Gender Ideology and the RC

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/06/53437/

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Virgin Shaming

https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/virgin-shaming-is-the-new-slut-shaming-and-it-needs-to-stop/

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Conservatives and Geo-political change

https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/04/20/conservatives-and-geopolitical-change/

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Peter Thiel on Socrates in the City Eric Metaxas

 

 

  • 6:10 Human beings are the only ones that can invent new things
  • 23: James Tour
  • 26: European eschatology: 1. Islam 2. China 3. Greta
  • 28 Interiority vs exteriority
  • 32 costs 50% more to build a mile of subway in NYC
  • 34: University corruption analogous to Medieval RC church
  • 36: PT had a fantasy about starting a new university
  • 40: Ivy League as Studio 54
  • 43 Republicans don’t go after the University because they want their kids to go
  • 1:00 Peter Thiel in The NewYorker on being a Christian. Just being a Christian is controversial enough in NYC
  • 1:06 Gilligan’s Island as 7 Deadly Sins
  • 1:08 Wonder at secrets left to be discovered, Faith in God is an endlessly revealing secret. Those things are related. Back to Christian interiority.
  • 1:10 “pop psychology ala Jordan Peterson”
  • 1:12 Not a shortage morality but too much morality
  • 1:14 Cannabalistic mean, continuity with the past
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Peter Thiel, Ross Douthat, NT Wright Veritas Forum

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Bo Jack Horseman and The Good Place

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Peter Thiel Against Edenism First Things

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2015/06/against-edenism

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Takin pandemic

www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-pandemic-isnt-a-black-swan-but-a-portent-of-a-more-fragile-global-system

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Weinstein Douthat Portal Episode

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-portal/id1469999563

Timestamps…

  • 35:37: Breakdown of the “workhorse” generational hand-off
  • 45: Both sides not working, positions are still occupied but less energy
  • 58: religious scientists, jesus smuggling, no God for your gaps
  • 1:06 The Genius of Trump
  • 1:40 Appalachian
  • 1:45 the citadel and expertise
  • 1:52 we’ve lost the universities
  • 1:55 crisis of the university
  • 2:02 expert class denatured corrupt
  • 2:08 the outsider and the inner ring.
  • 2:10 baby boomer and the next generation
  • 2:14 no grandchildren
  • 2:16 intuit the bankruptcy of the system
  • 2:22 Hitler, halfway house of Xian and yet Decadent
  • Memifying Jesus, leadership
  • 2:29 the breach in the wall and the inner ring
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Jack Jenkins American Prophets

Winning back White Xians to Dems… https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/02/20/democrats-lost-white-christians-can-they-win-them-back

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