Michael Pregent is Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, specializing in national security and defense, terrorism, and defense strategy.
Brandon Van Dyck
#israel #israelpalestineconflict #gaza #hamasattack #hamas #iran #russia #china #biden
Michael Pregent is Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, specializing in national security and defense, terrorism, and defense strategy.
Michael Pregent is Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, specializing in national security and defense, terrorism, and defense strategy.
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Michael Pregent is Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, specializing in national security and defense, terrorism, and defense strategy.
A conversation with the inimitable Dan Garner of O.G. Rose.
Please follow Dan's work at og-rose.com and youtube.com/channel/UC6zHDj4D323xJkblnPTvY3Q.
Michael Pregent is Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, specializing in national security and defense, terrorism, and defense strategy.
The full conversation is here: youtu.be/vM_uRDVM-H4
Michael Pregent is Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, specializing in national security and defense, terrorism, and defense strategy.
The full conversation is here: youtu.be/vM_uRDVM-H4
Michael Pregent is a military veteran and Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, specializing in national security and defense, terrorism, and defense strategy.
The full conversation is here: youtu.be/vM_uRDVM-H4
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0:00 Intro
2:46 Cycles within cycles within cycles...
31:37 Envisioning a realistic fourth generation of civilization
Jean Gebser's mental consciousness structure emerged during the Axial Age. When did the earlier mythical consciousness structure emerge? John David Ebert and I discuss this question and related topics.
0:00 Intro
1:02 Cartesian dualism, phenomenology, and Heidegger
14:00 Sloterdijk, spheres, and the post-metaphysical age
24:47 Heidegger, Sloterdijk, science, art, and the West
50:41 Heidegger, Sloterdijk, and the grand civilizational questions
You can check out John's voluminous YouTube content here: youtube.com/user/johndavidebert
0:00 Michel's journey to this conversation
11:37 Why Michel is "obsessed" with Wokeism
16:49 John's critique of Jordan Peterson
21:16 The narrowness of academia
31:05 Civilizational immune systems
37:56 Intersectionality and class
39:51 Should we reform or circumvent the establishment?
56:33 The internet is a game-changer and the greatest medium ever invented
0:00 Some thoughts on Latin America
8:31 The ancestral sting of conscience (China and Russia vs West)
21:16 The Mesoamerican ur-symbol
41:03 The gasoline that powered Mesoamerican civilization
45:17 Transpacific diffusion?
A whirlwind tour of the major (i.e., non-satellite) high civilizations, during which John and Brandon pause and zoom in on the Magian world.
0:00 Babylon to Rome
3:49 The ghosts of Athens and Rome
8:09 The Magian world
10:01 Aside on Russia’s new cathedral
13:04 Aside on Louis CK
18:30 The amoeboid pre- and post-classic periods
20:46 Back to the Magian world
38:17 Incas and Aztecs
40:28 Russian, Western, and Magian homologues
What is civilization? What is *a* civilization? John and Brandon explore in Episodes 2a, 2b, and 2c.
Check out John's YouTube channel here: youtube.com/user/johndavidebert.
0:00 Intro
2:31 Is a civilization in one epoch the same civilization in the next?
22:59 What does it mean for a civilization to end?
33:55 Is the world God?
1:10:53 The wandering sage, Siddhartha, Job, and Prometheus
1:27:23 Why not Christ, Joseph Campbell?
1:34:36 A Samuel Huntington aside
1:41:31 Parts and wholes
What is civilization? What is *a* civilization? John and Brandon explore in Episodes 2a, 2b, and 2c.
Check out John's YouTube channel here: youtube.com/user/johndavidebert.
0:00 Shadow of Sumer
9:12 Threshold of a global civilization?
What is civilization? What is *a* civilization? John and Brandon explore in this and the next two episodes.
Check out John's YouTube channel here: youtube.com/user/johndavidebert.
0:00 Intro
2:40 Hominids
18:12 From art to Art
23:55 Seeding the earth
39:28 The written word: civilization's sine qua non
1:26:15 Monumentality
1:35:01 Crossing the mimesis threshold
1:57:17 Spengler's cultural amoebae
2:02:39 From primitive communism to hierarchy
2:08:19 Monopolizing legitimate force
2:20:40 Celestial lights, abstract mental phase space
2:35:27 A Kenneth Clark aside
2:38:30 Hurling rocks, hurling insults
In recent months, the regime of Vladimir Putin has moved tens of thousands of Russian troops and large quantities of military equipment to the vicinity of the Ukrainian border. What are Putin's goals? What is his strategy for achieving them? Is the strategy rational? The formidable Andrew Coe discusses.
