A very accurate assessment Melanie, thank you. I am coming to the opinion that we should close all the universities down. They are no longer a place of critical thinking and education but have become a very indoctrinated system that is actually harming the country.
@@dwaynejoyce1357 Especially Melanie. Yooo absolute plank. What a dumb, glib and completely untrue statement. 'Extremely large'?? How did you arrive at this conclusion?
I was growing up with the following; "The truth doesn't need the censorship of the Lie, but the Lie on the other hand needs the censorship of the truth to survive." My grandfather drummed this into us.
Let me see Bad Russia who I care nothing about has a country a big one and the ussa and the west has thousands of bases hundreds of country's nato and then they say hey we want your one tenth of the world land mass or we will destroy the whole world with nuks. this is your future learn to love it... THREADS
Exactly! The Truth is like the Rock of Gibraltar. It is there and unchangeable and "most" people recognize it when they see it. Lies, however, Well.... They are Lies..
Thank you kindly Melanie. You speak with great clarity and matching insight. This world needs a great many more like you in these dangerous times which are seeing the rapid rise of fascistic ideologies of all kinds.
Fascism ofcourse originally came from far left Socialists in Italy, Nazism was based on Marxist doctrine also, and preached a classless German society, even the worst 'far right' turns out to be ' far left' if you look under the hood.
Let me see so Bad Russia who I care nothing about has a country a big one and the ussa and the west has thousands of bases hundreds of country's nato and then they say hey we want your one tenth of the world land mass or we will destroy the whole world with nuks. this is your future learn to love it... THREADS
She is absolutely right. And the majority of us, 'normal people", think the same. We have to raise our voices und stop these insane idiots. We have to cancel them!
It is disturbing what is happening it a slow suffocation to death of the West ( perhaps that is what they want ) other than a violent revolution I can see no answer.
Ah but it's not gripping the world. It's only gripping your western world. I live in the middle east and life here is very nice. We don't have to put up with any of the left's lunacy and nonsense here because the left is not allowed.
Melanie Phillips is a journalist and that is all she is. Some of what she says is ok, but a lot of what she says is terrible. I don’t wanna make a huge comment here but her point that the Earth was warmer many millennia ago is not contested at all by the left. BECAUSE IT’S THE RATE OF INCREASE, THAT IS THE PROBLEM The most awkward fact that she doesn’t address though is that the right literally defines the left as evil because of the grip the Christian church has on that particular ideology. This is 75% classic boomer garbage. For reference I’m Gen z. I wonder what her opinion is of abortion rights?
I didn't mind her, but she jumped on the Covid nonsense like almost everyone else. She might have disguised herself, but no, joined in the panic and madness.
Bad Russia who I care nothing about has a country a big one and the ussa and the west has thousands of bases hundreds of country's nato and then they say hey we want your one tenth of the world land mass or we will destroy the whole world with nuks. this is your future learn to love it... THREADS
please please please have Melanie on again. The madness she described in the Guardian and elsewhere has since spread EVERYWHERE. I am so keen to hear her thoughts. Greetings from the GB.
Its interesting she brought up the Medieval Catholic Church since I've started seeing similarities in our society to Feudalism, Religion, and the overall power structure in the Middle Ages.
I've watched this every day since I came across it and I believe this is one of the most important messages I have heard in a long time. It makes sense of why I feel so out of touch with the mainstream narrative. It really is a red pill moment. Thanks Melanie and John for sharing this, such rational sanity gives me hope that I'm not mad despite the fact I feel so out of step with mainstream ideologies.
A new low here Curtis. Melanie is a stinking individual who is just trying to ease you into the judeo christian future. Is this what you want?? She hates the left because it does not support her ideology. She is sick, nasty and trying to encourage the whytes in anti blaq racism. Not this one Curtis. You must do better than this hypocrite.
