Konstantin Kisin | Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Liberalism's Demise. Are We Under Siege?
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- čas přidán 10. 03. 2024
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The free and open societies of the West are under threat - not from a foreign invader, but from illiberalism within. The retreat to offence-free safe spaces, the censorship from cancel culture, the ignorance of echo chambers, and the toxicity of identity politics are all symptoms of a siege on liberalism. Young people, in particular, hold increasingly illiberal views.
Konstantin Kisin is a British-Russian political commentator and comedian who co-hosts the TRIGGERnometry @triggerpod podcast. He is author of An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West. Last year, he addressed the Oxford Union with a speech on Woke Culture, and recently spoke at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London. Konstantin represents a new genre of public intellectual: he is virtually ignored by the mainstream media, yet he is overwhelmingly popular on various social media platforms. His podcast, TRIGGERnometry, has almost 850,000 subscribers and he is a considerable presence on X.
Glenn Fahey is director of education at the Centre for Independent Studies, where his research covers all areas of education policy and practice. Glenn is a regular writer on education for the Australian Financial Review and commentator across all major news media. Prior to joining CIS, Glenn has held research and policy positions at the Centre for Education Research and Innovation (OECD), Institute for Public Policy and Governance (UTS), and Australian Treasury.
Q1 - What does it mean to be politically non-binary?
Q2 - Why is it that left and right labels don't mean what they used to mean?
Q3 - Does the right have as much to blame as the progressives?
Q4 - Are we all doing democracy wrong?
Q5 - New media is thriving, but will old mainstream media die out?
Q6 - What about that SOAS 'behavioural agreement'?
Q7 - Why is it that in Western Civilisation we have so much trouble with Nationhood?
Q8 - Have we in The West had it too good for too long?
Q9 - Can we grow from the challenges that Western Civilisation is facing?
Q10 - How do we successfully maintain multiculturalism and high levels of migration?
Q11 - What do we take from the election of George Galloway?
Q12 - How do we combat anti-semetic hate that's being seen in Western Civilisations?
Q13 - We often reference 'Woke' and 'Wokeness', what does it mean?
Q14 - Why choose language as a weapon and change the meaning of words?
Q15 - Should Douglas Murray be cancelled in Australia?
Q16 - Cancel culture is not new, is a degree of cancelling acceptable?
Q17 - Alexei Navalny, what does his death mean for the future of discourse and democracy in Russia?
Q18 - How do we make institutions trustworthy again?
Q19 - Why is there such irrationality and paradox in the way in which young people approach their lives?
Q20 - Energy transition, climate emergency, innovation, what's the solution?
Q21 - What lessons can Australia take for combating all these issues?
Q22 - What advice can you give to people to stand up against these absurdities and excesses of ideologies?
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1 hour of one man asking questions and another giving obvious and common sense answers with a touch of humour. This wouldn't have been so mind blowing a concept 20 years ago and yet...today....
It's come to this...
I wish Chris Hitchins was still around can you imagine what he would have to say
If anything, KK is so mainstream and centrist he is as bland as wallpaper paste. KK never notices the extremism in governments that has lead to the rightful stance of many in backlash. In KKs world everything can be blamed on 'woke', which is a concept only 5 seconds old and describes nothing of the deliberate desecration of a persons right merely to exist be elitist despots as old as humanity itself. That KK is now seen as at the forefront of modern thought is absolutely terrifying
@@cmotdibbler8105I mean. If you want to get up there and do it better. Do it. If you slack him off in the comments because of the supposed superiority of your stance… Sorry bud. You are not doing better.
@@chickenmonger123 Sorry, i didn't realise that a) i wasn't entitled to an opinion, and b) you had built a basement shrine to KK
Konstantin speaks with clarity and is a great activist against wokeism.
Especially brilliant when you consider England isn't his first language and he didn't speak it at all until he was 12 or 13.
Yeah, you can be an activist without being a nuisance to other people. Who knew?
While waiting for my gum to numb my dentist - she grew up behind the Iron Curtain in Romania - engaged me in some small talk and it eventually led to her saying Woke is operationally no different than Marxism. She said it's just been refocused from class to identity and it scares the heck out of her.
Scared of wimpy wokists . what a baby. Rumania. Romania, not a country to produce heroic independent thinkers, indeed they produced some of the worst contributors to the worst French mad theories. No need to go gas lighting the rest of us.
She’s right.
