ladies and gentlemen it is great to be back at ARK if we haven't met my name is Constantin I was born in Soviet Russia and I moved here when I was a teenager I love this country and I say so publicly which is how you know I still haven't integrated into British culture last time we were here you might remember I opened my speech with this quote from Alexander Soulja nson I I bring it up because it's still true but also because one of my many critics after my speech claimed that in quoting soul niten
in this way I was comparing myself to him now this is of course ridiculous Alexander Solan niten spent years in a hard labor camp where he endured a starvation diet brutal punishments and a complete deprivation of his Liberty I went to a British boarding school that's where the similarities end so what has happened since we were last here well on the positives let's call it what it is the tide is turning our American friends are leading the way Dei a system of anti meritocratic discrimination is being dismantled not just in the American government but much
more importantly for us here in the global corporate world as well once again we can dream that our children children will be judged on the content of the character and not the color of the square they post on Instagram government profligacy and Corruption is being exposed on an industrial scale those may not be perfect but according to one report usaid gave $3 million to a rapper in Gaza who makes anti-semitic songs now whatever your politics we can all agree that's a waste of taxpayers money Kanye West would have done it for free now thanks to
the end of censorship on Twitter we finally have the ability to express reasonable and widely held views because of this other social media companies are now fearful of being too aggressive in their sensorship too now it's true we haven't yet won the argument on freedom of speech here in Europe I thought the most hilarious example of this was last week when JD Vance gave a speech in Munich in which he criticized European leaders for trying to shut down speech that they don't like the reaction a German politician stood up and went this is unacceptable the
accent was a bit much all right so that's the positives but there's been a lot of bad too I mean if you want to understand how bad the crime problems become in Britain British people used to deal with crime by moving the criminals to Australia now British people deal with crime by moving to Australia the number of testicular injuries in women sport is through the [Applause] roof I don't think this is a laughing matter we can all agree women's safety is incredibly important which is why we must do a much better job of protecting their
balls see it's jokes like that that get me accused of being a conservative and I hate it when people call me a conservative because I have made many mistakes over the last 14 years but even I haven't leten hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants I'm not being rude I am grateful to the conservative party they have achieved the unachievable there is now a consensus in this in this country on that issue I was talking to a politician the other day who said illegal immigration is one of the most important issues our country faces and he
was a lip Dam and look I know it's hard to say anything about that issue without being put in the bigger box so let me just say I empathize with and totally understand the motivations of the people who come here across the English Channel on smoke boats I wouldn't want to stay in France either see I lied I have integrated into British culture but look I also hate it when people call me a conservative because it shows that they're missing my point I don't believe that Western values and the societies they created are great because
of an ideology or because of party affiliation I believe our values and our societies are great because I've got eyes when I look at the fact that millions of people risk their lives to come here every year and no one is going the other way that tells a story doesn't it I know there's a lot of frustration with the state of this country and much of the western world but let's keep things in perspective of all the things that human beings have invented over the last 200 years our culture and its values are responsible for
most of them I'm not saying we have a monopoly on genius there are exceptions like Co that was invented in China oh it's controversial look I know it's controversial joke in my defense it's not a joke co co was clearly a Chinese virus hardworking made on the cheap and very good at [Applause] multiplying one of the simplest things that most people no longer understand is that we don't lead the world on Innovation because we're richer we are richer because we lead the world on Innovation but all of this is at risk because we're in danger
of forgetting how we got here do you know what this is that's just a photo of me on the screen all right can you see it it's behind me all right it's like pantomim here it's a plane made out of wood why would you make a plane out of wood well during World War II both Japan and the US used small islands in the Pacific to supply their armies in exchange for occupying these islands they provided the tribes who lived there with food clothing and medical supplies but when the war ended the Japanese and Americans
packed up and left and they took their supplies with them so what did the Natives do to try and restore them they built plane imitations like that they lit signal fires they marched up and down with wooden rifles to summon back the provisions they'd got used to and this is what we've been doing we've been imitating the things that got us here instead of actually doing them but the good news is this metaphor is complete the success whose fruit we enjoy was not created by a more advanced foreign civilization it was achieved by grandparents and
their grandparents before them a better metaphor would be the one Philippa used when she opened this conference thereby ruining my speech it's king theodan from Lord of the Rings who sits on the throne pal paralyzed bound to his seat by lethargy and paity he's kept there by a weasy servant called GMA worm Tong who Whispers dispiriting cowardly lies in his ear too many people on our screens our newspapers in our schools and colleges have been modern day GMA wons who pour their cowardly lies in our ears and those of our children if GMA was alive
