This is an old documentary from 2007 about global warming. It not only explains clearly the enormous purely scientific problems with the hypothesis that human-emitted CO2 is causing an increase in global temperatures (and points out how such a global temperature increase would be a good thing anyway!), but also points to some of the nefarious political actors that have been working to foist this fraud on the public. When I first watched this many years ago, it made me realize that skepticism of what I now see as the global warming cult is totally respectable. I wasn't able to find this film anywhere on Odysee, so I thought I'd upload it to keep it from being lost.
... And How Constitutionalism Ruined It. Constitutionalism was never originally intended to limit the state. In actual fact, it did much to help it grow, especially by undermining the single greatest check on the power of the state ever devised: the Medieval right of violent resistance against unlawful and arbitrary kings.
Fritz Kern's book:
http://amzn.to/2AMCZqU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taOtILh3yXg
A film from 1996 that questions the connection between AIDS and the HIV virus. Indeed, it throws some doubt on the idea that AIDS is caused by any kind of virus at all.
In this video, I make a long digression on the history of the debate in Western philosophy and Christian theology over free will. I especially discuss the concept of the will in Greek thought, and then how the modern and premodern concepts of the will, and consequently, of "negative" and "positive" political freedom, differ. Then, at last, I discuss the debate between Luther and Erasmus on the freedom or bondage of the will, and how this debate was emblematic of the conflict between humanism and Protestantism that arose as a result of each worldview's differing emphasis on man and God respectively, and the relationship between man and God. Because of this irreconcilable conflict, and the inadequacy of each position's attempt to cope with the problems raised by nominalism, a third solution was needed. This third solution became scientific naturalism, and with its emergence, we see the true birth of the modern age.
Books/essays discussed or mentioned:
1. Michael Allen Gillespie's "The Theological Origins of Modernity":
http://amzn.to/2AKBxVN
2. "Erasmus and Luther: the Battle Over Free Will," by Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther:
http://amzn.to/2DeLH43
3. Augustine's "Against the Academicians" and "The Teacher":
http://amzn.to/2mcl5Zi
4. Augustine's "On the Free Choice of the Will":
http://amzn.to/2DfBrs7
5. "Elbow Room," by Daniel Dennett (this is a newer edition of the book than the one that I showed in the video):
http://amzn.to/2meWJy1
6. Peter van Inwagen's "An Essay on Free Will":
http://amzn.to/2AKyjll
7. Isaiah Berlin's "Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty":
http://amzn.to/2FjDUlQ
8. "Two Concepts of Liberty," by Isaiah Berlin (PDF):
http://spot.colorado.edu/~pasnau/seminar/berlin.pdf
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4wzQmeP4r8
Remember, remember, the fifth of November... But as what? As a day when crazed Catholic fanatics almost killed the king of England, many of its important lords and almost blew the symbol of the English state to smithereens, or as a day when Machiavellian political operators led a group of lambs to slaughter for the sake of preserving their own power? Remember, remember, that the most dangerous terrorist is often the state itself.
Hugh Ross Williamson's book:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/091184533X/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGdVMuvat68
A review of Michel Houellebecq's mordant, dark and brilliant novel on the decadence and metaphysical boredom sweeping through France, which gets pushed aside when an Islamic political party comes to power. There is so much to say on this novel and a further, extended review and analysis will be coming in the future. It covers so much - the nature of love, boredom, narcissism, alienation, the relations between man and woman and between man and God, the aridity and self-satisfied emptiness of contemporary liberal cultural, careerism, academic cowardice and what happens when a society simply loses the will to preserve itself and is swept aside. This should be enough to give you a taste of what this important work of art is all about, though.
BOOKS AND REFERENCES:
1. 'Submission,' by Michel Houellebecq:
http://amzn.to/2CKu0Ik
2. 'Against Nature,' by Joris-Karl Huysmans:
http://amzn.to/2CKuT3C
3. 'The Damned,' by Joris-Karl Huysmans:
http://amzn.to/2DelcLY
4. 'Temporal and Eternal,' by Charles Peguy:
http://amzn.to/2DeP8rt
5. 'The Portal of the Mystery of Hope,' by Charles Peguy:
http://amzn.to/2CN2F8v
6. "Charles Peguy," by Roger Kimball (article on Peguy):
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Charles-P-guy--2090
7. 'The Woman Who Was Poor,' by Leon Bloy:
http://amzn.to/2CLsSEz
8. 'Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis,' by Bat Ye'or:
http://amzn.to/2DdlSRL
9. 'Europe, Globalization and the Coming of the Universal Caliphate,' by Bat Ye'or:
http://amzn.to/2meThn4
10. 'The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism', by Pascal Bruckner:
http://amzn.to/2De6EMt
11. 'The Crisis of the Modern World,' by Rene Guenon:
http://amzn.to/2qHVblw
12. 'The Gay Science,' by Friedrich Nietzsche:
http://amzn.to/2CZlTuM
13. 'The Benedict Option,' by Rod Dreher:
http://amzn.to/2mcH3eB
14. 'The Triumph of Faith,' by Rodney Stark:
http://amzn.to/2mfga9M
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8aZ4T8O1DA
The American ruling class and the rest of America inhabit two different worlds, both ideologically and culturally. The ruling class - which includes the media, the deep state, academia and nearly all politicians, especially Democrats - hate Trump simply because he represents and symbolizes the ruled that have been chafing under the yoke of the ruling class and have grown tired of their invincible and all-embracing vanity. This is why the attacks on Trump have been both so vehement and so unreasonable. With the diametrically opposed views of the world presented by pro-Trump media like InfoWars and anti-Trump media like CNN, something will have to give. A people with such widely diverging views on reality cannot coexist as a nation. Politics will go on to become more war-like and vicious. The long-term result of all of this tension can only be either secession or civil war.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNg4siRryEI
The post-liberal position that power is primary is not a coherent alternative to anything in modernity -- certainly not to liberalism. If you adopt it, then you cannot truly hold any position for or against anything with sincerity, since every ostensible view or belief ultimately becomes merely a mask for power and a tactic by which some may be swayed to fall in line with the drives for power of others. If we're to deal with liberalism and its problems in a lasting way, then we need to acknowledge those aspects of it that are valid and integrate them into our worldview. Liberalism's insistence that power must submit to a rational order is one of the things that it gets right.
When post-liberals and no-absolutists try to deny this and adopt power as their lodestar, they unknowingly adopt the very will-centered worldview that began with nominalism and culminated in modernity. In that sense, post-liberalism is both a tragedy and a farce.
Keith Woods' Post-Truth video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQHz_6l_dKY
Keith Woods' video on the origins of liberalism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpNnJ9yYLRA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8qGKagRsdM
Why do Social Justice Warriors exist? What brought these ridiculous people into being? How did Western culture reach this stage? Interestingly, the question has its answer in an obscure metaphysical and theological debate that undercut the foundations of Medieval thought and inaugurated the modern world. And so to explain the origins of Social Justice Warriors and multiculturalism is to explain the origins of everything from libertarianism to Austrian Economics, to Protestantism, to fascism, to communism, to nationalism and the Alt-Right, and even to science itself. In this video and the next few, I attempt to describe the theological origins of modernity.
Michael Allen Gillespie's book:
http://amzn.to/2memEpD
Continue on to Part 2 here:
https://youtu.be/EG8Xued6mtY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8moDWkPkic