Panel: The State of Western Civilization

Panel Discussion with Jordan Peterson, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, John Anderson, Os Guinness. "Western Civilisation is a cut flower, and cut flowers die... but we have the remnants, the symbols of Western heritage, and their seeds. All we have to do, those of us who inherited it, is to go and see them, grow them, nurture them, water them".

00:00 - 2:09 Introduction & Os Guinness: The Nature of Narrative
2:10 - 8:04 Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Adopting a Civilisation
8:05 - 12:12 John Anderson: Why do we have a sense of lostness?
12:13 - 27:14 How should we interpret the discourse of Power and Oppression?
27:14 - 35:09 Our Relationship to the Transcendent Good
35:10 - 44:02 John Anderson: The danger of making government God
44:03 - 49:29 Ayaan’s closing remarks

A panel discussion with Jordan Peterson, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, John Anderson, and Os Guinness on identifying the problem of cultural decay as well as the way forwards.

ARC RESEARCH: The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship has also published several research papers that accompanied the 2023 Conference. If you’d like to go deeper into the ideas from the conference, please read our research papers here: https://www.arc-research.org

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a research fellow at Hoover Institution, founder of the AHA Foundation, and host of The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast. Born in Somalia, Ayaan became a member of the Dutch parliament before moving to the USA.

The Hon John Anderson AC FTSE is a former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia. He now serves in a broad variety of civic and community pursuits and hosts Australia's pre-eminent politico-cultural video podcast.

Os Guinness is an author and social critic. He holds a DPhil from Oxford University, has been a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was the lead drafter of The Global Charter of Freedom of Conscience and Religion.

Find out more about Os' ideas in the accompanying ARC Research paper: https://www.arc-research.org

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ARC, the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, is a global community with a vision of a world where every citizen can prosper, contribute, and flourish.

Join us in building this narrative, rejecting the notion of inevitable decline. Instead, let's seek solutions that tap into humanity's highest virtues and remarkable capacity for innovation and ingenuity.