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Against the Mountains of Madness Ep 05: CS Lewis JRR Tolkien What They Did Right

Posted January 5, 2023 By John C Wright

Each week, Jason Rennie and John C Wright explore the peaks of insanity which dominate the modern age, and how to overcome them. We discuss philosophy, science fiction, the true, the good, the beautiful, and whatever else strikes our fancy.

Episode 05: C.L. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and What They Did Right

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And audio versions of the show can be found at: https://superversive.net/

Available on Apple Podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/against-the-mountains-of-madness/id1659266918

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Seedcorn 3: The End of the Envoy

Posted January 4, 2023 By John C Wright

Seedcorn is now posted.

Three of Four.

The End of the Envoy

IN this episode is my conceit of how political conflict is resolved, as seen from the moral foundation of a philosophy one might call Occidentalized Taoism.

Real Taoism is quietist, a philosophy of renunciation and submission to fate. Occidentals, informed by Christian thought even when we do not realize it, cannot accept true fatalism or true renunciation. The furthest we of the West tend to go in that direction is toward stoicism, or pragmatism, or the idea that ideals are worth pursuing even if they cannot be enacted.

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De-Christianization

Posted January 2, 2023 By John C Wright

Apparently, progressives regard attempts at chastity and sexual self-command among young men to be nascent fascism, which must be stamped out. Addiction to porn is mandatory.

I am not making this up.

Please read this article by Matthew B Crawford of Archedelia.

His is one of the most fascinating investigations into the roots of our modern moral decay imaginable.

Mr. Crawford argues that the Sexual Liberation movement, including the normalization of pornography and the sin of Onan, was part of a coordinated longterm attempt at psychological social engineering: our society was deliberately de-Christianized by the same men, using the same methods, as de-Nazified Germany post WWII.

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