She’s right, it is Marxism but it’s Race, sex identify related. People are blind.
those clever folks in Asia have an entire city block dedicated to their Western propaganda warfare now rampant....
They rebranded Marxism to be about race instead of class, that is all.
Deeply disturbing that this could have taken place in Canada with exactly the same questions and concerns.. how in the hell did they get all western countries into the same sinking ship… how fragile our civilization has proven to be!
Canada, Australia, UK, USA, Scandinavia, all the west world. This is a well orchestrated act of war against the west.
I think part of the answer is that the political culture discussions are so USA based. We have qanon people in in Finland! We now think in 2 party way like in USA even though our political system we have plenty of different parties in the government. Same talking points everywhere.
@@geromino2007q anon is a Democrat conspiracy theory, you need professional help
Could or couldn't?
@@geromino2007because it comes down to right and left. The center is gone, forcibly subsumed by either side.
Konstantin is always a shining light in these crazy absurd woke times.
Also Douglas Murray. Great minds!
Sad thing is they’re just able to articulate what we’re all thinking…
The educational system must be abysmal that these people can make the fortunes they do. We once read real books and were amazed by the beauty and power of calculus. Wow I dated myself! 😂
@@borasraven7584And smuggle in falsehoods about, say, the nature and demise of slavery.
Notice how he never mentions Assange, not EVEN in Australia!!
Notice how you all missed that. Good job.
Luv KK why is it that plain common sense seems so hard to comprehend, wake up Australia while we still have time
it was too late 6,000 years ago
@@tuckerbugeater Oh, stop it.
Incredible Common Sense👏👏
I agree with you Konstantin also I am an immigrant from Syria and I have exact fear that you have and common sense, I admire your bravery
Bravery! So one must be brave now to speak basic common sense.
@@masada2828 Excellent point, Masada! It conjures up the image of large mobs wandering about in the streets, spewing nonsense. Then one sane person finally stands up and bravely speaks some truthful words of common sense about the insanity. The mobs disappear in embarrassment, repairing to their homes in silence to contemplate their foolishness. It only took seventy years and forty million needless deaths for the Soviet Russians to come to their senses How many years will it take in the West? How many deaths?
@masada2828.
What's your point? Let's hear your thoughts. I guess we might be underwhelmed
@@masada2828Yeah, pretty much. You been living under a rock? You can get arrested and tried in the UK for what you say.
There is a lot of sense here. Well articulated, confident, and insightful. This is what we need.
Thank you lord for public speakers like Konstantin.
As I have said before, Constantine is way ahead of his years and has arrived at where I got to 10 years ago, in his thinking, but he at his young age has arrived where I was then, but much younger. I find this a fascinating thing that he is that mature in his logic and maturity. Can we listen to him and apply his advice? Most of what he says is very wise indeed. By the way I am 72 years of age.
I'm 76, glad some young people are fighting the progressive Woke. I see hope for the future, but at what cost? one or two generations of idiocy?
@@stevendavis8636 😃
A lot of it has got to do more with being a product of your environment then age. He's Russian born, he has had a taste of a different life, his parents have told him about their lives. It gives you clarity. Now he lives in the west. One foot in both worlds. Plus a lot more information accessible now if you know where to look - the days of MSM being your only choice are over. I'm English, living in Australia, born to Ukrainian & Polish parents - we can see clearly what's happening - especially in the schools, which is where it all begins - with our kids.
I still remember when my mother realized that America didn't oppose communism, it hated Russians -- no less than the Nazis did. She was 80, and it broke her heart for good.
@stevendavis8636 It's a cult. Most young people insist on heightened courtesy (that's the influence of social media bullying, and the power it has to follow you everywhere), and they steer clear of the lunacy as much as possible.
In 1970, a summer job paid for a year of state university. Any job and a roommate paid the rent on Manhattan. Yeah, those were more mature, resilient people. Keep your eye in the ball.
One of the things I truly respect about Mr Kisin is that he has read enough serious books in his life to know the difference between the words 'home' and 'hone'.
That's a bugaboo of mine too. For ex: You home in on a problem but you hone your argumentation skills to address the problem.
That is nice when you see these days somebody speaking proper English with varied vocabulary.I m so tired of jesus ain t done say that type of English everywhere.
I must admit he did say 'hone in' which is questionable, but at least he said 'hone'. I thought 'hone down' as in a steel billet on a lathe kind of thing, but to home in is what a pigeon might do, to get home, whereas to hone is to refine and improve. @@unnamed3932
@@unnamed3932Who doesn't know this??
