Mysterium Fasces


Mysterium Fasces Episode 47 — Philosophy


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In this episode, we are joined by Nick Mason and Hans Lander from Myth of the 20th Century to discuss the role of philosophy in shaping our worldview, and how it shapes the way our society is put together.


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00:00:00.000 You tune in to ReviewArea at ReviewArea.com
00:00:07.120 Behold, the bridegroom cometh in the meal of the night
00:00:24.260 And blessed is the servant whom he shall find watching
00:00:36.340 But unworthy is he whom he shall find in slothfulness
00:00:50.160 Beware, therefore, my soul
00:01:03.080 And be not overcome by sleep
00:01:11.600 Lest thou be given over to death
00:01:20.420 And shut out from the kingdom
00:01:30.020 But return to soberness and cry
00:01:42.160 Holy, holy, holy art thou, O God
00:01:59.140 Through the Theotokos
00:02:04.420 Have mercy on us
00:02:11.120 Welcome to Mysterium Fasci's episode 47, Philosophy.
00:02:16.300 I'm your host, Florian Geyer.
00:02:17.980 It's a pleasure to be joining you once again, dear listeners,
00:02:20.120 and we've got a very exciting and full panel for you this week.
00:02:23.100 Joining us today we have two special guests,
00:02:25.460 and the first time to the show.
00:02:26.500 Really, it's long overdue.
00:02:29.520 Our friends from the Myth of the 20th Century podcast,
00:02:31.840 Nick Mason and Hans Lander, right?
00:02:34.920 Yep.
00:02:35.760 Excellent.
00:02:36.560 Well, boys, it's a real pleasure.
00:02:38.000 I'm a very great fan of your podcast.
00:02:39.840 You do some extremely excellent, high-quality stuff.
00:02:42.760 Very kind of content-oriented, content mindset.
00:02:46.040 So I have a deep pleasure to have you on today.
00:02:49.340 And some sojourners that we've had bustle into our saloon here at the last moment.
00:02:53.580 We've got our friends, Masonius Rufus and Makin's Ghost from Rebel Yelp Podcast,
00:02:57.800 also good friends of the show.
00:02:58.940 Thank you, boys, for coming on.
00:03:00.700 Thanks for having us.
00:03:01.840 Hey, thanks, bro.
00:03:02.880 It's a real pleasure.
00:03:04.220 So today we're going to be talking about philosophy,
00:03:07.060 not any particular philosophy in terms of doctrine,
00:03:10.280 but the importance of philosophy to an overall worldview,
00:03:13.580 even to how we operate in this modern world
00:03:16.040 and how philosophy shapes our lifestyle, essentially,
00:03:20.380 and the way our society is put together.
00:03:22.460 But before we get into that and discuss these kind of worldview questions,
00:03:26.820 we've just come to the end of the first week of Great Lent
00:03:29.880 for those of us who are on the Orthodox tradition.
00:03:32.680 And so I want to wish all of our brothers and sisters,
00:03:34.860 Catholic and Orthodox and Christian as well,
00:03:37.180 So, blessed Lent, you know, and encourage and support
00:03:42.120 and kind of issue a message of benediction to you all
00:03:46.400 in your efforts at charity and fasting and all that.
00:03:49.660 I think that one of the things that's been weighing heavily on me
00:03:53.500 the last couple of weeks is the absolute importance
00:03:56.740 of the foundation for our actions,
00:03:59.760 whether it's in the community or politically or whatever, of love.
00:04:04.300 And that there are a lot of young men,
00:04:07.020 especially in our circles,
00:04:08.300 who see the wickedness of this Babylonian society
00:04:11.060 and are reacting in an extremely strong way
00:04:14.580 against the death-bearing predators
00:04:17.880 that have instantiated themselves as the elite
00:04:21.420 in our Western society.
00:04:23.300 And what happens is that this reaction,
00:04:26.080 it ultimately leads to bad ends
00:04:29.020 because they're more angry and reactionary
00:04:33.320 against their enemies
00:04:34.620 rather than motivated from a place of love
00:04:37.340 towards their family and their society
00:04:39.440 and their community,
00:04:40.040 which is ultimately the basis
00:04:41.240 for any sort of national or Christian activity.
00:04:45.840 And so the season of Lent
00:04:47.660 is primarily one of increasing in love,
00:04:51.860 in love for ourselves in a true sense
00:04:54.380 by denying our own self-will
00:04:55.740 and pursuing those things
00:04:56.820 which are disciplined and good for our souls,
00:04:59.000 but especially for our brothers and sisters.
00:05:00.920 And being patient and temperate with them
00:05:03.820 and accepting their faults
00:05:05.600 and in trying our very best
00:05:07.160 to diligently labor in support of their well-being.
00:05:11.560 And of course, God has the center of all that,
00:05:14.040 that we love our brothers and sisters
00:05:16.080 as Christ has loved us,
00:05:18.720 which is what we're commanded to do as Christians.
00:05:21.380 So that's kind of the essence of it.
00:05:23.080 And fasting and prayer are all techniques and tools
00:05:25.660 that are supposed to help us advance in those virtues
00:05:28.560 and grow in love towards our neighbor and towards God.
00:05:31.880 And I think that ultimately,
00:05:33.020 it's the proliferation and growth
00:05:34.960 and strengthening of that real masculine Christian love,
00:05:38.700 which will be the wellspring
00:05:40.060 from which any sort of personal,
00:05:42.760 familial, societal restoration
00:05:44.300 can come about from.
00:05:46.780 So it's just something that is,
00:05:48.720 frankly, at the foundation of everything that we do.
00:05:50.400 And if we don't have that real,
00:05:52.200 earnest, diligent, suffering, sacrificial love
00:05:54.880 for ourselves, our family, our society,
00:05:57.300 our folk, our people,
00:05:59.040 then we're not going to get anywhere.
00:06:00.380 If we're motivated just by burning hate and anger
00:06:02.880 at our enemies,
00:06:04.620 however much they may be despicable
00:06:07.060 in service of the devil,
00:06:08.440 it ultimately will just consume us
00:06:10.340 because it's an identity,
00:06:12.520 a lifestyle of reaction.
00:06:15.080 So with that kind of, you know,
00:06:18.600 imploring eulogy out of the way,
00:06:20.400 let's get right into it.
00:06:22.440 So philosophy...
00:06:25.280 Oh, please go ahead.
00:06:26.440 You know, Florian,
00:06:26.800 I'm sure you've heard this before,
00:06:27.980 but you would make a great priest, man.
00:06:31.080 I've worked about that, buddy.
00:06:32.320 So let's see how that goes, God willing.
00:06:36.360 So to get into this,
00:06:38.980 the importance of philosophy
00:06:40.460 and the reason that I wanted to do
00:06:42.780 a whole show dedicated to it
00:06:44.660 is that when I've tried to explain to other people
00:06:46.900 what the purpose of this podcast is,
00:06:48.620 I realized that it mostly comes down to
00:06:51.300 discussion of the worldview.
00:06:53.880 It's kind of Christian nationals,
00:06:55.940 Christian national socialists,
00:06:57.140 but it's not so much like a discussion
00:07:00.060 on like what is the ideology of nationalism
00:07:02.680 or that kind of thing.
00:07:04.460 It's a much broader discussion,
00:07:06.560 a discussion of the fundamental presuppositions
00:07:08.840 and assumptions of our worldview,
00:07:10.560 of how the world works from our perspective,
00:07:13.280 of how our enemies think,
00:07:15.960 of how what we think
00:07:18.300 and how we pray,
00:07:20.800 how we believe affects our life
00:07:22.720 and affects the civilization around us.
00:07:24.900 And so what's happened is
00:07:26.080 as we've come to this postmodern era,
00:07:28.500 the importance of hard power,
00:07:31.600 of raw ideological fanaticism,
00:07:34.580 while it's still important,
00:07:35.960 violence is the foundation of all,
00:07:37.720 of the entire state,
00:07:38.780 I think has waned significantly.
00:07:41.120 And with the rise of mass communication,
00:07:43.900 we've seen the advent of
00:07:45.420 what I would describe a worldview warfare.
00:07:48.220 Our friend Titus Flavius runs a podcast
00:07:50.400 called Tukampf,
00:07:51.660 which is just a 19th century expression
00:07:54.380 of this very idea
00:07:57.540 that you don't need to engage
00:07:59.540 in acts of physical violence
00:08:01.260 or impose coercive force on a society.
00:08:04.400 If you can control the worldview,
00:08:05.820 if you can control the presuppositions
00:08:07.300 that they hold in their mind
00:08:10.080 before they even make actions,
00:08:11.560 before they even address anything in the world,
00:08:13.760 you don't have to use hard power.
00:08:16.100 And so a lot of what we're trying to do here
00:08:17.680 is to kind of deprogram people
00:08:19.820 of that kind of existing worldview
00:08:21.480 and give them the substance
00:08:22.820 that's just as radical
00:08:24.260 and just as strong
00:08:25.280 necessary to counter
00:08:26.480 the kind of insidious
00:08:27.820 and diabolic worldview
00:08:28.960 that our enemies have
00:08:29.900 so successfully pushed upon our civilization.
00:08:32.760 All right, boys.
00:08:33.180 So I'm going to be glad
00:08:35.360 to open it up to any of you
00:08:36.260 for your kind of opening comments.
00:08:37.360 I'm sure all of you have
00:08:38.580 more than one deep thought of the matter.
00:08:41.320 Well, what comes to mind
00:08:43.040 for me immediately,
00:08:43.860 I think I read this somewhere.
00:08:45.420 I don't have the exact source.
00:08:47.460 It's probably some French novel,
00:08:49.020 but it stuck with me,
00:08:50.480 which is the quote
00:08:51.500 was something along the lines of
00:08:53.320 you have to live as you believe
00:08:55.920 or you'll end up believing as you live.
00:08:59.360 And I think about someone
00:09:00.900 like E. Michael Jones
00:09:02.020 in that context a lot
00:09:03.400 because much of his whole thesis
00:09:06.320 on modernism, modernity
00:09:08.460 was effectively rationalized
00:09:10.900 sexual misbehavior.
00:09:12.700 And I think that many times
00:09:14.980 bad ideas stick around
00:09:17.440 and come around due to bad actions.
00:09:20.680 Yeah, that's bang on.
00:09:23.960 Absolutely.
00:09:25.560 Yeah, that's sort of the innate depravity
00:09:27.640 of man.
00:09:29.440 Like our ability to choose
00:09:30.480 between good and evil
00:09:31.800 was also damaged
00:09:33.160 in Adam's fall.
00:09:34.700 So we end up
00:09:35.700 rationalizing our selfishness.
00:09:38.680 You know, and we think
00:09:40.860 that we're doing it
00:09:41.480 for logical reasons.
00:09:43.120 Yeah.
00:09:43.740 Yeah, it was Sartre
00:09:45.020 who said man is condemned
00:09:46.280 to be free.
00:09:47.640 Yeah.
00:09:47.780 The one thing I've always noticed
00:09:49.360 about postmodernists
00:09:50.540 and a lot of the later
00:09:51.560 continental philosophers
00:09:52.660 and a lot of the existentialists
00:09:55.440 is that these are all
00:09:56.380 predominantly French and German
00:09:59.000 and to an extent
00:10:00.400 Belgian men
00:10:02.220 who are trying to deal
00:10:04.340 with the fact
00:10:04.940 that these are
00:10:05.800 places and peoples
00:10:07.540 that were defined
00:10:08.460 by the Catholic Church
00:10:10.340 and they don't know
00:10:11.240 what to do
00:10:11.940 in the wake of
00:10:13.680 the collapse of Catholicism
00:10:15.320 particularly in France.
00:10:16.640 The overwhelming majority
00:10:17.880 of these guys
00:10:19.020 were French
00:10:20.460 and I think that they were all
00:10:21.580 trying to
00:10:22.540 accommodate for the fact
00:10:24.280 that the lifeblood
00:10:25.780 of the French people
00:10:27.640 which has always been
00:10:28.400 Catholicism
00:10:29.200 was stamped out
00:10:31.140 in 1789
00:10:32.480 and they've all just been
00:10:33.780 living in a sort of
00:10:36.460 zombie state
00:10:37.220 since then
00:10:37.800 and inflicting
00:10:38.660 whatever they have
00:10:39.900 on the rest of the world.
00:10:41.540 The entirety of
00:10:42.620 Foucault's ideology
00:10:44.500 was essentially
00:10:45.420 opening up
00:10:46.500 every young boy
00:10:47.540 to have
00:10:48.200 anal sex with.
00:10:50.560 And that was
00:10:51.920 essentially it
00:10:53.260 and it was
00:10:54.100 this rage
00:10:55.700 at the world
00:10:56.340 and I think
00:10:56.700 rage at France
00:10:57.560 for effectively dying
00:10:59.200 and they were all
00:11:00.140 sort of living
00:11:00.680 in this post-collapse
00:11:01.920 state.
00:11:02.740 Yeah.
00:11:03.640 Interesting.
00:11:04.000 Yeah I think
00:11:04.720 that's bang on
00:11:05.380 and it's
00:11:05.840 Rufus what you said
00:11:06.860 is actually
00:11:07.580 directly pertinent
00:11:08.840 to the kind of
00:11:10.040 opening message
00:11:10.640 that I gave
00:11:11.240 because theologically
00:11:12.860 in the Eastern tradition
00:11:14.020 we would say
00:11:14.720 that man has
00:11:17.060 a tripartite soul
00:11:18.060 you've got your body
00:11:18.960 you've got your mind
00:11:20.000 or your soul
00:11:20.800 then you've got
00:11:21.620 your heart
00:11:22.040 or your spirit
00:11:22.680 and that in
00:11:23.820 the man's fall
00:11:24.720 from grace
00:11:25.220 it's his highest
00:11:26.020 part of his soul
00:11:26.900 his noose
00:11:28.000 his heart
00:11:28.540 which was damaged
00:11:29.280 and that's
00:11:30.300 the faculty
00:11:31.400 that enables him
00:11:32.200 to look into
00:11:32.820 the spiritual world
00:11:33.680 and to apprehend
00:11:34.640 the true nature
00:11:35.360 of reality around him
00:11:36.820 without deception
00:11:37.580 and to act upon it
00:11:39.120 and so
00:11:39.880 you know
00:11:40.460 charity
00:11:41.340 and almsgiving
00:11:42.780 and fasting
00:11:43.380 and prayer
00:11:43.760 these are all methods
00:11:44.640 by which we seek
00:11:45.460 to purify
00:11:46.860 and to elevate
00:11:47.900 and to raise
00:11:49.100 the heart
00:11:49.680 the noose
00:11:50.660 back to its
00:11:51.780 pre-false state
00:11:52.900 so that we can
00:11:53.660 you know
00:11:54.620 first of all
00:11:55.240 rid ourselves
00:11:56.120 of these delusions
00:11:56.860 but we can
00:11:57.560 help rid the world
00:11:59.920 of it
00:12:00.260 and that's the thing
00:12:01.200 is that
00:12:01.620 when we come to
00:12:02.840 this is
00:12:03.640 we've touched on it
00:12:04.280 immediately
00:12:04.720 that philosophy
00:12:06.160 tends to more
00:12:08.060 modern philosophy
00:12:09.060 post-modern philosophy
00:12:09.820 tends to more be
00:12:10.560 the rationalization
00:12:12.120 of your worldview
00:12:13.200 and of your actions
00:12:13.940 rather than something
00:12:15.100 that even
00:12:15.540 like you know
00:12:16.360 from classical foundationalism
00:12:17.820 that has like
00:12:18.640 a logical chain
00:12:19.640 or from the ancient world
00:12:20.860 that comes down
00:12:21.600 from a
00:12:22.140 transcendent
00:12:23.100 metaphysical tradition
00:12:25.760 and so
00:12:27.120 you know
00:12:27.740 people
00:12:28.100 in the west
00:12:29.540 we've seen
00:12:29.880 the real fetishization
00:12:30.960 of the intellect
00:12:31.580 and this kind of
00:12:32.780 a Gnostic
00:12:33.440 from
00:12:34.240 you know
00:12:35.800 this Cartesian
00:12:36.800 kind of Gnostic
00:12:37.500 separation
00:12:38.040 of the material
00:12:39.160 from the
00:12:39.880 spiritual
00:12:40.740 right
00:12:41.160 and it's just
00:12:41.880 an asinine idea
00:12:43.280 that you know
00:12:44.260 if you accept
00:12:44.960 that man is
00:12:45.920 kind of generally
00:12:47.120 pretty screwed up
00:12:47.900 man's fallen
00:12:48.520 and most people
00:12:49.420 even liberals
00:12:50.080 will accept this
00:12:50.840 that man has issues
00:12:52.120 well why
00:12:52.860 why is his brain
00:12:53.880 this kind of
00:12:54.620 you know
00:12:55.000 like floating
00:12:55.700 Gnostic
00:12:56.180 paradise
00:12:56.680 that's able
00:12:57.200 to interact
00:12:57.820 directly with
00:12:58.660 you know
00:12:59.200 the unblemished
00:12:59.880 world around it
00:13:00.620 we know even
00:13:01.400 scientifically
00:13:02.100 empirically
00:13:03.200 that that's just
00:13:04.040 not the case
00:13:04.760 that man's brain
00:13:06.260 processes decisions
00:13:07.400 before he even
00:13:09.820 has a conscious
00:13:10.540 understanding
00:13:11.160 of what those
00:13:11.580 decisions are going
00:13:12.200 to be
00:13:12.700 yeah the
00:13:15.220 you know
00:13:16.320 real quick
00:13:17.020 you know
00:13:17.660 philosophy
00:13:18.040 was invented
00:13:18.640 by the
00:13:19.260 the Greeks
00:13:19.960 and you know
00:13:21.260 their religion
00:13:21.840 was a series
00:13:22.480 of like
00:13:22.900 ritualistic
00:13:23.560 formulae
00:13:24.680 you know
00:13:25.360 to appease
00:13:25.920 the capricious
00:13:26.900 gods
00:13:27.420 but it didn't
00:13:28.280 really tell them
00:13:28.840 how they should
00:13:29.720 live their
00:13:30.100 everyday lives
00:13:31.140 and so
00:13:31.540 philosophy
00:13:32.080 originally was
00:13:33.540 a way of
00:13:34.400 life
00:13:34.920 you know
00:13:35.780 they
00:13:36.100 you know
00:13:37.160 they started
00:13:37.500 by asking
00:13:38.060 what is real
00:13:38.940 you know
00:13:39.700 and you know
00:13:40.480 that which does
00:13:41.380 not change
00:13:42.100 and then they
00:13:42.460 worked their
00:13:42.820 way up
00:13:43.280 from the
00:13:44.000 beginning
00:13:44.400 it had
00:13:45.860 logic
00:13:47.100 ethics
00:13:47.760 and physics
00:13:48.460 and they're
00:13:49.340 all related
00:13:49.860 and you know
00:13:51.580 you go through
00:13:52.160 the ethical
00:13:52.960 or eretaic
00:13:54.060 turn with
00:13:54.660 Socrates
00:13:55.340 and you know
00:13:56.820 people start
00:13:57.260 emphasizing the
00:13:58.080 ethics
00:13:58.460 how to live
00:13:58.960 their everyday
00:13:59.440 lives
00:14:00.060 and you know
00:14:01.600 eventually
00:14:02.280 though
00:14:02.940 Christianity
00:14:03.480 conquered
00:14:04.160 you know
00:14:04.720 the west
00:14:05.240 and philosophy
00:14:06.800 became like
00:14:08.020 the handmaid
00:14:09.320 of theology
00:14:10.060 you know
00:14:10.840 and so you
00:14:11.200 would have
00:14:11.480 all these
00:14:11.780 Christian
00:14:12.160 theologians
00:14:12.940 but some
00:14:13.440 would be
00:14:13.760 like
00:14:14.060 you know
00:14:14.520 I still
00:14:14.880 you know
00:14:15.380 I like
00:14:16.180 the stoics
00:14:17.080 or I like
00:14:17.600 the epicures
00:14:18.360 or I like
00:14:18.880 the platonists
00:14:19.640 but today
00:14:21.000 we've had
00:14:21.680 Christianity
00:14:22.200 hollowed out
00:14:23.080 by this
00:14:23.560 progressive
00:14:24.040 you know
00:14:24.480 modern
00:14:24.920 doctrine
00:14:26.140 you know
00:14:26.800 and so
00:14:27.520 philosophy
00:14:28.180 is just
00:14:28.460 the handmaid
00:14:29.060 of progressivism
00:14:29.840 now
00:14:30.140 you know
00:14:31.040 it's
00:14:31.380 the original
00:14:32.940 way of life
00:14:33.960 aspect of it
00:14:35.160 has been
00:14:35.460 forgotten
00:14:35.940 but originally
00:14:36.960 this was religion
00:14:37.780 you know
00:14:38.380 to the ancient
00:14:38.840 Greeks
00:14:39.220 you know
00:14:39.520 if you
00:14:39.840 if you
00:14:40.460 were a stoic
00:14:41.800 you know
00:14:42.260 you believed
00:14:42.680 certain things
00:14:43.220 about matter
00:14:43.900 if you were
00:14:44.520 an epicure
00:14:45.220 you believed
00:14:45.600 certain things
00:14:46.160 about matter
00:14:46.780 they were all
00:14:47.700 related
00:14:48.120 and yeah
00:14:49.600 you could
00:14:49.940 kind of see
00:14:50.520 how
00:14:50.860 you know
00:14:51.500 the major
00:14:51.940 schools
00:14:52.640 of philosophy
00:14:53.420 you know
00:14:54.760 it's almost
00:14:55.200 like they
00:14:55.700 retroengineered
00:14:56.880 their physics
00:14:57.600 so if you
00:14:58.780 you know
00:14:59.140 if you're
00:14:59.840 an epicure
00:15:00.360 and you're
00:15:00.600 obsessed with
00:15:01.340 you know
00:15:01.600 freedom
00:15:01.980 you know
00:15:02.460 freedom
00:15:02.740 of conscience
00:15:03.820 then that
00:15:04.560 leads to
00:15:05.240 atomism
00:15:06.220 you know
00:15:07.200 and the
00:15:08.400 the stoics
00:15:09.100 you know
00:15:09.760 believed in
00:15:10.260 a strict
00:15:10.700 causality
00:15:11.380 going back
00:15:12.080 to the beginning
00:15:12.680 and that
00:15:13.820 that was never
00:15:14.280 interrupted
00:15:14.880 and anyway
00:15:16.200 you know
00:15:16.940 don't let me
00:15:17.400 go off on a
00:15:17.860 tangent here
00:15:18.360 guys
00:15:18.660 but I'm
00:15:19.400 just saying
00:15:19.780 that the
00:15:20.140 you know
00:15:20.500 originally
00:15:20.800 philosophy
00:15:21.480 they understood
00:15:22.740 that you know
00:15:23.880 what you think
00:15:24.380 about ethics
00:15:25.160 affects what
00:15:26.160 you think
00:15:26.480 about physics
00:15:27.220 and logic
00:15:28.000 and that
00:15:29.260 they're not
00:15:30.080 isolated
00:15:30.840 you can't
00:15:31.460 just have ethics
00:15:32.240 I was going
00:15:33.680 to comment
00:15:34.240 on your
00:15:34.520 part of
00:15:35.240 what somebody
00:15:36.060 who may be
00:15:36.540 new to any
00:15:37.660 historical
00:15:38.180 understanding
00:15:38.900 of philosophy
00:15:39.840 is you
00:15:41.360 said their
00:15:41.800 religion
00:15:42.260 yes in the
00:15:43.380 sense that
00:15:43.820 you know
00:15:44.180 it drove
00:15:44.740 metaphysics
00:15:45.420 and how you
00:15:45.880 should behave
00:15:46.340 but in the
00:15:47.380 classical sense
00:15:47.980 they were very
00:15:48.500 much a call
00:15:49.240 to action
00:15:49.780 saying if
00:15:50.660 you're a
00:15:51.020 stoic you
00:15:51.420 need to live
00:15:52.120 your life
00:15:52.540 according to
00:15:53.040 these principles
00:15:53.760 if you were
00:15:54.420 you know
00:15:55.320 an epicure
00:15:56.580 you lived
00:15:56.940 all your
00:15:57.180 lives
00:15:57.540 according to
00:15:58.080 these principles
00:15:58.840 and just
00:15:59.700 like much
00:16:00.040 of Christianity
00:16:00.600 was you know
00:16:01.480 a call
00:16:01.980 to action
00:16:02.520 in your
00:16:02.820 daily life
00:16:03.360 saying you
00:16:03.680 must live
00:16:04.140 your life
00:16:04.540 according to
00:16:05.040 these principles
00:16:05.780 and increasingly
00:16:06.980 we see
00:16:07.720 post-modern
00:16:09.540 man or late
00:16:10.180 modernity
00:16:10.640 most people
00:16:11.140 don't do that
00:16:11.920 even Christianity
00:16:12.560 is more about
00:16:13.520 going to church
00:16:14.140 and feeling good
00:16:14.820 there is no
00:16:15.380 call to action
00:16:16.160 in any sense
00:16:16.920 other than
00:16:17.680 maybe giving
00:16:18.120 your money
00:16:18.480 to people
00:16:18.940 that you
00:16:19.400 have no
00:16:19.680 contact with
00:16:20.480 many of the
00:16:22.160 traditional links
00:16:23.120 to the past
00:16:24.460 and to what
00:16:24.940 humans used to be
00:16:26.200 have been forgotten
00:16:27.120 like one of my
00:16:28.020 favorite books
00:16:28.620 is the
00:16:31.040 pre-socratic
00:16:31.600 philosophers
00:16:32.120 by Kirk
00:16:32.840 and Raven
00:16:33.220 he was written
00:16:33.860 in the 50s
00:16:34.720 and I inherited
00:16:35.220 it from my
00:16:35.660 grandfather
00:16:36.140 and it goes
00:16:38.000 through all
00:16:39.280 of these
00:16:39.940 all the
00:16:40.700 pre-socratic
00:16:41.160 philosophers
00:16:41.500 particularly
00:16:41.840 Heraclitus
00:16:42.680 and then if
00:16:43.260 you read
00:16:43.760 fragments by
00:16:44.620 Heraclitus
00:16:45.200 you get the
00:16:45.880 sense that
00:16:46.420 these were
00:16:47.000 men who
00:16:47.660 as you were
00:16:48.400 saying were
00:16:48.800 interested in
00:16:49.560 the holistic
00:16:50.300 everything was
00:16:51.780 intertwined
00:16:52.440 everything
00:16:52.880 impacted
00:16:53.600 everything else
00:16:54.580 and you had
00:16:55.120 to try and
00:16:56.040 approximate
00:16:56.600 all of it
00:16:57.760 at once
00:16:58.200 you couldn't
00:16:58.820 you know
00:16:59.040 and intersectionalism
00:17:00.280 was not what
00:17:01.000 it was
00:17:01.440 it was
00:17:02.080 it was
00:17:02.940 holism
00:17:03.460 there's something
00:17:04.220 really different
00:17:05.120 I think
00:17:05.560 in what we have
00:17:06.800 now with
00:17:07.360 modernity
00:17:07.900 is intersectionalism
00:17:09.540 which is
00:17:11.020 atomization
00:17:11.840 trying to
00:17:13.360 masquerade
00:17:14.080 itself
00:17:14.560 as a
00:17:15.940 holistic
00:17:16.400 philosophy
00:17:17.700 for life
00:17:18.340 yeah
00:17:18.860 whereas all
00:17:19.720 it does
00:17:20.260 is it
00:17:20.540 actually
00:17:21.040 atomizes
00:17:21.700 you further
00:17:22.200 and it
00:17:22.540 atomizes
00:17:23.120 groups of
00:17:23.760 people further
00:17:24.380 and it
00:17:24.840 completely
00:17:25.340 destroys
00:17:26.180 society
00:17:26.780 and it
00:17:27.120 makes
00:17:27.440 society
00:17:28.380 impossible
00:17:28.920 to work
00:17:29.840 or to
00:17:31.220 not be
00:17:31.700 dysfunctional
00:17:32.560 anything
