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  • Unmourned Funeral: Chapter 10

    Counter Currents - Oct 15th 2024 9:49am EDT

    4,944 words Chapter 1 begins here CHAPTER 10 THE RETURN OF THE QUEEN A Quiet Homecoming   O what can it mean To a daydream believer Or a homecoming queen? The Monkees, Daydream Believer Can the Queen return to what was once her kingdom? Any return, any cultural reconquista by philosophy would require philosophers who […]

  • Unmourned Funeral: Chapter 7

    Counter Currents - Sep 24th 2024 12:40pm EDT

    5,103 words Chapter 7 SHADOWPLAY Escaping Plato’s Cave In the shadowplay, Acting out your own death, Knowing no more. Joy Division, Shadowplay We have seen the death of philosophy, or at the very least her mysterious disappearance, and thus the demise of the philosopher, who is now at best a BBC guest, a collector of […]

  • Cosmic Consciousness

    Amerika.org - Sep 23rd 2024 7:32am EDT

    All things ancient are always new. Reality does not change from year to year, and the “new” things people bring up like welfare, casual sex, usury, and scientific management are just old things under new names. We find what works, then forget, and go through a long period of denial before getting back to what […]

  • Platonist

    Amerika.org - Sep 20th 2024 5:53pm EDT

    For the past thousand years, Western Society has turned from the transcendent toward the individualistic. Metaphysical dualism and peer pressure worked it into the usual state of human narcissism, a condition it previously beat in order to rise to higher average IQ and much higher civilizational function. We should probably consider ourselves lucky that mainstream […]

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  • Defending Against Globalist Oligarchs (Ep.143)

    Irida TV - Aug 14th 2024 10:06am EDT

    Feeling overwhelmed and blackpilled in the face of the NWO? Don’t be! There is a defined strategy for navigating against our controllers and it’s… more mundane and effective than you think it is. Protest? Nope. Partisan politics? Nah. It’s political jiu jitsu at a level you’ve never heard! Center for Self Governance https://www.centerforselfgovernance.com/ CSG Student… […]

  • Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 9

    Counter Currents - Jul 10th 2024 9:46am EDT

    Statue of Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom, at the Austrian Parliament. 1,871 words Part 9 of 14 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here, Part 7 here, Part 8 here) There is a deeper problem with Plato’s account of justice in the Gorgias. He […]

  • Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 7: Crime and Punishment

    Counter Currents - Jul 5th 2024 10:35am EDT

    A contemporary coin depicting Archelaus, King of Macedonia. (Image source: Wikipedia) 2,056 words Part 6 of 14 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here) Doing Injustice vs. Suffering It Polus grudgingly accepts Socrates’ argument, yet he doesn’t really believe it. Nor does he think […]

  • Plato on How Democracy Always Creates Socialism

    Amerika.org - Jun 25th 2024 7:32am EDT

    Few people realize that Leftism is the product of civilization decline as well as the force that pushes the decline further toward completion. Drawing distinctions between groups of Leftists is as meaningless as talking about small versus large forest fires; given time, the former inevitably becomes the latter. This means that as soon as you […]

  • Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 1: Setting the Scene

    Counter Currents - Jun 11th 2024 3:40pm EDT

    Gorgias of Leontini 3,869 words Part 1 of 10 An ancient commentator on Aristotle tells a story about a farmer who got ahold of Plato’s Gorgias and was so stunned that he gave up the life of farming, trudged to Athens, looked up Plato, and put his soul in Plato’s care.[1] Like the Alcibiades I, […]

  • How are your survival and tribal instincts used against you? (Ep.137)

    Irida TV - Jun 10th 2024 6:16pm EDT

    Mark Herr from the Center For Self-Governance (centerforselfgovernance.com) joins Irida TV to discuss how we can begin to remove ourselves from the time-sucking black hole of partisan politics. Systematic politics is an entirely different mindset that allows you to be much more successfully change the system. It requires the counterintuitive move of suppressing the survival… […]

  • Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I, Part 6

    Counter Currents - May 30th 2024 12:03pm EDT

    John William Waterhouse, Psyche Opening The Golden Box, 1903 2,055 words Part 5 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here) The final part of the Alcibiades I deals with the self and self-knowledge. Most ancient commentators held that this discussion is the core of the […]

  • Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I Part 3

    Counter Currents - May 14th 2024 1:09pm EDT

    2,360 words Part 3 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) In the second part of this series, Socrates shows Alcibiades that he doesn’t know what justice is, so he should not be too eager to get involved in politics. He needs to get educated beforehand. But Alcibiades thinks he’s found a way around […]

  • Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I Part 2

    Counter Currents - Apr 22nd 2024 10:56am EDT

    2,359 words Part 2 of 5 (Part 1 here) In the first part of this series, Socrates accuses Alcibiades of wanting to be a tyrant and argues that if he wishes to fulfill this ambition, he must study philosophy. Alcibiades won’t admit that he aspires to be a tyrant, but “if” he did, he wants […]

