Republic Broadcasting Network
Final Hour with Travis, August 2, 2024 Hour 1
Congratulations to Travis for his recent anniversary of the first show on July 21, 2023!
Episode #51
8/2/24
Tonight we invite Lark in Texas on to discuss communitarian law, Stockholm syndrome, creative destruction and the new economic system, GRIN and a variety of other topics.
- Lark on Moral Relativism, Bioethics, Game Theory, and Communitarianism https://www.facebook.com/share/p/vJ5sxxWk9M9ut7a8/?mibextid=oFDknk
We take calls from Lynn in MD and Jeff and Joe in the second hour. This is a great show packed with a lot of information. Be sure to
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The treason of the intellectuals & “The Undoing of Thought”
The New Criterion
December 1992
by Roger Kimball
On the abandonment of Enlightenment intellectualism, and the emergence of a new form of Volksgeist.
When hatred of culture becomes itself a part of culture, the life of the mind loses all meaning.
—Alain Finkielkraut, The Undoing of Thought
Today we are trying to spread knowledge everywhere. Who knows if in centuries to come there will not be universities for re-establishing our former ignorance?
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-99)
In 1927, the French essayist Julien Benda published his famous attack on the intellectual corruption of the age, La Trahison des clercs. I said “famous,” but perhaps “once famous” would have been more accurate. For today, in the United States anyway, only the title of the book, not its argument, enjoys much currency. “La trahison des clercs”: it is one of those memorable phrases that bristles with hints and associations without stating anything definite. Benda tells us that he uses the term “clerc” in “the medieval sense,” i.e., to mean “scribe,” someone we would now call a member of the intelligentsia. Academics and journalists, pundits, moralists, and pontificators of all varieties are in this sense clercs. The English translation, The Treason of the Intellectuals, sums it up neatly.
The treason of the intellectuals & “The Undoing of Thought”
Fear vs. Knowledge
by Alan Phillips, J.D.
https://vaccinerights.com/fearvsknowledge
Critical Thoughts on Critical Thinking
Aware Community Cognitive Dissonance
January 2024
by Alan Phillips, J.D.
https://vaccinerights.substack.com/p/critical-thoughts-on-critical-thinking
Aware Community Cognitive Dissonance:
No, the U.S. Isn’t a Corporation
by Alan Phillips, J.D.
July 2024
https://vaccinerights.substack.com/p/aware-community-cognitive-dissonance