Well said. The access people have to information, ideas and opinions presents a world of such complexity and uncertainty that the natural reaction is to seek out and adopt views then provide certainty. This is the situation we seem to have now, in the absence of a deity or any other anchoring or stabalising structure and reason being unable to provide the emotional succour required, there is a growing adoption of political absolutism and presumably this will eventually leave the door open to fanaticism, fascism and whatever follows....... glad I'm old!
@@geralldus 'Presumably' what?? Your comment was airy, empty and vague and cliched. You are a total muppet and I am sad about this. Why is this complex to you? You have opened your door to pure evil and this will not eventually benefit you. Get off your lazy arse and get into it.
It isn’t the abundance of information, it’s a school system that strips children of their curiosity first and their ability to seek out new knowledge second. If the authority did not recommend a book it must be worthless, they think without realizing it.
Teach your children that falsehood is false even if it is followed a lot, and that the truth is true even if it is less followed, and that the banner of truth exists even if no one raises it, and that the banner of falsehood falls even if everyone raises it.” ❤️
@@salfordguy399 If you give up arguably what you say, we should not deal with a percentage that is not simple of the world's population, headed by China and a large part of the population of Europe, would you agree with this?
@@mohamedali2858 I do not follow this comment. I am not asking you to give up anything. Melanie promotes hatred of muslims and blaq people so I wonder why you would support such a beast.
Post- truth presupposes that there was a time of truth, a time when societies were not dominated by mighty but factually wrong narratives who were used by powerful people in order to maintain power.
Nailed it. Defend the narrative at all costs. Shame your enemies into silence with self-righteous expressions of owning the moral high ground on every issue.
I am American and I am sorry to say that I never heard of Melanie Phillips until less than two weeks ago. Well, better late than never. Of course, now I’ll probably bump into things of hers every day-that’s the way such things usually work out. Anyway, her insight and skill at being so articulate is very rewarding to listen to.
Reminds me of the meme “the right says the left are people with bad ideas. The left believe the right are bad people with bad ideas.” What an eloquent woman. Thanks John
Ideology and FEELINGS hold absolute sway over facts, reality and reason.. And we wouldn't want to be the bad one and hurt someone's FEELINGS! Seems like this is where we are today.
This woman is brilliant. I'd love to see her and Ricky Gervais having a discussion, because they seem to be on the same page. Bravo for talking sense Melanie.
Clear and concise what am amazing person Melanie Phillips is. Truth is under attack like never before and humanity is treading the wrong path if it wishes to evolve for much longer. Our facts over the centuries have been accepted and built upon to enable us to progress but now we are trying to backtrack with awful consequences.
Melanie is supremely gifted and I have always thought her reasoning comes from a kind heart The finest journalist and one of the finest minds of her generation Long may she run we need her as never before
Yes, well put forward by this person! I like that statement “knowledge is being replaced by ideology”. That is at the core of this seething division, that seems to be present, in most Western nations. It seems to me, that we have more turbulent times ahead..
Ideology holds an axiomatic idea to be true - in a totalitarian and oppressive society the axiom cannot be questioned, in a free and liberated society you can question the axiom. The difference between a functional ideology in a society and a disfunctional ideology in a society, the functional society is free to question the axiom which liberates them from the boundaries of the ideology. Where a disfunctional society is oppressed by the ideology it cannot question, as the total authority is used to punish those who even think about questioning the axiom, let alone stepping outside.
It's the notion of 'post truth' I think that really encapsulates this phenomenon. Truth, as in objective reality, is now secondary to ideology, within the western value system. It was the shift to truth as the highest value, over dogmas of the day, that birthed much of what we admire about the Greek of antiquity. It has been the quiet foundation of western civilization, so apparent and obvious to us that we have never really understood it as something hard come by and needing protecting. It's dismantling will be much more sever than even Nietzsche's 'death of god'.
Another question is why have we moved to "post Truth"? My guess is because Christianity has died. The belief in a purpose to suffering and hope to a better future with the a new kingdom gave people the strength to face reality and the random injustice of life. With that gone, they need to live in a fantasy.
