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religion known as dialectical materialism. And
you might think, how could this man

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be so insane, so foolish?
Materialism is not religious. It's purely scientific,

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purely scientific. Indeed, that is
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it progressed from the earlier revolutionary movements
of the time of the French Revolution,

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and even before that, from the
figures of Saint Simon, Saint Just and

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Buena Rodi and Bishop. So we'll
be going into some history here, getting

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going back to some of the revolutionary
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the the Renaissance period, the magic
of the Renaissance period and some of the

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hermeticists that precede and influence Marx.
And you say, wait, about how

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could her medicis influence Karl Marx because
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possible, right, But you see
the Hermeticis influence one of the most important

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influences on marx and that's Hegel.
So we're gonna be talking about some of

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Hegel's process philosophy, the mystical religion
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itself, and the worship of dialectical
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theological and religious intentionality attributes is not
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period. Prior to Hegel, and
the secret societies that people in the Prussian

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aristocracy were a member of, we're
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ancient philosophy, where the original ideas
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the famous figures of the Presocratics and
Plato. Now I've covered the predecessors to

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Marxism and Socialism and Platonism many many
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on Plato. We're going to focus
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Heraclitus. And the reason that we
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has a specific presupposition about flux.
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And if you don't know, I
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of Western philosophy, and we began
with the Presocratics, and that's a thirty

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plus our course which you can purchase
right there if you're interested from Richard Groves

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Autonomy AGORAM Marketplace. Together with the
Q and as and all of that,

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it's probably it comes to close to
forty hours of information. But we begin

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the talk with how Western philosophy is
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and it goes back older. It's
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usually beginning with the Greeks. Because
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philosophy, you can go back to
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to ancient Egyptian philosophy. They had
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total monism or total dualism. Those
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especially for Eastern religions, they typically
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could say that they were a kind
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powers to matter. Matter does things
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be out of nothing, or has
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a kind of eternality, and the
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These ideas are present, for example, in Plato, Plato I would argue

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as a mystical initiatory theological philosophy,
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who were usually consumed with questions of
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right with Heraclidas, anaximand or all
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with figuring out what is the overriding
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explains all reality. And so,
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is that all reality fundamentally just is
flux. It is change. The only

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permanence is change. That would be
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I'm gonna look at this forerunner because
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like hegel who will influence Marx,
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We're going to see that dialectical process
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the starting point of the entire system, and Marxism, muchlike Hegelianism,

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is what we call a system building
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even though it uses metaphysical claims.
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It contradicts itself by dewriting and rejecting
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fantasy. But just because we call
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reality is matter if we're empiricists,
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Marxists are empiricists, you don't have
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that it's an unjustified claim. And
so they would do well to read a

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little bit of hum Now Lennon did
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some of Lennon's comments on Hume and
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Because Lennon doesn't believe in apparently or
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simply matter, which is simply the
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That's the highest epistemic principle. Now
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time as we're dispensing with metaphysics.
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gonna rewind all the way back to
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the presuppositions of this worldview and of
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matter ultimately which of the various Marxist
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because all of the Marxist schools and
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dialectical materialism. And it doesn't matter
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reductionist crude materialism or if they want
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in immaterial realities. The question is
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for how there are immaterial realities.
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matter what you claim your position is. The question is why should we believe

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that? And just like Thomas and
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ridiculous systems. They think that stating
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we don't want to know what your
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is, but we want to know
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Why ought we believe that? What
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reasons, the good reasons to believe
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make metaphysical claims about all reality being
matter or all reality being matter in some

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form of ideas. If all reality
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What our ideas? What is the
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the reasoning faculty? If everything is
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even if they want to have a
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idealism, become irrational and incoherent because
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to see, in Marxism, it's
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root of the system is the acceptance
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of Marxism. That's called praxis.
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around and theorize. You must take
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because Marxism is predicated on rejecting theory
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is theorizing, sitting around, speculating
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philosophy and acting, acting in the
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to struggle, to oppose, to
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process by which the dialectic is furthered, so that the process itself, which

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is the process, is the religion. It is the god figure dialectical oppositions,

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and that's why they love, for
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of the fittest. It is the
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the purpose of evolution in the species, to produce the fitter models, so

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to speak. That is why Marks, for example, as he got more

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mature, as he developed and wrote
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because he saw, or he believed
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of praxeology of human action in the
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even developed yet but will eventually develop
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the discipline eventually of sociology via actually
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it actually has its predecessors and people
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agus Compte, the socialists of France
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in the eighteen hundreds. But let's
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why do I call it mystical.
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we're gonna understand that it's mystical.
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everyone probably know is hopefully Marx turns
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be influenced by not just Hegel,
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Simon and like Feuerbach. So Marx
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the three key influences on early young
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young Hegelians. Later on Marks will
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we think about Hagel, we have
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well, that are not restricted to
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like Heraclitis, but certain Renaissance Hermetic
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influence on the figure of Hegel.
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in a moment when we get to
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And this will be coming from the
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by doctor Alexander McGhee from Long Island
University. This is a pretty well known

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well, I guess in Hegelian studies. It's a well known book, but

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not many people have actually read this
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demonstrate the various Rosicrucian secrets aside idea
influences on the figure of Hegel when developing

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his kind of alchemical philosophy. But
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Heraclitis flourished around five hundred BC,
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predecessors and contemporaries for failing to see
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we have an attempt at a monistic
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idea is that all reality is one
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difference, it could be matter.
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matter, It could be ideas.
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ultimately just an idea. And so
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philosophy that you could argue is ultimately
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Platonism is dualistic. Zoroastrianism, right, that's a religion or various gnostic groups.

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Those are just structures and narratives that
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reality is fundamentally two types of things, God versus matter, light versus dark,

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etc. Those are dualistic approaches.
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of Heraclitus, he is a monistic
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that one big thing? It is
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Well, in one sense he says
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are like a unified system of balanced
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interchanges of elements. And so if
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Socratics, they will list out the
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the fifth element. And these elements
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causing and doing different things and producing
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come together, they produce a kid. Fire comes together with water and it

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produces heat, It produces steam.
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all of life is characterized. Did
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are necessary for life day, night, dark, light, white, black,

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male, female, cold, hot, etc. But it is a

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unified lawlike interchange of this perpetual flux. And what is the best symbol of

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this for Heraclitis? Fire? Why
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is always moving, it is ultimately
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significance here is that all of reality, since it is supposedly just atoms and

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molecules bumping around and moving, all
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coming back to Heraclitis, Now keep
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there is relevant because fire is going
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revolutionaries throughout the later centuries post Enlightenment
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fact, they will actually hearken back
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the ancient Zoroastrians. In the character
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Zoroastrians worshiped fire as this revolutionary principle, furthering the duality right, because there's

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always a center change, what is
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constant change again, fire, which
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Thus, and we will look at
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texts for this discussion, the classic
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Minds of Men, Origins of the
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titled his book Fire in the Minds
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the way back to these guys,
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look to the predecessors to the French
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Bishop. Not talking about conspiracy theories
about the actual history of Adam Bishop,

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he will utilize Pythagorean, Zoroastrian and
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those that don't know, Adam Bishop
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and for those that don't know,
prior to Adam Bishopt, Pythagoras and Plato

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were communists prior to Karl Marx.
And it's not even disputed when you get

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into the academic literature on this.
I had undergrad and grad classes where we

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covered the history of the French Revolution
through many academic texts. So I know

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this history very well. But keep
in mind that James Billington is not a

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conspiracy theorist. Billington was a believer
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he was a He was the Librarian
of Congress, and so this is a

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historical political science history text by the
Librarian of Congress. It is a famous

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academic text. It is not a
conspiracy text. And of course, being

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at the Library of Congress, James
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of the revolution over the Jacobins side. But nevertheless he still gives a lot

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of credence and honor and obeisance to
the revolutionary communist ethost of the Jacobins,

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who were the radical communists fall VII
shop in the French Revolution. In other

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words, the Jacobins believed in no
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We share all things in common.
Literal communists, men and women are

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completely equal. Whereas the Grandins were
the more quote conservad revolutionaries who believed in

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private property, who believed in distinctions
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that they're not still revolutionary philosophers.
They were right the merchant class, the

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nobility in the French Revolution, the
Lafayettes, these kinds of characters, they

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were the Grondins. They believed in
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French Revolution, we have been stuck
in a choice between two forms of revolutionary

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philosophy. Do you want communism,
socialism of the Jacobin sort and the Marxist

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sort, or do you want revolutionary
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That's really all that's offered to you
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There's really no other options. And
yes, I understand that Lasa fair

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economics is just an older form of
revolution merchant merchant class revolutionary philosophy of Adam

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Smith, David Ricardo, John Locke, but's that also is an Anglo empiricist

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revolutionary enlightenment philosophy. That's just the
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And yes there were social again,
there were socialisms all the way back

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to the ancient world, again going
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Plato's book is called the Republic,
and in the Republic, the guardian class

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in particular holds all things in common, and so you have a proto communism

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in the ideal republic of Plato.
Eventually, this gets a little bit modified

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by later Plato in the Laws,
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the what he calls Magnesia, the
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it's governed by an intelligence operative secret
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And so it doesn't really change a
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de emphasizing of the philosopher king,
and it's more so run by a council

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of wise oligarchs or olympians, basically
the way we're governing nowadays with a Kissinger

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of Brazinski, you know, a
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Really modeled, I would say,
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of Plato's later work, The Laws
of Magnesia. But regardless, there's still

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proto communism in Plato's Republic because the
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including wives and children. So back
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the logos here is not what we
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One's sense of the logos. So
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we define words, right, Logos
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and across every system. That's called
the word concept fallacy. And a lot

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of Roman Catholics trade on this bait
and switch argument where they will say,

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look, all the philosophers are talking
about logos, that's what John means in

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John One, Well, there might
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that they mean the same thing.
For example, Heraclidas's logos is an all

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pervading monistic force. It is the
composite totality of all of reality. That

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is the logos in flux, in
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we're not Pantheus. Jesus is not
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logos is the second person of the
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teaching. So there's not the same
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one Roman Catholics. Can you understand
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There are different reference there. Now, it is true that what Greek

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philosophers were seeking for when they talked
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is grasping in the dark for the
person of Christ. But it is not

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grasping in the dark for generic monad
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There's only triad and the energies of
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As is it loss or Mantaid's argues, I think it's monts Reid's.

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The world is not to be identified
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process governed by quote law of change. Now, let's presup this right from

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the outset, because this presubmisitional critique
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there. Very easy to refute this. Notice the fundamental law, the unchanged,

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supposedly non material principle. The starting
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system is the law. Now,
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It must be an existing metaphysical truth
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be a law. Otherwise it's not
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of reality is change, all of
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a universal claim. So how do
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What is the justification episdemically for saying
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if all reality is flux, then
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longer true and must also be subject
to flux. Very simple presubsitional critique of

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the first principle of Heraclianism and all
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few of the German idealists who might
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will have probably some place for the
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example, Plato wouldn't believe that all
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this. In fact, Plato later
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to resolve the questions of the presocratics, questions like the one in the many

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questions like what is the fundamental nature
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Is it water? Is it flux? Is it permanence? Promenities?

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Zeno. All these guys trying to
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also trying to deal with a Presocratic
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change over time. Many of the
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and Ariostota and Plato both attempt to
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his attempt his answer to the pre
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over time. That's the whole point, the whole origin of Aristotle's causes.

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So her Clidis is the first questern
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in search of metaphysical foundations and moral
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all reality is process is a metaphysical
claim. And it doesn't matter whether you

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think that all reality is ideas or
all reality is matter. When you say

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all reality is matter, that's a
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of metaphysics. Against all the Marxists
who had no clue what I was talking

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about the other day. Literally no
knowledge of philosophy at all, trying to

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debate, no clue what these words
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And Herclodus lived in Ephesus, on
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not far from Malitis, the birthplace
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life that he can be gleaned from
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of him consist of nothing more than
inferences of imaginary and constructions based on what

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he said. Plato thought he wrote
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likely, but he wrote before Parmenides. He is criticized by name by important

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thinkers with him he disagrees, although
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contrary to Herclidis, all realities flux. Change is an illusion. Parmenides is

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the opposite of Heraclidis. Heraclidus says, no, you are wrong. All

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reality is flux, not permanents.
So you have it backwards dialectical opposition.

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You see later philosophers an attempt to
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This will be part of the reason
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argue that it's not just matter that's
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ultimately, for Hegel, all reality, as ideas, ideals and their exchange

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are producing a synthesis, which is
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to become pure spirit. That's the
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that's the cunning of reason, and
all the stuff that Hegel talked about.

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Now again that's going to be very
all. This will be very relevant for

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Karl Marks. So we can't understand
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And it's not controversial. I studied
under Marxists in college, trained under Frankfurt

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School people. So my professor graduate
and undergraduate advisor and philosophy trained under his

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advisor was under Hob Moss. So
I have delect direct descent from Frankfurt School.

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I make that joke, but I'm
not also not joking, but I

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had Marxistolic succession through studying under people
who've studied under people who studied under Horror

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Moss. So that doesn't mean that
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that that's my pedigree. That's my
lineage. In terms of academic study,

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I studied a lot of Marxism in
college and in grad school. That does

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not make me a Marxist expert.
I do not care that much about Marxism

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to become a Marxist expert. But
I guarantee you, compared to of internet

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Marxists, I know way more Marxism
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especially from Horkheimer, Adorno, Horror, Moss and these figures out of the

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Critical School than any of these other
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School is not identical too early marx
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I am well aware of all these
distinctions and schisms within the religion known

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as Marxism. Yes, exactly,
Marxism is a religion with high priests,

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mystical texts, mystical jargon, an
intercore elite, a hierarchy, saints like

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Zarazinsky, who was considered the pure
flame, the saint of Marxists. He

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was the great Marxist martyr, you
could say, because supposedly he was willing

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to do to give everything to the
revolution. Is the philosophy of Derzynski the

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doctrine of flux and the unity of
opposites. According to plane An Aerosol,

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Heraclidis believed extreme views that led to
logical incoherence. Everything is constantly changing and

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opposites are actually identical, so that
everything is and is not at the same

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time. In other words, universal
flux and the identity of opposites entail of

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denial of the law of noncontradiction.
Now, this you'll notice, is absolutely

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applicable to Marxism, because Marxism's praxeology
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This is what I was trying to
illustrate, and a lot of people

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don't know this. The reason that
you can't have a debate with a Marxist

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is because Marxists don't have the same
presuppositions about what laws of history, laws

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of logic, and facts are.
They're not what you think they are.

