Ascending the Tower

Anthony and Nick invite Ryan Landry, E. Antony Gray, and Jean-Luc Deaux into the Tower depths to talk about low-time preference, American patriotism, the Presidential race, and much more.

Brought to you by Surviving Babel and Nick B. Steves, Ascending the Tower is a podcast distributed by Social Matter and represents the latest project of the Hestia Society. Please leave feedback in the comments, and if you’d like to get in touch with Surviving Babel, you can find him at: survivingbabel@gmail.com

Notes:
0:07:12    Is Low Time Preference innate or can it be learned?
0:30:55    How should white American rightists feel about their country?
0:49:07    Is NRx’s appeal mainly that it’s taboo?
1:02:50    How is NRx different from 5 years ago?
1:24:59    Recommendations for Millennials looking to learn life skills
1:49:47    One True Faith versus Perennialism
2:21:01    Does NRx support Hillary for accelerationist purposes?
2:40:46    Assorted closing thoughts

Related Show Links:

Music:
Opening: “Fausto” by Anima Adversa (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1060324/fausto

Closing: “Gone” by Martin Eigenmann
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1198814/gone

Sponsorship:

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Anthony, Nick, and E. Antony are joined by Aaron Jacob to talk relations between trad Christians and ethno-pagans. In part 1, we hear Aaron recount his religious journey and talk about the common origins of European paganism and Christianity.

This episode is brought to you in part by generous donations from our listeners David Hansen, Gladio, Bermudan Reactionary, Edmund Birkenstock, and Ursus. If you would like to sponsor Ascending the Tower, e-mail survivingbabel@gmail.com.

Notes
07:01   Presenting neoreaction.net
11:46   Introducing Aaron Jacob
17:16   Aaron’s religious journey
24:58   Perennial truth and Pagan/Christian relations
34:44   Proto-Indo-European foundational tradition
47:16   Christ as man’s ultimate access to God
52:57   Christianity and Holiness Spirals

Related Show Links:
Music:
Opening Music – “From Sky to Abyss” (excerpt) – Quantum Ocean
https://www.jamendo.com/album/153263/quantum-ocean

Closing Music – “Instrumentel” – d-alternative
https://www.jamendo.com/track/104694/instrumentel

Aaron Jacob’s blog
http://www.graaaaaagh.com/

New Hestia website project – official canon of neoreaction
neoreaction.net

Ross Douthat and Vox on Neoreaction
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/opinion/sunday/the-reactionary-mind.html
http://www.vox.com/2016/4/18/11434098/alt-right-explained

Aaron Jacob’s first podcast
http://www.graaaaaagh.com/2015/11/podcast-episode-1-how-i-broke-my.html

CS Lewis – Early Pagan-Christian bridge builder
http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2015/08/christianity-is-truth-and-reality-not-mythology/

Information on Proto-Indo-European language, culture, and religion
http://piereligion.org/

Ananias and Sapphira – Thus always to holiness signallers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananias_and_Sapphira

Sponsorship:

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Anthony, Nick, and E. Antony are joined by Aaron Jacob to talk relations between trad Christians and ethno-pagans. In part 2, we talk about the transition from Paganism to Christianity, and how the two sides can find common ground.

Notes:
00:57   Religious and geopolitical covergence in pre-Christian Rome
14:16   Roman transition from Pagan to Christian
20:45   Nominalism in Abrahamic religions
30:49   Catholic universalism vs. ethnic nationalism
43:01   Traditionalist Christian & Ethno-pagan reconciliation
54:29   Out of Left Field – Praise Kek?

Related Show Links:
Music:
Opening Music – “From Sky to Abyss” (excerpt) – Quantum Ocean
https://www.jamendo.com/album/153263/quantum-ocean

Closing Music – “Instrumentel” – d-alternative
https://www.jamendo.com/track/104694/instrumentel

Aaron Jacob’s blog
http://www.graaaaaagh.com/

New Hestia website project – official canon of neoreaction
http://neoreaction.net

Byzantine Iconoclastic Controversy
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/byzantine1/beginners-guide-byzantine/a/iconoclastic-controversies

What, exactly, is the Genius of the Emperor?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3141986

Based Modi doesn’t back down
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/no-guilty-feeling-about-gujarat-riots-says-modi/article4908704.ece

Kek statue with iconography (check the comments…)
http://www.amazon.com/Egyptian-Frog-Goddess-Heket-Set/dp/B001BX5PD2

George Gemistus Plethon
https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Gemistus-Plethon

Hierotheos Vlachos
http://full-of-grace-and-truth.blogspot.com/2009/

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This week, we’re featuring deleted scenes and selections from Ascending the Tower that couldn’t quite fit into the first five episodes. It’d be a shame to leave them on the floor.

Related Show Notes:
0:12 – John Glanton – Constitutions and complex systems
10:35 – Hurlock – Bureacracy and public education
21:46 – Grerp – Bargain dating, prog in-fighting
25:13 – Henry Dampier – NRx and mainstream conservatives
30:19 – John Glanton – Religion and rationality cults
36:34 – Antidem – More Ask.fm Q&A
41:45 – Grerp – Patriarchy, health care
51:25 – Henry Dampier – Memories of high school history
57:11 – Antidem – Science fiction and its underlying ideologies

Sponsorship:

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This week, we’re joined by Free Northerner for a discussion on gender dynamics, sex, and the church.

Notes:
1:16 – Guest Intro
6:04 – Taking the red pill
15:51 – Sexual evolution since the 50’s
34:15 – Contemporary divorce statistics
39:26 – Church enabling of divorce
48:50 – Out of Left Field question

Related Show Links:

Music:
Opening Music: Fenrir – “Metal Jig”
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/348646/metal-jig

Closing Music: vvsmusic – “Cooley’s Reel”
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/894470/cooley-s-reel

Free Northerner’s blog
http://freenortherner.com/

NRx Code of Conduct
https://nickbsteves.wordpress.com/code-of-conduct-for-neoreactionaries/

wasenlightened’s 50’s post
https://wasenlightened.wordpress.com/2015/02/04/the-once-and-future-geek/

Silphium, Rome’s contraceptive?
http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/silphium-ancient-contraceptive-herb-driven-extinction-002268

Noel Biderman, Founder of AshleyMadison.com, horrible human being
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/love-sex/63389655/Ashley-Madison-founders-don-t-practice-what-they-promote

Sponsorship:

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This week, we’re joined by Anatoly Karlin for a discussion on Russia and the West.

Notes:
4:44 – Introducing Anatoly Karlin
7:17 – Putin and his perception in the West
16:26 – Gradual erosion of Russian respect for the US
22:10 – Russia Today vs. Western media outlets
28:05 – Brief thoughts on Alexandr Dugin
32:05 – Mid-19th c. burgeoning Cathedral foreign policy

Related Show Links:

Music:
Opening Music (excerpt): “Thirst For Truth” by Sons of Northern Mist
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1174735/thirst-for-truth

Closing Music (excerpt): “You is Light” by KORDYUKOV
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1207353/you-is-light

Anatoly Karlin’s Blog
http://www.unz.com/akarlin/

Discussion of 19th c. Russian liberal-conservatism
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/putins-philosophy/

More on Russian attitudes towards the US
http://www.pewglobal.org/2014/07/14/chapter-1-the-american-brand/

Ofcom and Russia Today
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/02/russia-today-anti-western-ukraine-crosstalk-kremlin

Gregory Hood on Dugin
http://www.radixjournal.com/journal/2014/6/23/why-the-conservative-movement-needs-dugin

Russian involvement in US Civil War
http://www.voltairenet.org/article169488.html

Sponsorship:

Surviving Babel: We have returned from our mid-season break, which was somewhat longer than we intended. Apologies to both our listeners and the guest of this episode, Anatoly Karlin. The following podcast was recorded on March 28th. It is, however, as relevant today as it was then.

One of the reasons for the extended break was the time commitment required to release an episode that I am willing to stand behind. I am producer, host, and editor of the show. The average episode requires 20-25 hours, much of it repetitive work. In order to defray some of the monetary and opportunity cost, I am conducting my very first sponsorship drive. If you are interested in sponsoring Ascending the Tower, e-mail me at Surviving Babel at gmail dot com. Sponsorships start at $10 an episode, and all proceeds will either go back into the podcast or provide some compensation for your most grateful host. You can purchase a mention or short message, or you can choose to sponsor the Out of Left Field question or even an entire episode.

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This week, we’re joined by Anatoly Karlin to wrap-up the discussion on Russia and the West.

Notes:
1:03 – Woodrow Wilson, progenitor of the Cathedral
5:46 – Family structure and its influence on political ideology
11:30 – The failure of the League of Nations
15:13 – The post-WWII East-West polarization
19:58 – Competing visions of the nature of Ukraine
29:32 – Euromaidan and the Russian reaction
38:41 – Forecasting the near future of Ukraine
44:04 – Out of Left Field — Impact of the EAEU

Related Show Links:

Music:
Opening Music – “Opening Game” by aktarum
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1134793/opening-game

Closing Music – “The Gardener” by Mister_Even_Steven
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1245965/the-gardener

Anatoly Karlin’s blog
http://www.unz.com/akarlin/

Anatoly discusses Apollo’s Ascent
http://akarlin.com/2015/01/blogging-at-unz-review/

Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations (warning: Cathedral source)
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1914-1920/fourteen-points
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1914-1920/league

Covenant of the League of Nations
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/leagcov.asp

hbdchick’s posts on Emmanuel Todd’s family formation theory
https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/tag/todds-family-systems/

Eurasian Economic Union (officially EAEU in English)
http://www.eaeunion.org/?lang=en

Sponsorship:

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This week, we’re joined by Clark Hat for a discussion on law enforcement and the similarities/differences between anarcho-capitalism and neoreaction.

Notes:
4:09 – Introducing ClarkHat
9:10 – Holiness spirals
16:36 – The connotations of “Dindu Nuffin”
25:34 – Evolution of American law enforcement
31:35 – What came before the po-po?
36:28 – Theories of law enforcement
46:03 – The relationship between crime rate and policing
52:43 – Broad similarities between An-Cap and NRx
1:02:52 – Out of Left Field – Endgame of GamerGate

Related Show Links:

Music:
Opening Music – “Anarchy” by Auquid (Excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/en/list/a149616/anarchy

Closing Music – “Banish misfortune” by Brigan
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/637240/banish-misfortune

ClarkHat’s blog
http://popehat.com/author/clark/

Hillsdale College
https://www.hillsdale.edu/

Polycentric Law
http://fee.org/freeman/detail/what-is-polycentric-law

Sponsorship:

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Today, we’re joined by Warg Franklin, Mark Yuray, and E. Antony Gray for a special episode of Descending the Tower.

Notes: Questions and Discussion:
12:02 Show intro
14:12 How does one avoid masturbation?
31:28 It’s the 2050s and the West has collapsed. Should whites leave their homelands?
33:39 Should we get dogs? What breed would be best?
35:15 Pro or anti jackal hour
44:08 Spread of literacy causing propagation of complex legislation
1:22:14 Pick a year and a location. If you could suspend civilizational deterioration and cultural change indefinitely, where would you live
1:33:18 Thoughts on #cuckservative
1:59:30 NRx Narrative contends that the Cathedral element self-aligns, effectively operating in a market. Can NRx disrupt this market?
2:04:56 What should reactionary art look like in gaming?

Related Show Links:

Music:
Opening Music – “In Saecula Saeculorum” by Anima Adversa (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/772232/in-saecula-saeculorum

Closing Music – “Wunderbarer Moment” by Lobo Loco (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1076650/wunderbarer-moment

Sponsorship:

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Today, we’re joined by Warg Franklin, and our friends Mike Enoch and Seventh Son from The Right Stuff for a special episode of Descending the Tower.

Notes:
00:04:11 The “cuckservative” non-controversy, explained
00:45:07 How do you square Eugenics with Trad. Christian teaching?
01:03:10 14? 88? GTK? RWN?
01:13:19 Strategic plan for American WN?
01:34:33 Wind-down and Wrap-up

Related Show Links:

Music:
Opening: “Wariors of Ice” (sic) by phantom (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1093710/wariors-of-ice
Closing: “Thermostatic” by DJLaser
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/101491/thermostatic

Sponsorship:

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This week, we’re joined by Sarah Perry for a discussion on depression, meaning, and narratives.

Brought to you by Anthony DeMarco and Nick B. Steves, Ascending the Tower is a podcast distributed by Social Matter and represents the latest project of the Hestia Society. Please leave feedback in the comments, and if you’d like to get in touch with Anthony DeMarco, you can find him at: survivingbabel@gmail.com

Produced in part with the support of Crab Aesthetics and Gladio.

Notes:
2:51 – Introducing Sarah Perry
11:06 – Roots of suffering and depression
18:04 – Ethical considerations of suffering
24:14 – Narrative structure and culture
29:30 – Narrative as basic part of human experience
39:40 – Tumblrinas and the search for meaning
47:13 – The fallacy of essence divorced from action
52:37 – The modern self as placeholder for the soul

Related Show Links:

Music:
Opening Music: “Wild Symphony” by Redeemers (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/592406/wild-symphony

Closing Music: “4 Days” by Bam Boom (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1186079/4-days

Sarah’s Blogs:
http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com/
http://theviewfromhellyes.wordpress.com/
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/
http://carcinisation.com/

Sarah’s Book:
http://www.ninebandedbooks.com/every-cradle-is-a-grave-02/

Nick’s Review:
https://nickbsteves.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/choose-your-illusion-a-review-of-every-cradle-is-a-grave/

“Against Narrativity”
http://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Paper/against_narrativity.pdf

Common Filth’s YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb9NIDFFW4KOqc6hGBnFBhg

Sponsorship:

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This week, we’re joined by Sarah Perry for a concluding discussion on rituals, technology, and sanctuary cities.

Produced in part with the support of Crab Aesthetics and Gladio.

Notes:
1:21 – Ritual, wish, sacrifice and reward
5:59 – Science fiction as wish magic for the future
11:34 – How many narratives is too many?
18:48 – Technology allows us to grant our own wishes
23:07 – Can people have a healthy relationship with immersive VR?
32:00 – Response to sanctuary cities? – Question from @crab_aesthetics
43:27 – Out Of Left Field – Proper role of entheogens?

Related Show Links:

Music:
Opening Music: “Fight the Dragon for the Village” by NanowaR (excerpt)

Closing Music: “Wandering Possum” by Robbie Hancock

Daywalt Horror – “Bedfellows”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6flB0XvmTo

Sanctuary Cities and You
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/07/30/sanctuary-cities-defy-immigration-law/bXmxdlTSbYUWVGDT8MaLLO/story.html

Don’t Do Drugs, Kids
https://www.erowid.org/entheogens/

Sponsorship:

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This week, we’re joined by Ryan Landry for a discussion on entertainment and sports culture.

Editor’s Note: From this point on, all episodes will be released in a single file instead of split files for longer episodes. This will save me 3-4 hours of editing time per episode. I appreciate your understanding. – A.D.

Notes:
1:37 – Winterchan
4:06 – Introducing Ryan Landry
8:48 – The emerging Entertainment Culture
14:02 – Arguments against “Sportsball” fandom
19:22 – Sports and community
31:59 – The false geek/jock dichotomy
42:15 – The symbiosis of Sport and Media
59:07 – Prog Race Narratives vs. Reality
1:10:37 – Negative portrayals of White athletes
1:20:30 – Shoehorning Women into Sports Media
1:28:00 – Out of Left Field – Sports League Collapse?
1:41:28 – Ethnic origins of basketball

Related Show Links:

Music:
Opening Music: “Qosqo” by DavidKBD (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1145432/qosqo

Closing Music: “Deadly akoustik” by Schizophrenic
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/870449/deadly-acoustik

Ryan Landry’s blog
http://28sherman.blogspot.com/

Watching your team lose drops your T levels
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9811365

The absence of white cornerbacks
http://www.complex.com/sports/2011/09/ghost-what-happened-to-the-white-running-backs-and-cornerbacks

Classic John Rocker quotes
http://www.searchquotes.com/quotes/author/John_Rocker/

Women gets “mind raped” in a locker room, files suit
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20113326,00.html

The Malice at the Palace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPaZ4zRb5G0

Sponsorship:

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This week, we’re joined by Pax Dickinson for a discussion on WeSearchr.

Brought to you by Surviving Babel and Nick B. Steves, Ascending the Tower is a podcast distributed by Social Matter and run by the Hestia Society. Please leave feedback in the comments, and if you’d like to get in touch with Surviving Babel, you can find him at: survivingbabel@gmail.com

Related Show Links:

WeSearchr
http://wesearchr.com

Pax’s home blog
Pax Vobiscum

Sponsorship:

If you are interested in sponsoring Ascending the Tower, e-mail Surviving Babel at gmail dot com. Sponsorships start at $10 an episode, and all proceeds will either go back into the podcast or provide some compensation for your most grateful host. You can purchase a mention or short message, or you can choose to sponsor the Out of Left Field question or even an entire episode.

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Anthony, Nick, and E. Antony are joined by Jim Donald, Ryan Landry, and Alistair Hermann to talk about Brexit and Texit, “no enemies to the right,” Dad Rock, and much more!

Descending the Tower -7 is brought to you in part by generous donations from our listeners Bermudan Reactionary, Gladio, and Edmund Burkenstock.

Notes:
00:04:39 Introducing our new subreddit, r/nrxn
00:13:36 Will #Brexit actually happen? (u/AdvocataEve on reddit)
00:41:12 How does “no enemies to the right” actually work? (@JoeWChristman on twitter)
01:13:36 How did the academies avoid being hollowed out by the Internet?
01:33:52 If blank slate is mistaken, is it a noble lie? (from Ask.fm)
01:41:27 Opinions on Texan Independence? (u/AugustJRush on reddit)
01:55:06 NRx compared to Monarchism and Traditionalism – (@ShawnBrewer on twitter)
02:20:08 Best Dad Rock of 2016
02:57:01 The 14 rules of patriarchal relationships (h/t @IrisAndOleander on twitter)

Related Show Links

Music:
Opening Music – “Through the Shadow and the Light” by Everlasting Dream (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1190918/through-the-shadow-and-the-light

Closing Music – “The Blue Feast” by JGMillan
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1322606/the-blue-feast

Sponsorship:

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Anthony, Nick, and E. Antony are joined by Louis de Bonald to discuss Progressivism and Millenarian movements. In part 1, they trace the memetic roots of contemporary Progressive culture to the hardliners of the Protestant Revolution, John Calvin and Huldrych Zwingli.

This episode is brought to you in part by generous donations from our listeners The Reactionary Tree, Gladio, Bermudan Reactionary, and Edmund Birkenstock. If you would like to sponsor Ascending the Tower, e-mail survivingbabel@gmail.com.

Notes:
00:03:52 Introducing Louis de Bonald
00:07:30 Mass Media and the unprecedented import of the Pope
00:20:00 Pre-millennialism and it’s relationship with Moldbug’s theories
00:37:00 Revelations as fuel for hucksters and true believers alike
01:05:39 Calvinists and “Zwingli-ists” break with Church (and State) of England
01:20:13 Loss of church hierarchy and the rise of the charismatic preacher
01:29:44 The ties between temporal and spiritual power

Related Show Links
Music:
Opening Music: “Vial (Reprise) – The Cassini Projekt (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1318055/vial-reprise

Closing Music: “Fiore d’Inchiostro” – Mattia Vlad Morleo
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1305561/fiore-d-inchiostro

Throne and Altar, Bonald’s long-running site
https://bonald.wordpress.com/

The attempted Pope Bartholomew?
http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2016/06/15/patriarch_bartholomew_arrives_in_crete_for_orthodox_council/1237416

Exploration of eschatological taxonomy
http://www.christianciv.com/eschatology_bs_Sect1.htm

The car that reduces your carbon footprint by killing you
http://www.onionstudios.com/videos/new-prius-helps-environment-by-killing-its-owner-1706

Revelation’s Addition into Canon
http://michaeljkruger.com/the-book-of-revelation-how-difficult-was-its-journey-into-the-canon/

Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli on the Real Presence
https://www.ewtn.com/library/Theology/Euchtheol.htm

Mary Dyer (NOT Anne Hutchinson, sorry) on Drunk History (only the end)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaDk0wG-HWk

The Millerites & the Great Disappointment
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2008/12/strange-and-curious-sects-iv/

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=etas

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Anthony, Nick, and E. Antony are joined by Louis de Bonald to discuss Progressivism and Millenarian movements. In part 2, they learn how the Unitarians took over Harvard, why the left secretly wants Trump to win, and Bonald goes Out of Left Field for the next pope.

Notes:
00:50 Unitarianism as the next big Progressive leap “forward”
10:12 Ultracalvinists strove to be holier than Christ – abolition as example
26:20 The common themes of Prog Millenarianism
29:53 The uniqueness of Prog moral condemnation
38:11 Out of left field – Who should be the next Pope?
51:55 Predictions of the Pope and Trump tearing it all down
1:04:27 Zombie apocalypse wishcasting and the refugee crisis
1:18:57 Christ and power, “servant leadership” and becoming great

Related Show Links:
Music:
Opening Music: “Vial (Reprise) – The Cassini Projekt (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1318055/vial-reprise

Closing Music: “Fiore d’Inchiostro” – Mattia Vlad Morleo
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1305561/fiore-d-inchiostro

Throne and Altar, Bonald’s long-running site
https://bonald.wordpress.com/

Moldbug’s ultracalvinist hypothesis
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/06/ultracalvinist-hypothesis-in.html

The First Harvard Coup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Divinity_School#Harvard_Divinity_School_and_Unitarianism

Unitarians and Abolition: a Unitarian Perspective
http://www.uua.org/re/tapestry/adults/river/workshop12/178742.shtml

Kant, Emerson, and Thomas Carlyle
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/transcendentalism/emerson/idealism_kant.html

LBJ’s “Girl with the Daisy” attack ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTBnsqxZ3k

Bonald on American Conservatism
https://bonald.wordpress.com/can-there-be-an-american-conservatism/

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Anthony, Nick, and E. Antony are joined by Ryan Landry and welcome special guest The Rebbe to talk about the second half of the Puritan-Judaism theory of Progressivism. In part 1, they cover Jewish perspectives on Christ, the ethnic divisions within modern Jewry, how nationalism saved Israel, and much more.

This episode is brought to you in part by generous donations from our listeners Anonymous in VA, The Bermudan Reactionary, Gladio, Edmund Burkenstock, and a special gift from our guest, The Rebbe. If you would like to sponsor an episode of Ascending the Tower, e-mail survivingbabel AT gmail.

Notes:
04:11 Finding guests for the topic
09:15 Introducing The Rebbe
20:31 Christ as “great disambiguator” between Christians and Jews
33:04 Medieval Christian-Jewish relations and the court Jew
41:56 The curious case of Russian Jewry
51:09 Breakdown of Jewish ethnicities
1:08:02 Tackling the “Israel is our Greatest Ally” meme
1:18:19 Zionism as a descendant of European National Socialism
1:27:16 The Torah as a barrier against degeneracy

Related Show Links:
Music:
Opening Music: “A Handful of Sand” – Sins of Shadows (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1164697/a-handful-of-sand

Closing Music: “Hassidic Celebration” – German Shepherd
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1184020/hassidic-celebration

The Rebbe’s Twitter Presence
https://twitter.com/The_Rebbe_

A Timeline of Robert Moses shaping modern NYC
https://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/timeline/robert-moses-modern-parks

First appearance of “Judeo-Christian values” in print, according to La Wik
https://books.google.com/books?id=0j2qODEJkdoC&pg=PA401#v=onepage&q&f=false

The “betrayal” of the Balfour Declaration
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/The-Balfour-betrayal-How-the-British-Empire-failed-Zionism-330440

The BBC on the Baruch Goldstein massacre
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm

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In part 2, Anthony, Nick, and E. Antony cover the last four centuries of Jewish foreign relations with guests Ryan Landry and The Rebbe. They ponder the question of the future of Euro-Jewish relations, and we have, not one, but two Out of Left Field questions.

Notes:
00:50 Christ explicitly taught the avoidance of holiness spirals
12:52 The Qabbalists against the Torah
26:26 The events that led to the Frankfurt School
52:21 Where do we go from here in Reactiono-Judaic relations?
1:07:39 Are American Jews their own nation?
1:25:14 Out of Left Field – The Rebbe
1:31:42 Out of Left Field – Ryan Landry

Related Show Links:
Music:
Opening Music: “A Handful of Sand” – Sins of Shadows (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1164697/a-handful-of-sand

Closing Music: “Hassidic Celebration” – German Shepherd
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1184020/hassidic-celebration

The Rebbe’s Twitter Presence
https://twitter.com/The_Rebbe_

Admonitions of Ipuwer – Ancient Egyptian Political Treatise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipuwer_Papyrus

Sabbateanism, from the Progressive Jewish perspective
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/sabbateanism

Freud and the Frankists
https://books.google.com/books?id=CLTc4Xg7sDQC&lpg=PA108&ots=jv-Tgo2CZX&dq=freud%20frankist&pg=PA107#v=onepage&q=freud%20frankist&f=false

Spinoza, from the Cathedralite Professor perspective
http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2013/septemberoctober/feature/why-spinoza-was-excommunicated

Matt Damon is a WASP Nationalist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQMzJ5Z7zBw

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Anthony, Nick, and E. Antony are joined by Ryan Landry, the Dutch reactionary Alf, One Irradiated Watson, and Michael Pascal to talk urban legends and the Benedict Option, and light a path for atheist reactionaries to Christendom.

Descending the Tower – 8 is brought to you in part by generous donations from our listeners Gladio, Bermudan Reactionary, Ursus, and Edmund Burkenstock. If you would like to sponsor an episode of Ascending the Tower, e-mail survivingbabel AT gmail.

Notes:
0:04:15 What is your favorite urban legend?
0:25:32 Alf’s view of the current state of the EU
0:32:59 Porn – subversion or something else?
0:43:27 Is there a legal path to Emperor Trump?
0:51:22 Would an ethnically divided American have provided more for each people?
1:07:47 Is it a blessing or curse to be born in these times?
1:34:25 Should Restorationists reach out to the alt right?
1:52:16 What can we take away from the Benedict Option
2:03:21 How-to Guide for Atheists trying to into Christianity (David Hansen)

Related Show Links:

Music:
Opening Music: “Wariors of Ice” (sic) by phantom (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1093710/wariors-of-ice

Closing Music: “Thermostatic” by DJLaser
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/101491/thermostatic

Ryan Landry’s blog
https://28sherman.blogspot.com/

One Irradiated Watson’s blog and podcast
https://oneirradiatedwatson.wordpress.com/
https://countnothingface.wordpress.com/caligulas-council/

Alf the Dutch Reactionary’s blog
http://alfanl.com/

Michael Pascal’s Twitter presence
https://twitter.com/MichaelPascal21

“The White Man’s Burden (Apologies to Rudyard Kipling)”
http://apjjf.org/data/cb25-141_1899_judge__2d5989.jpg

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Descending The Tower – 6

Ascending The Tower – Episode XV, Part 1 –“That Sort Of Christo-Pagan Thing”

Ascending The Tower – Episode XV, Part 2 –“Correct Theologically, Incorrect Politically”

Ascending The Tower – Deleted Scenes 0.1

Ascending The Tower – Episode VI –“The Marriage Can Just Be Dissolved”

Ascending The Tower – Episode VII, Part 1: “This Kaleidoscope Of Truths”

Ascending The Tower – Episode VII, Part 2 –“The Worship of the West”

Ascending The Tower – Episode VIII –“A Monopoly Service Provider”

Descending The Tower – 2

Descending The Tower – 3

Ascending The Tower – Episode X, Part 1: “‘Be Yourself’ Means ‘Be Like Us'”

Episode X Part 2 –“The Trampoline to Ultimate Knowledge”

Episode XI –“Find the Black Tom Brady”

Ascending The Tower –“A Very Special Episode 2 (Pax Dickinson)”

Descending The Tower – 7

Ascending The Tower – Episode XVI, Part 1 –“Weaponized Goodness”

Ascending The Tower – Episode XVI, Part 2 –“Useful in the Zombie Apocalypse”

Ascending The Tower – Episode XVII, Part 1 –“Gaslighting Christians”

Ascending The Tower – Episode XVII, Part 2 –“The Meme Made Flesh”

Descending The Tower – 8