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Modernity is the left hemisphere gone wild. Gnosticism, with its dualistic approach and emphasis on knowledge that gives salvation and control, is a left-hemispheric political religion that thrived during the twentieth century and has today set
Pick four traits. The last one must be "victim."It's because we live in a gnostic culture that rails against the evil "structure." If there's a structure, there must be victims of the structure. Show notes
Belief in a structure drives the gnostic. Without a structure to defeat, the gnostic has no purpose.Ancient Gnosticism Presupposed an Elaborate Cosmological Structure of EvilAncient gnosticism used the ancient cosmic system: The earth was in
Parts IV and V of an Analysis of Eric Voegelin's Six Gnostic TraitsAlienation is the Marxist bugbear. He sees alienation everywhere because it emanates from the economic substructure and works its way through the socio-political superstructure
Did you take a sociology class in high school or college?Did you know sociology’s founder, August Comte (1798-1857), was kind of a dick? The Encyclopedia Britannica says he was “ungrateful,” “self-centered,” and “egocentric.” If those aren’t b
This is a podcast episode from "Outside the Modern Limits," a whimsical newsletter that comes out every Saturday that is geared toward helping people understand and thrive in modernity. You can subscribe and find the show notes here.
“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” RousseauRousseau’s passage from the beginning of The Social Contract contends for the most famous in philosophy.Rousseau’s point was simple: Humans are good, but there’s a lot of suffering, s
A Diagnostic of the GnosticEric Voegelin was to modern gnosticism what Knute Rockne was to Notre Dame football. Rockne didn’t start the ND football program and Voegelin didn’t discover modern gnosticism, but they took their subjects to much hi
Brains beat brawn. The Titan Prometheus knew that. He joined Zeus in his battle against the Titans.Prometheus later befriended the race of men. He saved them when Zeus thought about extinguishing them. He taught them arts and science. He gave
For the fortunate few, that router is hard-wired with fiber optic. Most of us only get a wireless connection, and a wobbly one at that.Show notes here
If you want to understand how gnosticism flourishes in our modern world, you need to understand why it developed in the ancient world.Show notes here
Solon opened Athens to true order: the transformative order found through the Tao.Show notes here.
Within 100 years, the Cartesians used impeccable logic derived from Descartes' I think there I am to reach two conclusions: there is no earthly agent of movement and there is no matter. There is only God and mind. Hume yanked God and mind out o
Something really bizarre happened around the year 500 BC, all across Eurasia. We started to realize that we live in the metaxy: an area comprised of transcendence and immanence. These ten thinkers, from Italy to China, led the way.Show notes h
Voegelin was not charismatic. He was a “gentleman thinker.” He didn’t like small talk and valued his time. His personality didn’t attract a cult-like following. He didn’t establish a school or movement. But he’s important.Show notes here
Before he published the Prince, Machiavelli published the seducer. Before he published a masterpiece of political philosophy, he published a comedy.The Mandragola (The Mandrake) tells the story of Callimaco, a handsome young man and seducer of
A 50-year-old man had ritual sex with a 12-year-old girl while adult women assisted.And everyone was cool with it.That’s just part of the bizarre story told in Netflix’s Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey and the exploits of its prophet, Warren Jeffs.
You're soaked in modernity. You think like a modern. It's not good. Consider doing the opposite of whatever your rationality tells you to do.Show note here
Your reason isn’t reasonable.Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it.And smoke it and smoke it and smoke it, until you smoke rationality out of your head, until a love for the absurd fills your lungs, and until you breathe the fresh air of freed
Descartes was a philosophical surgeon who lobotomized common sense from the modern mind without most people even noticing. It helped that western civilization was thoroughly prepped and anesthetized for the procedure.Show notes here.
Descartes, by placing ultimate importance on one's ideas, gave credibility to the outrageous ideas that littered modernity.Lycurgus put the “Spartan” into Sparta.Before Lycurgus, Sparta was like other Greek cities. Its citizens sang, celebrat
A Cistercian monk in Austria writes eruditely about David Foster Wallace. He appears to embrace "The Bridge Option" when dealing with modernity: embracing postmodernity and premodernity . . . bypassing modernity.Show notes here
He sat on his mother’s couch, smoking marijuana and watching the McCarthy hearings, cheering Tail Gunner Joe. He was 32 and it was 1954. In his 20s and the 1940s, he said he’d like to join his Russian comrades and fight against Fascism.He coin
Montaigne was the godfather of modern skepticism. His was a “negative skepticism,” which disturbed Descartes enough to prompt him to come up with a positive response, which in turn gave us modernity, its fierce subjectivism, and the parade of “
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