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All of these things are merely tools
in the tool kit to engage in revolutionary

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action. You're not entering into a
debate with a committed serious Marxists to figure

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out the truth. For them,
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they contradict engage in power relations,
to further the dialectic, to oppose you

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at all costs, and to oppose
each other. In fact, Marxism necessitates

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that each generation of Marxists opposed the
previous generation of Marxists. And until you

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understand that, you will never understand
this system. You will be thinking that

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you're figuring out some law of history, some deterministic scientific structure of the phases

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of history. And that's not what
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intentionally and had no problem contradicting himself
and modifying the system and doing things that

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contradicted it, it will never make
sense to you. But notice the statement

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there. Everything is flux and changing, opposites are identical. The higher level

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Marxists even discussed this and talk about
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run out of London in New York. And so when we go to the

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higher level Marxists like HG. Wells
H G. Wells and say, monopoly

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capitalism is no different than Marxism,
Leninism, Trotskyism, because opposites are ultimately

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identical and they're all moving towards the
synthesis. So capitalism must clash with Marxism,

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communism. But the product is not
either one. The product is the

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synthesis. The product is Klauss,
not Stalin, not tiny mustache man.

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Those are all just lower level dialectical
manifestations, and not even Dave Rockefeller and

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his money elite. Until you understand
this and the law of opposites and the

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contradictions and the embracing of contradiction for
the purpose of embracing the dialectic and the

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philosophy of process, you cannot understand
the system. You will be arguing against

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nothing, nothing, pointlessness, straw
men, red herrings, and all of

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the Marxists who don't understand this,
who are just dumb ideologus and low IQ

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dupes, college of goobers. They
are also dupes of this trapped in the

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dialectic. All of this, by
the way, is actually also outlined in

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the Rakowski interrogation. Interesting. Rikowski
says everything that I'm saying. Interesting.

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I wonder why that would be.
Why would he say everything I'm saying now.

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I didn't come to this through reading
the Rikowski interrogation. I came to

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this through a lot of years of
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And yet the famous in KVD interrogation
of the trotsky I Christian Rakowski has Rikowsky

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stating everything that I'm telling you.
There is the link to the Rikowski interrogation

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if you want to go down that
rabbit hole. So that's enough of Heraclitis,

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because I think we can we can
see the fundamental ideas in Heraclitis of

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revolutionary metaphysics. Right, everything is
in flux. Now again, he's still

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couched within the idea of explaining a
universal metaphysical truth. Right. So it's

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not until we get post Enlightenment where
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after David Human, after Emmanuel Kant
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we are anti metaphysics, even though
it's contradictory because they affirm metaphysics every time

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they talk about states of reality,
about universal claims about what is or is

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not the case is and is not
our statements of existence. Those are predicates

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of what exists and what does not
exist. Materialism is the case. That's

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a metaphysical statement. It's an ontological
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it's a statement of what being is, what is the type of being of

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which all things exist, it is
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fundamental of all existence. So even
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in my view, that's just a
contradiction. Okay, you can't give an

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account for ideas. You realize that
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and it also needs things like laws. But you have a contradiction in the

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system whereby you don't have an account
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or in laws of logic. Thus, they then revert to embracing contradictions,

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and they make the system unfalsifiable because
they will say, if you are engaged

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in arguing against them, you are
arguing from the position of bourgeoisie. So,

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in other words, every argument against
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comes from a bourgeois opposition of Marxism. So it's an unfalsifiable system, you

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see. And that, by the
way, is a common weak point,

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a crack in any so called system, right because the system has to It's

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like much like the papacy. You
can't argue against the papacy because the papacy

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is infallible. Well, what about
all the time was where it contradiction.

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It's no longer teaching correctly and Francis
is teaching heresy. Oh well, those

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were never infallible declarations, you see. So it's a ever moving goalpost,

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which then makes the system unfalsifiable.
But unfalsifiable systems are usually false systems.

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They're always false systems. So there
we have the key figure of Heraclitis,

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and then we want to move up
to later on this great book that is

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very important for Orthodox theology, because
you might not know that the Orthodox,

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especially in Byzantium, shut down the
Platonic academies. Right, Aristotle kind of

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became the philosopher, so to speak, of apodictic logic. Palamos writes the

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Apodictic Treatise on the Holy Spirit,
accepting a lot of the basic principles of

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Aristotlian logic. That's not to say
that there weren't some Neoplatonic influences on Saint

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Maximus or on Palamos even when it
came to the Logi. But when it

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came to the Platonic academy, Byzantium
shut it down. However, it gets

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revived, and when it was shut
down in Byzantium is actually underground for many,

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many years, and one of the
key figures in the underground Platonic Academy

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was gi missed those Plethon. Plethon
was interesting because he was a unique atheist

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Platonist. So you might think,
we'll wait a minute, how can you

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be atheist Platonists? Well, Plethon
saw the ideas of Plato not as existing

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in a transcendent realm, but really
as symbolic of this realm, or patterns

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and structures of this realm. And
so there's not a personal God ultimately that

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unifies and gives meaning to reality,
and plethon system. For Plethon, atheistic

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Platonism is the ultimate answer. And
if I recall, I think Plethon also

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tried to give place to process and
change because in Platonism there's always a never

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ending question about how to give an
account for change. Right. That's one

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of the reasons Aristotle disagree with Plato. There was many others, but one

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reason was that Aristotle didn't believe that
Plato had a good account for change.

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Right. He didn't have a good
account for the relationship of the realm of

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the ideas to the realm of the
here and the now, which is change

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in flux, and so this is
partly what motivates Aristotle's response to both the

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Presocratics and to Plato. So in
Byzantium. This figure of Plethon left scholars

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of Platonism puzzled as they struggled to
understand the project described in his big treatise,

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The Nomoy. It entailed abandoning Christian
orthodoxy and to revive the ancient pagan

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notions that were at present in Plato. The only copy of this work was

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burned by Patriarch Gannadio Scolarios, who
kept some excerpts to prove that he was

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justified in destroying it. After the
publication, fragments survived by translated by Charles

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Alexander in eighteen fifty eight. A
variety of different interpretations of Plethon's Platonism have

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been suggested, ranging from the idea
that he was the leader of a pagan

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cell operating in the Peloponnese and to
the idea that he was this is his

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secret society, a whole story apostosy
from Christian Orthodoxy, amongst other philosophers.

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They argue that the background of these
scholarly impact impast Cinecioglu's book tackles a problem

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of making the sense of Pletho's Plethon's
pagan Platonism for the point of view of

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the history of ideas. It explores
the intellectual history of the fourteenth century as

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the current context on which Plethon's philosophy
has been understood. As a result,

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what he offers is not a general
introduction, but rather a historical survey of

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this enigmatic figure. The result is
a learning and stimulating book. Okay,

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yeah, we got it. The
book is organized in various parts, and

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here's the key point where it gets
to the end. Now, notice underground

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Platonism right as a sort of secret
society throughout Byzantium. I want to get

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you to the end because the ultimate
thesis of the book vindicates a lot of

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what I've talked about, and it
vindicates what's in this book. And this

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is the idea that I don't know
if this is just somebody's analysis of the

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book, but the platonic atheism influences
Spinoza, and that also influences the illuminists

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of the time period that we're talking
about. This time period, so there's

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a direct ideological lineage from Plethon's atheistic
platonism to Spinoza and to vyshopped in those

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characters, and Sinesia Glue even says
that he says that the illuminists of the

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vishoped era are influenced by this philosophy. So if you've not read it,

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I highly recommend the excellent book,
very well documented Cambridge Production, Radical Platonism

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and Byzantium Utopia and Gamistus Plethon by
Nikitas Sinsia Blue. So that's you see

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how we're tracing this up through and
by the way, for those that don't

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know, also, the chief philosophical
ideological opposition to the Church Fathers throughout the

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first seven Ecumunical Councils is Greek Hellenic
dialectics. Every one of the Ecumunical Councils

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is battling various dialectical argumentation either this
or that. Either Jesus is human or

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is divine, Either the Trinity is
a unitarian thing or its tri theism.

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Either Jesus is his will is overtaken
by the Divinity, or he's subsumed in

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the Divinity. It's either or is
dialectics constantly because Greek philosophy as we saw

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with Heraclidus is premised on the necessity
of opposites. The necessity of opposites.

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Orthodox Christianity and Orthodox philosophy is premised
on the rejection of metaphysical dialectical oppositions.

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There are oppositions in nature, sure, but it's not a necessary opposition number

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one, because this world is fallen. So you would only take these things

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to be natural if you didn't believe
in the fall. But our world is

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not natural. It is in a
degraded or unnatural state because of the fall.

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Nature is still good, but as
Paul says in Romse, it is

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in bondage to corruption until the Eskaton. But regardless, the state that we're

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in now, although not inherently evil, is not itself the ideal state.

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It's not the identic state. It's
not what we have in the Eskaton.

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Right, And so all of Western
philosophy is premised on dialectics, and this

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is one of the key elements that
distinguishes Orthodox Christianity from all the other philosophies.

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And I would argue even far Eastern
philosophies, for Eastern philosophies are also

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in meshed and dialectics either or all
reality is one thing, or it's two

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things, or it's no thing.
Those are all dialectics. And whenever I

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00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:19,239
talk about this, people don't know
what I'm talking about, and they get

468
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:22,039
confused. They don't know what they
think. Dialectics is the same thing as

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dialectical method. No, don't know. That's that's pedagogy. That's teaching.

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Okay, that's question and answer back
and forth. Nothing wrong with that.

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That's just classic ways to teach people. The alnktic method. I'm talking about

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metaphysical dialectics, that all reality is
fundamentally constantly flux and struggle, strife and

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emotion. Nothing is fixed, nothing
is objectively true or in permanence or in

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stasis other than what the party dictates
you see. So in this way,

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it's very similar to the metaphysical discussion
that O'Brien says to Winston in the Metaphysics

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Debate in nineteen eighty four. So
he said, but wait a minute,

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Lennon argues for objective truth, he
doesn't think that everything is flux and sophistry.

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Yeah, but that's just contradicting.
And the question is not does he

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think that or does he say that? The question is is that consistent with

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the rest of what he says?
No, it's not right. So again,

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just like Thomass, they think that
stating a position is an argument.

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Likewise, Marxist, let me state
what Lennon's positions are. As if the

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question is what is the position,
the question is is the position true?

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Is it coherent? Are there good
reasons to believe it? People don't even

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know the difference between stating a position
and arguing for the position, what is

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your position? Versus why should we
believe the position? It should be pretty

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00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:57,079
obvious, it's a really basic thing, and people don't. They don't know

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what this is. They're lost.
So I've seen hundreds of comments over the

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past few days as a result of
all this Marxist jew or driver, and

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I've not seen but maybe one or
two of the entire crowd of them even

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understand the difference between stating a position
and explaining why we should believe that position.

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I mean, it's like, it's
not it's not hard. Yeah,

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reality is reality exactly what Tea jumps
it. All Right, So we've gotten

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to her Clydes, We've gotten too
Plethon, We've gotten up into the Enlightenment

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figures now we're going to take a
look at the Renaissance and her Medicist figures.

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This is also Plethon's stuff will influence
a lot of these Renaissance figures as

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well. So Plethon's era's era is
thirteen fifty five to fourteen fifty two when

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Byzantium falls. A lot of this
ideological heritage goes to places like you got

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it, Renaissance Italy. Not just
Renaissance Italy, it also goes throughout Europe.

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With we get Marsilio Ficino, we
get the Medici's, we get the

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Flooring Team revival of Neoplatonism, which
undergirds the Renaissance. So next we're gonna

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look at this book Hagel and her
Meticism because and I think this, I

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00:57:30,199 --> 00:57:34,320
can't remember if he argues that this
this is like a Hegelian drawing, right,

504
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This is a Hagel's drawing of how
the dialectic of the the synthesis works.

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And you can see that it is
an actual occult drawing, right,

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So Hagel, So it's like triangles
on top of triangles on top of triangles.

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Right, this is the dialectical process
of thesis and tithesis producing the synthesis,

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and people have tried to argue with
me over the years that don't tell

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what Hegel's is. He don't really
too. No, Hegelian philosophers show that

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that is what he says in that
way. I had Hegel classes and all

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my professors told me that that's what
Hegel teaches. And I'm talking about people

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who studied under Marxists, he Gaelians. So again, none of these people,

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so internet goobers that are twenty years
old, no more than the PhDs

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00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:34,440
in Hegel. My undergrad professor wrote
his thesis on Hagel and Marx. So

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00:58:34,599 --> 00:58:38,800
my adviser studied under the guy who
studied under Habermoss writes his PhD thesis on

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Hegel. I would I think he
would know what Hegel teaches. All right,

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So there you see the triadic thesis
structure, and note that this has

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nothing to do with the Christian Trinity. It's another example of why you can't

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00:59:00,239 --> 00:59:04,519
do thesis, why you can't do
a word concept fallacy here because Hegel says,

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oh, I believe in the trinity, and then you ask Hegel what

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00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:12,599
the trinity is, and it's thesis
and antithesis, synthesis right. I mean

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00:59:12,679 --> 00:59:17,280
Hegel's Trinity is imminentized into the world
historical process. Okay, that's Hegel's trinity.

