Didactic Mind

In this week's podcast, I discuss the financialisation of markets and the extremely detrimental effects that this has had upon the real, productive economy. I go over some of the academic reasons offered up for the "crowding out" of the productive sectors of the economy by the financial sector, and the dangers that this poses based on historical evidence. Then I discuss the reason why we see this happening through the lens of Austrian Business Cycle Theory and show how central banks have lowered interest rates to the point where it actually makes complete sense for companies to jack up their share prices artificially. Finally, I talk about the ways in which this madness will end - i.e. very, very badly.

Be sure to like, share, comment, and subscribe to the podcast - and be sure to sign up for my email list if you have not done so already.

As I state in the opening of the podcast, you MUST take steps to protect yourself from the Big Tech companies. Start here with this post. Here are the specific steps that you can take:

• Make sure that your web traffic is safe and protected from prying eyes using a VPN - click here to get a massive 81% OFF on a 24-month subscription with Surfshark, the best-value VPN client out there today;

• If you want something a bit simpler with fewer bells and whistles, subscribe to GooseVPN here;

• Get yourself a proper domain for your site or business with Namecheap;

• The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson:
  

• Red Mars

• Austrian School Business Cycle Theory by Murray N. Rothbard;

• The Big Short (film)

We're back with another Domain Query podcast. Longtime reader and FotS JohnC911 emailed me earlier to ask the following:

• Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire that Rescued Western Civilisation by Lars Brownworth;

• Get yourself a proper domain for your site or business with Namecheap;

This week's episode covers a wide-ranging number of topics about science and the misguided faith that we put into scientists themselves. I start off by talking briefly about the Storming of the Hill, move on to Big Tech censorship and the ways in which you can avoid its impacts, and then get on to talking about what science really is. I discuss how the scientific method works, why it is limited in terms of its ability to explain the world, and why it is so dangerous to put blind faith and trust in scientists themselves. Links to all of the references that I provide - and there are a LOT - are given below.

Protect yourself from Big Tech censorship:

• Get yourself a proper domain for your site or business with Namecheap;

Books referenced in the podcast:

• I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist by Dr. Norman Geisler and Dr. Frank Turek;

Other books that you will probably find useful in this discussion:

• The God Delusion by Prof. Richard Dawkins - it's actually quite a terrible book, with dreadful arguments and appallingly bad analogies, but it's worth reading if you want to get an idea of how Darwinian materialists "think";

Videos referenced in this podcast:

• The original lecture by Prof. Richard Feynman concerning the scientific method;

Other references:

• The South Korean doctor who falsified his cloning data is named Hwang Woo-suk, and he was tried and convicted for fraud and handed a suspended two-year sentence;

• And here's an article that talks about that finding about smiling which cannot be easily reproduced;

As always, remember to like, share, comment, and subscribe - and if you have not already subscribed to the site mailing list, please do so here.

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life,[a] and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

-- John 1:1-5, English Standard Version

Happy New Year to all. Since it's only a couple of days to Sunday, I figured I would make a podcast today instead of Sunday, similar to the way I did things on Christmas. And today's podcast is all about the need to "tumble and turn" through the darkness of the past year and toward the light.

That phrase, "tumble and turn", was coined by a true Dark Knight, Ivan Throne, whose book, The Nine Laws, is in my opinion essential reading for all men who seek to harness ruthless Purpose and achieve great things in life. It applies perfectly as we go through 2021. In this podcast, I explain:

• How 2020 was the crucible in which lies were burned away;

As I stated to my email subscribers - if you have not subscribed to my mailing list already, do so right here - this is how you can get on with your True Purpose this year:

1. Create a plan. A goal without a plan is nothing more than a wish. This is useless. You might as well resolve to create a business based on selling fairy dust and unicorn farts. If you want to achieve something, PLAN IT OUT. Setup specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART - yes, that's a bizblab acronym, but it works here) goals and set aside time every week to work on them.

Above all, never forget that no matter how dark times become, the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. The darkness will NEVER overcome it - not as long as men stand firm in defence of all that is true.