00:17:32.860 outside of
00:17:33.720 being
00:17:33.900 dysfunctional
00:17:34.560 is
00:17:34.800 impossible
00:17:35.480 now
00:17:35.780 yeah
00:17:36.360 which
00:17:36.920 I know
00:17:38.020 I keep
00:17:38.220 interjecting
00:17:39.320 but that's
00:17:39.640 I mean
00:17:40.000 that's
00:17:40.460 you know
00:17:40.700 directly
00:17:40.980 opposed
00:17:41.380 to what
00:17:41.620 we may
00:17:41.940 see in
00:17:42.360 the late
00:17:43.240 republican
00:17:43.700 Rome
00:17:44.080 where
00:17:44.380 many of
00:17:45.200 the public
00:17:45.480 figures
00:17:45.920 saw their
00:17:46.380 lives
00:17:46.760 as being
00:17:47.120 you know
00:17:47.460 the exercise
00:17:48.880 of whatever
00:17:50.020 philosophy
00:17:50.660 they had
00:17:51.400 so you
00:17:52.900 could look
00:17:53.220 at their
00:17:53.500 political
00:17:54.200 lives
00:17:54.680 their public
00:17:55.100 life
00:17:55.440 other than
00:17:55.840 just straight
00:17:56.280 politics
00:17:56.720 you know
00:17:57.140 what they
00:17:57.460 did in
00:17:58.340 their public
00:17:58.720 service
00:17:59.140 what they
00:17:59.440 did personally
00:18:00.120 how they
00:18:00.600 even how they
00:18:01.360 exercised
00:18:01.980 some of them
00:18:02.420 and all of that
00:18:03.080 was you know
00:18:04.040 one integrated
00:18:05.300 praxis for their
00:18:06.880 world view
00:18:07.480 which is the
00:18:08.580 complete and total
00:18:09.200 opposite from
00:18:10.360 what philosophy
00:18:11.220 is for late
00:18:11.960 modernity
00:18:12.540 but even what
00:18:13.240 Christianity is for
00:18:14.180 too many people
00:18:14.800 in late modernity
00:18:15.540 which is very
00:18:16.480 sad
00:18:16.960 yeah
00:18:18.100 well philosophy
00:18:18.940 mattered so much
00:18:20.020 that philosophers
00:18:21.020 would be periodically
00:18:22.020 banished from
00:18:22.760 Rome
00:18:23.120 because they
00:18:24.880 were stirring
00:18:25.300 up trouble
00:18:25.920 yeah especially
00:18:26.620 the ones who
00:18:27.180 weren't
00:18:27.440 associated with
00:18:28.920 whatever the
00:18:29.620 establishment or
00:18:31.480 the crown or
00:18:31.960 the emperor
00:18:32.360 at the time
00:18:32.840 was
00:18:33.180 they were the
00:18:34.640 high moralists
00:18:35.480 you know people
00:18:35.920 like Epictetus
00:18:36.820 you know what's
00:18:37.640 exciting about
00:18:38.420 reading you know
00:18:40.060 these ancients
00:18:40.880 is that you
00:18:42.440 know like the
00:18:42.900 Stoics would say
00:18:43.440 that the only evil
00:18:44.320 is moral evil
00:18:45.340 so you know if
00:18:46.780 you know it's evil
00:18:47.880 that comes from
00:18:48.520 your choice
00:18:49.220 right you're not
00:18:50.200 really responsible
00:18:51.100 for things outside
00:18:52.060 of your control
00:18:52.800 therefore those
00:18:53.540 aren't those
00:18:54.100 aren't really evil
00:18:54.840 they just are
00:18:55.580 you know what's
00:18:56.320 evil is your
00:18:57.200 consent you know
00:18:58.540 to do something
00:18:59.180 evil and so
00:19:00.660 you know there
00:19:01.780 was high moralism
00:19:02.900 high ethics
00:19:03.640 you know it's
00:19:04.440 you know good
00:19:05.500 and evil are
00:19:06.080 within you
00:19:06.680 they are inside
00:19:07.640 you
00:19:08.000 and it's a choice
00:19:09.060 fundamentally to
00:19:09.900 the individual
00:19:10.460 and every act
00:19:12.180 that you can
00:19:13.140 choose fundamentally
00:19:14.020 is moral or
00:19:14.840 immoral and it
00:19:16.820 puts the complete
00:19:17.720 and total
00:19:18.060 responsibility on the
00:19:19.120 individual
00:19:19.580 I mean sort
00:19:20.440 of like Sartre's
00:19:21.220 sense that you
00:19:21.860 know you're
00:19:22.480 you're condemned
00:19:23.180 to be free
00:19:23.760 it's like you're
00:19:24.260 condemned to do
00:19:24.920 make be moral
00:19:26.120 or immoral and
00:19:26.920 there's no getting
00:19:27.940 out of the game
00:19:28.660 you know a lot
00:19:33.060 of the anger
00:19:33.520 at God is
00:19:34.860 a belief in
00:19:36.440 absurd evil
00:19:37.300 you know how
00:19:37.960 dare there be
00:19:38.600 earthquakes and
00:19:39.560 plagues and such
00:19:40.660 you know and
00:19:41.820 you know the
00:19:42.300 Stoics would say
00:19:43.000 you know evil
00:19:43.560 evil's inside you
00:19:44.680 go on sir
00:19:45.580 it's like it's
00:19:46.520 like all the blue
00:19:47.180 check out on
00:19:47.780 Twitter who
00:19:48.360 after the church
00:19:49.380 shooting were
00:19:49.920 immediately like
00:19:50.640 well how can
00:19:51.160 there be a God
00:19:51.860 because your
00:19:52.220 church just got
00:19:52.860 shot up
00:19:53.860 checkmate
00:19:54.500 it's that sort
00:19:56.900 of like asinine
00:19:58.240 approaches to
00:19:59.540 God
00:19:59.880 yeah or that's
00:20:01.140 always bizarre
00:20:01.820 or there's always
00:20:02.580 you know the
00:20:03.160 the cries for
00:20:04.260 well what about
00:20:05.780 the the bugs
00:20:07.000 that eat people
00:20:07.880 that eat children's
00:20:08.800 eyes in Africa
00:20:09.680 like if there was
00:20:10.720 a God I would
00:20:11.880 hate him for
00:20:12.460 making those
00:20:13.100 or some
00:20:13.780 yeah and
00:20:14.880 Burroughs said
00:20:15.400 that specifically
00:20:16.180 yeah
00:20:16.760 whereas I
00:20:18.820 think a
00:20:19.220 Stoic may
00:20:19.860 say if you
00:20:20.360 have it in
00:20:20.800 your power
00:20:21.140 to choose
00:20:21.560 why haven't
00:20:22.080 you worked
00:20:22.540 towards fixing
00:20:23.120 that yet
00:20:23.700 here's a
00:20:25.280 here's a
00:20:25.920 quote from
00:20:26.680 Aurelius's
00:20:27.980 meditations
00:20:28.620 he says
00:20:29.300 if you set
00:20:31.160 up as good
00:20:31.740 or evil
00:20:32.280 any of the
00:20:32.840 things beyond
00:20:33.500 your control
00:20:34.280 it is
00:20:34.800 it necessarily
00:20:35.900 follows that
00:20:37.040 in the occurrence
00:20:37.740 of that evil
00:20:38.440 or the frustration
00:20:39.400 of that good
00:20:40.320 you blame the
00:20:41.080 gods and hate
00:20:42.160 the men who
00:20:42.900 are the real
00:20:43.500 or suspected
00:20:44.240 causes of that
00:20:45.180 occurrence or that
00:20:46.100 frustration
00:20:46.680 but if we
00:20:48.020 determine that
00:20:48.980 only what lies
00:20:49.800 in our own
00:20:50.440 power is good
00:20:51.220 or evil
00:20:51.680 there is no
00:20:52.400 reason left
00:20:53.060 us either to
00:20:53.920 charge a god
00:20:54.780 or to take a
00:20:55.520 hostile stance
00:20:56.420 to man
00:20:56.980 yeah so the
00:20:59.180 question is
00:20:59.860 how are you
00:21:00.300 going to deal
00:21:00.760 with it
00:21:01.280 you know
00:21:01.680 you know
00:21:02.380 you get into
00:21:02.800 the bank
00:21:03.180 and there's
00:21:03.460 a long line
00:21:04.240 are you going
00:21:04.920 to get angry
00:21:05.580 are you going
00:21:06.060 to get frustrated
00:21:06.760 you know
00:21:07.120 that's where
00:21:07.680 the evil
00:21:08.240 comes in
00:21:08.840 it's not the
00:21:09.340 fact that
00:21:09.640 there's a
00:21:09.920 long line
00:21:10.600 that just
00:21:11.300 is
00:21:11.700 you know
00:21:12.620 and it's
00:21:14.300 just what
00:21:14.740 you read
00:21:15.160 from
00:21:15.440 meditations
00:21:16.260 it's just
00:21:16.740 like the
00:21:17.080 first
00:21:17.400 the first
00:21:18.080 paragraph
00:21:18.600 of the
00:21:19.280 Enchiridion
00:21:19.860 by Epictetus
00:21:20.700 you know
00:21:21.660 yeah
00:21:22.280 in life
00:21:23.120 some things
00:21:23.560 are in our
00:21:23.940 power
00:21:24.260 others are
00:21:24.780 not
00:21:25.180 and then
00:21:25.680 it's all
00:21:26.580 it's all the
00:21:27.240 more remarkable
00:21:27.920 of who
00:21:28.860 Aurelius was
00:21:29.720 and who
00:21:30.080 Epictetus
00:21:30.680 was
00:21:31.220 yeah
00:21:31.580 oh the
00:21:32.000 emperor
00:21:32.320 and the
00:21:32.640 slave
00:21:33.060 contrast
00:21:33.540 exactly
00:21:34.620 yeah
00:21:35.380 and they
00:21:36.740 both saw
00:21:37.200 their lot
00:21:37.720 in life
00:21:38.260 as being
00:21:39.100 product of
00:21:40.120 circumstances
00:21:40.700 beyond their
00:21:41.280 control
00:21:41.720 yeah
00:21:42.400 and to a
00:21:44.080 lesser extent
00:21:45.220 about duty
00:21:45.720 as well
00:21:46.100 sorry to cut you off
00:21:46.960 sir
00:21:47.080 no indeed
00:21:47.620 absolutely
00:21:48.220 well it makes
00:21:50.220 me think of
00:21:50.720 the Christian
00:21:52.060 tradition has
00:21:52.660 its own
00:21:53.200 sovereign line
00:21:53.980 of philosophers
00:21:54.540 going back
00:21:55.280 precisely to this
00:21:56.440 period
00:21:56.680 I mean very
00:21:57.080 famously
00:21:57.920 St. Justin
00:21:58.780 Martyr
00:21:59.080 St. Justin
00:21:59.540 the philosopher
00:22:00.880 as he's known
00:22:01.360 in the east
00:22:01.900 was martyred
00:22:03.480 basically after
00:22:04.300 well he would
00:22:05.520 debate a lot
00:22:06.740 of these
00:22:07.180 especially stoic
00:22:08.580 philosophers
00:22:09.060 in Rome
00:22:09.900 and several
00:22:10.380 of them were
00:22:10.860 favorites of
00:22:11.720 the emperor
00:22:12.560 at the time
00:22:13.160 and the cause
00:22:14.220 of his martyrdom
00:22:14.840 was that he
00:22:15.540 I guess beat
00:22:16.580 several of these
00:22:17.260 guys in a debate
00:22:18.100 and whooped them
00:22:18.600 so bad
00:22:19.140 that they
00:22:19.720 they got
00:22:21.580 really really
00:22:22.020 angry
00:22:22.320 and convinced
00:22:23.120 the emperor
00:22:24.160 to persecute
00:22:25.520 him for
00:22:25.720 stirring up
00:22:26.100 trouble
00:22:26.380 and disturbing
00:22:27.080 the public
00:22:27.440 peace
00:22:27.720 and all
00:22:27.940 that
00:22:28.200 yeah
00:22:29.740 there was
00:22:30.500 so much
00:22:30.920 it was so
00:22:31.300 fruitful
00:22:31.720 the interaction
00:22:32.400 but you know
00:22:32.840 Christianity
00:22:33.220 was seen
00:22:33.700 as like
00:22:34.100 a Jewish
00:22:34.960 school of
00:22:35.740 philosophy
00:22:36.220 or something
00:22:36.860 there was
00:22:37.480 so much
00:22:37.720 interaction
00:22:38.260 that they
00:22:38.720 there was
00:22:39.480 this correspondence
00:22:40.300 between
00:22:41.040 Seneca
00:22:41.620 and St. Paul
00:22:42.380 that was
00:22:42.780 counterfeited
00:22:43.720 or manufactured
00:22:44.700 you know
00:22:45.240 historians believe
00:22:46.220 but you know
00:22:46.940 we have it
00:22:47.860 it's just
00:22:48.280 they don't
00:22:48.760 think it's
00:22:49.060 authentic
00:22:49.420 but you know
00:22:51.000 imagine that
00:22:51.540 you know
00:22:51.720 one of the most
00:22:52.060 famous stoic
00:22:52.680 philosophers
00:22:53.100 Seneca
00:22:53.520 and was
00:22:54.960 you know
00:22:55.440 St. Paul
00:22:56.040 you know
00:22:56.900 writing letters
00:22:57.720 to each other
00:22:58.280 yeah
00:22:58.880 that's how
00:22:59.840 popular it was
00:23:00.960 to have these
00:23:01.780 philosophical debates
00:23:02.820 yeah
00:23:03.160 I would interject
00:23:03.980 there and say
00:23:04.520 that there was
00:23:05.560 a some amount
00:23:06.620 of Jewish
00:23:07.360 involvement
00:23:07.780 in Hellenic
00:23:08.540 philosophy
00:23:09.040 out of
00:23:09.480 what was it
00:23:11.300 Alexandria
00:23:12.160 yeah
00:23:12.940 Alexandria
00:23:13.460 I mean with
00:23:14.040 Philo being a good
00:23:14.820 example
00:23:15.060 because there were
00:23:15.520 Jewish participants
00:23:16.180 in both
00:23:17.180 Neoplatonic
00:23:17.880 and Stoic
00:23:18.400 schools as well
00:23:19.100 yeah
00:23:19.540 Zeno of Kidium
00:23:20.760 was probably
00:23:21.800 Semitic
00:23:22.280 Semitic blood
00:23:23.800 so
00:23:24.620 well yeah
00:23:26.260 the foundations
00:23:26.900 for
00:23:27.380 like Hellenic
00:23:29.320 Christianity
00:23:29.820 or I guess
00:23:30.500 you could say
00:23:30.840 the Christianization
00:23:31.680 of Hellenism
00:23:32.380 had been laid
00:23:33.420 already with the
00:23:34.900 translation of the
00:23:35.760 Old Testament
00:23:36.460 into the Septuagint
00:23:37.500 in Alexandria
00:23:38.100 and then the
00:23:39.300 subsequent
00:23:39.700 the subsequent
00:23:42.440 exegesis
00:23:43.160 exegetical work
00:23:44.280 that was done
00:23:44.820 by these guys
00:23:45.720 like Philo
00:23:46.380 where they
00:23:47.440 managed to
00:23:48.300 you know
00:23:49.080 especially
00:23:49.420 they managed
00:23:49.900 to weave
00:23:50.620 you know
00:23:52.240 this classic
00:23:53.020 Socratic
00:23:54.160 and Platonic
00:23:54.920 Athenian
00:23:55.760 tradition of
00:23:56.280 philosophy
00:23:56.700 the Logos
00:23:57.580 philosophy
00:23:58.080 really
00:23:58.400 into what
00:23:59.380 they saw
00:23:59.820 as the
00:24:00.300 into
00:24:01.420 the Old
00:24:02.080 Testament
00:24:02.460 as it was
00:24:03.340 translated
00:24:03.660 into the
00:24:04.080 Greek
00:24:04.340 and produced
00:24:05.360 well not
00:24:07.040 exactly
00:24:07.400 analogous
00:24:08.020 a foundational
00:24:09.440 translation
00:24:11.720 or excuse me
00:24:12.700 transition
00:24:13.580 into Christianity
00:24:14.860 for Christian
00:24:16.580 philosophical
00:24:17.040 thought
00:24:17.480 yeah
00:24:19.640 what's
00:24:19.920 interesting
00:24:20.320 is
00:24:20.860 you know
00:24:21.520 you have
00:24:22.180 Josephus
00:24:23.020 Philo
00:24:23.540 we have
00:24:23.800 a lot
00:24:24.180 of famous
00:24:24.760 Hellenized
00:24:25.480 Jews
00:24:25.800 and
00:24:26.900 that whole
00:24:27.620 world
00:24:28.000 of the
00:24:28.220 Eastern Roman
00:24:28.680 Empire
00:24:29.060 was sort
00:24:29.580 of
00:24:29.880 you know
00:24:30.500 destroyed
00:24:30.940 and forgotten
00:24:31.900 I mean
00:24:32.340 the rabbis
00:24:33.180 turned their
00:24:33.680 back on it
00:24:34.340 after the
00:24:35.120 council of
00:24:35.580 Jamnia
00:24:35.940 and wanted
00:24:36.440 everything
00:24:36.800 back in the
00:24:37.360 Hebrew
00:24:37.680 you know
00:24:38.460 even though
00:24:38.880 words like
00:24:39.400 synagogue
00:24:39.800 are still
00:24:40.380 Greek
00:24:40.720 and such
00:24:41.320 and you
00:24:43.320 know
00:24:43.800 and
00:24:44.040 anyway
00:24:45.000 that world
00:24:45.420 was destroyed
00:24:46.140 and it's
00:24:46.580 like
00:24:46.800 it's very
00:24:47.240 interesting
00:24:47.680 to you
00:24:49.000 know
00:24:49.400 to bring
00:24:50.040 it back
00:24:50.400 and look
00:24:50.800 at it
00:24:51.200 it's a
00:24:51.560 place
00:24:51.880 where
00:24:52.280 Judaism
00:24:53.540 and the
00:24:54.640 Greek
00:24:54.860 mind
00:24:55.380 European
00:24:55.820 mind
00:24:56.500 you know
00:24:56.880 interacted
00:24:57.480 yeah
00:24:58.300 and
00:24:58.900 because I
00:25:00.820 know me
00:25:01.160 and
00:25:01.320 brother
00:25:02.020 Rufus
00:25:02.620 come from
00:25:03.080 a very
00:25:03.380 Protestant
00:25:03.820 background
00:25:04.460 one of
00:25:05.640 the sad
00:25:05.960 things is
00:25:06.400 where we
00:25:07.080 come from
00:25:07.400 religious
00:25:07.740 you know
00:25:08.140 we tend
00:25:09.340 to not
00:25:09.640 get much
00:25:10.200 of that
00:25:10.520 Greek
00:25:10.880 philosophical
00:25:11.620 background
00:25:12.320 that went
00:25:12.780 into
00:25:13.260 Christianity
00:25:14.620 in the
00:25:15.080 early years
00:25:15.580 so
00:25:15.880 as an
00:25:17.440 older
00:25:17.740 person
00:25:18.200 you know
00:25:18.460 in my
00:25:18.680 30s
00:25:19.040 I mean
00:25:19.220 that was
00:25:19.440 one of
00:25:19.660 the things
00:25:19.820 that brought
00:25:20.060 me back
00:25:20.420 into
00:25:20.620 Christianity
00:25:21.040 was understanding
00:25:22.060 the influence
00:25:23.080 of Greek
00:25:23.460 philosophy
00:25:23.920 and the
00:25:24.580 way concepts
00:25:25.720 like logos
00:25:26.320 how they meant
00:25:26.820 significantly
00:25:27.320 more than
00:25:27.960 they were
00:25:28.560 you know
00:25:28.820 presented
00:25:29.200 in some
00:25:29.560 of the
00:25:29.720 churches
00:25:29.920 I had
00:25:30.320 attended
00:25:30.600 in the
00:25:30.860 past
00:25:31.180 and
00:25:31.340 you know
00:25:32.520 it's
00:25:32.740 not just
00:25:33.120 a loss
00:25:33.600 for whatever
00:25:34.100 other people
00:25:34.720 for our
00:25:35.080 own people
00:25:35.520 I think
00:25:35.820 we've lost
00:25:36.320 something by
00:25:36.780 not being
00:25:37.180 able to
00:25:37.540 understand
00:25:38.040 the heavy
00:25:39.420 European
00:25:40.040 basis
00:25:40.520 of what
00:25:41.500 is always
00:25:42.200 accused of
00:25:42.660 being a
00:25:43.000 purely
00:25:43.240 Semitic
00:25:43.640 religion
00:25:44.100 the best
00:25:45.660 way I ever
00:25:46.100 heard it
00:25:46.800 put was
00:25:47.280 you know
00:25:47.520 when Paul's
00:25:48.260 writing to
00:25:48.660 the Greeks
00:25:49.160 he's writing
00:25:50.120 in this
00:25:50.500 philosophy
00:25:51.360 I mean
00:25:51.700 look at
00:25:52.080 1 Corinthians
00:25:52.700 13
00:25:53.160 now we see
00:25:53.960 in a
00:25:54.240 glass
00:25:54.920 darkly
00:25:55.540 you know
00:25:56.300 then we
00:25:56.640 shall see
00:25:56.920 face to
00:25:57.320 face
00:25:57.660 it's
00:25:58.040 Platonism
00:25:59.320 you know
00:25:59.720 and then
00:26:00.680 when he
00:26:01.620 writes to
00:26:01.900 the Romans
00:26:02.340 it's all
00:26:02.820 law
00:26:03.240 you know
00:26:03.840 the book
00:26:04.500 of Romans
00:26:04.980 is the book
00:26:05.560 of theology
00:26:06.160 it's all
00:26:06.560 law
00:26:06.900 you know
00:26:08.320 because that's
00:26:08.780 what the
00:26:09.020 Romans
00:26:09.300 you know
00:26:09.600 the Romans
00:26:09.880 were about
00:26:10.200 law
00:26:10.420 Greeks
00:26:10.660 were about
00:26:11.060 philosophy
00:26:11.640 you know
00:26:12.440 so this
00:26:12.800 is
00:26:12.980 yeah
00:26:13.260 go on
00:26:14.440 make it
00:26:14.720 I didn't
00:26:14.960 mean to
00:26:15.180 cut you
00:26:15.400 and I know
00:26:15.980 I'm sorry
00:26:16.400 I'm hijacking
00:26:17.180 your show
00:26:17.600 here
00:26:17.860 Florian
00:26:19.160 but one of
00:26:19.820 the things
00:26:20.320 that interesting
00:26:20.760 most was
00:26:21.220 like the idea
00:26:21.840 of logos
00:26:23.140 you know
00:26:23.520 was in the
00:26:24.100 beginning
00:26:24.320 was the
00:26:24.640 word
00:26:24.820 and the
00:26:24.980 word
00:26:25.100 was God
00:26:25.520 when you
00:26:25.760 look at
00:26:26.020 the original
00:26:26.520 Greek
00:26:26.880 version
00:26:27.220 of the
00:26:27.920 Greek
00:26:28.160 word
00:26:28.440 logos
00:26:28.800 it means
00:26:29.180 significantly
00:26:29.600 more than
00:26:30.040 just
00:26:30.420 word
00:26:30.760 even though
00:26:31.760 it means
00:26:32.100 that
00:26:32.260 it means
00:26:32.540 something
00:26:32.780 close to
00:26:33.260 almost
00:26:33.480 like
00:26:33.680 Tao
00:26:34.060 or
00:26:34.360 the
00:26:34.920 underlying
00:26:35.540 yeah
00:26:36.620 that means
00:26:38.160 so much
00:26:38.560 more than
00:26:38.940 anything
00:26:39.340 I was ever
00:26:40.060 presented with
00:26:40.780 you know
00:26:41.120 and the
00:26:41.960 places where
00:26:42.560 we had
00:26:42.940 Sunday
00:26:43.220 school
00:26:43.480 as a
00:26:43.740 Protestant
00:26:44.080 so you're
00:26:44.820 telling me
00:26:45.320 that the
00:26:46.320 underlying
00:26:46.980 thing
00:26:47.440 behind
00:26:47.800 things
00:26:48.240 behind
00:26:48.580 everything
00:26:49.040 that rule
00:26:50.200 became
00:26:50.680 you know
00:26:50.960 the flesh
00:26:51.340 and blood
00:26:51.700 and died
00:26:52.020 for us
00:26:52.220 that means
00:26:52.480 significantly
00:26:52.920 more than
00:26:53.520 just saying
00:26:53.940 the word
00:26:54.320 was God
00:26:54.840 that
00:26:55.320 that doctrine
00:26:56.300 is actually
00:26:56.720 what converted
00:26:57.280 me to
00:26:57.560 Christianity
00:26:58.000 intellectually
00:26:58.940 yeah
00:26:59.700 what brought
00:27:00.400 me back
00:27:00.920 yeah
00:27:01.540 and it
00:27:02.520 was like
00:27:02.920 that
00:27:03.140 realization
00:27:03.620 that
00:27:04.220 Jesus
00:27:04.540 Christ
00:27:04.860 is the
00:27:05.200 Logos
00:27:05.600 and that
00:27:05.980 the
00:27:06.120 cosmic
00:27:06.400 order
00:27:06.720 is the
00:27:07.300 Logos
00:27:07.640 yeah
00:27:07.860 is
00:27:08.240 that
00:27:08.620 doctrine
00:27:08.980 is what
00:27:09.300 made
00:27:09.480 me
00:27:09.580 a
00:27:09.720 Christian
00:27:10.020 yeah
00:27:10.600 because
00:27:11.040 significantly
00:27:11.680 more than
00:27:12.340 anything
00:27:12.720 I was ever
00:27:13.220 given as a
00:27:13.760 child
00:27:13.980 that's
00:27:14.240 exactly
00:27:14.540 it
00:27:14.820 yeah
00:27:15.100 and I'm
00:27:15.520 you know
00:27:15.740 I was raised
00:27:16.180 in like
00:27:16.860 Catholic
00:27:17.140 education
00:27:17.640 and like
00:27:18.340 the
00:27:19.300 it's
00:27:19.800 the
00:27:20.380 culture
00:27:20.940 is so
00:27:21.420 poor
00:27:21.760 even in
00:27:22.180 the mainline
00:27:22.640 churches
00:27:22.980 that you
00:27:23.540 know
00:27:23.660 people
00:27:23.960 most people
00:27:24.660 are
00:27:25.180 basically
00:27:25.800 like
00:27:26.200 semi
00:27:26.600 semi
00:27:27.160 you know
00:27:27.960 they don't
00:27:28.800 think that
00:27:29.100 Jesus
00:27:29.320 Christ
00:27:29.600 is God
00:27:30.060 much less
00:27:30.600 do they
00:27:31.140 think he's
00:27:31.520 you know
00:27:31.760 the cosmic
00:27:32.200 order
00:27:32.540 the second
00:27:32.860 person
00:27:33.160 of the
00:27:33.360 holy
00:27:33.560 trinity
00:27:33.920 the foundation
00:27:34.860 for all
00:27:35.440 of logic
00:27:36.520 and order
00:27:37.000 and
00:27:37.900 causality
00:27:38.940 that exists
00:27:39.520 anywhere in
00:27:40.060 the universe
00:27:40.580 yes
00:27:41.800 so much
00:27:42.760 more than
00:27:43.060 what we
00:27:43.300 were taught
00:27:43.700 right
00:27:44.500 exactly
00:27:45.140 wow
00:27:45.820 so we've
00:27:46.100 gotten off
00:27:46.460 on some
00:27:46.680 really great
00:27:47.140 digressions
00:27:47.780 so kind
00:27:48.100 of bringing
00:27:48.360 it back
00:27:50.660 into
00:27:51.000 focus
00:27:51.640 the
00:27:53.000 modernity
00:27:54.360 can really
00:27:54.760 be seen
00:27:55.280 or the
00:27:56.560 onset of
00:27:57.080 modernity
00:27:57.620 in terms
00:27:58.140 of its
00:27:58.380 effects
00:27:58.700 can be
00:27:59.080 seen
00:27:59.420 as
00:27:59.900 really
00:28:01.620 an attempt
00:28:02.160 to destroy
00:28:03.440 and degenerate
00:28:04.300 the existing
00:28:05.060 primarily
00:28:06.340 religious
00:28:06.920 worldviews
00:28:07.720 of European
00:28:08.200 society
00:28:08.800 for the
00:28:09.740 purposes
00:28:10.080 of economic
00:28:11.480 and social
00:28:12.060 control
00:28:12.580 by the
00:28:14.140 moneyed
00:28:14.480 and
00:28:15.420 technocratic
00:28:16.680 elite
00:28:17.120 that we
00:28:17.540 can see
00:28:17.820 now
00:28:17.980 dominate
00:28:18.480 our
00:28:19.660 societies
00:28:20.180 and so
00:28:21.100 the
00:28:21.420 very
00:28:22.420 like
00:28:23.420 if we
00:28:23.680 look around
00:28:24.240 us
00:28:24.480 when we
00:28:24.840 look at
00:28:25.300 the
00:28:25.480 immense
00:28:25.960 degeneracy
00:28:26.840 and depravity
00:28:28.020 of the
00:28:28.560 society
00:28:28.980 it never
00:28:29.620 would have
00:28:29.980 been
00:28:30.100 possible
00:28:30.620 without
00:28:31.200 the
00:28:31.500 destruction
00:28:32.020 of these
00:28:32.700 not even
00:28:33.680 explicit
00:28:34.560 philosophical
00:28:35.300 statements
00:28:35.860 but these
00:28:36.620 pre-philosophical
00:28:37.600 these values
00:28:38.340 right
00:28:39.180 these
00:28:39.500 theological
00:28:40.440 assumptions
00:28:41.040 and presuppositions
00:28:42.020 by which
00:28:42.400 people
00:28:42.720 lead their
00:28:43.780 daily lives
00:28:44.620 you know
00:28:45.340 I mean
00:28:45.580 you could
00:28:46.060 never
00:28:46.540 a very good
00:28:48.880 example is
00:28:49.440 the destruction
00:28:50.000 of language
00:28:50.680 we talk about
00:28:52.000 the logos
00:28:53.100 in Greek
00:28:53.480 meaning word
00:28:54.160 well there's a
00:28:55.640 reason for that
00:28:56.140 it's because
00:28:56.620 language is the
00:28:57.900 very medium
00:28:58.500 by which we're
00:28:59.020 able to express
00:29:00.000 that higher
00:29:00.660 meaning
00:29:00.980 that spiritual
00:29:01.640 reality
00:29:02.140 in the universe
00:29:03.160 around us
00:29:03.900 it points
00:29:05.220 in and of
00:29:05.940 itself
00:29:06.300 language is
00:29:06.940 symbolic
00:29:07.380 in the
00:29:07.840 truest sense
00:29:08.320 because
00:29:08.700 it points
00:29:09.780 beyond
00:29:10.340 itself
00:29:10.920 to a
00:29:11.400 higher
00:29:11.720 spiritual
00:29:12.280 referent
00:29:12.860 and so
00:29:13.840 the
00:29:14.380 degeneration
00:29:15.140 of language
00:29:16.500 not just
00:29:17.160 in terms
00:29:17.540 of the
00:29:17.820 words
00:29:18.100 that we
00:29:18.420 use
00:29:18.680 but the
00:29:19.060 whole
00:29:19.360 medium
00:29:19.880 capital
00:29:20.380 L
00:29:20.620 language
00:29:20.920 the whole
00:29:21.240 medium
00:29:21.760 of