@@johnsmithers8913 The ideology of Existentialism tried to undermine religious belief by claiming the lack of binary truths such as good and evil. Even the earlier 18th century Enlightenment ideology's belief in humanism i.e., that humans are innately good countered the prevailing religious beliefs in original sin. Religion obliged man to repent his evil ways and turn to Gd. Atheists or agnostics' lack of religious belief made them turn to a substitute, to claim their superiority by a belief in the superiority of man. Jonathan Swift's brilliant parody of the progressives' claim to superiority of the human species in his seminal work Gulliver's Travels - exemplifies his claim that rather than humans beings "sapiens" or reasoned and knowledgeable, humans are capax sapiens or capable of being wise and virtuous - if they choose correctly.
My mother was a teacher and she often read to me the tales from Hans Christian Anderson , in particular " he story of the King with no clothes " many of the old stories told the same .
I used to think Melanie Phillips was a copper bottomed loony. How times change. I now see her as a beacon of reason, someone who stands against this anti scientific nonsense that is engulfing our world. Yes Melanie, knowledge advances by argument and discussion, not by cancelling someone because they say something ‘unacceptable’. We may disagree, but the fact that we can disagree but respect each other is central to all that I believe. Please carry on fighting this madness.
I can tell that Melanie has got the bit between her teeth on this one. She has realised that she has reduced our current predicament down to its essence. I can see a book coming from this realisation. I am inclined to agree with her too, I think she has reduced the argument down to its essentials. Well done, Melanie, preach away, you have an important massage / perspective, to impart.
"The party takes control of the language and has taken it away from the individual. That's the power because those in power who control language control the way we see the world." - William Lutz
Reason hasn't been destroyed, but rather there are simply fewer practitioners; the same could be said for ethical behavior. Don't despair because there will be a resurgence out of necessity.
I doubt it, the Western world was created by an unusual mixture of Christianity, Masculine and warrior culture and the Enlightenment. That it occurred and lasted 500+ years is a cultural Miracle. More likely we fall into a typical Feudalistic totalitarianism. Something that has been the default in most of our history.
A very intelligent and perceptive lady, normal logical straight thinking people must stand up for themselves against the extremists. If their agendas require opposing views to be silenced it tells you all you need to know about them really. Remain an independent thinker, it is your right as an individual and must be preserved at all costs.
Just had my own experience with this in a UA-cam comments section on a comment I posted about a Sopranos short. The more reason I applied to my responses disagreeing with the ideologs the more vicious their ad hominem comments about my post.
This is absolutely brilliant , some of the best words spoken since the great Sir Karl Popper was here . This lady is out next, Emanuel Kant . Nosce te ipsum
A very accurate assessment Melanie, thank you. I am coming to the opinion that we should close all the universities down. They are no longer a place of critical thinking and education but have become a very indoctrinated system that is actually harming the country.
An OUTSTANDING (and 100% accurate) analysis.
Now that you've identified the crux of the problem...what do we do about it?
This is why no one can reason with an ideologue. To them, facts are at best irrelevant, at worst evil.
But Melanie is a a zionist.
A total idealogue.
Spot on.
@@thistimeimhere Thx.
You nailed it. We are living in a 🤡 world with extremely large numbers of ideologues.
@@dwaynejoyce1357 Especially Melanie.
Yooo absolute plank.
What a dumb, glib and completely untrue statement.
'Extremely large'??
How did you arrive at this conclusion?
I warned everyone about this in 2013…..bet you wish you had listened now. This little lady is a blessing worldwide. Hope she gets the message over.
I was growing up with the following;
"The truth doesn't need the censorship of the Lie, but the Lie on the other hand needs the censorship of the truth to survive."
My grandfather drummed this into us.
Spot on.