References cited in the podcast:

•  Here is the paper that calls into question the Eurosurveillance (yes, seriously, that's the name of the journal that published it) Corman-Drosten paper;

May the peace and blessings of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you, brothers and sisters. Today's podcast is all about the miracle of the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and the meaning and power of that miracle in our miracle-denying modern age. I cover a whole range of topics in this podcast:

• The "Saturnalia" myth, which I addressed in much greater detail in a previous Domain Query podcast (and it was Kapios that asked the question - sorry dude);

... and quite  a lot more besides. This one is a dense podcast, and deliberately so, since I deal with a lot of serious issues. But the core of it lies in a sincere appreciation of what Christmas is and why it is so important.

By the way, the title of this podcast does not come only from the story of the Three Kings who journeyed under the guidance of a bright star to pay homage to the newborn King. It also comes from the superb novella and short-story collection by the greatest living Grandmaster of science fiction, John C. Wright. Unfortunately, I cannot actually find the book on sale anywhere - I think the author yanked it from publication. I have no idea why, because it truly is wonderful. I would kill for a mere one-tenth of the writing talent that Mr. Wright has.

As always, remember to like, share, comment, and subscribe either at the site or on Podbean itself.

And, most importantly - MERRY CHRISTMAS!

This week's podcast is all about the feeling that many of us have that something really big is coming at us. The past year has been full of immensely difficult challenges, and most of us have felt drained and weakened by the trials that we have had to endure at some point or another. In this podcast, I review some of the many, MANY lies that we have been told over the past year, and I offer up some thoughts about what is coming and why you need to prepare yourself for it. I end on a message of hope and faith as Christmas approaches, so that you can understand how to get through a 2021 that is almost certain to be even worse than 2020 was.

Some links and points of interest:

• If you have never read Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis, be sure to pick up a copy TODAY, because it really is perhaps the easiest and yet most wonderfully written short book of apologetics that you will ever experience;

Read the site here, support my work here, and get your Christmas shopping done through Amazon (and support me in the process) through some of my affiliate links - nothing says "Happy Christmas!" quite like a Kershaw folding knife, as far as I'm concerned.

This week's episode is once again about Islam and Christianity, and the vast contrast between the two on the subject of Scriptural inerrancy. Muslims have long claimed that the New Testament is corrupted and that our Christian revelations are therefore unreliable. This is nonsense and I show exactly why. I then move on to examine the claims that Muslims make about the inerrancy and reliability of their own Koranic scriptures, and I show, based on their own sources and historical evidence uncovered in the last few years, that there is nothing "eternal, revealed, complete, and unchanging" about their Koran.

I cite a number of different videos and YouTube channels that you can use to educate yourself on these fascinating subjects. I will provide a full list of supporting materials - insofar as I can collect them all, because the list of such things is enormous - down below.

This podcast is now live on Google Podcasts, Apple iTunes, Spotify, and now Pandora as well. So be sure to like, share, comment, and subscribe on your platform of choice!

Videos and channels to watch:

• Dr. Daniel Wallace on how much and how badly the scribes corrupted the New Testament;

Put simply, the idea that the Koran was perfectly preserved is arrant nonsense. The challenge to Muslims is straightforward:

If you claim that your Koran was perfectly preserved from 634 AD onwards, then SHOW IT TO US. Show us ONE Koranic manuscript, dating back to the time of Uthman - we'll give you Uthman, we won't even make you go to the time of Abu Bakr - that consists of 114 surahs, that is exactly the same in every way as your current Hafs text.

If you cannot do this - then stop making this absurd claim.

And if you find yourself questioning your faith - come on home. We have exactly what you're looking for. You want a revelation that is eternal, sent down, complete, and unchanged.

We Christians have Him. His name is Jesus Christ, King of Kings and LORD.

So come on back. Come on home. Come to Jesus Christ.

In this latest edition of the Domain Query series, I answer an interesting set of points posed by reader Johnny in a comment on an unrelated post:

Didact,

See here :

While I have come to conclude that Indian immigration to the US is a net negative (I used to think all skilled immigration that earns above the national average income is a plus as long as they aren’t Muslim terrorists), a lot of White Trashionalists have gone further.

