Liberty & Logos - Episode 00 - 'How did we get here?'

In this episode, A & B share their personal stories of how they came to be where they are right now on their journeys

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Contents:
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Bellamy’s first encounter with Leviathan
Conservation came first, then anti-capitalism and human liberty came later
The Miseducation of Bellamy Fitzpatrick
Universities are good for something: their libraries!
Hume & Nietzsche
Materialism as conceptual fictions
An instinctive dislike of collectivism
Stand-up comedians are good for something!
Putting anarchist ideas into practice
Awaken the wokeness
Continental philosophy is good for something: inoculation against wokeness
A disappointment that the milieu didn’t have more interest in the fringe
Little Black Cart: an atmosphere of questioning
The Land Project comes to the foreground
Foreshadowing later episodes on pan-secessionism
The spiritual awakening
The perennial philosophy
3 big questions: politics, ecology and spirit
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Amory was a precocious brat
Stunned by mass ritual behavior
School as a madness to be questioned
TV gives glimpses of a world that is not as it seems
The ‘rents can’t offer much of a perspective
5 years in the wilderness of drug culture
Neo-conservatism as a beacon in the darkness
Neo-con into Neo-lib into Paleo-lib into ?
The challenge and reward of building a foundationalist philosophy
New frameworks emerge: Feminism, the environment, anti-civ
Questioning ‘what really happened’ is absolutely key
The more things the PTB lie about, the more you have to conclude that a LOT is being hidden
Materialism: the ultimate lunacy
Questioning brings clarity, but discussion does this a lot better!