Anna Khachiyan - Who Controls the Zeitgeist? | The Restoration Podcast 002

I love how being in Ayaan’s presence forces people to be more serious because she doesn’t have time to waste.

I can't express how much I admire AHA.

Dankjewel Ayaan! Ik ben blij dat deze werelden elkaar ontmoeten als Nederlander die red scare luistert in de sport school 😂❤

I found about Anna Khachiyan through this podcast and am so grateful both for being able to now look more closely into this very insightful lady's work, as well as to see that Ayan started her own podcast, which I was hoping for years she would. Having Douglas Murray as her first guest seems just about right, and that was a excellent first episode.

I love that Ayaan chose to have Anna on. Never thought of those two ever meeting. This was great- thank you.

I love Anna when she ventures onto other people's podcasts. Great show, you got a new sub. edit: but what's with the blown out white levels. Get a video guy in to level the image out. We didn't just walk out of a dark room into daylight

Very interesting podcast! Thank you all!

Incredible meeting of two worlds. I've loved both Ayaan and Anna for years now. It's so interesting to see someone like Ayaan, with so much gravitas, cause Anna to be more serious and less trivial and provide answers that aren't so sardonic lol

Just at the 7 and 1/2 minute mark, and Ayaan is, correctly, pointing out that conservatives too often go along with the left's nomenclatures, and it is a mistake. I agree, and it is not a minor point. Rather than use the term progressive...who doesn't want progress, I use the word progressivist in the same pejorative sense that I use the word, elitist. I have also objected do the characterization of fascism as right-wing. I have emailed my objections to Niall Ferguson of the Hoover Institution's Goodfellows, a historian that I greatly admire. But to me, fascism sits squarely in the middle of the dogs breakfast of Marxist ideologies that hold that human rights are conferred by the state and the collective, whereas conservatives and the right wing of political and social thought... excluding right-wing extremists, hold that human rights are inherent and are to be affirmed and defended by the state. We need to stop ceding words and the language to those that want to destroy us.

Microphone issues aside (we all suffer for fashion) I thought this was a really fantastic conversation. I think people who split from the dominant contemporary political ideology are often labelled as "reactionary" and while that may be fair, your work and conversations like this feel like a good way to counter that. Looking at the zeitgeist as it is, teasing out the threads of whats going. Why is it happening, is there an alternative, and what do we envision as a seperate and better way? It's simple to say that things are wrong, everyone believes that, even the campus protestors do. The hard part is setting sights on the true north and realigning in that direction. For me, personally, I've found a lot of that grounding moral framework in my faith. I think it's a good start, but I'm not sure it's enough. Also, as we have seen recently, there seems to be an extreme amount of pushback and controversy around taking a nonsecular/religious approach.

Are you planning to upload these to spotify? I would love to listen there. Thanks for these first two episodes!

Love all 3 of you. Thank you for the work you do!

Great conversation that reminds me of an older generations attempts to clarify the problematic nature of the human condition and modernity's increased alienation from the cosmic reality of life on earth. The first segment about noticing a 'false' consciousness hits the nail on the head so to speak, yet is it delivered with a false sense of problems that are only applicable to 'them?' That innate sense of I & otherness that develops into a necessary yet deceptive sense of us & them, in our group need to survive? One wonders whether such well educated people can even conceive of 'noticing' the entwined truths and falsehoods within every 'sight' associated word they think of, or think to contemplate the undeniable truth that you can name the objects you see around you with any other word you can possibly 'imagine' without altering the 'reality' of the object or what your eyes are actually seeing. Long story short, is our conditioned sense of consensus-reality, undeniably not reality? And is our taken for granted, talking-head mentality a detached and dissociated sense-of-reality? Please contemplate the reality-wise perspective of these aphoristic comments: The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think. ― Gregory Bateson You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ― Mark Twain

Enjoying the interview. I read AHA's books when they released and lost touch with her. Glad to see she softened her view on christianity

I love these ladies!

Excellent 💜

“this is why it’s ok for me to be a stay at home edgelord”

Anna looks so good.

Love you Anna!!

Loved Ayaan's interview with Jordan Peterson and her in general. But can we please fix the lighting in these podcasts? Otherwise these are great!