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The Prisoner of Chillon, by Lord Byron

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

[02:20] Introduction, by Morgan A. Brown -- Some historical and biographical notes that one should consider when trying to understand the poem's underlying tenor.

[33:55] Sonnet on Chillon, by Lord Byron

[35:51] 1816 Advertisment, by Lord Byron

[43:00] The Prisoner of Chillon, by Lord Byron

[01:08:24] True Story of the Prisoner of Chillon, by A. Van Amstel (Johannes Christian Neumann): A short biography of Francois Bonivard, which better paints a picture of the real Prisoner of Chillon.

Featuring the music of Johannes Brahms, Piano Trio No. 3, played by the Claremont Trio--courtesy of musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/2071-piano-trio-no-3-op-101/)

Also, featuring tracks by the Passion Hifi (https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou): Cold Heat, I Close My Eyes, and Untouchable.

Audio from A King in New York, a Charlie Chaplin film, provided with the expressed permission of Roy Export S.A.S. (www.charliechaplin.com), who holds the copyright thereto.

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The Dial (Volume II): The Woods of Arcady

Featuring Poems & Music by the following artists:

“Transcendentalism,” by Robert Browning MUSIC: Beethoven, Symphony No. 6
“PROEM: Khordeh Avesta,” Publius MUSIC: JS Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major
“A Fit of Rhyme Against the Times,” A.A. Learmont MUSIC: Lobo Loco – Traveling to Louisiana
“Tragic: Mahler’s Sixth,” Morgan A. Brown MUSIC: Dan Friel - Ulysses MUSIC: Gustave Mahler – Symphony No. 1
“Living Classicism,” Troy Camplin MUSIC: Chris Zabriskie - Readers! Do you Read?
“Padre Canyon Pilgrimage,” Jack Perry MUSIC: Sam Shalabi - REbetikaud
“Fey king Minio: A Cheyenne Romance,” Morgan A. Brown MUSIC: Kai Engel – Moonlight Reprise, Moments of Our Morning, Remedy for Melancholy, Brooks, Sunset, Low Horizon, & Ada Jones and Len Spencer – Broncho Bob and His Little Cheyenne.
“Let’s Be Honest Here,” John Gao MUSIC: Black Twig Pickers and Steve Gunn – Sally in the Garden Sifting Sand
“The Art of Life,” Troy Camplin MUSIC: Blue Dot Sessions – Lovers Hollow
“Sweet Grass,” Jack Perry MUSIC: Lee Maddeford -- Roses
“Nature,” “Messenger,” and “Shirpa,” Troy Camplin MUSIC: Blue Dot Sessions – Thread of Clouds
“Cilicians,” Morgan A. Brown MUSIC: Bedrich Smetana—Ma Vlast (Vltava)
“An Ode to President Trump,” John Gao MUSIC: The US Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps – Soldier’s Farewell Fanfare/Montezuma/March of Windsor Park
“Archery Season,” Jack Perry MUSIC: Bipolaroid – Hollow Fox Archery
“Sulla: Aquae et Ignis Interdictio,” Morgan A. Brown MUSIC: Franz Liszt—Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven), arr. for piano. Allegretto, played by Lambis Vassiliadis
“Name-Amnesia,” Troy Camplin MUSIC: Chan Wai Fat – Dream (Instrumental)
“Blood-Bird,” Morgan A. Brown MUSIC: Edvard Grieg – Selections from Norwegian Folk Songs & Dances, played by Papalin MUSIC: Kaos – The Crow

ALSOFeaturing music by The Passion Hifi (Creative Commons License): *Follow him on Soundcloud, Twitter, and Facebook, and give him great ratings/reviews/likes!!!!****

"Harlem Incident" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/the-passion-hifi-spanish-winter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental

Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/culture-anarchy/support

The Dial (Volume II): The Woods of Arcady

Featuring Poems and music by the following artists:

“Cilicians,” Morgan A. Brown

MUSIC: Bedrich Smetana—Ma Vlast (Vltava) [https://musopen.org/music/25719-ma-vlast-vltava-the-moldau/] (PD)

“An Ode to President Trump,” John Gao

MUSIC: The US Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps – Soldier’s Farewell Fanfare/Montezuma/March of Windsor Park [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_United_States_Army_Old_Guard_Fife_and_Drum_Corps/Celebrating_50_Years/07_1250] (PD)

“Archery Season,” Jack Perry

MUSIC: Bipolaroid – Hollow Fox Archery [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Bipolaroid/Live_on_WFMUs_Cherry_Blossom_Clinic_with_Terre_T_April_12_2014/Hollow_Fox_Archery] (CCA3)

“Sulla: Aquae et Ignis Interdictio,” Morgan A. Brown

MUSIC: Franz Liszt—Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven), arr. for piano. Allegretto, played by Lambis Vassiliadis [https://musopen.org/music/2569-symphony-no-7-in-a-major-op-92/] (PD)

“Name-Amnesia,” Troy Camplin

MUSIC: Chan Wai Fat – Dream (Instrumental) [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chan_Wai_Fat/Children_of_Soul_Mountain/05_dream] (CCA3 SA)

“Blood-Bird,” Morgan A. Brown

MUSIC: Edvard Grieg – Selections from Norwegian Folk Songs & Dances, played by Papalin [https://musopen.org/music/6996-25-norwegian-folk-songs-and-dances-op-17/] (CCA3)

MUSIC: Kaos – The Crow [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/KAOS/NEW_12/KAOS_-_NEW_12_-_02_The_Crow] (CCA4)

ALSOFeaturing music by The Passion Hifi (Creative Commons License): *Follow him on Soundcloud, Twitter, and Facebook, and give him great ratings/reviews/likes!!!!****

"Harlem Incident" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/the-passion-hifi-spanish-winter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental

Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/culture-anarchy/support

The Dial (Volume II): The Woods of Arcady

Featuring Poems & music by the following artists:

“Padre Canyon Pilgrimage,” Jack Perry

MUSIC: Sam Shalabi– Rebetikaud [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sam_Shalabi/On_A_Steady_Diet_of_Hash_Bread__Salt/soundeyet_-_ON_A_STEADY_DIET_OF_HASH_BREAD__SALT_-_08_Rebetikaud] (CCA3)

“Fey king Minio: A Cheyenne Romance,” Morgan A. Brown

MUSIC: Kai Engel – Moonlight Reprise [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Irsens_Tale/Kai_Engel_-_Irsens_Tale_-_04_Moonlight_Reprise] (CCA4)

MUSIC: Kai Engel – Moments of Our Morning [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Irsens_Tale/Kai_Engel_-_Irsens_Tale_-_04_Moonlight_Reprise] (CCA4)

MUSIC: Kai Engel- Remedy for Melancholy [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Idea/Kai_Engel_-_Idea_-_06_Remedy_for_Melancholy] (CCA4)

MUSIC: Kai Engel – Brooks [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Chapter_Two__Mild] (CCA4)

MUSIC: Kai Engel -- Sunset [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Idea/Kai_Engel_-_Idea_-_09_Sunset] (CCA4)

MUSIC: Kai Engel – Low Horizon [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/The_Scope/Kai_Engel_-_The_Scope_-_08_Low_Horizon] (CCA4)

MUSIC: Ada Jones and Len Spencer – Broncho Bob and His Little Cheyenne [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ada_Jones_and_Len_Spencer/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_01192016/Broncho_Bob_And_His_Little_Cheyenne_Ada_Jones_And_Len_Spencer] (PD)

“Let’s Be Honest Here,” John Gao

MUSIC: Black Twig Pickers and Steve Gunn – Sally in the Garden Sifting Sand [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Black_Twig_Pickers_and_Steve_Gunn/NATCH_1/Sally_in_the_Garden_Sifting_Sand] (CCA3)

“The Art of Life,” Troy Camplin

MUSIC: Blue Dot Sessions – Lovers Hollow [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Bitters/Lovers_Hollow_1852] (CCA4)

“Sweet Grass,” Jack Perry

MUSIC: Lee Maddeford -- Roses [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Maddeford/Songs_about_life_love_and_the_devils_dog_Ralf/16_Roses_1764] (CCA3 SA)

“Nature,” “Messenger,” and “Shirpa,” Troy Camplin

MUSIC: Blue Dot Sessions – Thread of Clouds [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Migration/Thread_of_Clouds] (CCA4)

ALSOFeaturing music by The Passion Hifi (Creative Commons License): *Follow him on Soundcloud, Twitter, and Facebook, and give him great ratings/reviews/likes!!!!****

"Harlem Incident" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/the-passion-hifi-spanish-winter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental

Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/culture-anarchy/support

The Dial (Volume II): The Woods of Arcady

Featuring music and poetry by the following artists, in chronological order:

“Transcendentalism,” by Robert Browning MUSIC: Papalin – Beethoven 6th Symphony, first movement Musopen.org [https://musopen.org/music/2568-symphony-no-6-in-f-major-pastoral-op-68/] (CCA3)
“PROEM: Khordeh Avesta,” Publius MUSIC: Advent Chamber orchestra–Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D Major- Affectuoso https://musopen.org/music/3502-brandenburg-concerto-no-5-in-d-major-bwv-1050/
“A Fit of Rhyme Against the Times,” A.A. Learmont MUSIC: Lobo Loco – Traveling to Louisiana
“Tragic: Mahler’s Sixth,” Morgan A. Brown MUSIC: Dan Friel -- Ulysses [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dan_Friel/Live_on_Liz_Bergs_WFMU_Show_9-10-12/Dan_Friel_-_07_-_Ulysses] (CCA3)

MUSIC: Gustave Mahler – Symphony No. 1 [MUSOPEN.ORG] (CC3)

“Living Classicism,” Troy Camplin

MUSIC: Chris Zabriskie – Readers! Do You Read? http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/Reappear/02_-_Readers_Do_You_Read (CCA4)

ALSOFeaturing music by The Passion Hifi (Creative Commons License): *Follow him on Soundcloud, Twitter, and Facebook, and give him great ratings/reviews/likes!!!!****

"Harlem Incident" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/the-passion-hifi-spanish-winter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental

Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/culture-anarchy/support

WHAT SOCIAL CLASSES OWE TO EACH OTHER (1884)

BY WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER

Read by Morgan A. Brown (The Culture & Anarchy Podcast)

In this collection of essays and reflections, William Graham Sumner questions the duties that social activists assume each social class owes to the other. He first inquires into the origins of these "social classes" (the rich, the poor, the capitalist, the working man) that form the class types under question, which do not have their home in American life and whose criticisms have largely been adopted from European modes of thought (as a remnant of critiques of aristocracy).

The idea that groups are obliged to provide for the wants of other groups THROUGH THE STATE happens to be one of the most common and destructive misconceptions imaginable. Sumner did not deny that moral duty was a real phenomenon and binding upon any consistent moral sentiment or ethic. He instead simply pointed out the fact that the State was not the agent of moral duty, and was entirely antithetical to the aims and objectives of those who intended to dispense charity through a government program. The idea that A and B should get together to aid D is the principle of charity. The idea that A and B should get together to conspire how C should be forced to aid D was the principle of looting. And in the midst of the confused ethical doctrines of the social meddlers (regulators, progressives, democratists, and socialists), nobody ever paused to consider what C, The Forgotten Man, was already doing to aid A, B, and D through his personal contributions to the economy, even as A & B conspired to pilfer his savings to splurge on dead-end, anti-economic consumption.

