Okay, we are live with Alexander Mercuris and joining us on the Duran for the first time.

We are very excited and very honored to have with us, Dr. Nema Parvini, someone who has been requested by our viewers hundreds and hundreds of times to

join us on a show. Dr. Parvini, thank you very much for joining us on the Duran. I have the links

to your YouTube, your substack, your website in the description box down below. Is there anything else that you would like to

plug or anywhere else people can follow your work?

Yeah, well, I mean, the two things I'll mention is that I have, due to the state of the British

education system, I've set up something called the academic agency where I sell courses.

One of the best selling courses on there is the classical trivium,

you know, logic, writing, rhetoric.

And, you know, it's kind of non-ideological, but that is something I direct people towards

because it's, you know, they're only cheap compared to university courses.

But a lot of people have had value from that, you know, how to write a sentence, how to how to pass rhetoric and how to make logical, valid and true arguments.

The other thing I'll mention really quickly is that today,

a lot of the ideas I'm going to be talking about can be found in my book,

The Populist Illusion.

There's also a follow-up called The Prophet of Doom,

which is slightly less relevant to what we're going to be talking about today,

although it is ultimately relevant because the prophets of doom is about the rise and fall of civilizations.

And I mean, much of the state of the UK does feel like a nation in decline.

So I'll see both of those books are relevant if people are interested.

Great. I will add those links as a pinned comment as well when we finish the live

stream. So let's get started and begin this show. Real quick, Alexander, just a quick hello to

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