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  • 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… […]

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

    Irida TV - Dec 30th 2022 2:45pm 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… […]

  • Alchemy, Philosophy & The Science of Dialectical Manipulation: Lindsay, Coughlin, Dyer & Turner

    Jay Dyer - Dec 8th 2022 2:10pm EST

    Courtenay Turner organized an amazing round table discussion with myself, Dr James Lindsay and Stephen Coughlin. We cover the history of Western dialectics, manipulation, Plato and Aristotle, Hegel and Marx and how the dialectic is used to control how the masses think and see reality. This is a powerful podcast with heavy hitters. “Recognized as […]

  • What is Philosophy?

    Counter Currents - Oct 21st 2022 11:25am EDT

    7,590 words 1. Knowledge of the Right Use of All Things To explain what philosophy is, we always have to go back to the beginning. Pythagoras (ca. 570-495 BC) is said to have been confronted by Leon, the tyrant of Philius, who demanded to know if he was wise. He responded that he was not […]

  • Before 4chan, There was Alt.Fan.Karl-Malden.Nose

    Amerika.org - Jul 24th 2022 5:08pm EDT

    Someday, someone ambitious will write a history of trolling. It will feature early BBS trolls, combat like that which nihilists engaged in the 1980s fighting for free speech and the right to offend the censorious bourgeois instead accepting realism instead of altruistic symbolism turned into conformist ideology, and also USENET. During the early years of […]

  • Meta-Narratives: Essays on Philosophy & Symbolism – NEW Jay Dyer Book PRE-ORDERS!

    Jay Dyer - Jun 20th 2022 3:31pm EDT

    Images are mock-ups Images are mock-ups Images are mock-ups Meta-narratives is the revamped and restored lost essays and arcana from the old site! The 15 best essays that function as an intelligent person’s guide and introduction to philosophy and transcendental thinking. The essays cover some of the following topics: alchemy and esotericism, Darwinism & creation, Plato and platonic thinking, literary symbolism & archetypes, number theory & […]

  • Entanglement

    - Jun 14th 2022 3:47pm EDT

    When Plato first wrote about his theory of forms, he started off a firestorm of confusion that persists to this day. He was after all writing about the fundamental mystery of our time. Plato’s conception of forms is related to his ideas of cause/effect relationships. In his view, effects are the visible manifestations of causes, […]

  • City of God – St. Augustine Analysis – Jay Dyer (Half)

    Jay Dyer - May 10th 2022 12:39pm EDT

    After many years of request, I will lecture through St Augustine’s City of God. I read the City of God when I was 21 and it made a profound impact on my thought. Even though as Orthodox we do not accept all of his ideas, St. Augustine’s City of God is still an invaluable classic […]

  • Christianity, Platonism, & Demographic Winter

    Counter Currents - Apr 14th 2022 10:56am EDT

    2,127 words There is a time for us to wander.When time is young and so are we.The woods are greener over yonder.The path is new, the world is free.There is a time when leaves are fallin’.The woods are gray, the paths are old.The snow will come when geese are callin.’You need a fire against the […]

  • How We’re Defeating The Assault On Parenthood (Ep.31)

    Irida TV - Jan 31st 2022 2:36pm EST

    Mark Herr from the Center for Self Governance (CSG) joins us to explain how parents can have a lasting impact in today’s educational institutions, and shares some recent success stories from CSG students, including how an attack by the far-left SPLC backfired spectacularly. The Center for Self Governance https://www.centerforselfgovernance.com/ The Republic by Plato https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Plato) FBI… […]

  • The Matrix Resurrections

    Counter Currents - Jan 3rd 2022 8:21am EST

    1,458 words Larry and Andy Wachowski’s The Matrix (1999) is a science fiction classic. The setting is a devastated Earth in the far future. The premise is that humanity has been enslaved by artificial intelligences. Human beings spend our lives in what are essentially coffins while mechanical vampires drain our energy. We don’t know it, because we […]

  • A Series of Unfortunate Events: Stephen Paul Foster Keeps On Turning

    Counter Currents - Dec 16th 2021 9:07am EST

    You can buy Stephen Paul Foster’s new novel When Harry Met Sally here. 3,278 words Stephen Paul FosterAfter Harry Met Sally: A Novel of Philosophical Discovery  Independently published, 2021 I can still hear you sayingWe would never break the chain. — Fleetwood Mac, “The Chain” Readers who enjoyed last year’s Toward the Bad I Kept […]