I never used to agree with her a lot of the time 10 years ago on question time... but now we are one. How times have changed. I haven't, but admit I was wrong about her.
How many saw it before being told though? Who went along with it at school and university and who saw through it? You will generally see it is about one in 30. Some of the other 29 figure it out much later on.
Politics without morality is all about power and here we are. Sorry I can't quote Ms Phillips exact words but how incredibly correct she is. There are three paths left to us, one is to roll over and take it, another is to forsake the major parties and the last is abhorrent.
@@BasedSaxon yes but the true source of their power is the people who are so dumb that like sheep they keep voting for the major parties and enabling them to carry out the orders of their masters.
What she said about the higher you go on the educational ladder ... is true here in the US. William F Buckley was half joking decades ago with his line about preferring to be governed by people chosen at random from the phone book (back when that existed) than Harvard graduates. Now it's absolutely true throughout the English speaking world.
Since when was a Harvard education proof of anything other than you've got money pouring out of your derrier after a night out dining directly out of the nearest skip. Good old Buckley, another cashed up toffee nosed man of the people. The right breeds hypocrites. It's in the genes.
The point she made about Universities slowly spreading the new ideology from within our society is 100% accurate. I was explicitly taught this at University 25 years ago. It came from a Chinese socialist philosophy on how to make change, something about many little fishes. But it still relies on the assumption that those making the change MUST have all the answers. It is ridiculously egotistical to think you are correct without question. But this is the problem we face, two generations of people educated to believe that whatever they feel simply must be correct with no external objective validation. And it completely undermines classical liberalism which explicitly states that another persons opinions should be respected as highly as one’s own opinion, irrespective of who the individual might be. And it leads to the derision we now see from ‘the left’ who would cancel another persons opinion because they don’t see it as ‘worthwhile’. Large volumes of university graduates, taught to look down their noses at anybody different. I thought that only happened in private schools!
What did you study? There is imo a real problem. Ie Folk thinking that the study of anything other that truly objective STEM subjects actually imparts the ability for truly objective thinking. And is really anything but entertainment and its admittedly very entertaining. As soon as I hear Politics with Economics, Classics, sociology or amy other softer science ology, I figure I might likely be deaking with smart folk for whom the argument itself is an end and winning it what is most important. People for whom rhetoric is more important than rightness. People who know the answers before they ask the questions.
And the situation you describe is not unique to the left. Ms Philips stating stuff like how do we get the CoE to teach religion again? What does it even mean? Would she be happy if the CoE once again preached that God ordained women should serve men and were in many ways chattel? What she really means is stop preaching stuff she doesn't like. Hardly objective, hardly respecting the opinion of others?
@@alsoascot02 I studied Sports Science. As well as learning the obvious stuff like Sports, fitness training and coaching etc, we learned quite a lot of Social Science aspects involved. In this particular module we compared different sporting structures from around the world, most notably China where the tutor went on annual exchanges. He taught us ‘The Guerilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea’ Mao Zedong. Since leaving University I have a very low view of most degrees and I don’t think the taxpayer should have funded my own degree. Most degrees involve reading and regurgitating facts and opinions. You are assessed on how well you can express the opinion that you have been taught, there’s no free thinking involved. Many people would view Sports science as a sub standard degree, but the content was actually quite good and I certainly wouldn’t rate it any less worthwhile than history, geography, business, sociology etc.
They have to erode, ridicule and destroy before they can create their new 'culture ' and it's pretty obvious to any sane, thoughtful, moral person as to where this is taking us.
‘They’ are a self-appointed group of ‘elite’ social controllers. They discuss and plan their end games over decades and even centuries, planting ideas, funding agendas, controlling the media. Look at the ‘c0nv!d’ nonsense - no one was allowed to mention alternative treatments - even mention a medication called iver mecrin. And now we are told that the derided ‘conspiracy theory’ of a lab leak is in fact the most likely cause - well what d’ya know? Look up the Club of Rome, the Bilderberg group, they are basically high-end freemasonic individuals, who now control the UN, the WHO, most politicians….. I’m no expert, but the more you look at this, the more you see an evil agenda to control, depopulate and grab land.
This needs to be recognised by the masses who seem to be almost paralysed in their bewilderment at what is happening, There can be no resistance until you identify exactly the real cause of the problem. Our very culture and identity is teetering on a precipice so we need action - urgently.
Very true and for all the criticism America gets, at least they are resisting this wave of lunacy. I think the Brits are too polite for their own good in some ways
I'm Irish and believe me the moment the spark is fired you'll have your change, I've seen it I'm 60 and there always comes a time when! It happens or someone stands strong and people see something special in this person and they awake or realise the king has no clothes.
My frustration is not knowing how to practically fight back. Petitions, MP letters are next to useless. Any suggestions on how to legally and ethically fight this social war?
Melanie Phillips talks complete common sense. Her analysis of the infiltration of universities and their purveyance of Marxist ideology is spot on. I returned to post graduate studies in the 1990s in Sociology. I was appalled even then how much attitudes had changed in the twenty years since I was an undergraduate. Out of thirty two people in the department I worked in only three of us had ever lived and worked in the real world. When I started teaching, giving tutorials and lectures I could not believe the nonsense I was asked to mention in classes ( which I avoided saying). As Melanie Phillips quite rightly states we are now a couple of generations on from then, heaven help us. But what I do not understand is as Melanie Phillips says we have not kicked back, we have become complicit in our own subjugation. I know at times the British can be slow to respond. But if we do not act soon, our culture, our history, our morals and are society will be consigned to history.
It's going to be history anyway so no Kewpie dolls for your prediction. So tell me mate, what is the dominant paradigm governing our politics and economy? Sorry, couldn't make out your mumbling. Shout it out to the world man. Be proud of your heritage and legacy.
What has changed with universities? They are now wholly bedded with the market totally in sync with conservative values and influence for over 30 years. So you found people you disagreed with there. That must have been unsettling but is it relevant. What makes you think that the ultra conservatism represented by these two didn't contribute to the mess you decry. Their language is all about deflecting fault onto others without the slightest reference to themselves. Nothing. Zilch.
@@MrHandle70 sorry about that mate, I'll try to remember next time. Now you have an insight as to how the word can be used. You don't need to thank me.
I could listen to Melanie Philips all day. It makes me sick to think that in the past 40 years we have had a dangerously declining calibre of politician to the point where today everything they do is causing harm to this nation and it's people. They are about as clueless as you could get but along with that extreme hubris so they don't know the ramifications of their actions.
I will add that those two elements mentioned forged the dominant paradigm of our times. When blame needs to be laid its better to take their own advice and apply the truth, stop finding others to blame and own their bitter legacy left for future generations to deal with.
melanie dropping so much truth bombs in a time where truth is gone. thanks john for the talk and uploading it! all we can do at this point is keep trying to talk and reason, which is very hard to do with ppl who don't want to talk and reason.
Melanie makes some good points . For instance those who wish to denigrate English traditions and history are having an easy battle because those that could oppose this cynical philosophy are long dead and Gen Z are too busy looking at their phones. It has become the norm in many walks of life to use University people to take the positions of those who have come up through the ranks - their pompous conceit has been a disaster in industry. My generation knew a better England where we all knew where we came from.
Please name some English traditions which are regularly denigrated. Someone else commented on here about English folk music and traditions. The greatest threat to these has always been the English establishment, not immigrants from abroad. The industrial revolution caused more damage to traditional ways of life in England and elsewhere
This lady describes the situation in New Zealand education perfectly. Over the past decade educational achievement has declined dramatically as a result of an agenda to undermine the fabric of traditional NZ society. Miss Ardern and the current Labour government amplify the thought that politics without morality is all about power. Its been sad to watch the steady, ongoing decline.
I agree completely. The present gummint has bankrupted the country in every way, morally and financially. In schools and politics the leftist amoral agenda is being pursued to the detriment of all sections of society
Politics without truth is only about power. We carry truth every single minute of our lives in our souls. Living a truthful life is a hard one. “Hij had de zware last op zich geladen een eerlijk man te zijn”
Excellent analysis of where we are and why. M.Phillips explains her thoughts with a clarity that is almost uncomparable.Well done Melanie and take a bow. Your education wasn't wasted on you. You are supreme!
When you are poor, the penalties for believing or teaching false narratives are often catastrophic. When you are a rich, over educated elitist, not so much.
