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even the sort of Marxist utopian vision. It's just all this stuff hemms me in. All these

vestiges of our civilization, they're bad. All of the West, essentially, is a monument to

evil and colonialism and transgender, anti-transgender bigotry and all the rest.

The idea is that all the rules and the institutions and all of the hallmarks of our civilization

have essentially been chains on the human soul. And once we break those chains, once we get rid of

our worship of the past, once we get rid of all of those

rules and roles and regulations, once we do all those things, then supposedly the human spirit

can be free. But even if the human spirit is not free, all those things deserve to die.

And you're seeing this as a widespread sentiment that has now bled down from the universities

all the way down to the lowest levels of society in the West, and then bled back up into politics, because that is the way traditionally that ideas enter the mainstream

of politics. Politics is the last vestige of everything. Politics is the endpoint. Basically, things

start with an intellectual elite who promote really, really bad ideas, and they do so to other

elites. And those elites then take charge of institutions, generally not political institutions, generally all the other institutions of culture. You're talking about art. You're talking about commerce. And then that bleeds down to the general public. The general public picks up on this. And then it bleeds back up into politics because all those people vote. And that is what we are seeing right now.

And you're seeing it across the west. You see sort of inklings of it. And people accuse you of

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