00:29:22.340 communication
00:29:22.980 between
00:29:23.580 members
00:29:23.880 of our
00:29:24.160 society
00:29:24.660 and the
00:29:26.200 atomization
00:29:27.140 through the
00:29:27.560 destruction
00:29:28.040 of mass
00:29:29.940 culture
00:29:30.280 particularly
00:29:30.740 mass
00:29:31.120 religious
00:29:31.460 culture
00:29:31.920 has created
00:29:32.880 this
00:29:33.440 language
00:29:34.960 retardation
00:29:35.740 where we
00:29:36.160 don't even
00:29:36.580 speak
00:29:37.100 in the
00:29:37.620 same
00:29:38.040 language
00:29:38.400 as most
00:29:38.820 people
00:29:39.160 when we
00:29:39.960 say things
00:29:40.560 like
00:29:40.820 God the
00:29:41.780 word
00:29:42.160 is a
00:29:42.720 perfect
00:29:42.960 example
00:29:43.480 most people
00:29:44.080 that's
00:29:44.760 nonsense
00:29:45.660 they have
00:29:46.400 no clue
00:29:46.860 what that
00:29:47.140 means
00:29:47.400 if they
00:29:47.900 have any
00:29:48.420 clue
00:29:48.660 it's
00:29:49.460 just
00:29:49.960 some
00:29:50.260 idiocy
00:29:50.700 which leads
00:29:52.400 away from
00:29:53.200 God the
00:29:54.180 logos
00:29:54.520 so a good
00:29:55.700 example of
00:29:56.260 this is
00:29:56.520 we can never
00:29:57.280 get to the
00:29:57.840 point where
00:29:58.600 you can say
00:30:00.120 love is
00:30:02.160 love
00:30:02.620 right
00:30:03.600 all love
00:30:04.700 is equal
00:30:05.220 and this
00:30:06.240 means the
00:30:06.760 same
00:30:06.960 this is supposed
00:30:07.400 to mean the
00:30:07.760 same thing
00:30:08.380 as
00:30:08.900 God so
00:30:10.400 loved the
00:30:10.680 world that
00:30:11.020 he gave
00:30:11.320 his only
00:30:11.620 begotten
00:30:12.060 son
00:30:12.340 yeah
00:30:13.380 right
00:30:14.020 never mind
00:30:14.600 that the
00:30:14.920 bible uses
00:30:15.780 what like
00:30:16.240 three different
00:30:16.700 versions of
00:30:17.300 love
00:30:17.480 very different
00:30:18.340 things
00:30:18.780 from contemporary
00:30:20.560 thought
00:30:20.920 exactly
00:30:21.580 yeah there's
00:30:22.480 four different
00:30:23.000 terms that are
00:30:23.840 used in
00:30:24.280 scripture for
00:30:25.040 love we've
00:30:25.700 covered this on
00:30:26.480 the show
00:30:26.820 before
00:30:27.280 so yeah
00:30:28.400 there's very
00:30:29.060 very
00:30:29.600 discrete
00:30:30.720 categories
00:30:31.560 so this
00:30:32.960 is this
00:30:33.460 is all
00:30:33.880 on purpose
00:30:34.980 that you
00:30:35.560 could never
00:30:36.040 get people
00:30:36.820 to implicitly
00:30:37.760 accept these
00:30:38.660 these these
00:30:40.460 soundbites
00:30:40.920 these pieces
00:30:41.380 of propaganda
00:30:42.080 without the
00:30:43.100 destruction of
00:30:44.120 the underlying
00:30:44.780 context upon
00:30:45.980 which the rest
00:30:46.920 of the worldview
00:30:47.960 of christiandom
00:30:49.080 was built
00:30:49.600 so anyway boys
00:30:51.040 any feel free
00:30:53.140 to jump in
00:30:53.540 here
00:30:53.780 oh well
00:30:55.840 yeah i mean
00:30:56.580 you know
00:30:57.200 the original
00:30:58.380 topics like
00:30:59.000 philosophy right
00:31:00.120 and uh
00:31:01.500 you know
00:31:02.080 the like i
00:31:02.760 said philosophy
00:31:03.220 has three
00:31:03.880 toy boy
00:31:04.840 you know you
00:31:05.380 got physios
00:31:06.560 ethos and
00:31:07.380 logos and
00:31:09.060 all these
00:31:09.480 interact you
00:31:10.660 know and
00:31:11.180 so you know
00:31:11.780 what a person
00:31:12.340 believes about
00:31:13.260 uh the human
00:31:14.420 will you know
00:31:15.640 affects you
00:31:16.320 know their
00:31:16.800 basic beliefs
00:31:17.460 about the
00:31:17.880 world and
00:31:18.300 they're all
00:31:18.660 intertwined you
00:31:19.540 can't have
00:31:19.940 one without
00:31:20.320 the other
00:31:20.880 and uh
00:31:22.160 you know so
00:31:22.700 you know if
00:31:23.540 people believe
00:31:24.460 uh that the
00:31:25.160 world is uh
00:31:26.020 you know
00:31:26.240 rational you
00:31:27.060 know fundamentally
00:31:27.600 rational they're
00:31:28.320 going to act
00:31:29.440 behave in a
00:31:30.260 different way
00:31:30.820 than if they
00:31:31.600 believe it's
00:31:32.040 fundamentally
00:31:32.400 irrational and
00:31:34.240 uh you you
00:31:34.920 see a lot of
00:31:35.440 people you know
00:31:36.200 dividing along
00:31:36.980 these lines and
00:31:38.580 um you know so
00:31:39.560 you you can't
00:31:40.600 have philosophy
00:31:41.700 without physics
00:31:42.500 you know without
00:31:43.260 a basic belief
00:31:44.160 about where the
00:31:45.160 world came from
00:31:46.180 you know how
00:31:47.360 does it work and
00:31:48.200 where is it going
00:31:48.940 you know the
00:31:49.980 these beliefs you
00:31:51.120 know change our
00:31:52.020 behavior even if
00:31:53.060 we think that
00:31:53.760 they're completely
00:31:54.660 separate from our
00:31:55.540 behavior yeah
00:31:56.700 the whole
00:31:58.160 teleological view
00:31:59.280 of life is a
00:31:59.960 product of you
00:32:01.240 know what's
00:32:01.740 implicit metaphysics
00:32:02.860 whether we think
00:32:03.600 that or not
00:32:04.160 emotions are just
00:32:05.860 judgments based
00:32:07.000 upon beliefs if
00:32:08.400 you change the
00:32:09.140 beliefs then your
00:32:10.340 emotions change
00:32:11.140 right so you
00:32:12.340 know moderns want
00:32:13.040 to act like
00:32:13.600 emotions or it's
00:32:14.460 just something that
00:32:15.160 come over them
00:32:15.840 like a storm
00:32:16.640 something they
00:32:17.140 have no uh
00:32:18.560 control over and
00:32:19.920 it's like uh your
00:32:21.000 emotions are coming
00:32:21.860 directly from your
00:32:22.660 beliefs if you
00:32:23.380 change the beliefs
00:32:24.280 you got the
00:32:25.240 emotions taken
00:32:26.220 care of and
00:32:27.740 you know a lot
00:32:28.680 of what what
00:32:29.620 happened was you
00:32:30.760 know with
00:32:31.000 socrates there
00:32:32.120 was this turn
00:32:32.880 toward ethics
00:32:33.900 how do we live
00:32:34.760 our day-to-day
00:32:35.340 lives tell us we
00:32:36.700 need to know you
00:32:37.920 know and uh when
00:32:39.380 socrates died there
00:32:40.920 were all these
00:32:41.220 different schools of
00:32:41.860 philosophy created
00:32:43.260 and each one
00:32:44.320 claimed to uh you
00:32:45.900 know saw socrates
00:32:46.680 in a slightly
00:32:47.320 different way and
00:32:48.140 claimed to be
00:32:48.740 carrying you know
00:32:49.480 his uh tradition
00:32:50.760 and uh you know
00:32:52.420 with aristotle you
00:32:53.740 know the turn
00:32:54.420 was toward uh
00:32:55.980 eudaimonism you
00:32:57.000 know how how do
00:32:58.340 we get happiness
00:32:59.440 you know in this
00:33:00.640 life and so you
00:33:02.060 know the stoics the
00:33:03.000 epicures the
00:33:04.240 peripatetics all the
00:33:05.380 different schools of
00:33:06.300 philosophy were
00:33:07.500 trying to tell people
00:33:08.540 you know how to be
00:33:09.660 happy like uh the
00:33:11.860 academics you know
00:33:13.080 that became the
00:33:13.920 skeptics they would
00:33:15.180 say that you just
00:33:16.260 believe in things too
00:33:17.200 strongly if you
00:33:18.560 would calm down and
00:33:19.500 stop believing in
00:33:20.340 things so strongly you
00:33:21.460 could have tranquility
00:33:22.460 or ataraxia
00:33:23.540 and then you know
00:33:25.220 the the epicures
00:33:26.240 would say that you
00:33:27.520 know the gods have
00:33:28.360 already given you
00:33:29.060 everything you need
00:33:29.780 for happiness and
00:33:30.680 you can found it
00:33:31.520 you know just ask you
00:33:33.000 know is this pleasure
00:33:34.200 necessary and only
00:33:36.020 indulge the necessary
00:33:37.020 ones and you can be
00:33:38.040 happy but you have to
00:33:39.140 withdraw from the
00:33:40.160 world and the stoics
00:33:42.360 would say well you
00:33:43.120 need you're a social
00:33:44.080 creature you need to
00:33:45.040 get in there and the
00:33:46.360 only thing that's good
00:33:47.140 all the time is
00:33:47.920 virtue you know and
00:33:49.560 uh you know you need
00:33:51.080 to pursue virtue as
00:33:52.220 your prime you know
00:33:53.620 goal and uh and
00:33:55.860 virtue is the only
00:33:56.560 thing that's good to
00:33:57.200 all people all the
00:33:58.040 time you know
00:33:58.940 everything else you
00:33:59.580 can have too much or
00:34:00.280 too little or it can
00:34:01.300 be at the wrong time
00:34:02.180 and so you know and
00:34:04.820 uh you would get uh
00:34:06.260 uh peace and
00:34:07.860 tranquility or uh
00:34:09.660 apathia a lack of
00:34:10.940 disturbance you know
00:34:12.320 if you pursued the
00:34:13.160 stoics so you know
00:34:14.680 this is uh you know
00:34:16.020 this is what philosophy
00:34:16.980 was it wasn't people
00:34:18.440 arguing about you
00:34:20.100 know how many angels
00:34:21.060 can dance on the head
00:34:21.900 of a pin or perfect
00:34:23.460 circles or you know
00:34:25.360 racing against tortoises
00:34:27.000 you know it wasn't
00:34:28.720 you know that those
00:34:29.760 were just aspects of
00:34:31.040 you know the real
00:34:31.900 meat and potatoes was
00:34:33.240 you know what do I
00:34:34.500 do today how do I
00:34:35.340 live today you know
00:34:36.980 what do I believe
00:34:38.000 happiness misonious
00:34:39.720 know is uh was
00:34:41.180 understood very
00:34:41.980 differently by the
00:34:43.020 ancients than by
00:34:44.160 moderns yeah you
00:34:46.380 you demonism literally
00:34:47.760 means what good
00:34:48.640 personality you know
00:34:49.960 demon means
00:34:50.500 personality right
00:34:51.680 you know it's uh
00:34:53.320 you know a flowing
00:34:54.440 uh where things flow
00:34:55.940 uh the way that
00:34:56.760 they're supposed to
00:34:57.620 is the best I could
00:34:59.140 describe it yeah
00:35:00.280 you're you're right
00:35:00.900 happiness today means
00:35:02.700 what uh satisfaction
00:35:03.980 of hedonistic yeah
00:35:05.740 uh delights or
00:35:07.080 something maximization
00:35:08.300 of pleasure or
00:35:09.220 something like oh
00:35:09.900 yeah just pleasure
00:35:10.960 present and it's
00:35:12.460 divorced from the
00:35:13.680 the deliberate the
00:35:15.260 deliberate life the
00:35:16.300 examined life so
00:35:17.500 you don't you don't
00:35:19.460 reflect on the
00:35:20.320 things that give
00:35:21.200 you pleasure from
00:35:22.840 the context of a
00:35:24.080 of a word of a
00:35:24.900 broader worldview of
00:35:26.080 how should I be
00:35:26.720 living because you
00:35:28.260 shouldn't be there
00:35:29.240 shouldn't be happiness
00:35:30.240 to be found in in
00:35:31.820 something like I
00:35:32.760 don't know sodomy
00:35:33.460 yeah that well the
00:35:36.260 epicures were always
00:35:37.260 accused of being a
00:35:38.680 bunch of hedonists
00:35:39.720 uh but uh you know
00:35:41.320 they weren't exactly a
00:35:42.740 bunch of hedonists
00:35:43.540 what they believed was
00:35:44.900 that uh you know the
00:35:45.880 gods wouldn't set you
00:35:46.820 up for failure so
00:35:48.840 uh they've given
00:35:50.060 you um you know the
00:35:51.480 ability to enjoy uh
00:35:52.960 food uh good
00:35:54.000 conversation friendship
00:35:55.220 uh you know uh you
00:35:58.160 know uh sex uh you
00:36:00.020 know sleep and um you
00:36:02.380 know what where you
00:36:03.240 mess up is by making
00:36:04.340 illogical choices with
00:36:05.560 these and you know you
00:36:06.760 need the touchstone of
00:36:07.700 asking are these uh
00:36:09.020 necessary and proper
00:36:10.020 you know whenever you
00:36:10.860 deal with pleasure but
00:36:12.040 those are the epicures
00:36:12.920 you know uh Shaftesbury
00:36:15.000 uh was a full-blown
00:36:17.200 philosopher uh stoic that
00:36:18.980 lived in uh the 17th
00:36:20.520 century England his
00:36:21.780 grandfather was the
00:36:22.780 mentor of John Locke and
00:36:25.040 uh in the way he would
00:36:26.060 put it is like there's
00:36:26.880 only ever been two
00:36:27.740 philosophies a social and
00:36:29.520 an asocial you know and
00:36:31.240 the epicures were sort of
00:36:32.320 asocial they were about
00:36:33.440 withdrawing from this
00:36:34.620 world and uh you know
00:36:36.680 the the stoics he would
00:36:37.760 say are social yeah you
00:36:39.480 know they engaged often to
00:36:41.320 their detriment you
00:36:42.480 know like Seneca had to
00:36:44.160 commit suicide you know
00:36:45.320 to spare his family yeah
00:36:46.900 you know and uh because
00:36:49.140 of you know Caesar and
00:36:51.740 you can read about this
00:36:52.660 in Tacitus you know uh
00:36:54.300 the death of uh Seneca so
00:36:56.660 uh you know none of these
00:36:59.100 men you know have the
00:37:00.480 guarantee for having an
00:37:01.640 easy life but uh every one
00:37:04.660 of them has the opportunity
00:37:05.880 to practice virtue every
00:37:07.800 single one of these
00:37:08.480 opportunities what we see
00:37:09.720 as like uh problems well
00:37:12.580 there are opportunities to
00:37:13.560 practice virtue and the
00:37:15.520 more you practice it the
00:37:16.680 better you are at it so
00:37:18.080 like next time you're in
00:37:19.380 the line at the bank just
00:37:20.940 say you know this is the
00:37:21.960 price I pay for tranquility
00:37:23.800 you know and you'll feel a
00:37:25.640 lot better you know because
00:37:26.920 now standing in line has a
00:37:28.820 purpose it's it's making it
00:37:30.760 easier for you to become
00:37:31.800 tranquil you know it's it's
00:37:33.880 bringing happiness or
00:37:35.640 teaching you training you to
00:37:37.060 be happy yeah that's it I
00:37:40.380 mean the meaning I mean the
00:37:41.900 word of thesis in Greek I
00:37:43.340 mean it's the same term uh
00:37:45.480 is used to describe what a
00:37:47.100 monk does in his labor as
00:37:48.840 what a soldier does when he
00:37:49.860 trains for battle or what an
00:37:51.320 athlete does when he trains
00:37:52.280 to compete uh it's it's
00:37:54.480 discipline right and so
00:37:56.020 that when you're in line uh
00:37:58.760 at the U.S. post office and
00:38:00.340 you're having the urge to kill
00:38:02.040 your local mailman and you
00:38:03.300 suppress it you suppress that
00:38:04.920 anger because you know that
00:38:06.540 it's better to be patient and
00:38:08.440 it's better to alienate
00:38:09.480 yourself from the the petty
00:38:10.720 passions of your own ego and
00:38:12.020 take things with a more
00:38:13.360 detached or rational approach
00:38:14.580 that's an aesthetic labor you
00:38:16.260 know that's that's funny that
00:38:17.380 you use that word you know
00:38:19.140 because chaff disperry wrote
00:38:20.260 his own version of
00:38:21.120 meditations and it was called
00:38:22.560 the askamata you know the
00:38:24.280 regimen you know again where
00:38:26.340 we get a skis you know exactly
00:38:28.200 exactly and so that's all the
00:38:30.360 way back to what we first
00:38:31.460 talked about the opening
00:38:32.940 statement was that prayer and
00:38:35.440 fasting and all of these
00:38:36.480 intensification these are
00:38:37.780 just ascetic tools these are
00:38:39.780 techniques that we use to
00:38:41.360 um discipline our souls
00:38:43.320 essentially in the pursuit of
00:38:44.740 virtue to better live out in
00:38:46.980 our lives that grace which
00:38:48.320 christ has obtained for us in
00:38:50.020 his ultimate ascetic labor his
00:38:51.420 passion on the cross his
00:38:53.000 heroine of hell and his
00:38:53.860 resurrection um and so i
00:38:56.180 mean a sense of self-mastery i
00:38:57.600 mean it almost comes for people
00:38:59.160 who aren't christian i mean it's
00:39:00.300 very much almost a Nietzschean
00:39:01.520 sense of becoming yourself or
00:39:02.920 becoming who you're meant to
00:39:04.300 be you know look at all the
00:39:07.000 excuses that people have you
00:39:09.020 know for a placing evil outside
00:39:11.140 their locus of control you know
00:39:12.880 it's not their fault you know
00:39:14.520 it's like oh it's because of my
00:39:15.800 past or you know it's like well
00:39:17.960 the past is not with us anymore
00:39:19.740 right you know it's like all these
00:39:22.580 excuses to place good and evil
00:39:24.680 outside of their moral control and
00:39:27.520 uh you know the stoics will just
00:39:29.320 tell you the only good is moral
00:39:31.420 good the good that you choose
00:39:33.100 you know there's no such thing as
00:39:34.880 served evil yeah which like you
00:39:36.680 said i mean it sort of knocks the
00:39:38.240 table over and says we're going to
00:39:39.480 start over it's about how i i
00:39:41.480 behave with every choice as an
00:39:43.220 individual and it's a very
00:39:44.120 different way to uh view the world
00:39:46.140 than what most of us were
00:39:47.280 implicitly brought up with it's a
00:39:49.720 manly way you know that's why
00:39:51.020 stoicism spread you know among the
00:39:53.800 romans and the legionaries it's a
00:39:55.480 manly way it's like quit your
00:39:56.720 bitching yeah it was a way of
00:39:58.480 looking at the world yeah i mean
00:40:00.740 was it uh epictetus said life is a
00:40:02.560 soldier's duty upon the earth i mean
00:40:04.300 that's a very fundamentally different
00:40:07.240 way from what we were taught today to
00:40:09.120 look at the world and it's you know
00:40:10.840 in many ways it's a very christian way
00:40:12.300 to look at life saying what you're
00:40:14.540 doing is duty and an eternal struggle
00:40:16.900 so there's a lot of this stop
00:40:18.800 bitching go on sir well there's a lot
00:40:21.080 of this in the aeneid like we're
00:40:22.300 talking about the romans the aeneid
00:40:23.740 was essentially virgil trying to
00:40:26.760 recapture that quit your bitching
00:40:28.680 attitude that the early roman
00:40:30.920 farmers and very early roman they
00:40:34.140 weren't even really the roman
00:40:34.980 legionnaires they were just roman
00:40:36.680 militias that slowly fought their way
00:40:39.120 across italy yeah that was their
00:40:41.520 mentality that was their entire
00:40:42.920 world view what aurelius was trying
00:40:44.960 to recapture was what you know the
00:40:48.300 first 200 years of rome was like was
00:40:50.600 this middling constantly struggling
00:40:53.780 city-state with some surrounding
00:40:56.760 mountains that was consistently having
00:40:59.660 to fall back on this immense discipline
00:41:03.680 from its king all the way down to its
00:41:07.420 yeoman farmer outside the city yeah
00:41:10.180 it's interesting how little of
00:41:12.060 humanity has ever changed right with
00:41:14.320 none right i mean we'll get into that
00:41:16.060 where i mean you and that i mean that
00:41:18.180 was an integrated society like that
00:41:20.360 that entire roman society of the the
00:41:23.320 aeneid essentially tries to recapture
00:41:25.340 through some mythologizing which is
00:41:27.440 also important to any society but it's
00:41:30.060 it was this fully integrated full i
00:41:32.480 mean in the modern sense integralist
00:41:34.400 society
00:41:35.120 yeah yeah it was communitarian in a
00:41:37.860 sense that we've never had in the
00:41:39.160 united states at least not for over a
00:41:40.620 century and a half
00:41:41.180 yeah that brings up to me an
00:41:43.260 interesting question is do you think
00:41:45.600 uh i'm curious what you guys take do
00:41:47.420 you think that sort of different
00:41:48.920 casts or strata of society require
00:41:52.340 different worldviews or philosophical
00:41:54.940 outlooks because we're describing in
00:41:57.340 terms of stoicism is very befitting to a
00:42:00.360 a warrior caste and you see that
00:42:02.660 elsewhere in the world as well you saw
00:42:04.640 it in arian india and you see it in
00:42:06.880 japan too where the the in japan the
00:42:10.020 samurai caste had a very simplistic form
00:42:12.960 of their buddhism of zen buddhism and
00:42:15.880 then you had the upper classes
00:42:17.720 practicing shinto and other more
00:42:20.560 esoteric forms well if i can if i can
00:42:24.460 address that there's there's uh i'll
00:42:26.140 give you an answer and then it's funny
00:42:27.720 what you were saying making is uh i
00:42:29.640 think providential um i would say that
00:42:32.200 um the very error and disintegration
00:42:36.140 literally the disintegration of like a
00:42:38.220 social logos of a worldview comes when
00:42:40.800 you introduce that separation that
00:42:42.760 bifurcation and worldview between the
00:42:45.000 peasant and the aristocrat and the
00:42:47.120 priest interesting the idea is the the
00:42:49.160 whole purpose of like in the ancient
00:42:50.420 world the liturgy is that the liturgy is
00:42:52.500 the great equalizer it's the symbolic
00:42:54.300 expression of your entire worldview the
00:42:56.660 meeting place of heaven and earth we're
00:42:58.280 at the chalice of the blood of christ
00:43:00.400 everyone is equal in their participation
00:43:02.980 in the logos made flesh the one body the
00:43:05.980 one man you know uh servant and king
00:43:08.660 jesus christ and so i think that a lot
00:43:10.900 of the problems that we have now where
00:43:12.980 our elites have um alienated their
00:43:15.340 themselves from their their population
00:43:17.440 that they're ruling over um is precisely
00:43:20.560 a result of the loss of that integrated
00:43:22.720 worldview which is the crowning strength
00:43:25.240 of uh european society and it's why we see
00:43:28.680 that in the middle ages and in the
00:43:30.080 classical world there was such an intense
00:43:32.120 and fiery zeal to to defend any attacks
00:43:36.180 on that integrated worldview because they
00:43:38.220 knew that if that separation were to
00:43:40.380 occur at a fundamental level that
00:43:42.480 everything would just disintegrate into
00:43:43.880 nothingness so before we get back on
00:43:45.820 that what you were saying men can is
00:43:47.040 actually um today is the feast of the
00:43:49.120 great martyr saint theodore of uh tyro
00:43:51.040 and the um reading that we had today in
00:43:54.120 in liturgy is second timothy um two one
00:43:58.100 to ten i'll read it real quick you
00:44:01.120 therefore my son be strong in the grace
00:44:03.040 that is in christ jesus and the things
00:44:05.360 that you have heard from me among many
00:44:06.860 witnesses commit these to faithful men
00:44:09.320 who will be able to teach others also
00:44:10.960 you therefore must endure hardship as a
00:44:13.500 good soldier of jesus christ no one
00:44:15.700 engaged in warfare entangles himself
00:44:17.540 with the affairs of this life that he
00:44:19.280 may please him who enlisted him as a
00:44:21.040 soldier and also if anyone competes in
00:44:23.360 athletics he is not crown unless he
00:44:25.320 competes according to the rules the
00:44:27.060 hard-working farmer must be first to
00:44:28.800 partake of the crops consider what i say
00:44:31.260 and may the lord give you understanding
00:44:33.320 in all things remember that jesus christ
00:44:35.400 to the seed of david was raised from
00:44:36.800 the dead according to my gospel for
00:44:38.840 which i suffer trouble as an evil doer
00:44:40.580 even to the point of chains but the
00:44:42.860 word of god is not chained therefore i
00:44:45.220 endure all things for the sake of the
00:44:46.600 elect that they may also obtain the
00:44:48.080 salvation which is in christ jesus with
00:44:49.640 eternal glory amen so this world this is
00:44:53.700 at the heart and and center of
00:44:55.400 christianity right from the lips of
00:44:57.260 saint paul and so there's a huge
00:45:00.020 commensurability between what saint paul
00:45:02.500 is saying and the prevailing thought of
00:45:04.600 the hellenic world at the time because
00:45:06.380 people were work as the civilization began
00:45:09.080 to fluoresce and develop you know people
00:45:11.340 were realizing that the the folk with
00:45:14.180 traditions the paganism it didn't offer
00:45:16.740 this this comprehensive worldview it
00:45:19.180 didn't give you this transcendent
00:45:22.180 sacralization of of your life and that
00:45:25.260 is what the whole purpose of this podcast
00:45:28.080 is to try and give people like a little
00:45:29.760 bit of the the seed of that gospel
00:45:31.740 where they can the only way that we can
00:45:34.600 actually rebuke the wickedness that has
00:45:36.900 come upon our society is if we identify
00:45:39.100 that and and ultimately i think it's a
00:45:40.960 spiritual it's an anti-logos mentality
00:45:43.200 it's the destruction of this logos and we
00:45:45.480 have to strive to instantiate that
00:45:47.760 discipline life the kingdom of heaven
00:45:50.200 within our own our own selves and so this
00:45:54.700 is why philosophy is so important is
00:45:56.320 because you know it's um i think uh george
00:46:00.520 lincoln rockwell talked about how he was
00:46:02.680 using this analogy for political movements
