We have all seen Hancock’s choice as to whom to love – and it was not the wife he legally promised to love. Hancock forgets that there are no easy solutions merely trade offs. (Thomas Sowell).
I think his use of the term ‘hugely painful death’ is the giveaway; just like the ‘State of Fear’ drummed up during Covid and the endless horror stories about people gasping their last on ventilators, the government intends to terrify us all into topping ourselves while we have the chance.
Nik Jewell
7 months ago
Fascinating interview. Far too short. If Dugin said anything outrageous, then I missed it. All seemed well-reasoned to me.
I disagree with his concept that radical progressivism is the result of too much “individuality.” The Progressive pursuit of “liberation” from the traditional constraints of western life is facilitated through Collectivism. Western progressives are not becoming more unique and individualistic, they’re becoming more conformist and melding into a hivemind.
Think about punk emo hipsters. They held themselves out as unique because they were rebelling from “traditional society” but in reality they were just trendy conformists. There were dozens of people in every town dressing and acting almost the exact same way and when they went off to University or city life, they found each other and created a new community. The “new community” saw itself as more “empathetic” than the existing one so it generally ran away from concepts like personal responsibility and latched onto activism for state redistribution policies (Collectivism).
The Eastern Orthodox model that many like Tucker are latching onto may have some valid points about not dispensing with traditions but they too are promoting a kind of totalizing groupthink that fuses the State and the Individual. Its actually closer to pre-Marx Hegelian philosophy about Man only becoming “completed” once he establishes himself in the Community.
The central dilemma of groups like high-school ‘goths’ & similar sub-cultures is that liberal society over-values individuality and rebellion for the sake of rebellion, while basic human nature seeks social meaning, group solidarity & safety-in-numbers.
So, the solution is a sort of group facsimile of ‘individuality’/ subversiveness, which does indeed involve everyone in the group dressing, speaking and thinking in the same way.
But you could still say paradoxically that these trends have emerged from a hyper-individualistic culture.
Most people don’t want & can’t handle the responsibility of being some sort of stand-alone Millian individual agent.
It is like the line from South Park, when one of the characters becomes a Goth. This involves him “showing his individuality” by dressing like them, and listening to the same music as they do.
He was talking about “decollectivisation” as a broad historical trend, that is aiming at liberating individuals from the traditional identities. Clearly ppl keep hiving up in ad hoc collectives devoid of particular meaning or tradition but it can be seen as a reaction to losing broader traditions
R Wright
7 months ago
Pro-infidelity, gay marriage and euthanasia. Hancock really is the archetypal Tory.
Martin M
7 months ago
Where does Carlson actually hold these interviews? Is it anywhere within the range of a NATO missile?
Tucker Carlson’s interview with Aleksandr Dugin is quite interesting if you watch it to the end. This dismissive knee-jerk note does not do justice to the conversation.
M To the Tea
7 months ago
So basically Russia will not allow AI. Because it is sort of obvious when the AI run the world we will become human or non-human and the non-human will not care gender, sex or ideas…only what is programmed into the realities.
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SubscribeWe have all seen Hancock’s choice as to whom to love – and it was not the wife he legally promised to love. Hancock forgets that there are no easy solutions merely trade offs. (Thomas Sowell).
I think his use of the term ‘hugely painful death’ is the giveaway; just like the ‘State of Fear’ drummed up during Covid and the endless horror stories about people gasping their last on ventilators, the government intends to terrify us all into topping ourselves while we have the chance.
Fascinating interview. Far too short. If Dugin said anything outrageous, then I missed it. All seemed well-reasoned to me.
In the first part he was spot on, as regards Putin standing for traditional values… true, like all mafiosi characters
I disagree with his concept that radical progressivism is the result of too much “individuality.” The Progressive pursuit of “liberation” from the traditional constraints of western life is facilitated through Collectivism. Western progressives are not becoming more unique and individualistic, they’re becoming more conformist and melding into a hivemind.
Think about punk emo hipsters. They held themselves out as unique because they were rebelling from “traditional society” but in reality they were just trendy conformists. There were dozens of people in every town dressing and acting almost the exact same way and when they went off to University or city life, they found each other and created a new community. The “new community” saw itself as more “empathetic” than the existing one so it generally ran away from concepts like personal responsibility and latched onto activism for state redistribution policies (Collectivism).
The Eastern Orthodox model that many like Tucker are latching onto may have some valid points about not dispensing with traditions but they too are promoting a kind of totalizing groupthink that fuses the State and the Individual. Its actually closer to pre-Marx Hegelian philosophy about Man only becoming “completed” once he establishes himself in the Community.
The central dilemma of groups like high-school ‘goths’ & similar sub-cultures is that liberal society over-values individuality and rebellion for the sake of rebellion, while basic human nature seeks social meaning, group solidarity & safety-in-numbers.
So, the solution is a sort of group facsimile of ‘individuality’/ subversiveness, which does indeed involve everyone in the group dressing, speaking and thinking in the same way.
But you could still say paradoxically that these trends have emerged from a hyper-individualistic culture.
Most people don’t want & can’t handle the responsibility of being some sort of stand-alone Millian individual agent.
It is like the line from South Park, when one of the characters becomes a Goth. This involves him “showing his individuality” by dressing like them, and listening to the same music as they do.
He was talking about “decollectivisation” as a broad historical trend, that is aiming at liberating individuals from the traditional identities. Clearly ppl keep hiving up in ad hoc collectives devoid of particular meaning or tradition but it can be seen as a reaction to losing broader traditions
Pro-infidelity, gay marriage and euthanasia. Hancock really is the archetypal Tory.
Where does Carlson actually hold these interviews? Is it anywhere within the range of a NATO missile?
What a moron.
Tucker Carlson’s interview with Aleksandr Dugin is quite interesting if you watch it to the end. This dismissive knee-jerk note does not do justice to the conversation.
So basically Russia will not allow AI. Because it is sort of obvious when the AI run the world we will become human or non-human and the non-human will not care gender, sex or ideas…only what is programmed into the realities.