Excellent, as always, Konstantin. Thank you both so much.
Huge fan of Konstantin Kisin. He speaks truth and common sense because he has the perspective of someone who has escaped a dreadful dictatorship, and everything that comes with that, and is a person who really values what we have fought for over the centuries. He shows up the gutless politicians and hand wringing woke lefties that are sailing our once great country down the river.
My friend Canadian used to call me Rasicte if I told them I couldn't marry a Muslim, they never consider to ask me why or ask for explanation,
Your friend is clearly dumb if she thinks being muslim is a race
"muslim" is not a race, its a socio-political movement wrapped in a religion to buy it legitimacy and to deflect any opposition. So no, it's not racist to prefer not to be unequally yoked to your spouse. If you're a woman it's actually a feminist decision.
There are variations. But I wouldn't call you racest, just a bit ignorant.
Ah yes, people get labeled "islamophobe" because they don't want to convert to Islam, as people are forced to convert for marrying Muslims. Whereas the Muslims forcing people to convert are not getting any labels.
Please, I beg of you, don't marry one of them. Save your life by looking in practically any other direction. You will thank me later.
KK is on fire here. More than in other interviews.
This is ever better than Konstantin's usual brilliant take!
Great questions. Konstantin is brilliant, and the humour is so refreshing. Thank you for posting this discussion.👏
How would these people make an easy buck without identity politics, wokism, etc.? The relationship is symbiotic.
@l.w.paradis08 they are capable people who would thrive in any circumstances, perhaps solving more inspiring problems.
In any case enemies are inevitable. They are not invented by their opposition, but by nature.
@sanniepstein4835 It's hard to believe such obvious dupery exists. I don't support sophistry in favor of my positions. I support "Normale Sup" standards, and always will.
He is continuing the worrying trend that our comedians are speaking so much more sense than our politicians. I don't know if this was a thing pre- George Carlin, but he certainly brought it to everyone's attention.
@@limlaith True
Konstantin is smart! His book is great too. Highly recommend
Let's have a liberal pluralism ...anything but wokeism!
Except the drivel promoted by these freaks is even worse.
The interviewer is wrong in stating that immigration has created in Australia the most successful "multicultural society" in the world. Konstantin straightens him out by speaking of "multiethnic" (as oppised to "multicultural") society as the past success of countries like Australia, the UK, and the United States. If mass illegal multicultural immigration is allowed to persist without insistence on the immigrants' adoption of the cultural values of the existing society's ideals of cultural assimilation, those countries will be subjected to societal chaos and destruction. That is happening in the US and UK before our very eyes.
I like and respect KK, but I think he’s wrong about a multiethnic society. Ethnicity includes race and religion. Both these factors stop a multiethnic societies succeeding. In the UK the two groups that cause the most trouble are black people and the muswims (I can spell just to stop this post being taken down). One group is violent and refuses to integrate because of its race and culture the other is violent and refuses to integrate because of its race and religion. For a multiethnic society to succeed the ethnic mix needs to be same race and same basic religion. Because when people look the same, speak the same language, share a similar religion then they assimilate to the host culture whilst still retaining complimentary elements of their own culture. They intermarry more often and thus become a contributing member of the host society. I sometimes wish humans were better able to mix but the disaster caused by multiculturalism in my country over the past 60 years has proven otherwise. So it’s about time the liberal left was finally forced to admit they screwed up and then we can change the law and deport the problems and import the solutions while having more indigenous British babies so in 25 years we’ve got our safe prosperous country back under our control for our children to enjoy. Going to take courage to get there though.💪
Konstantin like Douglas is another brave voice of reason & wit in the crazy woke world.
He challenges & inspires critical thinking. Love his common sense, practical logic. 🫡👏
How would these people make an easy buck without identity politics, wokism, etc.? The relationship is symbiotic.
22:14 "If you talked about your spouse the way people talk about their country, you'd be called an abuser." SPOT ON!!!
Thank you for the interview and for the guest! Always like common sense and jokes of Konstantin👍
Thank you Konstantin Kisin !!!!!
He (the interviewer missed the point) Often big Corporations themselves have been taken over by radical theories. Its not about left and right anymore but rather about right and wrong, top versus bottom (as always) the elite v the rest.
And luxury beliefs, the consequences of which the elites will not feel for a couple of generations
@@pixie3458 Yes you are right and there is always an economic apartheid at work which keeps the poor from the doors of the elite rich. And they can always relocate and escape the consequences while the poor have to live with the results of 'their' so-called conscience. Climate change immigration etc. Have a good day.