00:46:04.220 and he was saying that you know you can
00:46:05.920 take a look at a firecracker where when
00:46:08.100 you lighten and explodes you have unfocused
00:46:10.220 energy which is dispersed in all directions
00:46:12.020 and it makes a loud noise and it's
00:46:14.060 impressive but it ultimately has no uh force
00:46:17.660 then if you look at the barrel of a rifle
00:46:20.060 uh the explosion that happens after the
00:46:23.260 cartridge is detonated because it's focused
00:46:25.200 and channeled and directed to the grooves
00:46:27.260 of the rifling produces a much more
00:46:29.280 precise and effect effective the force
00:46:32.340 of the projectile uh that is able to
00:46:34.980 accomplish many many great things
00:46:36.800 florian i think we're gonna duck out
00:46:40.220 real quick you know we gotta we gotta do a
00:46:42.360 recording of rebel yale thanks for
00:46:43.880 having us on a real pleasure boys a real
00:46:45.680 pleasure boy yeah definitely hey i had a
00:46:47.340 lot of fun and i'd love to come back
00:46:48.980 anytime for you absolutely you're both
00:46:50.680 more than welcome we'll have to have you
00:46:52.060 back on one day thank you and we need to
00:46:54.000 steal your gas yeah let's get we'll get in
00:46:57.660 touch uh i'll send you a message here on
00:46:59.800 the on sky yeah you should have send it to
00:47:01.980 make and uh yeah okay sure i posted my
00:47:04.720 email there um oh perfect perfect yeah and
00:47:07.700 i'll post it again in the chat for this
00:47:09.300 one brother well thank you guys good talk
00:47:11.540 you guys later yeah take care guys bye
00:47:14.240 bye thank you very much to our uh our
00:47:17.260 outgoing guests so uh hans nick did you
00:47:20.600 uh have any uh snappy remarks yeah well
00:47:23.100 what were you saying there is i found
00:47:24.840 very interesting uh i so you would you
00:47:28.620 describe this as sort of a unity between
00:47:30.600 the esoteric and the exoteric yeah i would
00:47:34.160 i would exactly describe it as that i think
00:47:37.240 that um like it comes because it doesn't
00:47:40.900 i'm sorry no please go ahead doesn't
00:47:42.780 preclude exactly what i'm what i'm saying
00:47:44.860 is that you can have sort of different
00:47:48.320 applications of the worldview that are
00:47:50.480 more narrowed for people i mean obviously
00:47:53.240 the peasantry is is not the priest class
00:47:55.840 they're not their understanding is not as
00:47:59.560 sophisticated but they can still
00:48:01.360 participate in the same body the same
00:48:03.560 worldview the same the same living faith
00:48:06.820 so to speak right um i would i would say
00:48:09.360 that it's exactly that and there's two
00:48:11.300 parts to this one it has to do with man's
00:48:14.300 own individual anthropology and that
00:48:16.920 worldview and then two it has to do with
00:48:18.980 the application of that to the body of
00:48:20.500 christ so because if we if we believe
00:48:22.400 that christ is the logos and we think
00:48:24.200 take that as the ultimate foundation for
00:48:26.380 you know kind of a christian nationalist
00:48:28.140 worldview or whatever then it's perfectly
00:48:31.600 uh legitimate we know that there are
00:48:34.040 different parts of the body and saint paul
00:48:35.820 talks about this quite explicitly and so
00:48:37.860 of course you know the head and the mouth
00:48:39.700 which rules over and is the the crown of
00:48:42.120 the body uh is endowed with its own
00:48:44.980 ability and its own skill and its own
00:48:46.820 level of uh understanding and initiation
00:48:49.880 into the mysteries uh but the foot or the
00:48:53.200 hand you know is no less initiated into the
00:48:55.960 holistic form of the body than the mouth
00:48:58.280 or the head or the eyes are but it serves a
00:49:00.800 different function and it's it's telos is
00:49:03.420 geared differently in terms of its
00:49:05.520 operation but the overall end is harmony
00:49:08.960 with the rest of the living organism and
00:49:11.380 the reason why this is possible is that
00:49:13.580 in the uh in the eastern view of man
00:49:15.940 there is it's a tripartite soul right and
00:49:18.680 so you don't just have the body and spirit
00:49:21.180 body and soul you know your mind you have
00:49:23.460 something that's above the mind something
00:49:24.840 that's above the intellect that the
00:49:27.200 intellect itself is conditioned based upon
00:49:29.540 the heart that it's apprehension its use
00:49:32.500 of language comes from the presuppositions
00:49:34.940 that are super rational uh and so it's man's
00:49:38.340 ability to directly interact with the holy
00:49:41.300 spirit in his heart through the gospel and
00:49:43.980 communion with the church which is what
00:49:46.640 enables the peasant and the king despite
00:49:50.360 their vastly different upbringing and
00:49:52.780 worldview and so on um to operate with the
00:49:56.580 same end because they have they have that
00:49:59.040 one mind soboranos is the is the term in
00:50:02.020 in slavonic it's the uh the horse the
00:50:05.100 carriage and the rider that's it
00:50:07.220 we said tripartite i mean the the way i
00:50:11.480 would describe traditional society for
00:50:15.540 pretty much everyone on the eurasian
00:50:17.720 continent from japan to a lot of indo-aryan
00:50:21.220 india to a huge extent indo-european
00:50:25.220 europe uh or pie europe would be uh the
00:50:29.180 tripartite society or tri-caste society
00:50:31.440 and anthropologically there is almost no
00:50:35.800 deviation at least within eurasia from
00:50:38.740 that practically none and in order in the
00:50:42.560 idea that we're going to break those
00:50:45.200 bonds we're going to make peasants into
00:50:48.160 our our priest cast and our priest cast
00:50:50.340 have larp's presence and completely
00:50:52.380 diminished what warriors were and what
00:50:54.740 warriors are is part of the reason why i i
00:50:58.820 think that society is slowly failing and
00:51:01.940 that christianity is slowly failing
00:51:03.900 christianity needs to rest on a
00:51:08.120 traditional societal structure to
00:51:09.880 properly implement itself and for people
00:51:12.820 to properly follow it so that i don't know
00:51:15.580 if the the modernist or the you know the
00:51:19.180 attacks on christianity modernity aren't
00:51:21.520 always attacks on christianity more and
00:51:24.000 more it comes across as diminishing society
00:51:27.280 under christianity and then there will be
00:51:31.340 no one left to actively practice or preach
00:51:35.000 the word of god or to live by the
00:51:38.320 philosophical aphorisms or the
00:51:40.720 philosophical strength of the bible
00:51:42.820 yeah i would agree and i think that it's
00:51:46.720 it's a synergistic relationship right i
00:51:50.200 mean if if you're a christian you believe
00:51:52.160 that there's no conflict between spirit
00:51:54.700 and matter and that the incarnation is the
00:51:57.280 strongest proof of that that the most high
00:51:59.980 has come and deified the human form and
00:52:02.260 even the corrupt human form that's that's
00:52:04.860 bound for death that he has redeemed it by
00:52:07.000 accepting it upon himself and so what that
00:52:09.440 means is that um it attests a to the fact
00:52:12.580 that the physical and the spiritual are in
00:52:16.180 a synergetic a synergistic relationship they
00:52:18.680 constantly interact with one another they're
00:52:20.980 created at the same time at the moment of
00:52:23.100 conception um but that yeah you can buy well
00:52:27.080 it's like a libido dominandi right if you
00:52:29.140 just control man's base passions you can use
00:52:32.240 these as the most effective technique to
00:52:33.980 attack the highest spiritual realms i mean if
00:52:36.780 we look at you know the sexual scandals in
00:52:39.000 the church and all that i mean you don't
00:52:40.880 it doesn't even matter if someone is
00:52:43.000 maybe preaching like an orthodox gospel if
00:52:45.080 like they're like sexually degenerate you
00:52:47.840 know he doesn't it's all for not well that
00:52:50.320 that brings me to a perfect segue and i
00:52:52.620 said here's a i guess what i'd like to ask
00:52:55.680 is you have this holistic society you have
00:52:59.840 the traditional society and where where does
00:53:02.920 the fissure come where does the break come
00:53:04.780 and i have a quote one of my favorite quotes
00:53:07.380 from the bhagadvat gita uh out i'm sure you
00:53:10.400 can provide for you in a bible quote or
00:53:12.360 something after this but out of the
00:53:14.920 corruption of women proceeds the corruption
00:53:17.060 of races out of the corruption of races the
00:53:19.660 loss of memory out of the loss of memory the
00:53:22.260 loss of understanding and out of this all
00:53:24.560 evil
00:53:24.900 yeah i can't i can't give you a snappy bible
00:53:29.860 quote but that's pretty much
00:53:31.060 yes sorry yeah it's i just teasing you
00:53:34.340 man
00:53:34.540 you're fair enough yeah no it's um go ahead
00:53:37.660 please what do you think about that i think
00:53:39.560 that's the best bang on i mean that's yeah
00:53:41.380 because i believe that that corresponds
00:53:42.800 exactly with the libido namanandi uh thesis
00:53:46.080 of jones well i guess probably to his book
00:53:49.680 specifically maybe be degenerate moderns but
00:53:52.680 they i mean they overlap jones is
00:53:54.260 frequently covering the same material from
00:53:56.900 different angles but that that that seems to
00:54:01.020 be i think the the golden ticket to
00:54:03.640 understanding because i i've read many
00:54:05.720 different accounts of of modernism and
00:54:08.260 where it comes from but i i really don't
00:54:10.800 find any to be as convincing as as jones's
00:54:14.380 accounts and it's corroborated from
00:54:16.100 who you had the bhagadvat gita it's
00:54:18.120 thousands of years old the same the same
00:54:21.040 principles it's a natural law precisely
00:54:23.240 this i mean we this is exactly what
00:54:25.420 genesis is about is that um you know adam
00:54:27.860 falls basically because the serpent uses
00:54:31.140 his relationship with eve in order to
00:54:33.060 induce him into unmanly acquiescence to
00:54:35.420 his woman's pleasures essentially um and
00:54:39.280 it's this this uh fall like with everything
00:54:44.700 that you read in orthodox spirituality the
00:54:46.800 introduction to fasting why do we fast well
00:54:49.180 because fasting is the first law of god
00:54:50.940 don't eat the fruit that's the first law of
00:54:54.280 god and it was by the violation of that
00:54:56.220 primordial law of god the indulging in um
00:55:00.000 the physical passion but it's the pride
00:55:01.820 that that this physical passion will lead
00:55:03.980 to a knowledge of good and evil to this
00:55:06.480 you know ascended state this false vision
00:55:09.180 of what it means to be deific um that
00:55:12.020 leads to man's fall from grace and his loss
00:55:14.580 of direct apprehension of the natural law of
00:55:17.160 the spiritual realm of paradise um and so
00:55:21.120 please go ahead yeah well going from one
00:55:24.300 thing i did want to get into is the
00:55:26.180 relationship between modernism and so
00:55:29.060 called post-modernism and going off of
00:55:33.100 this quote uh regarding the loss of memory
00:55:36.360 and how loss of memory precedes the loss of
00:55:39.240 understanding i think that because i i'm a
00:55:42.620 student of literature and while there's
00:55:45.700 plenty of modernist literature that i'm not
00:55:48.700 so fond of there's plenty that i am fond
00:55:51.360 of uh particularly joyce and pound
00:55:54.720 lewis uh but the thing about the thing
00:55:58.420 of modernism that you see is this acute
00:56:02.100 understanding of the relationship to the
00:56:04.420 past and how it's starting to be lost
00:56:07.080 and if i was to define post-modernism at
00:56:10.600 least from a literary perspective it's when
00:56:13.080 that that break has fully been completed
00:56:15.440 so i'm curious your guys take on that bang
00:56:18.500 on i think that's absolutely correct and
00:56:20.720 i think this is totally 100 percent in
00:56:23.020 keeping with the entire history of the
00:56:24.840 old and the new testament where the whole
00:56:26.980 the whole theme of the old testament is
00:56:29.260 remembrance and the word in in believe is
00:56:32.180 greek it could be it could be hebrew but
00:56:33.980 anamnesis is the term so when you see in
00:56:37.460 the old testament it says god remembered his
00:56:39.480 covenant the word that they're using is
00:56:41.800 anamnesis and so anamnesis is not just
00:56:44.940 go i have to go to the store i remember
00:56:46.740 that i need some grapes or whatever
00:56:47.880 uh it's like a an iconic recall and so
00:56:52.180 it's a recall where you enter into the
00:56:54.740 spiritual reality of that memory in an
00:56:57.700 unbroken state and so like the liturgy when
00:57:01.240 you have a feast day in remembrance of
00:57:03.160 someone that means that that living spirit
00:57:06.220 that animated that person comes to bear in
00:57:08.940 the reality of the liturgical world and so
00:57:11.720 when we you know have let's say we
00:57:13.300 recently celebrated the sunday of the
00:57:15.200 last judgment right that's an event that
00:57:17.040 will come will we participate in that
00:57:18.980 truly in in like an eschatological in a
00:57:21.460 spiritual way at the liturgy that that's
00:57:24.020 what's going on there is the integration
00:57:26.620 into the the divine form the the the divine
00:57:32.560 idea that is to come of the last judgment
00:57:35.400 and so it's again i think that that's
00:57:38.260 precisely what happens is and what we see
00:57:40.460 in the old testament is that when people
00:57:42.680 lose that remembrance which occurs through
00:57:45.060 familial bonds you know through organized
00:57:47.220 worship through um you know your
00:57:49.300 philosophy through ethical living because
00:57:51.480 they're seduced by um you know idolatry which
00:57:54.440 is always linked with sexual uh deviancy um
00:57:57.760 you know gluttony uh drunkenness this kind
00:57:59.920 of stuff uh women um they forget who they
00:58:04.000 are and they gets to the point where god
00:58:06.420 sends the prophets because they can't they
00:58:07.840 don't even realize that um yahweh is like a
00:58:11.740 different god from baal they don't even
00:58:15.320 remember they forget like their own
00:58:17.500 genealogy many of these tribes right and
00:58:21.140 so it's precisely this alienation from that
00:58:23.580 living tradition that you're in that you're
00:58:25.500 supposed to be initiated into that's
00:58:26.960 bequeathed unto you right that produces
00:58:29.240 this uh societal cataclysmic collapse right
00:58:33.180 that the degeneration of social capital
00:58:35.300 comes from the fact that there isn't that
00:58:37.300 shared anamnesis that remembrance of
00:58:39.280 who you are and that participation in that
00:58:41.920 uh reality that bringing of that past into
00:58:45.400 its uh modern instantiation a kind of um
00:58:48.780 relative absolutism so to speak
00:58:51.680 and you see the exact same thing in the
00:58:56.000 literary and artistic traditions you see
00:58:58.300 that without continual engagement with with
00:59:02.540 that body that had come that had been built
00:59:05.620 upon and come first uh it becomes almost
00:59:08.600 incomprehensible to people and you can
00:59:10.480 you can sell a urinal at an art show for
00:59:13.160 millions of dollars right that's it and
00:59:16.700 what i would suggest is is that this
00:59:18.480 reality it's more um like the philosophy is
00:59:22.800 just the manifestation of like the more
00:59:24.960 subtle spiritual reality that a lot of this
00:59:27.600 is operating not based on like explicit oh
00:59:30.820 like i'm a marxist now so i'm going to
00:59:32.320 abandon all of my preconceived notions of
00:59:34.280 tradition um but like the implicit the
00:59:37.400 subtle like day-to-day living where it's
00:59:39.720 it's just part of like the wallpaper and
00:59:41.660 the background that you grow up in and
00:59:43.800 that's why this society has become so
00:59:45.640 degenerate and um like satanic and
00:59:48.260 twisted is because of the ability to
00:59:51.060 project this worldview through mass
00:59:52.840 propaganda through mass media people
00:59:54.880 just grow up saturated in these
00:59:57.100 presuppositions that you know freedom of
00:59:59.600 choice is everything that pursuit of
01:00:02.080 pleasures hedonistic happiness this is
01:00:04.360 the goal of life because they see this
01:00:06.360 everywhere there's no escape from it and
01:00:08.980 this fragmentation with this atomization
01:00:10.860 what it does uh this this democratization of
01:00:14.080 theology and philosophy it it's like i'm a
01:00:17.620 philosopher's stone right if everything can
01:00:19.700 be transmuted uh into gold then gold is
01:00:22.600 worthless there's no superior quality it's
01:00:26.360 just all equal and so right with and so
01:00:29.200 it's like if you think about um like the
01:00:31.240 way that the media operates uh like a
01:00:33.460 really good example i was thinking about
01:00:34.520 this in the um you had the episode uh
01:00:37.240 radical boomerism on the mandalay bay
01:00:38.880 shooting and all that that's the one where
01:00:40.880 i slept i slept through the first part
01:00:42.860 yeah well i was thinking about this
01:00:46.780 because it was supposed to be the
01:00:47.740 kaczynski episode but nick got plastered
01:00:49.840 with a copy of uh industrial society and
01:00:52.340 didn't wake up until two in the afternoon
01:00:55.240 yes so uh what did you do on friday night
01:01:00.840 i got drunk and read kaczynski
01:01:02.600 yeah pretty much
01:01:05.060 woke up with a bottle of jack right next
01:01:08.440 to him
01:01:08.820 highlighter all over his knee
01:01:11.560 and for some reason i've got 10 pounds of
01:01:13.680 uh fertilizer in my garage yeah i noticed i
01:01:16.240 had all these packages i had set up to be
01:01:18.380 mailed and i didn't know what was in them
01:01:20.180 yeah yeah i'd stop using and i i all of
01:01:24.340 my toothpaste was gone and like i had a
01:01:26.160 copy of evalus revolt against the modern
01:01:27.760 world like i guess we should go on the
01:01:29.420 rad trad route you know
01:01:30.720 okay um so yeah and the media right so
01:01:36.880 the media so a really good example is
01:01:38.860 you know um what one of the things that
01:01:43.360 when the media will uh purposefully
01:01:46.280 disseminate a story which they know is
01:01:48.540 untrue partially or or wholly what
01:01:52.020 happens is that um if it gets to the
01:01:54.560 point where it's so ridiculous that even
01:01:56.280 the average man doesn't believe it it
01:01:58.000 doesn't matter because it shatters the
01:02:00.500 cohesiveness of investigation into the
01:02:03.160 truth right and so if everybody knows
01:02:05.700 that the media is bs and that leaves all
01:02:08.460 of these individual entities these kind
01:02:10.340 of you know internet shit posters and
01:02:11.760 speculators you know to the task of
01:02:14.580 investigating what is the reality of the
01:02:16.380 situation and so that it doesn't even
01:02:18.680 matter if these people come across the
01:02:20.720 truth or they have a narrative which is
01:02:22.120 like say 10 20 30 40 percent more
01:02:24.360 accurate than the media's narrative
01:02:25.740 because there is this um like a quality
01:02:30.280 of ideas the media's narrative it doesn't
01:02:34.000 matter if it's untrue it just matters
01:02:35.640 that it's the loudest right because and
01:02:38.560 that it's coming from presumed figures of
01:02:41.380 authority which is a quality of man that
01:02:44.140 you can't ever really shake no matter how
01:02:46.740 much he's disabused of the idea that his
01:02:49.780 rulers are honest and virtuous right
01:02:54.440 exactly and so um you know what happens
01:02:57.660 is is that it you go from you can you say
01:03:01.580 could go from gods to titans right the
01:03:03.940 the transcendent ideals no longer matter
01:03:05.960 and it's just that titanic force which is
01:03:08.340 important the the ability to project power
01:03:10.540 through mechanism and quantity are what
01:03:13.340 define um you know modern and postmodern
01:03:15.900 politics really and so that's what it
01:03:20.420 comes back to is that the that's why at
01:03:22.020 the foundation of like the sort of the
01:03:23.700 counter-revolutionary struggle if you want
01:03:25.520 to put it that way is to kind of baptize
01:03:29.460 that machine which is what we're trying to
01:03:31.340 do here to try and and please go ahead
01:03:34.020 yeah well and post-modernism effectively
01:03:36.780 works as a false counter-revolution and i
01:03:40.660 think that in much of the way it's been
01:03:42.600 i mean i don't i don't uh come up with a
01:03:46.600 conspiracy that foucault was somehow you
01:03:48.900 know working hand in hand behind the
01:03:50.360 scenes with czar or something like that
01:03:51.920 but it's certainly been allowed to develop
01:03:54.500 and then co-opted to present you with a
01:03:57.500 series of false counter-revolutions like
01:04:00.500 the entire idea of black lives matter to
01:04:03.500 me is a false counter-revolution it's
01:04:06.400 this it's this notion of taking industrial
01:04:11.800 society applying it to everything now
01:04:14.480 everything has been industrialized there's
01:04:16.440 no post-industrial society i mean i can't
01:04:19.060 think of anything that hasn't been
01:04:20.220 industrialized it used to be the industry
01:04:22.740 was very distinct from the rest of the
01:04:25.660 economy and distinct from the rest of
01:04:28.200 society but now everything is its own
01:04:30.700 industry and everything is going through
01:04:32.800 an industrialization process and
01:04:35.300 post-modernism effectively serves to
01:04:38.200 detach you from caring about the fact that
01:04:42.700 things are becoming industrialized there's
01:04:44.660 there's no fight left in people people
01:04:47.140 you know even i i think that even if we
01:04:49.720 hit great depression levels or or post
01:04:52.160 weimar levels of economic fallout people
01:04:56.440 still wouldn't care or rise up because
01:04:58.740 they've been so totally and thoroughly
01:05:01.980 stripped of their being and this is i mean
01:05:05.600 brought up kaczynski this is effectively
01:05:07.660 what kaczynski predicted what happened is
01:05:09.720 that post what post-modernism has become
01:05:12.080 would render people inert and they just
01:05:16.320 wouldn't be able to find any ideal to
01:05:20.800 strive for and try and contain
01:05:23.560 industrialism yeah it's about kill it's
01:05:26.980 about um killing the soul and that's what
01:05:30.040 um that's what uh hg wells and bertrand
01:05:34.440 russell in their like really airy globalist
01:05:38.380 books talk about is the the goal of the
01:05:41.280 technocratic state is to destroy man's
01:05:44.500 free will through atomization and the
01:05:46.780 effective use of uh of mechanism and um it's
01:05:50.000 basically like brave new world i mean
01:05:51.580 actually wrote that as the model of the
01:05:53.300 society he wanted to see
01:05:54.540 um and so it's it's funny you bring up
01:05:58.760 brave new world because that comes back
01:06:00.980 to something when we're talking about the
01:06:02.500 esoteric and the exoteric earlier
01:06:04.820 that i wanted to bring up which is sort of
01:06:07.880 the elite gnosis the the elite esoterica
01:06:11.340 what these people actually believe because
01:06:13.900 in that book for instance the world
01:06:16.900 controller mustafa mand he has in his
01:06:19.880 library all kinds of books on uh the
01:06:22.580 occult and and metaphysics and it's
01:06:25.000 strongly implied that well he administers
01:06:28.880 this scientific technocratic system for
01:06:32.100 the masses that he actually operates on a
01:06:36.060 different worldview altogether yeah that's
01:06:39.160 exactly how it is i mean and he mean he
01:06:41.600 admits that he basically said well he his
01:06:43.420 whole backstory he started out as a
01:06:44.800 scientist and then when he started to
01:06:47.520 produce um scientific innovations that
01:06:50.080 weren't in accord with the political
01:06:52.440 whims of the world controllers they
01:06:54.160 basically said hey well cool it boy and
01:06:56.740 they initiated him into the you know this
01:06:59.320 kind of esoteric worldview and we've
01:07:01.360 covered this um on the show many times
01:07:03.220 before this is exactly how the elite
01:07:04.880 function is they view themselves basically