Excellent point. As Thomas Sowell has pointed out for years, when you have a society that routinely hands over decision-making to people who have no stake in the game, it is a recipe for disaster. He was not just talking about economics.
Did John actually say something? Generally he just looks at her, his head nodding, occasionally lolling while his face is fixed with the grin of the dim witted. Need to pay more attention next time.
I will remind you the role Johnno played at his political peak. While he sits smugly nodding his noggin on the value of truth. Concentration camps established in central Australia to imprison people, men women and children not charged of any crime for indefinite periods of time for the temerity of landing on Australian shores uninvited. The repeated slurs on said people and lying to the public playing on fear, prejudice to win votes. The racism, the growing discrepancy in wealth, the lies involved with entry into illegal wars. I can certainly add more, lots more. He willingly participated in all of that and he continues to perpetuate untruths now. To watch his hypocritical smugness listening and encouraging this horrible journalist is enough to make anyone with the slightest decency want to puke. In turn I will willingly haunt his channel to remind those who have forgotten, inform those who don't know and flip the bird to all the others.
The problem I see today from the educated and non-educated is that there is no sense of weighing two sides of an argument. It’s either you believe my side or you’re a horrible person. People should be encouraged to make their own decisions based on their scientific assessment of experiences and facts, and not based on someone saying their view is science and the other is anti-science
That was the enlightenment…discourse, exploration, discovery. Also called the age of reason. We are now in the land of post-modernism. There is no truth (like the attack on genders) and the promotion of equity (no merit or performance). This was the attack from within and now our systems are taken over. We are lost. The west will decline and poverty will follow.
Their own scientific assessment based in what, The scientific facts presented by the science community ? or maybe the truth from the government ? How about the truth from media ? all of those groups said safe and effective . and look where we are ! sick people betrayed and ignored ...
This is the Second Lady I have viewed on video this morning who explains precisely one of the two major problems we face. My wife and I are in our 70s and have for years stated that we have a cultural and social problem. We’ve a generation of a generation of a generation, of the 1960s, who have been allowed to seed our population with ideology that countered that which had been in existence for hundreds of years. The “I’ll do what I want and no one will tell me otherwise movement and you’ve all done it wrong in the past “ . This is based on a desire to shift our traditional values and system to a left wing one; as the lady states they realised uprising was not going to happen and moved into the capillaries, then the veins and finally the arteries of our society to spread the doctrine. Without labelling every single one incorrectly, we have said for years that too many teachers were spreading left wing ideas to the pupils. I cannot see any way that politicians or the media are going to change this as every day we become more and more unable to express, or believe, opposing views to those people who hire and fire. Also fewer and fewer of our population are here to remember when things were not as they are now. As I stated, we’re old now and our lives have been unaffected by this until recently, but I weep for the future of our grandchildren and this Country.
@@thinkingoutloud7425 Goodness, that is a question straight out of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy! That is too long a question to go into here really, but a short answer might be that society develops over time and during this time it embraces ways of living. Those ways are what formulate the manner in which people live and react with each other. Different societies evolve differently, but a stable and balanced one basically maintains a culture of morality, education and a belief in the way that each one works. That isn’t to say that changes per se are anathema but any such must be by the consent of the population and not by invidious subterfuge of government or the education system, or by uprisings! But I’m not Bertrand Russell, so you need someone with a much deeper intellect to debate this with😂.
I'm infuriated. I'm depressed. It's hopeless. What a mess. Isn't that how experiments with rats indicates proclivity to automatically vote conservative?
It is the idea that the masses do not know what is best for them that leads to culture collapse. We need a hands off approach to running country where the masses do what is their simple basic wish to be allowed to get on with living without hindrance from government. Governments don't hold a culture together, the masses do.
The institutions reflect not lead, politics has always been about power and greed. This Nihilistic approach by those in power serves to divide the populous so as to maintain power.
The human brain isn't fully matured until around 25 years of age, so when it was usual for young people to leave school at 16 years of age they had 9 years of maturing within the work environment away from the influence of teachers to grow into rounded citizens. Then came Blair and Brown who wanted all children to stay on at school until they were 18, an extra 2 years of influence and then 50% to go to university with at least another 3 years of influence from the academics, leaving with perhaps only 1 year of maturing left within the work environment with the teachers influence deeply entrenched. Just a thought.
What we need is leaders of institutions with common sense Just say what you see not what you are told to see. I am an ex miner and ex soldier if we did cognitive dissonance in those two jobs we or those around us would die a terrifying pointless death, and I've seen plenty of both.
It is sad to observe from an old anglophile how Britain has slid into irrelevance and impending poverty, betrayed by their institutions and their leaders. They have lost all the moral integrity that once underpinned their society. There seems to be no way back to objectivity. I fear for my relatives and friends.
@@goldenthunder1166that'll be elected Prime Minster largely by those who had just faught WW2. And didnt trust (rightky?) the Tories to feel any gratitude or keep any promises?
Australia is a continent and a sovereign state; England is neither. England doesn't even have its own government. England is one of three countries in Britain, and is one of four countries in the United Kingdom. England is not Britain nor is it the UK. They are not synonyms. United Kingdom = sovereign country and kingdom consisting of four smaller countries: England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Full name: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Britain, or Great Britain = large geographical island in the British Isles comprising three small countries: England, Scotland, and Wales. The fuller name 'Great Britain' has been in use since the Middle English period, originally to distinguish the island from Brittany, which was then also called Britain. British isles: a geographically named group of islands, including Britain, Ireland (Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland), the Isle of Man, the Hebrides, the Orkney Islands, the Shetland Islands, the Isles of Scilly, and the Channel Islands, lying off the coast of north-western Europe, from which they are separated by the North Sea and the English Channel. British: belonging to or relating to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or to its people (English, Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish) or its culture. English = belonging to or relating to England, or its people: Englishwoman, Englishman. Englishwoman: me, because I'm specifically an old English girl. Moreover, the Union Flag (or Jack) does not represent England. St George's Cross is the flag that represents England: it's a red cross on a white background. The Union Flag (or Jack) is not a symbol or flag of England or Great Britain: it's the flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, being a composite design composed of St George's Cross (England), Saint Andrew's Cross (Scotland), and Saint Patrick's Cross (Ireland, now with Northern Ireland remaining). Wales had been annexed to the Kingdom of England before the Union, and therefore its flag does not form part of the composite design of the Union Flag. Hope this is of interest and helps to elucidate the particularities of the United Kingdom. It's quite simple to grasp.
Both have slopes shoulders, neither would mention the 23 year campaign of grooming white girls and women to open their legs for blacks and knock out mixed race kids, her fellow Jews are in the vanguard pushing it.
You have to ask, why was there virtually no resistance? I think the answer may partly be due to the fact that it happened so insidiously. “The long march through the institutions” was carried out with such stealth that nobody saw any of this coming.
Thats the whole point. The liberals useful idiot Thatcher attacked the institutions ,undermined them and destroyed trust. Letting the marxists stroll in and gradually take over.
There were numerous instances of resistence . Tepid though they may have been . You ( we ) were betrayed by the political class . Brexit , for example . The illegal invasion of off-culture foreigners , for example . So much for your vote ... !
Those who resist, or resisted decades ago get the entirety of the rotting establishment thrown at them, like feral dogs let off the leash until they shut up and complied. As a wise man once said, it is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre
So so true,we must turn this around and it will take time something that can be done now is stop requiring a university degree for public service and other activities
Yes very well said. I was only thinking so many of the ‘ordinary’ people I meet still have an integrity, honesty and common sense about them, compared to the ruling political class it’s really quite a remarkable difference.
I wish Melanie would have a broader voice. Since lockdown working from home I stopped buying the Times but can only read it on-line if I pay for it which I don't. The vast majority therefore do not get to hear her laser precision opinions. She needs to speak to a wider audience because she is one of the few that present a great argument and it is very much needed if we are to win this culture war.
Accurate analysis and much needed commentary on the state of things: points about the universities are central and true. The rot set in there and spread outwards. So pleased to find this slice of sensible, dignified conversation. Will make time to watch the entire interview. You are doing good work, for such a time as this, Mr Anderson. Many thanks and greetings from Australia!
Who is responsible for moral decay? look who owns the music industry, the film industry and who is pushing the narrative. Go look. Sure call me names but don't get upset when they all link back to one road.
Orwell was describing behavior he saw a basis for in Britain. It's always the same thing: hedonism over morality. Morality is the essence of civilization. There is no social glue except for tyranny under hedonism.