Sumner, a remarkable social scientist, was one of the champions of early conservative and libertarian thought, an anti-imperialist to the core; and his essays still serve as a reminder that there are no new problems under the sun, and that the social meddlers (who never learned the virtue of minding their own business) have NEVER once provided a new solution to age-old problems.

Featuring the Music of Franz Liszt, from Hungarian Rhapsody Nos 2&4. No. 2 arr. for orchestra by the US NAVY BAND, courtesy of Musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/44101-hungarian-rhapsody-no-2-s-2442/). No. 4 played by Vadim Chaimovich (https://musopen.org/music/14914-hungarian-rhapsody-no-4-s-2444/). These recordings are protected by a Creative Commons License 3.0 and are in the Public Domain.

Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/culture-anarchy/support

WHAT SOCIAL CLASSES OWE TO EACH OTHER (1884)

BY WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER

Read by Morgan A. Brown (The Culture & Anarchy Podcast)

In this collection of essays and reflections, William Graham Sumner questions the duties that social activists assume each social class owes to the other. He first inquires into the origins of these "social classes" (the rich, the poor, the capitalist, the working man) that form the class types under question, which do not have their home in American life and whose criticisms have largely been adopted from European modes of thought (as a remnant of critiques of aristocracy).

The idea that groups are obliged to provide for the wants of other groups THROUGH THE STATE happens to be one of the most common and destructive misconceptions imaginable. Sumner did not deny that moral duty was a real phenomenon and binding upon any consistent moral sentiment or ethic. He instead simply pointed out the fact that the State was not the agent of moral duty, and was entirely antithetical to the aims and objectives of those who intended to dispense charity through a government program. The idea that A and B should get together to aid D is the principle of charity. The idea that A and B should get together to conspire how C should be forced to aid D was the principle of looting. And in the midst of the confused ethical doctrines of the social meddlers (regulators, progressives, democratists, and socialists), nobody ever paused to consider what C, The Forgotten Man, was already doing to aid A, B, and D through his personal contributions to the economy, even as A & B conspired to pilfer his savings to splurge on dead-end, anti-economic consumption.

Sumner, a remarkable social scientist, was one of the champions of early conservative and libertarian thought, an anti-imperialist to the core; and his essays still serve as a reminder that there are no new problems under the sun, and that the social meddlers (who never learned the virtue of minding their own business) have NEVER once provided a new solution to age-old problems.

Featuring the Music of Franz Liszt, from Hungarian Rhapsody Nos 2&4. No. 2 arr. for orchestra by the US NAVY BAND, courtesy of Musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/44101-hungarian-rhapsody-no-2-s-2442/). No. 4 played by Vadim Chaimovich (https://musopen.org/music/14914-hungarian-rhapsody-no-4-s-2444/). These recordings are protected by a Creative Commons License 3.0 and are in the Public Domain.

Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/culture-anarchy/support

WHAT SOCIAL CLASSES OWE TO EACH OTHER (1884)

BY WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER

Read by Morgan A. Brown (The Culture & Anarchy Podcast)

In this collection of essays and reflections, William Graham Sumner questions the duties that social activists assume each social class owes to the other. He first inquires into the origins of these "social classes" (the rich, the poor, the capitalist, the working man) that form the class types under question, which do not have their home in American life and whose criticisms have largely been adopted from European modes of thought (as a remnant of critiques of aristocracy).

The idea that groups are obliged to provide for the wants of other groups THROUGH THE STATE happens to be one of the most common and destructive misconceptions imaginable. Sumner did not deny that moral duty was a real phenomenon and binding upon any consistent moral sentiment or ethic. He instead simply pointed out the fact that the State was not the agent of moral duty, and was entirely antithetical to the aims and objectives of those who intended to dispense charity through a government program. The idea that A and B should get together to aid D is the principle of charity. The idea that A and B should get together to conspire how C should be forced to aid D was the principle of looting. And in the midst of the confused ethical doctrines of the social meddlers (regulators, progressives, democratists, and socialists), nobody ever paused to consider what C, The Forgotten Man, was already doing to aid A, B, and D through his personal contributions to the economy, even as A & B conspired to pilfer his savings to splurge on dead-end, anti-economic consumption.

Sumner, a remarkable social scientist, was one of the champions of early conservative and libertarian thought, an anti-imperialist to the core; and his essays still serve as a reminder that there are no new problems under the sun, and that the social meddlers (who never learned the virtue of minding their own business) have NEVER once provided a new solution to age-old problems.

Featuring the Music of Franz Liszt, from Hungarian Rhapsody Nos 2&4. No. 2 arr. for orchestra by the US NAVY BAND, courtesy of Musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/44101-hungarian-rhapsody-no-2-s-2442/). No. 4 played by Vadim Chaimovich (https://musopen.org/music/14914-hungarian-rhapsody-no-4-s-2444/). These recordings are protected by a Creative Commons License 3.0 and are in the Public Domain.

Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/culture-anarchy/support

WHAT SOCIAL CLASSES OWE TO EACH OTHER (1884)

BY WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER

Read by Morgan A. Brown (The Culture & Anarchy Podcast)

In this collection of essays and reflections, William Graham Sumner questions the duties that social activists assume each social class owes to the other. He first inquires into the origins of these "social classes" (the rich, the poor, the capitalist, the working man) that form the class types under question, which do not have their home in American life and whose criticisms have largely been adopted from European modes of thought (as a remnant of critiques of aristocracy).

The idea that groups are obliged to provide for the wants of other groups THROUGH THE STATE happens to be one of the most common and destructive misconceptions imaginable. Sumner did not deny that moral duty was a real phenomenon and binding upon any consistent moral sentiment or ethic. He instead simply pointed out the fact that the State was not the agent of moral duty, and was entirely antithetical to the aims and objectives of those who intended to dispense charity through a government program. The idea that A and B should get together to aid D is the principle of charity. The idea that A and B should get together to conspire how C should be forced to aid D was the principle of looting. And in the midst of the confused ethical doctrines of the social meddlers (regulators, progressives, democratists, and socialists), nobody ever paused to consider what C, The Forgotten Man, was already doing to aid A, B, and D through his personal contributions to the economy, even as A & B conspired to pilfer his savings to splurge on dead-end, anti-economic consumption.

Sumner, a remarkable social scientist, was one of the champions of early conservative and libertarian thought, an anti-imperialist to the core; and his essays still serve as a reminder that there are no new problems under the sun, and that the social meddlers (who never learned the virtue of minding their own business) have NEVER once provided a new solution to age-old problems.

Featuring the Music of Franz Liszt, from Hungarian Rhapsody Nos 2&4. No. 2 arr. for orchestra by the US NAVY BAND, courtesy of Musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/44101-hungarian-rhapsody-no-2-s-2442/). No. 4 played by Vadim Chaimovich (https://musopen.org/music/14914-hungarian-rhapsody-no-4-s-2444/). These recordings are protected by a Creative Commons License 3.0 and are in the Public Domain.

Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/culture-anarchy/support

WHAT SOCIAL CLASSES OWE TO EACH OTHER (1884)

BY WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER

Read by Morgan A. Brown (The Culture & Anarchy Podcast)

In this collection of essays and reflections, William Graham Sumner questions the duties that social activists assume each social class owes to the other. He first inquires into the origins of these "social classes" (the rich, the poor, the capitalist, the working man) that form the class types under question, which do not have their home in American life and whose criticisms have largely been adopted from European modes of thought (as a remnant of critiques of aristocracy).

The idea that groups are obliged to provide for the wants of other groups THROUGH THE STATE happens to be one of the most common and destructive misconceptions imaginable. Sumner did not deny that moral duty was a real phenomenon and binding upon any consistent moral sentiment or ethic. He instead simply pointed out the fact that the State was not the agent of moral duty, and was entirely antithetical to the aims and objectives of those who intended to dispense charity through a government program. The idea that A and B should get together to aid D is the principle of charity. The idea that A and B should get together to conspire how C should be forced to aid D was the principle of looting. And in the midst of the confused ethical doctrines of the social meddlers (regulators, progressives, democratists, and socialists), nobody ever paused to consider what C, The Forgotten Man, was already doing to aid A, B, and D through his personal contributions to the economy, even as A & B conspired to pilfer his savings to splurge on dead-end, anti-economic consumption.

Sumner, a remarkable social scientist, was one of the champions of early conservative and libertarian thought, an anti-imperialist to the core; and his essays still serve as a reminder that there are no new problems under the sun, and that the social meddlers (who never learned the virtue of minding their own business) have NEVER once provided a new solution to age-old problems.

Featuring the Music of Franz Liszt, from Hungarian Rhapsody Nos 2&4. No. 2 arr. for orchestra by the US NAVY BAND, courtesy of Musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/44101-hungarian-rhapsody-no-2-s-2442/). No. 4 played by Vadim Chaimovich (https://musopen.org/music/14914-hungarian-rhapsody-no-4-s-2444/). These recordings are protected by a Creative Commons License 3.0 and are in the Public Domain.

Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/culture-anarchy/support

WHAT SOCIAL CLASSES OWE TO EACH OTHER (1884)

BY WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER

Read by Morgan A. Brown (The Culture & Anarchy Podcast)

In this collection of essays and reflections, William Graham Sumner questions the duties that social activists assume each social class owes to the other. He first inquires into the origins of these "social classes" (the rich, the poor, the capitalist, the working man) that form the class types under question, which do not have their home in American life and whose criticisms have largely been adopted from European modes of thought (as a remnant of critiques of aristocracy).

The idea that groups are obliged to provide for the wants of other groups THROUGH THE STATE happens to be one of the most common and destructive misconceptions imaginable. Sumner did not deny that moral duty was a real phenomenon and binding upon any consistent moral sentiment or ethic. He instead simply pointed out the fact that the State was not the agent of moral duty, and was entirely antithetical to the aims and objectives of those who intended to dispense charity through a government program. The idea that A and B should get together to aid D is the principle of charity. The idea that A and B should get together to conspire how C should be forced to aid D was the principle of looting. And in the midst of the confused ethical doctrines of the social meddlers (regulators, progressives, democratists, and socialists), nobody ever paused to consider what C, The Forgotten Man, was already doing to aid A, B, and D through his personal contributions to the economy, even as A & B conspired to pilfer his savings to splurge on dead-end, anti-economic consumption.

Sumner, a remarkable social scientist, was one of the champions of early conservative and libertarian thought, an anti-imperialist to the core; and his essays still serve as a reminder that there are no new problems under the sun, and that the social meddlers (who never learned the virtue of minding their own business) have NEVER once provided a new solution to age-old problems.

Featuring the Music of Franz Liszt, from Hungarian Rhapsody Nos 2&4. No. 2 arr. for orchestra by the US NAVY BAND, courtesy of Musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/44101-hungarian-rhapsody-no-2-s-2442/). No. 4 played by Vadim Chaimovich (https://musopen.org/music/14914-hungarian-rhapsody-no-4-s-2444/). These recordings are protected by a Creative Commons License 3.0 and are in the Public Domain.

Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/culture-anarchy/support

WHAT SOCIAL CLASSES OWE TO EACH OTHER (1884)

BY WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER

Read by Morgan A. Brown (The Culture & Anarchy Podcast)

In this collection of essays and reflections, William Graham Sumner questions the duties that social activists assume each social class owes to the other. He first inquires into the origins of these "social classes" (the rich, the poor, the capitalist, the working man) that form the class types under question, which do not have their home in American life and whose criticisms have largely been adopted from European modes of thought (as a remnant of critiques of aristocracy).