@@pixie3458Ah, yes, "luxury beliefs", or perhaps better said, "luxury self deceptions". Read Tom Wolfe's "Bonfires of the Vanities" for insights into how the clueless elites think. Or from actual elitist history, a quote: "Let them eat cake". By Marie Antoinette shortly before she literally lost her head at that hands of the mob. There's a lot to contemplate here before we stumble off to reenact the tragic lunacies of the French or Bolshevik revelations, all losing our heads in the process! Kisin gets it. He'd be the last to let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Amazing interview. Thank you for sharing
I can see Konstantin grow into an honest politician in the near future. He has the knowledge and desire to do good, his honest conversations speak for themselves. He is the light that keeps darkness away. He desires a better future for his family and shares it with the world, and the world is listening. I find his commentaries very enlightening in our time.
Smart and intelligent young man. Unfortunately, he is manipulating the public by withholding information same way as most msm do, while skilfully promoting himself. An ‘honest’ politician is a myth.
@@sergueimikhail9654 In what way is KK withholding information? Please give examples.
@@xmfclick Well, for example, he doesn’t want to talk about how overrepresented groups create barriers for the underrepresented. He mentioned only the family culture and education that lead the overrepresented groups to power. He claims that UK and USA are democracies, while we all (ALL!) live in pseudo-democratic societies where only the interests of the rich are represented. Some more?
@@xmfclick He doesn’t want to acknowledge the responsibility of the overrepresented groups for things he is actively criticising. It is them who push through policies, laws and procedures we all live today.
Would love to see him as PM of the UK someday.
remarkable and illuminating
time to switch on your own bedside lamp dear.
So much for freedom of speech. I can't comment.
Even about the facts of slavery laws in Australia. IE it's always been ilegal.
Same for me too
Teach your kids and younger people in your families to think for themselves, to think critically, to be comfortable about asking questions, not just with others but also of themselves and being openly honest with their retorts. People can shame me for my opinions, that's fine, but the biggest shame for me would be lying to appease others _feelings_ and delusions and to myself, there's no real progress in that.
It's a great discussion. Thank you gents!
Stop antisemitism! Stop Hamas and woke supporters!
Konstantin talks publicly in a simple language things that most of us agree on but we stay silent. Brave guy
Konstantin is a genius. Thanks from South Africa.
Fantastic conversation
I was out with a whole lot of relatively wealthy left wing people who were talking about end stage capitalism giving it another 5 years. When I asked them what they thought would replace it, they had no idea 🤦♀️
Like the arctic that is almost going to melt.. a communist utopia is on the horizon?. Haha
hahahahaha! exACTly!
Most politicking in the me-centric society is not a serious claim about the world; or about morality; or about one's country. It is an affectation: a piece of self-curation. (In the U.S., at least, this knife cuts right, as well as left. Elsewhere, mostly just left.)
In situations you describe, quoting the anarchist Bakunin - but mockingly - might be a good stratagem: "He who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary." You're thereby making it plain to your interlocutors that they are merely playing a childish vanity game.
They don’t care! As long as they keep their wealth. Heads up their arse mentality.
The dinner party set have been having the same conversation about "late stage capitalism" for 150 years.
That just says more about their level of education. Nothing can replace capitalism because capitalism is organic in its nature, as it leverages traits of human nature. It does require social stability and safety. I grew up in the USSR. We also had capitalism. It was called "'the black market"
I love the phrase "St. Greta of Climate Change"... that's greatness, right there!
Your daily reminder that communism has subverted all facets of Australian governance, media and education.
Yes in the 70s during the cold war, I was taught at school that the USSR was not a democracy because voting could not change policies. And that has been happening for decades. We end up voting for slight tax changes. We need completely alternative policies.
If only if only.
Brilliant. To some extent be says what a lot of us are thinking, or scared to say because in today's world we would seem absurd.
It was sooo satisfying to reply 'f**ck off' to a random text from 'Diversity Recruitment' today and block the number, made my day! Next time, no doubt there will be next time, it will be 'diversify your arse'. Until I ran out of ideas and start again.
Start with "Dear Commissar" and end with "Kind regards".
@@kiwigrunt330 true, will try keeping it civil 😄
I can't believe how much I agree with Konstantin.
Then his propaganda has worked very well, do you suddenly have a hatred for Russia, as a MI6 agent, that’s his job.