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God is the absolute of all historical
process in Hegel thesis and antitis a

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00:59:23,239 --> 00:59:30,199
synthesis moving to the omega point,
moving to the absolute where everything becomes absolute

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spirit. So let's look at some
of these figures that influence Hegel and we're

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gonna understand why this is such a
weird esoteric philosophy. By the way,

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if you're going to support the show, you can via the superchat function right

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00:59:50,079 --> 00:59:53,960
there. Super chats are done via
stream Labs, and I'm giving you the

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whole historical ideological drift, the background
to understanding Marxism and Socialism, which cannot

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01:00:04,239 --> 01:00:12,119
be understood without understanding first Hegel,
Hegel's influences, and then the hermatic and

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01:00:12,360 --> 01:00:16,679
ancient Hellenic pre Socratic influences. There's
really literally no other way to understand Marxism,

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01:00:17,559 --> 01:00:22,440
and of course none of the other
Like when libertarians are out there critiquing,

533
01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:28,519
they don't not every libertarian. I
think doctor James Lindsay does have a

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01:00:28,599 --> 01:00:32,559
good basic idea of what we're talking
about today. He's correct, but most

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01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:38,400
of the libertarian like response to Marxism
is super low tier. They don't go

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01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:42,280
any They don't know any of this
stuff, because if they did know this,

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01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:46,239
they would know that their philosophy is
also part of that dialectic. Again,

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01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:50,480
the key here is rejecting of all
the dialectics. And every time I

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01:00:50,519 --> 01:00:52,559
say that people have no idea what
I'm talking about, they're just lost.

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01:00:52,599 --> 01:01:01,480
It's like, what does it mean? What do you mean? So here

541
01:01:01,519 --> 01:01:06,599
we have Yeah, so I don't
believe that money is evil, right,

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01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:09,920
the love of money is evil,
not money. So you can get out

543
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:14,239
of here. Don't have any interest
in talking to you. If you want

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01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:16,519
to support the show, you can
via stream labs. So again, thank

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01:01:16,599 --> 01:01:20,719
you for the super chats that we
got last night. We got one so

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01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:25,639
far, so i'll read those perhaps
here in a bit. So in doctor

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01:01:25,719 --> 01:01:32,199
McGee's text he goes into the historical
influences on Hagel from the esoteric tradition,

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01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:37,239
and we're gonna name some of these
figures. The first he calls the early

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01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:45,840
her meticis that had an influence such
as the Neo Platonic philosophers. Hegel admired

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01:01:46,119 --> 01:01:50,760
Proclus quite a bit, so he
was influenced by neo Platonic philosophy. I

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01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:53,960
think that's pretty obvious, pretty well
known. Another famous mystic from that time

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01:01:54,039 --> 01:02:05,559
period was Meister Eckhart. Eckhart was
a mystic in Gotha about twelve sixty.

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01:02:05,599 --> 01:02:08,880
He died in thirteen twenty seven.
No one has demonstrated the direct Hermetic influence

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01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:15,119
on Eckhart, but his thought exhibits
certainly Hermetic influence has co opted out of

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01:02:15,159 --> 01:02:21,000
German hermeticis in later times. Eckert
significance for German philosophy and intellectual culture cannot

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01:02:21,039 --> 01:02:28,079
be overestimated. In fact, Eckert
dominates from any centuries German mystical philosophy afterwards,

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01:02:29,159 --> 01:02:35,920
and certainly the Apliphatic. And I
would argue that Eckert's a manifestation of

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01:02:36,239 --> 01:02:43,440
Roman Catholic theological inadequies inadequacies of that
time, because you'll notice that it's it's

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01:02:43,880 --> 01:02:49,199
totally it's a trinitarian heresy in Eckert. Eckert preached that just as the Son

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01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:52,559
requires the Father to give him existence, so the Father is not Father without

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01:02:52,599 --> 01:02:55,639
the Son. Thus God would not
be God without the created order. So

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01:02:55,800 --> 01:03:00,920
we have the problem of modal collapse
and the notion of creation as a necessity

563
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:07,320
and not ex nilo that always results
out of absolute divine simplicity problems in the

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01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:13,039
West. So philioque, which is
again under the mystical philioque of Platinus and

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01:03:13,679 --> 01:03:16,480
and Eads, is what underlies Eckert. God would not be God without creation.

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God must create to actualize who he
is. This is actually an Aristotelian

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01:03:22,679 --> 01:03:27,000
argument. This is why Basil calls
Aristotle a diad heretic. This is one

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01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:30,880
of the most innovative of Eckert's Hermetica. Just as in Hegel more than five

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01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:37,360
hundred years later, God the Father
is conceived of as an abstract and incomplete.

570
01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:42,159
The nature or creation is the Son. The Son is an emanation that

571
01:03:42,239 --> 01:03:45,800
returns to the Father, and thus
the Holy Spirit, as in Hegel,

572
01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:58,880
is mankind. So again, what
is Hegelianism immanentized pantheism. It's neoplatonism pantheized.

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01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:08,000
Nicholas of Cusa again the famous hermeticist
who on the basis of the philioquay

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01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:15,000
argued that there was an internal process
philosophy going on in God and Nicholas Acusa.

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By the way, influence is not
just German idealism, but also Leibniz

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is monads. Creation is a necessity
in Nicholas of Cusa because Nicholas Acusa identifies

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01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:30,159
nature in person much the same way
that people like A Quinnas do. Now

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01:04:30,280 --> 01:04:34,920
wait a minute, you're lying Quantas
believes in creation. Yeah, that's called

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01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:41,440
a contradiction. So collapsing nature into
person, collapsing will and energy into essence,

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01:04:42,199 --> 01:04:45,079
and then saying that you believe in
creation x Neilo does not believe that

581
01:04:45,159 --> 01:04:47,039
you consistently believe. It does not
mean you consistently believe. It just means

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01:04:47,079 --> 01:04:57,440
you contradict. Other Renaissance neoplatemists had
a tremendous influence on Hagel, particularly Jacob

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01:04:57,599 --> 01:05:03,960
Boheim and the over laps with Cobbalism. Pico della Mirandola, Johann Royklin,

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01:05:05,039 --> 01:05:14,000
Cornelius Agrippa, who was a famous
Renaissance majus, and Giordano Bruno all have

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01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:24,440
a tremendous influence on the figure of
Hegel and his process philosophy. For Boheim

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01:05:24,519 --> 01:05:29,519
and many of these characters, logos
is not a is not the second person

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01:05:29,559 --> 01:05:33,159
of the Godhead, as with Gnostic
conceptions of the logos. Jacob Boheim's wisdom

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01:05:33,239 --> 01:05:39,440
or Logos is conceived of as an
active It is the source of the further

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01:05:39,719 --> 01:05:45,519
specifications of God's corpore reality. For
Boheim, God's wisdom or Logos is conceived

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01:05:45,599 --> 01:05:50,320
of as female, is metaphorically female. So here we have Sophia philosophy of

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01:05:50,400 --> 01:06:00,719
Bulgakov already in Jacob Boheim, which
is also heterodox, and Wisdom is personified

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01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:05,159
as a female in Proverbs and then
identified as the Logos, the second person

593
01:06:05,199 --> 01:06:08,840
that God had been John. So
it's an analogy. It doesn't mean that

594
01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:13,039
God is literally a woman, or
that the Logos is a woman, or

595
01:06:13,159 --> 01:06:17,559
that there's some other person in the
trinity known as Sophia or this quasi trinitarian

596
01:06:17,599 --> 01:06:21,239
per This is all hermeticism, right, So when you see the Hermetic philosophy,

597
01:06:21,679 --> 01:06:30,719
you can see that Bulgakov is just
regurgitating Hermetic philosophy. So Rosicrucianism and

598
01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:38,760
Freemasonry are becoming very popular. Also
at the time of Hegel's academic career,

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01:06:39,679 --> 01:06:45,280
three works modestly proposed the general reformation
of the entire world. The Rosicrucian Manifesto

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01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:48,400
centered around the legendary figure of Christian
Rosencointz, who was supposed to have been

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born as thirteen seventy eight and taught
the Hermetic arts by the Arabs, and

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01:06:54,599 --> 01:07:00,639
then died in fourteen eighty four.
The Rosicrucian writings contain, in the words

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01:07:00,679 --> 01:07:05,079
of scholar Antoine five right, traces
of Kabbala, Pythagoreanism, and Paracelticism.

604
01:07:05,719 --> 01:07:13,239
The Rosa Christian manifestos then would influence
Hegel, I presume at his and when

605
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he was when he was an academic. Hegelian philosophy also is similar to free

606
01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:24,360
Masonic philosophy, because, as I
showed, I think I think I put

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01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:30,800
this up on Twitter several months ago, if you look at Albert Pike's account

608
01:07:31,199 --> 01:07:40,000
of what the Trinity and the generation
of the Sun is, it's the same

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01:07:40,079 --> 01:07:45,719
as these hermatic ones. And I
found this by going and reading the entire

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01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:49,840
chapter that Albert Pike has on the
Church Fathers. Believe it or not,

611
01:07:50,239 --> 01:07:56,880
Albert Poke has a chapter on the
Church Fathers in Morals and Dogma. And

612
01:07:58,159 --> 01:08:01,880
the amazing thing that I did not
expect act was Pike's conclusion at the end

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of that chapter is that Origin and
Neoplatonism are the true Christianity. In that

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01:08:08,679 --> 01:08:24,279
wild let me see if I can
find that. Dang it, it never

615
01:08:24,399 --> 01:08:28,600
comes up when I want it.
Used to you could search. Maybe I

616
01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:42,159
should search X. It's not gonna
come up. Used to you could search.

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Oh here it is, huh amazing. Yeah, I came up And

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I'll re share this on Twitter in
case people want to go see it.

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But so this is a morals and
Dogma of Albert Pike kind of summarizing.

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01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:11,520
It's like the systematic theology or systematic
philosophy of Scottish Rite Freemasonry. And I'm

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01:09:11,560 --> 01:09:15,199
just showing that it says and it
aligns with what we've been reading so far

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01:09:15,479 --> 01:09:23,079
in these treatises to show a commonality
between Neoplatonism gnosticism, which Albert Pike tries

623
01:09:23,119 --> 01:09:27,399
to synthesize all these right, and
he says that the true Christianity is a

624
01:09:27,520 --> 01:09:33,000
generic first cause, and he makes
an Aristotelian argument there of a necessary creation

625
01:09:34,159 --> 01:09:40,439
from the one of Plato, that
is an emanation. And then he says,

626
01:09:40,560 --> 01:09:45,159
here's so the eternal world is necessary
because God is an eternal creator.

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01:09:45,239 --> 01:09:48,880
He makes origins argument. This is
Albert Pike Morals and Dogma, page five,

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seventy five. And as the thought
of the soul emanating from the soul

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becomes audible invisible in words. So
did the thought of God the logo,

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springing up with within himself immortal as
himself when once he conceived immortal before because

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01:10:02,720 --> 01:10:08,399
in himself uttering himself was the word, the logos, it's manifestation and mode

632
01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:14,159
of communication. Thus create material,
mental, spiritual universe, which, like

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01:10:14,439 --> 01:10:18,119
him, never began to exist.
The world is an eternal emanation that is

634
01:10:18,199 --> 01:10:23,279
synonymous with the eternal beginning of the
Son. This is the real idea of

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01:10:23,359 --> 01:10:28,119
the ancient nations, generic God,
the almighty Father and the source of all,

636
01:10:28,760 --> 01:10:33,079
and his thought conceiving the universe and
willing its creation because it is just

637
01:10:33,239 --> 01:10:39,239
as necessary as his essence. That
is a modal collapse argument in Albert Pike,

638
01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:44,359
the same argument that origin makes for
eternal worlds. Because if God is

639
01:10:44,439 --> 01:10:47,720
eternal God, an eternal Father,
an eternal creator, there must be eternal

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01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:54,000
world of which he is provident,
Lord and creator, and that world is

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01:10:54,399 --> 01:11:00,159
the Son or the logos. So
you have the collapsing of the persons the

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01:11:00,199 --> 01:11:05,680
god Head into the imminent process of
the world. God is a world process,

643
01:11:05,880 --> 01:11:12,760
the logos is the world historical world
process. Exactly what Hagel says,

644
01:11:13,880 --> 01:11:16,560
So I don't know for sure if
Hagel was in some lodge. If if

645
01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:27,119
if he was, it'll be in
Terry Malanson's excellent book, which is I

646
01:11:27,199 --> 01:11:36,079
think is today probably the most scholarly
work on the seventeenth century Bavarian Illuminati.

647
01:11:36,760 --> 01:11:41,680
So if you don't have Perfected Bilis, it's by my publisher. I recommend

648
01:11:41,720 --> 01:11:44,439
getting Perfected Bilis. I don't have
the text with me, so I can't

649
01:11:44,520 --> 01:11:45,960
remember or look up if Hegel was
in it. But I know that the

650
01:11:46,039 --> 01:11:50,600
King of Prussia was a freemason and
made of the circles of the Prussian elite

651
01:11:50,720 --> 01:11:57,000
were totally involved in the philosophy of
the lodge, which, as you can

652
01:11:57,079 --> 01:12:01,880
see from Pike, is essentially a
kind of originism slash Pantheism slash Neoplatonism.

653
01:12:04,199 --> 01:12:15,079
So now that we come up to
Hagel, we can understand as you see

654
01:12:15,119 --> 01:12:21,039
here Hegel's lectures on the history of
philosophy. He gives quiet a space here

655
01:12:21,159 --> 01:12:26,279
to Heraclitis. I'm not going to
reread all this because a lot of this

656
01:12:26,640 --> 01:12:29,920
is what you heard me explaining about
Heraclitus. But why am I showing you

657
01:12:30,279 --> 01:12:35,119
this well which website has this did
you did you happen to see which website?

658
01:12:35,159 --> 01:12:43,159
This was? Uh, Marxist dot
org. Interesting Marxist. So Marxist

659
01:12:43,199 --> 01:12:53,479
dot Org understands that there's a crucial
importance of Regilianism two Marxists thought and philosophy.

660
01:12:53,720 --> 01:13:03,520
So this is for the not so
smart Marxists out there, street level,

661
01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:11,760
basement dwelling Marxists. All right,
So, by the way, did

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01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:15,319
you know we'll get to this a
little bit. You've heard of Marxist satanic

663
01:13:18,439 --> 01:13:25,399
poems, right, And every year
somebody tells me have you read marx and

664
01:13:25,479 --> 01:13:27,600
said, like, you need to
read this book. I've read this book.

665
01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:30,479
I read this book fifteen years ago. So I'm very familiar with marx

666
01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:34,319
and Satan by Richard Verne Brown,
and he goes through the kind of the

667
01:13:35,840 --> 01:13:42,720
darker side of Marxism, the early
satanic poetry of Marxism. If you've not

668
01:13:42,800 --> 01:13:45,079
read Verban's book, I'd recommend it
again. I read it fifteen years ago.