What a wise woman,bless her,may the people who are supposed to be running the country and are supposed to be well educated please listen to this woman,I wish she would enter into politics,she could put all of them to shame,she so knowledgeable,wise,and would put this country back to normal.
We must constellate. Determine what institutions, no matter how small, are still loyal, rational, decent, and traditional and cultivate them. Size doesn't matter at this point. Congregations, schools, clubs, athletic teams, law practices, shops, pubs, local festivals, they all can help. And not to forget leadership--we need princes! And wealth--we need patronage! And the modern equivalent of bards--we need good advertising!
The only point I would take issue with in Melanie's analysis is that the protagonists of the Marxist attack on the UK are "highly-educated". They are not! Certainly not in the old sense of being "well-read". Aside from their areas of political activism - which often stem from their 'academic' interests - the Communists who have been inserted into every institution in the Realm, are not 'academics' in the old sense of the word. They are not 'world authorities' on topics, in the way that Professors were thirty years ago. These are academic 'light-weights'. The NHS is stuffed with them. I receive reports of 'Training Sessions' in the Taunton & Somerset Partnership NHS Trust which stem rom pure Marxism. Even the language is Marxist dialectic; and is filled with the Marxist analysis of 'human beings'. This is not even philosophically sound; because of all the implicit assumptions it makes (eg the possession of "privilege" on the part of some).
I prefer to use the word "credentialed" to describe those with university degrees. In a many cases "indoctrinated" is accurate, but "credentialed" is more neutral term and covers the whole lot.
What is this culture people keep going on about?is it supposed to be the same forever-locked in the 1950s or whenever?things change-some times for the better,sometimes the opposite,deal with it!
Since the people voted to leave the EU, the establishment are in a spiral of decline, lashing our at their perceived enemies. They have been rumbled, it is the beginning of the end for the establishment.
It not all about power, it’s also about pleasure. When I did my PhD in the US I also found that the greater the level of education the more arrogant, contemptuous, self righteous, entitled and wrong these people were. She is spot on. I live in Jamaica and I always put the blame for our demise at the feet of our politicians and the professors at our intellectual ghetto (The University of the West Indies). The place graduates educated but arrogant fools.
Or we could appropriately point to General Smedley Butler's book "War is a Racket", coupled with the Marxist Manifesto to see where it really began. The schools had to be told to change when the Dept of State was taken over by the Carnegie Foundation in the early 1900's. Public school is a MAJOR problem, it came from Prussia because it made amazing slaves. Lets avoid blaming faceless institutions, let's focus on the actually policy-enforcers behind them.
@@claimant9423great point ! If only more people knew and understood this . Maybe , at least , some of the " positional arrogance " could be tamped down a little .
@@deanoverlie224 I believe it would fail to even exist, if the foundational issues were addressed. The system is created in such a way... to make proud, ignorant sheeple/slaves who adore their slavery. The most intelligent people I have ever met, are self taught. The most personable too. Ever read Brave New World? Watch a few interviews of A. Huxley.
@@claimant9423 sure have ( read that material ) Orwell is always cited as being a socialist . As he said himself . Read " wiggens pier " ( my personal favorite Orwell ) . The 2nd part is , to me , astounding -in that he seems to be seriously questioning the moral ground of rank socialism .
Agreed. Would you be interested in a documented story about how the police putting minor crimes above serious ones is probably a major factor in sending us down this rabbit hole?
They already are, police "service". They don't enforce the law, they enforce "some" laws and are not above disposing of evidence or allowing officers to plant it on erroneous case files. Hiding some crimes, to demonstrate effectiveness for commissioner's re-election or the pc lobby take your pick, the police can ride public goodwill generated by violent crimes they play a part in creating by driving male victims into what they hope will be violent hopelessness, a self fulfilling prophecy. The top level at West Mercia Police (for example) currently not only believes but insists that perverting the course of justice is 'not a criminal offence'. The UK needs to check it's seals.
I'm a Yank . But love the cultural " motherland " . Am a little disturbed to hear about some London L.E.O.s being functionaly illiterate due to " diversity " hiring policies . Sounds like ol' Sadiq trying to live up to his surname .
@@deanoverlie224 it's not the hiring policies you might think just to be clear. it's more to do with radical feminism, nothing to do with sadiq khan. the officers in question are all white, mostly female and sadly seem to have decided that laws are mutable.
I think the real problem is best summed up by the old axiom "Nothing fails like success". If we fall it will be due to our own decay. It happened to Rome and now it seems to be our turn.
This is closer to the truth. Her narrative is very lucid and compelling but it doesn’t stack against what I know of myself and my 1990 oxbridge graduate buddies ie the ones largely in charge now: it’s just too much delicious luxury made us a bit complacent and weak. She is shouting about traitors in our midst!
Great comments. The moral erosion is the lack of Christianity in the population, which has allowed the lack of morals of the aristocracy to flow down to the middle class. Those at the top and royalty, have always been entitled to lovers and mistresses, we are all the same now, wearing it on our sleeves!!! The common denominator has slid to the basement!!
Well said . Unfortunately the BBC journalists and the government are all dancing to a higher tune. What we need is to wake up to what is happening, get away from top down government, and become more community based.
Being working class, left school with poor CSEs, joined the RAF maturing me and taking advantage of evening classes, gaining more qualifications as a Civ. Eng, Technician became an IT Teacher, taught many senior teachers and those with more prestigious degrees than my B.Ed, became a Microsoft Trainer and due to my time in education delivered varying IT courses to University staff and students. Thus, I believe I have the experience to comment on Melanie's observation that the more academic a person is, the more likely they are to be ignorant, irrational and bigoted whereas the lower you go in someone's academic ability they are decent people, grounded in reality and have common sense is ABSOLUTELY AND TOTALLY CORRECT !!
First of all, good for you. Shows that with personal responsibility, you can turn your life around. Second of all, and this is somewhat related, I am noticing that a lot of online media is written in an incredibly facile manner. I scroll down to the end and find that the author has a degree or two. I have found this even on supposedly scientific articles for public consumption. And don't even get me started on the number of adults whose social media posts are just a few steps above illiteracy. Are we being dumbed down?
Absolutely brilliant and 100% correct. It is unbelievable that the highly intelligent and educated people that she talks about could ever believe the palpable nonsense that is being preached from pulpit, Parliament, and professions. Never in my worst nightmares did I ever envisage living in such a twisted world as we are living in today. There are books and films galore about dystopian futures, but that future is already here. Right now we are living in a dystopian 'future.'
These institutions functioned in the first place because this was a Christian nation. The only solution is coming back to Christ - true repentance and true belief - which will lead to real devotion and godliness, which will increase the morality of the people which can restore these institutions. It is Christ or Chaos.
Case in point: the fact that it is now radical to state that there are two biological sexes, even though this is objective truth observed within humans and most species on earth.
When it came to university, I got the piece of paper I needed then got out. I've learned more from the internet than from uni. If you didn't pander to the lecturer's bias you got lower grades.
In the USA I have seen it suggested that many of the mass shootings are the result of the "no losers" / "no failures " ideas that have crept into education.
@@stephfoxwell4620 The suggestion is that when the kids reach the real world they discover that they are not as good as they have been told but cannot accept that they are failures. Although easy access to guns facilitate these tragedies the cause is cultural otherwise they would happen in many other parts of the world.
I recommend everyone to watch this interview with Rudy Dutschke from 1967 (it has English subtitles). Perfectly explains "The long march through the institutions" and everything else you need to know. Watching this in 2023 feels like every single thing this man said would happen, has happened. And it makes me sad beyond belief...
Yuri Bezmenov an ex KGB political officer explains the KGB mantra in his book A Love Letter to America. He explains in great detail the process in which the various institutions are infiltrated and then how they are demoralised, and then destroyed. I’ll give you an example - the idea that a woman can abort a baby any time, any where any how, because it’s her body was unheard of in the 50’s or even the 60’s. This idea was promoted by the early Marxist feminists in the States some of whom were paid by the KGB, Which is absolutely astounding! Every institution developed by men has been infiltrated and ridiculed by the Marxist feminists ( and all other women who support the breaking up of the Patriarchy).
