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The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason

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When critics claim that there is something sinister about their particular area of interest being too little known about, they forget that majorities of young people across the West have no serious knowledge even of one of the greatest crimes in history. Murray claims this isn’t true and that colonialism, Indian independence and the slave trade are all big parts of history syllabi in the UK.

Again, it’s Murray just getting angry at people saying stupid things that anyone with a brain would just ignore. They can tell their listeners things that they will simply believe and tell them what they should not question. They are also the intellectual descendants of Derrick Bell, the legal theorist, Civil Rights campaigner and originator of Critical Race Theory, a body of thought that emerged in the 1970s. A story of breath-taking dealings that range from Riyadh to London, Paris to America, this is a thrilling and brutal investigation into extreme wealth, one of the world's most decisive and dangerous new leaders, and the bid for Saudi transformation that is reverberating around the world. Science and technology, invented as tools to serve a transcendent purpose, end up destroying the dream that gave them birth, and the “Faustian” civilisation that dreamed it.Or to point out that neither the 1 nor the 0 are western inventions and that without them, computer science would be a little different. A spate of riots, many inspired by the murder of George Floyd, saw statues targeted, at first mostly monuments to the confederacy, but then expanding to almost all political figures. He seems to think that we’re not allowed to talk about the ideas of Hume, JSM, Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson or a wealth of other characters, when this simply isn’t the case.

Fully 52 percent of Democrats, and some 36 percent of Republicans, said they would leave the country instead.

Both discuss Nigel Biggar from different angles, both discuss the national trust, both discuss statue toppling and are culture war tracts that overstate the importance of their subject. He also becomes rather exercised about antiracist training in the workplace—has anyone ever paid attention or cared about what was said during a training day? All in the hope of persuading the peoples of the West not that they were better than anyone else or that they were the same as anyone else, but that they were uniquely evil and therefore worse than everyone else. It seems a thorny philosophical question, and I haven’t read up on the case for reparations but I would certainly be interested in hearing it.

The trouble with many of these culture war arguments is that they present the most fringe voices as representative of a widespread movement.I think that to some degree, if the old narratives about history, such as the glory of manifest destiny, the American dream and the greatest democracy on earth have failed, then it’s because those narratives ring hollow for a generation who don’t feel that they describe or have any utility in the modern world. Because when you are speaking into a great vacuum of ignorance, people with malign interest can run an awfully long way awfully fast. One explanation is again that Americans in prominent positions have suggested that even American babies need reprogramming from the racist society they have been born into. But again, if such subversive people do exist within western society itself, then they have failed completely. On the wokifying of churches, he rails against churches looking inward about their potentially racist pasts, and says even the Catholic Church has caved, then cites one pretty minor incident involving a chaplain.

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