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"Fighting the culture wars doesn’t come cheap these days. Tickets for the
Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference at the ExCeL Centre in
London cost a discounted £450. A bargain said the organisers, as the original
price was £1,500. Maybe they had a point. All 4,000 tickets were sold long
before the event began. Even access to a live stream set you back £150. A
meta-event where only the global elite are welcome to watch a global elite take
on the global elite.
This was “alt-right” heaven. A gathering of some of the biggest names on the
circuit. Douglas Murray. Jordan Peterson. Nigel Farage. Niall Ferguson. An echo
chamber of self-referential congratulation. A place where people come to have
their ideas confirmed, not challenged.
Time and again you heard speakers insist they were saying the unsayable. That
their free speech was under attack. And yet no one is stopping them saying or
doing anything. They are not under attack from the police or the government.
This is not a clandestine meeting. The ExCeL Centre was rented on commercial
terms. The only person being excluded from the conference is me. I emailed and
texted four different ARC contacts asking for access. No one got back to me.
Maybe it’s me who is saying the unsayable. In the end I coughed up for the
livestream.
Over the years, I’ve watched some batshit events. This one was right up there.
Men and women fighting imaginary battles against an establishment of which they
are part. Fighting diversity, inclusion, equality. Anyone who looks and thinks
differently to them. All the while, there is literally a war going on in
Ukraine. Men and women are dying defending their democratic rights, while the
US and Russia meet in Saudi Arabia to carve up the mineral rights of their
country without any input from the Ukrainian government. The dictators are
taking over the world.
And what did we get in London? An appearance from Katalin Novák, a former
president of Hungary, congratulating members of the audience for having had
three children or more.
It was everyone’s moral duty to have children to save what was left of our
civilisation. Needless to say, Novák omitted to say she had been forced to
resign after granting a presidential pardon to the deputy governor of an
orphanage who had been imprisoned for his part in covering up a paedophile
ring. I guess some children are more equal than others."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
