The Madness of Crowds

“I think I was doing the Matters of Crowds and you were in your uh place in Newcastle with a mold on the ceiling.”

“The following is a conversation with Douglas Murray, author of "The War on the West," "The Madness of Crowds," and his new book, "On Democracies and Death Cults."”

“Douglas is the author of The War on the West, The Strange Death of Europe, and The Madness of Crowds, among other books.”

“Douglas is the author of 'The War on the West,' 'The Strange Death of Europe,' and 'The Madness of Crowds,' among other books.”

“my friend Douglas Murray says that once the book is published that's when the real work begins”

“The Madness of crowds gender race and identity 2019 and the war on the west 2022.”

“the following is a conversation with douglas murray author of the madness of crowds gender race and identity and his most recent book the war on the west”

“The following is a conversation with Douglas Murray, author of The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity, and his most recent book, The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason.”

“Yes, well to me, like I said, a little bit of poison is good for the town. And that's always a—I talked about this in my last book in The Manners of Crowds.”

“And that's always a—I talked about this in my last book in The Manners of Crowds.”

“he is the bestselling author of seven books including the madness of crowds which he released in 2019”

“absolutely as you know I wrote about the trans stuff in The Madness of crowds and on and on that still goes sadly”

“i'm pleased to be talking today to mr douglas murray who is associate editor of the spectator and is now based in new york his latest publication the madness of crowds was a bestseller”

“paperback of madness of crowds that's right and the world's only got better”

“i mean i think we talked about this when we talked about the matters of crowds we talked about the fact that there's a there's such a thing as an over correction in social issues”

“It's always felt like this even when I spoke to Douglas Murray on his madness of crowds thing which is what two two and a half years ago now something like that.”

“um in recent years as i say at the beginning of the matters of crowds the most obvious way of filling it is with the horrible and dysfunctional and retributive replacement religion which is identity politics intersectionalism”

“and obviously they're the issues i write about in matters of crowds the the the presumption seems to be and the selection seems to be something around the idea of there's something you can do about it”

“i noticed when i was interviewing various trans people for the madness of crowds um i noticed that it provides a path”

“ever, since "The Madness of Crowds" came out I find they signed all up to me. They whisper up to me and tell me that this is what they have.”

“And if that means then fine, there are a lot of very smart under 30s who could fill those positions and would do a great and noble a job at it. But it is absolutely incumbent upon people, as you know is what I argue in the manners of crowds to understand that”

“And I say this at the end of "The Madness of Crowds" as you know which is that people have over politicized their lives.”

“every single one of these cases every single one of these issues however has at some point fulfilled the famous quote of eric hoffer who said that was 80 years ago now said every good cause begins as a good cause becomes a business and degenerates into a racket”

“I'm very keen that people realize the two things: first of all, I completely agree with you, and it’s very important to state—I stated at the opening of The Madness of Crowds—every single one of the rights issues I'm talking about starts not only in a good place but an exceptionally admirable place.”

“now here's here's if i may say so one way of doing that i say in the madness of crowds”

“Now, here's one way of doing that—I say in The Madness of Crowds, what if we could agree on a certain definition and, indeed, objective?”

“And it's certainly fair to say that elements of the left were more vocal, more involved in each of the rights movements that I'm talking about in The Madness of Crowds than they were on the right.”

“and as i know in the manners of crowds i use at the opening a metaphor that i take from the late australian philosopher ken minogue”

“And he, in his extraordinary perception on this, is something I pick up and run with in The Madness of Crowds where I say the civil rights fight in the 1960s was a real dragon slaying.”

“now some people say to me douglas we are not in a situation yet where we are swinging the sword of social justice and much more at thin air”

“And one of the oddities of the situation in America in particular is—and I say this in The Madness of Crowds—the extent to which, after these battles are won, the wannabe dragon slayers who would have loved to have been with them with Martin Luther King in the march on Washington, who would have loved to have been the Stonewalling,”

“I say this in The Madness of Crowds: to read a hugely celebrated black writer today like, like Toni Morrison is to read somebody who writes more angrily about America than James Baldwin did when there were many, many more things to be angry about.”

“uh and i would say this first of all i mean by the way i say in the gay chapter and i say in the trans chapter in the madness of crabs that the lgbt bit i said i said this ahead of dave chappelle”

“I would say this, first of all, by the way, I say in the gay chapter and I say in the trans chapter in The Madness of Crowds that the LGBT issue—I said this ahead of Dave Chappelle, I might add by the way—I said the LGBT bit of the alphabet doesn't add together.”

“And I explain in The Madness of Crowds why the trans issue is quite unlike all the other bits of LGBT.”

“That doesn't mean that we shouldn't treat trans people with respect, but the trans question—and I say this in the last chapter of The Madness of Crowds—is a very little-known question.”

“one of the things that i say at one point in the madness of crowds is if you play the intersectional game including the representation game on the terms of the intersection list you actually may get yourself to a situation where all you've done is create a new hierarchy”

“The intersectionalists, who I critique in The Madness of Crowds, have always had a problem with class.”

“One of the things that I say at one point in The Madness of Crowds is, if you play the intersectional game, including the representation game, on the terms of the intersectionalists, you actually may get yourself to a situation where all you've done is create a new hierarchy.”

“and this is why we have the weird thing of people being thrown out of their character group if they think the wrong things”

“By the way, a very quick example of that, if I may say this in The Madness of Crowds, is why we have the weird thing of people being thrown out of their character group if they think the wrong things.”

“particularly her work on anaconda in uh the audible version of madness of crowds and a lot of people um particularly enjoyed that”

“I mean there have been, as you know, I wrote about this in my latest book, in "The Madness of Crowds",”

“I was there all in this I was talking to Douglas Murray guy the madness of crowds I had him on the podcast again he's unbelievable guy I don't know whether you've seen either but he's got jacked”

“And I say, in the introduction to "The Madness of Crowds" it's not a surprise that young people who can't accumulate capital in their lives don't have any particular love of capitalism.”

“And the real shock to me as I was researching this book was, this isn't just, it broke out from the sort of liberal arts colleges.”

“I'm joined by Douglas Murray author of the madness of crowds and best-selling author of the strange death of Europe”

“it's about something else it's some kind of reaction program I notice isn't because I happen to be gay I could probably say this where some have sexual saying it might not sound so good”

“I've got Douglas Murray on in a couple of weeks right talking about his new book which I need to hurry up reading which is over there”