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01:13:45,560 --> 01:13:48,680
There's no need to tell me about
these texts. I'm very familiar with

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01:13:48,800 --> 01:13:51,680
him. But thank you for those
super chats. You want to support the

671
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:56,399
show via super chats, you can
do so right here. These are just

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little tidbits by the way. So
let's go to the influences on Mars,

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01:14:04,199 --> 01:14:20,960
and we'll be looking at Fire in
the Minds of Men, which is this

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01:14:21,079 --> 01:14:30,199
great book here, Origins of the
Revolutionary Faith by James H. Billington.

675
01:14:30,239 --> 01:14:39,000
As we said, not a conspiracy
text, but rather a history of ideas

676
01:14:39,119 --> 01:14:43,840
text. So it's crucial for the
history of revolutionary movements, their origin,

677
01:14:44,319 --> 01:14:53,960
their influences, and it's it's not
an anti revolutionary text. Billington is a

678
01:14:54,239 --> 01:14:59,079
believer in and a fan of the
revolutionary philosophy. So the first thing we

679
01:14:59,159 --> 01:15:03,279
want to look at is is the
early chapters where he discusses what you've probably

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01:15:03,319 --> 01:15:06,399
heard me talk about the fourth Hour, Lord Voltimore, which is the influences

681
01:15:06,479 --> 01:15:12,439
on the French Revolution. One of
the first figures was the apostle of the

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01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:18,560
revolutionary religion coming out of Italy early
on was the figure of one Rotty.

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01:15:19,479 --> 01:15:25,720
So if you don't know, Buona
Roti is kind of the proto. He's

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01:15:25,760 --> 01:15:30,279
the John the Baptist you could say, to the revolutionary movements of this period.

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01:15:31,359 --> 01:15:36,039
And then we move on to the
milieu of Freemasonry. So notice freemasonry

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01:15:36,119 --> 01:15:44,399
is antithetical, it is revolutionary philosophy, and it is revolutionary for both the

687
01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:47,680
fake right wing and the fake left
wing. Right here so here's Billington's section

688
01:15:47,760 --> 01:15:50,960
on freemasonry. You can see that
it's again not this is from a famous

689
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:58,119
historian, not a conspiracy theorist.
Billington points out that what a Rodi's revolutionary

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01:15:58,239 --> 01:16:01,319
organization went far beyond the most sonic
models. It was influenced by his five

691
01:16:01,399 --> 01:16:06,880
year immersion in the Masonic meetings that
he spent in Geneva. So great was

692
01:16:06,920 --> 01:16:12,199
the great general impact of free masonry
on the revolution era that some understanding the

693
01:16:12,239 --> 01:16:15,720
Masonic milieux is essential Masonry imparted to
the revolutionary tradition at its birth. The

694
01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:20,199
essential metaphor that revolutions would be understand
are to understand their own mission. Down

695
01:16:20,279 --> 01:16:25,880
to the mid nineteenth century, the
architect building a new and better structure for

696
01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:30,800
human society. Mason's believed, or
were taught that they were recreating in their

697
01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:36,079
fraternal societies, the original state of
nature, the original natural condition that supposedly

698
01:16:36,159 --> 01:16:43,520
prevailed amongst the earlier artistan Masons who
shaped stones for a common building, the

699
01:16:43,640 --> 01:16:46,039
progression of each brother through the stages
of an apprentice, the journeyman to the

700
01:16:46,119 --> 01:16:54,079
Master required philosophical and philanthropic accomplishment rather
than social status. Free and accepted.

701
01:16:54,119 --> 01:17:00,560
Masonry was thus a moral meritocracy,
implicitly subversive with any static society based on

702
01:17:00,680 --> 01:17:05,279
a traditional aristocracy, nobility, monarchy, church, or hierarchy. Men of

703
01:17:05,399 --> 01:17:10,199
intelligence and ambition in eighteenth century often
experienced within the Masonic lodges. They kind

704
01:17:10,239 --> 01:17:17,479
of brotherhood amongst equals not found in
aristocratic hierarchical societies. Each novice in the

705
01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:21,079
lodge sought to become free and perfect
as a man, and the Mason thus

706
01:17:21,279 --> 01:17:27,319
capable of reading the plans of the
divine architect to rebuild Solomon's temple. What

707
01:17:27,479 --> 01:17:31,199
is the rebuilding of Solomon's temple?
It is the erecting of the proper orchestrated

708
01:17:31,600 --> 01:17:39,479
society. So it's a social revolutionary
movement. Masonry was interested in rebuilding and

709
01:17:39,600 --> 01:17:44,479
reshaping the secular order. So when
they talk about building the Temple of Solomon,

710
01:17:44,479 --> 01:17:49,600
they're talking about secular social order.
Mason Masonry's ritualized fraternity provided the upper

711
01:17:49,640 --> 01:17:55,000
mobility for many of those who were
gentry or wealthy that we're not part of

712
01:17:55,119 --> 01:18:00,239
the older aristocracy. It also promised
for many the serious possibility of a utopia,

713
01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:05,920
at least a social alternative to the
anchin regime. That's what you called

714
01:18:05,960 --> 01:18:14,279
the older French monarchy. Philip Orleans
was the titular head of French Grand Orient

715
01:18:14,479 --> 01:18:17,079
Masonry at the time of the French
Revolution, and most of the pro revolutionary

716
01:18:17,199 --> 01:18:23,000
denizens of the cafes of the Palais
Royal were his Masonic brothers. In other

717
01:18:23,039 --> 01:18:28,000
words, the French Revolution was started
by all of the circles of the Duke

718
01:18:28,079 --> 01:18:32,800
of Orleans and his lodge buddies of
the Grand Orient. The cafes and the

719
01:18:32,880 --> 01:18:39,520
salons is where all the revolutionaries would
hang up drinking coffee and figuring out how

720
01:18:39,560 --> 01:18:44,239
to destroy society. Oh but it's
destroying society to fix it, you see,

721
01:18:44,680 --> 01:18:49,439
to set up the equalitarian society.
What's the egalitarian society? Liberty,

722
01:18:49,560 --> 01:18:56,720
equality, fraternity. Do you know
about the Declaration of the Rights of Man?

723
01:18:58,600 --> 01:19:02,159
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
is a Freemasonic document of this time

724
01:19:02,239 --> 01:19:10,720
period of the revolutionaries, and it
even includes the all seeing eye of Providence,

725
01:19:11,720 --> 01:19:15,800
which is not a divine not not
a personal god. It's just the

726
01:19:15,479 --> 01:19:24,279
it's just the process philosophy. Do
you see that Declaration of the Rights of

727
01:19:24,359 --> 01:19:30,520
Man, French revolutionary document, giant
all seeing eye because Freemasonic lodges were behind

728
01:19:30,600 --> 01:19:35,640
both the American and French revolutions.
And there she is with her chunky,

729
01:19:35,920 --> 01:19:43,399
milky boobies hanging out, lady,
liberty right, liberty equality fraternity. You

730
01:19:43,439 --> 01:19:46,560
ever have you heard of this anywhere
recently? Liberty equality fraternity? I wonder

731
01:19:46,680 --> 01:19:54,319
what that comes from. I wonder
what it means. Oh, it means

732
01:19:55,000 --> 01:20:01,079
all men are equal, all when
men and women are equal. Radical egalitarianism,

733
01:20:01,680 --> 01:20:05,840
Well, that's the left wing revolutionary
philosophy. That's the philosophy of the

734
01:20:05,920 --> 01:20:12,680
Jacobins and the Illuminists, and that's
what we're reading about right now. As

735
01:20:12,760 --> 01:20:19,680
Billington goes on to explain that radical
egalitarianism was the operating philosophy of these people.

736
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:26,800
Now, I thought we were scientific. I thought we were scientifically studying

737
01:20:26,960 --> 01:20:34,359
nature to produce the scientific philosophy of
history and determinism known as Marxism. Well,

738
01:20:34,359 --> 01:20:38,279
but to wait a minute, does
nature actually teach that everybody's equal?

739
01:20:40,640 --> 01:20:44,640
Pretty sure that we're not all equal? And how far do you take that

740
01:20:44,760 --> 01:20:51,079
equality? Because I see today's society, which is thoroughly revolutionary arguing that everything

741
01:20:51,239 --> 01:20:56,680
is equal, there are no boundaries, there are no distinctions, and so

742
01:20:56,760 --> 01:21:00,680
we start to see the pattern emerging
that actually this philosophy he gives way to

743
01:21:00,399 --> 01:21:09,800
an anti natural philosophy, that distinctions
are the problem, distinctions between nations.

744
01:21:10,479 --> 01:21:19,239
Nations are bourgeois ethnicities made up distinction, biology made up distinction. All distinctions

745
01:21:19,319 --> 01:21:26,319
must be collapsed to bring in what
Huxley calls the final Revolution. All of

746
01:21:26,359 --> 01:21:30,840
these revolutions are not to no end
or to no purpose. They're what Huxley

747
01:21:30,920 --> 01:21:36,000
calls the final revolution, and that
is the revolution against man himself again people

748
01:21:36,039 --> 01:21:45,399
who are anti human, people like
zer Zinsky, revolutionary philosophers who are negating

749
01:21:45,520 --> 01:21:51,920
the negations and negating man himself.
But he explicitly points out that it is

750
01:21:53,119 --> 01:22:00,760
an illuminist model of radical egalitarianism that's
fomenting and bubbling in the Masonic societies,

751
01:22:00,319 --> 01:22:06,319
that is not purely from the ground
up. It is run by the Duke

752
01:22:06,399 --> 01:22:13,159
of Orleans. The lesser nobility are
running this, and they're getting money from

753
01:22:13,199 --> 01:22:15,399
somewhere. I wonder where. Well, it quickly tells us where they're getting

754
01:22:15,399 --> 01:22:18,079
money for the revolutions. Do you
think that it just came out of nowhere,

755
01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:27,359
all these growdy, greasy street people, Danton type people, demagogues.

756
01:22:27,399 --> 01:22:31,479
You think they didn't have any money. How did they have the revolution?

757
01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:40,840
Well, they emptied the jail,
that giant freit the name of it,

758
01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:43,359
that giant jail. They emptied out
all the people and said, hey,

759
01:22:43,640 --> 01:22:45,279
join us in a bloody revolution,
join their and it's all a bunch of

760
01:22:45,319 --> 01:22:49,359
criminals. Oh yeah, exactly,
that's what they're gonna do. That's what

761
01:22:49,439 --> 01:22:56,640
they're doing now, the same revolutionary
model. It's elites behind this, just

762
01:22:56,760 --> 01:23:00,119
like the Duke of Orleans who ran
Grand Orient Freemasonry, who got money from

763
01:23:00,199 --> 01:23:09,279
very wealthy families. Let's open up
the jails. There's our revolutionary force,

764
01:23:10,399 --> 01:23:15,119
a giant criminal thug class. And
that's literally who then beheaded all the elites.

765
01:23:15,159 --> 01:23:23,359
In France, Freemason provided the general
if Freemasonry provided the general milieu and

766
01:23:23,439 --> 01:23:29,079
symbolic vocabulary for revolution organization, it
was the Illuminus that provided the basic structural

767
01:23:29,199 --> 01:23:34,439
model. The organizational plan of Buonaroti
distilled two decades of revolutionary experience in Geneva

768
01:23:35,479 --> 01:23:43,600
and thus into a simple Bavarian order
of illuminists. The radical secular occult movement

769
01:23:44,399 --> 01:23:50,199
notice that's not a contradiction. Radical
secular occult movement was organized on three levels

770
01:23:50,199 --> 01:23:57,520
of a secret hierarchy church, synod, and areopagite Buonarotti's revolutionary version of the

771
01:23:57,680 --> 01:24:08,079
structure defined the new church. It's
an atheistic cell church of local cells headed

772
01:24:08,119 --> 01:24:13,479
by what they called a sage who
was alone linked with a regional synod,

773
01:24:13,640 --> 01:24:17,000
so basically an altar church. It's
a secret church. The members of each

774
01:24:17,039 --> 01:24:23,680
synod were the sublime elect, headed
by a territorial deacon who supervised the activities

775
01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:28,079
of all the quote churches in the
region. The highest Areopagite grade was called

776
01:24:28,159 --> 01:24:33,000
the Great Firmament, or the Heavens
sent out its own subtle deacons to control

777
01:24:33,079 --> 01:24:44,479
the synods and supervise propaganda and agit
prop agit prop arising from illuminist figures like

778
01:24:44,720 --> 01:24:48,800
Bunarotti. Now this is another thing
to understand that when you are debating with

779
01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:55,680
a Marxist again, you are not
actually debating with a person who is interested

780
01:24:55,720 --> 01:24:59,720
in coming to truth. Now,
there might be an individual Marxist who doesn't

781
01:24:59,760 --> 01:25:02,960
know this kind of stuff, who
maybe at an individual level he genuinely wants

782
01:25:02,960 --> 01:25:08,319
to learn or know some truth,
but Marxists in general do not operate from

783
01:25:08,359 --> 01:25:11,880
the vantage point of wanting to come
to and discover truth. In fact,

784
01:25:12,399 --> 01:25:17,760
Saul Alinsky I believe, says that
embracing contradictions is the necessary process of an

785
01:25:17,800 --> 01:25:24,680
agent. Right, I'm of an
activist. An activist truly engaging in practis,

786
01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:29,520
Lensky says, accepts and embraces contradictions. So again, you will never

787
01:25:29,680 --> 01:25:35,279
get consistency and coherency in a system
which embraces and and rejects logic, or

788
01:25:35,600 --> 01:25:42,000
embraces logic and then rejects it by
accepting contradictions. And again, adjet prop

789
01:25:42,239 --> 01:25:46,119
is another one of their key techniques
because adjet prop is sort of street theater

790
01:25:46,399 --> 01:25:51,560
agitation, and it's a form of
propaganda. So for many Marxists, debating

791
01:25:51,880 --> 01:25:58,359
is not arriving at truth or proving
your position. Debating is intentional conflict,

792
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:02,279
causing emotions, causing drama. Everything
that you saw the last three days on

793
01:26:02,359 --> 01:26:11,640
Twitter with these lunatics and unstable people, they're engaging in adjetprop because that's what

794
01:26:11,760 --> 01:26:16,159
their philosophy tells them to do.
And for the early Bolsheviks, for example,

795
01:26:16,199 --> 01:26:20,880
for adjetprop it the term originates in
so Union, but Marxists were doing

796
01:26:20,920 --> 01:26:25,600
this for a long time. They
would use popular media, plays, literature,

797
01:26:25,680 --> 01:26:30,159
pamphlets, and other forms of art
to just simply push their message.

