Ep. 2586 The Civilization Wreckers, with Carl Benjamin
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Carl Benjamin joins us for a wide-ranging discussion of ideology, language, religion, rationalism, and plenty more.
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| 0:00.0 | Get ready to take a flamethrower to the official narrative and learn what the elites don't want you to know. |
| 0:08.8 | You're listening to the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:18.6 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. It is episode 2,586 of the Tom Woods show. And we have Carl Benjamin with us, director of lotus eaters.com. Carl, I didn't check, but we've spoken on this show a long time ago. But it was like a long, long, long time ago. I've been doing this for 11 years. So I don't know how long it's been, but I wouldn't say you're a different person |
| 0:38.1 | than you were in those days, but I think your thinking might have evolved a little bit. |
| 0:42.4 | And so I thought there are a bunch of things that you and I might talk about, but all the same, |
| 0:45.9 | welcome back. Thanks so much for having me. I really appreciate it. |
| 0:49.2 | So you're over there in the UK. Now, that itself leads to a series of questions, what it's like being a dissident in |
| 0:55.0 | the UK, because just when we feel like in the US we have it bad, then I get complaints from my |
| 1:00.3 | friends in the UK saying, oh, geez, I wish we had the strength of a dissident voices that you guys have. |
| 1:06.5 | But first, how would you describe your politics? |
| 1:10.8 | I don't really have a label for it. There's an |
| 1:13.7 | emerging space that I guess is just being called post-liberal, where it's filled with people who |
| 1:20.7 | were previously liberals of some stripe, but have realized that liberalism itself is actually |
| 1:26.8 | the problem with modern-day politics, |
| 1:28.6 | the construction of the philosophy of liberalism. Many of them have actually spent a lot of time |
| 1:33.3 | studying liberalism, right to its original philosophical foundations, myself included, and found that |
| 1:39.6 | this doesn't really make sense. And so something has to come after it because actually the trajectory |
| 1:46.7 | liberalism puts us on is good at the beginning, but it ends in a place that's very undesirable. |
| 1:53.8 | And we're actually arriving at that undesirable place right now. So best to do something else |
| 2:00.0 | rather than continue to be liberals. |
| 2:02.2 | So I haven't really got a name for what I am, but I try not to be ideological at this |
| 2:09.3 | point. |
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