Dr James Orr: The Barbarians Aren't at the Gates... They're Inside!

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

Politics, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 April 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Dr James Orr is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Divinity, a position he took up after four years as McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Theology, Ethics, and Public Life at Christ Church, Oxford. He holds a PhD and MPhil in Philosophy of Religion from the University of Cambridge and a BA in Classics from Balliol College, Oxford. He is the UK Chairman of The Edmund Burke Foundation, a public affairs institute that aims to strengthen the principles of national conservatism in Western and other democratic countries. Dr Orr is also heading up the National Conservatism conference in Westminster, London, which is taking place 15-17 May 2023. Tickets are available here: https://nationalconservatism.org/natcon-uk-2023/ 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 Music by: Music by: Xentric | info@xentricapc.com | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	With BT Broadband and TV, you can say goodbye to boredom and hello to...
0:04.6	Huh?
0:30.6	Trouble is that once the liberalism hits its son, it uplands.
0:35.8	The liberal doesn't become a conservative.
0:38.2	That, that, the kind of immense of patery dynamism of liberalism is still there.
0:43.6	What you're saying is progressives value change in and of itself
0:47.6	and they will keep pursuing it even if they've got to a really good job.
0:50.4	Sure. Where do we stop?
0:52.2	When do we stop liberating?
0:54.2	When do we stop progressing? It's actually...
0:56.0	We've done pretty well. Let's just try and settle down and conserve these gains.
1:00.0	You could never reason a person out of a position that they would never reason into.
1:03.6	And I think it's high time for some decolonisation.
1:07.4	But not...
1:09.4	Not the kind of decolonisation that most people, most administrators these days have in mind.
1:14.0	You need to recognise that ideas age in reverse.
1:19.0	We get weaker as we get older.
1:21.0	Ideas get stronger as they get older.
1:23.6	Barbarians are not all the gates.
1:25.8	They've been in the city, they're manning the city down, they've been there for quite a while.
1:30.8	Hello and welcome to Trigonometry.
1:33.8	I'm Francis Foster.
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