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MindMatters: The Rise of Homo Americanus with Zbigniew Janowski

Harrison Koehli, Elan Martin
Sott.net
Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC

Was the fall of Soviet communism 30 years ago a liberation, or just the replacement of one totalitarian ideology with another? Today on MindMatters we interview Polish philosopher Zbigniew Janowski about his recent book, Homo Americanus: The Rise of Totalitarian Democracy in America. In a quest to understand current trends in American society and politics, Professor Janowski revisited the classics: Dostoevsky, Zamyatin, Orwell, and especially Huxley. His collection of meditations on the totalitarianism metastasizing in the West today rums the gamut from ideology and politics to psychology and technology. Join us as we discuss Zbigniew's book, his experiences in Poland, the U.S., and Canada, teaching, and thorny topics like equality, hierarchy, and perhaps the most controversial of all of them: gendered language!

Running Time: 01:41:00

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Janowski is also co-editor of a recent collection of the writings of J.S. Mill.
Janowski's writings at The Postil.
MindMatters on odysee.

Harrison Koehli

Harrison Koehli co-hosts SOTT Radio Network's MindMatters, and is an editor for Red Pill Press. He has been interviewed on several North American radio shows about his writings on the study of ponerology. In addition to music and books, Harrison enjoys tobacco and bacon (often at the same time) and dislikes cell phones, vegetables, and fascists (commies too).

Elan Martin

Born and raised in New York City, Elan has been an editor for SOTT.net since 2014 and is a co-host for MindMatters. He enjoys seeing and sharing what's true about our profoundly and rapidly changing world.

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parzival · 2021-09-19T00:18:59Z

Here is America in a nutshell: we no longer solve problems, we manipulate the narrative and then declare the problem has been solved...

Also t he unmitigated corruption in the leadership of the armed forces is a sign of deep cultural rot ...

parzival · 2021-09-19T03:08:17Z

parzival Unvaccinated youth are calling themselves "purebloods."

Animanarchy · 2021-09-19T05:21:04Z

parzival heh, that would sound like some lame Twilight fad if it didn't ring true.

parzival · 2021-09-19T05:22:49Z

Animanarchy I'm sure millennium's can relate being raised on the likes of Harry Potter...

Animanarchy · 2021-09-19T05:58:22Z

parzival lol not to mention Dr. Seuss, whose writings make me want to day there are two types of people in this world: sotties and muggles.

I read the first 5 Harry Potters at least and then from 11 years old I pretty much grew up on The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings and R.A. Salvatore books after seeing The Fellowship of the Ring in the cinema.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-09-19T05:59:09Z

parzival I believe Bad Co. did a version of that song before those pups were a twinkle in their grandma's eyes. [Link]
RC

parzival · 2021-09-19T11:13:30Z

Animanarchy Or purebloods and mudbloods...

parzival ·

Rowan Cocoan

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Rowan Cocoan · 2021-09-19T05:57:50Z

Well, here's Pelosi: [Link]
R.C.

parzival ·

Rowan Cocoan

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Rowan Cocoan · 2021-09-19T18:35:36Z

parzival I just learned I only watched the first minute or less. Your reply made me rewatch it. It really got funny! Love the Killary and others in the jailhouse dance line.

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RC

parzival · 2021-09-19T11:20:14Z

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Dwoods44 · 2021-09-19T21:48:07Z

Wonderful interview of a thinker. His exercise to read John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, then read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer on women, and defend their free speech, is how thinking should be done/taught.

His remarks on the study of art history to sensitize students to a world beyond MSM. i was fortunate to have a required Renaissance art history class in college.

He doesn't see an agenda in the totalitarian movement, and in my view, it is the compartment or silo of academia is a paradigm itself.

The discussion of equality is important because of how the woke are using it. Our current education system lowers everyone to an equal uneducated level. Equality is being defined as eliminate the wealthy (But not the ultra/rich) and everyone receives UBI and everyone owns nothing and is happy.