@@alexbirrell4568 Yep, I am familiar with the man and I've watched his talks and interviews many times. Scary isn't it? At this point it reads almost like a book summarizing past events
I like and respect Melanie Phillips but in this situation her inability to think outside the box is showing. There's a reason society got here, and that reason still exists. So there is ZERO chance of some leader being able to pull us back from the brink. In fact we are still moving closer and closer to the brink.
Especially when we collectively are clueless why all civilisations tend to follow the exact same trends before they collapse. The truth is not welcome, no one has the bravery to speak out and most are utterly clueless
Ok, that was the diagnosis. What is the prognosis? - Doctor to patient: "After examining you, I regret to inform you that your condition is terminal. However, don't worry, everyone's prognosis is the same - eventually we all end up the same way!" Sorry.
I meet people everyday who have common sense and they are working class people, disempowered, demoralised and impoverished, I see idiots who are educated without any common sense and who are empowered and enriching themselves. These people have never done a days work in their life.
@@stephfoxwell4620 Do you really think she was a "globalist" for want of a better word? She did a good job of pretending to be a conservative and patriot.
I remember when the likes of Melanie Phillips were in the forefront of criticising those who spoke out against the mass-immigration policies of Blair and co. I have yet to hear her apologise for getting it so wrong. Now all she does, like so many other 'intelligentsia' is tell us what's wrong, but not how to fix it.
As a highly educated person (doctorate and four years of post-doc), I thank God that I somehow avoided the indoctrination trap. It is not inevitable, but highly probable, that the well educated have lost both their mind and their moral compass. But here in the US I know that the common man is our greatest hope. I pray that it will be enough.
the BBC? Why is there a BBC? We would be better off without it. In my house I got rid of the TV licence tax over twenty years ago - more money, more peace of mind, more time to live my life without paying for government lies and propaganda being piped straight into my eyes and ears. Winning.
I think there's a confusion regarding what British culture is, mistaking it for empire and elitism, coming from people who are not British and could not possibly know.
Yes, I agree. What is good about Britishness is ignored or is tactically forgotten. Empire and elitism are represented as the only characteristics of Britishness, and of these we are told to be ashamed in entirety. Truly, we are being torn down from within. And it will be an unpopular view but I personally do not think that years and years of uncontrolled immigration have helped matters. So many people want to come and live here, but then want only to criticize and condemn British culture.....and we let them do it!!! Why?
@@CorinneDunbar-ls3ej I think the reason is that British culture is seldom defined. We know the effect of what is not said, but I think our reticence has outlived its usefulness. It means we don't respond when foreigners who know nothing about us slander our culture.
I will be 70 in a few months, i was educated in catholic schools through 12 grade, then went to a public university, i suspect that public education has failed to teach Objective truths for at least 50 years in the US!
I would agree. It takes quite a bit of education to persuade a person to ignore empirical reality and to embrace ideas that are both irrational and toxic. Miseducation has replaced education. Today, highly educated people often have no systematic intellectual method designed to discover truth. Instead, they have a set of accepted beliefs. Ironically, I think this is why the "educated" seem to embrace a kind of moral superiority. This is odd, for the current intellectual atmosphere can offer no rational foundation for moral principles. Secularism is almost synonymous with philosophical materialism, the notion that reality is exhausted by matter and energy, and that is all there is. But this material model has no room for an authoritative moral philosophy. The Naturalistic Fallacy tells us that the facts of the material world will not and can not support moral conclusions. What "is" cannot tell us what "ought to be." That is where we are right now. Prophetically, C. S. Lewis wrote The Abolition of Man, which insightfully describes the current intellectual atmosphere and where it will take us. That book is available on RUclips: ruclips.net/video/ivOSq0rsP_0/видео.html
Psyops in entire western culture! Tear down the house and build a new one! This highly articulated lady has explained the current Cultural Revolution with clarity and depth! Congratulations!!
Spot on. I agree with everything she says.
She misses out the foreign subversive parasitic cult which has subverted our country for over 100 years
So do I and millions of others ..No objective truth …and that is why we are where we are .
As do I. Imagine if these two represented * we the people.*
Fortunately my fellow travellers we know Anderson is the nodding head and Phillips the spur to "...perfidy and beyond my good man".
I never used to agree with her a lot of the time 10 years ago on question time... but now we are one. How times have changed. I haven't, but admit I was wrong about her.
Melanie always gets it right!! She articulates what all reasonable people can clearly see happening.
Like on covid
It’s imbecile, Melanie….. but seriously, you are saying what needs to be said, loud and clear..
stop funding all but technical higher education
@@OutRAjious ; you see how they slip bullsh!t like CRT into MATH classes? :( That alone won't stop them from indoctrinating.
How many saw it before being told though? Who went along with it at school and university and who saw through it? You will generally see it is about one in 30. Some of the other 29 figure it out much later on.
Politics without morality is all about power and here we are. Sorry I can't quote Ms Phillips exact words but how incredibly correct she is. There are three paths left to us, one is to roll over and take it, another is to forsake the major parties and the last is abhorrent.
Abhorrent but life is messy, as is its removal en masse
Well done for noticing, but do you know what brought us here and who?
@@celtspeaksgoth7251kbj😢
Yes
@@BasedSaxon yes but the true source of their power is the people who are so dumb that like sheep they keep voting for the major parties and enabling them to carry out the orders of their masters.
What she said about the higher you go on the educational ladder ... is true here in the US. William F Buckley was half joking decades ago with his line about preferring to be governed by people chosen at random from the phone book (back when that existed) than Harvard graduates. Now it's absolutely true throughout the English speaking world.
Since when was a Harvard education proof of anything other than you've got money pouring out of your derrier after a night out dining directly out of the nearest skip.
Good old Buckley, another cashed up toffee nosed man of the people.
The right breeds hypocrites. It's in the genes.
Instead he got his arse handed to him by an MIT graduate
@@cellbiologyshorts9105I think you're thinking of his brother James who had a brief political career.
Maybe he was referencing it, but the Athenians beat him to it by a millennium or so with sortition.
The point she made about Universities slowly spreading the new ideology from within our society is 100% accurate. I was explicitly taught this at University 25 years ago. It came from a Chinese socialist philosophy on how to make change, something about many little fishes. But it still relies on the assumption that those making the change MUST have all the answers. It is ridiculously egotistical to think you are correct without question. But this is the problem we face, two generations of people educated to believe that whatever they feel simply must be correct with no external objective validation. And it completely undermines classical liberalism which explicitly states that another persons opinions should be respected as highly as one’s own opinion, irrespective of who the individual might be. And it leads to the derision we now see from ‘the left’ who would cancel another persons opinion because they don’t see it as ‘worthwhile’. Large volumes of university graduates, taught to look down their noses at anybody different. I thought that only happened in private schools!
What did you study?
There is imo a real problem. Ie Folk thinking that the study of anything other that truly objective STEM subjects actually imparts the ability for truly objective thinking. And is really anything but entertainment and its admittedly very entertaining.
As soon as I hear Politics with Economics, Classics, sociology or amy other softer science ology, I figure I might likely be deaking with smart folk for whom the argument itself is an end and winning it what is most important. People for whom rhetoric is more important than rightness.
People who know the answers before they ask the questions.
And the situation you describe is not unique to the left. Ms Philips stating stuff like how do we get the CoE to teach religion again? What does it even mean? Would she be happy if the CoE once again preached that God ordained women should serve men and were in many ways chattel? What she really means is stop preaching stuff she doesn't like. Hardly objective, hardly respecting the opinion of others?
@@alsoascot02 Richard Feynman: “I would rather have questions without answers than answers without questions”.
@@jimsimpson1006That's a good one.
@@alsoascot02 I studied Sports Science. As well as learning the obvious stuff like Sports, fitness training and coaching etc, we learned quite a lot of Social Science aspects involved. In this particular module we compared different sporting structures from around the world, most notably China where the tutor went on annual exchanges. He taught us ‘The Guerilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea’ Mao Zedong. Since leaving University I have a very low view of most degrees and I don’t think the taxpayer should have funded my own degree. Most degrees involve reading and regurgitating facts and opinions. You are assessed on how well you can express the opinion that you have been taught, there’s no free thinking involved. Many people would view Sports science as a sub standard degree, but the content was actually quite good and I certainly wouldn’t rate it any less worthwhile than history, geography, business, sociology etc.
They have to erode, ridicule and destroy before they can create their new 'culture ' and it's pretty obvious to any sane, thoughtful, moral person as to where this is taking us.
Do an early life check on her....every single time
And who are they?
