In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia spoke to Rob Henderson about his turbulent upbringing, the culture shock that was university for him and why he believes that educated elites have misplaced moral priorities.
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You gotta take into account the fact that bodily existence is intrinsically terrifying and therefore in this always chaotic world which is always full of violence and the threat of violence, everyone will always do whatever they can to maintain their always tentative level of security lest they fall into bankruptcy and/or poverty. Once upon a time such debtors or bankrupts were thrown into debtors prisons, and as far as I know such a modified situation is now being being put into practice in some areas of the USA. Such obvious fears were played upon by Hitler who in one way or another seemed to present a way of “saving” everyone from the threat of leftists, socialists, bohemians, non-conformists,”deviants” and of course the Jews. So everybody, including the tentatively prosperous members of the “upper” middle classes et al in the USA desperately want to maintain their relatively secure safety. And… Read more »
What is a luxury belief? Are most/any of our beliefs about quite literally everything, including human nature in any sense true, or at best only partially true? The current science of epi-genetics posits that the mental and emotional states of both parents is passed on to their children – even the states of their grand parents and further back too. What if the psycho-physical state of both parents is passed on to their children at the moment of conception – almost indelibly so. Such is the subtle psycho-physical mechanism by which the “sins of the fathers (and mothers too) is passed on from generation to generation. And who created the obvious distopia which now patterns and controls everyone? In a very real sense it always was and is the elites. The elites in all times and places have always conspired to control everyone. The original totalitarian or totalizing Western institution… Read more »
Nothing whatever to do one way or the other with the content or ideas of this particular podcast, but couldn’t it perhaps be argued that putting an essay in the form of a video or a podcast deprives people who are visual readers by upbringing, habit, and temperament? Just sort of wondering! I’d LOVE to have READ this post!