Polls:
On Ukrainian attitudes toward Russia and the Russian leadership - https://www.kiis.com.ua/?lang=eng&cat=reports&id=1078&page=2&y=2021
On Ukrainian attitudes toward EU/NATO - https://www.kiis.com.ua/?lang=eng&cat=reports&id=1083&page=1&y=2021
On the recent decline in support for Zelensky and his party - https://www.kiis.com.ua/?lang=eng&cat=reports&id=1090&page=1
Podcasts mentioned:
The Unraveling Podcast with Jocko Willink and Darryl Cooper, Ep. 17, "Blood Red Fields" - podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/unraveling-17-blood-red-fields/id1507329859?i=1000517808077
The Daily, The New York Times, Jan. 12, 2022, "Russia and the U.S. Face Off Over Ukraine" - nytimes.com/2022/01/12/podcasts/the-daily/russia-us-ukraine-talks.html
0:00 Intro
1:06 The facts about Russia's military buildup
4:05 Might Putin invade Ukraine? If so, what might he do?
11:46 What are Putin's goals?
35:06 What is Putin's strategy for achieving these goals? Is the strategy rational?
#Covid #ExcessMortality #Lockdown #Vaccine #BretWeinstein #RebelWisdom #YuriDeigin #SamHarris #EricTopol #EricWeinstein
0:00 Intro
2:14 What excess mortality is
4:34 Why excess mortality is useful for estimating the Covid death toll
11:14 Ariel's World Mortality Dataset (WMD)
18:35 Ariel's excess mortality estimates, globally
27:29 Ariel's main argument: almost all excess deaths since March 2020 are direct deaths from Covid, not suicides, drug overdoses, homicides, etc.
38:38 Why so many countries underreport Covid deaths (hint: some lie)
49:19 Recapping the main argument
50:23 Are we too afraid of death?
1:04:14 Ariel's experience with Bret Weinstein's assistant
Ariel Karlinsky and Dmitry Kobak, "Tracking excess mortality across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic with the World Mortality Dataset" - elifesciences.org/articles/69336
"Weird" Al Yankovic, "Amish Paradise (Official Parody of 'Gangsta's Paradise')" - youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg
Heather Heying, "On Driving SARS-CoV2 Extinct: Why We Need a Multi-Pronged Approach" - naturalselections.substack.com/p/on-driving-sars-cov2-extinct
David Fuller, "On Vaccine Safety, Ivermectin and the Dark Horse Podcast: An Investigation" - medium.com/rebel-wisdom/on-vaccine-safety-ivermectin-and-the-dark-horse-podcast-an-investigation-f32491d4c970
Rebel Wisdom, "Yuri Deigin Responds to Bret Weinstein on Vaccines, Ivermectin & Quillette" - youtube.com/watch?v=GwzfnZfo-rU&t=5s
Making Sense Podcast with Sam Harris, "#256 - A Contagion of Bad Ideas: A Conversation with Eric Topol" - samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/256-contagion-bad-ideas
#Afghanistan #Taliban #AlQaeda #OsamaBinLaden #ISIS #USForeignPolicy #GeorgeWBush #Obama #Trump #Biden #RobertWright #EzraKlein #ColemanHughes #AmyChua
0:00 Intro
1:44 A brief history of Afghanistan
5:02 A brief history and description of the Taliban
9:09 The US's invasion of Afghanistan in 2001
19:29 The resulting power vacuum
31:52 Why did the US stay in Afghanistan so long?
36:51 Why did the US pull out when it did, rather than earlier or later?
44:09 Did the US government's justification for its presence in Afghanistan change over time?
46:54 Describing the Taliban's resurgence and the evacuation
57:27 Brief summary of Robert Wright and Ezra Klein's critique of the US's intervention in Afghanistan
1:01:54 Were Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan all failures?
1:12:01 How well does the US foreign policy establishment understand other countries?
1:20:33 How well can the FP establishment predict the consequences of US intervention?
1:22:32 Are FP elites biased in favor of intervention and against inaction?
1:27:45 How much do American citizens care about foreign policy?
1:30:36 Was Biden naive to believe that the Afghan government would hold out for 12-18 months against the Taliban?
1:37:21 Does the US bear responsibility for everything that happens in a country after the US invades it?
1:42:05 What Prof. Coe would have done in Afghanistan in response to 9/11, with the benefit of hindsight
1:49:19 Prof. Coe rants about the term, "The Blob"
Prof. Coe's website andrewjcoe.com
"The Foreign Policy Conversation Washington Doesn't Want to Have," The Ezra Klein Show podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-foreign-policy-conversation-washington-doesnt/id1548604447?i=1000533286262
"Coleman Hughes on the Tribal Instinct with Amy Chua," Conversations with Coleman youtu.be/EOoTGFnUXok
#EricWeinstein #GeometricUnity #BrianKeating #DecodingTheGurus #Eigenbros #RobertWright #RebelWisdom #JoeRogan
0:00 Intro
1:41 Why Tim left academia
14:11 This isn’t an Eric Weinstein hit piece
15:18 A chronology of relevant events
24:57 The math and physics
54:55 Is Eric Galileo?
1:01:44 Tim’s only interaction with Eric
1:05:15 Tim’s motivation to write the rebuttal
1:11:08 Did Tim’s rebuttal cause Eric to revise GU?