In this discussion we see questions about merit and ability. I was a mediocre basketball player, should all the others reduce themselves to play my level? Think about music, art, technology, science. Breakthroughs were made by individuals. Tesla created alternating current and the power plants that powered the industrial revolution despite resistance. Bach is a god of music. Da Vinci and Rembrandt brought spiritual vision into art (many others). Plato and philosophy. Christ and Buddha as teachers of spiritual law. Equality should foster being the best you can b, not be a collective mindless mass

Buffalo_Ken · 2021-09-19T21:51:13Z

Dwoods44 - I think merit is what matters.

I'm not talking about meritocracy, that concept made by academics. I'm talking about real merit. What do you have to contribute?

Buffalo_Ken · 2021-09-19T21:58:30Z

Dwoods44 - A follow-up. Consider it a poem i reckon....i don't know...whatever...

I think merit is what matters. Practice helps improve merit and ain't nobody or nothing, your mother nor mine, perfect.

Plus, I'm not talking about meritocracy, that concept made by academics - I'm so sick of them. I'm talking about real merit. What do you have to contribute? That is the question of merit. If you got something to contribute, then do it. If you have merit it will be evident.

Plus, ain't no puppet got any merit cause they ain't thinking for themselves - they might be smart but they are "dumb" at the same time. They ain't thinking anymore cause they are being pulled by strings they are unaware of....sad but true and if you have merit you can tell the difference. Still, I'd rather hang out with a puppet any day of the week versus a psychopath who has no empathy.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-09-19T22:02:06Z

Buffalo_Ken Astute. RC

Buffalo_Ken · 2021-09-19T23:38:35Z

Rowan Cocoan - RC here is what I'm listening to just now:

[Link] Ya Bassa

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-09-20T02:25:31Z

Buffalo_Ken I'm listening to something that's ancient. [Link] RC

Dwoods44 · 2021-09-20T11:58:05Z

Buffalo_Ken I grew up as a fan of John Wooden. His pyramid of success has been taught to businesses. Each person has god-given talents that can be developed. Success is growing them and becoming the best you can be. One of his many sayings, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going."

Joan · 2021-09-20T22:47:35Z

I an not sure if I agree or disagree with this man, But I thought his brief interpretation of evil as a social construct, was interesting. He ignored the metaphysical interpretation of evil, was interesting, because throughout many religious texts this is mentioned, this has vast social consequences at this time.

But IMO the realization that those that seek to harm, infiltrate there will on an innocent ignorant society, are at the mercy of those that seek power for their own ends. This is not just a societal problem, it has metaphysical connotations also, and infiltrates into the very heart of what one could call the heart and the soul of an individual, and as a result, into the heart of society.

I found the issue of gender politics, interesting. I am reminded og the works of CAF, where I am quoting loosely, they have discovered a way to monetize slavery, and the gender issue.

A biggie, she gives a hypothetical scenario for the emergence of gender dysphoria. Just imagine a world of robotics and cybernetics, there is nothing in the natural that can be designated as gender specific to a mechanical device And likewise we are just machines that can be preprogrammed (so some futurists describe humanity). Now think about a whole bunch of so called living human beings, that have no specific gender, are they real, are they human, or are they just a physical ideological construct, using a legal language, to define, what is human in this impending era of the so called "Fourth Industrial Revolution. to combine humanity with machines. Where we will be happy and own nothing, even our own human soul and sovereignty

More of my thoughts.

Animanarchy · 2021-09-20T23:09:54Z

Joan It seems like susceptible people are being negatively manipulated on a metaphysical level by something evil*, similarly to in the movie Constantine. I believe that's actually the case and I call whatever it is the zombie hive mind.

*I feel like it's temporarily possessed me and made me do some bad or stupid things, especially when too many intoxicants have been involved that already detracted from rationality. That's not an excuse for bad behaviour, much of which I've done on my own . It really seemed that way sometimes though. On the other hand, I also feel like I've been possessed/inspired by good forces at times.

If you do not understand how ludicrous these requirements are, let a hardcore veteran environmentalist explain it to you. Read "Apocalypse Never"...

Dr G

Horror starts in the family home. No need to point fingers out there 🙈

LindaMay

Mr Miliekowsky is a homicidal maniac and a liar. Nobody should take anything he says for granted. Both his and biden's admin are panicking because...

Peter Jennings

We'll need a scoop shovel to clear this out.

guard4her

Besides: without CO2 we won't have neither soda water nor champagne. :(

Zbigniew

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