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  • 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 […]

  • Greg Johnson’s The Trial of Socrates

    Counter Currents - Jul 5th 2023 1:18pm EDT

    You can buy Greg Johnson’s The Trial of Socrates here. 2,181 words The trial and death of Socrates is one of the most compelling places to begin one’s philosophical education. — Greg Johnson, The Trial of Socrates Everyone strives to obtain the law. — Franz Kafka, The Trial Philosophy in the West has been withering […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 538 Greg Johnson on Plato’s Gorgias, Lecture 1

    Counter Currents - Jun 27th 2023 1:55pm EDT

    Seated Socrates, fresco from ancient Ephesus 373 words / 1:47:48 Greg Johnson began a five-week course on Plato’s Gorgias on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, which will continue for the next four Saturdays (July 1, 8, 15, and 22). The first lecture, which will both introduce the dialogue as a whole and also examine […]

  • Upcoming Livestreams Greg Johnson on Plato’s Gorgias

    Counter Currents - Jun 22nd 2023 5:19pm EDT

    Seated Socrates, fresco from ancient Ephesus 406 words Every educated person should be familiar with Plato, but higher education today is usually a barrier to understanding the great thinkers of the past. Hence the need for Counter-Currents, which Jonathan Bowden described as an online university of the Right. In the next five Saturday Counter-Currents Radio […]

  • How to Do Things with Words: Aristotle’s Rhetoric

    Counter Currents - Jun 21st 2023 1:10pm EDT

    Raphael, The School of Athens (1511) 1,668 words It is important to realize that “true” and “false,” like “free” and “unfree,” do not stand for anything simple at all; but only for a general dimension of being a right and proper thing to say as opposed to a wrong thing. — J. L. Austin, How […]

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  • The History of Orthodoxy Italy, Renaissance Florence & Our Pilgrimage! -Fr Vladimir & Jay Dyer

    Jay Dyer - Jun 1st 2023 1:41pm EDT

    Fr Vladimir Kaydanov gives his background in Florence and his connection to Italy and how Orthodox Italy is a real thing – in fact, we will be doing a pilgrimage soon where you can sign up here. The post The History of Orthodoxy Italy, Renaissance Florence & Our Pilgrimage! -Fr Vladimir & Jay Dyer appeared […]

  • Aristophanes’ Clouds, Part II

    Counter Currents - Apr 21st 2023 5:10pm EDT

    Aristophanes 6,912 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Strepsiades Flunks Out It hasn’t gone well. First Socrates bursts out of the Thinkery swearing an oath: “By Respiration, by Chaos, by the Air.” The usual places of gods in his oath are occupied by three natural forces. Socrates then rants about a particularly bad […]

  • He is Risen

    Amerika.org - Apr 9th 2023 10:25am EDT

    Let us break out the high colonic of raging realism here: Jesus was a prophet, a man most likely inspired by Plato in The Republic and Phaedo, who saw that the likelihood of divine underpinnings to the intricate order of nature as more likely than not. He was nailed to a cross, taken down perhaps […]

  • “There Are No Facts, Only Interpretations”

    Amerika.org - Mar 15th 2023 7:32am EDT

    Conservatives get confused by the name. “I conserve things,” they say, which is true but not complete: conservatives conserve the good life, a complex ecosystem comprised of nature, culture, genetics, and leadership that avoids big problems and preserves a normal life with lots of free time. Instead of admitting that their goal is to preserve […]

  • Crowdism and Life Cycles of Human Groups

    Amerika.org - Mar 14th 2023 7:32am EDT

    When the dust settles, this site will be remembered for having pointed out what others would not: successful societies breed hordes of individualists who act for their own interest against that of the group, inverting it so that it avoids its goal and redirects its power to them. In any human group, this tendency arises […]

  • Plato On How Democracy Makes Us Neurotic and Selfish

    Amerika.org - Feb 16th 2023 7:32am EST

    Very few sources in our time will document the existential stress of living in a dying age. When you think the path to the future is clear and your civilization is thriving, a certain peace of mind comes to it, and without it, neurosis and angst haunt the soul. Part of that stress comes from […]

  • The Roadmap of Intellectual Self Defense – The 4 Circuits of Human Behavior (Ep. 79)

    Irida TV - Jan 28th 2023 1:41pm EST

    Be prepared to understand your personal relationships on an entirely new, and possibly terrifying, level. This show contains the basics of recognizing and dealing with sophistry and manipulation. Dylan Moore of Irida TV discusses with co-host Nima Mahdjour the how to understand why most people fail to realize when they’re being manipulated, and provides a… […]