‘They’ are a self-appointed group of ‘elite’ social controllers. They discuss and plan their end games over decades and even centuries, planting ideas, funding agendas, controlling the media. Look at the ‘c0nv!d’ nonsense - no one was allowed to mention alternative treatments - even mention a medication called iver mecrin. And now we are told that the derided ‘conspiracy theory’ of a lab leak is in fact the most likely cause - well what d’ya know? Look up the Club of Rome, the Bilderberg group, they are basically high-end freemasonic individuals, who now control the UN, the WHO, most politicians….. I’m no expert, but the more you look at this, the more you see an evil agenda to control, depopulate and grab land.
@@BasedSaxon ?
@@BasedSaxon The " educators ".
This needs to be recognised by the masses who seem to be almost paralysed in their bewilderment at what is happening, There can be no resistance until you identify exactly the real cause of the problem. Our very culture and identity is teetering on a precipice so we need action - urgently.
Very true and for all the criticism America gets, at least they are resisting this wave of lunacy. I think the Brits are too polite for their own good in some ways
I'm Irish and believe me the moment the spark is fired you'll have your change, I've seen it I'm 60 and there always comes a time when! It happens or someone stands strong and people see something special in this person and they awake or realise the king has no clothes.
@edsheringham.They're Only bewildered Because the Masses faces are Stuck in the Sun, mirror, news of the world and Daily Fail.
My frustration is not knowing how to practically fight back. Petitions, MP letters are next to useless. Any suggestions on how to legally and ethically fight this social war?
This helps explaining what is happening: ruclips.net/video/j140pNFThoc/видео.html
Melanie Phillips talks complete common sense. Her analysis of the infiltration of universities and their purveyance of Marxist ideology is spot on. I returned to post graduate studies in the 1990s in Sociology. I was appalled even then how much attitudes had changed in the twenty years since I was an undergraduate. Out of thirty two people in the department I worked in only three of us had ever lived and worked in the real world. When I started teaching, giving tutorials and lectures I could not believe the nonsense I was asked to mention in classes ( which I avoided saying). As Melanie Phillips quite rightly states we are now a couple of generations on from then, heaven help us. But what I do not understand is as Melanie Phillips says we have not kicked back, we have become complicit in our own subjugation.
I know at times the British can be slow to respond. But if we do not act soon, our culture, our history, our morals and are society will be consigned to history.
It's going to be history anyway so no Kewpie dolls for your prediction.
So tell me mate, what is the dominant paradigm governing our politics and economy?
Sorry, couldn't make out your mumbling.
Shout it out to the world man. Be proud of your heritage and legacy.
@@banta-pd8zj I am mumbling! Not a single coherent point in your reply.
@@banta-pd8zj And I am not your mate!
What has changed with universities? They are now wholly bedded with the market totally in sync with conservative values and influence for over 30 years.
So you found people you disagreed with there. That must have been unsettling but is it relevant.
What makes you think that the ultra conservatism represented by these two didn't contribute to the mess you decry.
Their language is all about deflecting fault onto others without the slightest reference to themselves.
Nothing. Zilch.
@@MrHandle70 sorry about that mate, I'll try to remember next time.
Now you have an insight as to how the word can be used. You don't need to thank me.
I could listen to Melanie Philips all day. It makes me sick to think that in the past 40 years we have had a dangerously declining calibre of politician to the point where today everything they do is causing harm to this nation and it's people. They are about as clueless as you could get but along with that extreme hubris so they don't know the ramifications of their actions.
Partly right but the politicians know exactly the ramifications of their actions.
That's it, you timed it perfectly to Thatcher and Reagan.
Two lumps of excrement to the winner.
@@peterrichardson9248 Well if that's the case they are guilty of only one thing!
@@banta-pd8zjno understanding - no " solutions " do you proffer .
Just ignorant objection . Your fearful mocking shows your true self .
" Sport ."
I will add that those two elements mentioned forged the dominant paradigm of our times.
When blame needs to be laid its better to take their own advice and apply the truth, stop finding others to blame and own their bitter legacy left for future generations to deal with.
Melanie Phillips, you are such a breath of fresh air, thank you 👏👏
melanie dropping so much truth bombs in a time where truth is gone. thanks john for the talk and uploading it! all we can do at this point is keep trying to talk and reason, which is very hard to do with ppl who don't want to talk and reason.
How very clearly this lady explains our present cultural and moral dilemma!
Melanie makes some good points . For instance those who wish to denigrate English traditions and history are having an easy battle because those that could oppose this cynical philosophy are long dead and Gen Z are too busy looking at their phones. It has become the norm in many walks of life to use University people to take the positions of those who have come up through the ranks - their pompous conceit has been a disaster in industry. My generation knew a better England where we all knew where we came from.
Once we conscripted 18 year olds to the armed forces.
Now we conscript them to University.
Brain dead or just dead. Now there's a choice worthy of capitalism.
Better for who?
Please name some English traditions which are regularly denigrated. Someone else commented on here about English folk music and traditions. The greatest threat to these has always been the English establishment, not immigrants from abroad. The industrial revolution caused more damage to traditional ways of life in England and elsewhere
This lady describes the situation in New Zealand education perfectly. Over the past decade educational achievement has declined dramatically as a result of an agenda to undermine the fabric of traditional NZ society. Miss Ardern and the current Labour government amplify the thought that politics without morality is all about power. Its been sad to watch the steady, ongoing decline.
I agree completely. The present gummint has bankrupted the country in every way, morally and financially. In schools and politics the leftist amoral agenda is being pursued to the detriment of all sections of society
Traditional society must be destroyed globally for progress to be made.Wake up world.
Politics without truth is only about power. We carry truth every single minute of our lives in our souls. Living a truthful life is a hard one. “Hij had de zware last op zich geladen een eerlijk man te zijn”
@@kristine6996
Whose truth? Stick Conservative values and religious bigotry.
Excellent analysis of where we are and why. M.Phillips explains her thoughts with a clarity that is almost uncomparable.Well done Melanie and take a bow. Your education wasn't wasted on you.
You are supreme!
When you are poor, the penalties for believing or teaching false narratives are often catastrophic. When you are a rich, over educated elitist, not so much.
Excellent point. As Thomas Sowell has pointed out for years, when you have a society that routinely hands over decision-making to people who have no stake in the game, it is a recipe for disaster. He was not just talking about economics.
"But once there's no truth, there's no principle, therefore politics is only ever about power"
Well said John!
Yes. Sums up Trump exactly.
Did John actually say something? Generally he just looks at her, his head nodding, occasionally lolling while his face is fixed with the grin of the dim witted.
Need to pay more attention next time.
@@banta-pd8zjimagine letting the interviewee speak
I will remind you the role Johnno played at his political peak. While he sits smugly nodding his noggin on the value of truth.
Concentration camps established in central Australia to imprison people, men women and children not charged of any crime for indefinite periods of time for the temerity of landing on Australian shores uninvited. The repeated slurs on said people and lying to the public playing on fear, prejudice to win votes.
The racism, the growing discrepancy in wealth, the lies involved with entry into illegal wars.
I can certainly add more, lots more.
He willingly participated in all of that and he continues to perpetuate untruths now.
To watch his hypocritical smugness listening and encouraging this horrible journalist is enough to make anyone with the slightest decency want to puke.
In turn I will willingly haunt his channel to remind those who have forgotten, inform those who don't know and flip the bird to all the others.
The essence of the mainstream media.
The problem I see today from the educated and non-educated is that there is no sense of weighing two sides of an argument. It’s either you believe my side or you’re a horrible person. People should be encouraged to make their own decisions based on their scientific assessment of experiences and facts, and not based on someone saying their view is science and the other is anti-science
That was the enlightenment…discourse, exploration, discovery. Also called the age of reason.
We are now in the land of post-modernism. There is no truth (like the attack on genders) and the promotion of equity (no merit or performance). This was the attack from within and now our systems are taken over. We are lost.
The west will decline and poverty will follow.
Why do you assume everyone is capable of making a "scientific assessment of their experiences"?
Their own scientific assessment based in what, The scientific facts presented by the science community ?
or maybe the truth from the government ?
How about the truth from media ?
all of those groups said safe and effective .
and look where we are !
sick people betrayed and ignored ...
But that would be using objectivity! And that’s a White mans colonial way of things! They’re tearing that down too with ‘decolonising’ of curriculum.
People are capable of rational thought. The Enlightenment was premised on that fact.