Thanks for Uploading.
I agree. The best talk I've heard KK give in Australia.
Sensational! A glimmer of hope
Very good, stand up and be honest!
Konstantin rocks.
The 'fine people on both sides' lie that they pushed was the thing that opened my eyes, years back. I really couldn't believe it whne i first realized it. 2 this day people still argue with me that I'm wrong and when I show them or make them watch it. Most wont accept it.
The problem is the media lie and ruin their credibility with everyone and then people make the incorrect (but understandable) deduction that everything they say is the opposite. However if you have watched Trump for decades like some you would see that while their individual stories are often exaggerated or false, the overall impression is correct. Even Konstantin has fallen into this trap.
"It is easier to fool someone than to convince them that they've been fooled" - Mark Twain (attributed to)
Confirmation bias, people read the headlines and just add it to the list of things they dislike about Trump. I sometimes fall into the same trap with politicians I dislike.
The western countries who are receiving these immigrants or migrants have to apply strict policies to integrate these people according to our western values and culture. It's not going to happen automatically. I came from a third world country to integrate with the western values and culture that respond to my healthy way of life as a woman. I brought up my children in the same way. I am worried that if we continue on this nonsense path, women will have to go back to home and be locked in there.
Love you Constantin and admire your capacity to articulate the truth.
Excellent
Clever man and able to verbalise his considered thoughts in such an understanding way.
I love Konstantine's common sense, clarity of ideas, truth telling, and is sense of humor.
The Three Slogans of The Uniparty::
SPEECH IS VIOLENCE
FREEDOM IS DANGER
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH
❤ bravo
KK is a young man who speaks sense\ if he stands for election, i take it back
"In theory there is no difference between practice and theory. In practice there is". (Yogi Berra)
This is my new favorite quote.
I do not agree on the young not being able to buy a home. I and several friends brought our homes in our 20's and my niece of 22 has just brought hers on the same principle. No holidays/no dining put unless some else paying or family event/ no pub/ no buying more clothes unless necessary/ sticking with our job/ renting out rooms . No one needs 10 pairs of shoes. Dyed hair junk food frizzy drinks . Tell them to sacrifice a but they won't.
It heavily depends on income and location.
If you take the median income and count it against the average house with the current average interest rate, you see that it's indeed waaaaaay harder to buy a house than it was ever before.
So if I just stop buying fizzy drinks I'll be able to afford to buy a house? ...... how do you people even exist?
The problem is also saving up while paying rent, most young people spend more on rent than fizzy drinks or hair dye. Although once you have given up on owning property you might spend frivolously as a habit reinforcing the problem.
Multiculturalism has demonstrably been a failure here and everywhere it has been permitted when allowed without constraints. Immigration by European Christians like the Greeks and Italians following WWII worked well. Although they were from another country, they were not from an alien culture. They believed in the same God and did not seek to replace Australian culture and laws with theirs. So they integrated, while maintaining subtle cultural differences that increased societal diversity. Those days are long gone. Now Australia has sewn the seeds of its own inevitable destruction through the pretence that all cultures are equal and useful to our liberal capitalist democracy. They demonstrably are not. Some cultures are isolationist, corrosive, divisive and sometimes malevolent. Several major European countries now realise this to their loss and regret. Meanwhile, our governments shy away from acknowledging the truth, seeking to leverage it to their political advantage.
I was in the audience at the Angel Comedy Club when you (and Francis) were starting out in your comedy career. As one contrarian to another - keep up the good work Konstantin.
This match up is priceless. Please do again for much longer. I would like to see you both talk with a moderator who would hold Michael to topic.
12:11 good. Media should challenge what most people already think and not contribute to the fear of thinking different and new. Not trying to squeeze more people into the same mold and make them be afraid of and hate the outgroup.
We many apathetic beneficiaries of Western Civilization should aspire to the ideal of progress and societal improvement through critical introspection and constructive action, but as Konstantin presciently articulates, the Woke Left has engaged us in self loathing and national suicide. If we in the "silent majority" fail to push back, we will all be subjected to civilizational chaos and a reversion to a stone age quagmire ruled by the worst of subhuman motivations. Konstantin's voice of reason is the flickering candle of warning in an anarchist whirlwind. Heed him, or live in the future darkness!
"If you agree with me, you have a duty to do something" K.K.
Great intelligent conversation
VIVA Konstantin…. I’m Macedonian in Britain from the late ‘90 and 100% agree with him.