The idea that groups are obliged to provide for the wants of other groups THROUGH THE STATE happens to be one of the most common and destructive misconceptions imaginable. Sumner did not deny that moral duty was a real phenomenon and binding upon any consistent moral sentiment or ethic. He instead simply pointed out the fact that the State was not the agent of moral duty, and was entirely antithetical to the aims and objectives of those who intended to dispense charity through a government program. The idea that A and B should get together to aid D is the principle of charity. The idea that A and B should get together to conspire how C should be forced to aid D was the principle of looting. And in the midst of the confused ethical doctrines of the social meddlers (regulators, progressives, democratists, and socialists), nobody ever paused to consider what C, The Forgotten Man, was already doing to aid A, B, and D through his personal contributions to the economy, even as A & B conspired to pilfer his savings to splurge on dead-end, anti-economic consumption.

Sumner, a remarkable social scientist, was one of the champions of early conservative and libertarian thought, an anti-imperialist to the core; and his essays still serve as a reminder that there are no new problems under the sun, and that the social meddlers (who never learned the virtue of minding their own business) have NEVER once provided a new solution to age-old problems.

Featuring the Music of Franz Liszt, from Hungarian Rhapsody Nos 2&4. No. 2 arr. for orchestra by the US NAVY BAND, courtesy of Musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/44101-hungarian-rhapsody-no-2-s-2442/). No. 4 played by Vadim Chaimovich (https://musopen.org/music/14914-hungarian-rhapsody-no-4-s-2444/). These recordings are protected by a Creative Commons License 3.0 and are in the Public Domain.

Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/culture-anarchy/support

WHAT SOCIAL CLASSES OWE TO EACH OTHER (1884)

BY WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER

Read by Morgan A. Brown (The Culture & Anarchy Podcast)

In this collection of essays and reflections, William Graham Sumner questions the duties that social activists assume each social class owes to the other. He first inquires into the origins of these "social classes" (the rich, the poor, the capitalist, the working man) that form the class types under question, which do not have their home in American life and whose criticisms have largely been adopted from European modes of thought (as a remnant of critiques of aristocracy).

The idea that groups are obliged to provide for the wants of other groups THROUGH THE STATE happens to be one of the most common and destructive misconceptions imaginable. Sumner did not deny that moral duty was a real phenomenon and binding upon any consistent moral sentiment or ethic. He instead simply pointed out the fact that the State was not the agent of moral duty, and was entirely antithetical to the aims and objectives of those who intended to dispense charity through a government program. The idea that A and B should get together to aid D is the principle of charity. The idea that A and B should get together to conspire how C should be forced to aid D was the principle of looting. And in the midst of the confused ethical doctrines of the social meddlers (regulators, progressives, democratists, and socialists), nobody ever paused to consider what C, The Forgotten Man, was already doing to aid A, B, and D through his personal contributions to the economy, even as A & B conspired to pilfer his savings to splurge on dead-end, anti-economic consumption.

Sumner, a remarkable social scientist, was one of the champions of early conservative and libertarian thought, an anti-imperialist to the core; and his essays still serve as a reminder that there are no new problems under the sun, and that the social meddlers (who never learned the virtue of minding their own business) have NEVER once provided a new solution to age-old problems.

Featuring the Music of Franz Liszt, from Hungarian Rhapsody Nos 2&4. No. 2 arr. for orchestra by the US NAVY BAND, courtesy of Musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/44101-hungarian-rhapsody-no-2-s-2442/). No. 4 played by Vadim Chaimovich (https://musopen.org/music/14914-hungarian-rhapsody-no-4-s-2444/). These recordings are protected by a Creative Commons License 3.0 and are in the Public Domain.

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WHAT SOCIAL CLASSES OWE TO EACH OTHER (1884)

BY WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER

Read by Morgan A. Brown (The Culture & Anarchy Podcast)

In this collection of essays and reflections, William Graham Sumner questions the duties that social activists assume each social class owes to the other. He first inquires into the origins of these "social classes" (the rich, the poor, the capitalist, the working man) that form the class types under question, which do not have their home in American life and whose criticisms have largely been adopted from European modes of thought (as a remnant of critiques of aristocracy).

The idea that groups are obliged to provide for the wants of other groups THROUGH THE STATE happens to be one of the most common and destructive misconceptions imaginable. Sumner did not deny that moral duty was a real phenomenon and binding upon any consistent moral sentiment or ethic. He instead simply pointed out the fact that the State was not the agent of moral duty, and was entirely antithetical to the aims and objectives of those who intended to dispense charity through a government program. The idea that A and B should get together to aid D is the principle of charity. The idea that A and B should get together to conspire how C should be forced to aid D was the principle of looting. And in the midst of the confused ethical doctrines of the social meddlers (regulators, progressives, democratists, and socialists), nobody ever paused to consider what C, The Forgotten Man, was already doing to aid A, B, and D through his personal contributions to the economy, even as A & B conspired to pilfer his savings to splurge on dead-end, anti-economic consumption.

Sumner, a remarkable social scientist, was one of the champions of early conservative and libertarian thought, an anti-imperialist to the core; and his essays still serve as a reminder that there are no new problems under the sun, and that the social meddlers (who never learned the virtue of minding their own business) have NEVER once provided a new solution to age-old problems.

Featuring the Music of Franz Liszt, from Hungarian Rhapsody Nos 2&4. No. 2 arr. for orchestra by the US NAVY BAND, courtesy of Musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/44101-hungarian-rhapsody-no-2-s-2442/). No. 4 played by Vadim Chaimovich (https://musopen.org/music/14914-hungarian-rhapsody-no-4-s-2444/). These recordings are protected by a Creative Commons License 3.0 and are in the Public Domain.

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WHAT SOCIAL CLASSES OWE TO EACH OTHER (1884)

BY WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER

Read by Morgan A. Brown (The Culture & Anarchy Podcast)

In this collection of essays and reflections, William Graham Sumner questions the duties that social activists assume each social class owes to the other. He first inquires into the origins of these "social classes" (the rich, the poor, the capitalist, the working man) that form the class types under question, which do not have their home in American life and whose criticisms have largely been adopted from European modes of thought (as a remnant of critiques of aristocracy).

The idea that groups are obliged to provide for the wants of other groups THROUGH THE STATE happens to be one of the most common and destructive misconceptions imaginable. Sumner did not deny that moral duty was a real phenomenon and binding upon any consistent moral sentiment or ethic. He instead simply pointed out the fact that the State was not the agent of moral duty, and was entirely antithetical to the aims and objectives of those who intended to dispense charity through a government program. The idea that A and B should get together to aid D is the principle of charity. The idea that A and B should get together to conspire how C should be forced to aid D was the principle of looting. And in the midst of the confused ethical doctrines of the social meddlers (regulators, progressives, democratists, and socialists), nobody ever paused to consider what C, The Forgotten Man, was already doing to aid A, B, and D through his personal contributions to the economy, even as A & B conspired to pilfer his savings to splurge on dead-end, anti-economic consumption.

Sumner, a remarkable social scientist, was one of the champions of early conservative and libertarian thought, an anti-imperialist to the core; and his essays still serve as a reminder that there are no new problems under the sun, and that the social meddlers (who never learned the virtue of minding their own business) have NEVER once provided a new solution to age-old problems.

Featuring the Music of Franz Liszt, from Hungarian Rhapsody Nos 2&4. No. 2 arr. for orchestra by the US NAVY BAND, courtesy of Musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/44101-hungarian-rhapsody-no-2-s-2442/). No. 4 played by Vadim Chaimovich (https://musopen.org/music/14914-hungarian-rhapsody-no-4-s-2444/). These recordings are protected by a Creative Commons License 3.0 and are in the Public Domain.

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WHAT SOCIAL CLASSES OWE TO EACH OTHER (1884)

BY WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER

Read by Morgan A. Brown (The Culture & Anarchy Podcast)

In this collection of essays and reflections, William Graham Sumner questions the duties that social activists assume each social class owes to the other. He first inquires into the origins of these "social classes" (the rich, the poor, the capitalist, the working man) that form the class types under question, which do not have their home in American life and whose criticisms have largely been adopted from European modes of thought (as a remnant of critiques of aristocracy).

The idea that groups are obliged to provide for the wants of other groups THROUGH THE STATE happens to be one of the most common and destructive misconceptions imaginable. Sumner did not deny that moral duty was a real phenomenon and binding upon any consistent moral sentiment or ethic. He instead simply pointed out the fact that the State was not the agent of moral duty, and was entirely antithetical to the aims and objectives of those who intended to dispense charity through a government program. The idea that A and B should get together to aid D is the principle of charity. The idea that A and B should get together to conspire how C should be forced to aid D was the principle of looting. And in the midst of the confused ethical doctrines of the social meddlers (regulators, progressives, democratists, and socialists), nobody ever paused to consider what C, The Forgotten Man, was already doing to aid A, B, and D through his personal contributions to the economy, even as A & B conspired to pilfer his savings to splurge on dead-end, anti-economic consumption.

Sumner, a remarkable social scientist, was one of the champions of early conservative and libertarian thought, an anti-imperialist to the core; and his essays still serve as a reminder that there are no new problems under the sun, and that the social meddlers (who never learned the virtue of minding their own business) have NEVER once provided a new solution to age-old problems.

Featuring the Music of Franz Liszt, from Hungarian Rhapsody Nos 2&4. No. 2 arr. for orchestra by the US NAVY BAND, courtesy of Musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/44101-hungarian-rhapsody-no-2-s-2442/). No. 4 played by Vadim Chaimovich (https://musopen.org/music/14914-hungarian-rhapsody-no-4-s-2444/). These recordings are protected by a Creative Commons License 3.0 and are in the Public Domain.

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WHAT SOCIAL CLASSES OWE TO EACH OTHER (1884)

BY WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER

Read by Morgan A. Brown (The Culture & Anarchy Podcast)

In this collection of essays and reflections, William Graham Sumner questions the duties that social activists assume each social class owes to the other. He first inquires into the origins of these "social classes" (the rich, the poor, the capitalist, the working man) that form the class types under question, which do not have their home in American life and whose criticisms have largely been adopted from European modes of thought (as a remnant of critiques of aristocracy).

The idea that groups are obliged to provide for the wants of other groups THROUGH THE STATE happens to be one of the most common and destructive misconceptions imaginable. Sumner did not deny that moral duty was a real phenomenon and binding upon any consistent moral sentiment or ethic. He instead simply pointed out the fact that the State was not the agent of moral duty, and was entirely antithetical to the aims and objectives of those who intended to dispense charity through a government program. The idea that A and B should get together to aid D is the principle of charity. The idea that A and B should get together to conspire how C should be forced to aid D was the principle of looting. And in the midst of the confused ethical doctrines of the social meddlers (regulators, progressives, democratists, and socialists), nobody ever paused to consider what C, The Forgotten Man, was already doing to aid A, B, and D through his personal contributions to the economy, even as A & B conspired to pilfer his savings to splurge on dead-end, anti-economic consumption.

Sumner, a remarkable social scientist, was one of the champions of early conservative and libertarian thought, an anti-imperialist to the core; and his essays still serve as a reminder that there are no new problems under the sun, and that the social meddlers (who never learned the virtue of minding their own business) have NEVER once provided a new solution to age-old problems.

