WOKENESS: THE NEW WESTERN MORALITY | DOUGLAS MURRAY  

Wokery = too many people with too little to worry about.

1929: "I hope my family will have food on the dinner table tonight" 2020: "I hope no one misgenders me today." If people don't have problems, they invent them.

Thank god we have people like you right now Douglas Murray.

Douglas Murray has singlehandedly kept me sane throughout quarantine

Douglas Murray - a man very thoughtful and a breath of fresh air.

Douglas Murray is a true intellectual mind, who speaks so much common sense...

Love Douglas Murray’s mind, his voice and the way he expresses himself. His person is pleasant to look at, too.

4:37 _"This new morality we are trying to construct relies on us pretending we know about things that we don't know about ... and simultaneously demands that we pretend not to know about things that we all knew till yesterday."_ That is one for the history books, right there.

Why does this gentleman make so much sense? The answer is because he's speaking the truth.

It’s the word “community”. That is the problem. As soon as everyone started using that word to describe people with similar characteristics, it implies that they had the same thoughts and values, and everything flowed from that

Douglas Murray is a truly excellent speaker. He is always a pleasure to listen to, along with Jordan Peterson. I have 100% certainty that marxism is more dangerous to the world than the wuflu.

Mr. Murray is a world class mind. Thank you for sharing John.

Douglas is definitely one of the sharpest conservative political/social commentators around today!!! Good score John!!!

This is probably the 5th time I’ve watched this clip. I am just know starting to understand how deeply profound Douglas Murray is in what he is discussing here. Just added the book The Madness of Crowds to the top of my reading list.

The trouble with all this ‘wokeness’ is that it makes people become so narrow in their thinking. In order to have a broad and thoughtful attitude as one goes through life, one has to listen to many different points of view and gradually mature into your own confident and well informed opinions. I think the biggest problem with the ‘woke’ way of thinking is that it is so childlike and lacking in the ability to be confident in ones own opinions.

“Things are not as they seem. They are what they are.” ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

this man is a similar character to my father, gay, and yet very grounded and logical, without belonging to a masonic LGBT lodge. I am grateful for the way he raised me.

It's always refreshing to witness intelligence coupled with wisdom!

Thank you, John Anderson, for bringing Murray in often for your insightful interviews. And thank you, Douglas Murray for sharing with us your thoughts and also your astounding and (apparently) spontaneous dominion of the Emglish language... listening to you is witnessing pure beauty

Excellent conversation! Douglas has touched it with a pin!

Excellent Douglas Murray, as always. Mind piercing into the crux of the moment and the matter, verb expressing such perception with extraordinary ability

The Left: "You're a racist!" Me: yaaawwwn

Science is a challenge , as is logic. Virtue signaling is easy but boring beyond belief. And destructive.

Omg! Douglas says exactley as it is!! He makes me laugh, because he hits the nail on the head... We are ONE community, the human race community... By separating communities, we are causing divide..... Love this guy! We need to just realise whatever 'community' we belong to.... We all have rights, human rights, no need to complicate things by dividing rights into lots of communities, we are more alike than different, same species, but all feel hurt, pain, pride, etc as each other, we are ONE community, human beings!!

Douglas Murray is the leader we need

Douglas Murray is a very important figure for the balance of logic in the face of emotional reactionaries. I think he would agree that balance between the two is very important.

One of the wisest people on the planet

I for one absolutely love this channel.

A: "The climate is changing!" B: "Really? That's interesting." A: "And the way to solve this problem is by imposing worldwide Socialism!" B: "Really? What a happy coincidence!"

Sex, Gender and Race. Three properties some use as tools to protect themselves from difficult conversations.

When will we see this sort of debate on the BBC?

I'm very glad I came across this fellow and his talks. Very thought provoking.

Christianity has faded leaving a vacuum. People need a framework to live within and are now searching for this . The vocal ones are now trying to get the lime light by announcing a new morality of their making. Over time a variety of strange ideas will come and go possibly a return to Christianity may end this search

In all civilized religious cultures' teachings I know about, there's always something that goes along the lines of "keep your prayers between yourself and your god". It loosely means that in order to be a good person in society, you have to be virtuous for yourself, and not to get rewarded for being virtuous. Good people are perceived by good deeds they don't advertise. Meanwhile, awful people do good deeds only to convince everyone around them (and themselves, if they have any sign of conscience left in them) that they are good, as a mean to create a facade to cover their wrongdoings behind. This is why a lot, if not most, of male "girlpowa movement followers" turn out to be abusers, female (or minority) equality advocates play victim card to keep and expand their privileges, and actual good and sane people face mob justice and cancellation from people who otherwise could not compete with a living example of what true virtue looks like.