This is the Second Lady I have viewed on video this morning who explains precisely one of the two major problems we face. My wife and I are in our 70s and have for years stated that we have a cultural and social problem. We’ve a generation of a generation of a generation, of the 1960s, who have been allowed to seed our population with ideology that countered that which had been in existence for hundreds of years. The “I’ll do what I want and no one will tell me otherwise movement and you’ve all done it wrong in the past “ . This is based on a desire to shift our traditional values and system to a left wing one; as the lady states they realised uprising was not going to happen and moved into the capillaries, then the veins and finally the arteries of our society to spread the doctrine. Without labelling every single one incorrectly, we have said for years that too many teachers were spreading left wing ideas to the pupils. I cannot see any way that politicians or the media are going to change this as every day we become more and more unable to express, or believe, opposing views to those people who hire and fire. Also fewer and fewer of our population are here to remember when things were not as they are now. As I stated, we’re old now and our lives have been unaffected by this until recently, but I weep for the future of our grandchildren and this Country.
Well done, but have you found out where it actually comes from?
@@BasedSaxon sorry being dumb, “it” means exactly what?
@@anthonya7169"it"...life, society, education.....morality?
@@thinkingoutloud7425 Goodness, that is a question straight out of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy! That is too long a question to go into here really, but a short answer might be that society develops over time and during this time it embraces ways of living. Those ways are what formulate the manner in which people live and react with each other. Different societies evolve differently, but a stable and balanced one basically maintains a culture of morality, education and a belief in the way that each one works. That isn’t to say that changes per se are anathema but any such must be by the consent of the population and not by invidious subterfuge of government or the education system, or by uprisings! But I’m not Bertrand Russell, so you need someone with a much deeper intellect to debate this with😂.
Anthony.
You are correct.
But sadly ,it is much much worse than that.
Believe I am around her age and have lived through the revolution for 60 years. It's all terribly disappointing and maddening.
Isn't it just?
Frustrating.
Infuriating.
Depressing.
Irritating.
I'm infuriated.
I'm depressed.
It's hopeless.
What a mess.
Isn't that how experiments with rats indicates proclivity to automatically vote conservative?
@@banta-pd8zjall over this discussion ..
You have absolutely nothing to say - but you say it with such idiot - level snark .
It is the idea that the masses do not know what is best for them that leads to culture collapse. We need a hands off approach to running country where the masses do what is their simple basic wish to be allowed to get on with living without hindrance from government. Governments don't hold a culture together, the masses do.
The institutions reflect not lead, politics has always been about power and greed. This Nihilistic approach by those in power serves to divide the populous so as to maintain power.
Just about sums it up 👏👏
Phillips is a national treasure.
Why is she?
Because she’s right, for starters.
Which one of her nations are you referring too?
@@clemfarley7257 of course she is right, It would be hard for her to not be considering she is a chosen one
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The human brain isn't fully matured until around 25 years of age, so when it was usual for young people to leave school at 16 years of age they had 9 years of maturing within the work environment away from the influence of teachers to grow into rounded citizens. Then came Blair and Brown who wanted all children to stay on at school until they were 18, an extra 2 years of influence and then 50% to go to university with at least another 3 years of influence from the academics, leaving with perhaps only 1 year of maturing left within the work environment with the teachers influence deeply entrenched.
Just a thought.
What we need is leaders of institutions with common sense
Just say what you see not what you are told to see.
I am an ex miner and ex soldier if we did cognitive dissonance in those two jobs we or those around us would die a terrifying pointless death, and I've seen plenty of both.
There are no such leaders.
Yeah save your dissonance for later. Wise move white man.
Our leaders are our enemy. In fact, the entire establishment is our enemy. We are truly f**cked.
It is sad to observe from an old anglophile how Britain has slid into irrelevance and impending poverty, betrayed by their institutions and their leaders. They have lost all the moral integrity that once underpinned their society. There seems to be no way back to objectivity. I fear for my relatives and friends.
The collapse began years ago when our Universities began to go rotten, aided and abetted by Blairites. She covers the subject well.
Began earlier than that
@@goldenthunder1166well it is more about the subversion through money lending
@@goldenthunder1166that'll be elected Prime Minster largely by those who had just faught WW2. And didnt trust (rightky?) the Tories to feel any gratitude or keep any promises?
I think it was more the dissolution of the polytechnics & colleges, converting them to ‘new’ universities and the dumbing down of academia.
Blair's plan, get them to university, get them indoctrinated, get them into politics, get them into the media and the jobs done.
So good to hear from people with such clarity of thought.
Australia like England gave almost no resistance
The alglosphere has been affected the most. We are all privy to the same infrastructure and cultural umbrella.
Australia is a continent and a sovereign state; England is neither. England doesn't even have its own government. England is one of three countries in Britain, and is one of four countries in the United Kingdom. England is not Britain nor is it the UK. They are not synonyms.
United Kingdom = sovereign country and kingdom consisting of four smaller countries: England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Full name: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Britain, or Great Britain = large geographical island in the British Isles comprising three small countries: England, Scotland, and Wales. The fuller name 'Great Britain' has been in use since the Middle English period, originally to distinguish the island from Brittany, which was then also called Britain.
British isles: a geographically named group of islands, including Britain, Ireland (Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland), the Isle of Man, the Hebrides, the Orkney Islands, the Shetland Islands, the Isles of Scilly, and the Channel Islands, lying off the coast of north-western Europe, from which they are separated by the North Sea and the English Channel.
British: belonging to or relating to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or to its people (English, Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish) or its culture.
English = belonging to or relating to England, or its people: Englishwoman, Englishman.
Englishwoman: me, because I'm specifically an old English girl.
Moreover, the Union Flag (or Jack) does not represent England. St George's Cross is the flag that represents England: it's a red cross on a white background.
The Union Flag (or Jack) is not a symbol or flag of England or Great Britain: it's the flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, being a composite design composed of St George's Cross (England), Saint Andrew's Cross (Scotland), and Saint Patrick's Cross (Ireland, now with Northern Ireland remaining). Wales had been annexed to the Kingdom of England before the Union, and therefore its flag does not form part of the composite design of the Union Flag.
Hope this is of interest and helps to elucidate the particularities of the United Kingdom. It's quite simple to grasp.
Not true; the Aboriginals tried to fight back against the invading murderous thieves, but they were overpowered with superior weapons.
@@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO australia wouldnt exist if it wasnt for that.
@@--Traveler-- Australia existed before it was STOLEN by TERRORISTS, it would still have existed without the TERRORIST-THIEVES.
Two worthwhile commentators.
I would love to see a discussion between Melanie Phillips and Douglas Murray.
That would be priceless.
That would be an echo chamber. Bring on Germaine Greer for an apology.
Noddin Noggin at the helm and Germaine Greer fouling the steerage way.
Sounds promising.
Is she still alive?
Both have slopes shoulders, neither would mention the 23 year campaign of grooming white girls and women to open their legs for blacks and knock out mixed race kids, her fellow Jews are in the vanguard pushing it.
Christopher Hitchens would have sorted out her misunderstanding.
You have to ask, why was there virtually no resistance? I think the answer may partly be due to the fact that it happened so insidiously. “The long march through the institutions” was carried out with such stealth that nobody saw any of this coming.
Thats the whole point.
The liberals useful idiot Thatcher attacked the institutions ,undermined them and destroyed trust.
Letting the marxists stroll in and gradually take over.
And anyone who tried to sound the alarm was smeared , shouted down and then laughed at .
Nup, you're all wrong. The long march to privatise all schooling is nigh upon us.
Problem solved.
There were numerous instances of resistence . Tepid though they may have been .
You ( we ) were betrayed by the political class .
Brexit , for example .
The illegal invasion of off-culture foreigners , for example .
So much for your vote ... !
Those who resist, or resisted decades ago get the entirety of the rotting establishment thrown at them, like feral dogs let off the leash until they shut up and complied. As a wise man once said, it is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre
Great wisdom from Ms Phillips.
So so true,we must turn this around and it will take time something that can be done now is stop requiring a university degree for public service and other activities
Yes very well said. I was only thinking so many of the ‘ordinary’ people I meet still have an integrity, honesty and common sense about them, compared to the ruling political class it’s really quite a remarkable difference.
I wish Melanie would have a broader voice. Since lockdown working from home I stopped buying the Times but can only read it on-line if I pay for it which I don't. The vast majority therefore do not get to hear her laser precision opinions. She needs to speak to a wider audience because she is one of the few that present a great argument and it is very much needed if we are to win this culture war.