Featuring the Music of Franz Liszt, from Hungarian Rhapsody Nos 2&4. No. 2 arr. for orchestra by the US NAVY BAND, courtesy of Musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/44101-hungarian-rhapsody-no-2-s-2442/). No. 4 played by Vadim Chaimovich (https://musopen.org/music/14914-hungarian-rhapsody-no-4-s-2444/). These recordings are protected by a Creative Commons License 3.0 and are in the Public Domain.

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No Treason (Introduction & No. I): The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner (Volume I of the Lysander Spooner Audio Library)

Read by Morgan A. Brown (The Culture & Anarchy Podcast) Produced by The Culture & Anarchy Studios (www.culture-anarchy.com) LIBERTY | LOGIC | LITERATURE

In this series of readings, we will study the most audacious work of political philosophy by the natural rights lawyer and radical abolitionist, Lysander Spooner. No Treason argues that the United States Constitution is of no legal authority, for it is not a contract binding upon anybody. Nor, even in theory, could it ever bind an individual to its mandates and its governmental associations.

Spooner, a native of Massachusetts in 1800s America, a confederate of the controversial revolutionary, John Brown, and a free-market anarchist, was an amazing thinker and entrepreneur. Outraged by the USPS monopoly on postage, with its arbitrary price hikes, and confident that he could provide postage and delivery at a lower rate than the USPS prices, Spooner began The American Letter Mail Company in order to compete with the state monopoly's prices. He actually managed to undercut the United States government and spread his company throughout much of the country, prompting the government to sue his company into non-existence because the USPS could not compete (being an inefficient monopoly). Spooner's entrepreneurial success proved that the United States was 1) morally bankrupt, for it claimed to provide invaluable services that could be provided cheaper in the marketplace, and 2) that state monopolies are unable to compete with services in the free-market. Later, he was a confederate of John Brown and an apologist for the raid on Harper's Ferry. Brown, the radical abolitionist who attacked slave plantations and killed slave owners in a coordinated pilot to violently overthrow the monstrous regiment of chattel slavery in the United States, was a controversial figure; and one who polarized the political and abolitionist thinkers of Boston in a radical way, from William Lloyd Garrison to Ralph Waldo Emerson and his Transcendentalists.

In No Treason, Spooner argues that the Federal Government (and not some vague and ahistorical euphemism like, "The North") abrogated its Constitutional powers when it invaded the southern states in its quest to punish seceding states. Because the Federal Government had overstepped its constitutional mandate, the Constitution was thus null and void. Utilizing his training as a lawyer and as a natural law theorist, Spooner argues that nobody has any duty to obey the Constitution, and that the "social contract" theory of the federalists (or, the nationalists) could not be binding upon any generation after the Founding Fathers any more than a marriage contract arranged in the 1700s could bind any individual alive today.

Featuring the Music of Camille Saint-Saens, from The Carnival of Animals. Piano arrangement played by Markus Staab, courtesy of Musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/1454-the-carnival-of-the-animals/). These recordings are protected by a Creative Commons License 3.0 and are in the Public Domain.

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No Treason (No. II): The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner (Volume I of the Lysander Spooner Audio Library)

Read by Morgan A. Brown (The Culture & Anarchy Podcast) Produced by The Culture & Anarchy Studios (www.culture-anarchy.com) LIBERTY | LOGIC | LITERATURE

In this series of readings, we will study the most audacious work of political philosophy by the natural rights lawyer and radical abolitionist, Lysander Spooner. No Treason argues that the United States Constitution is of no legal authority, for it is not a contract binding upon anybody. Nor, even in theory, could it ever bind an individual to its mandates and its governmental associations.

Spooner, a native of Massachusetts in 1800s America, a confederate of the controversial revolutionary, John Brown, and a free-market anarchist, was an amazing thinker and entrepreneur. Outraged by the USPS monopoly on postage, with its arbitrary price hikes, and confident that he could provide postage and delivery at a lower rate than the USPS prices, Spooner began The American Letter Mail Company in order to compete with the state monopoly's prices. He actually managed to undercut the United States government and spread his company throughout much of the country, prompting the government to sue his company into non-existence because the USPS could not compete (being an inefficient monopoly). Spooner's entrepreneurial success proved that the United States was 1) morally bankrupt, for it claimed to provide invaluable services that could be provided cheaper in the marketplace, and 2) that state monopolies are unable to compete with services in the free-market. Later, he was a confederate of John Brown and an apologist for the raid on Harper's Ferry. Brown, the radical abolitionist who attacked slave plantations and killed slave owners in a coordinated pilot to violently overthrow the monstrous regiment of chattel slavery in the United States, was a controversial figure; and one who polarized the political and abolitionist thinkers of Boston in a radical way, from William Lloyd Garrison to Ralph Waldo Emerson and his Transcendentalists.

In No Treason, Spooner argues that the Federal Government (and not some vague and ahistorical euphemism like, "The North") abrogated its Constitutional powers when it invaded the southern states in its quest to punish seceding states. Because the Federal Government had overstepped its constitutional mandate, the Constitution was thus null and void. Utilizing his training as a lawyer and as a natural law theorist, Spooner argues that nobody has any duty to obey the Constitution, and that the "social contract" theory of the federalists (or, the nationalists) could not be binding upon any generation after the Founding Fathers any more than a marriage contract arranged in the 1700s could bind any individual alive today.

Featuring the Music of Camille Saint-Saens, from The Carnival of Animals. Piano arrangement played by Markus Staab, courtesy of Musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/1454-the-carnival-of-the-animals/). These recordings are protected by a Creative Commons License 3.0 and are in the Public Domain.

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No Treason (No. VI): The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner (Volume I of the Lysander Spooner Audio Library)

Read by Morgan A. Brown (The Culture & Anarchy Podcast) Produced by The Culture & Anarchy Studios (www.culture-anarchy.com) LIBERTY | LOGIC | LITERATURE

In this series of readings, we will study the most audacious work of political philosophy by the natural rights lawyer and radical abolitionist, Lysander Spooner. No Treason argues that the United States Constitution is of no legal authority, for it is not a contract binding upon anybody. Nor, even in theory, could it ever bind an individual to its mandates and its governmental associations.

Spooner, a native of Massachusetts in 1800s America, a confederate of the controversial revolutionary, John Brown, and a free-market anarchist, was an amazing thinker and entrepreneur. Outraged by the USPS monopoly on postage, with its arbitrary price hikes, and confident that he could provide postage and delivery at a lower rate than the USPS prices, Spooner began The American Letter Mail Company in order to compete with the state monopoly's prices. He actually managed to undercut the United States government and spread his company throughout much of the country, prompting the government to sue his company into non-existence because the USPS could not compete (being an inefficient monopoly). Spooner's entrepreneurial success proved that the United States was 1) morally bankrupt, for it claimed to provide invaluable services that could be provided cheaper in the marketplace, and 2) that state monopolies are unable to compete with services in the free-market. Later, he was a confederate of John Brown and an apologist for the raid on Harper's Ferry. Brown, the radical abolitionist who attacked slave plantations and killed slave owners in a coordinated pilot to violently overthrow the monstrous regiment of chattel slavery in the United States, was a controversial figure; and one who polarized the political and abolitionist thinkers of Boston in a radical way, from William Lloyd Garrison to Ralph Waldo Emerson and his Transcendentalists.

In No Treason, Spooner argues that the Federal Government (and not some vague and ahistorical euphemism like, "The North") abrogated its Constitutional powers when it invaded the southern states in its quest to punish seceding states. Because the Federal Government had overstepped its constitutional mandate, the Constitution was thus null and void. Utilizing his training as a lawyer and as a natural law theorist, Spooner argues that nobody has any duty to obey the Constitution, and that the "social contract" theory of the federalists (or, the nationalists) could not be binding upon any generation after the Founding Fathers any more than a marriage contract arranged in the 1700s could bind any individual alive today.

Featuring the Music of Camille Saint-Saens, from The Carnival of Animals. Piano arrangement played by Markus Staab, courtesy of Musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/1454-the-carnival-of-the-animals/). These recordings are protected by a Creative Commons License 3.0 and are in the Public Domain.

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Liberty or Equality? [Part 7]

MARX'S 18TH BRUMAIRE, TOCQUEVILLE vs BERNIE SANDERS, AND BASTIAT'S THOUGHTS ON "THE GOVERNMENT"

[01:17:25] Alexis de Tocqueville "Speech on Socialism" or "Speech on the Right to Work" (1848) <>

[02:01:40] Frederic Bastiat "The Government" or "The State" (1848) <>

The 1848 Revolution in France was one of the very first revolutionary socialist movements in Europe, which threatened to take hold of a first-world nation's government. This week we take a look at the events and circumstances that enabled this near-disaster.

A banking crisis in England, combined with a couple of bad harvests in France, and crippling tariffs, all exercised a diabolical influence upon the French populace, which was already given to rebellion against the various constitutional monarchies in post-Napoleonic politics. The king fled the country in February of 1848 as disgruntled Frenchmen took to the streets and headed off in violent conflicts with the municipal police. During the succeeding months, there was fierce debate over the proper role and structure of a republic. Amidst these debates, the Montagnards (the socialists) agitated for guaranteed government jobs, a department of labor, and higher wages. Louis Blanc--one of the first experimenters with socialist theory--was given charge to create a National Workshops program. The plan proved disastrous, yet it did not silence the Montagnards. Nevertheless, the failure did undermine the credibility of the faction.

During the debates over the fate of the 1848 Revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville took center stage at the assemblies and delivered a speech against socialism, which helped turn back the tide of anti-economic illogic.

At the same time, Bastiat manned the presses and churned out free trade pamphlets explaining the economic depression and how the French protectionist racket (tariffs, etc.) only intensified the hard times. He also, in light of the seriously dangerous misconceptions of the State expressed by the Montagnards, sought to define what government is. And in so doing, he explained why the State was not a philanthropic institution capable of providing benefits without also giving curses in kind.

Cf. "The Long Shadow of Frederic Bastiat," G.F. Smith <>

Featuring music by Pietro Locatelli (https://musopen.org/music/2445/pietro-locatelli/cello-sonata-in-d-from-12-sonatas-op-6/), courtesy of musopen.org.

Be sure to pick up your copy of my new book, The God Function: Deus Ex Grammatica (http://www.lulu.com/shop/morgan-a-brown/the-god-function-deus-ex-grammatica/paperback/product-23361685.html). 30% discount @ lulu.com!

Also, featuring tracks by the Passion Hifi (https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou): Cold Heat, I Close My Eyes, and Untouchable.

Audio from A King in New York, a Charlie Chaplin film, provided with the expressed permission of Roy Export S.A.S. (www.charliechaplin.com), who holds the copyright thereto.

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Liberty or Equality? [Part 6]

MAZZINI, MENCKEN, AND DEMOCRACY: THE GOD THAT FAILED

In this week's episode, we moved past Fichte and the origins of Romantic Nationalism in postwar Prussia, and move towards the new frontier of revolutionary sentiment in Italy. In the wake of the Napoleonic codes, the ending of the wars, and the retrenchment of counterrevolutionary conservatism [the divine right of kings] in Russia, Prussia, and Austria, one Italian revolutionary worked tirelessly to spread the sentiment of Christian Democracy. He did so while his country (like Fichte's Germany) was under occupation (by Austria). Nationalism is almost the inevitable consequence of occupation.

