The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship
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ARC is being established as an international community with a vision for a better world where every citizen can prosper, contribute, and flourish.
Joined February 2023
“The best slate of speakers that's ever been organised for any conference anywhere”. @jordanbpeterson famously said “be precise in your speech” is one of the 12 rules for life. And he’s right: THE ARC SPEAKER SLATE DROPS TODAY. @DouglasKMurray.@KonstantinKisin.@shellenberger
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"The eternal message that underpins Western civilisation, and I would say every civilisation, is that we are each a divine locus of value. And if that's true, then we each have a cardinal, an irreplaceable role to play in the destiny of the world." @jordanbpeterson
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"If we are wise, faithful, courageous, and responsible. then we can tilt the world towards heaven and away from hell". @jordanbpeterson closing #ARC2023 with an impassioned speech urging each of us to "get outside ourselves and serve a higher purpose." .Then we will "remember
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ARC is asking 6 fundamental questions. Watch ARC co-founder @jordanbpeterson elaborate on questions 3 and 4👇 . 3. Family and Social Fabric: "What is the proper role for the family, the community, and the nation in creating the conditions for prosperity?". 4. Free Enterprise
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"Traditions are experiments that worked. What we have found, having rejected the sexual norms of the past, is that they were there for a reason. The winners of the sexual revolution have not been women. and the great losers of the sexual revolution are children"
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“It is time to bring a more optimistic vision and to believe in ourselves, in our civilisation, and in the things which made it such an extraordinary civilisation.” . WATCH: The ARC Vision Trailer | A hope-filled invitation to the future 👇. Decline is not inevitable. Purpose is
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NEW: We are delighted to announce that the next ARC Conference will take place between 17-19 February 2025!. In the coming weeks we are sharing a series of ARC vision films, diving deeper into our key ideas. WATCH: @jordanbpeterson calls us to "find the adventure of our life" 👇
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"The story of the West is a story of audacity. We need a positive message, so here it is. ". An inspiring @KonstantinKisin sets out his vision for a better world #ARC2023
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Over the coming weeks we will be introducing our Organising Committee. Today we are starting with Baroness Stroud, co-founder of ARC. Here she sets out the vision and key themes of ARC 👇.
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"Once we stop getting scared witless, we can actually be incredibly smart". @BjornLomborg shows that the world is not ending, that life has improved dramatically for almost everyone everywhere, and that there are smarter solutions than climate policies. #BetterStory. WATCH the
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ARC asks 6 fundamental questions. Watch ARC co-founder @jordanbpeterson elaborate on our first 2 questions 👇 . 1. Vision and Story: "Can we find a unifying story that will guide us as we make our way forward?". 2. Responsible Citizenship: "How do we facilitate the development of
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From Grief to Glory . Longest standing ovation of the Conference for @joshualukesmith's spoken word. The whole room was moved. @jordanbpeterson #ARC2023. Video coming soon.
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“If you are a responsible citizen you are the kind of autonomous individual that can take care of yourself and other people”. Today, ARC co-founder @jordanbpeterson explains his vision for ARC and why he is joining. 1/2. Watch the full podcast:
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"Now, it is on us to take up this calling. Decline is not inevitable. ARC offers a compelling hope-filled vision for the future.". Former US Speaker @SpeakerMcCarthy addressing the conference on the importance of restoring freedom to achieve global prosperity. #ARC2023
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“We believe there is a better story, and it’s one of optimism that sees a future of abundance and opportunity, not scarcity and decline”. Our CEO Philippa Stroud kicks off the ARC Conference, welcoming over 1,500 international delegates and setting out ARC’s vision . #ARC2023
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THREAD: Introducing the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC). ARC is being established as an international community with a vision for a better world where every citizen can prosper, contribute, and flourish. Read our launch announcement here:
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"Don't give your kids a smart phone.". Is social media the cause of spiralling mental health? Listen to @JonHaidt speak with @FraserNelson about how we strengthen our social fabric. #ARC2023
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“[You] have a moral obligation to do remarkable things with this miracle of existence that has been granted to you.”. 🚨NEW: @jordanbpeterson's inspiring message to young people at #ARC2023 👇🧵
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Tonight, @jordanbpeterson is speaking at @TheO2, sharing the ARC vision of responsible citizenship to 20,000 people! There is a better future for our societies and a better story we can all get behind #ARC2023
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"We have the capacity. to make the very desert bloom.". @jordanbpeterson challenging each of us to use what we have to create a future of abundance and opportunity for everyone. Humanity's capacity for innovation and ingenuity is unlimited #BetterStory
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"The goods must dance together. They play against each other. They have be put in proper hierarchies, where the more encompassing goods like the virtues, guide the lower goods like the stuff.". @PageauJonathan delivering a passionate keynote speech on The Better Story: The Good,
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An inspirational first day at #ARC2023 as we welcomed some of the world's brightest thinkers across politics, business and culture. Stay tuned for 2 more days of visionary content!. Watch some of the Day 1 highlights 👇🏻
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🚨NEW ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER🚨. "If courage means anything, it means doing the right thing, and taking the punishment if you have to.". It is an honour to welcome a man of courage and truth to our to our Advisory Board. Welcome, @KonstantinKisin 🙌
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The most inspiring speech Jordan Peterson has ever given. Watch in full:
I’ve done 100+ shows with @jordanbpeterson over the years. His talk at the end of @arc_forum was the most meaningful, poetic, and important speech I’ve ever heard in my life.
