England's Best Intentions Are Blowing Up in Its Face | Carl Benjamin

The Rubin Report

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Carl Benjamin (also known as Sargon of Akkad) about his shift from liberalism to more conservative views; his transition from cultural critic and YouTuber to studying philosophy academically; the weaknesses of classical liberalism and how cultural context shapes ideologies; how Enlightenment ideas influenced science and modern thought; England’s dangerous identity crisis; the loss of cultural cohesion and its societal impact; and much more. #RubinReport #CarlBenjamin #sargon #westerncivilization #UK #britishculture #british #ARC #daverubin ----------------------------------------------- Reserve your 1st edition copy of our new book, The Best of Our Inheritance. Pre-Order open until March 14, 2025: Link to book: https://www.arcforum.com/store/p/the-best-of-our-inheritance-arc-research YouTube - @arc_conference Twitter - @arc_forum IG - @arc_forum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The problem in Britain, and I think in England in particular, there's a question of identity and who belongs.
0:09.6	And that's one of the things that's being addressed in this conference.
0:13.0	And the current paradigm is that essentially there is no English identity, and therefore there is nothing to stop us considering people to be in the sort of
0:23.2	like Baconian, interchangeable, non-sacred units.
0:27.6	And we don't, so we don't think of anything dignified and important about our own culture
0:33.3	and our own country.
0:35.3	So as far as we're concerned, it's just, well, we could just use this as an economic zone.
0:40.2	Well, we bring in a million migrants and let them have jobs, and then this improves the GDP.
0:46.4	I mean, not only is that true, but it also drastically changes the character of what's happening.
0:58.7	Yeah. character of what's happening. I have an odd way of starting this interview, Carl Benjamin, aka Sargonne of Akad, which is,
1:04.9	for all the years that I've known you, what do you consider yourself most?
1:09.2	Are you a cultural critic?
1:10.8	Are you a YouTuber? Are you just a guy
1:12.9	in a suit who talks about politics? What, what are you? I think I might be in your own mind.
1:17.8	I might be all of those things. Yeah. As far as I'm concerned, I'm someone like yourself,
1:22.5	actually, who's on a journey, because we met many years ago as very normal, liberal people.
1:31.7	And we were normal back then.
1:33.3	We were not something.
1:34.3	Yeah, no, no, no, we were normal.
1:35.5	On the young Turks, you were the, you were the guy I'm most related to it.
1:38.5	You know, I saw a lot of myself in you.
1:40.0	And I can understand why you ended up having your schism.
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