today he'd have his own col in the guardian we need to admit something very unpleasant we have been lied to for decades people went on TV and told you that your history is all bad and your country is plagued by Prejudice and intolerance I have debated these people many times and I always ask them the same question if you were a woman or an ethnic minority or someone who with Spirit gender or whatever where would you rather live than the west and none of them ever answer because we all know the answer we are being
accused of Performing terribly on the very things we lead the world in a healthy sense of your own self-worth a self-confidence these are not conservative values or liberal values those are the values of every successful group of people in history decline is a choice and the good news is this most people don't want manage decline most people don't want to be brow be beaten and chastised for their history most people do not want their children to be poorer than them and recent election results around the world bear that out like aalam the reason millions of
people admire Elon Musk is not his charismatic speeches stunning good looks and ill-advised hand gestures they admire him because he builds big things and in doing so reminds us that we are meant to reach for the stars a big part of the reason we are here 4,000 of us is that an obscure Canadian clinical psychologist became such a unique cultural phenomenon that he can help to pull us together like this and how did Jordan Peterson get so big how did he get so big he reminded us of something that human beings have known for Millennia
that if you adopt the attitude that honesty is better than lies that responsibility is better than blame and that strength is better than weakness your life will get better and now he sells Out Sports Arenas around the world we are a civilization that is waiting to be inspired so let's stop listening to the people who want us to fail Let's ignore the Council of our enemies let's open our eyes and see the world as it is our culture is special our civilization is special we have built the most free and prosperous Societies in the history
of humanity and we are going to keep them that way but to do so we're going to have to win the arguments many of them we've been talking about in the last three days on Free Speech we've allowed ourselves to be backed into a corner the attack line against us is that we want to return to some crueler time when people could be mean and nasty but the truth is we don't believe in free speech because we want to go back to the past we believe in free speech because we know that without it we
can't get to the future we need to speak freely in order to think freely and if we can't think freely we won't move forward free speech is not a right-wing value or leftwing value it's a western value the second argument we must win is on identity politics and multiculturalism for several decades now our societies have attempted these two failed experiments the result is tension disunity and a toleration of the inable for the sake of so-called Community cohesion multiethnic societies can work Multicultural societies cannot we must be British American Australian and whatever whever else we are
first and male female white black and all the other stuff a distant second and the final argument we must win is about whether human beings are good in 1968 Paul erck published the population bomb in which he argued that human population growth was about to outr Food Supplies leading to mass starvation societal collapse and the need for drastic measures to control population growth none of this happened he was completely wrong but the ideas live on unaffected in the minds of our political and media Elite at the core of the Net Zero agenda is a fundamental
sense that human beings are a pestilence on the planet that if only we could stop them reproducing and encourage them to die out peacefully the planet would finally be safe this has become so ingrained that many people now say they will not have children because of climate concerns we must never get used to this because it represents a grotesque moral inversion the birth of a child the birth of a child is a universally celebrated thing and at a cultural level any successful civilization would see more of itself being created as an unalloyed good what do
you imagine happens to civilizations that don't so we must say without apology the solution to climate change can't be poverty before the Industrial Revolution nearly 40% of children died before they hit puberty that means two of the five people next to you would be dead right now now there are a lot of people outside this room who'd be happy about that my point is the promise of that better tomorrow is not just a nice thing to have it's the debt we owe our children we have to make energy cleaner yes but we also have to
make it as cheap and abundant as possible and once we in Europe win that argument we will finally have the one thing that's been missing an economic Vision that can inspire people to believe that the future will be better than the past now look they asked me to say something uplifting and motivational I'm Russian Ukrainian British and a little bit Jewish those are not four groups of people that are known for their optimism and jiv but let me share with you the most inspiring thing that anyone's ever told me you're going to die yeah yeah
we're all going to die no you are going to die and when you do there will be a gathering of people that loved you they're going to say some words meaningful important words they're going to put your body on the ground and then they're going to go and eat some food and after that they're going to go home and squabble of your inheritance that's it we're going to die we have nothing to lose so we might as well speak the truth we might as well reach for the stars we might as well fight like our
lives depend on it because they do thank you very much thank you [Applause]