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"We need to turn around the narrative that work outside the home is more important than motherhood.". @EricaKomisarCSW delivering a keynote speech on the importance of raising healthy, happy, resilient children as part of a strong social fabric. #ARC2023
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"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 - and when they're attacked, fight
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"ARC’s positive mission is to promote a revival of appreciation of the best of Western Civilisation". "ARC is pro-nuclear energy, pro-capitalism, pro-family, pro-child, pro-Christianity, pro-freedom of speech and religion, and pro-traditional education." @SpectatorOz.
.@ChavuraStephen has brilliantly summarised this week’s @arc_forum in London. The things our elites won’t say have been said in a very impressive forum. What happens next may well determine the future of western civilisation.
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"The point of education is teaching children what they should want. That there be mentors and masters who say 'these are the values you should incorporate. When you do that, people become responsible. Able to respond.". @BishopBarron channelling Aristotle in his keynote speech to
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"Our civilisation has forgotten the foundations upon which it was built.". @prcmarshall is co-founder and chairman of Marshall Wace LLP, founder of @unherd, and member of ARC's Organising Committee 👇
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"ARC presents the unique opportunity for us to choose renewal, to revitalise our vision for what it means to flourish - as individuals, as families, as greater communities, as states and nations.". In his first major international speech since becoming US Speaker,
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"Art has a power to change people's lives for ever. If you have to choose between politics or art to govern a nation, I would choose art because it has the power to touch people's hearts and minds.". Mexican movie star @EVerastegui speaking at #ARC2023 on the vital role art plays
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“The history of our civilisation was not made by people who always got everything right. “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.”. @KonstantinKisin on the West’s story at #ARC2023
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"There is an adolescent mental health crisis and it was caused primarily by the rapid rewiring of childhood in the early 2010s, from play-based to phone-based.". Read @JonHaidt's summary of his powerful research into the impact of digital technology on young people 👇.
If you want to understand what happened to Gen Z -- why they are so much more anxious and depressed than Millennials -- read this selection of our best posts from After Babel in 2023. It's a preview of my book The Anxious Generation:.
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Why ARC? Why now? . Listen to our co-founder and CEO Philippa Stroud open #ARC2023 and set out ARC’s vision. In a time of global shaking, there is a #BetterStory.
“We believe there is a better story, and it’s one of optimism that sees a future of abundance and opportunity, not scarcity and decline”. Our CEO Philippa Stroud kicks off the ARC Conference, welcoming over 1,500 international delegates and setting out ARC’s vision . #ARC2023
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"The role of government was never to grant, but always to uphold our inherent, inalienable human rights and fundamental freedoms.". @LeslynLewis is a member of the Canadian Parliament and a member of the ARC Organising Committee.
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NOW: Jordan Peterson delivers final remarks to a packed @arc_forum . Breaking down themes of identity, responsibility and hope.
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Happy New Year from ARC! 🎉🥂. Make 2024 a year of bearing more responsibility⬇️. “You want to be outside yourself, serving a higher purpose. We’ve forgotten the responsibility that we need to bear in our life to make our lives bearable.”. @jordanbpeterson at #ARC2023
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"As boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal to girls, to six times that of young women.". WATCH 'Why Boys Need Dads' - New ARC Vision Film 👇
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"ARC will be visionary, invitational and aspirational. authoritative, but forswearing the use of force and compulsion. Calm and steady-handed, rather than frightened. As patient as necessary; as positive as possible; as playful as can be managed.".@jordanbpeterson . Join us:
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Niall Ferguson: “The young in the West don’t believe in nothing. They believe in things—but those things are not liberal democracy.”. @nfergus spoke with Greg Sheridan, @RLHeinrichs, and Andrew Hastie at #ARC2023 about the threats facing Western democracies ⬇️🧵
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NOW: Jacinta Price closing out the day at ARC, talking about the recent Voice Referendum in Australia. "We have experienced a turning point in our nation with the result of our referendum. It has created hope. It has created unity. It has emboldened every day Australians."
