The Eye-Opening Truth About Western Civilisation

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Marc Sidwell is Director of Research at The Henry Jackson Society. He has worked as a senior editor for the Telegraph and City A.M. and as publisher for the New Statesman. He is a Senior Fellow at the New Culture Forum for which he wrote and presented THE WEST, a landmark six-part documentary series celebrating the history, achievements and genius of Western Civilisation.
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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

00:00 Intro
01:42 Marc Sidwell’s Background
03:59 The Origin of Authority & The Traditional Idea of the West
09:15 European Empire & The Slave Trade
11:16 The Importance of Understanding Our History
13:56 How The West Misrepresents Slavery
18:19 Christianity’s Role in The Development of Our Civilisation
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23:40 How Did The Barbarians Become Christianised Over Time?
27:59 Why is The Magna Carta so Important to Our Nation?
31:57 The West Is Under Threat!
35:08 What Will Cause The Collapse of The West?
36:57 How Did The Enlightenment Happen?
42:43 Differences Between The West & The Islamic World
43:57 What Marc Learned During The Making of “THE WEST”?
45:58 If The West Keeps Disrupting Itself, What Does That Mean For Our Future?
50:06 How Has The Decline of Christianity Affected Our Civilisation?
52:08 Why Marc is Optimistic For The West
55:52 What’s the One Thing We’re Not Talking About?

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0:00.0	Beautiful houses, six star holidays, bursting bank accounts.
0:04.2	Oh, the lives of the rich and famous.
0:06.9	But being really, really famous, it's not easy.
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0:31.0	I grew up with that Cold War idea of the West as a thing
0:34.4	that was sort of moral and great
0:35.9	and worth standing up for against the sort of slave empire
0:38.8	of communism.
0:40.0	And then I suddenly realized that like 20, 30 years,
0:43.2	no one had been taught that, and the current generation
0:45.6	don't know that story.
0:46.6	In fact, they only know the other story,
0:48.1	which is the one that says, you know,
0:49.7	the West is uniquely evil and awful.
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