A newly surfaced transcript from the Tucker Carlson Show.

W elcome to the Tucker Carlson Show. Today, I want to talk about how they lie to you. They just lie. [cackles] You’ve probably been told, for example — I certainly was, this is just how it is in America — that feudalism was a bad thing. But is it?

Obviously, I don’t want to starve to death. At least I don’t think I do. But look, I’m an American. This is my country. England’s famous villain, King John, may have been a bad guy — who isn’t? — but he didn’t import 10 million illegal immigrants, did he? He didn’t kill anyone with fentanyl. At a certain point, you have to ask: Why would the people in authority — the ones who have the power and the money, and who want to keep you living like a serf — why would they want you to think that feudalism is bad? Why would they teach you that? It almost feels forbidden for us to ask this. I’ve never heard anybody say out loud that, maybe, if you want to avoid the destruction of your country, you need to have a medieval lord, sitting in a castle, doling out affinity. Have any Americans said that out loud? I don’t know. But I’m laughing here because it just seems so obviously true. When you lose the family values, when you lose the connection between the family itself, you will lose the connection between the people in the same neighborhood, or fiefdom, or kingdom.

Prima nocta. Sure, I don’t want that. But, when you think about it, there was certainly community there. Until the British intelligence services got involved, anyway. But if all our comparisons are to prima nocta — if every time that someone in America uses his free speech to suggest that perhaps eleventh-century feudalism is the way forward, he’s reminded of prima nocta, all bets are off. Doesn’t that bother you a little? Because it bothers me. If you want me to say that I’m against prima nocta, fine. But, look, no Lord of Buckinghamshire ever bombed the crap out of Christians in Yugoslavia. No Lady of the Manor came up with a vaccine mandate. You say this sort of thing, and, like Joe Sobran, you’re quickly shuffled off the scene, which is a tragedy, because he was one of the only interesting people writing at the time. It’s not that I actively want to turn the United States into a pre-Renaissance backwater — although, for the record, I kind of do — it’s just that I think we ought to understand what has happened to our culture over the last few decades.

I’ve reached the point at which I don’t know if anything in our history books is actually true. One of my favorite historians, Edward Branson — he’s a citizen historian, they don’t want you to believe that those people exist, but they do, and he’s one — has made a pretty persuasive case that there was a town in the Highlands of Scotland in about 1150 that could do everything we can do today, but with no electricity. Just water, soil, and parsnips. [cackles] And if that’s the case, then what are we doing? Really, what are we doing? They did all that without BlackRock, without millions of third-world invaders, without the neocon project. I don’t want to go full Ted Kaczynski — although there are worse things — but if we can do that, shouldn’t we? If we could have good things without modern architecture, could we maybe do that? Choosing not to do that is insane. It’s just completely crazy. I would very much appreciate an environment in the United States where Americans could speak openly about whether it’s possible to have dialysis machines that run on heather, without being accused of holding all sorts of unpleasant positions and losing your rights and being caught by bankers and being canceled because you said on Facebook that we have too many asylum seekers.