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“Instagram is the worst for teen mental health for girls… TikTok is probably the worst for their intellectual development”. @JonHaidt spoke to @FraserNelson at #ARC2023 about the causes of the child mental health crisis and his four proposed solutions. Comment your thoughts⬇️
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"The new ARC forum can help us envision the future in a positive manner. We can focus on what is truly important and attainable.". Elite groupthink put the West on the path to despair - but there’s another way | @jordanbpeterson @BjornLomborg.
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"Love humanity. Gas for the world. Go nuclear.". In his keynote speech on Energy, Resources and Our Environment, @shellenberger set out his vision for a new a story. #ARC2023
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An inspiring and thought-provoking Day 2 at #ARC2023 as we convened some of the world's finest minds to debate the most pressing challenges of our time. Watch the highlights of Day 2 👇.--
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"When one generation no longer esteems its own heritage and fails to pass the torch to its own children, it is saying that the very foundational principles and experiences that make it the society that it is are no longer valid.". - Winston Churchill.
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Despite an "elite wall of consensus never seen before, with the support of a small, committed group of campaign leaders, suburban and regional Australia said no.". Hot on the heels of the recent Indigenous Voice referendum, Australia's Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor today
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Have you adopted "anti-human environmental philosophy"? . @AlexEpstein challenges #ARC2023 to see humans as "producer-improvers" not "parasite-polluters" when it comes to our environment. Do you agree? . Watch the full interview with @Marian_L_Tupy and @stoker_aj below 🧵
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“@jordanbpeterson and I believe we can all be part of building something better”. Who is Baroness Stroud? . ARC’s co-founder and CEO tells all in a deep-dive about the origins of ARC and why she is committed to renewing the best of Western civilisation 👇.
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🚨Over 350,000 people have watched Dr Scott Tinker's talk at #ARC2023, on the trade-offs involved in transitioning to greener energy. Watch this clip to see why 👇🧵. “We’re well aware of the benefits of reducing emissions, but what are some of the unintended outcomes of it?"
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"The people perish without hopeful vision". ARC co-founder @jordanbpeterson explains why we all need narratives of hope, and how ARC intends to develop a hopeful vision that everyone can get behind. Watch the full podcast:
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@jordanbpeterson WATCH: Full Remarks by Jordan Peterson at the Launch of ARC. Decline is not inevitable. The time has come for hope-filled version.
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“The faith that’s necessary to confront the future properly is indistinguishable from courage.”. @jordanbpeterson spoke at #ARC2023 about the need to choose faith over nihilism⬇️
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We are delighted that ARC Advisory Board member @RepMikeJohnson has just been elected as Speaker of the House of Representatives!. Speaker Johnson has been with us from the very beginning of ARC and we have greatly appreciated his insight and support. We wish him well in his new.
"We are in the middle of an identity crisis in the West, without a common narrative or moral framework". ARC aims to "re-evaluate humanity's direction of travel and revitalise our vision of what it means to flourish". @RepMikeJohnson is Vice Chairman of House Republicans and
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It has been inspiring to look out at a room filled with 1500 people committed to building a movement of hopeful vision. Seeing connections being made, friendships started, and stories being shared. #ARC2023
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“What we’ve found from having rejected all of the sexual norms of the past is that they were there for a reason. “The winners of the sexual revolution have not been women in general. the great losers of the sexual revolution have been children.”. @Louise_m_perry at #ARC2023
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"There are some people whose brains have been broken. To them our past is abominable and our future is one of managed decline. My message to them is simple. How dare you? . You will not steal my son's future with empty words.". @KonstantinKisin starting today with a bang.
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“Voluntary sacrifice in the service of what’s highest: this is the highest principle.”. @jordanbpeterson
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ARC exists to facilitate serious conversations about the greatest challenges of our time. A privilege having @RubinReport with us through the Conference.