Give this man, Mr. Anderson a medal; profoundly and justly. Give the man a medal. Because that there is the head on the proverbial nail!

I could listen to Douglas Murray all day (and all night).

Love this site and these interviews. Thanks so much.

I think that LGBT should include plumbers to be truely inclusive. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Plumbers ie LGBTP

Keep it up Douglas! We need more voices of reason like your's!

Another excellent interview John anderson. Please keep up the great work. In this increasingly intellectually sterile world these conversations are a beacon of light

I’m heterosexual. Why haven’t I got a community?

Country's should rise above the shaming and focus energy on improving life for people within borders! Borders serve the same purpose as wall's and gates around homes and property for safety, privacy, and control who comes and goes!

Douglas ' facial expression and reply to group divisions at timescalet 8.40 "what if that's the point?. What if that's the point?" was quite chilling.

Omg Douglas has beautifully nailed the issues of our changing society in this interview. He’s exactly right I have also seen huge changes in recent years and all for the worst not the better. Social media is partly to blame.

The "new morality" that's seen by most regular people as the empty platitude that it is.

Watermelon Greens - green on outside but red beneath skin.

Love listening to Douglas Murray

Douglas Murray is a beautiful human being. Shoots from the hip!!. Then he adds in a heap of common sense. Just adore him.❤❤❤

>Opens RU-vid App for the first time of the day >Sees new Douglas Murray clip “Today will be a good day”

Can you imagine if we sorted us all out into communities.... Blue eyed community, brown eyed community, green eyed community, blonde community, brunette community etc and all the sub communities, volvo community, vw community, skoda community... Life is too short to communitise everybody.... Complete waste of time, energy and the ability to chill and enjoy your ONE and only life as an individual and not as a 'community' only the human race 'community'.

Douglas is always worth listening to , such a smart, thinking man

Every time I listen to Douglas Murray I grab my pen and i write entire quotes, and I think My God, this fellow takes the thoughts out of our heads and he states them coherently, and precisely.

Ah, Douglas ... a lonely voice in the wilderness.

I love Jon Anderson. I wish he was our deputy prime minister. In fact, I wish he was our prime minister. Intelligent, thoughtful, reasoned and with an insightful mind. Australia let a good one go.

Mr Murray thank you

We need to see and hear people like Douglas Murray.

Well that's the thing with moralties They get rebelled against So too is wokeness being rebelled against

It’s like William F. Buckley and Jordan Peterson had a baby.

"Why would we be taking The Individualism out of Individuals." That made me cry.

@03:10 This is why I love this man. This kind of smirking descriptive eloquent phraseology. He speaks so well.

Speaking as a woman: the only equality with men I want is to be free of coercion and deceit, that promises, as in a reciprocal contract between individuals, be kept, that my property, including my life and body, be respected and, finally, that I be compensated for damages as if I were a rich man with a slew of lawyers to protect me when confronted by might and power. The same thing I am willing to grant all other sentient beings.

Nothing will replace spirit that western democratic values are predicated on

Gosh Douglas Murray is awesome....all his words make so much sense to me !! I agree with him totally...we live in a crazy world !! 🙏🏽🇮🇳

Thanks for this. Douglas Murray is one of the pre-eminent voices of sanity in our time.

