→ Tucker Carlson interviews ‘Putin’s brain’ Aleksandr Dugin
For the 99th episode of his show, Tucker Carlson sat down with a political philosopher described as Vladimir Putin’s “brain”. Aleksandr Dugin is a highly controversial thinker, which is probably what drew the former Fox News host to him in the first place. As part of the wide-ranging interview, filmed in Moscow, Dugin doubled down on his attacks on liberalism while also labelling Putin as “someone with a nuclear weapon who stands strong defending traditional values”. That’s one way of putting it.
Ep. 99 Aleksandr Dugin is the most famous political philosopher in Russia. His ideas are considered so dangerous, the Ukrainian government murdered his daughter and Amazon won’t sell his books. We talked to him in Moscow. pic.twitter.com/4LrO0Ufg9P
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 29, 2024
Dugin has been one of Russia’s most prominent supporters of the invasion of Ukraine, which he has described as a holy war against “Ukrainian Nazism”. Carlson attempted to prod him on the global effects of Western liberalism, leading the philosopher to criticise Hollywood movies for their lack of optimism about a “traditional life”. With Carlson’s 100th episode approaching, perhaps he’s due another chat with Volodya.
→ Matt Hancock compares assisted dying to gay marriage
After legalising same-sex marriage a little over a decade ago, Britain’s Government might be on the verge of another civil rights breakthrough: encouraging infirm pensioners to kill themselves. Following a Commons debate yesterday, MP and kangaroo-anus enthusiast Matt Hancock compared the need for assisted dying to the “legal choice over who to love” and “who we can marry”.
For 50-years we've had a legal choice over who to love, for a decade we've had a legal choice over who we can marry.
The time has come for Parliament to vote on changing the law to allow assisted dying, to help prevent terminally ill people from suffering very painful deaths. pic.twitter.com/McT3Zj1mNy
— Matt Hancock (@MattHancock) April 29, 2024
During the debate, Hancock stated that “the best palliative care in the world cannot prevent hugely painful deaths”, and stressed that “all of us should have the choice when we know for certain we’re facing such pain at the end that we can instead have a dignified and good death”. The ex-health secretary has long been an advocate for euthanasia, citing his love of freedom as a key reason behind the stance.
While Britons are increasingly adopting the same position, concerns have been raised that legalising the practice might lead to a situation similar to that in Canada, where voters have called for assisted dying for those who are homeless or living in poverty. Good to see that Hancock’s moral compass is operating as smoothly as ever.
→ Immigration is Conservative voters’ top issue
If Rishi Sunak is looking for a small boats election, then that’s what he’s going to get. Maybe. According to a new Ipsos poll, immigration has overtaken the economy as the most important issue facing Britain today for Conservative voters, highlighted by 40% up from 32% the previous month. The economy ranked joint-second at 30%, along with the NHS and healthcare, while poverty and inequality featured at the bottom (5%).
🚨🚨Immigration is now the NUMBER ONE issue facing Britain for Conservative voters in this long running @IpsosUK tracker.
🔺Up 8 points in a month pic.twitter.com/oKUu58w98h— Tom Lubbock (@tmlbk) April 30, 2024
By contrast, immigration isn’t much of a concern for Labour voters: it ranks eighth on the priority list. Will the imminent Rwanda flights — expected in 10-12 weeks — change that dynamic?
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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.