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  • “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 […]

  • The Lying Game

    Counter Currents - Dec 8th 2021 1:14pm EST

    3,437 words Every Cretan is a liar. I am from Crete. — attributed to Epimenedes Tell me lies.Tell me sweet little lies. — Fleetwood Mac We live in an age of lies. We are fed daily Potemkin truth, a manicured version of reality intended to deceive, deny, and degrade. The trickster god Obama claimed that […]

  • The Secret Destiny of America – Manly P Hall Analysis & Critique – Jay Dyer (Half)

    Jay Dyer - Sep 28th 2021 1:10pm EDT

    Jamie gives up a book report on her latest read – the well known classic text from mason Manly P Hall which gives the US a secret, force of “democracy’ destiny with an esoteric twist. Learn how Atlantis and Plato’s Republic form the basis for the sacred religion of democracy and its revolutionary faith underlie […]

  • Roman Catholicism, Islam & Greek Philosophical Presuppositions – Montana Lecture – Jay Dyer (Half)

    Jay Dyer - Aug 4th 2021 2:17am EDT

     This is the first half of the Montanica Lecture I delivered covering the similarities and patterns in the divine simplicity doctrines of Roman Catholicism, Islam and Eunomius. We look at Actrus Purus, the divine ousia as seen in Eunomius Vs the Cappadocians, the doctrine of the energies and more! The full talk is available […]

  • What Does the One Ring Represent?

    Amerika.org - May 6th 2021 8:02am EDT

    Literature moved from warning about coming modernity, to bemoaning it, toward a fusion with science fiction where writers began visualizing a world outside of modernity. Leading this charge were the Inklings, including J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. In Tolkien, much of the analysis of modernity concerns itself with a ring of power, which like technology, […]

  • Icon & Incarnation: The Reality of Symbolism – Jay Dyer (Half)

    Jay Dyer - Apr 22nd 2021 8:55pm EDT

     Today we will do the icon stream on the philosophy and reality of symbols: type, prototype, archetype and the ultimate reference point for Orthodox philosophy.  The symbolic world of correspondences in our worldview is much more than mere analogy, similitude or metaphor: For us the symbolic is directly grounded in the logical (logoi), and […]