Nietzsche and Nihilism – A Warning to the West
Academy of Ideas | Here is the end result of our post-modern society's increasingly popular cult of nihilism.
Academy of Ideas | Here is the end result of our post-modern society's increasingly popular cult of nihilism.
Is College Worthwhile? A Two-Time Dropout’s Take by James Bovard President Biden is tub-thumping for Congress to create new federal handouts to make college free for the vast majority of students. But as Ryan McMaken and other commentators on mises.org have pointed out, college is vastly overpriced and overrated nowadays. My view on college stems […]
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Edward Curtin It’s hard to say where things begin, but they do, as do we, and we are somehow in them and they in us, and a story begins. Then the story gets silently disclosed as we live it, even though most of us don’t tell it until later, if we can find our tongues. …
Edward Curtin Something is happening here, But you don’t know what it is, Do you, Mr. Jones? Bob Dylan, Ballad of A Thin Man It’s hard… Life today seems like a dream, doesn’t it? Surreal to the point where everything seems haunted and betwixt and between, or this against that, or that and this against …
Jordan Peterson is an extremely astute political scientist. Here he discusses what the attraction of Marxism in the present day is: it is not what you might expect.
In the past, Marxism had primarily economic appeal to those choosing it. A mixture of various tyrannical states, some capitalist, some allegedly power hungry in the same way, could be taken as legitimate points of grievance, where a person could point at the wealth of others and agree with the proposal that Marxism might offer a truly utopian path to some sense of “equality.”
Time for a return to esoteric Hollywood by doing a full analysis of the entirety of The Sopranos. One of the greatest shows of all time, Jamie and I will decode all the archetypal symbols, philosophical references, literary references and tropes, real espionage and geopolitical angles, and more! Be sure to support below via Streamlabs superchats! Live at 730 CST
I saw the Joker and was puzzled by some elements. I discuss the archetypal and historical usages of the clown and the jester, and how it relates to Nietzsche and nihilism. Phoenix goes full on vegan and shows us the dark future of Hollywood’s vision. Tell me what you think!
Danny Roddy invited me on his channel/podcast to discuss my work. We cover the Cold War, the CIA and Hollywood, my books and debates and talks, the writings of Salk and Brzezinski, process philosophy and Hegel, and much more!