798
01:26:30,520 --> 01:26:32,039
Had nothing to do with what was
true or false, right, So it's

799
01:26:32,079 --> 01:26:39,800
all just propaganda, and it even
used street theater. Adjetprop theater arose as

800
01:26:39,880 --> 01:26:43,920
a politicized theater in the nineteen twenties
of Europe to spread to the United States.

801
01:26:44,279 --> 01:26:46,920
The plays of Bertold Brecht are notable
examples. By the way, I've

802
01:26:46,960 --> 01:26:53,239
read bert Told Breck's plays. I
had a whole class on German playwrights,

803
01:26:54,279 --> 01:26:58,720
and I read one or two of
Bertold Breck, and so he was a

804
01:26:58,800 --> 01:27:02,920
Marxist. I guess who you know
was a believer in engaging in this kind

805
01:27:03,000 --> 01:27:09,920
of adjet prop. Right, So
you can see that the street theater has

806
01:27:10,039 --> 01:27:13,319
nothing to do obviously. Street theater
has nothing to do with truth, right,

807
01:27:13,399 --> 01:27:18,880
It's just about being a provocateur.
So it does overlap with provocateurs.

808
01:27:19,079 --> 01:27:26,399
Not every adjet prop is run by
an agent provocateur, but every agent provocateur

809
01:27:26,640 --> 01:27:34,039
most likely engages in aget prop agitation, propaganda agitate to just call attention nothing

810
01:27:34,119 --> 01:27:38,039
to do with what's true. By
the way, this is not exclusive to

811
01:27:38,159 --> 01:27:44,239
Marxists. Basically all of mainstream mass
media is aget prop Okay, so this

812
01:27:44,399 --> 01:27:48,119
is not just Marxists, but Marxists
are committed to this as actually part of

813
01:27:48,159 --> 01:27:56,239
their practice. Okay, but you
can begin to see how because they embrace

814
01:27:56,319 --> 01:28:02,560
contradictions, they embrace dissociation, they
embrace double mind and double think. This

815
01:28:02,680 --> 01:28:09,079
is what Orwell talks about, orl
talks about that this embracing of contradictions,

816
01:28:09,199 --> 01:28:15,239
which Winston tries to force and eventually
does force Winston to do, causes a

817
01:28:15,399 --> 01:28:21,239
split, a break in Winston's mind. And you remember when that lunatic guy

818
01:28:21,359 --> 01:28:26,199
came on the stream, he said, I'm here to destroy your mind.

819
01:28:26,319 --> 01:28:31,159
I'm here to psychologically destroy you.
Because that's how the Marxist sees his necessary

820
01:28:31,239 --> 01:28:36,439
action of negating, negating the existing
reality to further the dialectic. So they

821
01:28:36,520 --> 01:28:44,800
have a mystical religious commitment to process
philosophy and destruction as a form of creative

822
01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:49,760
chaos. Creative destruction is a Marxist
idea. This, by the way,

823
01:28:50,600 --> 01:28:58,720
is why ultimately this whole nonsense satanic
system is called by father Seraph from Rose

824
01:29:00,600 --> 01:29:08,520
revolutionary nihilism, and he's absolutely right. And if you remember, in the

825
01:29:08,640 --> 01:29:14,479
first a few pages of the book, he talks about the processes of revolution.

826
01:29:15,039 --> 01:29:21,760
A lot of the lower level dupes
believe that the revolution is about idealism

827
01:29:21,920 --> 01:29:27,640
and making people, feeding people and
making their lives better. No, it's

828
01:29:27,680 --> 01:29:31,720
not about that at all. Again, this whole system is only for dupes.

829
01:29:32,439 --> 01:29:36,920
And some of the more intellectual people
who become kind of the high priests

830
01:29:38,000 --> 01:29:43,920
of Marxism, they kind of learn
the reality of it, like Christian Rakowski.

831
01:29:44,439 --> 01:29:48,399
Rakowsky was actually a high level right
initiative all this, And when you

832
01:29:48,479 --> 01:29:51,560
read the interrogation, he lays it
all out and he's like, yeah,

833
01:29:51,640 --> 01:29:58,640
it's we embrace the opposites. Marxism
needs capitalism, Capitalism needs Marxism, and

834
01:29:58,960 --> 01:30:03,880
that clash of the twentieth century must
happen and it will eventually give rise to

835
01:30:04,079 --> 01:30:09,560
a total world government. That is
the end goal, he says. And

836
01:30:09,680 --> 01:30:13,720
he says, you think that I'm
told what to do out of Moscow.

837
01:30:15,439 --> 01:30:17,359
No, he's being interrogated by Moscow. He says, I'm told what to

838
01:30:17,439 --> 01:30:30,520
do out of New York and London. Nihilism Roots of the Revolution of the

839
01:30:30,560 --> 01:30:38,880
Modern Age by Father Sea from Rose
perfectly encapsulates and presubsitionly, deconstructs and refutes

840
01:30:40,279 --> 01:30:45,800
all of what you've heard in the
last few days of these lunatics and their

841
01:30:45,319 --> 01:30:50,119
nihilistic, destructive philosophy. And so
you can see why, just as in

842
01:30:50,119 --> 01:30:57,800
the French Revolution, Marxism appeals to
not just young naive people, it appeals

843
01:30:57,880 --> 01:31:01,159
to fanatics, to people who believe
that they can change all of society,

844
01:31:02,239 --> 01:31:09,359
right, so very divorced from reality, notions the idea that you can instantiate

845
01:31:09,479 --> 01:31:16,560
and create this quasi utopian or something
akin to a utopian society. I mean,

846
01:31:16,560 --> 01:31:19,680
the only people who the only person
who could believe that is an extremely

847
01:31:19,760 --> 01:31:29,399
idealistic young person or a later delusional
fanatic person as they get older. Right,

848
01:31:31,479 --> 01:31:35,199
by the way, Billington's comments on
fascism are also good because he explains

849
01:31:35,279 --> 01:31:39,760
that guess what, it may not
be identical to this, but it's the

850
01:31:39,840 --> 01:31:45,880
same people, and it's the same
socialist ideology. Right it's national socialism versus

851
01:31:46,039 --> 01:31:55,119
international socialism, but they're both the
same socialist philosophies in principle, because if

852
01:31:55,159 --> 01:32:00,840
you read the Ricosk interrogation, he
says, we need tiny mustache man to

853
01:32:00,039 --> 01:32:04,439
engage in the war the wars of
the twentieth century are the dialectical process.

854
01:32:05,000 --> 01:32:15,520
War is the pre eminent dialectic.
Cold War is dialectic. And this is

855
01:32:15,640 --> 01:32:21,119
why there's another good book on this. And you probably wouldn't expect me to

856
01:32:21,359 --> 01:32:31,600
recommend this person, but this is
actually a pretty good book. Old Gary

857
01:32:31,680 --> 01:32:39,239
North. Remember Gary North, Marx's
religion of revolution. Gary North is actually

858
01:32:39,279 --> 01:32:44,239
correct in this. He gives a
different account than what you typically hear about

859
01:32:44,239 --> 01:32:49,520
Marxism, where North correctly argues,
as I'm arguing today, that Marxism is

860
01:32:49,680 --> 01:32:57,600
akin to a religion. Far from
being a scientific theory and a scientific appraisal

861
01:32:57,720 --> 01:33:01,359
of the determining processes of history,
that's what it claims to be. Marxism

862
01:33:01,479 --> 01:33:09,279
is actually a revolutionary religion because it
promises people many things to to believe in

863
01:33:09,520 --> 01:33:15,359
for the future. So not only
does Marxism, which bear atheistic scientism doesn't

864
01:33:15,399 --> 01:33:19,319
have. Here's the great thing about
why Marxism has such an appeal. I

865
01:33:19,359 --> 01:33:23,000
think Gary North is spot on about
this. I don't agree with a lot

866
01:33:23,039 --> 01:33:30,520
of Gary North, obviously being a
you know, Calvinist reconstructionist guy, but

867
01:33:33,119 --> 01:33:35,880
they still, you know, rush
JUNI and North got some things right.

868
01:33:36,720 --> 01:33:42,720
And North got this point right,
that Marxism is is a type of religion

869
01:33:43,159 --> 01:33:47,359
with a high priesthood, with mystical
doctrines of material process and so forth,

870
01:33:47,479 --> 01:33:58,039
dogmas and pseudoscience, and so it
promises that the outer portico lower dupe levels.

871
01:33:58,760 --> 01:34:00,840
Too many people. You tell now, the smarter Marxist will say,

872
01:34:01,079 --> 01:34:05,560
Marx never actually said there would be
a dystopia, talked about the possibility religis

873
01:34:05,680 --> 01:34:09,399
not actually, yeah, we know, we know, we know that in

874
01:34:09,479 --> 01:34:12,840
the inner Party and the inner religion, it's not really utopian, and it's

875
01:34:12,880 --> 01:34:16,520
actually nihilistic and anti human I know
all that. But for many people,

876
01:34:18,279 --> 01:34:21,399
for many of the masses that believed
in it, they thought, oh yeah,

877
01:34:21,840 --> 01:34:26,039
we're gonna get you know, a
chicken in every pot. We're gonna

878
01:34:26,079 --> 01:34:30,199
get you know, better living standards, and the government loves us, and

879
01:34:30,239 --> 01:34:33,640
it's gonna divvy up the uh,
you know, the capital, right,

880
01:34:33,680 --> 01:34:36,800
the capitalists have hoarded the capital.
And if we just appoint a body of

881
01:34:36,880 --> 01:34:42,039
Marxists, they'll equally, they'll dole
it out equally at everybody, because they're

882
01:34:42,079 --> 01:34:45,119
fair and they're nice people and they
love us. That's the normy belief.

883
01:34:45,680 --> 01:34:48,079
The dumb dumbs that believe in the
system. They believe in a kind of

884
01:34:48,279 --> 01:34:55,600
as catological hope, not of an
end times, but a material historical process

885
01:34:56,000 --> 01:35:02,439
that will provide man material gains,
sufficient and safety supposedly in a near future

886
01:35:02,520 --> 01:35:08,119
history. So it has an eschatology, is what I'm trying to say.

887
01:35:08,720 --> 01:35:11,960
It doesn't just have an eschatology,
it also has a philosophy of history.

888
01:35:12,359 --> 01:35:16,720
History is the dynamic interchange of class
warfare, which is a manifestation of the

889
01:35:16,800 --> 01:35:21,119
dialectic. So most of the time
when Marxists are dialectic, the classic Marxists,

890
01:35:21,319 --> 01:35:27,399
they think of class warfare. I
am not talking about that when I'm

891
01:35:27,439 --> 01:35:31,720
talking about dialectics. Primarily, I
am talking about the metaphysical presuppositions of all

892
01:35:31,800 --> 01:35:38,000
forms of dialectics, whether it be
dialectical idealism and Hegel or dialectical materialism in

893
01:35:38,079 --> 01:35:46,960
marx those are metaphysical beliefs. That's
what I'm talking about. And so Gary

894
01:35:47,039 --> 01:35:56,399
North has a great deconstruction and critique
of how the belief, the mystical religious

895
01:35:56,439 --> 01:36:02,039
belief is literally in creative destruction,
generation through chaos, as North calls it,

896
01:36:02,159 --> 01:36:11,920
and he's absolutely correct. So back
to the Illuminists and the Illuminist model

897
01:36:14,039 --> 01:36:24,000
of Billington. They were engaging in
agit prop. And he goes on to

898
01:36:24,039 --> 01:36:28,199
say that the Order of Illuminists was
founded in May first, nineteen seventy six

899
01:36:28,399 --> 01:36:31,960
by or excuse me, seventy seventy
six by Adam Bishop, professor Kennon Law

900
01:36:32,079 --> 01:36:38,000
at the University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria. Voishop had four associates. The order

901
01:36:38,159 --> 01:36:42,840
was secret, hierarchical, and modeled
on the Jesuits. Now there's a bunch

902
01:36:42,880 --> 01:36:46,479
of dumb dumbs that think that that
means that Jesuits run the Illuminati. No,

903
01:36:47,520 --> 01:36:53,399
Jesuits don't run the Illuminati. The
structure is modeled on the Jesuits.

904
01:36:56,680 --> 01:37:04,720
Jamie, It's okay. The Order
was secret. Itself was hierarchical. I

905
01:37:05,159 --> 01:37:10,239
thought, we believed in liberty,
equality, fraternity. Why we have a

906
01:37:10,680 --> 01:37:15,560
Why do we have morals and dogma? If we believe in freedom of conscience

907
01:37:15,560 --> 01:37:19,159
and no dogmas? Why do we
believe in a hierarchy? And Adam Vice

908
01:37:19,159 --> 01:37:24,960
shops Illuminati if he believes in radical
egalitarianism. Oh, you see, they

909
01:37:25,079 --> 01:37:31,880
embrace contradictions, dummies, they are
liars. That's why the Order was secret.

910
01:37:31,960 --> 01:37:35,680
It was established a model on the
Jesuits. It had a long domination

911
01:37:35,760 --> 01:37:41,359
in Bavariant education, and it ended
with their abolition by the papacy supposedly in

912
01:37:41,439 --> 01:37:46,039
seventeen seventy three. It was dedicated
to Vice Shops Rousseauian philosophy. So Rousseau's

913
01:37:46,079 --> 01:37:49,920
a key figure. It's not identical
to Rousseau because there are a lot of

914
01:37:49,960 --> 01:37:55,159
elements that Rousseau believed in that the
like Rousseau didn't. I don't think he

915
01:37:55,199 --> 01:37:59,039
had a high view of women,
right. He was always visiting the prostitutes

916
01:37:59,079 --> 01:38:03,399
as he was writing about you know, equality, equality, right. There's

917
01:38:03,399 --> 01:38:06,039
some other things that we're so talked
about, right that I don't think.

