This week I’m coming to you live from Copenhagen Denmark. Well, not live exactly. The show is recorded, as usual. I’m posting this from Denmark and as far as I know, I am very much alive. I’ve never been to Copenhagen, so I’m looking forward to some exploring, but I suspect I know the reason this is not a tourist hot spot. So far, the city seems rather plain, a lot like a Midwestern American city. There is nothing wrong with plain, but tourists want a hopping city center, real or manufactured, painted with the local culture.
The one thing I have noticed is that this is hipster hell. I feel like I’m in Portland. Every male has a skinny jeans, bespoke facial hair and noticeable ink. Now, this may be true everywhere young white males congregate. I live in Lagos, so I don’t see many hipsters or white people. Of course, I have yet to see a black person walking around here. I did see some Muslims and at the airport I swore they had Hispanics working the maintenance jobs. Maybe they import Spanish or Italians. Maybe Mexicans are great swimmers.
Since I’m here doing some big brain stuff, the show this week will be a big brained show, getting into political philosophy. For those with the small or medium brains, you may want to break out the brain oil before listening. One thing missing on our side of the great divide is anything resembling original thinking about politics. It’s either criticism of the mainstream options or romanticism for long gone models. That’s not going to cut it, so I’m going to be doing more stuff on alternative politics and alternative political philosophy.
This week I have the usual variety of items in the now standard format. Spreaker has the full show. I am up on Google Play now, so the Android commies can take me along when out disrespecting the country. I am on iTunes, which means the Apple Nazis can listen to me on their Hitler phones. The anarchists can catch me on iHeart Radio. YouTube also has the full podcast. Of course, there is a download link below. I’m now on Spotify, so the millennials can tune in when not sobbing over white privilege and toxic masculinity.
This Week’s Show
Contents
- 00:00: Opening
- 02:00: Socrates
- 07:00: Hobbes & Locke
- 17:00: Rousseau
- 27:00: John Rawls
- 37:00: The Sexual Contract
- 47:00: The Biological Contract
- 57:00: Closing
Full Show On Spreaker
Full Show On YouTube
Is there anywhere one could get a transcript of the podcast? Hobbes is near and dear to my heart, and I’d love to hear your thoughts, but podcasts, youtube, etc. drive me insane (in general, not yours in particular, I hasten to add). I read much faster than I listen, I like to highlight (vs. rewind), and in general I’m a curmudgeonly luddite (which means I don’t know if setting up a transcript involves huge $$ outlay). I’m a big fan – it miss getting my Friday fix.
Copenhagen. Scandza?
“Brain Oil” = a quiet place. Most podcasts I listen to while I’m working in the shop. Sometimes I listen to your podcast in the shop, but often find myself putting down my tools and just listening. Many Americans are considered “dumb” when they simply have no attention span, and have been conditioned (conspiratorially?) to be non-thinkers, responsive only to smartphone alerts. Thanks for giving us something to listen to and learn from.
Me too. Ya gotta listen carefully to this guy because if ya don’t you can miss crucial elements of his arguments and those points are often ones that nobody else is talking about.
On this talk of big brains and little brains and such – it reminds me of an elegant turn of phrase I once heard: “People that get educated beyond their intellect”. It’s so true especially in these days of sexual and racial lunacy. They take a ‘thought experiment’, prop it up with artificial and unlikely contrivances to make it credible – and then use it as a springboard to leap to even more asnine opinions and viewpoints. In the cases of the feminists and race shills the crux of their position is always the same: “I am unhappy, it’s all YOUR fault, woe is me… give me free stuff.”
I came to the faith late in life and I was just blown away by what I found. I was raised by progs that said the faith was hopelessly corrupt and used as a means of controlling stupid people. While there are places and people that justify that in the clergy – nothing is further from the truth with the people I met at our little chapel out in the country. They walk the walk, their social contract is unbreakable as is their faith. The whole point of Christianity is for you to control YOURSELF, and strengthen your brother. I also subscribe to the philosophy of classical Stoicism for much the same reasons.
Stepping out of the complexities of big brain philosophy things actually simplify. If your philosophy makes you stronger you will prevail. If it makes you weaker, you perish. America is dying right now, and in my mind there is no doubt whatsoever who is responsible. The question is: will diversity dispose of them before it takes us? Or will we get dragged down with them?
Okay, big brainies, what is the name of the opening music? I hear it every now and then, I always forget its name. Also, fun review of Copenhagen, ‘hipster hell’ seems to be right on lol
The Danes are wonderful people although prices up there are as bad, if not worse, than Switzerland! If you have time, be sure to visit the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde. It’s about 40-minutes due west of you.