Athenian and I get together to begin working through the foundational concepts for Gadamer's argument that it is intuition and not method that give us access to understanding and thus truth.

Athenian Stranger and I work through the first of these crucial foundational concepts for Gadamer as he works to establish intuition as the ground of understanding and thus truth. The first of these is Bildung or culture. How is it that we have access to something that transcends our particularity? Can we grasp the universal, that which transcends us and binds us into a whole? We begin this effort “from below” with this idea of culture, Bildung.

[Note: our conversation is cut short because the Thanksgiving guests that Athenian was expecting arrived.]

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I had Ben Fleming on to talk about a subject that has occupied his focus of late, that of "art" and why it is so bad today.

My apologies to the listener. I had to cut Ben off short when we were recording because something came up suddenly in this thing known as “real life,” whatever that is. We plan of finishing up the discussion next week focusing more exclusively on what happened to art in the 20th century.

You can find Ben’s series on art here: https://www.youtube.com/@R…

Listen now | Athenian and continue the discussion of how to read Gadamer and then dive into the text with the important forward and the first section dealing with the problem of method as the grounding for truth.

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I have Daniel Tyrie on to talk about the political project that he is heading up to bring the issues surrounding Canadian nationalism and remigration into the mainstream political discourse.

You can find more information about Daniel’s organization here: The Dominion Society

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In this episode I am joined by Todd Lewis who hosts the "In Praise of Folly" podcast. We talk about the factionalism problem on the right, why this problem exists, why it matters and what can be done.

The interview between Benjamin Boyce and Nick Land that we reference throughout can be found here:

Giorgio de Chirico

Here are the paintings we mentioned by de Chirico:

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Gio recently wrote a thought provoking piece about the breakup of mass culture and what happens to us when we share no common anything with anyone? What happens and where do we go?

The piece in question: https://gioscontentcorner.substack.com/p/lifeless-dead

“Nature and Organization” by My Black Diary. The lyrics quoted at the beginning of Gio’s article come from this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onb8z0D2jAE

I am joined again by Athenian Stranger to discuss another idea foundational for much of western thinking, that of "history," which is foundational for the notion of "progress."

[Housekeeping note: I have gone back to an audio podcast post because for whatever reason, either on my end with my computer’s ability to process video properly or the upload process on Substack’s end, but there has been an ongoing issue with the video podcast format where the sound cuts in and out. There does not seem to be that same issue with an audio only posting. I will be going back and checking in on past editions with the video podcast format and re-uploading those with issues in audio only format.]

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