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(00:00) Introduction

(00:24) Opening Remarks

(03:39) "Diversity" as a distraction

(04:43) 3 themes that The Diversity Myth did not address

(07:38) Economic criticism of "diversity"

(15:10) "Diversity" in STEM and academia

(24:25) A religious or Christian's take on our woke religion

(31:34) Concluding remarks

(33:26) Discussion with Professor Vermeule

(37:22) Nature of the late liberal regime

(51:10) Puritanism's similarities to wokeness

(57:29) Is the State an enemy of conservatism?

(01:03:15) Is wokeness a distortion or fulfillment of post WWII liberalism?

(01:07:42) On conservatives in academia

(01:08:34) What policies might fix this problem?

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(00:00) Trailer

(00:40) Progress has stagnated

(04:25) We need courage more than genius

(10:50) What will the future look like?

(15:03) The impact of AI

(17:46) The main existential threats

(18:44) Totalitarian one world government

(23:27) What a global government would look like

(27:00) 'Optimism and pessimism' - the wrong framing

(30:12) What I'd change about the States

(32:25) Polarisation is bad for growth

(36:08) The global stagnation crisis

(38:40) Is AI the solution?

(40:43) Critiquing social media

(43:02) Wokeness is a warped form of Christianity

(45:48) The flaws of New Atheism

(49:40) Two threats: Islam and China

(52:38) China's thirst for dominance

(58:23) We must focus on Iran

(01:00:41) Thoughts on Russia

(01:02:33) The Taiwan crisis

(01:04:47) What's the one thing we're not talking about?

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(01:08) Girard, Scapegoating

(04:00) Mimetic copies: Hitler and Stalin, Nazism and Communism, Fascism

(05:30) Wokeism, Christianity, and Academia

(10:40) Wokeism in cities, response to real estate costs. Structural wokeism

(14:27) Winning and losing postures towards wokeism

(17:10) Wokeism is Christianity without the forgiveness

(18:30) Acknowledging sin even when it enables critics

(21:55) Holocaust as the ultimate test of forgiveness, destroying the concept of forgiveness

(25:52) Ignorance and forgiveness

(27:55) Gospels as deconstruction of philosophy

(32:05) Getting tangled in politics. Government and violence

(33:55) Can leaders behave like Christians?

(35:37) The katechon and accelerationism. Preterism and futurism.

(39:10) The Antichrist as a false katechon

(41:14) The Precautionary Principle: technological Armageddon

(45:15) Enabling Fascism to fight Communism

(46:12) Reagan coalition

(49:30) Christianity and mimetic entan

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(00:43) The Bible reads us

(02:02) Cain and Abel vs. Romulus and Remus

(06:05) Cross vs Resurrection

(07:26) The Gospels are different from Death of Socrates

(09:04) The Bible is discontinuous from pagan classics

(11:30) "The idea that victims exist comes from Judeo-Christianity and nowhere else."

(14:54) Was Nietzsche somehow extremely close to the truth of Christianity?

(17:18) Pagan Pharmakoi, the ancient sacrificial medicine

(19:48) Fascism and Communism

(23:00) Girard on the Woes against the Pharisees

(26:02) The cycle that leads to apocalypse

(31:11) Steven Pinker and the story of progress

(32:19) Is an apocalypse, such as a nuclear war, inevitable?

(35:10) Being too sanguine about apocalypse makes it more likely

(42:08) Is there an off-ramp? What would it look like? If we don't know, shouldn't we at least try to figure it out?

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