Douglas Murray: The War on the West

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

Politics, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Douglas Murray joins us again to discuss the subject of his latest book *The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason* available from 28 April 2022. Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. - Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:20 Western Anti-Westerners 04:07 Inversion of American Patriotism 08:41 Why We Fear Nationalism 14:55 Anti-Western Historical Revisionism 17:01 The Costs of Attempting Nuance 22:13 Western Masochism Is a Gift to Its Enemies 27:01 We Do This to Ourselves: Erosion of Our Culture 32:05 'White Guilt', 'White Tears', 'White Fragility' 35:24 Identity Politics Era: Product of Our Own Success 40:31 Force-fed Misconceptions and Moral Meltdowns 47:54 How COVID Masks Became an Identity Issue 49:48 Emergence Of - "The Truth is the Opposite of Mainstream Narrative" 59:41 The Right Has Absorbed Its Own Criticism - a Leftist Idea 01:05:46 'Her Penis' and Hunter Biden's Laptop 01:08:52 Victim Culture 01:11:57 Current Era of Unique Permissible Racism 01:15:40 "Opinions From People Who Are On Only Play, Not Listen" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is all being pushed on us by wild ideologs who want us to see our countries in this
0:07.4	remorselously negative light who want to turn all of the things that were good in our societies
0:12.6	to bad, who want to take all of our heroes and just throw them down and sometimes quite
0:17.6	literally smash them on the floor to say, look there's nothing good about you, what
0:23.2	of you got to celebrate.
0:30.7	Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster.
0:34.7	I'm Constantin Kissen.
0:36.2	And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.
0:42.0	We're delighted to say that our brilliant and returning guest is journalist and author
0:46.2	and author of the upcoming book The War on the West Douglas Murray.
0:49.3	Welcome back to Trigonometry for the end of time.
0:52.0	Great to be back with you both. It's a real pleasure. It's been too long.
0:56.9	It has been too long.
0:57.9	And we of course look forward to having you back in the studio where we've had many of
1:01.3	our previous conversations. But you have a new book which is about to come out, which
1:05.6	is called The War on the West. You got there ahead of me by a couple of months because
1:09.5	I have a book coming out called An Immigrants Love Letter to the West.
1:12.3	So I'm trying to talk about what I think is valuable and what we don't appreciate enough
1:17.6	in the UK and America and elsewhere in the Anglosphere.
1:21.7	Who is fighting a war on the West? Why is the West under attack, Douglas, in your opinion?
1:25.9	Well, my pleasure. It probably ties in with what I think you're describing in your
1:30.5	book. I mean, there's a wild underestimating of our own societies in countries like
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