918
01:38:06,560 --> 01:38:10,800
But the idea of returning to this
pure state of nature or something like that,

919
01:38:11,000 --> 01:38:15,520
that's you find some of that inot
Vy shopped the vision of leading all

920
01:38:15,680 --> 01:38:19,359
humans to a new moral perfection.
So moral perfection you don't need church and

921
01:38:19,439 --> 01:38:27,319
religion. This you can achieve this
naturally through purely naturalistic processes. Thus they

922
01:38:27,359 --> 01:38:32,279
were freed from all establishment religion and
establishment political authority, so no authority about

923
01:38:32,279 --> 01:38:41,319
myself. Vyshop did not invite intellectuals
to join his new pedagogic elite, as

924
01:38:41,399 --> 01:38:45,119
so much as taunted them to do
so. He radiated contempt for men from

925
01:38:45,159 --> 01:38:50,279
the enlightenment who go into all kinds
of ecstasies over antiquity, but are themselves

926
01:38:50,399 --> 01:38:55,359
unable to do anything. So vy
Shop actually actually disagreed with and hated the

927
01:38:55,479 --> 01:39:00,439
idea of philosophical speculation. And let's
read Plato in the g and he's saying,

928
01:39:00,840 --> 01:39:05,439
which Marchull echo, why aren't you
engaging in revolutionary action? You see?

929
01:39:10,560 --> 01:39:13,840
He insisted that what was missing is
the force, and to put into

930
01:39:13,920 --> 01:39:19,159
practis practice what has long been affirmed
by freethinkers. The force was to come

931
01:39:19,239 --> 01:39:24,039
about through a new type of secret
society. This secret society would have much

932
01:39:24,079 --> 01:39:30,279
more in the characteristics of a militia
with an order, with initiations into higher

933
01:39:30,359 --> 01:39:32,920
levels. The purpose of the ascending
of the aluminous hierarchy was not so much

934
01:39:32,960 --> 01:39:38,760
to attain wisdom as it was to
be remade into a totally laurel loyal servant

935
01:39:38,960 --> 01:39:45,439
of the universal emission of revolution.
So it's the religion the revolution. It's

936
01:39:45,520 --> 01:39:53,600
the faith revolutionary faith. These guys
were perceptive enough in human psychology to understand

937
01:39:53,680 --> 01:39:58,159
that humans are fundamentally religious, and
so they could turn the atheism, which

938
01:39:58,239 --> 01:40:01,920
was empty and be wrap of any
meaning that was popular at this time.

939
01:40:02,039 --> 01:40:09,479
Turn it into a religion which could
motivate and push and take society in a

940
01:40:09,560 --> 01:40:19,199
certain direction. So they thought to
remodel the entire world. We cannot use

941
01:40:19,239 --> 01:40:23,720
people as they are. We have
to make them over to change, and

942
01:40:23,800 --> 01:40:28,119
that's the process of the initiation.
In his Secret Society, Bishop helped to

943
01:40:28,119 --> 01:40:32,520
elaborate a process of recruitment which involved
creating the novices of a psychological dependence on

944
01:40:32,600 --> 01:40:38,600
the processes which would transform him.
Insinuators. Those brought about as new members

945
01:40:38,640 --> 01:40:43,159
were proceeded little by little following the
detours. So in other words, there's

946
01:40:43,199 --> 01:40:48,159
deception at the lower ranks, exactly
what Albert Pike says that the lower level

947
01:40:48,239 --> 01:40:53,600
people in the blue lodges are duped
their dummies, and you're gradually brought into

948
01:40:53,680 --> 01:40:58,319
the structure to become totally devoted to
the structure, basically a form of mind

949
01:40:58,319 --> 01:41:02,279
control. The object was the card
pledging a new member in his desire for

950
01:41:02,359 --> 01:41:04,760
admission to the higher levels. So
you want to be higher, you want

951
01:41:04,800 --> 01:41:10,039
to get to the higher levels,
this lust for power, But really you're

952
01:41:10,119 --> 01:41:19,279
just being sifted and vetted Basically,
the nerve rocking process sought to mobilize a

953
01:41:19,439 --> 01:41:25,119
new elite within society, and their
purpose was quote not to conquer or to

954
01:41:25,239 --> 01:41:32,199
impose, not to gather riches,
but to the conquest of individuals. To

955
01:41:33,000 --> 01:41:39,880
conquer their indifference, their passiveness,
their obedience, submission, their total confidence

956
01:41:39,920 --> 01:41:45,359
without reservation must be gained. So
the goal wasn't even to immediately achieve this,

957
01:41:45,560 --> 01:41:49,319
but to create a society of people
completely devoted to the calls the revolutionaries.

958
01:41:49,319 --> 01:41:53,840
Primitive vision of the world was a
dualistic struggle between darkness and light,

959
01:41:54,279 --> 01:42:00,279
a neo manic Chian view. Did
you hear me? Dialectics dialectical pro The

960
01:42:00,399 --> 01:42:04,680
world was engaged in a struggle between
the illuminated ones and the suns of darkness.

961
01:42:04,960 --> 01:42:09,720
The illuminated ones were those in the
order of the perfectibilis or the perfect

962
01:42:10,039 --> 01:42:15,039
the perfect i, versus those outside
of the order who were profane and believed

963
01:42:15,079 --> 01:42:19,319
in the system and in the structure. The name of the illuminus was chosen

964
01:42:19,399 --> 01:42:25,239
from the image of the sun radiing
illumination in outer circles. So the sun

965
01:42:25,359 --> 01:42:29,600
is at the center of the dot
and there's concentric circles around the sun,

966
01:42:30,199 --> 01:42:33,640
and that's the structure of the Illuminati. The point in the circle that's by

967
01:42:33,720 --> 01:42:41,560
Shopped and his elite, and you
have these concentric circles. The zoroastromaniquean cult

968
01:42:41,640 --> 01:42:45,600
of fire, was also central to
the eclectic symbolism of the Illuminus. Their

969
01:42:45,680 --> 01:42:50,800
calendar was based on the Persian rather
than the classical Christian model. They use

970
01:42:51,279 --> 01:42:57,760
pseudonyms and symbols, which made for
precise esoteric significance throughout the lodges. The

971
01:42:57,800 --> 01:43:01,640
Masonic lodges which they infiltrated, became
deliberate instruments of camouflage. For Aluminus,

972
01:43:02,279 --> 01:43:10,680
Ingelstadt was Eleusis and Ephesus, Munich
was Athens. Vienna was Rome. Vaishop's

973
01:43:10,760 --> 01:43:16,159
own name in his Illuminous Secret Society
was that of Spartacus Spartacus Weischot. That's

974
01:43:16,199 --> 01:43:19,600
because Spartacus was the leader of the
slave revolt in ancient Rome, and this

975
01:43:19,720 --> 01:43:26,600
provided a hint of revolutionary commitment.
In the original key documents, collaborators took

976
01:43:26,640 --> 01:43:31,600
the names of the Greek Ajax or
the Egyptian Danaus, and respectively, other

977
01:43:31,760 --> 01:43:38,119
names such as Tamerlane and Confucius.
The Aluminous attempted to use the ferment of

978
01:43:38,199 --> 01:43:42,119
the confusion of the French Revolution for
their own ends. Vishot, for example,

979
01:43:42,239 --> 01:43:45,720
joined a Masonic lodge in seventeen seventy
seven in an attempt to recruit from

980
01:43:45,880 --> 01:43:54,319
them his own commandos. Later,
other famous elite figures like Baron Adolf Vonenigue.

981
01:43:54,960 --> 01:44:01,000
Knigge was a prominent member of the
Illuminus and their higher German Masonic orders.

982
01:44:01,359 --> 01:44:08,880
The Illuminous technique was to discredit all
conservative rival orders and then bring them

983
01:44:08,960 --> 01:44:18,119
into a stricter secret order. I
mean this is important section here. This

984
01:44:18,319 --> 01:44:24,680
helped a helping The Conference of Occult
Orders at Wilhelmsbad in seventeen eighty two helped

985
01:44:24,720 --> 01:44:29,800
to determine the strict observance lodges were
not in fact descended from the Knights,

986
01:44:29,840 --> 01:44:34,039
Templar and foul, arguing that the
strict order of the lodges were secretly controlled

987
01:44:34,039 --> 01:44:41,920
by unknown superiors who were Jesuits.
So basically Bishop comes up with as the

988
01:44:42,039 --> 01:44:46,439
lie that the that the existing lodges
were controlled by the Jesuits, and so

989
01:44:46,560 --> 01:44:49,800
you need to join my lodge,
which is the true truemasonry. So he

990
01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:56,479
it wasn't true that the Jesuits were
controlling the Masonic lodges, but wy Shop

991
01:44:56,640 --> 01:45:01,199
used that as a way to get
people into his group. Bishop believed in

992
01:45:01,960 --> 01:45:08,720
total equality, so that was a
big part of his church and what they

993
01:45:08,840 --> 01:45:16,279
pushed. One of the key figures
to disseminate illuminism was Count Mirabeaus the Prussian

994
01:45:16,359 --> 01:45:21,600
monarchy under Frederick the Great. Now
that's important because this is around the time.

995
01:45:23,319 --> 01:45:29,600
So this will be the grounds from
which Hagel will be born. Okay,

996
01:45:29,720 --> 01:45:31,760
this is pre Hegel, but I'm
saying Hagel will come out of this

997
01:45:32,079 --> 01:45:38,680
milieu. Another key figure is Nicholas
Bonneville, the decisive channel of illuminist influence.

998
01:45:38,800 --> 01:45:43,600
He was converted to illuminism through his
own visits to Persia in seventeen eighty

999
01:45:43,600 --> 01:45:46,920
seven. Bishop's leading associate in the
political stage of communism was a guy named

1000
01:45:46,960 --> 01:45:53,279
Christian Bode. Bode was a friend
of Lesson who had come to win Frenchmen

1001
01:45:53,359 --> 01:45:59,039
away from their conservative occultism and to
get them into a more radical form of

1002
01:45:59,079 --> 01:46:06,000
illuminism. Bode apparently converted the German
speaking Bonneville, who was then a lawyer

1003
01:46:06,079 --> 01:46:12,680
at Parliament, to a faith combined
with that combined illuminous symbolism and radical ideas

1004
01:46:12,720 --> 01:46:18,239
of popular sovereignty. Vox popularized sovereignty. Bonneville immediately began his unsuccessful attempt to

1005
01:46:18,279 --> 01:46:23,479
convert the Marquis de conder Say,
who was a revolutionary, to a more

1006
01:46:23,600 --> 01:46:28,439
active faith, hailing the imminent coming
of the People King. There would be

1007
01:46:28,560 --> 01:46:31,600
a liberating figure, the flame of
the world. They called him the Sage

1008
01:46:31,640 --> 01:46:36,640
of Rousseau, known as the people
King. So we have this messianic prophecy

1009
01:46:36,840 --> 01:46:43,720
of this coming people King. However, the group was run not by an

1010
01:46:43,800 --> 01:46:46,279
external It was not an egalitarian society. It was actually run by an inner

1011
01:46:46,399 --> 01:46:51,399
party, the inner group, known
as the Inner Circle. The conspirators have

1012
01:46:51,520 --> 01:46:57,000
viewed marchal at mary Shall as the
center of the circle. He may have

1013
01:46:57,119 --> 01:47:00,840
been, this is unsure, but
certainly many people are around the circle of

1014
01:47:00,880 --> 01:47:05,760
Bishop of the Inner areopagites. We're
part of that of the inner clique.

1015
01:47:09,159 --> 01:47:14,039
The goal of the society was in
terms of social order, happy equality.

1016
01:47:15,199 --> 01:47:20,319
Sounds like jounlock, it sounds like
declaration independence. If there was a religion

1017
01:47:20,359 --> 01:47:26,279
that was allowed, the religion of
Bishop and Mirabeau would be a purely naturalized

1018
01:47:26,359 --> 01:47:31,479
religion. Everything would be done by
voting, and there would be universal suffrage.

1019
01:47:32,159 --> 01:47:38,880
Everyone would vote. Interesting, So
women's suffrage comes from Adam Bishop.

1020
01:47:40,760 --> 01:47:51,800
In fact, the final goal is
of all the radicals universal communism. Did

1021
01:47:51,880 --> 01:48:03,720
you hear me? No Bishop saw
himself or achieve me. Whether or not.

1022
01:48:03,880 --> 01:48:10,720
Buana Rodi was in effect propagandi an
aluminous program. During his revolutionary activities

1023
01:48:10,720 --> 01:48:14,399
of the seventeen nineties. He had
clearly internalized a lot of the illuminous ideas

1024
01:48:14,920 --> 01:48:19,199
they would become a blueprint for the
eighteen ten to eighteen eleven era, and

1025
01:48:19,960 --> 01:48:26,279
the illuminous pretension of recovering a natural
religion known only to the illuminated. So

1026
01:48:26,399 --> 01:48:31,680
you see that the naturalized religion is
the Inner Party's cloak core religion that they

1027
01:48:31,760 --> 01:48:41,359
think all the world religions are kind
of a bastardization of a religion of quote,

1028
01:48:41,520 --> 01:48:47,279
pure reason, a religion pure reason
by reviving the legacy of bizarre genealogy,

1029
01:48:47,359 --> 01:48:50,680
the Persians of Cyrus, the initiators
of Egypt and the Egyptian priests,

1030
01:48:51,159 --> 01:48:58,560
the Holy Hermandad of Spain, and
the Apostle of Jesus. They viewed Jesus

1031
01:48:58,600 --> 01:49:03,079
as a revolutionary the Anabaptists and their
revolution as well as the Jesuits. He

1032
01:49:03,239 --> 01:49:09,800
followed Bishopton Bonneville, and attaching special
importance to the Jesuits, whom he saw

1033
01:49:10,560 --> 01:49:14,720
sought both to imitate and to destroy. His secret ideal was, from the

1034
01:49:14,760 --> 01:49:24,279
beginning to Buona Roti, the egalitarian
equality order that would get rid of all

1035
01:49:24,520 --> 01:49:30,760
marks of private property in the republic. The republic will be the sole owner.