Let me see Bad Russia who I care nothing about has a country a big one and the ussa and the west has thousands of bases hundreds of country's nato and then they say hey we want your one tenth of the world land mass or we will destroy the whole world with nuks. this is your future learn to love it... THREADS
Wrote this one down!
Exactly! The Truth is like the Rock of Gibraltar. It is there and unchangeable and "most" people recognize it when they see it. Lies, however, Well.... They are Lies..
@@RGMDG
Which doent pretend many people from falling for them.
BRILLIANT! Entirely agreed. Brava, Mélanie!!! 👏🏻
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Thank you kindly Melanie. You speak with great clarity and matching insight. This world needs a great many more like you in these dangerous times which are seeing the rapid rise of fascistic ideologies of all kinds.
She is actually evil and is allegiant to a foreign
nation.
Get things sorted.
Fascism ofcourse originally came from far left Socialists in Italy, Nazism was based on Marxist doctrine also, and preached a classless German society, even the worst 'far right' turns out to be ' far left' if you look under the hood.
Great comment. I wholeheartedly agree with you.👍👏
Face is important totaly or totaly important
Let me see so Bad Russia who I care nothing about has a country a big one and the ussa and the west has thousands of bases hundreds of country's nato and then they say hey we want your one tenth of the world land mass or we will destroy the whole world with nuks. this is your future learn to love it... THREADS
Melanie Phillips,so great to see you again! Brilliant program.
She is absolutely right. And the majority of us, 'normal people", think the same. We have to raise our voices und stop these insane idiots. We have to cancel them!
Wel spoken. The War on Reason is now. Ultimately this can put society in total chaos.
The elimination of standards at the very root if one ponders. Mathematics is now branded racist and language is folding into an emoji.
It is disturbing what is happening it a slow suffocation to death of the West ( perhaps that is what they want ) other than a violent revolution I can see no answer.
@@johnpettigrew83out of interest, if language went the other way, do you think we might we end up in jargon?
100% spot on, and articulated so well
This is the best explanation of the insanity gripping the world that I have seen. Everyone please share this.
The world??
Ah but it's not gripping the world. It's only gripping your western world. I live in the middle east and life here is very nice. We don't have to put up with any of the left's lunacy and nonsense here because the left is not allowed.
@@grayslayers Good, keep it that way. The left is cancer.
Melanie Phillips is a journalist and that is all she is. Some of what she says is ok, but a lot of what she says is terrible. I don’t wanna make a huge comment here but her point that the Earth was warmer many millennia ago is not contested at all by the left. BECAUSE IT’S THE RATE OF INCREASE, THAT IS THE PROBLEM The most awkward fact that she doesn’t address though is that the right literally defines the left as evil because of the grip the Christian church has on that particular ideology. This is 75% classic boomer garbage. For reference I’m Gen z.
I wonder what her opinion is of abortion rights?
Melanie Phillips one of the few voices of reason and tells it as it is.
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I can’t believe common sense would be abnormality
I didn't mind her, but she jumped on the Covid nonsense like almost everyone else. She might have disguised herself, but no, joined in the panic and madness.
I love this lady, always talks a lot of sense! And produced a few good books along the way, too!
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Bad Russia who I care nothing about has a country a big one and the ussa and the west has thousands of bases hundreds of country's nato and then they say hey we want your one tenth of the world land mass or we will destroy the whole world with nuks. this is your future learn to love it... THREADS
please please please have Melanie on again. The madness she described in the Guardian and elsewhere has since spread EVERYWHERE. I am so keen to hear her thoughts. Greetings from the GB.
Madness??!!
The madness she refers to is left wing refusal to adhere to zionism.
Stop being cheeki.
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@@salfordguy399 High five Salford guy! I lived in Manchester for 10 years btw... love it up there!
@@just_another32 Where are you from?
@@salfordguy399 Hampshire!
Perfectly articulated. Certainly rings bells.... alarm bells.
Really??
Why?