01:07:07.440 as you know as the only people who are
01:07:11.100 entitled to to rationality to free will to
01:07:14.220 dominance and that the rest of the world
01:07:16.100 exists as clay as lead to be turned into
01:07:19.740 gold by their um you know esoteric alchemic
01:07:22.340 process and that's just right transmitting
01:07:24.780 uh which is you know basically well what is
01:07:27.320 what is alchemy george soros is a finance
01:07:29.180 right it's the application of liquid power
01:07:32.440 and so finance uh exists as the background to
01:07:36.320 you know the the build-up of the renaissance
01:07:38.300 state i mean that's you know of modern
01:07:40.800 warfare would not have been possible without
01:07:44.140 the ability to hire you know these faceless
01:07:46.680 mercenary armies uh which came out of the
01:07:48.920 great conflagration of the hundred years
01:07:50.600 war which we see build into um you know
01:07:53.960 colonialism and international imperialism
01:07:56.080 which funded the start of the industrial
01:07:58.040 revolution right and so all of these these
01:08:01.180 concepts are very tightly interwoven and
01:08:03.160 it comes back to like what i would say is
01:08:05.180 just this kind of i mean in the modern
01:08:07.560 times it's like kabbalistic uh is the is
01:08:10.640 the the fundamental like worldview but i
01:08:12.520 think it's as ancient as the world itself
01:08:14.980 that's where the original sin comes from
01:08:16.880 it's the the triumph of of mechanism of
01:08:21.340 the unnatural exertion of power over the
01:08:24.960 natural order so that man's own ego is
01:08:27.720 deified rather than man being deified by
01:08:30.240 interaction with the divine personality and
01:08:32.200 the natural law itself
01:08:33.240 very well said yeah okay so um you boys
01:08:39.480 have any really like snappy or clever
01:08:41.440 comments you want to make before we go
01:08:42.680 to a little break
01:08:43.340 let's roll the break okay fantastic so to
01:08:49.160 our listeners thank you for joining us
01:08:50.680 for our first hour
01:08:51.420 stay tuned where we're going to get into
01:08:53.520 a bunch more really important
01:08:54.880 pretentious philosophical talk
01:08:56.540 hope to hear from you soon
01:08:58.260 my soul cries out with a joyful shout
01:09:10.200 that the god of my heart is great
01:09:12.900 and my spirits sing of the wondrous
01:09:15.900 things that you bring to the ones who
01:09:18.280 wait
01:09:19.160 you fixed your sight and your servant's
01:09:22.260 flight and my weakness you did not
01:09:24.580 slurn
01:09:25.460 so from east to west shall my name be
01:09:28.500 blessed
01:09:28.980 for the world be about to turn
01:09:31.820 my heart shall sing
01:09:33.720 and the day you bring
01:09:35.180 let the fires of your justice burn
01:09:37.960 wipe away all tears
01:09:39.940 for the dawn draws near
01:09:41.540 and the world is about to turn
01:09:44.660 though i am small my god my all you
01:09:55.940 worked great things in me and your
01:09:59.240 mercy will last from the depths of the
01:10:01.580 past to the end of the age to be
01:10:04.640 your very name finds a crowd to shame
01:10:08.280 and for those who were for you yearn
01:10:11.100 you will show your might put the
01:10:13.320 song to fight for the world is about to
01:10:16.360 turn
01:10:17.300 my heart shall sing of the day you bring
01:10:20.780 let the fires of your justice burn
01:10:23.580 wipe away all tears for the dawn draws near
01:10:27.080 and the world is about to turn
01:10:29.840 from the halls of power to the fortress tower down to stone would be left on stone
01:10:42.300 let the king beware for your justice tears every tyrant from his throne
01:10:48.360 the hungry poor shall reap no more for the food they can never burn
01:10:54.980 there are tables spread every mouth be fed for the world is about to turn
01:11:00.960 my heart shall sing of the day you bring let the fires of your justice burn
01:11:07.240 wipe away all tears for the dawn draws near and the world is about to turn
01:11:13.820 though the nations rage from age to age we remember who holds us fast
01:11:34.200 God's mercy must deliver us from the conqueror's rushing grass
01:11:40.180 this daily word that our foremears heard is the promise which holds us bound
01:11:46.200 till the spear and rod can be crushed by God who is turning the world around
01:11:52.200 my heart shall sing of the day you bring let the fires of your justice burn
01:11:59.560 wipe away all tears for the dawn draws near and the world is about to turn
01:12:05.600 my heart shall sing of the day you bring let the fires of your justice burn
01:12:12.740 wipe away all tears for the dawn draws near
01:12:17.460 And the world is about to turn
01:12:20.820 Welcome back to Mysterium Fasci's episode 47, Philosophy Part 2.
01:12:32.960 Thank you very much, listeners, for rejoining us.
01:12:35.420 I am glad to hear from you again.
01:12:37.760 Although I suppose it's a rather one-sided relationship.
01:12:42.980 Yes.
01:12:43.500 Before the break, we talked about a whole bunch of different important stuff.
01:12:47.560 But I think that we were able to kind of lay the foundation for what philosophy is
01:12:54.020 and why it's important to address it explicitly.
01:12:57.960 So we're going to go into that a little bit more with how bad philosophy
01:13:02.860 and how the downstream effects from bad philosophy have attacked our civilization,
01:13:08.860 have resulted in like this inversion, and how it's important for our own lives and how we get there.
01:13:15.720 So we talked about the need for, we'll talk about it now, need for like a Weltanschauung.
01:13:24.600 Like Hitler talks about this in Mein Kampf, but it's a much greater subject than just that.
01:13:29.480 A Weltanschauung or worldview is like a total integrated worldview,
01:13:33.220 which supplies the, like the philosophical logos for a man, for his family, and for a nation.
01:13:39.380 And so any kind of political change or, you know, political agenda has to be based upon
01:13:45.580 some sort of overarching philosophical worldview.
01:13:49.640 You can't just, you, well, so the thing is, is that in postmodern politics,
01:13:55.720 is that we've become so acclimatized to the only American school of philosophy, which is pragmatism.
01:14:03.240 Where, you know, people just basically pursue what's in their own, you know, egotistical individual self-interest.
01:14:09.320 And as long as you, you know, you quote unquote, you're nice, you quote unquote, you don't be a dick,
01:14:14.560 everything kind of flies.
01:14:15.740 And so without that, an explicit, a structured worldview that you can describe and you can tap into,
01:14:27.740 even if the person himself might not be able to like give a dissertation on what he believes,
01:14:32.980 without those core values, you still operate based on values anyway.
01:14:39.380 It's just that those are given to you by the society around you.
01:14:42.520 Please go ahead.
01:14:42.940 Well, to give an example that I'm, I think maybe has become almost cliche in some of our circles at this point,
01:14:50.120 is the fact that you have American dissidents, white nationals in particular,
01:14:56.900 who, although they're challenging one of the sacred taboos of the current order,
01:15:04.120 they do imbibe pretty much a pragmatic worldview that, I mean, they base their arguments solely off of,
01:15:11.440 of self-interested groups and, I don't know, black crime statistics.
01:15:18.700 Yeah, it's perfect.
01:15:20.260 It's racist liberalism.
01:15:22.060 Yeah, well, bingo.
01:15:23.260 The entirety of the, I mean, the, I want to say the philosophical history of the American school of philosophy
01:15:29.940 is effectively Puritanism, slowly melding into transcendentalism,
01:15:37.200 which is very much just hijacked Higalianism,
01:15:40.440 and slowly melding into pragmatism.
01:15:44.040 But by the early 20th century, it had become imbued with what's often now referred to as the Anglo-American school.
01:15:51.940 The Anglo-American school in the 20th century is just analytic philosophy.
01:15:56.180 So you have an entire nation, particularly the white class of the United States,
01:16:04.400 particularly if they've been, if their families have been here for more than, let's say, four generations,
01:16:08.860 through four generations.
01:16:10.460 Those people are easily susceptible to the transcendental ideology of the self is sovereign,
01:16:18.500 and what I am is sovereign, what I am is supremely important.
01:16:22.060 And it's also about trying to approach everything because American society is so dictated by clearly defined rules now,
01:16:33.960 clearly defined human rules,
01:16:36.140 that everything is about approaching, like you were saying, the black crime statistics
01:16:41.600 with as much of a purely logical constraint as possible.
01:16:47.080 So you get this really weird combination that results in what we would just call kind of racist liberalism,
01:16:53.440 or you can also chalk up to just blood worship, if you want to be kind of demeaning.
01:17:00.280 And it's not surprising that this is what's happened in a country like the United States
01:17:06.500 with no clearly defined integral ideology anymore,
01:17:10.240 although there are regional integral ideologies that have sort of faltered.
01:17:13.520 But in a country like the United States, it's not surprising that this has happened.
01:17:18.400 And it's happened across the entire Christian world, and to various extents,
01:17:23.080 France is another good example of this.
01:17:25.440 But at least in France, it was a uniquely Catholic place that was sort of gutted,
01:17:30.860 whereas the United States was cobbled together with this weird philosophical approach
01:17:36.480 by this very out-of-touch Anglo class.
01:17:40.560 They've probably been out-of-touch since the 1820s.
01:17:44.960 Yeah, it's funny.
01:17:45.960 I've been reading The Education of Henry Adams, and I'm working on an essay about it.
01:17:52.280 And he was one of the perfect people to look at that progression from,
01:17:59.920 because he really did struggle with it, but he was so born into it
01:18:03.740 that he had very few recourses to escape it.
01:18:08.300 So his intellectual autobiography, I find to be very compelling.
01:18:15.080 Yeah, exactly.
01:18:16.920 And this kind of the question of the racist liberalism comes back to this false dialectical trap,
01:18:24.900 right, where our opponents don't need to explicitly, with coercive force, control our actions.
01:18:32.960 They don't need to use anything so crude as, you know, a gun or a baton in order to coerce us through pain.
01:18:39.700 If they control the presuppositions of our worldview, then it doesn't even matter what conclusions we come to,
01:18:47.080 because they've already, it exists within a approved limited range, right?
01:18:51.880 And so, like, if you're serious about trying to combat our enemies and trying to uplift and revitalize our civilization,
01:19:02.500 you have to have a foundation, like, you know, what is uplifting?
01:19:07.440 What is good?
01:19:08.100 What is the goal, right?
01:19:09.700 Is it just, you know, a material success?
01:19:12.040 Is it just, you know, some sort of Darwinistic struggle against biological extinction?
01:19:16.380 This is nonsense.
01:19:18.000 There's no philosophy here.
01:19:19.420 This is just a policy that's deified, basically, through, you know, ideological fetishism and memes
01:19:26.160 and, you know, powered on the anger of disgruntled young men.
01:19:30.700 And, you know, eminent sympathy.
01:19:32.260 I think most of us come out of this background, and a lot of the listeners to the show probably have been there at one point in their lives.
01:19:39.940 Trying to avoid, you know, being wiped out, a Darwinian struggle is perfectly natural.
01:19:44.960 I take a perfectly sane approach to that, and I say that's a natural drive.
01:19:50.460 But what it comes down to is being devoted to ideologies that we would just kind of say are racist liberalism.
01:19:56.980 And the problem with a lot of these ideologies that they develop, someone was talking about this recently, I'm blinking on who,
01:20:04.060 but they said basically that your ideology doesn't matter, that your ideology just flat out does not matter in the face of a large-scale society, of a overly-scaled society.
01:20:17.960 Now, you can have an ideal to strive for, and you can have an underlying philosophy.
01:20:22.400 But ideology is not going to bring you anywhere, and you need to have a serious strategy rooted in something real,
01:20:33.740 something that actually speaks to the human spirit.
01:20:36.980 And for me, and for you, Florian, and for a lot of people, that is what Christianity is.
01:20:43.680 That's what Christianity represents.
01:20:45.620 Exactly. Exactly.
01:20:46.680 Well, and part of the reason that the dissidence that's happening, that there is, I will concede,
01:20:54.780 there is more people starting to pay attention to what's going on in recent years than previously.
01:21:02.480 However, the reason, one of the main reasons that they're not willing to challenge the fundamental philosophical paradigm of the ruling elite
01:21:11.640 is that they adopt this democratic attitude where they have to meet the masses where they are,
01:21:18.320 and the masses are fully inculcated in this, and so it doesn't force them to re-examine those premises
01:21:25.640 because they're content to just go to people where they are, and where people are is, sadly, very morally corrupt.
01:21:34.240 Yeah, I would say the worst they have ever been in the history of the world is because it's total nihilism.
01:21:40.360 I mean, there's just nothing.
01:21:43.240 You know, and I recently went on a trip to Europe, and I met a whole bunch of nationalist comrades in Austria,
01:21:50.680 and specifically in the Czech Republic.
01:21:52.520 And so in the Czech Republic, only 12% of people in that country have any belief in, like, a transcendent deity,
01:22:00.340 like, whether that's Buddhist, Buddha, or, like, Buddhism, Buddhist nihilism, or, like, the Christian god,
01:22:08.080 but the social capital and, like, the inertia that comes from being from a society that once had, like, this integrated worldview,
01:22:16.840 like, means that these people, no matter what they think, like, tend just to be better.
01:22:21.480 They just tend to be, like, better, have better personal character, even if they're basically atheistic.
01:22:26.580 Right.
01:22:28.660 And those, particularly the Czech Republic, or Bohemia, as it was probably known for most of its more recent history,
01:22:36.800 and Slovakia in particular, I mean, part of my background is Slovakian.
01:22:41.780 Those people were, like the French, just completely built from scratch by the church.
01:22:47.780 Their entire ideology of who they were, their entire integralism was the Catholic Church,
01:22:54.160 and they were a people sort of saved from themselves and certainly saved from, in a lot of ways, irrelevance.
01:23:02.920 There's no reason why the Czechs and Slovaks would be as well-known as they are worldwide
01:23:08.340 and have accomplished as much if they weren't given that light.
01:23:12.520 And they're sort of living in the shadow of themselves at this point,
01:23:15.620 and it hasn't been that long since the Czech Republic and the Slovaks were a 90% or 90-plus percent Christian people.
01:23:24.160 Catholic people.
01:23:26.380 So that inertia is still there.
01:23:28.760 But in three or four generations, if there isn't any kind of resurgence,
01:23:31.920 I don't know what the Czechs will actually believe themselves to be,
01:23:35.860 other than just some place in Central Europe that wants a better immigration policy.
01:23:40.920 When you define yourself that way, when you define yourself as just,
01:23:47.840 well, this is just my nationality and I want the country to behave optimally,
01:23:52.600 then you've completely handed yourself over to a system that will completely dismantle you.
01:23:57.780 And to contrast that with America, I mean, America was founded on a revolutionary liberal ideology.
01:24:05.640 Right.
01:24:05.840 And you don't have, especially out west, western United States,
01:24:10.440 you don't really have these physical reminders of your place in history and tradition.
01:24:18.300 You know, it was frontiers and now you have big box stores.
01:24:21.180 And, you know, somewhere like, I've never, I would like to go to Prague someday,
01:24:25.580 but you don't have that living, although maybe they're starting to become hollowed out
01:24:32.740 and mean less in the current year, you still have those reminders of beauty, of something greater.
01:24:40.560 Yeah, I mean, you get that a lot when you're in New England or when you're in the Antebellum South or where I am.
01:24:48.340 There is that greater sense of a real history, a real pathos to those peoples into those places
01:24:59.160 and to what they integrate as.
01:25:01.720 But a lot of it doesn't mesh well with the modern world and it doesn't survive well.
01:25:08.320 There's no inertia left for a lot of these places.
01:25:11.480 And you see it more because you appreciate it.
01:25:13.820 I mean, it's something you have to learn to look for.
01:25:16.180 Yeah, you do.
01:25:16.900 You can find it in America still, but it's rare.
01:25:21.040 Especially when you go to New England.
01:25:22.660 You can find it.
01:25:24.100 You can find old America there.
01:25:27.240 You can find old Yankee America there.
01:25:29.780 And you can slowly judge it up and understand it if you want.
01:25:33.660 But I got to tell you, most of the people there barely even understand that it's there.
01:25:39.480 And the ones that do, half of them want it wiped down immediately.
01:25:43.820 Yeah.
01:25:44.720 And that's basically it.
01:25:46.300 It's that the American revolutionary experiment has produced a continental civilization which is like, it's necromantic.
01:25:58.040 Right.
01:25:58.280 It's animated.
01:25:59.560 Right.
01:25:59.880 It's this body, this corpse, which is animated on like the unnatural power of like liquid currency and technology.
01:26:09.540 And, you know, undergirding all of it is the implicit force of the police state and of the military, which keeps everything in line.
01:26:17.460 And we've just developed to the point where we can sustain a culture of decadence, which is so unparalleled that we've been able to like shamble along with, you know, as the engineers inside of the golem hurry about to try to fix these various disintegrating patches of flesh that have been sewn together by the rabbi as the monster groans in pain as it slowly disintegrates into goo.
01:26:42.740 And a lot of the early revolutionaries believed fully in what you were saying and had a lot of, particularly the southern ones, had a huge amount of suspicion towards the revolution.
01:26:56.900 And that I think all the revolutionaries, with the exception of, you know, what we would probably consider communists today, like pain, believed that it should be restricted to only certain groups of people, namely themselves, for ourselves and our posterity.
01:27:12.740 That referred to themselves and their offspring.
01:27:15.660 That would refer to any immigrant.
01:27:18.060 And it was certainly, I don't think, ever intended, although, you know, there are some quotes from like Ben Franklin talking about one day having a whole continent full of Anglos.
01:27:28.720 But it was never intended to sweep across North America and sweep across the planet the way it has.
01:27:36.460 And you can see a lot of the philosophical structural underpinnings collapsing under their own weight because it was never intended to handle this kind of worldview.
01:27:51.680 That's exactly the problem that Henry Adams is dealing with.
01:27:55.100 Yeah.
01:27:55.980 Exactly.
01:27:56.540 If anything, it was a revolution to preserve localist autonomy.
01:28:01.720 It was never a revolution and it was never set up as a means of then building its own empire.
01:28:08.480 I mean, America is like Rome in many ways.
01:28:10.600 And one of the ways it's like Rome is that it essentially conquered half the world in defense of itself.
01:28:15.420 And then it completely obliterated its underlying yelming class to, as sort of a fission process, to grow the economy faster, to keep up with the entire financial structure that it had devised to protect itself.
01:28:33.940 Exactly.
01:28:34.460 And now the entire country is sort of falling apart at the seams and you have a genuine American Christianity in a lot of forms.
01:28:43.400 I'm not counting Mormonism, but you have genuine American Christianities, including American Catholicism, that are being caught in an ideological crossfire between the far, you know, there are elements of the far right or just kind of racist liberal types who blame the church for all sorts of grievances.
01:29:03.660 And you have those on the left who want to dismantle the church and dismantle society under the church because they see it as the only thing holding back the world from succumbing to, I don't know, a giant shopping mall with comic sands written everywhere.
01:29:20.100 Well, what you're saying, Hans, reminds me of my favorite quote on America.
01:29:25.600 And I'll read it here.
01:29:27.020 It's Carlisle.
01:29:27.620 So, America's battle is yet to fight, and we, sorrowful though nothing doubting, will wish her strength for it.
01:29:35.580 New spiritual pythons, plenty of them, enormous megatherions, as ugly as were ever born of mud, loom huge and hideous out of the twilight future on America.
01:29:47.520 And she will have her own agony and her own victory, but on other terms than she is quite yet aware of.
01:29:53.720 Yeah.
01:29:55.040 Yeah.
01:29:57.020 Yeah.
01:29:57.760 And so what, well, so we've come to, I think that, I think most of everybody who's listening to this podcast sort of has come to the conclusion, the same conclusion that we have that America is this necromantic monster that is rapidly degenerating into nothing.
01:30:14.400 Because it's, it's, it's like got this, I don't know, I don't know, ouroboric, ouroboric self-devouring tendency, where it just completely guts itself in order to maintain a little bit of short-term power.
01:30:28.360 And, you know, it's really funny when, like, I hear boomers who, even boomers who are like really woke, who think that this system is going to like go on forever, because, I've heard this, I've seriously heard like boomers who totally understand Zog, they totally understand all of this.
01:30:43.720 But because, like, in their life, they've been treated to like the full bread and circus, you know, American empire, and that has been so effective at pacifying their generation, like they think that the American empire will never collapse because it's so effective at providing the SOMA to numb the revolutionary activity of the masses, right?
01:31:02.920 Right. Well, the boomers were really glad that history had ended in the 90s. And I guess the only thing that we really have is guys in their 20s and 30s living now is, I mean, at least we can look forward to history returning, because things are about to get really terrible.
01:31:20.280 Well, this brings me to a question that Hans and I, I think, are of two different minds on. We do debate this from time to time.
01:31:32.920 I mean, that's that you see, in the context of these American dissidents, a desire to sort of reclaim Americanism, to reclaim, to stamp their brand of racial politics on the American ideology and to reclaim it. What are your thoughts on that, Florian?
01:31:55.500 I did a whole in-depth episode on American nationalism, and it's basically...
01:32:01.100 Oh, I have to listen to that.
01:32:02.180 Yeah, it's basically national Bolshevism, where you believe the false myths that are created by the regime, and then try to pervert them to service your own political ends.
01:32:11.940 And so, like, that really is, like, to try and, like, rehabilitate Abraham Lincoln as this, like, you know, great, you know, Yankee, white supremacist, racialist, you know, figure, is the same as trying to, like, make Joseph Stalin into an anti-Semite who enacted laws that put anti-Semites to death in the Soviet Union.
01:32:33.840 And so, like...
01:32:35.840 That's a great analogy, actually.
01:32:37.520 Yeah.
01:32:38.060 And that's...
01:32:38.860 That is what it is.
01:32:40.480 And so I think that it's just, like...
01:32:42.900 I mean, okay, if they're right, I mean, it's gonna...
01:32:45.060 Best of luck to them, but it's stupid.
01:32:47.280 It's not gonna work.
01:32:48.100 It's just...
01:32:48.500 It's really, really dumb, I think.
01:32:50.280 And it's essentially...
01:32:51.940 I think Hunter Wallace called it, like, neoboomerism.
01:32:54.880 That is what it is, right?
01:32:57.260 There is a genuine...
01:32:59.040 There is a genuine American people, and they are spread out across the entire North American continent at this point.
