Neema Parvini is the author of eight books including The Prophets of Doom, The Populist Delusion, The Defenders of Liberty, Shakespeare's Moral Compass. He has also written dozens of chapters and articles in scholarly publications and the media. Neema is the Director of Academic Agency, which he set up to focus on core academic skills and knowledge areas which can help students and learners of all ages to achieve both academic excellence and improve communication and research skills in the workplace. He runs the YouTube channel Academic Agent and the Substack of the same name.

**Please excuse the audio issues on my side. This problem was caused by my audio interface. This has also affected the next episode. Audio is clean from thereafter. Neema's audio is clear and that is the main thing**

In this episode, Neema and I think out loud about the cyclical and linear views of history, why progress isn't real, how civilizations rise and fall, what elite theory means and what it means for societal change, the felt decline in modern Britain, what Trump's US 'vibe shift' really is and whether the United Kingdom will experience a vibe-shift of its own, why he thinks the West faces insurmountable problems, why countries and civilisations can only be young once, why we should avoid creating and consuming 'slop' and 'cringe lords' in content creation, and how Neema's worldview began to shift after voting remain in the United Kingdom's Brexit Vote in 2016 and much, much more.

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