Who are the men the pig for scraps amongst the ruins at the end of history?

You should know because you encounter them every day.

Between the towering buildings of a fallen empire, we find the Felaheen, the historyless men,

who know nothing of the turning of the cosmic wheel and find themselves outside of civilization itself.

Cut loose from the great chain of being, they represent the loan into which our dying culture will return.

That is, unless we choose to take up the burden once again.

This Felaheen condition is the subject we explore in issue four of Islander magazine.

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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1,223 for Tuesday the 5th of August 2025.

I'm your host, Luca, joined today by Bo and special guest and independent journalist Jack Hadfield.

How are you, sir?

I'm fantastic. Thank you so much for having me on.

No, no, we're really glad to have it. You've been doing some wonderful work recently,

covering all the hotels and, you know, the protests, and we're going to get into that very, very soon.

But before we do, let's also just talk about what else we're going to do today.

So we're going to talk about why English ancestry might actually matter when we think about who is English.

I know, I know it's a hot take.

I know it's a but I just want you to consider it if you could.

Then, as I say, we're going to talk about the protests outside the hotels and then

we're going to talk about Nancy Pelosi's trading genius. Off the charts. Remarkable.

Better than Dan. Yeah, much better. Yeah. An incredible record. All right, so let's begin.

So when the about five weeks ago, there was a one-day conference in London

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