Discussion on Ideology and Truth

Truth has become a right-wing concept.

You cannot say it because if you say it, you are

considered right-wing, and to be right-wing is to

be in league with the forces of evil.

They're not people to be argued with.

They're people to be removed and silenced

because otherwise you're against all good things.

This is all part and parcel of the substitution of knowledge

for- of knowledge by ideology,

ideologies of various kinds. Ideologies meaning

the idea

holds sway, absolute sway. Nothing can

challenge the idea.

Uh,

why? Because the ideas which I'm talking about, the

ideas that are now the absolute orthodoxy on the left, are

ideas which are said to

embody

goodness, virtue. They're said to embody

the betterment of humanity.

So if you stand against any of these ideas, if you say there's something

fundamentally wrong with any of these ideas, you're not only

wrong-headed,

but you are evil because you are standing in the way of the

betterment of humanity. Therefore, you want bad things for human

beings. You want bad things for the earth, for the planet, and

consequently,

you can't be argued against. You must be stopped.

You must be stifled. You must be refused a platform.

Nobody must hear what you say. So what are these ideologies?

There are many ideologies.

Multiculturalism, the idea that you cannot say Western society or any

society is better or worse than any other.

Lifestyle choice, the idea that you cannot say any kind of

family household arrangement is better or worse than

any other, and so on and so forth. Now, the

point about an ideology, as I've just said, is that the idea

is absolute. It cannot admit to any

dissent or challenge whatsoever.

The idea- the, the ... An ideology is therefore inimical to

reason itself because if you come along with a set of facts

and you say, "Here are facts, uh, which challenge your

idea

of whatever it is. Um, uh, here are facts

which show that children are better off with a father and a mother.

Here are facts which show that the earth was warmer

many millennia ago. Here are facts which show

whatever,"

and they contradict the governing idea of the ideology,

uh, you are told, "No, no, no,

we cannot have this. These cannot be facts.

You are lying. You must be lying, and we won't even hear these

facts." In other words, we're in a situation now where

ideology says

evidence is nowhere. Now, if evidence is nowhere,

then rationality and reason are nowhere because you

cannot have reason without evidence and without the

idea of truth and lies being different from each other.

And so we have this really horrific and

terrifying situation in which the brightest

and the best of us in our

universities, the people entrusted with the education of

our young people, the

people entrusted with the transmission of our culture, the people entrusted

with thinking great thoughts,

are

themselves promulgating a culture

which has become inimical to reason

itself, and they believe that they stand for

reason. They believe, and they tell us, that anyone who objects

to any of this is stupid, is an

imbecile, their imbecility demonstrated by the fact

that they

believe in something as ridiculous as objective truth.

But they themselves are presiding over and have made our

universities into

crucibles not of knowledge,

but of the destruction of reason itself.

And so what we're living through in Britain and the West, in my view, is

even worse than the potential destruction

of political liberty,

even worse than the destruction of the very idea of the Western

nation and national identity. We're living through the

destruction of reason,

and

all around us, we find that

rational argument, discussion,

civil discourse encompassing

ideas which may compete with each other, we may have disagreements

and be civil to each other, all gone,

replaced by insult, insult designed not just to

wound, but to silence.

To silence.

To shut down the argument.

Yes, silence, yeah.