materialism

Porkins Policy Radio episode 87 MLK Assassination 49 Years Later with Doug Valentine

Doug Valentine joins me to discuss the 49th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. We begin by discussing Doug’s involvement with the King families civil case against alleged co-conspirator Loyd Jowers. Doug talks about how and why he was hired by King family lawyer William Pepper and the aspects that he was tasked with investigating. Doug discusses his time in Memphis interviewing witnesses to the crime, some of whom had never been questioned by police.

JaysAnalysis: Genesis & the Creation Mysteries with Tommy Hamilton (Half)

The first hour is free, while the full 2 hours can be obtained by subscribing to JaysAnalysis at the PayPal links for 4.95 a month or 60.00 per year. Writer Tommy Hamilton of Apologia Pro Ortho Doxa (kabane52.tumblr.com) and Ancient Faith Blog joins me to cover his recent articles on Genesis and Creation, and in particular, why he came to believe the Genesis account is historical, as well as symbolic.

(Half) Republic Bk. VI: The Noetic Light of the Intelligible Sun

In Book VI of the Republic we begin to discover the deeper metaphysics of Plato, where geometry and mathematics provide the means by which the truth of the higher realms can be seen by analogy.  Socrates engages in a bitter critique of the sophists and their pseudo-philosophy of crowd-pleasing and beastly, herd-like nonsense, lacking any real philosophical education.  Rather, the true philosopher is spoken of as grasping the Noetic Light of the Good, the true Sun of the Intelligible realm.

The Masses as Goats and Dogs

The citizens whose lives are split between business and private life, their private life between ostentation and intimacy, their intimacy between the sullen community of marriage and the bitter solace of being entirely alone, at odds with themselves and with everyone, are virtually already Nazis who are at once enthusiastic and fed up or the city dwellers of today who can imagine friendship only as a social contract between the inwardly connected.
— The Dialectic of Enlightenment, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno (1944).