01:33:07.600 I mean, the only thing that really defines what a nation is are its people.
01:33:11.340 And those people do exist.
01:33:12.780 I mean, and they're pretty disparate.
01:33:14.500 They're Finns up in Minnesota, and they're Southerners like Hunter Wallace down in the Antebellum South.
01:33:20.380 But they're not working together cohesively, and the system isn't really designed for them to work together cohesively.
01:33:29.000 So I don't know if Americanism can really be salvaged without really examining what do we want Americanism to actually be.
01:33:37.940 Because everyone is sort of working within the lens of the figures that have already come and gone.
01:33:43.500 And they're working within the parameters that have been set.
01:33:47.300 And one of the things they'll always see a lot of these types do is they'll take the sort of poisoned aphorisms about America that black nationalists have.
01:34:02.700 And they'll say, well, that's actually the truth.
01:34:04.060 And that's a good thing, because why don't you step back and actually examine if, A, that's the truth, just because it's some annoying black guy telling it to you.
01:34:12.280 And, B, do you really even want that to be the truth?
01:34:16.500 And do you want to try and define something new?
01:34:18.800 Because there's a whole swath of people on this continent that are about to get swept away and potentially hurt and seriously killed.
01:34:27.100 And if you're just going to come up with little ideologies constantly to try and reclaim what it used to be, you're not going to solve anything and you're going to be swept away along with them.
01:34:39.000 That's it exactly.
01:34:39.720 And so I don't think, I mean, if we compare America to Rome, it would be impossible for America to continue to exist unless its worldies logos changed, converted, basically.
01:34:52.360 It would have to have such a radical, like metanoia, a turning away from its foundational principles and become something that it was, that is totally against what it was in the beginning in order for it to survive in any way.
01:35:05.080 And I just, I think that's like a nonsense idea.
01:35:07.220 I just don't think that that's going to happen, you know, because I just don't, I don't like, it's certainly not within like 20, 30 years.
01:35:14.380 That's like a 200, 300 year project.
01:35:16.440 Um, so I think that this kind of segues really nicely into like touching on the basic areas of philosophy and it's like when we talk about like a lot of these American white nationalists or Americanists, um, they have this kind of like pragmatic, you know, biological worldview where, you know, what's politically correct or what's politically desirable is determined, you know, based on, you know, this, the most basic form of like,
01:35:46.680 biological in-group, uh, competition, right?
01:35:49.540 And of course this is like, I mean, this is obviously not a podcast that's against racial nationalism or anything.
01:35:56.300 Um, but again, you know, you can't, what, what they're trying to do is they're trying to equate like pragmatism to morality.
01:36:04.360 Uh, and those are not, those are not, uh, those are not synonymous concepts.
01:36:09.480 You know, you, to, to make like a moral claim that preserving your own race is good.
01:36:14.480 Well, what, what is good, right?
01:36:17.400 I mean, if you're, if you're an atheist, like you can't make that claim or the good just becomes synonymous with, uh, like material prosperity, which is just racist liberalism.
01:36:27.780 Yes.
01:36:28.220 And so when we come back to these three basic areas of philosophy, ethics, what we ought to do, metaphysics, how things work and epistemology, how we ought to know or what we know, um, these things are the preconditions, the presuppositions, which enable us to say things like, yes, it's desirable that we fight for our, the preservation, the racial integrity of the remnants of whatever folk remains on the North American continent.
01:36:52.300 How, you know, how, you know, broadly defined, uh, as, you know, white in opposition to the other races, which itself is a degeneration from the full flowering of a integrated ethnic idea, but it's all we got left.
01:37:05.160 So we've got to work with it.
01:37:07.380 And so, um, you know, so this is the thing, please go ahead.
01:37:11.660 One, one thing you do see.
01:37:13.180 So, I mean, this is where we, that's where the good knowledge of the good is where we can have an understanding of justice.
01:37:19.760 And the prevailing conception of justice in American society is, is basically Rawlsian.
01:37:27.300 It's, it's a concept of fairness based on certain egalitarian assumptions that disparities between people are only the result of, uh, some kind of unfairness that everyone would given in a totally equal playing field would arrive at the same place.
01:37:46.640 And typically when these white nationalists are talking about, uh, justice, they're going in with that exact same plea that it's, the system is unfair to them.
01:37:59.560 Right, exactly.
01:38:01.080 And so this is the thing they're making, they're making an appeal to this, this implied transcendental form of fairness or justice or goodness, but they don't, most of them don't believe in that.
01:38:12.120 They don't have a philosophy which permits the existence of such a form, um, you know, and it's not, these are not things that are self-revealing because the, the idea of what is just, of what ought to be done is demonstrably radically different in different societies and civilizations over the course of history.
01:38:30.460 And the society that we have now, even if examined by someone who lived a hundred years ago, is the worst hellish inverted nightmare that they could possibly imagine.
01:38:40.580 Uh, it's a total opposite of like all of their values.
01:38:44.080 Um, and so, and so what this, what this proves, what this demonstrates is that the, those values that, you know, our ancestors had a hundred years ago, um, were basically the lingering remnants of what came before the establishment of this, you know, revolutionary liberal state paradigm.
01:39:02.080 And that the end terminal of that paradigm is just nihilism.
01:39:07.240 It's just pragmatism.
01:39:08.760 Uh, it's, it's just, it's just, just disgusting as filth, basically is the only way I can describe it as means nothing.
01:39:17.140 Right.
01:39:17.840 And so, you know, there are different solutions to this problem as we've talked before on the show.
01:39:22.860 I mean, you know, there are, of course, like, um, pagan philosophical worldviews that can provide you with answers to, to ethics and metaphysics and epistemology.
01:39:32.020 Um, but the ones that our civilization is built upon indisputably are the Christian, um, the Christian philosophical concepts, which derive from its theology.
01:39:41.880 And the, the theology is not, um, an analog.
01:39:46.520 It's not analogous to philosophy.
01:39:48.220 We don't, I don't know if we really want to get into that, but, you know, so for us,
01:39:52.320 I guess we can very simply for, for the Christian, right?
01:39:55.340 His philosophy starts with the person of Jesus Christ, because the person of Jesus Christ is the logos.
01:40:01.680 All philosophy proceeds from the personal reality of Jesus, the second person of the Holy Trinity.
01:40:07.860 And so when he says, I am the truth, the way in the life, like he's making an epistemological statement.
01:40:13.880 He's saying that he personally is the foundation for all knowledge and for all truth.
01:40:18.300 This would lead, um, Nicholas Cabasillas, a famous, um, uh, Eastern Roman Byzantine theologian in the 14th century from Thessaloniki to, you know, when he defines like, well, what happens at baptism?
01:40:31.280 Well, you get, you gain ontological reality.
01:40:33.600 You begin to exist because before baptism, you're bound for death.
01:40:38.880 Uh, and if everything is constantly dying, if everything is in a state of flux and there's no certainty of the world beyond that reality, then there is a nihilism.
01:40:47.880 There is an equalitarian or an egalitarian, uh, element introduced by the universal reign of death over all creation of the, the passability of the physical world.
01:40:58.300 And so in order for you to surmount this, in order for you to have a worldview that is transcendent, that exists above the passability of the physical world, above the, the ravages and the snares of death, you know, you actually have to like have an eye, you have to have a foundation for that.
01:41:13.480 So you can't just, you know, so like a strong, um, let's like, like, let's take it kind of back to like a normie, right?
01:41:21.100 Kind of a normie, you know, whatever, like atheist, liberal, they live their lives as if their lives have meaning as if like the act, when they get up in the morning and they go to work, when they eat, when they do anything, implicitly, they, they do things with the expectation that there's a causal relationship between action and effect.
01:41:42.140 That what they do has a purpose. It has a telos and end. Um, and whether or not that's, you know, implicitly their own self-satisfaction, it doesn't really matter. They operate this way. Everybody operates this way. Cause you can't, you can't live your life thinking everything you do, you know, is vapid. Um, cause you just kill yourself, right?
01:42:01.680 Yeah. I was going to say, they would opt out.
01:42:05.800 Their telos is effectively working in some capacity to fulfill social trends or social processes that involve them being, being materialistic and acquiring material to fulfill those social processes. And a lot of that's what we would kind of call virtue signaling.
01:42:23.100 They don't, you know, there are, there are none of them that wake up and tell themselves I'm going to work today for God and country. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to work so that I can at least help preserve this a little longer.
01:42:35.940 So people aren't dying in the street just yet. And because it's labor is the, is the gift of God. And if you have the ability to work, you should work. None of them are telling themselves that. So they are looking for something.
01:42:50.860 And often that kind of devolves into, well, I really like seeing Marvel movies. And I also really like that Marvel movies are inclusive and diverse. So I'm going to work hard so I can purchase Marvel products so that diversity can continue to be programmed into people.
01:43:08.500 That's really, I mean, at the core of their everyday life, there are millions of people living with that. If you, if you want to call that a, uh, an, an ethos, that is, I mean, as sad as it is, that's what it is.
01:43:22.640 They're essentially what a degenerate junkie homosexual postmodern writer, William S. Burroughs called a soft machine.
01:43:31.740 Yeah.
01:43:32.260 And they're, it's basically just eat, beep, beep, boop, sleep, beep, beep, boop, fuck, beep, beep, boop.
01:43:42.460 Yeah.
01:43:43.040 And what they have is they have to stave off that inevitable self-reflection that comes in the, in the twilight hours, you know, and you can stave that off through, through drugs and entertainment.
01:43:54.940 If you're constantly entertained at no point, do you finally have to, you know, sit out on your back porch with a glass of wine or a cigar and really actually engage in introspection about who and what you are and why you're here.
01:44:10.100 Exactly.
01:44:10.620 And that is, that is rooted in tens of thousands of years of, of homo sapien history with men sitting at night trying and looking on the stars, trying to figure out what their place is and why they should, why exactly they should be getting up the next day and fighting for survival or working or trying to build something.
01:44:31.880 Exactly.
01:44:34.280 What justifies the struggle, right?
01:44:36.700 Right.
01:44:37.220 That's the question.
01:44:38.500 Why do we struggle?
01:44:39.620 Because of, if all life is suffering, if all life is combating this, this death, if we have to struggle to live, even like our, our body, it's constantly regenerating itself every moment of every hour of every second that we live against these micro bacteria that are disintegrating it.
01:44:56.980 Right.
01:44:57.180 And when we die, that's what happens is those bacteria, they win and they destroy the body and they consume it totally.
01:45:04.740 And so, you know, it's written into the very basis, basic biological programming that we have to struggle physically, but also spiritually, right?
01:45:13.700 And so we have to have a logos, a purpose, a reason for why we, we eat these bowls of shit every day constantly.
01:45:20.620 And that, that logos is ever more important in the modern era where, uh, it just, there's no spiritual reality to anything where we have these, you know, unlimited physical comforts, even for people in the low strata of our society, but no spiritual food, no spiritual nutrition.
01:45:38.120 And so, you know, it comes back to this, that you can't, you know, if you're disgruntled, if you don't like this, becoming a more radical materialist is not the solution.
01:45:48.500 What the solution is, is to come up with something of spiritual substance that, that motivates you beyond the adversity of the physical world.
01:45:57.160 Right.
01:45:57.620 And so if you, if you, if you were one of these, like, you know, IQ, you know, white nationalists, well, what happens if like China completely overtakes us in every way?
01:46:05.700 What happens if all of your memes about, you know, gook, insect, you know, mind, uh, subhuman, uh, oriental, you know, sideways vagina to be vulgar.
01:46:15.960 What happens like if all of those memes are proven false by an emerging, you know, Chinese technocratic dragon state, which becomes the new world order controlling power and it begins to dominate you.
01:46:26.660 What happens then?
01:46:28.420 Right.
01:46:29.240 Right.
01:46:29.940 You know, it's so, you, you know, uh, everybody would say, oh.
01:46:33.800 And that, and that would be a real return to history is, is a group of people somewhere being completely conquered by an arising power out of another place like that.
01:46:44.300 And that's mostly the history of Europeans is having to always contend with the occasional rise of a power out of the East that nearly either destroys them and subjugates them.
01:46:57.640 Um, and it's a several hundred year long struggle typically in the case of the Muscovites fighting against the golden horde, or in the case of the Asturian Knights fighting for 700 years to kick the warriors out of Spain.
01:47:11.140 Or in the case of Charlemagne struggling with every last man he had to try and kick the Avars out of what we would call Hungary now.
01:47:19.700 It was, you know, there are these constant problems that Europeans have had to deal with no matter where they are.
01:47:25.500 And trying to reorient yourself around, you know, around means and also just around racist liberalism is not going to cut it.
01:47:36.460 If you want to rebuild society to be as strong as it once was for Europeans, there's a huge component that you really do need and you can't have, you can't live without.
01:47:47.620 And that is, uh, Logos, that is a unifying force that we all slowly come to believe in.
01:47:56.360 Right. I think that what you're describing, Hans, on the civilizational level of the existential threat is similar to in those twilight hours of reflection that people should have but are able to escape.
01:48:10.780 I think the thought that, that comes that puts us into perspective is, is death and it's, it's death that regardless of, regardless of afterlife or what have you, contemplation of death forces you to seriously examine your actions in the day to day.
01:48:28.480 And it seriously forces you to examine what it is that makes the justice of life so important and what you should actually ground it on.
01:48:36.760 Because if you are, if you remind yourself, you know, this too shall pass, your existence shall pass this, and you only have one, then you really start to actually consider what it is that your existence should have been about.
01:48:52.020 If you are an essentialist, if you believe that you have an essence, then you know that you cannot just ground your, your whole being in this existence because that being should exist before it and after it.
01:49:05.180 Exactly. You know, and so it's, unfortunately, a lot, a lot of these like modern bug people, we do not want to acknowledge that they're going to die.
01:49:19.080 A lot, I was about to, a lot of, a lot of, a lot of, a lot of, you know, I think maybe, maybe call it like the philosophical term cardinality of death or something like that is, it has no bearing on them, has, has no bearing on them whatsoever.
01:49:35.460 These are people that fully believe that they are never going to die.
01:49:39.720 I, I, I, I'm surprised you're saying this.
01:49:41.160 This is something I've said, I, I, you share my suspicion.
01:49:44.240 I've long suspected that the majority of people, at least in America, do not believe that they will die.
01:49:50.420 Yeah.
01:49:52.200 Yeah.
01:49:53.100 I think that that's.
01:49:53.900 I mean, it sounds irrational, but, but if you think about it, they, they certainly don't live like they're going to die.
01:49:59.460 And part of the problem with modernity is hiding the effects of death on who you are as a person and who you're, and what it does to your community.
01:50:06.900 And shielding you from, oh, sorry, Hans.
01:50:11.360 Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you're right.
01:50:12.880 Shielding you from, from contemplation of it.
01:50:16.020 Being up at night with stars over you, contemplating when's my end coming and what is my end going to be?
01:50:22.140 And at the end, well, in those last moments, well, I think at least I had a grounded justice in what was, in what was right and what was beyond the material and what was beyond IQ stats.
01:50:34.500 Or is it going to only be, yeah, I should have posted one last meme.
01:50:41.620 Yeah.
01:50:42.560 I think David Foster Wallace, for all his faults, correctly identified that aspect of American society relationship between entertainment and death.
01:50:53.100 Yeah.
01:50:53.240 Yeah, and I think that that, what, I think it comes back to the fact that a lot of the, we come all the way back to the beginning of the show, that a lot of the, so quote unquote alt-right, as I despise this term, but whatever, we'll use it.
01:51:10.840 We don't use it on our show, either.
01:51:12.540 It's just so gay.
01:51:13.600 It is, man.
01:51:18.020 Yeah.
01:51:20.280 Yeah.
01:51:22.980 So, is motivated by, it's their reactionary.
01:51:26.800 They're motivated by anger and by disgruntlement against, like, the vapidity of the modern world, but they're not introspective enough to realize, like, well, why is this the case?
01:51:36.880 How did we get here?
01:51:38.140 What happens is that when your movement is one of opposition, like, if you are who you are because, like, you don't like the Jews and, you know, you want white people to exist and, like, you believe that not all races are biologically equal, well, there's no substance to that.
01:51:58.100 That's a movement of reaction, of passion.
01:52:00.260 It's essentially, it's dead, actually.
01:52:01.480 I mean, again, it's, there's no vivifying element behind it besides the most base monkey mind desire to react and be angry at things that you know on an instinctual level are negative.
01:52:17.580 I mean, it's romanticism.
01:52:19.100 Right.
01:52:19.420 Effectively.
01:52:20.140 Yeah.
01:52:20.320 And so, what happens is when you don't have an explicit and grounded worldview that you can put as a replacement, as a foundation for that anger, well, why do, why am I angry?
01:52:32.660 Why is it bad that my race is being destroyed?
01:52:35.140 Right.
01:52:35.300 Why is it bad that my society has become inverted from how it was 100 years ago?
01:52:39.720 I mean, because, why is this bad?
01:52:42.740 You tell me.
01:52:43.340 I mean, you can't, you have to make an appeal to justice, to right and wrong, to some sort of transcendental worldview, which is based on philosophy and theology.
01:52:54.440 You don't just get to say, because it's convenient.
01:52:57.200 That's just, like, the same gay excuse that our elites use.
01:53:01.260 And so, if that's, you know, the foundation of your worldview, then it's just, you're the same as our elites.
01:53:06.220 You're not going to be able to defeat them because your organizing principle is the same as them.
01:53:10.620 And it also makes you very easy to control.
01:53:15.580 Oh, yes.
01:53:16.240 The grueling divorce for the last, you know, let's say, 570 to 600 years between theology and philosophy has completely diminished what justice actually is and what it used to be in the conception of people's minds.
01:53:35.280 Because the, part of the, you know, I sometimes struggle with people saying that they're neo-medievalists or they're neo-feudalists.
01:53:43.960 But part of me goes, well, actually, things weren't so bad.
01:53:47.700 And if you understand the conception of justice that those people had and that philosophy and theology were not divorced, they were one and the same thing.
01:53:55.660 It was, everything was an approach to God.
01:53:58.380 Everything was trying to understand what God had created for you and what God was trying to reveal to you.
01:54:08.400 Right.
01:54:09.040 If, you know, the fact that we've lost that in order to seek material comfort, in a way, it's a Herculean effort that Europeans took upon themselves to undo their own spiritual structure to seek the greatest material comforts and to try and conquer the stars.
01:54:28.380 But unfortunately, you know, despite this Herculean effort, Hercules himself died a miserable death and he didn't learn throughout his life the lessons of the parables that we learn about him now.
01:54:45.940 And if Europeans don't want to wind up a cautionary tale for the Chinese or for the East Asians, they need to understand that they are writing their own death parable, their own tragedy.
01:54:59.360 Precisely.
01:55:00.660 I mean, no, go ahead.
01:55:03.420 Well, Evola talked about these, the kind of two different, those two different types of reaction.
01:55:08.500 You have that more simplistic political reaction and then you have the reaction against the foundations.
01:55:17.020 They're not one in the same.
01:55:18.580 And what I was saying is that it makes people easy to control.
01:55:22.040 And I was having a debate with some people.
01:55:23.740 I think one thing that people in that sphere would benefit from understanding, and this comes back to what we were saying earlier about the exoteric and the esoteric with respect to what it is the elites actually believe,
01:55:36.420 is, yeah, sure, some of the lower tier elites are high on their own supply, so to speak, and they actually believe in this brave new world.
01:55:45.620 But people, these populations that are coming into Europe, this is a weaponized process.
01:55:53.100 And reactions are expected.
01:55:55.060 And the system is in place to take those reactions, misdirect them, and use them in a dialectic to their own ends of total power.
01:56:06.040 Precisely.
01:56:06.740 Precisely.
01:56:07.220 You're chasing the red blanket, not the matador at this point.
01:56:11.500 And it's going, and it's seriously, it's seriously going to diminish, I think, a lot of the conceptions of what people think the elites actually believe.
01:56:22.900 And the shocking reality, to me, as it sort of discovers, the elites don't necessarily believe in anything, which is all the more sort of shocking.
01:56:34.360 I'm sure that there are plenty of deviant sex cults and deviant ball worshippers that are still mad that Rome crushed Carthage over 2,000 years ago.
01:56:43.720 Well, I'm sure that those people actually exist.
01:56:48.000 But I'm also sure that there are plenty of them who do not believe in anything and are only interested in maintaining their own power structures.
01:56:59.120 You can, it's easy, it can be done to boil down a lot of what people do to just wanting to maintain their power structure.
01:57:06.240 Well, the purpose in those, like, elite mystery cults, the ultimate end is power.
01:57:14.120 It's worship of themselves as the final end.
01:57:18.100 And the sort of ritualistic defilement of what was previously sacred is, I mean, it's, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
01:57:27.440 It's the purpose is to free themselves from any form of natural law.
01:57:33.060 Right. And there are those deviant elites and sort of false aristocrats, I would call them, you know, the cultural elites, not necessarily the moneyed elite, that truly hate natural law and want to diminish it and destroy it at whatever means.
01:57:49.840 You know, I don't think that all of the elites and certainly many of the ones who actually exert real financial and capital power care that much about, you know, whether or not natural law should be destroyed out of some ideological or metaphysical commitment to destroying it.
01:58:05.680 But they do empower people to be, you know, those cultured elites to be deviants, those false aristocrats to take out their, their anger on natural law and the practicers of it in order to fulfill their, what I talked about earlier, their own societal fission process, which is to break down the bonds between people to attain growth.
01:58:28.720 And so that's the entirety of the last, particularly the last 50 years in the United States has been a slow, slow fission process to break down the old bonds of America to achieve massive levels of economic growth that were thought to be impossible.
01:58:46.000 And even scaled to previous levels of economic growth throughout history are remarkable in how quickly wealth has been created and acquired.
01:58:55.880 And that was the end design.
01:58:57.300 The end design was really, it's cynical.
01:59:00.480 You know, I wish it was entirely just a giant cult of devil worshipers, because then you could point your finger and say, that's what they believe.
01:59:08.900 And now we can unite against that.
01:59:10.540 You know, it's so much more ambiguous, and it's so much more mystifying what exactly these people want, because they're not acting according to any real diabolical will.
01:59:22.500 They're just acting to attain wealth.
01:59:25.220 I think that you touched on a critical point.
01:59:27.100 And what I would say is that you're entirely correct, although I would make one distinction, is that the very nature of the diabolic is anti-logos.
01:59:37.500 And so we should not expect a causal philosophical worldview from those who hate logos.
01:59:43.020 We should expect chaos and things not to make any sense and for things to be stupid and crazy and to be based mostly on, like, inertia than on, like, any sort of rational framework.
01:59:55.000 Right?
01:59:55.360 Right.
01:59:56.280 And so that's precisely what happens, is that, you know, the insane man is not the man who has no logic.
02:00:02.040 It's the man who only has logic with no reason to govern that process.
02:00:05.900 It's like the rogue AI, you know, Terminator Skynet, right, that just runs off into the distance, acting on some sort of pragmatic software.
02:00:16.360 It doesn't have, like, I mean, it's evil, it's wicked, but it's not, like, a lot of the times it's not because it's like, oh, I'm going to worship the AI devil, right?
02:00:25.680 Although I think that that is kind of where it starts, that ideological break starts at that first rebellion, but it becomes, like, calcified, and the inertia continues because people are making a lot of money and getting their passions satisfied, and they want to maintain their positions in power.
02:00:43.420 Right.
02:01:13.420 And if you're able to break people down into a, just a series of stimulated behaviors from external and internal stimuli, and you completely neglect the internal stimuli and say they don't actually matter, or they're irrational, so they don't matter.
02:01:29.220 And then, and then you tell them this, the worst thing is that people are told this, it's not that this is just how they're analyzed, they are told that this is what they are, and that they're being analyzed through this methodology that completely shatters any idea of an internal ontology to what people are.
02:01:47.780 And once you've done that, it's very, very easy to break that logos, and you have, and it seems ordered, a lot of the modern world seems to order to people, and people kind of long for the days of step nomads coming in and burning down your village.
02:02:03.340 But that was part of a natural cycle that civilization had been undergoing for tens of thousands of years.
02:02:09.920 Now the, these weird nomads from south of the border are let in and, and, you know, essentially given help and instructions in how to displace the current occupants of a certain place.
02:02:23.380 There, you know, and there's no longer, uh, what's the Heideggerian word like, or Heideggerian term for dwelling, like a friend or something to that effect.
02:02:35.500 There's no longer any path towards that, to that dwelling, as he would call it.
02:02:41.140 Yeah, that's the difference between the organic and the mechanical, right?
02:02:45.200 Right, right. And the mechanical has slowly become chaotic, and it's because of what it's wrought.
02:02:51.580 And, and I'm not an anti-mechanical person. I am a huge believer in classical mechanics, and, and, uh, to an extent, um, I, I love being a mechanistic guy.
02:03:03.020 I have a garage full of power tools that I, that I love using for various purposes, but in the same vein, it, the damage that they've wrought on society, their existence, hasn't been contended with.
02:03:17.320 And you can find a way to have a spiritual life and have a real ontology about who you are and have power tools, but no one in our elite want you to have even the idea that that is possible, that you can reason your way into determining how you can live with God and how you can have power tools at the same time.
02:03:41.060 That's it, exactly. That's it, exactly. And this is the thing that I think is lost by the false dialectic between, like, the modernists and religious traditionalists, is that there's a lot of failure in even, you know, capital R reactionary circles to account for the existence and the change that technology puts upon social organization.
02:04:01.000 Right. It's the Pandora's. We don't get to decide whether we deal with mass communication or not. So we, you know, we don't get to make that choice. We don't get to decide whether we deal with the machine gun or the nuclear submarine based missile or not. That's a reality that we have to deal with, even if it's titanic force is extremely inconvenient. And so we can't just, you know, go back to like, we were doing your episode on, um, the first chancellor of West Germany, Adenauer, right?
02:04:27.740 Yes. Yeah.
02:04:57.740 Because they were so innovative and so pioneering in their, um, use of these technologies. And so like Tsar Nicholas II, he wanted to like set limits to, you know, the number of machine guns and heavy artillery pieces that European armies could have because he understood this, but it didn't matter. It didn't matter.
02:05:17.820 And that, and that was a callback to days in Europe when weapons innovations were typically met with scorn even by national kings. And sometimes weapons innovators were put to death and their inventions completely erased before an arms race was started.
02:05:33.480 There was an idea that an organic form of warfare is terrible as warfare was between the European kingdoms in the medieval era is terrible.
