Peter Boghossian: Disruptive Author & Political Commentator on The Rise of Wokeness
Disruptors
Rob Moore
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We need to cultivate in people these dispositions that help them to achieve success and flourishing in their own life, and this is not a complicated thing, but for whatever reason, it seems to be a controversial thing, which is completely insane. |
| 0:15.0 | Peter, where are we at in the world right now? What's the state of play in the world? |
| 0:22.0 | The state of play isn't particularly good. I do think that people like optimism, but that optimism should be seated in reality, so it would be... |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome to London. |
| 0:37.0 | What's the state of play? The sirens go by. |
| 0:40.0 | No, but I do think we have serious problems that we're not talking about, we're not facing these things honestly, and we're obsessed with... |
| 0:53.0 | Identity politics, we're obsessed with trans issues, we're obsessed with... This is a fraction of the fraction of... |
| 0:59.0 | We're not talking about inflation, drug addiction, homelessness, crime, the murder rate in the United States. |
| 1:06.0 | The vast potential nuclear war with Russia over Ukraine. |
| 1:11.0 | That's a lot of stuff we should be talking about. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, and one-third of the taxes collected in the United States go to pay the interest on the debt. |
| 1:21.0 | That's such a shock, doesn't it? |
| 1:23.0 | One-third, that's completely unsustainable. |
| 1:24.0 | Let me give you a bucket with a hole in it, and you just try to keep it full of water. |
| 1:28.0 | And every time they talk about a debt ceiling, I mean that's the thing, so you want to talk about a real problem if the dollar is no longer the world currency reserve. |
| 1:39.0 | Then all of the profil get excesses of everybody printing money like it's going out of style. |
| 1:44.0 | There will be mass inflation, African just like... |
| 1:49.0 | You know, this is another quick example, so I'm trying not to be too negative, but... |
| 1:54.0 | It's so good. |
| 1:55.0 | I'm trying to be too negative, but if... |
| 2:00.0 | You know, oil is no longer traded in dollars, that's also going to be a huge problem. |
| 2:05.0 | So why are we so hell-bent on talking about gender, identity, et cetera? |
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