  • Parallels in Cosmos and Spirit

    Amerika.org - Apr 19th 2024 7:32am EDT

    Everyone needs an origin story. Not just a tribal one, of where we came from and where we are going to, but one for our species and by extension, for our world itself. We have theories but none match all the data, which forces us to either discard data or admit the mystery exists and […]

  • Ultright (2)

    Amerika.org - Apr 17th 2024 7:32am EDT

    So what do we do, when we actually want to save civilization, and no one else will listen? It starts by knowing what we want. We can then visualize this, communicate it, and most importantly, sabotage and destroy anything that does not lead in this direction. However, first we have to understand it. The Ultright […]

  • Intellectual Self-Defense PART 2 – The Line of Reason (Ep.122)

    Irida TV - Jan 29th 2024 3:09pm EST

    Learn to how stop being pushed around by sophists, bullies, and manipulators! This is PART 2 of a 3-part series on intellectual self-defense: The Line of Reason. We will look at where exactly discussion stops and manipulation starts, focusing on how to identify when someone is manipulating you. In this series you will learn how… […]

  • Intellectual Self Defense PART 1 – The Four Circuits

    Irida TV - Jan 29th 2024 9:40am EST

    Learn to how stop being pushed around by sophists, bullies, and manipulators! This is PART 1 of a 3-part series on intellectual self-defense: The Four Circuits of Human Interaction. In this series you will learn how to defend your mind in from an angle you’ve never experienced before. This is NOT a course on formal… […]

  • You Are Reading Plato Incorrectly

    Amerika.org - Jan 9th 2024 9:34am EST

    The Right, gods help it, has no clue about analyzing documents. It can handle direct linear interpretation like reading code, but gets befuddled when it comes to law, literature, or philosophy. This is doubly unfortunate because in the classics of those genres, some of the vital aspects of conservatism and indeed human life lurk. For […]

  • An Underlying Informational Order

    Amerika.org - Oct 29th 2023 7:32am EDT

    Around here, you may find writings that focus on the nexus between Plato and Germanic Idealism: the notion that our universe is at a fundamental level comprised of information, and it is the cause of the effect that we know as existence itself. Science has slowly begun exploring this concept through insights into information dynamics […]

  • Thomas Aquinas & His Follower’s Pseudo “Debate:” Review and Analysis – Jay Dyer

    Jay Dyer - Sep 13th 2023 11:51pm EDT

    Today’s debate didn’t go very far due to the typical Thomist penchant for avoiding answering objections by simply repeating the position. When we agreed on what Thomism teaches, I asked specific questions which resulted in further stating of the Thomist position. When I said the conversation was “bs” the opponent whined it was a personal […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 544 Greg Johnson on Plato’s Gorgias, Lecture 5

    Counter Currents - Aug 28th 2023 10:30am EDT

    François-André Vincent, Alcibades Being Taught by Socrates (1776) 246 words / 1:05:43 Greg Johnson is teaching a five-week course on Plato’s Gorgias on Counter-Currents Radio, and the last lecture is now available. See below. Topics discussed include: 1. How we can secure ourselves against doing injustice but not really against suffering it? 2. Why the […]

  • We Knew It Was This Bad In the 1980s, Too

    Amerika.org - Aug 23rd 2023 7:32am EDT

    In the culture-stream, a great deal of nostalgia for the 1980s and early 1990s seems to be floating around. Your average normie — talking monkeys with car keys — blames it on technology, and that seems right, since social media and CCTV blankets were unknown back then. But looking more closely, we see yet again […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 543 Greg Johnson on Plato’s Gorgias, Lecture 4

    Counter Currents - Jul 27th 2023 11:55am EDT

    221 words / 1:41:56 Greg Johnson is teaching a five-week course on Plato’s Gorgias on Counter-Currents Radio. The last lecture will be aired this Saturday, July 29. The fourth lecture, on Plato versus hedonism, can be heard below. An accompanying text, “Four arguments against hedonism in the Gorgias,” is here. The first lecture can be […]

  • Saving Western Civilization Through Children (Ep.108)

    Irida TV - Jul 6th 2023 10:20am EDT

    What is the West and why is it so valuable? We all know that the education system in the West is teaching children to hate their own civilization and their own culture. How do we reinject and excite children to want to learn of their own culture, the opportunity that is presented to them because… […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 539 Greg Johnson on Plato’s Gorgias, Lecture 2

    Counter Currents - Jul 6th 2023 8:58am EDT

    351 words / 1:41:51 Greg Johnson is teaching a five-week course on Plato’s Gorgias on Counter-Currents Radio, which will continue for the next three Saturdays (July 8, 15, and 22). The second lecture, which dealt with Socrates’ discussion with Polus from 461b to 481b, can be heard below. The theme of the course is “Might […]