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Host of Thinking Class, a long-form interview podcast about the cultural, historical, and civilisational forces shaping Britain, the Anglosphere and the West

United Kingdom
Joined November 2023
If you'd like a preview of this very important book before going on to buy it, then watch @MorlandDemog and @philippilk in action on Thinking Class. youtu.be/jq-jl2jxj4Y
Today a v important book is published by @MorlandDemog & @philippilk. It takes a very sobering look at the economic consequences of an ageing society with low birthrates (hint: it's really bad news). And shows that immigration can at best slightly delay, not solve, the problem
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NEW — The West Has Already Become A Total State And Most People Inside Have No Idea. @AuronMacintyre on Thinking Class: - 'Constitutions don't make people...people make constitutions". - 'It's not a state-run media. It's a media-run state.' - 'We don't need the trains anymore. We don't have to put anybody in boxcars to get them to speak correctly. We can simply cut them off from everything.' - 'Reform is impossible. You cannot fix the machine from inside the machine.' Links in the comments.
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New Thinking Class out now It was my great pleasure to speak with R.R. Reno, editor of @firstthingsmag, on what happens when the strong gods return to a country that no longer has any gods at all. There were many memorable passages and here's one of them. "The first duty of the sovereign is to preserve the realm. And ultimately that purpose is because the realm has intrinsic value, not because it is conducive to greater utility for the people who happen to live there. That's why you're willing to make sacrifices to sustain the realm, to preserve the realm, to defend the realm." - R.R. Reno, Editor of @firstthingsmag on Thinking Class It is safe to say that there are few sovereigns in Europe willing to sustain, preserve and defend the realm. Find the links to the full episode in the comments below.
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"We may have to get over our British decorum because the managerial state has weaponised it against us. We're terrified of being seen as impolite. The British state has been prosecuting the same mission since Blair came to power - a new multicultural, high immigration Britain. This is not a failure of governance. It is the system working as intended. They want a post-British, a post-Christian, and a managerial theocracy. And the question is, is will it fall apart? Will we ever be able to get the tides to turn again. Will we become a people and a civilization once studied but no longer exists? And that's the big question." — me on @NewCultureForum Link to full panel with @missalicegrant @KiszelyPhilip and @BenBarryJones in the comments
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