1:16:44 Eric’s public reaction to Tim’s rebuttal
1:23:00 Brian Keating’s support for Eric
1:37:27 Summary of the story so far
1:40:06 Mainstream and alternative sensemaking structures
1:45:40 Eric wields the DISC against Tim
1:52:13 Analyzing Brian Keating’s role
1:55:56 The good news
1:59:41 Vaccine hesitancy and dialogos
2:05:31 Back to the good news
Links (listed chronologically):
Eric Weinstein, “Eric Weinstein (Solo), Ep. #018 of The Portal – Slipping the DISC: State of the Portal/Chapter 2020” – youtu.be/QxnkGymKuuI?t=1094
Eric Weinstein, “A Portal Special Presentation – Geometric Unity: A First Look” – youtu.be/Z7rd04KzLcg
Timothy Nguyen and Theo Polya, “A Response to Geometric Unity” – twitter.com/IAmTimNguyen/status/1364352524942118913
Eric Weinstein, “Geometric Unity: Author’s Working Draft, v 1.0” – geometricunity.org/#download
Clubhouse Podcast, “Let’s Talk about PHYSICS! Eric Weinstein & Brian Keating on Clubhouse Podcast | 16 May 2021” – youtube.com/watch?v=7PBp_3CKfqU
Eigenbros, “Eigenbros ep 120 – Timothy Nguyen (Problems with Eric Weinstein’s Geometric Unity)” – youtu.be/o31cGMENDTI
What is human civilization? What do all human civilizations have in common, viewed from the interior and exterior? What causes cultural immune systems to become compromised, and how do we know when a civilization is approaching death? Also, how have civilizations changed over time, and how do they differ from region to region (or, as Joseph Campbell would put it, across mythogenetic zones)?
In this first episode of JDE/BVD, Brandon Van Dyck (BVD) puts the above questions to cultural theorist, John David Ebert (JDE). A long conversation follows, focusing on Oswald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee, Jean Gebser, Joseph Campbell, Sri Aurobindo (see 2:48:09), and others.
You can find JDE's content here (youtube.com/channel/UC5B4tbk3U40S4q_3Qt-cVgQ) and here (cinemadiscourse.com/).
0:00 Intro
5:10 Oswald Spengler
17:05 Arnold Toynbee
25:23 Jean Gebser
40:45 Franz Borkenau
51:46 Carroll Quigley
1:03:57 Joseph Campbell
1:34:56 William Irwin Thompson
1:44:26 Distilling the contributions of Campbell and Thompson
1:49:29 What is a civilization -- or, alternatively, a society (Toynbee) or social formation (Deleuze and Guattari)?
1:53:14 What do all human civilizations have in common? What are the universal patterns? Discussing the above thinkers' answers.
2:36:47 How do civilizations differ from region to region? Briefly discussing the views of Spengler and Campbell.
2:44:24 How have civilizations changed over time? Briefly discussing the thinkers' descriptions and evaluations, which vary greatly!
3:00:41 The many subcultures of North America (William Irwin Thompson, Joel Garreau, Colin Woodard)
0:00 Intro
4:08 What is the proper role of government?
25:19 Is the government necessary for innovation?
The David Pakman Show: youtube.com/user/MidweekPolitics
The Center for Industrial Progress: industrialprogress.com
The David Pakman Show: youtube.com/user/MidweekPolitics
5:00 – Alex’s presentation
1:29:23 – Q&A
Glitch in the Matrix II: youtu.be/TKeMIWVOnbo
Jay Shapiro on Rebel Wisdom: youtu.be/MX_vzjEl02o
Timbah on Toast, Dave Rubin's Battle of Ideas: youtu.be/u3TPxQao3m0 (Pt 1), youtu.be/a3h9YyzqBxs (Pt 2), youtu.be/N2LOvoDCPS8 (Pt 3)
Cathy Young's Quillette piece on the IDW and tribalism: quillette.com/2019/05/24/how-the-idw-can-avoid-the-tribalist-pull
Peter Limberg and Conor Barnes' Medium piece on memetic tribes: medium.com/s/world-wide-wtf/memetic-tribes-and-culture-war-2-0-14705c43f6bb
Glitch in the Matrix II: youtu.be/TKeMIWVOnbo
Jay Shapiro on Rebel Wisdom: youtu.be/MX_vzjEl02o
Timbah on Toast, Dave Rubin's Battle of Ideas: youtu.be/u3TPxQao3m0 (Pt 1), youtu.be/a3h9YyzqBxs (Pt 2), youtu.be/N2LOvoDCPS8 (Pt 3)
Cathy Young's Quillette piece on the IDW and tribalism: quillette.com/2019/05/24/how-the-idw-can-avoid-the-tribalist-pull
Peter Limberg and Conor Barnes' Medium piece on memetic tribes: medium.com/s/world-wide-wtf/memetic-tribes-and-culture-war-2-0-14705c43f6bb