@@salfordguy399 Read the comments to see why.
@@salfordguy399 Maybe listen again?
Its interesting she brought up the Medieval Catholic Church since I've started seeing similarities in our society to Feudalism, Religion, and the overall power structure in the Middle Ages.
@@johnsmithers8913 Well spotted!
Now tell your friends.
Melanie Philips is great…another great conversation
Melanie Phillips is very wise educated women. I love she explains and gives examples on the topic of discussion, and her speech is clear.
Excellent. She's such a clear-sighted lady, and so articulate. Wish I could listen to the whole interview. The sound is clear, too.
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I've watched this every day since I came across it and I believe this is one of the most important messages I have heard in a long time. It makes sense of why I feel so out of touch with the mainstream narrative. It really is a red pill moment. Thanks Melanie and John for sharing this, such rational sanity gives me hope that I'm not mad despite the fact I feel so out of step with mainstream ideologies.
Love Melanie always talks sense and explains very simply
Grow up. She stinks.
Thank you for interviewing and presenting all the varied guest and their well reasoned opinions for the world to see.
So articulate and clear - well done
Shut up.
Brilliant...and spot on!!!
A new low here Curtis.
Melanie is a stinking individual who is just trying to ease you into the judeo christian future.
Is this what you want??
She hates the left because it does not support her ideology.
She is sick, nasty and trying to encourage the whytes in anti blaq racism.
Not this one Curtis.
You must do better than this hypocrite.
Melanie Phillips, really provides brilliant understanding of British society!!
Well said. The access people have to information, ideas and opinions presents a world of such complexity and uncertainty that the natural reaction is to seek out and adopt views then provide certainty. This is the situation we seem to have now, in the absence of a deity or any other anchoring or stabalising structure and reason being unable to provide the emotional succour required, there is a growing adoption of political absolutism and presumably this will eventually leave the door open to fanaticism, fascism and whatever follows....... glad I'm old!
I am sad that you are a muppet.
@@geralldus 'Presumably' what??
Your comment was airy, empty and vague and cliched.
You are a total muppet and I am sad about this.
Why is this complex to you?
You have opened your door to pure evil and this will not eventually benefit you.
Get off your lazy arse and get into it.
It isn’t the abundance of information, it’s a school system that strips children of their curiosity first and their ability to seek out new knowledge second.
If the authority did not recommend a book it must be worthless, they think without realizing it.
... I'm pretty old as well, so probably won't see (thank God) the terrible world of the future.
Excellent Melanie.
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Absolutely correct & unless we stan up to it we WILL fall ....
Yes, this is what Ukrainians are doing whilst the jews have fled to Israel.
Stop being soft.
Teach your children that falsehood is false even if it is followed a lot, and that the truth is true even if it is less followed, and that the banner of truth exists even if no one raises it, and that the banner of falsehood falls even if everyone raises it.” ❤️
Melanie is a falsehood who follows a vicious and godless ideology.
Hang on!!!!
R U a muslim?
@@salfordguy399 If you give up arguably what you say, we should not deal with a percentage that is not simple of the world's population, headed by China and a large part of the population of Europe, would you agree with this?
@@mohamedali2858 I do not follow this comment.
I am not asking you to give up anything.
Melanie promotes hatred of muslims and blaq people so I wonder why you would support such a beast.
@@mohamedali2858 Who is 'we'?
Very insightful conversation. Agree, reasoning and evidence based debates are not happening. Science for one, can not flourish under such conditions.
We truly live in a post truth world.
"Alternative facts" my favorite recent phrase I've heard.
@@francisebbecke2727 , indeed. it's like "my truth"
Since when?
Post- truth presupposes that there was a time of truth, a time when societies were not dominated by mighty but factually wrong narratives who were used by powerful people in order to maintain power.
Destruction of reason! Yes! So we’ll described. It’s horrific and we’re watching it.
I’ve always enjoyed her well reasoned positions
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Wonderful lady. Great interview.