Disturbingly true
Can Great Britain be saved? Restored?
Can America? Oz? Canada? New Zealand?
Or are we all too far gone? 🙁
I think we've gone too far now.
It will take a long time
We must not despair
Depends on getting real parliamentary representation.
Did the Greeks save themselves? Did the Romans save themselves? America will soon be making it illegal to have electricity in homes.
Accurate analysis and much needed commentary on the state of things: points about the universities are central and true. The rot set in there and spread outwards. So pleased to find this slice of sensible, dignified conversation. Will make time to watch the entire interview. You are doing good work, for such a time as this, Mr Anderson. Many thanks and greetings from Australia!
The old Greek proverb: Those who hate excellence hate the gods.
Equally pertinent: Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.
@@marilena7848 Mad Mel.
Who is responsible for moral decay? look who owns the music industry, the film industry and who is pushing the narrative. Go look. Sure call me names but don't get upset when they all link back to one road.
Write that with greater clarity and you'll be banned from RUclips.
That's why everybody ignores the elephant in the room.
@@raypurchase801 You know it.
Certainly will, do an early life check on Melanie Philips too 😂
@@BasedSaxon Love the avi :D
@@BasedSaxonOuch.
Orwell was describing behavior he saw a basis for in Britain. It's always the same thing: hedonism over morality. Morality is the essence of civilization. There is no social glue except for tyranny under hedonism.
@1:00 The rebuttal to "there is no such thing as objective truth" is, "is that true?".
What a wise woman,bless her,may the people who are supposed to be running the country and are supposed to be well educated please listen to this woman,I wish she would enter into politics,she could put all of them to shame,she so knowledgeable,wise,and would put this country back to normal.
We must constellate. Determine what institutions, no matter how small, are still loyal, rational, decent, and traditional and cultivate them. Size doesn't matter at this point. Congregations, schools, clubs, athletic teams, law practices, shops, pubs, local festivals, they all can help. And not to forget leadership--we need princes! And wealth--we need patronage! And the modern equivalent of bards--we need good advertising!
The only point I would take issue with in Melanie's analysis is that the protagonists of the Marxist attack on the UK are "highly-educated". They are not! Certainly not in the old sense of being "well-read". Aside from their areas of political activism - which often stem from their 'academic' interests - the Communists who have been inserted into every institution in the Realm, are not 'academics' in the old sense of the word. They are not 'world authorities' on topics, in the way that Professors were thirty years ago. These are academic 'light-weights'. The NHS is stuffed with them. I receive reports of 'Training Sessions' in the Taunton & Somerset Partnership NHS Trust which stem rom pure Marxism. Even the language is Marxist dialectic; and is filled with the Marxist analysis of 'human beings'. This is not even philosophically sound; because of all the implicit assumptions it makes (eg the possession of "privilege" on the part of some).
I prefer to use the word "credentialed" to describe those with university degrees. In a many cases "indoctrinated" is accurate, but "credentialed" is more neutral term and covers the whole lot.
Any one who would wish a culture to disappear will regret it when it's gone
Tell that to the Australians
@@aangtheairbender Amen.
Anyone who is oblivious to terrible government is clueless... public school sheeple ask no questions!
Afghanistan?
The ancient Maya?
What is this culture people keep going on about?is it supposed to be the same forever-locked in the 1950s or whenever?things change-some times for the better,sometimes the opposite,deal with it!
Since the people voted to leave the EU, the establishment are in a spiral of decline, lashing our at their perceived enemies. They have been rumbled, it is the beginning of the end for the establishment.
It not all about power, it’s also about pleasure. When I did my PhD in the US I also found that the greater the level of education the more arrogant, contemptuous, self righteous, entitled and wrong these people were. She is spot on. I live in Jamaica and I always put the blame for our demise at the feet of our politicians and the professors at our intellectual ghetto (The University of the West Indies). The place graduates educated but arrogant fools.
Or we could appropriately point to General Smedley Butler's book "War is a Racket", coupled with the Marxist Manifesto to see where it really began.
The schools had to be told to change when the Dept of State was taken over by the Carnegie Foundation in the early 1900's.
Public school is a MAJOR problem, it came from Prussia because it made amazing slaves.
Lets avoid blaming faceless institutions, let's focus on the actually policy-enforcers behind them.
@@claimant9423great point !
If only more people knew and understood this . Maybe , at least , some of the " positional arrogance " could be tamped down a little .
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I believe it would fail to even exist, if the foundational issues were addressed.
The system is created in such a way... to make proud, ignorant sheeple/slaves who adore their slavery.
The most intelligent people I have ever met, are self taught. The most personable too.
Ever read Brave New World? Watch a few interviews of A. Huxley.
@@claimant9423 sure have ( read that material )
Orwell is always cited as being a socialist . As he said himself .
Read " wiggens pier " ( my personal favorite Orwell ) . The 2nd part is , to me , astounding -in that he seems to be seriously questioning the moral ground of rank socialism .
@@deanoverlie224 Love it, gotta question it for sure!
Democracy is a trap!
Well said Melanie. We are living in the days of Babylon!
John Anderson has the most comfortable chairs of any podcaster, which attracts only the finest guests.
I am a conservative, but once in awhile I read liberal authors. I read her book and really enjoyed it.
Even for a privately educated Oxbridge graduate, she makes a lot of sense!
Agreed. Would you be interested in a documented story about how the police putting minor crimes above serious ones is probably a major factor in sending us down this rabbit hole?
Been burgled? Good luck with that.
Offended someone from the LGBTQ+ community? Watch out!
I wish I was joking.
I know the answer!
Privatise the buggers.
There's your solution to everything.
They already are, police "service". They don't enforce the law, they enforce "some" laws and are not above disposing of evidence or allowing officers to plant it on erroneous case files. Hiding some crimes, to demonstrate effectiveness for commissioner's re-election or the pc lobby take your pick, the police can ride public goodwill generated by violent crimes they play a part in creating by driving male victims into what they hope will be violent hopelessness, a self fulfilling prophecy. The top level at West Mercia Police (for example) currently not only believes but insists that perverting the course of justice is 'not a criminal offence'. The UK needs to check it's seals.
I'm a Yank . But love the cultural " motherland " .
Am a little disturbed to hear about some London L.E.O.s being functionaly illiterate due to " diversity " hiring policies .
Sounds like ol' Sadiq trying to live up to his surname .
@@deanoverlie224 it's not the hiring policies you might think just to be clear. it's more to do with radical feminism, nothing to do with sadiq khan. the officers in question are all white, mostly female and sadly seem to have decided that laws are mutable.
I think the real problem is best summed up by the old axiom "Nothing fails like success". If we fall it will be due to our own decay. It happened to Rome and now it seems to be our turn.
This is closer to the truth. Her narrative is very lucid and compelling but it doesn’t stack against what I know of myself and my 1990 oxbridge graduate buddies ie the ones largely in charge now: it’s just too much delicious luxury made us a bit complacent and weak. She is shouting about traitors in our midst!
Great comments. The moral erosion is the lack of Christianity in the population, which has allowed the lack of morals of the aristocracy to flow down to the middle class. Those at the top and royalty, have always been entitled to lovers and mistresses, we are all the same now, wearing it on our sleeves!!! The common denominator has slid to the basement!!
Well said . Unfortunately the BBC journalists and the government are all dancing to a higher tune. What we need is to wake up to what is happening, get away from top down government, and become more community based.
Sorry, but Brits have never had morality. Just ask the Irish, the Indians, the Chinese, the Tasmanians, ...
Being working class, left school with poor CSEs, joined the RAF maturing me and taking advantage of evening classes, gaining more qualifications as a Civ. Eng, Technician became an IT Teacher, taught many senior teachers and those with more prestigious degrees than my B.Ed, became a Microsoft Trainer and due to my time in education delivered varying IT courses to University staff and students. Thus, I believe I have the experience to comment on Melanie's observation that the more academic a person is, the more likely they are to be ignorant, irrational and bigoted whereas the lower you go in someone's academic ability they are decent people, grounded in reality and have common sense is ABSOLUTELY AND TOTALLY CORRECT !!
