My grandfather, this is one of the things I talk about in the book, he criticised the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Much like people are now in Russia criticising the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

And he was immediately fired from his job. His wife was fired from her job.

Their children, that's my father and my aunt, were kicked out of university.

For one comment that he made in private.

I wrote the book before the invasion of Ukraine.

But people who've read it know that the preface essentially predicts what has happened.

When the powerful forces that hold the current world order together,

abdicate their responsibility or abstain from that responsibility,

then other people will attempt to fill that void.

I think to remind people most of all that what we have in the West,

the freedom, the prosperity, they didn't fall out of the sky.

They did not random occurrences.

The problem we've got is if you change the language, you can change the laws without legislating.

And that's really the biggest problem.

If you have laws that say people must be safe.

That law is there to prevent violence against people.

But if you change the meaning of the word safety,

you've now got a law that is the law against people having the wrong opinions and public.

The idea that you must force people to be equal is evil.

Whether you are looking at it through the lens of class,

or race, or sex, or gender, or whatever other bullshit people have come up with.

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