Brilliant woman!.
She's incredibly lucid in her painting of situation. Bravo!
Nailed it. Defend the narrative at all costs. Shame your enemies into silence with
self-righteous expressions of owning the moral high ground on every issue.
This analysis is both accurate and brilliant!
What a succinct evaluation of this moment in time.
Thanks for the truth, God bless
it doesn't matter how often i listen to this, it's amazing someone can package the reality so clearly.
The most important truth of our time. Absolutely true
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Yes. thank you SO Much!!!
Thanks millions Melanie Phillips!!!
That was truly awesome, and very well said.
Ideology is the promotion of an idea above the truth. Once you subjugate truth to your ideas, only tyranny can result.
Thank you John. Melanie has nailed it, I think.
Excellent commentary! She is spot on, we are seeing "the destruction of reason," to shut down the argument
Excellent and succinct summing up of the situation in which we find ourselves.
I am American and I am sorry to say that I never heard of Melanie Phillips until less than two weeks ago. Well, better late than never. Of course, now I’ll probably bump into things of hers every day-that’s the way such things usually work out. Anyway, her insight and skill at being so articulate is very rewarding to listen to.
Reminds me of the meme “the right says the left are people with bad ideas. The left believe the right are bad people with bad ideas.” What an eloquent woman. Thanks John
Ideology and FEELINGS hold absolute sway over facts, reality and reason.. And we wouldn't want to be the bad one and hurt someone's FEELINGS! Seems like this is where we are today.
Truth and Liberty.
Love your ideas!
Melanie _ what an amazing person.
such wisdom and truth
We are entering upon a new Dark Age.
Simple. Makes total sense. Everyone needs to hear it.
R U a zionist.
@@salfordguy399 Nope
Absolutely right...an unwillingness to draw wisdom from knowledge; simply claims knowledge.
Brilliant!
I admire this woman
Have always admired Melanie. What a well spoken, intelligent woman 👏👏
Brilliant presentation!
Melanie Phillips has done it! You've earned a subscriber.
Brilliant.
I hear this very same thing on all sides. A good idea, no matter the 'side', will always rise to the surface.
Unless it's silenced, which has been increasingly happening for decades.
Belief has replaced fact in order to lower the bar to the feeling of competency.
a very intelligent woman, and a brave one at that
This woman is brilliant. I'd love to see her and Ricky Gervais having a discussion, because they seem to be on the same page. Bravo for talking sense Melanie.
Couldn't agree more!
Clear and concise what am amazing person Melanie Phillips is. Truth is under attack like never before and humanity is treading the wrong path if it wishes to evolve for much longer. Our facts over the centuries have been accepted and built upon to enable us to progress but now we are trying to backtrack with awful consequences.
This woman is a master class. She has clear, concise views.
Melanie is supremely gifted and I have always thought her reasoning comes from a kind heart
The finest journalist and one of the finest minds of her generation
Long may she run we need her as never before
Admiration for this lady
Please, someone give a woman to this Oscar. She was right on point 🎯
Yes, well put forward by this person! I like that statement “knowledge is being replaced by ideology”. That is at the core of this seething division, that seems to be present, in most Western nations. It seems to me, that we have more turbulent times ahead..
Well said!
In any Authoritarian Regime Reality is not determined by the facts but by the needs of their Narrative
Sanity screams for reasoning period
Ideology holds an axiomatic idea to be true - in a totalitarian and oppressive society the axiom cannot be questioned, in a free and liberated society you can question the axiom.
The difference between a functional ideology in a society and a disfunctional ideology in a society, the functional society is free to question the axiom which liberates them from the boundaries of the ideology. Where a disfunctional society is oppressed by the ideology it cannot question, as the total authority is used to punish those who even think about questioning the axiom, let alone stepping outside.
Well said…and I think correct.
Spot-on.
Brilliant summation of the stifling of free speech.