02:05:43.500 It wasn't happened that it existed. It was organic. And it's natural that this does happen between groups of men.
02:05:49.140 And unfortunately, you know, the Adenauer reactionary tradition is something that I, I was somewhat aware of it before. And there are traditions similar to it that I try and imbue into who I am as a, as an American, as a Catholic, and as a person who works in effectively in industry, in technology.
02:06:08.480 There are things I have to contend with. And the idea that you can't find any contention and that you can't come to a compromise and you can't rebuild society, even with all these things in existence or develop them and it be a just society, I think is false.
02:06:26.800 Yes, you can have industry, but you need to be able to have an acknowledgement of what it's going to do. If you can't acknowledge what it's going to do to you as a person and do your society, then you can't have it.
02:06:40.620 But because the very fact that we're having this conversation is evident to me that by the grace of God, we are able to find a way and we will be able to find a way.
02:06:50.460 But it's going to take, or it's going to involve us having to take back the reins because we're the only ones interested in figuring this out.
02:07:00.280 Well, and it's no coincidence that the early modernist artists that I mentioned earlier were interested in, in the new ideas, the new political ideas of the 20th century and fascism and national socialism even.
02:07:13.640 And it was because they were looking to be able to go forward without abandoning the past, without severing that link to tradition.
02:07:23.400 There could, in fact, be a sense. You see it in futurism, people like Lewis and Pound.
02:07:30.580 And that was a possibility, but like so many possibilities, so many of the slightly sunnier possibilities of the early 20th century, they were destroyed with the European Holocaust.
02:07:44.960 To me, you know, you can look at Junger as a good example of someone who embraced what had come, but also wanted to have a clear chain of being and a clear chain of life to the past, particularly rooted in Germany, all the way to the present of his time and into the future.
02:08:03.360 A full acknowledgement of the breath of time as a German dealing with the rise of industry, because I think he understood from a biological point of view, from a philosophical point of view, that his people were naturally gifted to rule in industry and rule in the industrial arts.
02:08:22.420 And Americans have always been gifted in that realm, too.
02:08:26.380 And Henry Ford was a great example of a man who contended with these huge works in this huge industrial society that he sought to create.
02:08:36.660 But Henry Ford was never a man who wanted to displace marriage or wanted to displace social cohesion.
02:08:43.760 This is a guy who essentially bulliesided immigrants into learning English and getting rid of their accents.
02:08:48.400 Everyone was going to conform and everyone was going to pitch into society and be a good citizen and be a good man if they wanted to be a part of his industry.
02:09:00.900 And Junger wrote one of the first science fiction novels, Glass Bees.
02:09:05.000 Yep.
02:09:06.960 Fascinating.
02:09:07.900 Okay, so why don't we pivot towards justice because we're coming up to an hour here.
02:09:12.440 So just I want to make sure that we cover this in depth before we hit the Kali Yuga news.
02:09:19.940 So gentlemen, this was a subject that you had raised to me, Nick, that you wanted to pay particular attention to.
02:09:27.060 And I think that you, like I, because of your research into pedophilia and those kind of organized syndicates, has kind of impelled you towards radicalism.
02:09:40.760 I know that for me, like investigate, I did an episode of Pizzagate and it was that episode that really made me like think, okay, we can't, we cannot stop.
02:09:49.280 We have to fight until we die because if we don't, this doesn't stop unless we win and kill all our enemies.
02:09:55.040 Yes.
02:09:55.600 So.
02:09:56.060 Yes.
02:09:56.240 Why don't you go ahead and just open up with some open states?
02:10:01.260 Yeah, sure.
02:10:01.580 Well, I recently did on my show an episode on elite pedophile networks and their role in how it is the elite exert control on their own.
02:10:12.960 And to a certain extent, I didn't really get into in the episode, but I, one thing that I kind of wonder about from a philosophical and moral perspective is what exactly it says about us, what our responsibility in relation to that depth of evil is.
02:10:32.420 How we should think about it and how we should act in relation to it.
02:10:35.860 Exactly. So, and this is the question is that these pedophilia and these, the depth of this degenerate, these degenerate illnesses, this corruption that has seized our society is something that for anybody who is not totally twisted, totally deformed and deranged by the modern world, you know, evokes still murderous rage.
02:10:57.000 And rightly so, you know, pedophilia is one of the crimes that you can still get even like liberals to support capital punishment for because it's so unnatural from a physical, spiritual level that it just, we instinctively with all of our might cry out against it, right?
02:11:17.360 Yet, at the same time, you have these pedophilic trends. I mean, child transsexualism. I was just reading an article the other day about a child who was taken from their parents or removed from their parents custody because they refused to administer hormone, hormone, hormone treatments.
02:11:37.360 Right. And it's going in that direction because of this, if this foundational sense of justice can be debased, then there's no wickedness that cannot be tolerated, right?
02:11:47.060 I mean, and this is like the full, you know, Canaanite society where child sacrifice and child abuse are just integrated into the firmament of the culture. All that's left is for a cleansing fire.
02:11:56.140 Yeah, they've succeeded in sexualizing children. They've succeeded in normalizing homosexuality. And they've succeeded in sort of imbuing children with the discretion and autonomy to make that sort of choice, you know, choice.
02:12:13.340 They've given children an immense amount of agency, which is what's so disturbing to me. I mentioned this to my significant other the other night. I was like, look, I've never in my life thought that you should listen to this 17-year-old version of me, especially when I was 17.
02:12:31.520 And you have 17-year-old being told point blank, let's interview you on national news to get your cutting opinion on gun policy and how financial institutions in the United States should enact a de-investment strategy towards gun manufacturers.
02:12:52.200 Going to a child with that children who are easily impressionable and turning them into pseudo adults is definitely part of the sexualization agenda because then if you turn children into adults, children are that much more susceptible to becoming just good elements of a neoliberal machine.
02:13:14.760 And that is overly sexualized beings that are easily bullied and pushed around, as E. Michael Jones would say. And if you get them while they're young, if you can get to them and you can imbue them with this when they're younger, they're less likely to put up a fight later or to have any sort of reaction later in life. You're only rebellious in your youth. You're not rebellious when you're older.
02:13:38.940 Right. And I think that's at the core of it. It's the denaturing, the destruction of the soul in infancy is precisely what they're going for. And this is one of the reasons why when we practice infant baptism, well, our enemies want to kill our children's souls when they're infants.
02:13:58.520 You know, and like if you look into trauma-based mind control, the best time to do that in order to create a pliable, compliant individual for your own purposes is in childhood. And that's why there is such an integral component of ritualistic child abuse in trauma-based mind control, admittedly.
02:14:18.520 Yes, I talk about that in my episode.
02:14:21.580 Right. And so, and what is happening is, I think it's MKUltra's rule was really more about mass mind control is this is applied on a mass scale through mass propaganda conditioning. And if you can inflict this trauma on children through soft power, you don't have to physically rape them. If you could spiritually rape them, then there's no distinction.
02:14:39.560 Right. And just use a simple example of the Holocaust propaganda. Some of the earliest, some of the first times that children see corpses are the corpses of Jews.
02:14:52.580 Yeah, I'm not, I'm not someone that wants to shy children away from the reality of, of death and life. But it's sort of shocking that you parade your children around museums for particular people dying and then tell them, well, you should feel guilty about this, by the way.
02:15:16.720 Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's, it's like, that's all part of this insane mentality. You parade them around your, their exposure to violence and death is in this context. And then in the same breath, you will say that all, you know, all self-defense is wrong. Right. Unless it's done by the state authorities. Right. Right. And so that's, that's, you can't even, if you're a kid now, you can't even, if someone bullies you at lunch, you can't even punch them in the face. You're suspended for five days.
02:15:42.700 You can't, there's, there's, there's, you know, in one way they're imbuing kids as a lot of false agency, but then they strip basic agency from them. Self-defense, good, wholesome upbringing, good food. Those things are completely stripped from them or they are seriously discouraged.
02:16:01.700 Yep. But the, you know, the choice to go under, undergo gender reassignment surgery at 12 years old, go right ahead. There, there's no opposition to that.
02:16:13.840 Yep, exactly.
02:16:14.640 The only, the only time their, their, their will and their agency is respected is when they consent to be the object of, of some, someone's pleasure.
02:16:25.020 Right.
02:16:25.140 Indeed. I mean, and this, this is only going to get more intense. This brings us back to our question. Why is it right to oppose this? I mean, like if you have a worldview that says that, you know, it's basically, it's just Darwinistic and it's based on, you know, logical self-preservation of yourself and your immediate biological king group for the purposes of, you know, reproductive success and material comfort.
02:16:49.360 Um, and you, you know, any, any, any modicum of discipline or amelioration of, um, satisfaction of the base passions comes because you want to, you know, improve your long-term chances of survival and success.
02:17:01.360 Well, why, like if you could demonstrate scientifically that, um, organized child trauma, uh, child abuse and trauma-based mind control, uh, uh, was correct. Why wouldn't you engage in that?
02:17:12.580 And I think that you could like, like you see guys like actually openly arguing for this, for their enemies, you know, they'll say things like, oh, you know, all miscegenation is wrong, except when you're raping the women and children of like non-whites, this kind of stuff.
02:17:25.460 Um, and so people openly argue, I mean, the people openly, it's insane. I mean, it's just, uh, they openly make these statements. You know, I often lambasted.
02:17:34.960 It's like, if you, if you're not willing to personally drop white phosphorus, uh, from B-52s on the African continent or bayonet pregnant, uh, nevruses, then you're a cuck, right? You know, you're not really a racial nationalist, right?
02:17:47.040 I mean, it's, it's a good question. That's a, I've asked this to people. People should try it. It's an interesting experiment. Ask normie people, well, why is it that it's wrong to rape children? Well, specifically why?
02:18:00.380 Right. And it's shock because oftentimes they'll get really mad at you because they don't have an answer and you call them out on the, on the core premise of the worldview. Um, and I, for me.
02:18:11.940 And in the, well, in the Western tradition, it's, it's essentially part of it's rooted in the Imago Dei and the, and particularly the idea that you're going to pursue those that are youthful and cannot defend themselves.
02:18:26.920 Justice in, in the good or typical, or I think in a very traditional, very old sense built on the idea of defending those that cannot defend themselves because we are imbued with a certain image of God that makes us as humans, particularly worthy of defending one another.
02:18:51.060 Exactly. And that's where, I mean, that is the basic Christian doctrine where, where, you know, dignity comes from the idea that all men are descended from Adam and bear the image and likeness of God.
02:19:03.900 I mean, that's like the whole concept of, of, of basic rights, which are made up, obviously of the human rights is a perversion is like a secular heresy of the idea of basic human dignity, you know, that you have to be restricted in your actions, even towards the most vile of pagans, that there are certain things that you, uh, you cannot do to them.
02:19:23.040 And I mean, you use pagan in the sense of like, you know, child sacrificing Amalekites who have hold to no codes of honor and have no standards of warfare. Um, that kind of thing.
02:19:34.760 Right. Because you uphold in doing so you uphold a higher principle. And that's, that's the problem with, I mean, as, as heinous as it is to abuse children, what, what spooks me the most in studying these things is not just these, the individual acts of abuse, but the way in which these individual acts are protected by a system and by the exact institutions that are supposed to administer justice.
02:20:04.760 Right. And that's what it comes down to. So why is this important? Well, because if you're going to make the claim, uh, that your ideas are right, that you're right, that your people have a right to exist, you're making an appeal towards justice. So if you don't have a philosophy, a theology, a worldview that supports, um, like even in any basic way, this appeal, then you're just full of shit. Okay. I mean, there's no other way to say it. You can't, you know, you, you are no better than our enemies.
02:20:31.040 Uh, and so like the, the, the legitimating factor for the state authorities, why are they allowed to use violence? Why are they allowed to have the power of taxation, coercive force? Because they're supposed to use these powers to administer justice. That's the whole purpose. And so if they, how is it, why does a state become illegitimate? Because they, they, a, either failed to do this or B, in our case, they use these powers for the inverse, for tyranny, for injustice.
02:20:57.920 Right. Right. And they, they, the state, the system punishes no one as harshly as they punish those who attempt to do so, who attempt to administer justice. Those are the people who will always receive the harshest punishment from the system.
02:21:14.920 A good example of this recently was, uh, the, the, the Larry Nassar, Larry Nassar, the, the, the Olympics, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The, he was a, um, uh, like a physical therapist or kinesiologist for the U S Olympic committee, particularly, uh, he had a lot of time with, uh, the young girls of the U S women's gymnast team.
02:21:38.700 Um, and he molested well over a hundred women over the course of several years, curiously, despite numerous tips of the FBI was never arrested or never even probed until like late 2015.
02:21:52.060 But beyond that, there was an incident, uh, like a month or two ago where, uh, now that he's been tried and he's in the process of being convicted and will likely serve out multiple life sentences in a comfy maximum security jail, where I'm sure that he'll never be allowed in general population.
02:22:08.920 A father asked the judge, uh, point blank, give me five minutes with this man. Now this father had three of his daughters, uh, molested by this, this individual, this, uh, interestingly, a Semite from the, uh, from the near East.
02:22:29.740 And, um, the judge told him, you know, I can't do that. And he said, just give me one minute.
02:22:35.480 And she, uh, she was pleading with him, literally shaking, pleading with him.
02:22:39.680 And I can't do that, sir. I can't, I, you know, I can't do that.
02:22:43.460 And she didn't want to say, I'm going to hold you in contend because she would look like a, you know, overly zealous civic bitch, but you could tell it's what she wanted to do to try and calm him down.
02:22:55.260 But the man, uh, he leaped over the barrier and, uh, essentially attempted to tackle Nassar.
02:23:01.300 And he was immediately pummeled by the bailiff, by several, by several sheriff's deputies and handcuffed and had a boot on his face for trying to enact justice on a man who molested three of his daughters with impunity.
02:23:16.720 Exactly. And let me, let me ask you a question. When those cops, those cops do not have to stop him.
02:23:22.640 They could have easily not done anything. What principle were they upholding when they chose to do that?
02:23:28.040 Right. They were, they were upholding the, the, the civic American virtue of everyone deserves a fair trial and every convicted prisoner deserves no harm.
02:23:42.680 The reality is that this is, this is not rooted in, I am actually surprisingly, I am for everyone being given a fair trial and having their say, but the man was, had already been convicted at this point.
02:23:56.280 The man had already been found guilty. The evidence was overwhelming a hundred, you know, hundreds of witness testimonies, years of digital evidence against this man.
02:24:05.120 And he, his fate had been sealed. And he, his fate had been sealed. And yet the natural law of allowing the father of those victimized to enact punishment on a man.
02:24:16.700 And that he shared society with that being undone and that not being allowed to occur was the true betrayal of, of justice, just, you know, pot, human positivist law, which Americans, American common law and the American federal code and things like that.
02:24:36.400 Those are, you know, those are, you know, are in lip speak rooted in natural law. It's, it's littered throughout our, our founding documents. It's littered throughout the writings of our, many of our founding fathers and our early, uh, early Supreme court justices.
02:24:50.720 But I think a lot of it was lip service then. And it's, it's a cruel, perverse lip service now, because now it's so obviously, so blatantly not true that positivist law should serve the natural law, not the other way around.
02:25:05.480 And American positivist law is not based on justice anymore. It is based on enacting a strict code. It, and it's certainly not a traditional common law. It is becoming modern French civic code in a lot of ways in slowly instructing you how to carry your day to day life.
02:25:24.320 And judges are not there to make actual judgments. They're there to be officiators of a, uh, of an incomprehensible, overly long code that no longer feels organic to anyone.
02:25:38.920 And it serves then as a post factor rationalization for the moral choice that those cops made. Those cops made a moral choice.
02:25:47.280 Yeah. That bailiff easily could have done nothing or could have been a little extra slow getting over there.
02:25:52.500 Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
02:25:53.680 Because the only thing preventing that father from getting at, at the pet, at the, you know, the Semitic pedophile was like a middling public attorney.
02:26:02.160 And I think that if, if a six foot three electricians worker was coming towards you and your client, you probably wouldn't put up too much of a fight.
02:26:10.060 Cause that guy was probably about ready to knock out the attorney and then tear off the head of this, you know, attempted pedophile or I'm sorry, convicted pedophile.
02:26:18.240 Yeah. And so we did an episode on the lynching of Leo Frank. And in that case, the, uh, the prison, the wardens, the people at the prison, when they eventually busted Leo Frank out to lynch him and give him what he deserves, uh, they, they were more than happy to turn him over, especially cause they were given a nice pretext for, you know, of, of, of a death squad of armed, of armed citizens.
02:26:43.920 Right.
02:26:44.200 Who were ready to, ready to shoot if necessary.
02:26:46.540 And I want to focus in on a, I want to hone in on one thing here. And this is that the importance of like the bourgeois cultural attitude that supports this whole system.
02:26:55.580 And this is what, what, um, one of the few things in my life that truly, truly, truly draws up, uh, enmity from, from my heart is this, I, this sneering saccharine worship of the inertia of the, uh, public order by all strata of society, including those who label themselves to be traditionalist.
02:27:17.900 Where they, they, they believe that there is some sort of inherent moral authority or support behind the system at large.
02:27:25.960 I mean, it's this, this conceit is the most unforgivable. It's unforgivable for people who should know better.
02:27:32.740 And it's a default to this supposed decorum, to this supposed politeness that allows them to, to cover for their, for their own moral failings, their own failure to act where, where it needs to be done.
02:27:45.160 And, and I know, I mean, like, I don't want to get a whole thing on Charles Manson and we, we will be actually doing a show on Charles Manson at some point.
02:27:53.560 But the thing that is interesting to me about Charles Manson, what, what makes him fascinating is he forced the system.
02:28:01.240 He was by no means a virtuous man himself, obviously, but he forced the system to live to its own moral assumptions, to, to attempt to try to condemn him on moral grounds.
02:28:11.900 And he never failed to point out that the people who are coming after him, the people who are persecuting him, their hands are by no means clean.
02:28:19.860 That's exactly correct. That's exactly correct. And so, yeah, and this is what it comes back to is that, I mean, if you want to have any sort of pretense of having righteousness or justice or law on your side,
02:28:36.140 Well, number one, you need to realize that if you make any claims towards law, you judge yourself, first of all, that sword is double-edged.
02:28:44.340 So it cuts both ways. And two, you have to make some sort of appeal to a transcendental philosophical reality, because justice is the administration of the good.
02:28:55.140 It's the restoration of a peaceable relationship within the civic society through the use of punishment, essentially a force to restore the good.
02:29:04.360 Right. One of my favorite quotes of all time, and this is to, I guess, counteract any suspicions that what we believe in here might be barbaric or might be uncivilized.
02:29:17.720 One of my favorite quotes comes from G.K. Chesterton, a man of true high civilization, a good-natured Christian Anglo who never did anything wrong to anyone, really,
02:29:29.860 who once wrote in a Cleveland Press interview in 1921,
02:29:34.460 The men whom the people ought to choose to represent them are too busy to take the jobs, but the politician is waiting for it.
02:29:41.540 He's the pestilence of modern times. What we should try to do is make politics as local as possible, keep the politicians near enough to kick them.
02:29:50.980 The villagers who met under the village tree could also hang their politicians to the tree.
02:29:56.140 It's terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today.
02:29:59.300 In order to – and this was a man whose entire life was devoted to discerning what the transcendental good was and what the transcendental was,
02:30:10.160 what God was to himself and certainly to the English people.
02:30:14.520 But he, too, understood that natural law had its place in natural, organic societies.
02:30:19.480 And it appeals to the public order, keep calm and carry on, were completely antithetical to English tradition and certainly antithetical to the natural law.
02:30:34.480 Yes. And I want to bring this back full circle, where I think that one of the biggest problems that we run into is that people who ostensibly have intellectual possession of the truth do not implement it.
02:30:47.660 And they ignore many of these things based on literally just inherited cultural grounds.
02:30:52.780 And so, I mean, I particularly see this in like religious traditionalists where it's like it is the coarsest and grossest absurdity to run into like a rad trad Catholic or Orthodox dude who supports the legitimacy of the American state or democracy or who believes in any sort of secularism and who doesn't – who like opposes the death penalty in America.
02:31:13.980 Right. Right. For anything but like pragmatic reasons.
02:31:18.040 Right.
02:31:19.520 This is like –
02:31:20.380 It's ironic because I oppose the death penalty in America, but for the reasons that we're talking about here, that the people administering that are the people who should be most subjected to it.
02:31:30.880 Indeed. Right.
02:31:32.120 And so, it's these people are actually the ones who bear – unfortunately, like it's cruel because like we know these people in our lives, but these are the ones who bear responsibility because these are the people who should be on the vanguard of the attack against this reality.
02:31:47.760 But these people have succumbed to the weakness of just, no, just go to your prayer corner.
02:31:52.400 Just go pray. Pray more.
02:31:54.180 Right. Pray more rosary.
02:31:55.140 Go pray the rosary.
02:31:56.300 That's how you're going to fix the problems of America.
02:31:57.980 And it's this lack of willingness to aggressively confront evil and viciously tear it asunder when it's manifested in our society that has enabled this degeneration, this go-along-to-get-along attitude where as long as we've got our little corner where we're allowed to be left in peace and do our church services and we can get our souls to heaven,
02:32:18.560 And this is what has facilitated the wholesale, civilizational and structural collapse of our people and society and religion and morals and justice.
02:32:29.460 And no, it doesn't – the great wickedness is that there are very few people in contemporary Western society who are willing to stand up in the name of that justice and hold the sword of the gospel in their hands and just tell people the truth.
02:32:48.560 And this is the – this is like the terminal that it's the fault of these people because they are the ones who should have been speaking the truth most loudly.
02:32:58.420 You know, and God – and when you see guys like Charles Coughlin who were doing this, who were silenced by their own hierarchy, by their own institutions, when they tried to stand up for the truth, for basic social justice, you know, this is where it's like Psalm 85.
02:33:13.920 It was thee, O man, like mine of me, I walked in – shared in my repasts, you walked in the house of the Lord with me, yet you are a traitor.
02:33:22.660 May death come upon such ones, may them go down into Hades alive.
02:33:26.120 And so it's – I mean, man, that's the terminal.
02:33:33.420 And so really the only solution to these problems is, you know, decentralized guerrilla spiritual resistance, is to try and live this life in yourself as much as you can, you know, and accepting the reality that, you know, the application of moral scrupulosity to yourself and a society will produce eternal dissatisfaction because of how corrupt and – how corrupt we are.
02:33:55.520 But you have to struggle anyway and do whatever you can, and then ultimately to your family, to your church, to your society.
02:34:03.020 And that that's – I mean, you have – that's a 200 – that's a 300-year struggle.
02:34:07.500 So that's the mindset that you have to have.
02:34:10.620 Like, you know, the Taliban have, like, a lot of really great praxis quotes, and one of them is that, you know, our enemies have all of the watches, but we have all the time.
02:34:21.680 And that we fight not for ourselves, nor for our sons, nor our grandchildren, but for their grandchildren.
02:34:27.140 That has to essentially be the mindset.
02:34:28.880 And so, I mean, without this, like, fanatic commitment to that future eschatological victory, to that reality, I mean, there can be no hope of salvation.
02:34:40.480 And I would say especially without an appeal and a humiliation of ourselves before the divine reality and an appeal to the grace of the personal God to help us, there can be no victory and there can be no justice.
02:34:51.820 Very well said, Florian.
02:34:57.020 Okay.
02:34:57.720 So, gentlemen, we've come to the end of our – we're going to hit a few news stories in Caliuga News, but we've come to the end of, I think, the main segment of the meat and potatoes, so to speak, of the podcast.
02:35:08.000 Is there anything else you guys want to hit on right before we go into the news?
02:35:12.800 I, too, lament how few politicians are hanging today.
02:35:16.960 Yeah, I second that.
02:35:18.020 Yeah, amen.
02:35:18.900 The philosophy that America needs to brush up on is the philosophy of the rope.
02:35:24.800 And I mean that very sincerely.
02:35:26.300 I mean that in a sense people need to reflect on death and on violence and on its place in society in a very serious way because you'll get back to what's important.
02:35:37.980 You at least start there.
02:35:39.760 Talk about Americanism.
02:35:42.080 Americanism, particularly out west, was built on the philosophy of the rope.
02:35:44.920 If you did one bad thing in a town, like you punched some girl in a bar or saloon, boy, it was ending in a newsman's platter for you like really soon thereafter.
02:35:56.160 It wasn't even a week.
02:35:58.920 Right.
02:36:00.460 Yeah, exactly.
02:36:02.080 How far, how far, how far we have fallen.
02:36:05.420 Okay.
02:36:05.720 So, on that bright and cheery note, let's transition into Kali Yuga News.
02:36:11.620 So, gentlemen, this is your first time on the show.
02:36:14.200 I don't know if both of you boys have the show notes up before me, but usually what I do is I allow my guests to pick one of the news stories that we have set out here and kind of, you know, present it, read the headline and some of the bulk of the story, and then we'll discuss it.
02:36:27.900 So, do any of you gentlemen see anything that catches your eye, or would you like to volunteer to do first?
02:36:33.320 No, let's start with the first one here.
02:36:36.420 We have, this is from the Daily Stormer.
02:36:42.780 Let's see.
02:36:44.300 We have France.
02:36:46.200 Sorry, my scroll's working.
02:36:48.160 Let me see theirs.
02:36:48.740 Okay.
02:36:49.300 France, investigation after Wakina of Ark racially abused on Twitter.
02:36:53.900 When the goyim become angry that you are shoving disgusting brown people down their throats, the solution is to arrest them.
02:37:02.420 That will totally make the problem go away.
02:37:05.880 And here is the meat and potatoes of it.
02:37:08.580 We have provided RT, Russia Today.
02:37:12.600 So, apparently, the state prosecutor in the French city of Orleans is investigating possible incitement to racial hatred.
02:37:20.300 Following Twitter attacks on a mixed-race girl chosen to play Joan of Ark in upcoming city celebrations.
02:37:29.400 See, when I first saw this, I guess I thought it was going to be about the, there was a film that's being made, and I believe Joan of Ark is a Negress.
02:37:38.260 So, I think this is different.
02:37:40.160 Yeah.
02:37:40.720 But.
02:37:41.840 That was my assumption as well.
02:37:43.120 I think this has to do with a local, a local festival, basically.
02:37:48.040 Yes.
02:37:48.540 Yes.
02:37:48.780 That is, appears to be what's going on.
02:37:51.240 So, long story short, there's this festival where they, you know, the maid of Orleans, Joan of Ark, one of my favorite figures of French history.
