The West’s Struggle With Reality - Doug Stokes

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 22 October 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Doug Stokes is Senior Advisor to the Legatum Institute and Professor in International Security and Strategy in the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter. He has published a number of books and articles on US foreign policy, grand strategy and world order, the latest of which is 'Against Decolonisation: Campus Culture Wars and the Decline of the West' available here: https://amzn.eu/d/602bJDk Doug Stokes is also among a long list of TRIGGERnometry guests who will be speaking at the forthcoming Battle of Ideas festival - a free speech event taking place in London 28-29th October 2023. Members of the TRIGGERnometry Locals community can get 20% off their tickets! Visit: https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/ SPONSORED BY: EasyDNS - domain name registrar provider and web host. Use special code: TRIGGERED for 50% off when you visit https://easydns.com/triggered/ Become a Premium Member to receive exclusive benefits https://triggernometry.supercast.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | info@xentricapc.com | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What does home mean to you? I'm Jimmy Femarewa, writer, broadcaster, and restaurant critic.
0:06.4	And I've been speaking to well-known names about what home means to them.
0:10.6	And it was in the East End, it was in Berners-Y, when Berners-Y was rough.
0:13.6	I remember thinking, not that the boys are going to fancy me.
0:16.4	Good number, Otty, and a chicken curry. You are full, you are connected to your culture,
0:22.1	and you may get a heart attack.
0:23.9	That's where's home really. With me, Jimmy Femarewa.
0:27.4	Find it wherever you're listening to this.
0:30.9	Those moments of struggle, where you are pushed, and steel sharp and steel,
0:36.9	and pressure creates diamond, those are fundamentally important because
0:42.4	those are the moments of real, deep, personal transformation.
0:46.0	They argue that there's no such thing as objectivity and truth,
0:49.1	and they place a theoretical and philosophical primacy on epistemology,
0:53.5	how we know what we know, and they move away from an ontology, what actually exists.
0:58.7	There's no such thing as truth or objectivity or science, and therefore everything is about
1:03.0	contestation. Power. Power. What you see is what I call a trauma shield, a trauma bubble.
1:09.2	It's now become a weapon in order to shot people up.
1:12.4	Yeah, on the campus, you can have these ideas.
1:16.1	But when they spill out, you can begin to see the human costs of some of this stuff.
1:22.3	And we're doing this in the context of an increasingly multipolar international system,
1:26.8	as an influence operation and psychological abrasion. I'm not saying it's all
1:30.3	rest of the heat, the the feet of Chinese or Russian propagandists.
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