All of my interviews at @arc_forum in London. With @jordanbpeterson @Ayaan @DouglasKMurray @peterboghossian @ConceptualJames @MrAndyNgo @Stella_Assange @DennisPrager @BretWeinstein @EricRWeinstein @EvaVlaar @yaronbrook @SpeakerMcCarthy @KonstantinKisin
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Decline is not inevitable. We believe it is possible to revitalise our foundations, renew our culture, and restore optimism, confidence, and hope for the future. This Friday we will be starting a 4-part newsletter series that will articulate ARC's vision. Subscribe here:
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"Reagan warned us that in the face of evil, the time for shyness was over, “Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.”. Now, it is on us to take up this calling." @SpeakerMcCarthy.
I can tell you with clarity and conviction → Government isn’t the answer. Government is the problem.
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In 1940, Holland House library in London was bombed in the Blitz. Yet people still sought out stories and truth in the ruins. We have always been storytellers and, in times of trouble, we need stories of hope. Today, we need a better story, one that gives hope for the future.
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Ideologies that teach us to be ashamed of our past have created a generation who are simultaneously unaware of the values that built the society in which they live, and desensitized to the daily benefits they experience from the outworking of those values. @KonstantinKisin.
In Defence of Western Values. When @konstantinkisin and @mrwinmarshall met @evavlaar and @africabrooke101. This is 🔥. Watch in full on X.
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"We are in the fight of our lives. If courage means anything at all, it means doing the right thing and being willing to take the punishment if you have to.". WATCH @KonstantinKisin's viral message to Western leaders 👇.
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ARC asks 6 fundamental questions. Watch ARC co-founder @jordanbpeterson elaborate on questions 5 and 6👇. 5. Energy and Resources: "How do we provide the energy and other resources upon which all economies depend in a manner that is inexpensive, reliable, safe and efficient,
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“We want to figure out how to develop responsible citizens in families, in communities, in properly put together cities, and to leave requisite responsibility at every level of that hierarchy. That is the antidote to tyranny.”. @jordanbpeterson 2/2
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"We are in the middle of an identity crisis in the West, without a common narrative or moral framework". ARC aims to "re-evaluate humanity's direction of travel and revitalise our vision of what it means to flourish". @RepMikeJohnson is Vice Chairman of House Republicans and
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"I remembered that we are tethered, .connected in our weakness,.dependent like flowers towards the sun.upon a beauty that is not our own". The spoken word of Joshua Luke Smith lifted our eyes each day of the conference and pointed us to #BetterStory
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At ARC, we believe that humans have an extraordinary capacity for innovation and ingenuity. But this can only be released when people have a hopeful, optimistic vision for the future. This Alliance intends to renew that vision. Join us on the journey 👇
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We are honoured to be able to profile 6 new papers from ARC Research!. 1 "Being There: Raising Resilient Children" @EricaKomisarCSW. Erica shows how the secure attachment of children with parents is vital for future emotional resilience. READ: /1
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“Being told that we are victims because of our racial heritage. effectively meant that our agency had been removed.". @JNampijinpa tackling pervasive victimhood narratives in the recent Indigenous Voice referendum #ARC2023 🧵
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@jordanbpeterson WATCH: @jordanbpeterson's final words at #ARC2023, calling us higher to responsibility, courage, service, and hope #BetterStory.
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"The purpose of the state is surely to help spontaneous civil associations to flourish so that they, in turn, can help individual citizens flourish. not the other way around". Former Deputy Prime Minister @JohnAndersonAC revealing what ARC means by 'responsible citizenship' 👇
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“We’re in a cut flower civilisation now- the roots have been cut, and people are still relying on the flower. But a flower in a vase will die.”. @OsGuinness, @Ayaan, @JohnAndersonAC, and @jordanbpeterson discussed the state of Western civilisation at #ARC2023 👇🧵
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"We now face in many areas an effective coalition between the privileged and the resentment industry". In a keynote speech at #ARC2023, UK Housing Secretary @michaelgove addresses the issue of crony capitalism, singling out those who profit from "manufactured grievances".
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"We can either have a scarcity mindset, that things are getting worse & we are to blame, or an abundance mindset, that things are getting better & can get better". @AJMcCormick is a Partner at @Legatum, co-founder of @TheENDFund & @Freedom_Fund, and co-founder of ARC 👇
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"Whatever it is you are chasing right now, it ain't it.". "The supreme good is not money, energy, freedom, family, knowledge. all those things are good, but should never be treated as the supreme good.". "Goods must be put in proper hierarchies. " - Watch on to learn more 👇
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"We cannot fix our problems simply by placing ourselves in opposition to the narrative of permacrisis and decline; we need to offer an alternative.". Writing in @Telegraph, Baroness Stroud, one of our co-founders sets out a vision for ARC. Read more👇.
