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Choose a Worthy Enemy: Building a Life of Meaning After the Collapse | Rick Walker
In this episode of Conversation Craft, I sit down with Rick Walker, author of 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning, to explore what it takes to live with purpose in a post-collapse world.
Rick represents the last serious generation before the cultural and institutional unraveling, while I speak from the first serious generation after it. Together, we examine the tension between those worlds — between duty and meaning, virtue and vision, building and believing.
This is a conversation about meaning that refuses to hide behind “nice.” It’s raw, thoughtful, and rooted in both action and transcendence.
📘 Rick’s book: 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning – @rickwalkertx https://us.amazon.com/Steps-Build-Life-Meaning-Happiness-ebook/dp/B0F4LS82GP/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ojfCZdFhGeSonfwXSf3xF94oZBATbc5ZRWAXdBAv4oZP4Ta63Idwzja-XlBPG5aT48gLr56hF8riaUz_kEx2wJDuWN_lxjZu_Xq0RksPayiD_yQBNpJ7Kl7ZKgqA5FjgupYT3AadNpvINnEdr019HwU_sCMh-CIzTNvocHCcQyZbxxwZOusCtf5ad9F8BoaQFR79l8P-VEe7iQjWb96Hf4g6UxVx0qkKAaDgW51KmcY.J_luIXHIpVGZzLlfWazMhVF4P9AOSRN6_XRzJlJf9KM&dib_tag=se&qid=1761784668&refinements=p_27%3ARick+Walker&s=digital-text&sr=1-1
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro – Why meaning requires struggle
5:30 The lore of Rick Walker and “This Little Corner”
14:00 The Peterson–Pageau lineage and the meaning crisis
27:10 Step 1: Choose a Worthy Enemy
45:50 Men Without Chests – Love, strength, and moral courage
1:03:00 Aim High – The cost of mediocrity
1:19:20 Identity, failure, and faith
1:36:00 Meaning after the collapse
Mentioned:
Jordan Peterson, Jonathan Pageau, Paul VanderKlay, John Vervaeke, C.S. Lewis, Alexander the Great, Chesterton, Charlie Kirk,
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By chrbaxterytIn this episode of Conversation Craft, I sit down with Rick Walker, author of 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning, to explore what it takes to live with purpose in a post-collapse world.
Rick represents the last serious generation before the cultural and institutional unraveling, while I speak from the first serious generation after it. Together, we examine the tension between those worlds — between duty and meaning, virtue and vision, building and believing.
This is a conversation about meaning that refuses to hide behind “nice.” It’s raw, thoughtful, and rooted in both action and transcendence.
📘 Rick’s book: 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning – @rickwalkertx https://us.amazon.com/Steps-Build-Life-Meaning-Happiness-ebook/dp/B0F4LS82GP/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ojfCZdFhGeSonfwXSf3xF94oZBATbc5ZRWAXdBAv4oZP4Ta63Idwzja-XlBPG5aT48gLr56hF8riaUz_kEx2wJDuWN_lxjZu_Xq0RksPayiD_yQBNpJ7Kl7ZKgqA5FjgupYT3AadNpvINnEdr019HwU_sCMh-CIzTNvocHCcQyZbxxwZOusCtf5ad9F8BoaQFR79l8P-VEe7iQjWb96Hf4g6UxVx0qkKAaDgW51KmcY.J_luIXHIpVGZzLlfWazMhVF4P9AOSRN6_XRzJlJf9KM&dib_tag=se&qid=1761784668&refinements=p_27%3ARick+Walker&s=digital-text&sr=1-1
Rick's Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/@rickwalkertx/podcasts
📺 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@christianbaxter_yt
become a channel member to financially support the work of Yours Truly: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU5SNBfTo4umhjYz6M0Jsmg/join
🎧 Listen wherever you get podcasts: Yours Truly Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-yours-truly-podcast/id1751129283
https://chrbaxteryt.podbean.com/
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVdyuKdUJ45CuLY-O7c5ADb9e96YkCvPB
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro – Why meaning requires struggle
5:30 The lore of Rick Walker and “This Little Corner”
14:00 The Peterson–Pageau lineage and the meaning crisis
27:10 Step 1: Choose a Worthy Enemy
45:50 Men Without Chests – Love, strength, and moral courage
1:03:00 Aim High – The cost of mediocrity
1:19:20 Identity, failure, and faith
1:36:00 Meaning after the collapse
Mentioned:
Jordan Peterson, Jonathan Pageau, Paul VanderKlay, John Vervaeke, C.S. Lewis, Alexander the Great, Chesterton, Charlie Kirk,