Whereas kings were trying to regain power and prestige after the secular challenge of the zealous French Revolutionaries, Giuseppe Mazzini tried to transform "the divine right of kings" into the "divine right of the peoples" as the apotheosis of Democratic Man. But just like the divine right of the old regime, the divine right of the majorities in Christian Europe to tyrannize over the minority was just as shaky an idea. If absolute individual rights were to play no part in democratic society (and Mazzini did not believe in absolute individual rights), then what was to protect the enlightened children of God from the predations of their neighbors once the old world's kings and nobles were no longer a concern?

Featuring music by Pietro Locatelli (https://musopen.org/music/2445/pietro-locatelli/cello-sonata-in-d-from-12-sonatas-op-6/), courtesy of musopen.org.

Be sure to pick up your copy of my new book, The God Function: Deus Ex Grammatica (http://www.lulu.com/shop/morgan-a-brown/the-god-function-deus-ex-grammatica/paperback/product-23361685.html). 30% discount @ lulu.com!

Also, featuring tracks by the Passion Hifi (https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou): Cold Heat, I Close My Eyes, and Untouchable.

Audio from A King in New York, a Charlie Chaplin film, provided with the expressed permission of Roy Export S.A.S. (www.charliechaplin.com), who holds the copyright thereto.

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[00:00:45] The Natural Slave's Procrustean Bed; Also, Are Libertarians Anti-Democratists?

Procrustes was a psychotic denizen of Ancient Greece who used to kidnap passerby, feed them dinner, then ask them to lie down in his iron bed. If they were too tall for the bed, he chopped off their legs; if too short, he stretched them until they fit. He fit the man to the bed, instead of fitting the bed to the man.

We see a similar pattern of retailoring the tailor (sartor resartus) in Democratic society, where mankind is held to the rule of the mean, the average human being (a being that cannot and does not exist). Similar Procrustean trends in identity politics tore apart the ancients as well as the moderns, and most notably wreaked havoc in Hitlerian Germany in the mid-1930s. Today we take a look at the larger implications of Identity Politics in order to get a better understanding of the dynamics of the Bund (the class-type of the tribal identity group) and its hostile relation to individualist Libertarianism. The root of the conflict is not just political or economic--the root of the conflict is actually psychological. To gain insight into this psychological combat between Libertarians and identitarians, we will take a look at Aurel Kolnai's critical examination of Hitlerian Germany from 1938, to see exactly what kinds of cultural memes were prevalent in the run-up to the most infamous State administration in modern history.

The conflict also reveals that he Libertarian's real foe is Natural Slavery, whose existence was aptly delineated by Aristotle in his Politics.

[01:18:49] Chapter 2 (part 2): Men of the old Time and the New--the Moderns

A reading of the conclusion to Chapter 2 of The Ego and His Own, by Max Stirner

Featuring music by Ivan Kiveledi, piano arr. of Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen, op. 20; courtesy of www.Musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/2676/pablo-de-sarasate/zigeunerweisen-op-20-piano-arr/)

Also featuring beats by the Passion HIFI: "What We Came to Do" (https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/free-the-passion-hifi-what-we-came-to-do) Follow the Passion HIFI on Soundcloud and Twitter, and give him a great rating!

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[00:00:45] Who Art Thou to the Bloody Priest of Nemi? Also, Why Libertarians ARE the Culture War

This week we take a look at the culture war, since Max Stirner begins his critique of the Ancients in the second chapter of The Ego and His Own by firing a shot at the past. The Culture War is something that is almost universally misunderstood; for "Culture" is itself a concept that people misuse all of the time as if it meant something like "what I like" or "what I do not like"--where "culture" thus appears as a social-construction.

But today we take a deeper look at the psychological origins of culture and its roots in anthropology, ethnography, and philology. We shall draw upon some insights of James G. Frazer in his seminal book, The Golden Bough, and analyze the cult of Diana of the Wood to provide us with some key archetypes.

Later, we extrapolate these insights by confronting GWF Hegel's infamous Master-Slave Dialectic [00:41:21], as it, too, is central to this era's so-called Culture War.

[01:39:00] Chapter Two: "Men of the Old Time and the New"--"The Ancients"

A Reading from The Ego and his Own, by Max Stirner.

Featuring music by Ivan Kiveledi, piano arr. of Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen, op. 20; courtesy of www.Musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/2676/pablo-de-sarasate/zigeunerweisen-op-20-piano-arr/)

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The Weekly Stirner (Week 2)

[00:00:45] How Atheists Invented Christianity & Christianity Invented the Atheist: Also, Notes on Feuerbach, Der Freien, and the Young Hegelians

There is much in Max Stirner's philosophy of egoism that was a direct reply to Ludwig Feuerbach's theory of liberalism and the latter's critique of religion. In this introduction to the first chapter of Stirner's book, we take a deeper look at Feuerbach's critique of Christianity in The Essence of Christianity. We also learn a little about Max Stirner's intellectual setting amongst the Young Hegelians during the 1830s in Berlin, where he studied and debated with the likes of Bruno Bauer, David Strauss, Karl Marx, and even Feuerbach. Because one cannot quite understand the design of The Ego and His Own without understanding a little about the closing of the Hegelian philosophy of history and the left-Liberal bent of the Young Hegelians (with the exception of the libertarian Stirner), we here focus primarily upon Hegel's philosophy of alienation, which stands at the root of Feuerbach's system. We also learn exactly how Atheists invented the Christianity that would later persecute their children as Infidels.

[00:49:06] Chapter 1: "A Human Life"

A reading of the first chapter from Max Stirner's "The Ego and His Own."

Featuring music by Ivan Kiveledi, piano arr. of Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen, op. 20; courtesy of www.Musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/2676/pablo-de-sarasate/zigeunerweisen-op-20-piano-arr/)

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The Weekly Stirner

[00:01:15] The State is "Other People": Why Libertarians Tend to Suck and Ancaps Tend to Suck Absolutely

[01:02:55] Readings from Stirner's Ego and His own Week 1: "All Things are Nothing to Me"

On this first installment of The Weekly Stirner, I give a shot of penicillin to the liberal strain of world-reforming, self-crucifying nonsense in contemporary libertarian thought. In so doing, I push the definition of THE STATE--the bugbear of all libertarian philosophy--to its origins in the cravenness of the human character. The State is, in the end, just other people. And in order to hate the state, we must identify what it is that we hate; and in so doing, I tend towards an amusement with the current schismatic ideals of the various libertarian creeds, which pretend that this character could be eliminated, such that the State could ever dissolve into nothingness and historical memory.

Featuring music by Ivan Kiveledi, piano arr. of Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen, op. 20; courtesy of www.Musopen.org (https://musopen.org/music/2676/pablo-de-sarasate/zigeunerweisen-op-20-piano-arr/)

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PART 5.2: Diagnosing Romantic Nationalism

This week we extend our survey of German Idealism away from its radically individualist incarnation in America in the thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson and towards the birth of romantic nationalism in 1800s Germany. Johann Gottlieb Fichte, a student of Kant, pushed Idealism towards radical subjectivism, and he sought to create a German Nation as the sublimation of a class-type ideal. As Germany smoldered under the yoke of Napoleon Bonaparte in the early 1800s, Fichte imagined that only a unified German people, bonded by a nationalist ideal--, with a racial, ethnic, and linguistic uniformity, --could cast off Napoleon's rule and become an eternal unity.

Around the same time (1813), Lord Byron penned the work that made him a romantic figurehead in Britain--Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Childe Harold, a disillusioned young man without a sense of homeland or purpose, sets himself adrift through the Mediterranean and surveys a decimated Europe in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars and occupation by the Ottoman Turks. As the voice of a lost generation, alienated by ceaseless war, Byron's hero exemplifies not only what Fichte feared would become of an occupied Germany, but he also reveals to the reader the horrors that would inevitably result from Fichte's divine conception of the German ethnostate--war, war, and more war ("murder unrestrained").

Featuring music by Enrique Granados (https://musopen.org/music/226/enrique-granados/twelve-spanish-dances-op-37-arabesca-guitar-arr/) & Pietro Locatelli (https://musopen.org/music/2445/pietro-locatelli/cello-sonata-in-d-from-12-sonatas-op-6/), courtesy of musopen.org.

Be sure to pick up your copy of my new book, The God Function: Deus Ex Grammatica (http://www.lulu.com/shop/morgan-a-brown/the-god-function-deus-ex-grammatica/paperback/product-23361685.html). 30% discount @ lulu.com!

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PART 5.1: Diagnosing Romantic Nationalism

This week we extend our survey of German Idealism away from its radically individualist incarnation in America in the thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson and towards the birth of romantic nationalism in 1800s Germany. Johann Gottlieb Fichte, a student of Kant, pushed Idealism towards radical subjectivism, and he sought to create a German Nation as the sublimation of a class-type ideal. As Germany smoldered under the yoke of Napoleon Bonaparte in the early 1800s, Fichte imagined that only a unified German people, bonded by a nationalist ideal--, with a racial, ethnic, and linguistic uniformity, --could cast off Napoleon's rule and become an eternal unity.

Around the same time (1813), Lord Byron penned the work that made him a romantic figurehead in Britain--Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Childe Harold, a disillusioned young man without a sense of homeland or purpose, sets himself adrift through the Mediterranean and surveys a decimated Europe in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars and occupation by the Ottoman Turks. As the voice of a lost generation, alienated by ceaseless war, Byron's hero exemplifies not only what Fichte feared would become of an occupied Germany, but he also reveals to the reader the horrors that would inevitably result from Fichte's divine conception of the German ethnostate--war, war, and more war ("murder unrestrained").

Featuring music by Enrique Granados (https://musopen.org/music/226/enrique-granados/twelve-spanish-dances-op-37-arabesca-guitar-arr/) & Pietro Locatelli (https://musopen.org/music/2445/pietro-locatelli/cello-sonata-in-d-from-12-sonatas-op-6/), courtesy of musopen.org.

Be sure to pick up your copy of my new book, The God Function: Deus Ex Grammatica (http://www.lulu.com/shop/morgan-a-brown/the-god-function-deus-ex-grammatica/paperback/product-23361685.html). 30% discount @ lulu.com!

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Liberty or Equality? Pt. IV

THE MELIAN DIALOGUE: Isonomy, Aristophanes, and the Battle of Mosul

**For Sources, links, and text, pls visit: (http://www.culture-anarchy.com/public_html/pages/wpblog/?p=75)

Reports from THE INDEPENDENT by Patrick Cockburn are pushing the upper bounds of the civilian death toll in Mosul up to 40,000. Previous estimates (5K) were based on aerial bombings, due to the inability to scour the rubble while ISIS was still operating. Now that the ground view is opening up, the carnage tells another tale.

This week we look into Hayek's thoughts on the liberties of the ancient world, where the ideal of Isonomy and the drive for political equality resulted in democratic governance. We introduce these concepts through the lens of Aristophanes's comedy, THE BIRDS, and the proceed to discuss two passages from THE HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR by Thucydides: The Mitylenean Revolt and the Melian Dialogue.

**Featuring music from the Cello Sonata in D Major, by Pietro Locatelli; performed by Elizaveta Sushchenko. Provided by a Creative Commons license courtesy of Musopen.org: (https://musopen.org/music/performer/elizaveta-sushchenko/).

Also, featuring tracks by the Passion Hifi (https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou): Cold Heat, I Close My Eyes, and Untouchable.

Audio from A King in New York, a Charlie Chaplin film, provided with the expressed permission of Roy Export S.A.S. (www.charliechaplin.com), who holds the copyright thereto. Also featuring music from Isaac Albeniz https://musopen.org/music/composer/isaac-albeniz/) and Haydn.

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Liberty or Equality? Pt. III

Also Sprach Emerson: Nietzsche, Emerson's "Self-Reliance," and the Individual Secession

This week, we explore Emerson's extrapolation of the insights of Critical Philosophy into a philosophy, not quite of ends, but of means. He cautions the idealist away from Utopian dreaming and towards critical self-reflection. The only way to improve this world is to improve oneself; and with this one dictum, Emerson takes a romp through civil society in order to effect a secession of the self from the expectations of others; from inherited powers and authorities.

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was a great admirer of Emerson's work, and he remained a devoted reader of Emerson's essays throughout his adult life. His Zarathustra, his philosopher of the "Perilous Perhaps," was largely modeled upon the manner of self-assertion and self-reliance expressed by Emerson's own philosophy of self. We explore these connections in Thus Spoke Zarathustra and bring you a reading of Emerson's essay in its entirety.

**Featuring a prefatory essay by Morgan A. Brown: (http://www.culture-anarchy.com/public_html/pages/wpblog/?p=75)

**Emerson's "Self-Reliance" begins @ 23:00.

Featuring music from the Cello Sonata in D Major, by Pietro Locatelli; performed by Elizaveta Sushchenko. Provided by a Creative Commons license courtesy of Musopen.org: (https://musopen.org/music/performer/elizaveta-sushchenko/).

Also, featuring tracks by the Passion Hifi (https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou): Cold Heat, I Close My Eyes, and Untouchable.

Audio from A King in New York, a Charlie Chaplin film, provided with the expressed permission of Roy Export S.A.S. (www.charliechaplin.com), who holds the copyright thereto.

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Liberty or Equality? Pt. II

Emerson's "The Transcendentalist": Kant, Transcendental Philosophy, and the American Legacy of German Idealism

This week, we proceed past Emerson's dismissal of rote memory and old forms in the Conservative mindset to see how he viewed revolutionary existence: its mindset, its epistemology, and its historical legacy. "The Transcendentalist" was a speech he gave in response to some criticisms leveled at he and his fellow individualists, who were, in truth, a motley assortment of characters without a centralizing dogma to bind them. The essay lays out the principles and origins of the spirit of individual reform and reason (Anarchy), over and against the spirit of collective constraint (Culture). He divides himself from mere activism and places the responsibility for actual change where it belongs: on the individual conscience. In doing so, Emerson adapts German Idealism to the American way of life in a market society, where true reform is not embodied in a political agency founded on force and fraud.

**Featuring a prefatory essay by Morgan A. Brown: (http://www.culture-anarchy.com/public_html/pages/wpblog/?p=62)

**Emerson's "The Conservative" begins @ 26:00.

Featuring music from the Cello Sonata in D Major, by Pietro Locatelli; performed by Elizaveta Sushchenko. Provided by a Creative Commons license courtesy of Musopen.org: (https://musopen.org/music/performer/elizaveta-sushchenko/).

Also, featuring tracks by the Passion Hifi (https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou): Cold Heat, I Close My Eyes, and Untouchable.

Audio from A King in New York, a Charlie Chaplin film, provided with the expressed permission of Roy Export S.A.S. (www.charliechaplin.com), who holds the copyright thereto.

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Liberty or Equality? Pt. I

Emerson's "The Conservative": RALPH WALDO EMERSON, COSMIC JUSTICE, AND THE WILD CRAB OF CONSERVATISM

This week, we touch of our investigation into the tensions between Liberty and Equality as we cover Ralph Waldo Emerson's great essay, THE CONSERVATIVE. The essay is a kind of intergenerational dialogue between the spirit of reform (Anarchy) and the body of conservative knowledge (Culture). As such, it provides a perfect launchpad for our upcoming investigations into cultural opinions regarding reform, principles, nationalism, moral evolution, ethics, race, IQ, markets, the fallacy of a capitalist meritocracy.

**Featuring a prefatory essay by Morgan A. Brown: (http://www.culture-anarchy.com/public_html/pages/wpblog/?p=52)

**Emerson's "The Conservative" begins @ 26:00.

Featuring music from the Cello Sonata in D Major, by Pietro Locatelli; performed by Elizaveta Sushchenko. Provided by a Creative Commons license courtesy of Musopen.org: (https://musopen.org/music/performer/elizaveta-sushchenko/).

Also, featuring tracks by the Passion Hifi (https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou): Cold Heat, I Close My Eyes, and Untouchable.

Audio from A King in New York, a Charlie Chaplin film, provided with the expressed permission of Roy Export S.A.S. (www.charliechaplin.com), who holds the copyright thereto.

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The complete compilation of Volume I.

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The Dial: A Magazine for Poetry, Philosophy, and Religion "Dalliances with False Surmise"

Featured Poems

Vaticinations of Berosus: Preface to The Book of Caesar, by Morgan A. Brown
Divine Knowledge, by Troy E. Camplin
Sea Tyrant of Samos: A Homily on Poesy, by Morgan A. Brown

Featured Music: All music is protected by A Creative Commons License or is in the public domain (Courtesy of The Free Music Archive or Musopen.org)

Danse Profane, by Claude Debussy (https://musopen.org/music/3406/claude-debussy/danse-sacree-et-danse-profane/)
Gymnopedie No. 1 arr. for harp, by Peter J. (https://musopen.org/music/349/erik-satie/gymnopedie-no-1-harp-arr/)
Oceans Continue to Rise, by Chris Zabriskie (https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/Music_from_Neptune_Flux/ChrisZabriskie-MusicfromNeptuneFlux-04)

Featuring music by The Passion Hifi (Creative Commons License): *Follow him on Soundcloud, Twitter, and Facebook, and give him great ratings/reviews/likes!!!!****

"Harlem Incident" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/the-passion-hifi-spanish-winter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental

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Part 10: The Wall of Interpretation

In which it is concluded that not all interpretation is misinterpretation, and that common sense is "splitting the semantic difference" for the sake of satisfaction.

Part 11: The Post-Derridean Satyr Play

In which we examine the post-Derrida Deconstructionist atmosphere.

Part 12: Conclusion

3 Immutable and Self-Evident Laws of Literature and Language.

Part 13: A Parable: "Honey, I think I lost my keys."

Featuring music by The Passion Hifi (Creative Commons License): *Follow him on Soundcloud, Twitter, and Facebook, and give him great ratings/reviews/likes!!!!****

"Spanish Winter" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/the-passion-hifi-spanish-winter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental "I Close My Eyes" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/free-the-passion-hifi-i-close "Slaughter" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/free-the-passion-hifi-slaughter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental

Also featuring The Bacchanal from Saint-Saens's Samson and Delilah courtesy of Musopen.org and the US AF Band: https://musopen.org/music/500/camille-saint-saens/samson-and-dalilah-op-47-danse-baccanale/

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Part 9.2: Differance and Buridan's Ass

In Part 9.2, we finish our application of Indifference Theory to show where both it and Deconstruction, as incarnations of one another, fail in and of themselves in theory. They may be useful as a kind of psychology of preferences for the sake of marketing, but not in any greater application.

In this section, we finish our critique of Aristotle and Jean Buridan, and solve the paradox of Buridan's Ass, then work our way towards Murray N. Rothbard and Tadeuz Kotarbinski's thoughts on Indifference.

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"Spanish Winter" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/the-passion-hifi-spanish-winter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental "I Close My Eyes" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/free-the-passion-hifi-i-close "Slaughter" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/free-the-passion-hifi-slaughter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental

Also featuring The Bacchanal from Saint-Saens's Samson and Delilah courtesy of Musopen.org and the US AF Band: https://musopen.org/music/500/camille-saint-saens/samson-and-dalilah-op-47-danse-baccanale/

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Part 9.1: Differance and Buridan's Ass

In Part 9.1, we examine tackle the application of Indifference Theory from the Pareto branch of Consumer Choice Theory from an epistemological, methodological, and theoretical standpoint, showing that indifference cannot play a role in economic theory.

In this section, we reach back to Aristotle and Jean Buridan, and the paradox of Buridan's Ass, and work our way towards Murray N. Rothbard and Tadeuz Kotarbinski.

Featuring music by The Passion Hifi (Creative Commons License): *Follow him on Soundcloud, Twitter, and Facebook, and give him great ratings/reviews/likes!!!!****

"Spanish Winter" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/the-passion-hifi-spanish-winter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental "I Close My Eyes" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/free-the-passion-hifi-i-close "Slaughter" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/free-the-passion-hifi-slaughter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental

Also featuring The Bacchanal from Saint-Saens's Samson and Delilah courtesy of Musopen.org and the US AF Band: https://musopen.org/music/500/camille-saint-saens/samson-and-dalilah-op-47-danse-baccanale/

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Part 8: Vilfredo Pareto's Man-Eating Tigers

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"Spanish Winter" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/the-passion-hifi-spanish-winter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental "I Close My Eyes" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/free-the-passion-hifi-i-close "Slaughter" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/free-the-passion-hifi-slaughter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental

Also featuring The Bacchanal from Saint-Saens's Samson and Delilah courtesy of Musopen.org and the US AF Band: https://musopen.org/music/500/camille-saint-saens/samson-and-dalilah-op-47-danse-baccanale/

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The Dial: A Magazine for Poetry, Philosophy, and Religion Volume I (Dalliances with False Surmise)

Featured poems:

Dear Uncle, by Chris Bacavis
The Man with the Flag Tattoo, by A.A. Learmont
Ends and Means, by Troy E. Camplin
Proceedings, by Chris Bacavis

Featured Music (courtesy of the Free Music Archive--CCA Licenses):

Als je lacht, by Het Gloren (http://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Het_Gloren/Glorie_123/02_als_je_lacht)
Later Fruit, by Axletree (http://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Axletree/Stone_EP/Axletree_-_01_-_Later_Fruits)
Devil with the Devil, by Underscore Orkestra (http://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Underscore_Orkestra/No_Money_No_Honey_All_We_Got_Is_Us/Devil_with_the_Devil)
Your Mother's Daughter, by Chris Zabriskie (https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/Music_from_Neptune_Flux/ChrisZabriskie-MusicfromNeptuneFlux-03)
Creeping Glass, by Axletree feat. Sonja Molina (http://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Axletree/Quoin_EP/Axletree_-_02_-_Creeping_Glass_feat_Sonja_Molina)

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"Harlem Incident" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/the-passion-hifi-spanish-winter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental

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Part 7.2: The Incompatibility of Marx and Derrida

In Part 7.2, we finish the critique of Marxism to annihilate, once and for all, any possible reconciliation of subjective value theory (or subjective meaning theory) with Marx's empirical theory of value, which fails in both economics and in "scientific" analysis of language.

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"Spanish Winter" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/the-passion-hifi-spanish-winter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental "I Close My Eyes" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/free-the-passion-hifi-i-close "Slaughter" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/free-the-passion-hifi-slaughter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental

Also featuring The Bacchanal from Saint-Saens's Samson and Delilah courtesy of Musopen.org and the US AF Band: https://musopen.org/music/500/camille-saint-saens/samson-and-dalilah-op-47-danse-baccanale/

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Part 7.1: The Incompatibility of Marx and Derrida

In Part 7.1, we examine the fundamental failing of Marx's theory of "scientific socialism" laid out in Das Kapital from the critical standpoint of Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk, Ludwig von Mises, Thomas Sowell, and subjective value economics. What we will see is that Deconstruction's stress on the subjectivity of meaning/value cannot be blended with objective-value economics of the Marxian tradition without destroying everything Marx and Engels wrote about "capitalist exploitation," which is, indeed, a myth.

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"Spanish Winter" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/the-passion-hifi-spanish-winter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental "I Close My Eyes" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/free-the-passion-hifi-i-close "Slaughter" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/free-the-passion-hifi-slaughter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental

Also featuring The Bacchanal from Saint-Saens's Samson and Delilah courtesy of Musopen.org and the US AF Band: https://musopen.org/music/500/camille-saint-saens/samson-and-dalilah-op-47-danse-baccanale/

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Part VI: Applied Deconstruction (or, Subjectivity [Sous Rature])

In Part 6, we analyze some lines from Robert Browning's poetic masterpiece, The Ring and the Book. The point here is to demonstrate the manner in which the subjectivity of meaning is locally and temporally bound to the participant in linguistic exchange, and to explore some of the more radical offshoots of Literary Theory. The subjectivity of meaning need not dissolve into unadulterated subjective epistemology, and rationalism remains unfazed by the Deconstructionist method.

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"Spanish Winter" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/the-passion-hifi-spanish-winter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental "I Close My Eyes" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/free-the-passion-hifi-i-close "Slaughter" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/free-the-passion-hifi-slaughter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental

Also featuring The Bacchanal from Saint-Saens's Samson and Delilah courtesy of Musopen.org and the US AF Band: https://musopen.org/music/500/camille-saint-saens/samson-and-dalilah-op-47-danse-baccanale/

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Featured Poems:

Proem, by Publius
In Tempori Belli, by Morgan A. Brown
The Culture of Children, by Troy E. Camplin
The Flight of Western Youth, by A.A. Learmont
The Thrush, by Meister Nereus
The Gourmand: A Farewell Redress (20 January 2017)

Soundtrack (in order of appearance) 1. Dans Sacree - Claude Debussy (https://musopen.org/music/3406/claude-debussy/danse-sacree-et-danse-profane/)

Prelude - Musicks Recreation. Milena Cord-to-Krax (https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Musicks_Recreation_Milena_Cord-to-Krax/Una_Reverencia_a_Bach/Musicks_Recreation_Milena_Cord-to-Krax_-_01_-_Prelude)
Stone Galliard - Axletree (https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Axletree/Stone_EP/Axletree_-_03_-_Stone_Galliard)
O Absalom - Howie Mitchell & Ruth Meyer (https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Howie_Mitchell_Ruth_Meyer/Duets_on_Double_Dulcimer_-_Aug_8_1962/15_O_Absalom)
Celestial Navigation - Blue Dot Sessions (https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Aeronaut/Celestial_Navigaton)
Open Flames - Blue Dot Sessions (https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Aeronaut/Open_Flames)

7.Ailsa's Lullaby - Axletree (https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Axletree/Stone_EP/Axletree_-_02_-_Ailsas_Lullaby)

Broken String - Underscore Orkestra (https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Underscore_Orkestra/No_Money_No_Honey_All_We_Got_Is_Us/Broken_String)

Featuring music by The Passion Hifi (Creative Commons License): *Follow him on Soundcloud, Twitter, and Facebook, and give him great ratings/reviews/likes!!!!****

"Harlem Incident" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/the-passion-hifi-spanish-winter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental

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The Dial: A Magazine for Poetry, Philosophy, and Religion Volume I "Dalliances with False Surmise"

I thought it might be interesting to sketch a foundation of The Dial, both in the original and in the reincarnation currently underway. The Dial of 1840 was a joint-product of libertarians, freethinkers, and transcendentalists looking to forward a unique culture of liberty for an American continent in the age of "Classical Liberalism" (Free Markets, individualism, and rationalism).

Thus, I bring you the Advertisement from the original 1840 edition, shortly followed by the introduction to the rebirth of 2017.

Music from César Franck's Variations Symphoniques: https://musopen.org/music/3495/cesar-franck/variations-symphoniques/

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A Rationalist Critique of Deconstruction

Part 4: Homo Agens, Homo Indolens, and Ecce Homo

In Part 4, we tie up loose ends with Structuralism and point our way towards Derrida through Nietzsche. In doing so, we place our last rose upon the coffin of catholic empiricism, which claims that there is no a priori true information that was not first in the senses.

In Part 5, I show where Orwell's Newspeak Dictionary and Derrida's theory of the "Non" make similar arguments for the destruction and opposition of words and err into semantic nihilism.

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"Spanish Winter" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/the-passion-hifi-spanish-winter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental "I Close My Eyes" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/free-the-passion-hifi-i-close "Slaughter" https://soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou/free-the-passion-hifi-slaughter-boom-bap-beat-instrumental

Also featuring The Bacchanal from Saint-Saens's Samson and Delilah courtesy of Musopen.org and the US AF Band: https://musopen.org/music/500/camille-saint-saens/samson-and-dalilah-op-47-danse-baccanale/

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A Rationalist Critique of Deconstruction (Part 3)

"The Failure of the Difference Principle"

In Part 3, we will analyze and critique the Difference Principle from Structuralism through the mindsets of Rationalism and Deconstruction even further in order to see if there is such a thing as a "transcendental signified"--that is, knowledge structures (a priori logical structure of mind)-- before there is language as the creator of mind and rationality. This is a debate between rationalism and universal empiricism, and it sets the stage for what proceeded in postmodernism and Deconstruction, which resulted in a Poststructuralist environment in the Humanities.

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A Rationalist Critique of Deconstruction (Part 2):

Structuralism's "Event"

In order to understand Deconstruction, one must first understand Structuralism. Structuralism was a rationalist theory of linguistics in 1906-1911 which bypassed traditional grammar (logic-based, a priori grammar) in order to begin from a macrolinguistic premise. Instead of studying the manner in which individuals understand and utilize grammar as rational actors, Ferdinand de Saussure (Structuralism's godfather)set out to take on Language independently of its speakers and hearers (or, writers and readers). Like the macroeconomist, who deals with historical aggregates of the market and its outputs while pretending that the future is bound by the past and that "patterns" are a substitute for microeconomic rationalism and Free Markets, where lump sums and historical exchange relations are treated as constants, Saussure was studying differentiation in Language from the standpoint of analyzing the history of language's bygone uses as if this--more than the active use by individuals utilizing a priori schematics deduced from human action (the Subject-Predicate Standard)--were the key to understanding Language.

In this section, I highlight some of the early failings of Saussure's method, especially in his monetary analogy, which compares language to a medium of exchange (a money). In this, we see where Saussure confused values with prices like the old Classical Economists (Smith, Ricardo, Marx, et. al.). Also, by understanding the principle of binary opposition, we will come to understand how Deconstruction was able to turn the tables upon Saussure's philosophy.

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A Rationalist Critique of Deconstruction (Part 1)

Deconstruction is a theory of language, literature, and literary criticism that became a controversial and popular fad in the American academy (1960-1980). Although of minor importance at the time, Jacques Derrida's philosophy now provides the groundwork for nearly all literary theory and cultural criticism in the American collegiate environment. Even where professors in the Humanities oppose its more extreme applications, the theory itself generally goes without serious criticism, in part due to revulsion regarding its sophistry. Nowadays, the theory stands at the root of campus culture wars, Leftist indoctrination, identity politics, racial disharmony, and socialist propaganda.

The theory's opponents decry it as a "slum of philosophy," and its proponents utilize the theory to spread the message of Cultural Marxism. If we wish to understand not only why the theory succeeded, even despite its controversy, then we must understand exactly what Deconstruction "is." As I will argue, there were elements of the theory that were sound, even though the theory in its entirety is methodologically unsound. In Part I, I will be setting the scene for the rise of Deconstruction, prepping the groundwork for its refutation, and applying the basic tenets of Deconstruction and rationalism to some key principles of philosophy, epistemology, economics, and criticism in order to show where reason and deconstruction coincide and conflict.

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"Thank you, President Obama." --by Jack Perry

This piece was originally published on 8 December, 2016 on LewRockwell.com. Podcasted with the permission of the author. https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/12/jack-perry/barry-miss-already/

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Lies provided by 8 years of incompetency in the White House, which was preceded by 8 years of incompetency in the White House, which was preceded by 8 years of incompetency in the White House...etc.

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The Spirit of Market Anarchy: A Critique of New Atheism's Secular Statism (Parts 7 & 8) w/ Appendix

Part 7: "The New Socratics: Is it the 'Islam' or 'fascism' in Islamo-Fascism that Requires Correction?

In Part 7, we briefly examine the failure of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Naive belief in the benevolence of democracy and democratic governments has led the United States into disaster in a region of the world where "Failed States" are everywhere a relic of a cultural legacy of theocracy, radicalism, religiosity, dictatorships, anti-economic illogic, and imperial overrule from foreign imperators. Why is it that the social engineers fail to apply economic logic to the Middle East as Western governments attempt to "bring democracy" by militarism in a place where functioning markets are barely recognizable? In short: because they do not apply that logic at home. In order to protect property, there must first be respect for property. And in order to establish governments capable of recognizing property rights, there must first be a means of obtaining and trading property above a certain level of scarcity, so as to alleviate the immanence of scarcity and dearth. And in order for there to be a means of rational economic calculation, there must be sound money. Democratic governments try to engineer markets, which means, simply, that Democratic governments utilize anti-economic illogic, codified into a missionary ethic. They hold themselves up as models, yet the model they present is not a model worthy of replication----not yet, anyways. So how will imperial democracies with socialistic disrespect for property rights both at home and abroad, whose unsound currencies are destroying the Middle East, create something that is NOT a reflection of their own values?

They can't, and they won't.

PART 8: "Spontaneous Order: The Hayekian Solution to the Ideological Problem"

So how can liberty flourish? Secular Statists assume, and assume too quickly, that America is free. They wish to destroy the market, destroy market prices, institute welfare, increase taxes, and capture all profits by "closing loopholes." The religious market remains the one challenge to the secular statist's agenda. It is the God Loophole. If, by now, you are still committed to closing the God Loophole, I do not know what to say, except that the preceding segments have failed. Liberty, security, and flourishing can only be achieved by CREATING more loopholes and repealing State expropriations/regulations. The same utopian irrationalists, who advocate anti-economic illogic codified into an ethical system, wish to spread the anti-economic illogic abroad into a universalized religion of statism. This is an intellectual failure, and one that is driven by the recognition that, yes, humans must rearrange Nature in order to make it habitable. So, why wouldn't a grand Plan for order be the natural solution? Economic provides that answer: Diversity secures liberty and plenty, and property rights secure the safety of diversity. And in order for these goods to secure human flourishing, we must accept the proposition that anarchy (the beheading of tyrannical orders) is required in the economic sector. It is not that there is no plan, and that anarchy is chaos. Market Anarchy diversifies the plan. It divides it amongst six billion people, instead of embodying that plan in a small group of oligarchs.

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The Spirit of Market Anarchy: A Critique of New Atheism's Secular Statism

Part VI: “The Axe Laid Unto the Root of Trees”: Market Anarchy as Effective Reform

In Part VI, we take a look at secularism's singular failure: education. It is ironic that secularism's greatest failing should also be its chiefest strength. Atheism spreads by means of books and philosophy in the marketplace, and it generally requires a solid educational framework and a willingness to learn. So why have secularists thrown all of their stock into a failing and incredibly expensive public education system? Just privatize education, push profitable education with a focus upon core grammar, logic, history, and science, and have open discussions in the classroom.

The benefit of privatized education is that one can discriminate against ideas that one does not want in the classroom; or else to allow for free and open discussions without fear of a need for "equal representation" of ideas in the classroom. If atheists and secularists were to join together and put stock in privatized secular education (outside of the tax structure), secularism would spread like wildfire and leave behind the dusty and wasteful platform of public education--which, like most State-engineered programs, was actually introduced by Christian socialists looking to reintroduce religious establishment by the backdoor. It was never true that public education was a platform that could efficiently push education and pedagogy with any kind of reliability and effectiveness compared to privatized education.

But in order to do that, we must first divorce education from the State and push for a tax-free education market.

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Snoozing on Sam Harris (Episode 01)

"Trump is Uniquely Fit for an Unfit Presidency"

A cure-all to post-depression narrative spinning, shoddy recaps, and romantic fables. Trump bought the presidency. Hillary was an incorrigible candidate and a war criminal who was responsible for almost everything that moral humans deplore. And the rest, they say, is history.

Or is it?

Put that snooze on pause...give us a listen...and then put this election behind you. We have four more years of this, and hopefully Hillary is a bygone nightmare.

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The Spirit of Market Anarchy: A Critique of New Atheism's Secular Statism (Part 5)

"Trading out Theism for Statism"

In Part 5, we take a look at the legacy of the 20th Century's "Progress" towards erecting all-powerful states in the pattern of the medieval Church's social architecture. The 20th Century will likely go down in history (if the 21st Century finally sees the end of that era, and not its continuation) as the century of Socialism. And we will reflect upon the popular spread of the destructionist mindset and wonder how secular societies could have managed to outstrip the barbarities of the medieval world in the socialist wars throughout the globe to erect something worse--the divinely-appointed State.

In this section, we will discuss the intellectual trends that assisted the development of the Secular Welfare State, or, the Secular Church, through the spread of socialism and the drive for international secular humanism.

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The Spirit of Market Anarchy: A Critique of New Atheism's Secular Statism (Part 4)

"Pick Your Poison: Religion or the State?"

In Part 4 of The Spirit of Market Anarchy, we evaluate the shortsighted goals of the secular statists like Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Annie Laurie Gaylor, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation in their advocacy for plans to "TAX THE CHURCH." This is, in its outline, perhaps the worst idea that atheists could espouse, since religious freedom, as shown in Part 3, is tax rebellion and the result of laissez-faire, and not just a superficial "feeling" of metaphysical freedom. The big government New Atheists get drawn into the trap of this horrendous idea because they advocate the "pay your fair share" principle of Welfare Statism, and thus have abandoned logic, economic calculation, and denotations of freedom.

As I argue, there is nothing better calculated to create religious strife and religious intrusion into government than any plan to tax the church. The more that government gets into religion, the more that religion gets into government. It's the natural byproduct of taxation/representation. Those who are taxed get represented.

Once again, atheism and religious freedom are best served by INCREASES in economic freedom and the diminution of taxes, not in decreases in economic freedom.

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The Spirit of Market Anarchy: A Critique of New Atheism's Secular Statism (Part 3.2)

The "Secular Origins" Myth vs. Laissez-Faire (continued)

In the conclusion to Part III, we recap the 1790 Hamilton Assumption Plan, the public bond scheme (the American Rothschild Formula), and the history of disestablishment in America over two centuries of constitutional dispute.

What we will discover is that laissez-faire is the principle of liberty of conscience that secured religious freedom. In particular, religious liberty in America was always tied to an anti-tax and anti-state ideology that was more libertarian in character than it was either constitutionalist or progressive. it was not a governmental principle of secularism that freed the American people from church establishment.

Herein we will cover the major supreme court cases, the changes in state constitutions, the conflicts of culture, and the institutional changes in American Christianity, which impacted the development and implementation of the First Amendment over time.

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The Spirit of Market Anarchy: A Critique of New Atheism's Secular Statism (Part 3.1)

The "Secular Origins" Myth vs. Laissez-Faire

In Part 3, I take on the idea that the United States Constitution was an agent of "secularism" or of religious freedom and the disestablishment of churches throughout the United States. Not only is this idea ahistorical and incorrect, it is also an ethical doctrine of secular statism that serves the statist religion with an article of faith. Taking away that article of faith and getting to the root of the Constitution's ratification troubles much of the Progressive mindset.

In Part 3, therefore, I provide an austrolibertarian class-conflict view of the historical milieu in which the Constitution was ratified, in which the Articles of Confederation was overthrown by a secret cabal, and in which northeastern states sought to socialize their Revolutionary War debts by inviting slaveholding states into the pool of collected taxes--under a new Federal tax machine--in order to lessen their own self-inflicted inflationary nightmare by preying upon the economic power of the southern slave plantations and conceding principles of liberty and freedom in order to reach that compromise over slavery and disestablishment. The Southern slaveholding states were notably absent of established churches, while the most indebted states--Massachusetts and Connecticut--who maintained powerful established churches and objected to slavery on principle, were willing to sacrifice individual rights for the maintenance of the establishment's status quo.

In preparing a praxeological sketch of the era, I delve into an analysis of how the United States Constitution was ratified to serve government debt speculators at the cost of anti-state and pro-limited-government individualists (Anti-Federalists), and how the American State rose out of the Rothschild Formula. Far from being a libertarian document, the Constitution was explicitly a centralizing document that overthrew the more libertarian-minded Articles of Confederation.

This is historical revisionism at its best and most subversive.

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The Spirit of Market Anarchy: A Critique of New Atheism's Secular Statism (Part II)

In the conclusion to Part II of our investigation into the American separation of church and state through the progress of market secularism, we endeavor to outline Parts IV and V of the ensuing argument. The outline is necessary, since in Part III of our argument we will be taking head-on a complex analysis of the social and economic conditions of the monetary crisis in the 1770s and 1780s, which resulted in the ratification of the Constitution and passage of the Bill of Rights to appease the southern states. The central thesis of that chapter is to show the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause in its true light, since how religious freedom is preserved is certainly in the long-run interests of America's atheist population. In order to be able to grasp the conflicts of that time, which were political, economic, and cultural, we must first cleanse the palate of contemporary political discourse and prepare the mind for a wertfrei analysis of economic reality.

So in this conclusion to Part II, we will enter into the political realm in order to canvas a true picture of the economico-politico establishment in order to highlight how that establishment has co-opted previous drives for religious establishment in the construction of a Welfare State.

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Part II: The Scope of the Argument, and Why it Matters

In Part II, we outline the trajectory of the argument that I lay out in our 8-Part series, and pinpoint the origin of cultural squabbles in religion that have spilled over into public policy throughout the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Progressive Income Taxation--the enabling of the second plank of the Communist Manifesto.

The 16th Amendment is one of the most disastrous developments in American cultural life, and it is the agent by which religious intrusion into public life has been and remains a governmental problem for those of a secular temper. The 16th Amendment stands at the root of nearly every inroad into violations of the First Amendment that exists, and is the primary form of violence in American society today.

In outlining this argument, I engage in a critique of Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins--the former in his assertion that the argument that "taxation is theft" is an economic cartoon, and the latter in his contention that America was "founded in secularism." Neither of these arguments can be defended consistently on a theoretical, historical, or economical level. These arguments are religious in nature, and are not coordinated to anything approaching reality.

The bulk of this episode is dedicated to the "taxation is theft" argument, which is an argument that one must understand in order to comprehend future chapters, and in particular the historico-economic arguments of future episodes.

So, be prepared to open your mind, test your ethical precepts, put your patriotism to the test, and to think dangerously.

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In Part 1.2 of The Spirit of Market Anarchy which concludes the Preface to the series, we finish our preliminary definitions and considerations that will be of importance in this 8-part series about religious freedom and the logical and historical errors of the New Atheists (Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens) in their critiques of American religion. We will lay out some of the economic basics that will be required for understanding exactly why atheism allied with socialism is a great stain upon freethinking in general, and how that alliance (inherited primarily from Bertrand Russell and Christopher Hitchens--two Marxist atheists) introduced elements of statism into antitheism and New Atheism that are inimical to individual freedom. Many atheists of the present generation, in the quest to free themselves of religious errors, have also been programmed by typically Marxist thinking into an acceptance of some basic Marxian errors. Here we focus heavily upon the tenor of error that became entrenched in mainstream atheist thought due to the heavy influence of Bertrand Russell upon American disbelief.

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An analysis of the coarsening of journalistic culture and the resurgence of the yellow press, which was quite pronounced of late in the recent Donald Trump "sexual assault" allegations. I delve into the cases, particularly with regard to the lack of journalistic integrity in vetting the sources and in presenting the information in a consistent and skeptical way. Be prepared to question what is being presented in the most concerted smear campaign of any election in the past century (going well beyond what was done to Barry Goldwater in '64). The Yellow Press is back, my friends. We must always guard ourselves against its constant attack upon objectivity, fairness, and skepticism, no matter who it arrays itself against and no matter the cause that it espouses. Disinformation is the enemy of liberty, culture, and anarchy.

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In Part 1.1 of The Spirit of Market Anarchy, we begin with some preliminary definitions and considerations that will be of importance in this 8-part series about religious freedom and the logical and historical errors of the New Atheists (Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens) in their critiques of American religion. We will lay out some of the economic basics that will be required for understanding exactly why atheism allied with socialism is a great stain upon freethinking in general, and how that alliance (inherited primarily from Bertrand Russell and Christopher Hitchens--two Marxist atheists) introduced elements of statism into antitheism and New Atheism that are inimical to individual freedom. Many atheists of the present generation, in the quest to free themselves of religious errors, have also been programmed by typically Marxist thinking into an acceptance of some basic Marxian errors.

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This week we continue our plea for peace with the resumption of Haydn's Missa in Tempori Belli and the historical groundwork for Stephen Crane's collection of poems entitled War Is Kind. This podcast will cover the lost legacy of American non-interventionism at the outset of the Spanish-American War, and a notable history of conspiracies surrounding the sinking of ships that dates from the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898 up to the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, which set off the Vietnam War. We finish the podcast with an analysis of the sinking of the Lusitania, a run-in between Mark Twain and Winston Churchill, and Crane's "A Man Adrift on a Slim Spar" to a piano rendition of Frank Bridge's 1915 Lament (for Catherine aged 9 "Lusitania" 1915)

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End the War! Join us for our series of anti-war poetry readings, which we will continue until the November elections. Featured this week: Franz Joseph Haydn's Missa in Tempori Belli and the poetry of Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves. From Owen: Strange Meeting, Dulce et Decorum Est, Apologia Pro Poemate Meo, and Soldier's Dream. From Graves: Goliath and David, It's a Queer Time, To Lucasta on Going to War-- for the Fourth Time, and Country at War Containing short biographical blurbs/commentary with Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor.

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The Manifesto of the Culture & Anarchy Podcast. Working from the basic premise of Matthew Arnold's Victorian treatise on culture, Culture and Anarchy, we draw out some basic libertarian principles that will guide us through future podcasts.

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A critical analysis of the controversies surrounding Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign in its early days. This discussion centers around a transcription error propagated by every major news outlet, and the manner in which a single homophone "They're/Their" sparked the outrage of the Left and struck the first blow against the monstrous regiment of political correctness in Trump's presidential announcement speech: "They're / Their rapists."

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