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With the decline of the family and rising living costs, what would it take to help the next generation thrive? . In their new paper for ARC Research, @Louise_m_perry, Fiona Mackenzie and @pastasnack_e show how our modern societies have lost sight of the value of both children and
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"It is in the struggle that the meaning of life emerges. We are to move out into the world with nobility and courage and hoist the world on our shoulders. The burden of responsibility is not a burden. It is the greatest opportunity you could possibly have." @jordanbpeterson.
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"2008 still leaves a long shadow on Western politics…as everyone saw how the bankers privatised their gains and socialised their losses. This gross injustice has never been rectified." . ARC Advisory Board member Sir Paul Marshall tackling monopolies, cronyism, and woke
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"The true roots—the foundation stones—of Western civilisation are not freedom, prosperity, and happiness. But the pursuit of the good, the true, and the beautiful.". @miriam_cates spoke at #ARC2023 about the foundations of Western flourishing⬇️🧵
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Relive the highlights from Day 1 of #ARC2023 where we set out ARC's vision and grappled with the greatest questions of our time 👇. @jordanbpeterson @Ayaan @JohnAndersonAC @OsGuinness @nfergus @RLHeinrichs @stoker_aj.
An inspirational first day at #ARC2023 as we welcomed some of the world's brightest thinkers across politics, business and culture. Stay tuned for 2 more days of visionary content!. Watch some of the Day 1 highlights 👇🏻
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"The Left has promised to make everyone equal. The Right has promised to make everyone rich. The Liberals have promised to make everyone happy. None of that has happened. We need a new narrative". @GudrunKugler - Member of the Austrian Parliament and the ARC Organising Committee
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NEW YEAR, NEW VISION FOR BUSINESS. Sir Paul Marshall calls on those inside and outside politics to combat cronyism, regulatory capture, and false virtue in the business world📈 #ARC2023. What part can you play in making "free enterprise once again a pillar of human flourishing"?
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Freedom is “the disciplining of desire, so as to make the achievement of the good first possible, and then effortless”. @BishopBarron spoke about the true nature of freedom at #ARC2023, and how it differs from the popular modern understanding 👇🧵
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#ARC2023 started yesterday with a bang. And momentum is growing. Coming up today: .- @KonstantinKisin on our founding stories .- @jordanbpeterson, @stephenblackwd, @Louise_m_perry, @BishopBarron and @moveincircles on freedom and responsibility .- @EricaKomisarCSW on the keys to.
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NEW YEAR, NEW VISION. What is your vision for 2024? . We hope that this Vision Trailer will help inspire an optimistic, responsible, and courageous vision for you and your family this new year. #ABetterStory.
“It is time to bring a more optimistic vision and to believe in ourselves, in our civilisation, and in the things which made it such an extraordinary civilisation.” . WATCH: The ARC Vision Trailer | A hope-filled invitation to the future 👇. Decline is not inevitable. Purpose is
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UK Trade Secretary @KemiBadenoch speaking to @freddiesayers on why growth has stalled:. - Reliance on an ever-growing state.- Narratives of fear & safetyism that stifle innovation.- Focus on ESG & DEI that don’t deliver profits or the good they promise. 👉
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“If the true sign of an enlightened society is an emphasis on relationships, family, and care for the most vulnerable, then we are failing miserably.”. @EricaKomisarCSW is a clinical social worker, author, psychoanalyst, parent coach, and member of our Organising Committee 👇
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“To live in a Western country is to live in a society, still utterly saturated by Christian concepts & assumptions. Two thousand years on from Christ…[we are]. stamped by the formidable—indeed the inescapable—influence of Christianity” . - @holland_tom, Dominion
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"The constant barrage of negativity may lead us to imagine that our forward progress is about to end. However, the evidence does not support this conclusion" say @jordanbpeterson & @BjornLomborg. #ARC2023 will counter declinism and tell a better story.
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"If truth is dead, the only operating principle is power". @OsGuinness showing that the end result of today's oppressor/oppressed power narratives will be authoritarianism. Watch his full conversation with @MrWinMarshall 👇.
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"The vision of ARC is not to offer an enlightened or superior vision of the future, but to provide a community where people can address common questions and offer solutions." . We are honoured to have Christopher Chandler, Chairman of @Legatum, as one of our founding members 👇
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