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Escaping Our Barbarism

“Don’t let these people fool you that the nanny state has some kind of benevolence to it,” David Gornoski says as he highlights the coercive force of government and traces it to ancient sacrificial religion. Why are the Oscars crashing into irrelevance? Why are we polluting the environment with masks? Did Fauci flip-flop on masks […]

Spiritual Warfare Against the Disintegration of Families

“In order for tyranny to thrive it must have disintegrating families,” David Gornoski says as he starts the episode by reflecting on the trajectory of culture in modern times. How important are role models in today’s divided society? How important are fathers? Should pregnant women be allowed to fight in wars? Listen to the full […]

THINGS HIDDEN 30: Rene Girard Converts Atheist Philosopher to Christianity

David Gornoski sits down with academic Leigh Fetter who discusses his journey from secular atheism to Christianity by discovering the works of Rene Girard. David and Leigh discuss a variety of topics such as the Christian undermining of ancient myths; the possibility of Orwellian totalitarianism; the Nietzschean problem of recreating values; how Girard provides a […]

THINGS HIDDEN 27: How Rene Girard Explains Our Chaotic Times

David Gornoski is joined by University of Scranton professor Duane Armitage, author of Big Ideas for Little Philosophers. David and Duane Armitage talk about the work of Rene Girard and apply Mimetic insights to the religiosity of political correctness, the growing undifferentiation in Western society, victim narratives as a pretext for starting wars, the effects […]

Political Correctness – A Vestige of Myth

Political correctness and its clean rhetoric is our society’s vestige of myth; myth contains symbols that obfuscate the violence that the stories conceal and justify. Trump was such a powerful cultural moment for us because his disabuse of Political correctness and its language has unleashed the ugly truth of the barbarity of the state and […]

The Infantilization of Political Correctness

David Gornoski brings to light the Wuhan study on asymptomatic COVID spread and the WHO’s endorsement of it. Why is this study so important and why hasn’t it been brought up again by Big Tech? Join David as he touches on some of the most important topics of our time such as the sacrificial ritual […]

Politics Fails, Love for Neighbors Succeeds

David Gornoski returns with another episode. The host of A Neighbor’s Choice comments on President Trump capitulating on the COVID relief bill and the lesson we must learn from the failure of politics. Nikola Tesla didn’t wait for political results before revolutionizing science! Where is political correctness leading the West? Does it make sense to […]

A Consecrated Crisis of Undifferentiation

In this episode, David Gornoski addresses the phenomenon of undifferentiation as we are currently witnessing in American culture. What is the mythology behind Woke activism? David highlights how the “McWoke” movement is engineered by authoritarian forces heavily reliant on the erasure of personhood and sacrifice of the person. “It is a pre-Christian approach to treating […]

How Political Correctness Affects Government

Why does the West have the unique problem of political correctness? David Gornoski gets to bottom of this mystery which leads to tyrannical control in the fields of nutrition, health, and economy. Why did the media attack Tulsi Gabbard but back Kamala Harris? The answer to this question says a lot about the political-media establishment […]

Meeting Goliath with the Truth

“We have to be mindful of the content we consume.” Join David Gornoski as he dissects and highlights how the new media–imitative of the old TV media–never seem to make you into a better person. How does the media obfuscate our moral responsibility? How does the media manipulate us into thinking that words are violence […]