1036
01:49:30,520 --> 01:49:33,680
The republic will be like a mother. It will afford even each of

1037
01:49:33,720 --> 01:49:39,640
its members equality of education, equality
of food, equality of labor. This

1038
01:49:39,840 --> 01:49:45,479
is Warner saying that the state will
own all things and your children. You

1039
01:49:45,520 --> 01:49:49,000
will own nothing, You will have
nothing, you will be happy. This

1040
01:49:49,239 --> 01:49:55,239
is the only regeneration aimed at by
the philosophers. This is the new Jerusalem

1041
01:49:57,039 --> 01:50:10,840
quote Buonaroti. These quotes Wunarati borrowed
from illuminism. For these secret societies,

1042
01:50:10,880 --> 01:50:19,159
then, the adopting of numerology and
cryptography were not actually about mystical initiations of

1043
01:50:20,199 --> 01:50:28,199
supernatural knowledge. They were not about
contacting demons or invoking or evoking them.

1044
01:50:29,159 --> 01:50:35,840
These were ciphers and codes used for
transmitting messages and for espionage. As I

1045
01:50:35,960 --> 01:50:44,720
have said for years, what is
the illuminist ideal? According to then,

1046
01:50:44,880 --> 01:50:50,399
the magic circle refers not to actual
magic but the inner circle of the controlling

1047
01:50:50,439 --> 01:50:57,159
elite who control the system and the
society. Bonnaville, even before the Revolution,

1048
01:50:57,239 --> 01:51:01,720
had traced his ideals to Pythagoras,
who brought from the Orient, from

1049
01:51:01,760 --> 01:51:09,039
the East, the true system of
initiation into the Eastern ways. At the

1050
01:51:09,119 --> 01:51:15,520
demise of his effort to square the
social circle, meant to create or to

1051
01:51:15,760 --> 01:51:20,880
understand, that man is God and
that man will become an angel by widening

1052
01:51:21,039 --> 01:51:28,079
the circle of universal brotherhood, in
other words, universal brotherhood, universal communism.

1053
01:51:29,760 --> 01:51:32,039
Thomas Payne, who lived with Bonneville
from seventeen ninety seven eighteen o two,

1054
01:51:32,159 --> 01:51:39,680
believed that the Druids and Pythagoras combined
to provide an actual, occult ideological

1055
01:51:39,760 --> 01:51:45,760
alternative to Christianity. Thus, Thomas
Payne wrote an essay on the Origins of

1056
01:51:45,000 --> 01:51:51,439
Freemasonry and how many so called conservative
tut Thomas Payne, who literally says that

1057
01:51:53,119 --> 01:51:59,159
Druidism is a better alternative to Christianity. In fact, the goal of the

1058
01:51:59,239 --> 01:52:05,079
Pythagoree, the Revolutionaries, not the
original Pythagoras, was quote to overthrow Christian

1059
01:52:05,199 --> 01:52:14,640
orthodoxy. There you go. In
fact, the goal was to decapitate the

1060
01:52:14,800 --> 01:52:20,920
double headed Eagle. They particularly hated
Orthodox Christianity page one oh five, and

1061
01:52:21,079 --> 01:52:28,239
so to decapitate the double headed eagle, which stood for church and state,

1062
01:52:29,279 --> 01:52:33,880
Bishop and King, Church and state. To decapitate the double headed eagle meant

1063
01:52:33,960 --> 01:52:41,479
to destroy thrown an altar, Church
and State. So understand, all of

1064
01:52:41,520 --> 01:52:51,159
these people telling you that dialectical Marxism
is compatible with Christian Orthodoxy are absolutely wrong,

1065
01:52:51,800 --> 01:53:00,399
and they're ignorant or they're lying,
because the goal of historic revolutionary fosophy

1066
01:53:00,520 --> 01:53:05,760
from the seventeen hundreds on is the
destruction of thrown an altar and the imposition

1067
01:53:06,000 --> 01:53:18,039
of a new religion based around nature, controlled by a one world state that

1068
01:53:18,279 --> 01:53:24,119
is present in vy shopped all the
way up into the later centuries. In

1069
01:53:24,199 --> 01:53:28,159
fact, the Saint Simonians are going
to be the next group that we're going

1070
01:53:28,199 --> 01:53:33,399
to look at, and we're gonna
look at how the Simonians we're one of

1071
01:53:33,439 --> 01:53:40,199
the key influences on Mars. Right, who are the three Foyerbach Saint Simon

1072
01:53:40,760 --> 01:53:44,920
and Hegel the key influences on Mars. We're gonna look at that in part

1073
01:53:45,000 --> 01:53:48,920
two. This is the first half
for public. If you enjoyed this discussion,

1074
01:53:49,000 --> 01:53:53,479
please leave me a super chat.
I'll be reading a few of those

1075
01:53:53,720 --> 01:53:58,680
right now. And one thing I'd
like to mention is to contrast between what

1076
01:53:58,840 --> 01:54:06,159
you get in the Marxists and what
they offer you joining a revolutionary, ideological,

1077
01:54:06,319 --> 01:54:13,279
ridiculous, AstroTurf movement that will you
will regret, regret by the time

1078
01:54:13,359 --> 01:54:16,359
that you're out of your twenties or
your thirties that you ever were involved in

1079
01:54:16,439 --> 01:54:21,520
it or believed that, versus the
kind of thing that we promote, which

1080
01:54:21,600 --> 01:54:27,760
is teaching you to be your own
business leader, teaching you to be independent,

1081
01:54:28,439 --> 01:54:30,720
how to be truly masculine, how
to run a business, how to

1082
01:54:30,800 --> 01:54:34,479
have a family, how to do
these kinds of things. So, for

1083
01:54:34,600 --> 01:54:40,479
example, what are we pushing?
We push things that help you and not

1084
01:54:40,720 --> 01:54:45,000
and won't destroy your life like Marxism
will. For example, Richard Over at

1085
01:54:45,039 --> 01:54:48,600
Autonomy University, I'll give you a
little bit of his thing. And by

1086
01:54:48,600 --> 01:54:51,760
the way, people said, what's
wrong with the audio? The original audio

1087
01:54:53,439 --> 01:54:57,439
is the problem. It's not mine
self help and you've dipped into some personal

1088
01:54:57,520 --> 01:55:00,600
development. But now you ask a
question, now, why what can you

1089
01:55:00,720 --> 01:55:02,960
do well if you want to escape
the apathy? Step right this way.

1090
01:55:03,199 --> 01:55:06,319
So twice a year I teach a
course called Autonomy. It's a twelve week

1091
01:55:06,439 --> 01:55:11,560
personal development and training course. What
people get out of it is multifaceted.

1092
01:55:11,800 --> 01:55:15,840
There's curriculum, there's exercises, there's
camaraderie, you make new friends. There's

1093
01:55:15,840 --> 01:55:17,439
a whole lot of interesting things.
We're going to hear a sample from the

1094
01:55:17,479 --> 01:55:20,319
course right now, and let's take
a look at the value these students are

1095
01:55:20,359 --> 01:55:27,159
getting. Charlotte departed this world I
think two years ago in March, so

1096
01:55:27,279 --> 01:55:31,960
probably about two years ago. She
lived along full life. She lived up

1097
01:55:32,000 --> 01:55:39,439
in Maine, and her website used
to be Deliberate dumbingdown dot com, but

1098
01:55:39,600 --> 01:55:43,800
American Deception dot com was a site
that she did with her son, and

1099
01:55:43,920 --> 01:55:46,520
her son was helping her research,
and American Deception dot com is where a

1100
01:55:46,560 --> 01:55:49,960
lot of the source material used to
be. Like the copy that we have

1101
01:55:50,239 --> 01:55:56,520
of the Reese Committee hearings is Charlotte's
copy. She went and found that copy

1102
01:55:56,720 --> 01:56:00,880
and got it and circulated it her
work. I remember when I first encountered

1103
01:56:00,920 --> 01:56:04,359
her work, I didn't know what
to make of it because it was it's

1104
01:56:04,439 --> 01:56:08,800
just too overwhelming and out of left
field. And I was familiar with Ghatto's

1105
01:56:08,840 --> 01:56:12,640
work, but not as much as
I could. So Ghatto's work bounced off

1106
01:56:12,720 --> 01:56:15,680
me. The first time I saw
Charlotte's work, I was like, there's

1107
01:56:15,720 --> 01:56:17,119
something here, but I don't know
what it is. I did some more

1108
01:56:17,239 --> 01:56:20,960
learning, discovered like Tragedy and Hope
and Anthony Sutton's work. Then I went

1109
01:56:21,000 --> 01:56:24,159
back to those two books. I
was like, Oh, these people are

1110
01:56:24,159 --> 01:56:28,039
all talking about the same thing.
She's talking about the nineteen thirty four Carnegie

1111
01:56:28,119 --> 01:56:32,880
Blue Book, which was the internationalist
text inserted into America. So the globalist

1112
01:56:32,920 --> 01:56:38,000
they're like, here's how we're going
to insert into American education and turn it

1113
01:56:38,079 --> 01:56:42,680
into our compulsory schooling and reshape it
and our image, and we'll remove the

1114
01:56:42,840 --> 01:56:45,920
history where we're at war with Britain
and then everything will be just hunky dory.

1115
01:56:46,279 --> 01:56:49,199
And they got their way, and
they did it. So Charlotte,

1116
01:56:50,399 --> 01:56:56,119
she's working in the Reagan administration back
I think in the eighties, and she

1117
01:56:56,279 --> 01:57:00,720
came across some of this information.
She was incredulous, and she went and

1118
01:57:00,880 --> 01:57:03,119
dug it up and she's like,
oh, my goodness, they are systematically

1119
01:57:03,279 --> 01:57:06,720
changing the attitudes, values, behaviors, and beliefs of Americans to be in

1120
01:57:06,840 --> 01:57:12,960
more in line with communists and collectivists, the removal of individual rights. Basically,

1121
01:57:13,319 --> 01:57:15,960
it's a way to a road any
of America's power. What did America

1122
01:57:16,039 --> 01:57:19,000
have. We had our ability to
coin money, and we had freedom of

1123
01:57:19,000 --> 01:57:23,479
speech, we had all these things
those separated us from the British Empire.

1124
01:57:23,680 --> 01:57:26,399
So as they kind of cut those
peers one by one, they can do

1125
01:57:26,479 --> 01:57:30,359
a controlled demolition of the whole thing. And that's kind of where we're at

1126
01:57:30,520 --> 01:57:32,800
in history right now. So we
got front row seats. We're like that

1127
01:57:32,880 --> 01:57:36,560
movie Grand Tour back in the day. It was time travelers in the future

1128
01:57:36,560 --> 01:57:40,520
who would go to big events in
the past and they would watch it and

1129
01:57:40,560 --> 01:57:44,119
they had like Jeff Daniels, it
was an early nineties comedy. But there's

1130
01:57:44,199 --> 01:57:46,720
something to have in front seats on
like the end of the world type situation.

1131
01:57:46,920 --> 01:57:49,560
So I don't see it as a
tragedy. I see it as a

1132
01:57:49,600 --> 01:57:54,960
big opportunity, a good call to
action for everybody to get on the field

1133
01:57:55,039 --> 01:57:59,720
and start playing and stop being spectators. Because if these people think they can

1134
01:57:59,760 --> 01:58:02,479
do this to our world without us
seeing it and doing something about it,

1135
01:58:02,560 --> 01:58:11,039
they're wrong. And we're in motion. So Charlotte, her work spans decades

1136
01:58:11,079 --> 01:58:15,239
and decades and decades. And that's
her book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of

1137
01:58:15,279 --> 01:58:18,920
America. It's a seven hundred page
book. It's heavy duty, it's an

1138
01:58:18,960 --> 01:58:24,880
academic quality, it uses real references
and resources. It's not hyperbolized. Right.

1139
01:58:25,760 --> 01:58:30,479
But her other big contribution that very
few people know about is when Charlotte's

1140
01:58:30,520 --> 01:58:38,479
father passed away, he was in
scullm Bones and Charlotte's grandfather used to work

1141
01:58:38,520 --> 01:58:42,960
for Cecil Rhodes in South Africa.
He was he was in mining. Okay,

1142
01:58:43,760 --> 01:58:47,399
so Charlotte had had conversations with her
dad, but he wouldn't tell her

1143
01:58:47,479 --> 01:58:54,560
anything. Well, between his death
and her going through the attic and then

1144
01:58:54,760 --> 01:59:00,720
Scull and Bones sending here's this year's
you know book for the members, She's

1145
01:59:00,760 --> 01:59:02,319
like, I got this evidence and
there's something here, but it's outside of

1146
01:59:02,359 --> 01:59:06,199
her purview. She doesn't know.
She doesn't she's an expert on the educational

1147
01:59:06,319 --> 01:59:10,079
part and she knows there's something to
this. She doesn't know what to do,

1148
01:59:10,239 --> 01:59:13,359
so she calls up Anthony Sutton and
says, Anthony, you know,

1149
01:59:13,439 --> 01:59:16,000
your books on the Bolshevik Revolution of
Wall Street and all these sort of things

1150
01:59:16,760 --> 01:59:19,720
lead me to believe you would be
interested in this content, He's like,

1151
01:59:19,840 --> 01:59:26,600
send it over. So he wrote
a book called America's Secret Establishment and Introduction

1152
01:59:26,720 --> 01:59:32,199
to Scull and Bones, and in
there there was a report how the order

1153
01:59:32,520 --> 01:59:36,840
three to two two, how the
Skull and Bones secret Society controls education.

1154
01:59:38,439 --> 01:59:42,920
And when you go through and compare
what they're saying in their documents to what

1155
01:59:43,119 --> 01:59:47,640
Charlotte had found from the Carnegie,
there's a comprehensive plan with multiple secret societies

1156
01:59:47,760 --> 01:59:55,520
or working groups going toward this same
thing with great deal of intention and organization

1157
01:59:55,720 --> 02:00:00,000
and budget and long term commitment,
multigenerational commitment to their goal. And we

1158
02:00:00,159 --> 02:00:04,039
as individuals don't really relate to that
because we're just like looking for the paycheck

1159
02:00:04,119 --> 02:00:10,720
next week. So we're playing in
a game that is not like checkers.