First of all, good for you. Shows that with personal responsibility, you can turn your life around. Second of all, and this is somewhat related, I am noticing that a lot of online media is written in an incredibly facile manner. I scroll down to the end and find that the author has a degree or two. I have found this even on supposedly scientific articles for public consumption. And don't even get me started on the number of adults whose social media posts are just a few steps above illiteracy. Are we being dumbed down?
Absolutely brilliant and 100% correct. It is unbelievable that the highly intelligent and educated people that she talks about could ever believe the palpable nonsense that is being preached from pulpit, Parliament, and professions. Never in my worst nightmares did I ever envisage living in such a twisted world as we are living in today. There are books and films galore about dystopian futures, but that future is already here. Right now we are living in a dystopian 'future.'
These institutions functioned in the first place because this was a Christian nation. The only solution is coming back to Christ - true repentance and true belief - which will lead to real devotion and godliness, which will increase the morality of the people which can restore these institutions. It is Christ or Chaos.
Only God can effect that.
Thank you for bringing this subject about objective truth...there is no way without it...
Case in point: the fact that it is now radical to state that there are two biological sexes, even though this is objective truth observed within humans and most species on earth.
When it came to university, I got the piece of paper I needed then got out. I've learned more from the internet than from uni. If you didn't pander to the lecturer's bias you got lower grades.
In the USA I have seen it suggested that many of the mass shootings are the result of the "no losers" / "no failures " ideas that have crept into education.
Yes. We are told endlessly that we all have unparalleled opportunity and talent.
So any failure must be our own fault
@@stephfoxwell4620 The suggestion is that when the kids reach the real world they discover that they are not as good as they have been told but cannot accept that they are failures. Although easy access to guns facilitate these tragedies the cause is cultural otherwise they would happen in many other parts of the world.
Sad, but true...
It's happened in Australia too!!!
So true - well said !
What a great thinker Melanie Phillips, 100% agree with her comments.
I agree totally with everything that Melanie Phillips said. I need to read more of her work.
I recommend everyone to watch this interview with Rudy Dutschke from 1967 (it has English subtitles). Perfectly explains "The long march through the institutions" and everything else you need to know.
Watching this in 2023 feels like every single thing this man said would happen, has happened. And it makes me sad beyond belief...
Yuri Bezmenov an ex KGB political officer explains the KGB mantra in his book A Love Letter to America. He explains in great detail the process in which the various institutions are infiltrated and then how they are demoralised, and then destroyed. I’ll give you an example - the idea that a woman can abort a baby any time, any where any how, because it’s her body was unheard of in the 50’s or even the 60’s. This idea was promoted by the early Marxist feminists in the States some of whom were paid by the KGB, Which is absolutely astounding! Every institution developed by men has been infiltrated and ridiculed by the Marxist feminists ( and all other women who support the breaking up of the Patriarchy).
@@alexbirrell4568 Yep, I am familiar with the man and I've watched his talks and interviews many times. Scary isn't it? At this point it reads almost like a book summarizing past events
@@alexbirrell4568Bezemov is a must-watch.
Only a turning to God on a mass scale can save us.
@@NathSbbbwith the exception of Hinduism and paganism they all worship the same god, ironically the same God Melanie Phillips worships
@@NathSbbb The real one. Ask him!
Which one?
@alsoascot02 I have already answered the other guy. It is the real one and not one made in man's image!
Allah?
This lady speaks good sense
I like and respect Melanie Phillips but in this situation her inability to think outside the box is showing. There's a reason society got here, and that reason still exists. So there is ZERO chance of some leader being able to pull us back from the brink. In fact we are still moving closer and closer to the brink.
Especially when we collectively are clueless why all civilisations tend to follow the exact same trends before they collapse. The truth is not welcome, no one has the bravery to speak out and most are utterly clueless
Well done Melanie Phillips.
Ok, that was the diagnosis. What is the prognosis? - Doctor to patient: "After examining you, I regret to inform you that your condition is terminal. However, don't worry, everyone's prognosis is the same - eventually we all end up the same way!" Sorry.
The real answer will get you banned and likely arrested for suggesting
It started in 1979.
Two generations at most.
So this will be complete by 2039.
We are three quarters of the way there.
moral corruption has been an issue in England since the Reformation. Henry VIII established a precedent of moral bankruptcy
What an enlightened woman. Hope to hear more from her
Melanie Phillips is right on target.
Wow, brilliantly put, it's like being in an abusive relationship and being told what to think, scary
I meet people everyday who have common sense and they are working class people, disempowered, demoralised and impoverished, I see idiots who are educated without any common sense and who are empowered and enriching themselves. These people have never done a days work in their life.
Melanie Phillips is one of your most intelligent guests. She has brilliant insight.
Everything is slowly grinding, morally, mentally and spiritually, to a halt.
Top down collapse, starting with the government, mind you things started to go bad back in Maggie's day.
Started. She planned it.
Thatcher was a wrecking ball for industry, education, social cohesion, institutions, housing, the armed forces, the family.
@@stephfoxwell4620 Do you really think she was a "globalist" for want of a better word? She did a good job of pretending to be a conservative and patriot.
I remember when the likes of Melanie Phillips were in the forefront of criticising those who spoke out against the mass-immigration policies of Blair and co. I have yet to hear her apologise for getting it so wrong. Now all she does, like so many other 'intelligentsia' is tell us what's wrong, but not how to fix it.
Thanks for this John. Melanie is spot on.
As a highly educated person (doctorate and four years of post-doc), I thank God that I somehow avoided the indoctrination trap. It is not inevitable, but highly probable, that the well educated have lost both their mind and their moral compass. But here in the US I know that the common man is our greatest hope. I pray that it will be enough.
the BBC? Why is there a BBC? We would be better off without it. In my house I got rid of the TV licence tax over twenty years ago - more money, more peace of mind, more time to live my life without paying for government lies and propaganda being piped straight into my eyes and ears. Winning.
Love the BBC. Admired and respected throughout the world.
@@23715 funded by sheep, admired by fools
This woman is spot on! We're in such a mess 🤔
Exactly this.
I think there's a confusion regarding what British culture is, mistaking it for empire and elitism, coming from people who are not British and could not possibly know.
Yes, I agree. What is good about Britishness is ignored or is tactically forgotten. Empire and elitism are represented as the only characteristics of Britishness, and of these we are told to be ashamed in entirety. Truly, we are being torn down from within. And it will be an unpopular view but I personally do not think that years and years of uncontrolled immigration have helped matters. So many people want to come and live here, but then want only to criticize and condemn British culture.....and we let them do it!!! Why?
@@CorinneDunbar-ls3ej I think the reason is that British culture is seldom defined. We know the effect of what is not said, but I think our reticence has outlived its usefulness. It means we don't respond when foreigners who know nothing about us slander our culture.
Morality and Philips lecturing on it…..😂😂😂
Melanie has supreme intelligence and foresight. She is the female version of Peter Hitchens..with respect to Melanie in her own right.
One must see the world as it is, not as one wants it to be. Ms. Phillips is so correct about education and the social ladder.
I will be 70 in a few months, i was educated in catholic schools through 12 grade, then went to a public university, i suspect that public education has failed to teach Objective truths for at least 50 years in the US!
I would agree. It takes quite a bit of education to persuade a person to ignore empirical reality and to embrace ideas that are both irrational and toxic. Miseducation has replaced education. Today, highly educated people often have no systematic intellectual method designed to discover truth. Instead, they have a set of accepted beliefs. Ironically, I think this is why the "educated" seem to embrace a kind of moral superiority. This is odd, for the current intellectual atmosphere can offer no rational foundation for moral principles. Secularism is almost synonymous with philosophical materialism, the notion that reality is exhausted by matter and energy, and that is all there is. But this material model has no room for an authoritative moral philosophy. The Naturalistic Fallacy tells us that the facts of the material world will not and can not support moral conclusions. What "is" cannot tell us what "ought to be." That is where we are right now. Prophetically, C. S. Lewis wrote The Abolition of Man, which insightfully describes the current intellectual atmosphere and where it will take us. That book is available on RUclips: ruclips.net/video/ivOSq0rsP_0/видео.html
But if they are miseducated we do you call them " educated elites" ?
Fulton sheen has a wonderful take on this free to watch on here. The man predicted everything. 😢
Thank you Melanie
It makes me grateful that I'm at the end of my life rather than the beginning.
You're not alone.
Psyops in entire western culture!
Tear down the house and build a new one!
This highly articulated lady has explained the current Cultural Revolution with clarity and depth!
Congratulations!!