Love to Konstantin and his family ❤
While I appreciate Konstantin's analogy of 'spousal abuse', it is only a part-truth. Another part is that Australian businesses that were making profits abandoned Australia because they could make bigger profits elsewhere, and whole regions - the La Trobe Valley, for example - were largely ruined as governments sold of public assets, and the communities' livelihoods with them, for quick savings. Much more could be said, but the point is that the 'spouse' was ready to cheat and abandon the home at the first opportunity. 'Proudly designed in Australia' , but made where labour is cheapest. does not encourage patriotism amongst the jobless.
That was a great watch, so much common sense in under an hour.
Thanks Konstantin!
Good interview.
Russia's loss is Britain's gain. So thankful he has a voice that is being heard.
Thank you for your good works Konstantin.
Amen
AMAZING !!!!!! Thank you , Konstantin !
“Mainly, it’s the ability to think for myself.”
Kostia Listening to your speeches I feel so sorry that I am too old to join the brawl. U r the gratest
Brilliant talk - thank you.
Really interesting.Thankyou.
I love the conversation! Especially the part of the weaponization of language. How they are trying to change/ changing the meaning of words and that they have no intention of engaging in debate or conversation.
Thankyou for the word not to sit this one out! We all have a roll..
Great to have Konstantin in our nation
I love that the acronym for the center for independent studies is "cis" 😂😅 it just fit this conversation perfectly...
Thank you so much for bringing such an insightful discussion to our shores, it is so important to model these conversations and give people the opportunity see that we can all make a contribution that is meaningful, ....... a little like the difference my young Aspie brain would wonder how the world would be if we just each picked up our own 'rubbish' rather than leave it for others. If we don't start dealing with the rubbish our children are being taught there will be nothing left of the 'lucky' country we have taken for granted for far too long. So very grateful, have subscribed and look forward to more ..... cheers from Tasmania!! :)
Lol love the ESG advertisement in the middle of this video
I've spent the first five minutes wondering when Konstantin got his ear pierced, and then realised it was part of his microphone.
Lol
Very profound thought explained with clarity. Thanks for giving a platform to such a great speacker.
Everything Konstantin is saying here is just common sense stuff.
Fantastic
Take. Small. Steps. people
Interesting, it would be more interesting if he would start the history of money and currency. His conclusions would shift a bit.
All the best and keep speaking up.
Konstantin is brilliant
How would these people make an easy buck without identity politics, wokism, etc.? The relationship is symbiotic.
God bless Mr. Kisin
His very first comment is why I love him.
"There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption.of language." (George Orwell)
The origin of the word 'slave' is from the slavic people and jewish slaves built the Colosseum in Rome. The Vikings used Anglo slaves to row their long boats between Britain and Scandinavia in the 800s.. So yes slavery is most definitely not an Anglo invention.
It’s not always people not thinking for themselves. But certain moral and philosophical presuppositions tend to lead to similar conclusions in many beliefs on issues.
Calling Yoga Berra famous for witticisms is funny.
Konstantin wrote, jokingly, that it may be bad news if he's invited to speak somewhere, as usually there's a reason. Austria is not there, yet, and you had a great border control. It's not too late. Vote with your wallet and vote, make your representatives work for you. As they should
Australia
Kanga Land.......
Postmodernist tenets- 1) a general critique of Western institutions and knowledge. A critique of liberalism. (Kuznar 2008:78).
2) a focus upon power relations and hegemony, (often rebranded as “structuralism”, “post structuralism” etc.)
3) an argument against scientific method and evaluation (fundamentally anti- Enlightenment)
4) a critique of “metanarratives”(counter-storytelling. All history, literature, religion is wrong/biased)
5) a questioning of reality and representation (there is no truth, it's all fake news),
6) the application of literary analysis to all “phenomena”, (words and images as weapons, qualitative analysis over quantitative. Such as votes)
7) an elevation of text and language as the fundamental phenomena of existence (social media and print as the battleground)
REAL Education. 👍👍Some of the problem is that the US isn't a democracy, but a republic, which democratic mechanisms. Yet, we've never taught this to our young people in the way my ancestors were when then came from Denmark at the beginning of the 20th century. We have taught them about ALL other forms of government that have been tried, to the death, destruction and detriment of its citizens, WITHOUT EXCEPTION!
Don't ask for trust in institutions that are not trustworthy
I love listening to you you're very brilliant that being said you are correct it's not rocket science science it's pretty simple if you get just people starting a little bit little bit