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Some personal background on how I ended up writing and talking so much about Christianity. Reading some of Dostoevsky's "Grand Inquisitor" and discussing the big question of individual freedom versus belonging. 

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Exploring Jews in the role of Girard's archaic scapegoats: magical outsiders who blend in and either bless the community with white magic or curse it with black magic, and how Jews react and act in this role.

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George is back with Virgil for Season 3 of the enchanting, enlightening Boreas Podcast!

The episode was recorded around Christmastime 2023. We discuss the katechon, one of the concluding topics in our new book, The Modern Malaise, available all over the internet February 7th, 2024.

Katechon ("he who restraints / that which restrains") is a term from St. Paul's second letter to Thessalonians and a mysterious concept much discussed over the centuries. We talk about how the katechon may be getting permanently removed by our current culture, which may lead – finally! – to the Apocalypse.

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George closes out the season with a meditation on low self-esteem. How can this increasingly common affliction be explained by a failure in the relationship with our mimetic models? And especially the most decisive mimetic models of our lives – our parents ? How is low self-esteem connected to things like homosexuality, transgenderism, transhumanism, and in general a desire to transcend and transgress everything? How is it related to "scientism" and even science itself? Tune in to find out.

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George rushes were respectable scholars fear to tread: the mimetic-theory hypothesis on homosexuality. The idea is that homosexuality arises when the sexual attention and appetite shift from the instinctual object of desire – i.e. a person of the opposite sex – onto the rival. George elaborates on the theory and applies it to the next-level sexual nonconformity we're seeing today: gender fluidity, multiplying types of sexuality, gender transitioning, etc. The phenomenon is explained as resulting from hyper-sexualised culture, but also from individuals trying to differentiate through authentic desire.

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Virgil is back to talk to George about living the good life. We've done a lot of critique on the frogs and the snowflakes. Now it's time to discuss how to tell the right path and pick role models that will lead us to a good place. It helps to learn what "deviated transcendence" means, as well as the difference between internal and external mediation. Virgil and Charlie touch on some famous names as examples of true heroic exceptions.

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Charlie is out for this one and George has a head on reckoning with the whole culture of pickup artistry. How PUA doctrine stacks up against the mimetic understanding of desire, why PUA doesn't work, and why you should stay away from it.

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Having laid out all that's wrong with the modern malaise, a debilitating mental illness suffered by both the new right and the new left, George and Virgil set out to discuss what is to be done about it.

Conversation takes off with a discussion of desire: how in older times desire was feared as a disruptive force, how, on the contrary, in the modern times it is encouraged, and how that encouragement explains a lot of the uniquely modern social pathologies. 

It wasn't planned that way, but the conversation ends up deep-diving into the hopelessly misguided world of new-right dating advice.

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George and Virgil are back on their project of subverting the twin neo-paganism of the new right and the postmodern left. These two take a lot of pride in themselves subverting "traditional morals." For the new right, it's Nietzschean revaluation of all values and ceasing to feel sorry for the "refuse" of humanity. For the postmodern left, it's subverting traditional power structures, all of which are oppressive.

But the truth is, both of these would-be subversions are aping the one permanent subversion, which is the subversion of the sacrificial mechanism, or the scapegoating mindset brought about by the Old and New Testaments. 

Listen to this episode to hear it explained how one can tell good subversion from bad, and how and why paganism, both old and new, is beautiful lies hiding an ugly truth, while the Bible is the beautiful truth revealing the ugly lies, which we still try not to see.

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George and Virgil have their take on a topic on which everyone has a take: WOKE CULTURE, or WOKISM. 

René Girard may be the first person to clearly foresee the ongoing obsession with victimhood, predicting it in his writings back in the 1970s. So wouldn't you want to know how the prophet saw it? In this episode we serve that to you as a centrepiece in a smorgasbord of other enlightening and empowering insights on the topic.

The episode is part of a series on the new-right reaction to the modern malaise. Understanding the sworn enemies of the new right is part of understanding the new right themselves.

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