The above article is pretty extreme, and goes too far. The author hates even ‘right wing’ Indians like Priti Patel and Nikki Haley, due to their support of Israel (as if almost 100% of white politicians don’t do the same). The author also conflates a lot of other things falsely, by saying that since India is the ‘rape capital of the world’, Indian immigration means tons of rapes in the US.

Muslim Pakistanis in Rotherham are one thing, but I don’t know of a single non-Muslim Indian in the West raping a woman here (and I doubt Indian men are strong enough to overpower a non-Indian woman in the first place). He also thinks that even elite tech Indians are 3 days away from shitting on the streets.

That, of course, goes too far. But I wanted your opinion on the article and comments for an accurate assessment of what is and is not valid. I believe that you are probably the most fairminded person on such topics.

White Trashionalists are the dregs of the white population for sure. No wonder the ‘community’ is 100% male and has a lot of gay men.

So I had a go at answering these points, at some length. There are three major issues to hit:

• Whether Priti Patel is a pleasant person to work for - my guess is, probably not, but I don't have any direct evidence and I think that Mr. Langdon probably goes way too far in his screed;

Here are some other resources to read and consider on these three points:

I referenced an article about a civil servant who left the Home Office under a cloud due to his repeated rows with the Home Secretary, Ms Patel. He's not the only one, as it turns out, and Ms Patel's behaviour is cited as the reason why there is significant turnover at the top of the Home Office. Given the kinds of Swamp Creatures who inhabit those posts, that is not a Bad Thing at all in my view.

I talked at some length about Boris Berezovskiy, the Russian Jewish oligarch who basically said that every Jew's first allegiance is to Israel. Here's a long article about how one Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin - or, as we call him, the Neo-Tsar - rose to power, in which that specific point is raised repeatedly.

Mr. Langdon's article references an article from The Guardian that says that rape is a runaway problem in India and it is the world's most dangerous country for women. That is BALDERDASH. Here's an article from a couple of years ago that puts India in its proper context. India is definitely not a good place for women, but it's FAR from the worst.

Finally, with respect to the point that Johnny makes above about the implication that even India's tech elites are just a few steps away from defecating in the streets... that actually isn't so far-fetched. For reference, check out this lengthy article from Richard Grenier called "The Gandhi that Nobody Knows" - here is the money quote:

When Gandhi attended his first Indian National Congress he was most distressed at seeing the Hindus—not laborers but high-caste Hindus, civic leaders—defecating all over the place, as if to pay attention to where the feces fell was somehow unclean. (For, as V.S. Naipaul puts it, in a twisted Hindu way it is unclean to clean. It is unclean even to notice. “It was the business of the sweepers to remove excrement, and until the sweepers came, people were content to live in the midst of their own excrement.”)

Draw your own conclusions from that, really.

In summary, Mr. Langdon's article does go too far in several areas. But SOME of what he says is indeed valid.

This week's episode is all about ranting against the never-to-be-sufficiently-cursed whorenalists and presstitutes of the mainstream (((media))). I talk about many topics, including:

• Shout-outs to my friends Adam Piggott and Last Redoubt for their excellent contributions to this side of the 'Sphere of late;

Oh, I found that clip via Bill Whittle of that whorenalist on Charlie Rose's show talking about how the (((media))) were biased in favour of John Kerry and gave him about a 15-point lead in the polls just because of their blatant electioneering.

As always, please like, share, comment, and subscribe to the podcast, and make sure that you sign up for my email list if you have not done so already.

This week's podcast episode touches on many subjects, ranging from Robert A. Heinlein's controversial classic military sci-fi novel, STARSHIP TROOPERS, to the Beer Bug, to the nature of rights and responsibilities. I discuss a lot of different points here:

• Why STARSHIP TROOPERS is such a brilliant book, and why everyone should read it;

1. Rocket Ship Galileo

• Actual CDC mortality statistics indicating that 99% of those under 70 will survive just fine;

• How government spending was affected by giving women the vote;

And yes, I was originally right, the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution gave women the right to vote.

I also wrote a few posts on this subject a few years ago that are worth reading. The most important one is about rights and responsibilities, written all the way back in 2013.

Remember to rate, comment, and subscribe here, and be sure to subscribe to my mailing list as well!