WATCH: Konstantin Kisin’s speech to world leaders at ARC Conference 2023

hello and thank you Alexander Solan niten once said that the strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization if a nation's spiritual energies have been exhausted he said it will not be saved from Collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any Industrial Development a tree with a rotten core cannot stand when he was allowed to leave the USSR so nits went to the US where he was given a hero's welcome but he quickly realized that American society was far from perfect he started lecturing Americans about the problems he saw Americans don't like that like soulan nits and I come from the Soviet Union but I have no intention of repeating his mistake that's why I've come to Britain where you love being told what's wrong with you by foreigners but I do have to be honest 6 months ago when Jordan and Philippa asked me to come here and speak at ARK about the importance of audacity adventure and a positive vision for our civilization I was honored and delighted but as I stand here today after watching crowds openly celebrate mass murder on the streets of our cities after watching the police spend more time debating Islamic theology on tter than enforcing the law I'm starting to lose faith I don't know how long our civilization Will Survive for years now many of us have been warning that The Barbarians are at the gates we were wrong they're inside now look I'm not going to be all doom and gloom there are positives as well I mean say what you want about Hamas supporters at least they know what a woman is but joking aside I have to be honest I've been in a dark place these last few weeks so I did what I always do when I don't know what to do I talk to my wife it's not the only time I talk to her but you know get the point and she said look you just you need you need to clear your mind take a few days off let's go on holiday and I know it's a weird thing to say I don't like going on holiday cuz I love working and I hate spending money Pro consistant work ethic in a Jewish man's body my wife is exactly the other way around unfortunately but she was right she's always right that's her best and most annoying quality um so we went to Barcelona beautiful city and as we were walking down the main tourist Street lambla many of you will know when you get to the bottom you hit the Christopher Columbus Monument it looks like a giant column with a pillar of Columbus on top pointing towards the new world and this reminded me of my son Nikolai he's 16 months and this is what he does he sits on my hip and points in the direction he wants to go treats me like a horse basically and if I don't act quickly enough or if I don't comply he does what all toddlers do he throws a tantrum and starts screaming how dare you you have stolen my dreams with your empty words and when he does We read him a story and put him to bed we don't give him a standing ovation in front of the UN anyway trigger warning I am going to talk positively about Christopher Columbus I know he committed some pretty sizable microaggressions but he also changed the world do you know why he changed the world yeah he tried to reach India and by accident discovered America but why go west to India Europeans had been trading with India and China for centuries via the Silk Road why risk your life to go out on a limb there were many reasons of course but the main one was the decision to try and reach Asia by going west was not made out of choice Europe was desper only a few decades prior in 1453 the Ottomans sacked Constantinople and they cut Europe off from the Silk Road the West Was facing a huge Challenge and a new threat no smaller than the one we face today and like us what they needed was another way but when Columbus took his idea to go west to India to the kings and queens of medieval Europe they laughed at him they didn't laugh at him because he was some misunderstood genius he wasn't Galileo they laughed at him because he was wrong if you go out in the street and ask a random person why Columbus discovered America they'll tell you he worked out that the Earth was round not true by the time Columbus set off on his voyage in 1492 people had known the Earth was round for two Millennia there's probably more flat Earths now than there were in the 15th century God bless the internet the reason Columbus discovered America is not that he'd worked out that the Earth was round the reason is that he massively underestimated the size of the planet they were right to laugh at him he was wrong but he took that wrongness he persuaded 90 other men to get into three boats smaller than the size of this stage and sail into the unknown and he persuaded Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon to fund his voyage the moral of the story is it doesn't matter how wrong you are as long as you've got rich friends that's not the moral of the story the moral of the story is the history of our civilization was not made by people who always got everything right it was made by people who'd made mistakes too it was made by people who dared to believe that they could solve the problems they faced the story of the West is a story of audacity the big debates of the last decade the culture War the polarization are about one thing and one thing only the future There Are People Like Us in this room who believe that our future is to be prosperous powerful and influential we are the majority but there are also some people whose brains have been broken by an excess of Education who believe that our history is evil that we do not deserve to be great we do not deserve to be powerful that we must be punished for the sins of our ancestors to them our past is abominable abominable our present must be spent apologizing and our future is managed decline my message to those people is simple how dare you you will not steal my son's dreams with your empty [Applause] words but Jordan is right we need a positive message too so here it is from the dawn of time human beings have had to work to make the world a better place we captured the mystery of fire we invented the wheel today we build buildings that would shock and awe almost every human being that has ever lived we split the atom we spliced The genome and we connected the world through microcomputers that fit in our pockets that allow us to do amaz amazing things this morning I destroyed someone on Twitter with facts and logic from the toilet It's Magic remember your grandparents remember them if I could go back in time and transport the grandparents of your grandparents into this room just four generations ago they would think they'd been abducted by aliens that's the progress we've made we we haven't made that progress by whining and acting like victims we've made that progress by unleashing the creativity and talent of people like us here in this room but I do think we've forgotten what Adventure is being adventurous is not ordering extra spicy chicken at Nando wrong reference for this room let me try again being adventurous is not ordering extra spicy chicken from your personal chef when Columbus and his men got on those boats and took a journey into the unknown they sailed to certain death you know why it's not because they were braver than you and I it's because they knew something we forgotten all Death is certain and so I say to our friends in the world of business you've made your fortunes by maximizing your Returns on your Investments we are in the fight of Our Lives there is no greater return on your investment than to protect and preserve our civilization and so I invite you to follow in the footsteps of Elon Musk and Paul Marshall and bandel and many of you here who are using your fortunes for the betterment of humanity I say to our friends in the media truth matters we are in the fire of our lives there is more to life than clicks and downloads let's move beyond the culture War where all we do is B away the Litany of slanderous allegations about our history let's set the agenda let's remind our fellow citizens why we are where we are let's remind them that we are the most o tolerant open and welcoming Societies in the history of the world we're not embarrassed about our past we're proud of it and to my colleagues in New Media especially I say this the Legacy Media is dying for reason they cannot be saved they cannot be reformed let's stop complaining about them and start building the media empires of the future ourselves we have everything we need we've even got rich friends now I say to our friends in education and Academia I understand that many of you feel like the French Resistance or Soviet partisans stuck Behind Enemy Lines underand and outgunned and you're right we are in the fight of our lives so keep fighting for every young mind you can it will be worth [Applause] it and finally I say to our friends and politics many of you here are conservatives I'm not I look terrible in tweet that's why I identify as politically non-binary um but I can tell you conservative something you will never get young people to want to conserve a society and an economy that is not working for them we will not overcome woke nihilism as long as young people are locked out of the housing market Unable to pair up unable to have kids unable to plan for the [Applause] future I know it's difficult and I know that whoever solves the housing crisis May well pay the price at The Ballot Box this is true of many pressing issues too or at least you think it is but you did not get into politics to get reelected you got into politics to make a [Applause] difference we are in the fight of our lives and if courage means anything it means doing the right thing and being willing to take the punishment if you have to let me say it again all Death is certain we do not get to choose whether we live or die we only get to choose whether we live before we die thank you very much

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Length: 12min 47sec (767 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 31 2023