It's the notion of 'post truth' I think that really encapsulates this phenomenon. Truth, as in objective reality, is now secondary to ideology, within the western value system. It was the shift to truth as the highest value, over dogmas of the day, that birthed much of what we admire about the Greek of antiquity. It has been the quiet foundation of western civilization, so apparent and obvious to us that we have never really understood it as something hard come by and needing protecting. It's dismantling will be much more sever than even Nietzsche's 'death of god'.
Another question is why have we moved to "post Truth"? My guess is because Christianity has died. The belief in a purpose to suffering and hope to a better future with the a new kingdom gave people the strength to face reality and the random injustice of life.
With that gone, they need to live in a fantasy.
@@johnsmithers8913 The ideology of Existentialism tried to undermine religious belief by claiming the lack of binary truths such as good and evil. Even the earlier 18th century Enlightenment ideology's belief in humanism i.e., that humans are innately good countered the prevailing religious beliefs in original sin. Religion obliged man to repent his evil ways and turn to Gd. Atheists or agnostics' lack of religious belief made them turn to a substitute, to claim their superiority by a belief in the superiority of man. Jonathan Swift's brilliant parody of the progressives' claim to superiority of the human species in his seminal work Gulliver's Travels - exemplifies his claim that rather than humans beings "sapiens" or reasoned and knowledgeable, humans are capax sapiens or capable of being wise and virtuous - if they choose correctly.
Thomas Sowell has said that the main argument of " the Left" is that there is no argument.
Thomas Sowell, an intellectual that hasn't done any real research in decades and whose contemporaries don't necessarily agree with.
My mother was a teacher and she often read to me the tales from Hans Christian Anderson , in particular " he story of the King with no clothes " many of the old stories told the same .
''The destruction of reason''...the BBC's real mission statement for about the last decade.
I used to think Melanie Phillips was a copper bottomed loony. How times change. I now see her as a beacon of reason, someone who stands against this anti scientific nonsense that is engulfing our world. Yes Melanie, knowledge advances by argument and discussion, not by cancelling someone because they say something ‘unacceptable’. We may disagree, but the fact that we can disagree but respect each other is central to all that I believe. Please carry on fighting this madness.
so glad to have found this video
I can tell that Melanie has got the bit between her teeth on this one. She has realised that she has reduced our current predicament down to its essence. I can see a book coming from this realisation. I am inclined to agree with her too, I think she has reduced the argument down to its essentials. Well done, Melanie, preach away, you have an important massage / perspective, to impart.
One of best interviews
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"The party takes control of the language and has taken it away from the individual. That's the power because those in power who control language control the way we see the world." - William Lutz
wow and wow
The "idea" is non-falsifiable - the ultimate fallacy.
Love her books.
Reason hasn't been destroyed, but rather there are simply fewer practitioners; the same could be said for ethical behavior. Don't despair because there will be a resurgence out of necessity.
I doubt it, the Western world was created by an unusual mixture of Christianity, Masculine and warrior culture and the Enlightenment. That it occurred and lasted 500+ years is a cultural Miracle. More likely we fall into a typical Feudalistic totalitarianism. Something that has been the default in most of our history.
A very intelligent and perceptive lady, normal logical straight thinking people must stand up for themselves against the extremists. If their agendas require opposing views to be silenced it tells you all you need to know about them really. Remain an independent thinker, it is your right as an individual and must be preserved at all costs.
Just had my own experience with this in a UA-cam comments section on a comment I posted about a Sopranos short. The more reason I applied to my responses disagreeing with the ideologs the more vicious their ad hominem comments about my post.
This is absolutely brilliant , some of the best words spoken since the great Sir Karl Popper was here .
This lady is out next, Emanuel Kant .
Nosce te ipsum
Very much enjoy hearing Ms. Phillips' talks, though she is preaching to the choir here. Hopefully these talks reach the ears of the ideologues.
She is brilliant.