautiful green and pleasant Land. I identify as English~Celt.
You're only just waking up to this now? Where have you been the last, how many years?
There are many factors to why some are just waking up to this. There’s no need to belittle those who are speaking up. Be thankful they’ve seen the light and are speaking up.
When people are not worshipping God they have this big empty space inside of them. God created us to worship him and if we're not worshipping him we're desperately looking for other things to fill that empty space in our heart's
on the other hand i think the sin thing is not quite right LF - the need to run away from 'sin' ie being **seen** as bad/privileged ... you're either 'in' or 'out' ... so of course you're signed up to the tribal fundamentalist ideology - no discussion.
A death cult, indeed!
Well this is an interesting little echo chamber...Isn't the opposite of woke being asleep ?
No but Qanon is!
Yes, What woke lacks is original sin. In other words, It does not realize that within each wokie, there's a Nazi. They feel they are pure. The brighter the light the darker the shadow.
😆😆😆
This guy is pretty hip
Laurence is getting hammered by our press, he's suddenly become a far right conspiracy theorist. It's how they undermine any alternative view.
Jesus did not believe in religion, he always pointed out to the pharisees for what they were.
Jesus preached against hypocrisy and the teaching of men's customs as if they were God's laws. He did not teach to abandon religion.
Yes it is a cult
Wokeness... the religion of the new Jacobins.
So as I have my reservations about immigration and emigration I'm a racist and shut up. Makes sense. Shuts me up.
That is right most of existing religion here are nothing more that form of manipulation people .
Who read at lest ones the Bible know that .
Jesus Christ was woke.
The world should be grateful for small mercies that the affliction is confined to the white race, so far.....
White middle classes.
Because religion became big business.
Please continue being you. Wish we could clone you for the USA.
Another one advocating national service, having never done it himself.
What do you know about what he's done? He's running for office and he's saying that he talks about the Bible to people. He's taking time to do this interview, as well.
I consider myself a Christian because I believe in Jesus. However I do feel that the bible is a lot of man made nonsense. As is wokeness. Common sense and love for your fellow man should be the order of the day.
This guy is barking...using religion now! 😂😂
Laurence went down in my estimation when he wore an exemption badge from wearing a mask as a stunt. This was an insult to all the over 100,000 people who have died from Covid. He should have had more respect for the dead.
Is alt-woke a cult? Looking for something to be offended by..
Two white privileged males having a chat? I'm an 'unwoke' white 71 year old British female. Lawrence seems to be speaking as if he's pining for how he imagines it was in 1959 - it was rubbish then.
Boomers chose convenience over everything, they are the worst examples
I believe God gave me this saying, "truth void of love & love void of truth, are neither & only capable of reproducing in the world the lie they represent"; Jesus is the perfect embodiment of BOTH Truth and Love and He Alone has the righteousness (Truth) needed to bring justice, and the grace (Love) needed to bring unity. #LordJesusbringrevival #praywithoutceasing