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Everything is downstream from culture

Everything is downstream from culture

Donald Brown sat down with me to chat about Afrikaner identity, the failure of democracy, foreign destabilisation of South Africa, and why everything, politics included, is downstream from culture.

I enjoy the social commentary of filmmaker and self-described Afrikaner nationalist and Burkean conservative Donald Brown, and, realising that he lives near me, I invited him to join me for coffee on my weekly livestream.

The fundamental problem with Afrikaners is stubbornness. It's an unwillingness to accept that they're losing.

— Donald Brown

For clarity, an Afrikaner nationalist is someone who advocates for the cultural, political, and economic self-determination of the Afrikaner people.

And then, a Burkean conservative is someone who follows the political philosophy of Edmund Burke (1729 to 1797), an Irish statesman and political thinker widely regarded as the father of modern conservatism.

More specifically his ideas centred around:

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We’re constantly bombarded with fake news, propaganda, agendas, and outright lies. It’s an information war. What is true? I don’t know either—but I’m trying to find out.

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