In the U.K. society has become increasingly ‘serious and less tolerant in terms of free expression’ ever since Tony Blair and the Labour Party meddled with our historic legislation and rights. The meddling could be interpreted as bringing society a step closer to a moral objective, but unfortunately it has undermined the fundamental liberty of free speech. Decent citizens within society understood what was hateful. Obviously, a minority would not, and would be condemned by the majority as such! But similarly today, a minority utilise these updates to the statute book to bully, control and silence the opinions of others via virtue signalling! People and organisations do not like to be perceived as racist, sexist etc. so this method provides effective control of any discussion or objective outcome. Ironically, this same minority would view oppression as something to protest about, unless seemingly its application governs a topic to which they agree! This sets a dangerous precedence with regards the application of law and order in society! What if other members of society were to shut down debate on subjects of law? As an example, a law could be enacted where the freedom to protest could be curtailed, under the guise that it could attribute destructive & hateful division within society! Not as unlikely as you might ascribe, and one which could be deemed moral in it’s objective! Further to this example, what if the right-wing were to endorse such a law, shut down debate as immoral, and thus restrict the left’s freedom to protest; As is already witnessed within authoritarian dictatorships! So comes the choice, is it better to have a more liberal society where your free speech is ‘still judged’ by others on it’s moral standards; Or a society where free speech is controlled via state legislation and in turn ‘policed’ by others? Although these two choices appear very similar, the second one is much closer to a situation envisaged by George Orwell in his dystopian novel 1984. Both choices can be abused by a minority, but the eradication of true free speech also effects the freedoms of a fair majority! As you state, division can be created by hijacking the views of certain groups, controlling the narrative and subsequently harnessing their loyalty for alternative political objectives! Robust free speech is the only solution to prevent extremism, at the expense of potentially offending the fragile!

I preferred a community that included the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker. How different Candlewick Green would look today

I feel so relieved that I'm not the only one who think that way. I hear my voice in Mr. Murray's speech.

Douglas Murray is a fresh breath of air.

Love listening to Douglas Murray but logic, evidence and reason will have little or no effect on the irrational SJW crowd have a religious experience.

As long as our societies are "pulled apart" to some degree, constantly with no aim as to how it can be constructed in a better way, it remains in a kind of turmoil that always seems to benefit the most politically and economically powerful. Funny that.

Douglas, you are a breath of fresh air

Excellent book. Thank you Douglas

The problem with this morality is that it's a thing from the book 1984 by George Orwell. And not one of the good things from it either.

The weird thing is, as prevalent as this phenomenon is said to be (or in fact is), I have never met someone so possessed, or at least expressing these sentiments openly, in public.

Great man says it as it is love it so honest with the truthfulness

Brilliant video. Thank you so much. Going to purchase that book!

9:13 -10:04 he be kind of accurate though. I know so many 10-15 year-olds who fully believe in the post-modern concept of identity that it's scary.

Douglas Murray is IMO one of the most brilliant and wonderful men today. His love of reason and freedom gives me hope - but just a little bit to be honest. So much madness everywhere !

A highly intelligent take on the state of things today.

This so well stated I nearly shouted out with an Amen!

“Half expected of you” it was called common sense. No a days the minority emotionalism dictate what the majority is opposed of.

Biblical. 'Load bearing walls' for a house built on sand.

Thank you for this

Wonderful Interview!

Making money from causing major issues out of nothing.

“Common Sense“, in its Enlightenment origins (Hutcheson, Hume, etc.), meant shared values, developed over generations of shared experience by members of a society living and working together, as the common ethic. “Wokeness” is the snide, cynically assumed, sense of contempt for the majority, by minorities who hate the societies in which they live, although it was the tolerance of these societies which gave them the liberty to be so obnoxious with impunity.

I think Douglas Murray is brilliant as an individual.

So good! One of the best clips on this topic, for sure.

“Words often betray their own purpose, obscuring the very thoughts they are designed to express.” - Francis Bacon

the bearded man with genitalia winning the women's weight-lifting competition, lol, Reminds one of the very real instance of the bearded man in drag winning the Euro-song contest and claiming he/she was doing it for women's and gay rights

Oh my, he’s nailed it, spot on!

The right definitely needs more Douglas Murrays.

Does anyone else see a correlation between the decline of Christianity and the increase in SJW wokeness?

Staying woke for more than 16 hours at a time is seriously dangerous for your health. Get some sleep people! There’s a pandemic afoot!

A first step in resolving this rather complex constellation of social problems among diverse groups is undeniable: a large gathering where we can all peacefully agree NEVER to use the word "Narrative" in a sentence ever again.

Thank God for Douglas Murray and all those who are not afraid to confront those who are trying to wreck our society, whilst appearing to be “ on the side of the angels”

if you still don't get what, " becoming woke" is...........last scene in 1984

“Judeo Christian tradition” *stops watching

Brilliant excerpt.

Thank you - spot on !