02:38:01.840 You know, so they have her, somebody kind of dress up, a young girl dress up in armor and ride into town on a horse, on a white horse to honor her.
02:38:08.080 And they picked, you know, some half Polish, half, you know, Negro to do so.
02:38:12.460 It's interesting that she was half Polish.
02:38:16.880 That's some kind of, I don't know, underhanded slight at the current, the current position that Poland has towards, I suppose, the rest of the EU.
02:38:28.620 Yeah, perhaps.
02:38:29.700 Perhaps it's that petty.
02:38:32.940 Let's see when I, I mean, we can go into commentary, but I think, I think it's basically all here.
02:38:37.280 I mean, there's a great quote, the basic proof that the Jews are unhinged is in how hard they're riding this replacement thing, because it isn't just this Joan of Ark being a nigger.
02:38:51.180 Yes.
02:38:52.100 There's an institutional policy spanning both the public and private sector that no public figure is allowed to be white in a white country.
02:38:59.320 I mean, it is sort of becoming insane.
02:39:04.040 I think I've said this in the internal myth chat the other day, like it only took 70 years for Jews to go from nearly being wiped out because of just creating Weimar Germany to trying to turn the whole planet into Weimar Earth.
02:39:18.700 It is, it is, it is kind of fascinating how unhinged they are and how, how much they often don't understand.
02:39:26.500 There are, there are some that I think like the Rebbe and some of these other Jews that have come clean and have, you know, said, look, there are, there is a severe lack of introspection in this community.
02:39:37.580 They just, they do not ever consider that they are writing their own tragedy.
02:39:42.100 Well, I, I agree that they're unhinged, but we should ask what the purpose of this is.
02:39:48.900 I, I think it has a purpose and it's not just unhinged fanaticism.
02:39:54.600 I, I believe, I, I cannot prove this, but my suspicion is that the purpose of this stuff is less, for instance, miscegenation propaganda or trying to get people to have, I don't know, fond feelings towards the colored races or something.
02:40:11.360 I, I, I think, ultimately has more to do with demoralization propaganda.
02:40:15.480 Yeah.
02:40:16.600 Yeah, because it's to undermine the wide breadth of French history.
02:40:22.360 I mean, Joan of Arc, Joan of Arc is, is a, uh, is one of the guiding lights of the French character.
02:40:31.960 And it was essentially a Catholic, a French Catholic radical who kicked out the English for, for God and for her, for King and for her country of France.
02:40:43.680 Well, it's a perfect opportunity for people to go back if you haven't seen it, uh, already to watch Carl Theodore Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc.
02:40:51.660 Highly recommend that film.
02:40:54.280 But I, I would say, you know, they're trying to, they're trying to obviously swamp white countries.
02:41:02.580 We all know this, but I think people, because people live primarily through media and entertainment, if you can take that over first and really shove it down people's throats,
02:41:12.980 then they're more likely to come to the conclusion that this is something that has, has already happened, that it's completely inevitable and it's irreversible and that you should just give up, go on.
02:41:23.280 I, I, that's my view on the purpose of this stuff.
02:41:25.720 Right. I mean, I think that it, it also, it comes back to the whole, um, forgetfulness, um, the church fathers talk about like the, like the demonic, the diabolical forgetfulness where, I mean, these are extremely, these rituals, these secular rituals are extremely powerful symbols of the manifestation of the natural, national soul of a country.
02:41:44.740 Right. And so it's essentially like blasphemy, um, is what it is as a form of, of national blasphemy.
02:41:50.360 You know, you are desecrating and defiling that, which is nationally sacred, this icon, the symbol of, you know, the purity of like the French, you know, version of warrior spirit, right.
02:42:02.640 Um, you know, the synthesis, the apotheosis of that, like Frankish crusading, like medieval Latin, you know, spirit, the combination of, of perfect purity and chastity and dedication to neighbor and to God.
02:42:14.540 With the, the, the militant desire to fight your enemies.
02:42:18.220 Um, and it's, you know, kind of just replacing this with the most easy virtue signaling, uh, possible, the, the, the grossest decadent bourgeois liberal, uh, morality.
02:42:30.120 And speaking of that, I would also add that I believe that there has been a McDonald's on the site of Joan of Arc's, uh, execution for quite some time now.
02:42:40.800 Oh man.
02:42:41.420 I think it's, I think they have, I have not been there, but I, I believe it had to be disguised as a library in order to be approved, but it is there nonetheless.
02:42:50.760 Wow.
02:42:51.220 I didn't know that.
02:42:52.040 That's a very demoralizing.
02:42:55.320 I think that's the point.
02:42:56.960 Yeah, exactly.
02:42:59.060 Yeah.
02:43:00.340 Um, so do you gentlemen, uh, have any further comments on this story?
02:43:03.300 I mean, I think, uh, or do you want to move on to the next?
02:43:05.940 Yeah.
02:43:06.540 Hans, you want to roll with the next one?
02:43:07.880 Hans?
02:43:15.760 Yeah.
02:43:16.160 Sorry about that.
02:43:16.660 I was muted.
02:43:17.240 Uh, can we just choose any of them from this list here?
02:43:19.960 Yeah.
02:43:20.100 Whatever.
02:43:20.400 Yeah.
02:43:20.580 Whatever one you'd like.
02:43:21.780 I'll choose this, uh, this voice of Europe, the, uh, EU Hungarian town.
02:43:25.820 Uh, my Hungarian pronunciation is not great.
02:43:30.960 I believe this is, uh, Zekesve Hervar.
02:43:33.900 Yeah.
02:43:34.640 Zekesve Hervar is, uh, apparently the EU jury of the European Capital of Culture contest said that one of the participating towns is, quote, too white and there are not enough migrants, unquote.
02:43:47.400 Uh, Hungarian news website, 888.hu reports, with only seven semifinalists left, the Hungarian town of Zekesve Hervar made a promotional film for the jury.
02:44:01.020 The film shows the town's most beautiful places, a happy couple, and some kids playing.
02:44:05.240 But the EU jury rejected the submission of the town's debut film.
02:44:11.220 There are too many happy white people in crosses.
02:44:15.240 Oy vey!
02:44:17.320 And not as far as the jury said.
02:44:21.400 The mayor of the Hungarian town, Dr. Andras Czerpakovich, uh, gave a press conference about the decision of the jury on Wednesday.
02:44:32.200 He said that, in fact, no expert hearing was conducted, but the decision was based, was solely based on daily political issues and accusations were directed at Zekesve Hervar and the delegation.
02:44:45.200 The mayor also recalled the criticisms made by the film committee about Zekesve Hervar.
02:44:51.020 They left the poor and the migrants out of the film, but at the same time, there were too many crosses, churches, and what was even worse, the attitude of the city, because they regarded this as a value.
02:44:59.980 The jury decided, after all, to recommend the entries of Georg, Debrecen, and Vejprem as finalists for the European Capital of Culture.
02:45:10.260 I, uh, I have been meaning to go to Hungary for a long time, and I was planning to do it in, uh, in the next year or two, potentially.
02:45:19.060 And, uh, it is, I, I have family who have been there, and I have friends who have been there.
02:45:25.120 It is apparently an immensely beautiful country, and the Hungarians are an immensely interesting people.
02:45:33.300 I have a whole, I own at least one book in print and a few others.
02:45:37.880 There's the deal with the history of the Hungarians and the history of, uh, what the Romans would have called, you know, Pannonia, as it's been known for a long time.
02:45:46.300 The Pannonian Plains and the, and the Corpathian Basin.
02:45:49.760 Uh, I would, I, I'm, like, deeply saddened that, uh, for, that they're not being recognized.
02:45:56.500 And it's for the most petty reasons.
02:45:59.840 There's not, this is a direct quote.
02:46:01.860 There are too many happy white people and crosses.
02:46:05.900 Yeah, I mean, it's like a Soviet complaint.
02:46:09.820 Like, they need, they have to be, there have to be less crosses, and happy people are not struggling for the purity of the, the glorious social revolution.
02:46:20.740 Or some, something really ridiculous.
02:46:23.880 It's almost comical.
02:46:26.440 This feels like a Daily Stormer article.
02:46:29.180 Yeah, a Sampirer article, yeah.
02:46:30.440 I feel like someone from the Daily Stormer infiltrated the EU jury and gave this excuse, there are too many happy white people and crosses.
02:46:40.540 Well, that's what happens, like.
02:46:42.220 We are, since you mentioned it, Hans, we are trying to, some of the, Hans and I, and maybe one of the other guys from our show might be, uh, trying to take a class trip to Eastern Europe at some point.
02:46:51.580 So, if you have any, if you have any listeners, Florian, that, uh, are in Eastern Europe, then.
02:46:56.440 Ah, maybe one or two.
02:46:58.180 Let me know.
02:46:58.880 So, I can, uh, hopefully I can put you in touch with some people.
02:47:02.180 Yeah, um, this, like, the article speaks so boldly for itself.
02:47:05.960 There's almost, like, not a lot of commentary that you have to make.
02:47:08.580 I would just say that, you know, what happens is the pride goeth before the fall, right?
02:47:13.660 And, I mean, even in, in esotericism, um, David Hoffman talks about, like, revelation of the method, right?
02:47:19.620 Oh, yeah.
02:47:20.080 When you get to, like, the peak fluorescence, like, you have the full spectrum dominance, and, like, you've got that vice grip on all levels of society, you can just be open, and you can just say, no, yeah.
02:47:29.060 I mean, um, these people are not genocided and disfigured and corrupted enough for us to hold them up as an example to the rest of the world as the paragon of Europe's internal values, because that's who we are.
02:47:39.980 Uh, we're a corrupted, mongrelized, disappointed race.
02:47:45.140 And back to demoralization propaganda, that's one of the main purposes of revelation of the method, because it essentially spooks people who have eyes to see, because they see this immense force being mobilized in service, in service of the power, and because they can, because the power is flaunting it in an arrogant way, it has a chilling, demoralizing effect,
02:48:06.720 that these people could be so, so powerful, and so diabolical, and flaunt it so openly.
02:48:14.160 Right.
02:48:15.280 Exactly.
02:48:16.140 Well, and it's, uh, the only real solution to that is, um, well, we have the example of great martyr Theodore of Tyro to, uh, to look upon.
02:48:24.100 I mean, he basically, the emperor asked him to, um, stop, you know, uh, eat sacrifices dedicated to idols.
02:48:30.100 And so what Theodore said, okay, I'll, uh, he was the local military commander.
02:48:34.420 He said, okay, well, I'll meet you, uh, in the pagan temple, like, the next day.
02:48:37.940 And he invited the emperor there and smashed up all of the idols in front of him.
02:48:42.100 And, like, the emperor set him on fire.
02:48:45.020 And he, like, just laughed at him.
02:48:48.200 You know, and, uh...
02:48:50.100 The stories like that always remind me of, uh, it was St. Boniface, the guy who chopped down the Saxon tree.
02:48:57.860 Yeah, yeah, he just, he, some Saxon chieftain kind of dared him, like, you're going to get hit by lightning.
02:49:03.880 And he just walked up to the tree with a giant wooden axe and took it down.
02:49:08.180 And, uh, the chieftain, you know, threatened to kill him.
02:49:12.700 Basically, like, I thought your god was going to do that for you.
02:49:16.580 It's, it's that, it's, it's that sort of Chad mentality.
02:49:20.560 Like, you know, what are you going to do about it?
02:49:22.460 Are you going to do anything?
02:49:24.280 And you can apply that to right now.
02:49:25.740 The Hungarians are essentially daring the EU.
02:49:28.440 You know, what are you going to do about the fact that we have a giant fence?
02:49:32.040 And we have armed guards pointing guns at migrants.
02:49:34.620 And we've convinced half of Eastern Europe to do the same thing now.
02:49:38.620 The Chad partner versus the Virgin collaborator.
02:49:41.860 Yeah.
02:49:42.120 Yeah.
02:49:43.080 No, I mean, that's, that's, that's literally what it is.
02:49:45.440 And I mean, um, and the biggest thing is that the, the only impediment to that, that, uh,
02:49:52.460 mentality is fear is a fear and cowardice.
02:49:55.360 Right.
02:49:55.680 And that, that fear and cowardice, you know, I'm, I can only speak for myself and my, in
02:50:00.340 your own life.
02:50:01.000 It blossoms out of, um, comfort and complacency.
02:50:04.940 Um, that's, that's where it comes from.
02:50:06.820 And it's, it's like in, in a set of struggle and in, in a misery that you kind of like realize,
02:50:11.840 Oh wait, I actually, I can, I can, uh, I don't have to care.
02:50:15.440 Um, and that really there are not, there are not so many things in life that are, uh, superior
02:50:21.560 to dying, um, for the truth.
02:50:23.980 And in fact, nothing, but it's a surprise that the Hungarians haven't just said, we're not
02:50:28.780 actually white.
02:50:29.400 We're Asians from the near East.
02:50:31.540 We kind of came in on horseback 1200 years ago.
02:50:34.360 Like they could easily go with the whole, we're immigrants to angle.
02:50:38.400 And this is our place.
02:50:40.480 I mean, that would be a good troll.
02:50:42.340 And I don't know why they haven't done that yet.
02:50:44.980 Cause it can, they can appoint, they can point that, you know, the average Hungarian
02:50:49.800 allele frequency and be like, Oh, we're 6% Asian on average or something to that effect.
02:50:55.400 I don't know why they, they, they've, they've neglected to do that, but that would be the
02:51:00.200 ultimate troll is essentially say, well, we're not actually white.
02:51:03.000 We're just Asians.
02:51:04.060 So you can't, you can't actually tell us we need to bring in migrants because we're already
02:51:07.720 diverse.
02:51:10.600 Yeah.
02:51:11.000 I mean, that would be, I would be a troll, but, uh, yeah, go ahead.
02:51:15.080 Uh, go ahead, Nick.
02:51:15.840 Well, it's interesting to hear the Europeans using white, like in this kind of context, right?
02:51:20.880 But this is something that I actually, I'll speak to this extremely directly.
02:51:24.980 There's this like ridiculous, absurd, insane meme that like whiteness only exists in America
02:51:30.380 and that like European nationalists don't think of themselves as white.
02:51:34.400 Um, and I can tell you, I was just there and I just met a whole bunch of these guys and
02:51:38.580 like 180%, like 180 degrees, the opposite of their mentality.
02:51:45.120 They all think of themselves as white.
02:51:47.200 Um, but they of course realized that that's, that there's, it's, that's like just the foundation
02:51:51.780 that there's so much that's built on top of that.
02:51:54.620 Right.
02:51:55.480 Uh, you know, and that's the difference between us and them.
02:51:59.060 And so like this, this stupid idiotic meme that like Europeans don't think of themselves
02:52:03.840 as white is, is the dumbest, dumbest possible thing.
02:52:06.940 Like, uh, it's just, it's factually untrue.
02:52:09.520 And it's like a meme burger Americans tell themselves so that they have like an excuse not to engage
02:52:14.880 in like European style real politic and they can continue their racist liberalism.
02:52:19.260 Good point.
02:52:20.160 Good point.
02:52:21.380 Yeah.
02:52:21.740 I just, I just think it's interesting cause it's sort of an admission that of a, you
02:52:26.960 know, war of the coloreds against Europe.
02:52:29.900 Right.
02:52:30.460 It's, it's no longer like it would be fine as long as they had coloreds from somewhere
02:52:35.160 else.
02:52:36.360 Right.
02:52:36.840 It has to be less white.
02:52:39.680 Yep.
02:52:40.720 Yep.
02:52:41.360 Exactly.
02:52:41.800 And so there's already a huge gypsy population in Hungary that it's never talked about.
02:52:48.700 It's never mentioned that the, I think even Viktor Orban is part, is part Roma.
02:52:53.840 Like it's not, it's never brought up that the Hungarians already have a huge, uh, a huge
02:53:01.680 ethnic diversity problem and that their entire history has been chocked full of the, you know,
02:53:07.720 sort of the Magyar underclass that makes up the slight majority of the country having
02:53:13.820 to contend with a lot of ethnic strife between, uh, Transylvanic Romanians and, and Roma and
02:53:21.140 Germans and all kinds of groups coming in and out of and trying to settle.
02:53:25.880 I'm surprised no one has mentioned any of that.
02:53:28.340 But it's, it, it's weird that, uh, they don't get any credit for already having to deal with
02:53:34.940 a permanent refugee population.
02:53:37.180 And that's all the Roma shanty towns.
02:53:40.040 Yeah.
02:53:40.140 Well, I mean, it's because their outlook is cynical.
02:53:41.680 It's not principled, right?
02:53:43.340 Right.
02:53:43.500 I mean, again, that's the thing is that when you abandon logos, you don't get like a worldview
02:53:49.180 that makes sense.
02:53:49.860 It's just, it's schizophrenic.
02:53:51.340 It's, it's not causal anymore.
02:53:53.080 That's the hallmark of chaos is that there's, there's just not a reason for, there's no
02:53:57.960 talos, right?
02:53:59.080 It's just like, um, you know, like you can think of like a demon as basically just like
02:54:03.900 an AI with no purpose, like screaming into the night without end.
02:54:08.120 Um, and same thing goes for the Poles who have taken over a million, I think Ukrainian
02:54:12.800 refugees, not, not, not, they don't have a million static.
02:54:17.080 They sort of, those numbers fluctuate as people come in and out, but the Poles have
02:54:20.940 done a huge, huge service and trying to ensure the survival of the Ukrainian people through
02:54:29.600 the course of the civil war.
02:54:30.800 And they're told constantly, well, why don't you take enough refugees?
02:54:35.200 There's at least hundreds of thousands that are permanent refugees in Eastern Poland now
02:54:39.980 and in Southern Poland.
02:54:41.440 Yet they don't, they don't count and they're not like, yeah, because, because they're poor
02:54:44.860 white people is their poor, very devout Christian white people, I guess.
02:54:49.300 Yeah.
02:54:49.400 That's basically it.
02:54:50.100 Right.
02:54:51.500 That's basically it.
02:54:52.860 Okay.
02:54:53.220 We're going to go to the last article and then we'll close her up.
02:54:55.300 This is, uh, from Russia today, China to topple United States as biggest nuclear energy
02:55:00.680 nation.
02:55:02.500 Beijing is forecast to triple its nuclear capacity in the next 20 years.
02:55:06.960 Ousting the U.S. is the number one nuclear power producer, according to the International
02:55:10.520 Energy Agency.
02:55:12.200 There's a quote here.
02:55:14.160 Uh, China's coming back strong.
02:55:15.540 Today, there are about 60 nuclear power plants under construction and more than one third
02:55:20.700 of them are in China.
02:55:21.960 China is growing.
02:55:22.840 And as a result of that, we'll soon see China overtaking the United States as the number
02:55:26.460 one nuclear power in the world.
02:55:27.560 So China's got set like 20 nuclear power plants, uh, under construction.
02:55:32.660 There's also another important thing here.
02:55:35.220 If it continues like that, the U.S. nuclear capacity will go from 20% to 7%.
02:55:39.340 The U.S. nuclear, uh, industry will face some drawbacks that it sees in solar energy.
02:55:45.280 China is learning by doing, bringing costs down.
02:55:47.680 Therefore, they are now ready to export technology and are much more cost effective than others.
02:55:51.780 And they have already challenged the established exporters such as the U.S., Japan, Korea, and
02:55:56.880 European countries.
02:55:58.420 Um, I will give you an example, Birol says.
02:56:01.640 Only five months ago, the Chinese government took a decision to limit the use of coal and
02:56:05.660 move to liquefied natural gas.
02:56:07.660 As a result of that, the Chinese LNG import increased more than 50%.
02:56:11.720 And LNG prices doubled from six to $12 in the Asia Pacific region.
02:56:16.800 He says, when China changes, everything changes.
02:56:20.140 The new China energy policies mean a new phase for the global energy markets.
02:56:24.900 He added.
02:56:26.320 So this is part of our, uh, ongoing Mysterium Fashi's China news coverage, where we bring
02:56:31.520 you the very, uh, the China news, China all the time, deep China insights.
02:56:36.700 Uh, and we do, we do this because the ship, the geopolitical shift, uh, is, has become
02:56:41.700 becoming Eurasian.
02:56:42.520 Uh, you know, I, I literally have people that write to me accusing me of being like a Eurasianist,
02:56:46.400 Duganist, Putinist, shill.
02:56:49.080 Yeah.
02:56:49.580 In the most flustered of terms.
02:56:51.440 Um, but you know, I'm not a Duganist, not a Eurasianist.
02:56:55.660 It's just a fact that, you know, where there's a power vacuum, uh, their actors step in to
02:56:59.820 take over.
02:57:00.300 And that, um, that China is going to dominate the technocracy in the next century.
02:57:06.660 And so the myth of the 21st century, I think, will be Chinese technocracy if, uh, we don't
02:57:10.600 all get wiped out and Christ doesn't come back.
02:57:13.740 Yeah.
02:57:14.400 A lot of, uh, so generation three and generation three plus, uh, nuclear reactor technology
02:57:19.940 is overwhelmingly, um, in Asia and East Asia.
02:57:24.860 It's overwhelmingly in Japan and in, uh, to an extent Korea, China, and in some cases
02:57:32.580 the Chinese have used their strategy of, um, there's a lot of terms for it.
02:57:38.280 One of the ones I've, I've learned in school was IP wrangling and it was effectively a way
02:57:43.740 of, uh, saying we will do, we will commit to an investment with you for 51% stake and access
02:57:50.580 to technology, to the technology, including blueprints, including the underlying IP and
02:57:55.140 intellectual property.
02:57:57.020 And this is how they would slowly steal technology.
02:57:59.620 This has been the Chinese strategy for 35 years now.
02:58:04.440 And they have successfully, uh, developed a, a real strategy, a real development strategy
02:58:14.120 for pursuing generation three nuclear reactor technology at a huge scale.
02:58:20.580 Now, part of that is because the scale of their society requires it and that, that introduces
02:58:25.280 a lot of risk, but it's, it's very, um, it's very sad to see Westinghouse allowing itself
02:58:33.320 to become a tool of the Chinese energy complex in order to make additional money and not go
02:58:40.180 with the extra effort to invest in the United States and to try and improve the U S nuclear
02:58:44.860 situation.
02:58:46.320 Part of the problem is that like, uh, uh, the U S nuclear situation has been a disaster
02:58:52.560 since, uh, through mile Island.
02:58:54.960 No one wants to invest in nuclear.
02:58:56.980 No one, you know, no one has come up with real ideas.
02:59:00.960 There's a lot of innovation and reactor design and in reactor technology in the United States,
02:59:07.260 but then none of it is ever implemented.
02:59:08.860 So now we just serve as some kind of innovation lab for Chinese industry to enact.
02:59:15.300 It's, it's pretty sad.
02:59:17.740 Yeah.
02:59:18.040 I mean, I think that, um, one of the things, like, one of the things that I describe oftentimes
02:59:24.280 that like the Chinese regime of having this critical qualities that they have the critical
02:59:28.900 quality of seriousness in their approach to governance.
02:59:32.200 Right.
02:59:32.760 Yeah.
02:59:32.940 Um, and that they, they actually care about running their country and about developing
02:59:37.100 infrastructure that's in their advantage.
02:59:38.920 And because they have a command society, they just do things.
02:59:42.380 Um, and sometimes that works, you know, and sometimes, uh, that doesn't, and you get
02:59:46.700 to deal with China problems, um, which nobody wants to deal with, uh, especially China.
02:59:51.680 And so I think that the, like, I think the thing about nuclear power is like nuclear power
02:59:58.160 is, um, as long as it doesn't go, you know, tits up is like brilliant.
03:00:02.500 It's fantastic.
03:00:03.840 Uh, it's, it's a fat, an excellent, excellent source of like sovereign, you know, relatively
03:00:09.120 clean energy generation.
03:00:11.240 Um, and you know, the, I would say that the thing is that in China, the reason why they're
03:00:16.600 doing this is because China is a leading innovator in green energy technology.
03:00:20.180 Uh, because of the mass pollution that has been caused by like coal based, uh, power
03:00:25.120 generation.
03:00:27.960 And so, you know, they, they, they realize that, uh, that the future is in these sort
03:00:33.920 of technologies, which don't lead to total collapse of your civilization at skyrocketing
03:00:38.360 rates of cancer.
03:00:39.960 Right.
03:00:40.840 Yeah.
03:00:41.320 They, they are well poised to create, um, a serious innovation gap.
03:00:50.820 Now what the United States can try and do is work within North America and some Europeans
03:00:56.640 like Norway to corner the energy market.
03:00:59.600 Uh, I think Trump has talked about this, that if we don't use what we have at our disposal,
03:01:04.760 which is an immense amount of resources.
03:01:07.340 So the resource side of the energy market and exert some control and try and prevent the
03:01:13.640 Chinese from becoming the sole arbiters of fuel materials and the sole, uh, transportation,
03:01:21.300 uh, uh, not transmit moral, you know, the sole supply chain, uh, administrators for these
03:01:29.400 materials, then we are definitely going to, to lose this, this race.
03:01:34.400 There, there's, there's never going to be another chance.
03:01:38.440 Absolutely.
03:01:39.040 Barring, barring extreme collapse, you know, once, once you've lost the energy market in
03:01:43.680 the modern world, you, you never recover.
03:01:46.140 Once Britain lost its control over the energy markets, it's been reduced to a fledgling island
03:01:52.100 in Northwestern Europe.
03:01:53.440 Yep, exactly.
03:01:56.260 All right, gentlemen, we've come to the end of the allotted time we have today for the
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03:02:04.560 I'm Florian Geyer, your host.
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03:02:23.080 and Hans Lander.
03:02:24.360 I hope I'm not messing up the last name from Myth of the 20th Century.
03:02:27.760 Nick, uh, Hans, thanks a lot for coming on.
03:02:30.200 I really appreciate it.
03:02:31.000 It's been, uh, it's been fantastic.
03:02:33.320 Thank you.
03:02:33.800 I enjoyed it, man.
03:02:34.640 Uh, happy to come back sometime in the future.
03:02:36.780 I will definitely take you up on that offer.
03:02:39.520 Thanks for having me on, man.
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03:02:46.060 months ago, actually last year on a Vatican II episode.
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03:02:49.720 So that's, that's over on Social Matter.
03:02:51.220 And if you guys want to check that out, it's a great episode with Adam and I, Florian
03:02:55.460 and Doc Savage.
03:02:56.620 That's right.
03:02:57.480 That's right.
03:02:58.140 Wow.
03:02:58.660 It's all coming back to me now.
03:03:01.240 Yeah.
03:03:01.980 Okay.
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