Mar 3, 2026 · 1 hr 36 min · 16 segments
What happens when the state infiltrates your most intimate relationships? How do we protect the innocence and imagination of children in an increasingly authoritarian world? “"If you have love…
Mia FunkHostBecause part of the complete decline and sort of destruction of the social discourse and democracy in the UK began a very, very long time ago with the real savage attacks, multi-pronged attacks on education, on teachers, on teaching from, you know, Thatcher onwards.
They knew, partly instinctively and partly statistically and analytically, that what you have to do is destroy education and then you can do anything.
What you have to do if you're an ideologue and you don't want to exist in the real world If you want to peel away from reality and just believe your daydreams, and as it happens, they're the darkest daydreams they are.
If you want to behave irrationally, then you have to diminish education and rationality and belief in an agreed reality and the very predictable consequences of actions.
The accelerationist idea is you annoy people enough, you brutalize people enough, you do enough inexcusable things, and they will be violent back, and then you can have a civil war.
That isn't what people will generally do, what they'll generally do, particularly now because there's so much history.
What they'll do is not that the people of Minnesota haven't been just amazing and admirable and remarkable and smart, because they really have.
They just want to live at peace and look after their kids and have a future and not constantly be rendered angry and exhausted by fantasies.
And if you're horrible to them, you'll just get more and more and more people Being there, being the opposite of you.
I mean, there was a great interview last weekend with this guy who said a bunch of sensible stuff, just a guy in the crowd, and an anti-ice demo.
And he said this beautiful thing, which was, they only have force, they don't have love.
Because part of the complete decline and sort of destruction of the social discourse and democracy in the UK began a very, very long time ago with the real savage attacks, multi-pronged attacks on education, on teachers, on teaching from, you know, Thatcher onwards.
They knew, partly instinctively and partly statistically and analytically, that what you have to do is destroy education and then you can do anything.
What you have to do if you're an ideologue and you don't want to exist in the real world If you want to peel away from reality and just believe your daydreams, and as it happens, they're the darkest daydreams they are.
If you want to behave irrationally, then you have to diminish education and rationality and belief in an agreed reality and the very predictable consequences of actions.
The accelerationist idea is you annoy people enough, you brutalize people enough, you do enough inexcusable things, and they will be violent back, and then you can have a civil war.
That isn't what people will generally do, what they'll generally do, particularly now because there's so much history.
What they'll do is not that the people of Minnesota haven't been just amazing and admirable and remarkable and smart, because they really have.
They just want to live at peace and look after their kids and have a future and not constantly be rendered angry and exhausted by fantasies.
And if you're horrible to them, you'll just get more and more and more people Being there, being the opposite of you.
I mean, there was a great interview last weekend with this guy who said a bunch of sensible stuff, just a guy in the crowd, and an anti-ice demo.
And he said this beautiful thing, which was, they only have force, they don't have love.
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