Harrison Koehli, Elan Martin, Adam Daniels
Sott.netWed, 30 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
Many see through the destructive thoughts, emotions and policies of Leftist political dogma - thanks in large part to the actions and behaviors of their acolytes in academia, the media and other institutions. But few have as direct experience of it - and the wit and guts to call it out for what it is and share that understanding of it with stark clarity and aplomb - as today's guest. After being "softly" ejected from his position at New York University for his critical tweets of the deleterious SJW culture he was witnessing,
Prof. Michael Rectenwald steeled himself to examine even further the phenomenon he was witnessing and became a victim of.
With his books
Springtime For Snowflakes and
Google Archipelago, and his prolific output of essays and articles, Michael not only documents his own personal journey through various intellectual currents and his own higher values, but also examines how these themes overlap with Big Digital and macro developments such as the now infamous and imminent Great Reset. This week on MindMatters we get to discuss some of the most important issues facing Western society and culture today with one of the strongest advocates for personal and political sanity to grace the stage.
An added bonus, we celebrate the release of the new edition of Dr. Andrew Lobaczewski's
Political Ponerology, edited by MindMatters' Harrison Koehli, with
a foreword by Prof. Rectenwald, in which he describes how ponerology helped explain his own experience of Leftist totalitarianism, and why the book's explanatory power is so compelling and crucial for better understanding our world.
Running Time: 01:35:38
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Adam joined the editorial team in 2014 and is a co-host of
MindMatters. His particular interests include philosophy, history, exercise science, and technology. He particularly dislikes Critical Race Theory and people who're so afraid of death that they prevent others from living. He also knows kung fu.
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).
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.
About Harari. Look first at his face while he's speaking. His aspect is flat; his eyes are dead; his lack of empathy astounding. No, no. This man has not the slightest regard for humanity. He's set loose to stir up fear and panic.
I think the easy and great acceptance by so many people of ideologies which have been shown to produce injurious results to others, who in no manner deserve or merit those results, stems from complete cowardice. We live in an age, unfortunately, where very few people have the strength of character to stand against the crowd. The actual "action in technology" fosters compliance and is presented in a highly seductive and addictive form of the mind reiterating itself.
Rudolph Steiner spoke of the Ahrimanic impulse (the glorifying and beatification of materialism) in humans. This impulse involves gathering more and more knowledge and power only to have those goals always exceed humans' grasp. [Link] Substituting AI components for human thought and imagination creates a Superbeing but ultimately one who cannot compete in the design and beauty present in the Universe. Ahriman becomes a dwarf figure who views his Universe as complete from a Black Mirror reflection of hubris which cloaks his righteousness to know Truth. Truth involves transcendence. The cold-eyed Materialist cannot transcend. Equally, courage to look at oneself, an act of transcendence in itself, for clarity in living and to advance one's life evaporates under the de-spiritualization of culture and religion.
Thank you for all you've done, do, and will do in the future, Prof. Rectenwald.