1160
02:00:11,239 --> 02:00:14,800
It's not even like chess. It's
more like go, which is a game

1161
02:00:14,840 --> 02:00:18,279
in Asia to acquire to conquer as
much territory as fast as you can.

1162
02:00:18,479 --> 02:00:21,960
So it's like a fast moving game. And we're still like a turtle speed,

1163
02:00:23,359 --> 02:00:27,079
but tortoise versus the hair. I
say, we just go calm,

1164
02:00:27,119 --> 02:00:30,720
cool, collected, let's not panic. It's been going on since before we

1165
02:00:30,800 --> 02:00:32,600
got here. It's going to go
on probably after we leave here, if

1166
02:00:32,600 --> 02:00:35,399
we don't do something about it,
and let's figure out what we can learn.

1167
02:00:35,600 --> 02:00:40,960
Who left us these credible pieces of
artifacts, evidence that illustrate what's going

1168
02:00:40,960 --> 02:00:45,119
on, like Ghatto, like Israbee, like Sutton, like Carol Quigley,

1169
02:00:45,640 --> 02:00:51,399
and let's communicate it's all right.
So that's a clip giving you a kind

1170
02:00:51,439 --> 02:00:58,039
of introduction to Richard's course, which
he's gonna start up pretty soon over at

1171
02:00:58,119 --> 02:01:02,560
Autonomy University. Here's the think if
you're interested in learning about retooling your education

1172
02:01:02,640 --> 02:01:10,239
to become a self sufficient business owner, entrepreneur, an individual who takes control

1173
02:01:10,279 --> 02:01:15,520
of their own life, isn't submitting
to and absorbed into some idiotic collective and

1174
02:01:15,640 --> 02:01:20,800
relying on the system to do things
for you. It's still not too late

1175
02:01:20,880 --> 02:01:24,479
to become that. In fact,
the Pentagon said a few years ago that

1176
02:01:24,520 --> 02:01:30,279
their number one enemy is motivated individuals
who are active and who are out there

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02:01:31,319 --> 02:01:34,439
becoming their own business owner, the
very thing that Richard's talking about. That's

1178
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what the Pentagon literally said, I
think about ten years ago, was the

1179
02:01:38,600 --> 02:01:43,880
number one danger to the imposition of
the technocratic order. Now again, why

1180
02:01:43,920 --> 02:01:46,600
does he Why do I think that
was a great clip because he mentioned Sutton's

1181
02:01:47,159 --> 02:01:53,319
history of Skull and Bones, which
is very crucial to the funding of both

1182
02:01:53,640 --> 02:01:58,640
Bolshevism, Marxism, and Communism,
as well as the funding of tiny mass

1183
02:01:58,840 --> 02:02:02,520
mustache men decree the thesis, antithesis, and the synthesis of where we are

1184
02:02:02,600 --> 02:02:08,920
today, the coming technocratic order.
Sutton wrote about this very thing that you're

1185
02:02:08,960 --> 02:02:12,880
hearing me talk about, and the
very thing that's talked about in Firing the

1186
02:02:12,960 --> 02:02:15,760
Minds of Men, the very thing
that's talked about in the Milnerphabian book by

1187
02:02:15,920 --> 02:02:24,119
Ratu in decades ago. So people
try to discredit Sutton, It's all true.

1188
02:02:24,399 --> 02:02:28,319
He's not discredited. Brazinski wouldn't cite
him in between two ages if he

1189
02:02:28,439 --> 02:02:31,000
was a kook and a crack fought. In fact, he laid all this

1190
02:02:31,119 --> 02:02:35,720
out in nineteen eighty three in this
history is calling Bones, and he talks

1191
02:02:35,800 --> 02:02:43,000
about throughout the book the importance of
Hegelianism to this whole system. If you

1192
02:02:43,039 --> 02:02:47,279
don't understand Hegelianism, you cannot understand
the world that we're going into and in

1193
02:02:47,399 --> 02:02:54,479
what way they co opted and utilized
the hermetic philosophy of the worship of dialectical

1194
02:02:54,600 --> 02:02:57,920
process. So there could be people
in the elite, by the way,

1195
02:02:57,920 --> 02:03:03,359
they're not Marxists. There might be
ideologically platonic neo platonic elite like Hegel,

1196
02:03:03,760 --> 02:03:11,119
but there's also dialectical people who believe
in the worship of a pure matter and

1197
02:03:11,199 --> 02:03:16,439
flux as a mystery religion that we
saw earlier. Both of those are amenable

1198
02:03:16,560 --> 02:03:20,319
to the technocratic order. And that's
why the technocratic order is above. It

1199
02:03:20,479 --> 02:03:27,239
is in a way the kind of
synthesis already of these existing ideologies. Right,

1200
02:03:28,119 --> 02:03:32,920
was Brazinsky anti communist? Many people
would say, of course he fought

1201
02:03:32,960 --> 02:03:38,960
the Cold War. Well wait a
minute, Brazinski calls the Cold War a

1202
02:03:39,079 --> 02:03:45,680
manechean dialectic which echoes everything we've been
talking about today. And Brazenski, in

1203
02:03:45,720 --> 02:03:54,000
fact was not anti socialist. He's
anti Soviet, not anti communist or socialist.

1204
02:03:55,399 --> 02:04:01,800
And that's why for the synthesis now
that the Soviet has evaporated, now

1205
02:04:01,920 --> 02:04:10,760
they believe they will get the synthesis
of what was formerly Eurasian communism versus Western

1206
02:04:10,880 --> 02:04:16,479
capitalism or monopoly capitalism. They believe
the synthesis is now emerging the technocratic global

1207
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order of Klausen Company, that is, the synthesis, that is the proto

1208
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one world government that Rakovsky said would
emerge out of the postwar order. So

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We talked a little bit about how
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got some super jest. Now people
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empirical criticism, Yes, I have
that pulled up materialism imperio criticism. What

1225
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about objective truth? Doesn't Lennon say
believes an objective truth. We're gonna get

1226
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into this in the part two as
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Now, wait a minute, what
am I doing? I can't even I

1256
02:08:15,560 --> 02:08:20,079
can't even think. By the way, I did find the thing I mentioned

1257
02:08:20,159 --> 02:08:26,439
on last night's show where I was
trying to think of the article about how

1258
02:08:28,399 --> 02:08:35,319
espionage related to the Himalayas, remember
that, and I'm trying to find Mark's

1259
02:08:35,439 --> 02:08:39,840
article on that because it's a great
article on that over here at Espionage Archive.

1260
02:08:39,880 --> 02:08:45,520
This one is relevant too for Bolshevik
occultism. So this is not the

1261
02:08:45,640 --> 02:08:52,359
article I'm looking for, but relevant
for today's discussion Bolshevik occultism. See that

1262
02:08:52,479 --> 02:08:58,560
art there, great article that Mark
translated, and I'll put the link here

1263
02:08:58,720 --> 02:09:07,159
for you guys for that one.
But it's not just bolshevikar cultism. They're

1264
02:09:07,279 --> 02:09:11,119
what I'm looking for is so there's
a there's a great story about the czar

1265
02:09:11,439 --> 02:09:22,800
sending Buddhist monks as spies, and
that's what everybody did at that time for

1266
02:09:22,880 --> 02:09:26,920
that region, right, this is
what this explains Himmler's mission to the Himalayas.

1267
02:09:28,119 --> 02:09:33,199
Right, it wasn't just esoteric jibber
jabber. It was also geostrategic espionage

1268
02:09:33,199 --> 02:09:35,640
stuff. Right, Hence why here
it is the Great Game and Tibet found

1269
02:09:35,680 --> 02:09:39,479
it. This is a great article
if you haven't read. It gets into

1270
02:09:39,520 --> 02:09:50,640
the Tsar and Czarist espionage against the
West and why Tibet is this key region

1271
02:09:50,760 --> 02:09:56,279
and why the CIA had such an
interest in Tibet during the Cold War.

1272
02:09:56,399 --> 02:09:58,760
And I would argue even to today
right Free Tibet, as we saw in

1273
02:10:00,239 --> 02:10:07,119
night Stream, was a CIA funded
movie or a funded operation, and also

1274
02:10:07,199 --> 02:10:11,880
ties into why tiny mustache Man wanted
to get the Dali Lama on his side.

1275
02:10:11,039 --> 02:10:13,800
So if you don't know about that, there's a old history too,

1276
02:10:13,319 --> 02:10:20,840
tiny mustache Man trying to basically use
and get that dude on his side.

1277
02:10:20,359 --> 02:10:31,000
The dolly lamo All right, Gollum
go home, sends ten dollars and says

1278
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nothing, thank you Galum zero double
o Honeybee ten dollars, says nothing,

1279
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thank you double o Huneybee. Shout
out to our buddy a C. Glad

1280
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to see him back in the chat, Glad to see him back on Twitter,

1281
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even though I guess he got sick
of Twitter. Shout out to a

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C. By the way, A
C. I did bring a lot of

1283
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my books when I moved that you
sent me, so I do intend to

1284
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get to those eventually. Ali out
and I four dollars. I'm broke,

1285
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but I wanted to say thank you
for finding this good fight. I appreciate

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all your work. Thank you much
appreciated. Epville five dollars. Thank you

1287
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so much. Ep bone Man five
thirty eight five dollars. If the trinity

1288
02:11:03,840 --> 02:11:11,560
is a Hegelian thesis antithesis synthesis,
Hegel's trinity is contrasting the representation of objective

1289
02:11:11,600 --> 02:11:16,439
truth. What can be said about
the geometry of stars with right side up

1290
02:11:16,520 --> 02:11:22,359
triangles overlaid with upside down triangles?
Is this an antipolarity refutation of the same.

1291
02:11:24,119 --> 02:11:28,039
I'm not sure exactly what you're talking
about, but I think you're talking

1292
02:11:28,079 --> 02:11:37,199
about the pictures that doctor McGee says. What you're talking about this picture on

1293
02:11:37,239 --> 02:11:45,640
the front right of the book,
where it's Hegel's stars. So I think

1294
02:11:46,279 --> 02:11:50,680
I'm not understanding your question, but
I think the drawing is that Hagel believes

1295
02:11:50,720 --> 02:11:58,359
that thesis antithesis synthesis is constantly producing
the movement of all reality to pure spirit.

1296
02:11:58,119 --> 02:12:03,840
So as the electric transient transpires throughout
all history, all history and every

1297
02:12:03,840 --> 02:12:07,920
action within history is part of the
dialectical process. This is the thesis,

1298
02:12:09,000 --> 02:12:13,119
antithesis, synthesis move everything, every
event is moving in that direction, and

1299
02:12:13,239 --> 02:12:20,720
eventually all of the triangles will coalesce
into the pure synthesis of pure spirit,

1300
02:12:20,319 --> 02:12:26,640
when all reality will be pure spirit. That's that's Hegel's mystical monastic metaphysic there.

1301
02:12:30,119 --> 02:12:33,079
So that's what I think the symbols
mean here. I don't know what

1302
02:12:33,159 --> 02:12:35,359
all his little stars mean. I
mean, the circle is the that's the

1303
02:12:35,560 --> 02:12:41,800
vishop dot right, that's the monad, the circle and the dot. But

1304
02:12:41,800 --> 02:12:46,239
as to what every little symbol is
meant there by Hagel, I don't know.

1305
02:12:48,640 --> 02:12:52,560
I think it's just trying to encapsulate
polarities male and female, right,

1306
02:12:52,800 --> 02:12:58,840
That achieves the synthesis of the child. I think that's what is probably meant.

1307
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The drawing storm, the cat ten
dollars. Do you think there's an

1308
02:13:03,680 --> 02:13:07,960
platonic symbolism in Halo with the rings
in Space and the Covenant's Great Journey.

1309
02:13:09,279 --> 02:13:13,279
I haven't played Halo since I was
in my twenties, so I don't really

1310
02:13:13,359 --> 02:13:16,239
remember a lot of the storyline.
I know they have like a religious covenant,

1311
02:13:16,279 --> 02:13:20,800
there's heretics and stuff like that.
So it certainly borrows from probably Christian

1312
02:13:20,880 --> 02:13:26,640
ideology and symbolism, but I don't
know if it borrows anything directly from Platonism

1313
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Doff, forty five eighty ten dollars. Can you flesh out more specifically the

1314
02:13:30,840 --> 02:13:35,199
context of Lenin's writings, why he's
contradicting the case of objectivity and the rest

1315
02:13:35,239 --> 02:13:37,920
of his views. Yeah, that's
going to relate to what we're going to

1316
02:13:39,000 --> 02:13:43,439
talk about an hour or two,
because here is the chapter in chapter four

1317
02:13:43,600 --> 02:13:46,000
of the book where he talks about
objective truth, and I'm going to argue

1318
02:13:46,039 --> 02:13:54,279
that when he gets down to what
he defines as pure sensation, the gospel

1319
02:13:54,439 --> 02:14:00,800
is sense data. None of this
are none of this proved the thesis that

1320
02:14:00,840 --> 02:14:07,039
he has. So he understands that
crude materialism is self refuting and silly where

1321
02:14:07,039 --> 02:14:11,399
he talks about Ernst Mock and people
like this, right, But his answer,

1322
02:14:11,520 --> 02:14:18,720
his solution is not enough. It
doesn't work given that he's also a

1323
02:14:18,800 --> 02:14:20,640
material He's in the same box.
All materialists are in the same box.

1324
02:14:22,159 --> 02:14:24,600
So that's my critique, but we're
going to get into more of that in

1325
02:14:24,680 --> 02:14:30,039
part two when we analyze this chapter
from Lennon. But thank you for that

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gangster today, great book Mafia Dynasty have

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been reading by John Davis gets into
the history of the Gambinos all the way

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up to entire chapters about Sammy the
Bull. What better book for Frank and

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I to do than The Godfather?
Of course, everybody I'm sure has seen

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the movie. However, it is
an amazing literary achievement as a book.

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So look for that Monday night.
Frank and I will be doing the first

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four chapters, so if you want
to join us, I think that's a

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Frank's member section, but it will
also be available to my member's section as

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well. So otherwise, everybody,
have a great Sunday, and also check

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out Richard's show tonight. Grantap Roll