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Tucker Carlson is well known in the West as a high-profile current events talking head, where up until 2023 he was the most prominent voice on Fox News. He was subsequently dismissed from Fox and has established himself as a voice for alternative opinions – most recently with his interview with Vladimir Putin, which was viewed over 1 billion times globally.
This week, Carlson released an interview with the Russian academic and philosopher Aleksandr Dugin. Often described, erroneously as ‘Putin’s brain’, Dugin is in fact a philosopher rather than a politician, although his ideas concerning human nature have been considered by many – in the West – to be ‘dangerous’ and ‘offensive’. His books are banned in the United States, while he was the alleged 2023 target of a Moscow car bomb that killed his only daughter. US Intelligence services stated that Dugin had been targeted by Ukraine for his assertation that the country has no historical claim to sovereignty.
In the interview with Carlson, Dugin explains his theories of where the West – and especially the English-speaking countries – the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, have veered off on an erroneous course of ‘individualism’ – where the rights of the individual have superseded those of the majority.
Dugin explains that in his view, the concept of ‘individualism‘ has now been placed at the centre of a liberal ideology, and represents the freedom of individual thoughts – and rights – from any concept of collective identity. In other words, it is the complete opposite to communism.
It manifests itself in giving rights to minorities such as the LGTBQ movement, views concerning gender, and wokeism in general.
As a result of this, Dugin says that Western society has become far more selfish, and that the roles within society have now changed – individual rights have taken preference over that of the collective. He comments that these attitudes are now infiltrating the rest of Europe.
Without giving too much away – we link to the video below – Dugin expresses how this had led to conflict with Russia especially, which has a rather more traditional and collective mindset than is currently the case in the West.
In essence – and one reason why his works have been banned in the West – he says that democracy has changed from promoting the views of the collective majority to upholding the views of collective minorities. Totalitarianism masquerading as a democracy.
It’s a fascinating look into how these mindsets are shaping the new world order and what the end result is likely to be – and what can be done to prevent it.
Carlson’s 20-minute interview with Dugin, conducted in English, can be viewed here:
