Ascending the Tower

This week, we’re joined by AntiDem to finish off the previous discussion with part 2, Episode II of Ascending the Tower.

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

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Music:
Opening Song – https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/988193/classical-majestic-symphonic-choirs-theme-soundtrack-017

Closing Song – : https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/558286/deepecho

Sponsorship:

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This week, we’re joined by Grerp for a discussion on femininity and gender roles.

Related Show Links:

Music:
Opening Song – https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1103247/dawn-zarya

Closing Song – https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/529463/bach-partita-d-moll-giga

Grerp’s blog – http://grerp.blogspot.com/

Grerp’s favorite post – http://grerp.blogspot.com/2010/03/piece-of-advice-14-realize-clock-is.html

Motte-and-bailey – http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-brick-in-the-motte/

Extant matriarchies – http://mentalfloss.com/article/31274/6-modern-societies-where-women-literally-rule

Tibetan brother marriage – http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1048903/brothers-sharing-wife-aids-survival-nepalese-villages

Captain/first-officer – http://marriedmansexlife.com/take-the-red-pill/captain-and-first-officer/

Jim’s view of patriarchy – http://blog.jim.com/politics/the-reason-that-women-need-to-be-subordinated-for-successful-reproduction/

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This week, we’re joined by Hurlock for a discussion on bureaucracy.

Related Show Links:

Music:
Opening Music – https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1130269/sand-bones-skulls

Closing Music – https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1058487/rekreation

Hurlock’s old blog – http://hurlock-151.tumblr.com/

New blog – https://hurlock1.wordpress.com/

James Goulding’s GBCReaction post – https://web.archive.org/web/20130609174305/

http://suspiriadeprofundis.net/2013/05/29/no-more-mr-reaction-guy

Also relevant – https://foseti.wordpress.com/2013/05/26/randoms-112/

Louis XIV and bureaucracy – http://epicworldhistory.blogspot.com/2012/05/louis-xiv.html

Pippin and Charles the Great – http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Munro05.html

Peace and Truce of God – http://crusadinghistory.wikispaces.com/The+Peace+of+God+and+Truce+of+God

Mass Conscription in Europe – http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/alliances-and-wars/war-as-an-agent-of-transfer/conscription

Sponsorship:

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This week, we’re joined by Hurlock for part 2 of a discussion on bureaucracy.

Related Show Links:

Music:
Opening – https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1164342/jornadas2

Closing – https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/231561/the-winter-blues

Whig Theory of Checks and Balances – http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa51.htm

Andrew Jackson v. Supreme Court – http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/worcester-v-georgia-1832

Birth of judicial review – http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/democracy/landmark_marbury.html

Efforts to repeal 17th Amendment – http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2014/02/05/271937304/rethinking-the-17th-amendment-an-old-idea-gets-fresh-opposition

Hurlock’s comment at Nick Land’s – http://www.xenosystems.net/quote-notes-63/#comment-34926

Great Chain of Being – https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/Tillyard01.html

Nudge in politics – http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/first-obama-now-cameron-embraces-nudge-theory-2050127.html

Sponsorship:

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This week, we’re joined by Henry Dampier for a discussion on American conservatism.

Related Show Links:

** N.B. Boston did not break the snowfall record until 3/15/15

Music:
Opening – https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1124080/merd-in-france

Closing – http://www.navy.mil/navydata/nav_legacy.asp?id=191

Henry Dampier’s Blog – http://www.henrydampier.com/

Conservakin – http://www.henrydampier.com/2015/02/what-makes-someone-conservakin/

American Flag Etiquette – http://www.usflag.org/flagetiquette.html

Civics in Common Core – http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/03/12/why-the-common-core-flunks-on-civic-education/

Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3643823/Enoch-Powells-Rivers-of-Blood-speech.html

Sean Gabb on Enoch Powell – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l92GtM-8Z1c

Sponsorship:

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

Notes:
2:28 – Introducing Neocolonial
5:52 – What are we drinking?
15:42 – What are your main intellectual influences?
21:32 – Would we devote an episode of ATT to nationalism?
30:22 – How would the secularization of Islam play out?
43:36 – What will be the result of the Synod on the Family?
1:01:12 – Is the current immigration wave divine punishment?
1:23:25 – An example of skinning a sheep when you should shear it?
1:45:42 – What city should be the capital of the world?
1:58:36 – Opinion of gay men like Jack Donovan?
2:08:47 – What are your thoughts on transhumanism?
2:23:28 – What does the Tower of Babel story mean to you?

Related Show Links:

Music:
Opening Music – “Leave Me” by That Was Yesterday (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/925739/leave-me

Closing Music – “Basse Dance” by General Union
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/170000/basse-dance

Neocolonial’s blog
https://neocolonial.wordpress.com/

E. Antony Gray’s blog
http://ionthesky.blogspot.com/

Sponsorship:

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

Related Show Notes:

00:44 – The failures of decolonization and neocon foreign policy (Anatoly Karlin, March 28)

09:10 – Who is Moldbug and why is he important? (Ryan Landry and E. Antony Gray, August 11)

24:14 – Moldbug as traitor to Brahmin caste (June 28)

29:40 – Prog triumphs are crystallizing the alt-right (ClarkHat, June 28)

41:16 – We are awash in Prog narratives (Ryan Landry, October 8)

53:36 – Millennials and the sexual marketplace (Free Northerner, March 11)

1:05:42 – Libertarians and action (ClarkHat, June 28)

1:11:02 – Nerds and jocks are broken priests and warriors (Ryan Landry, October 8)

Sponsorship:

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This week, we’re joined by RiverC and Esoteric Traditionalist for a discussion on language and meme warfare.

Notes:
04:51 – Reintroducing RiverC
08:50 – Introducing Esoteric Traditionalist

12:20 – Primary Loyalties
20:38 – Right-wing Esoterics and Meme Warfare
32:07 – Cultural impacts of Gardner and Crowley
38:37 – Language is the outer bound of philosophy
45:07 – Language and the transmission of memes
54:32 – Literacy as class marker and secret decoder
1:02:08 – Mass media, universal literacy, and the multiplier effect
1:08:27 – Roots of effective right-wing meme generation
1:19:00 – Confusing sigils with the power behind them
1:36:18 – Out of Left Field: Is Gnon a valid concept?

Related Show Links:
Opening Music – “Spikes of Steel” by ROBERT8OZ (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1169151/spikes-of-steel

Closing Music – “Vivaldi concerto pour guitare en ré, mouvement 3” – Cinus Laurent
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1291589/vivaldi-concerto-pour-guitare-en-re-mouvement-3

RiverC’s blogs:
http://ionthesky.blogspot.com/

http://mitrailleuse.net/author/eantonygray/

Esoteric Traditionalist’s blog:

https://esoterictrad.wordpress.com/

Gnon’s origin story
http://www.xenosystems.net/the-cult-of-gnon/

Man as rising beast vs. fallen angel
http://orig13.deviantart.net/d950/f/2013/334/8/1/beast_by_wizardleo-d6w6xba.png

Bindrunes – Sigils created using runic letters
http://www.runemaker.com/bindrune.shtml

Grant Morrison on Magic and Sigils
http://disinfo.com/2014/10/pop-magic-grant-morrison/

Sponsorship:

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Today, we’re joined by Warg Franklin, Harold Lee, John Lawrence, One Irradiated Watson, and James A. Donald for a special episode of Descending the Tower.

Notes:
00:06:56    JANUARY – Cultural Marxist vs. Ultra-Calvinist Theories of Progressivism
00:25:32    FEBRUARY – KrauserPUA Too Red Pilled For RooshV
00:35:52    MARCH – The Passing of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew
00:47:16    APRIL – The Baltimore Riots and #BlackLivesMatter
00:54:09    MAY – The Hestia Putsch of Neoreaction
01:03:57    JUNE – #LoveWins, the CBF Loses
01:18:33    JULY – #Cuckservative and the Ascent of the Dissident Right
01:24:29    AUGUST – The Unveiling of Trump’s Immigration Policy
01:55:45    SEPTEMBER – Strange Loop, Urbit, and the Un-personing of Mencius Moldbug
02:24:04    OCTOBER – Putin Escalates Syrian Military Operations, NATO Gawks
02:39:13    NOVEMBER – The Paris Massacre and the Future of White Europe
02:55:59    DECEMBER – Star Wars: The Poz Awakens
03:11:24    IT’S 2016! – Predictions for the New Year

Related Show Links:

Music:
Opening Music – “Stainless Steel” by Guy Berrier (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1304666/stainless-steel

Closing Music – “Resignation” by Ludovic Scholz (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1305218/resignation

Guests:

Harold Lee – http://thefutureprimaeval.net/author/harold/

One Irradiated Watson – https://soundcloud.com/caligulas-council

John Lawrence – http://westcoastrxers.com/author/johnlawrence7/

James A. Donald – http://blog.jim.com/

Sponsorship:

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In part one of this episode, Anthony and Nick talk with guests Mark Citadel and E. Antony Gray about the metaphysics of collapse, exploring historical examples, and making the case that Western civilization is itself collapsing.

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

Notes:
2:35 – Introducing Mark Citadel
12:19 – Reconciling Kali Yuga predictions and Christianity
19:28 – Are we living during a collapse?
26:29 – Does technological advancement contradict or hide decline?
36:26 – Pericles and Alexander – collapse followed these Great Men
51:35 – Contemporary lessons from the fall of Rome
1:03:51 – The end of the Tokugawa Shogunate (and other aristocracies)
1:19:02 – Baby Boomers as harbinger of collapse of Western Civilization

Related Show Links:

Music:
Opening Music – “Critical Hit” by Schitzophrenic [sic] (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/track/986697/critical-hit

Closing Music – “Jill Grace” by Disyled
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1158784/disyled_-_jill_grace

Mark Citadel’s blog
http://citadelfoundations.blogspot.com/

E. Antony Gray’s blog
http://ionthesky.blogspot.com/

“Defeating Eurabia” by Fjordman
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/10/defeating-eurabia-part-1.html

St. Augustine’s “City of God” on Hermes Trismegistus
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf102.iv.VIII.23.html

MPC explains the… Mestizo-Negro cycle
http://mpcdot.com/forums/topic/7199-gibbons-decline-and-fall/

Paulus Orosius: 5th c. Roman SJW
https://mikeaztec.wordpress.com/2014/05/18/paulus-orosius-an-optimists-view-of-the-disastrous-fifth-century/

Quora on the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate
https://www.quora.com/What-were-the-reasons-behind-the-fall-of-the-Tokugawa-Shogunate-who-ruled-Japan-for-250-years-from-17th-to-19th-century

On wealth wasted on health “care” in last six months of life
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbell/2013/01/10/why-5-of-patients-create-50-of-health-care-costs/#4012e77b4781

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In part two of this episode, Mark Citadel guides us through of the Kali Yuga prophecies, and we begin to explore measures that modern men can take in response. Mark and E. Antony Gray then take a crack at our Out of Left Field question.

Notes:
0:45 – What is the Kali Yuga? What effects does it produce…
7:27 – …physically?
16:10 – …emotionally?
24:47 – …spiritually
35:53 – Protestantism and patchwork
49:50 – How do we respond to the effects of the Kali Yuga?
1:03:24 – Out of Left Field – Why build amongst the ruins?

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Music:
Opening Music – “Critical Hit” by Schitzophrenic [sic] (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/track/986697/critical-hit

Closing Music – “Jill Grace” by Disyled
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1158784/disyled_-_jill_grace

Evola on the “poles” of masculinity and femininity
https://ia800506.us.archive.org/16/items/RevoltAgainstTheModernWorld/revolt-against-the-modern-world-julius-evola.pdf#page=97

JM Smith on Duffers and Fanatics
http://orthosphere.org/2016/01/11/duffers-and-fanatics/

SILPHIUM! It was Silphium.
http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/silphium-ancient-contraceptive-herb-driven-extinction-002268

MA Law on Planned Parenthood Protests
http://www.boston.com/health/2014/07/30/gov-patrick-signs-mass-buffer-zone-bill-into-law/ZoLyawzsQMtc9J53IlisRL/story.html

Google Street View of the Boston PPA Facility
https://goo.gl/maps/yWG9DagDzeo

Dennis Hopper Sicilian scene in True Romance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu_G1zaPCPw

Neil Devers on Passivism
http://thefutureprimaeval.net/passivism-and-the-procedure/

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