Understanding modernity through the lens of changing religiosity rather than secularization has been a helpful shift in my thinking. In fact, it's becoming harder for me to imagine a truly secular mindset, as if anyone can actually set aside or move "beyond" the elements of their personality that make man inherently religious. Thanks for another helpful overview. You're introducing me to connections between authors that are not frequently talked about. Very valuable videos.

@SageStudiesGunnarFooth

Ай бұрын

I agree. I think man religisizes, but the object of that religiosity changes.

@peterg418

24 күн бұрын

I take secular to mean not governing according to revelation or holy books, meaning keeping religion out of public institutions. Instead, it seems to me as traditional religious beliefs and affiliations wane, the term religion is now being applied more loosely. As if the mere existence of faith in anything or holding something in the highest regard qualifies someone as religious. To say, sure, you don’t believe in miracles or an afterlife or a superintending deity, but you’re still religious is a stretch. I don’t buy the idea that just because we have been religious throughout history that we are inherently religious. Seems motivated reasoning, a way to save face. What am I missing?

When i was a child, i rarley ever heard the old folks talk about frivolous wants and desires for themselves. They always seemed to have obligations that went beyond themselves. Modernity is the plague of the individual. There is no history of the past for the individual without a personal interpretation of it, there is no present for the individual without the furnishing of immediate wants and desires, and there is no future for the individual as it has only present motivations to furnish future wants and desires for itself. The individual is the most powerful force on the face of the planet, yet that power is meaningless when it is used solely for self-aggrandizement and pleasure as prescribed by the post modern individualist teachings. The modernist sees nothing more than the present and their own view of it as the most important point in human history.

@dobertjowneyrunior3023

Ай бұрын

Well said

@thegrunbeld6876

Ай бұрын

Post-Modernists such as Derrida actually were very critical of '"modernity" and seeks to "diagnose" how humans actualize themselves in the modern world. There is a reason why it's called "Post"-modern.

@1lonecanadian

Ай бұрын

@@thegrunbeld6876 I think it might be more accurate to say the post-modern types wanted people to self-actualize. This isolates the individual from the shared reality to encourage them to branch out and create their own version of reality. The ultimate expression of such a philosophy is to have a middle class person with purple hair who has cut off their junk to change their gender, dressed themselves as a dog, and goes to a march to shout death to capitalism while sipping on a Starbucks latte and taking a selfie with the latest iPhone.

Not sure if we can add him to the list, but I like the view of Viktor Frankl in Man's Search for Meaning. Paraphrasing Nietzsche, his thesis is 'if you can find your why, you figure out a how.' With the growing alienation that has come with modernity, crisis of meaning can be tied. Always love your insight

MM is crystal clear, as always

Not a certified hood classic like the Evola videos but prescient and timely as always Michael. Greatly appreciate your work and perspective.

Thanks again Michael! It would've been nice to throw Guenon on as well.

10:25 Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, key figure in the Conservative Revolution. Would be interesting to hear more about the more obscure people in this movement.

The drive of modernity, this elusive force to live a life of comfort and ease is an ancient one, and I'll call it the spirit of Babylon. Even further than that ancient centre, in the story of the Tower of Babel, where the drive to unify and centralize all human behavior, ended up in complete discord, when somehow one common language became completely undone, where the meaning of words changed and no one could understand each other. Reminds me of today's protests by the "Woke".

clear and righteous as always.

Мой русский друг, интересующийся философией, недавно скинул мне ссылку на ваше недавнее видео со словами, дескать, наконец-то кто-то смог внятно и последовательно объяснить ему, кто такой Дугин и в чем заключаются его идеи. Удивительно, что для этого ему пришлось послушать серию подкастов на английском от канадского исследователя) Очевидно, это свидетельствует о ваших выдающихся преподавательских способностях. Со своей стороны, я бы хотел поблагодарить вас за подкасты о Штраусе, они были очень полезны. На русском очень мало материалов о философии Штрауса и помимо Прокопенко, написавшего подробное предисловие об интерпретации Штраусом Платона, Аристотеля и Фукидида (предисловие к "Городу и человеку") читать особо нечего. Спасибо, Майкл. Надеюсь вы - в числе прочего - продолжите рассказывать о Штраусе и его идеях.

Thank you Michael! What a wonderful overview! It packs a powerful punch in a concise 12mins! I really hope that someday I can afford to attend your School!!😊👍

Love ❤️ your work brother!

👏🏼that was really good!

David Hume showed you can’t argue from an is to an ought. All the thinkers you discuss say society must have a political “ought” and that the “ought” is the primary issue. We face the breakdown of capitalism on its own contradictions with war (makes their rivals pay), austerity (make workers pay) and dictatorship (crush the threat of revolution). The sharpest contradiction is the division of the world into competing nation-states and the determination of US capital to maintain its hegemony over the world economy. All those political philosophers discussed her have nothing directly to say about this “is” because they the assume thought is primary. Heidegger’s frustrated collaboration with the Nazis show they aren’t above the crisis and their ideas express the needs of capitalism. Heidegger’s search for an “ought” led him to tell Der Spiegel in 1966 that “only a god can save us”. It never led him to have any regrets about his collaboration with the Nazis, quite the opposite as he said in the same interview "... I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inextricable and inescapable destiny, but I see the task of thought precisely in this, that within its own limits it helps man as such achieve a satisfactory relationship to the essence of technicity. National Socialism did indeed go in this direction. Those people, however, were far too poorly equipped for thought to arrive at a really explicit relationship to what is happening today and has been underway for the past 300 years." Recommended: "Only a God Can Save Us" | Martin Heidegger & Nazism kzread.info/dash/bejne/kYh5p6yeqb20kbA.html

Masterful though brief overview. Was it Carl Schmitt who said that all political questions ultimately boil down to theological questions? I think that the Gillespie book is the most profound in exploring the theological metaphysical origins of the crisis of modernity, but the specifically Catholic literature on the theology of history offers vast insights into the spiritual roots of the crisis because it includes what some of your authors tend to overlook, the principalities and powers that impact powerfully on human affairs. And then there is Voegelin of course.

I wonder whether you will write a BOOK on this topic?????

what is modernity~ it's microplastics in the clouds!

@mandys1505

Ай бұрын

plastic rain 🤔

@roachboy8583

Ай бұрын

5G in the pigeons.

@christophilous4831

Ай бұрын

microplastics in the balls

@OrwellsHousecat

Ай бұрын

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@SlickDissident

Ай бұрын

Oppenheimer film is an ode to Aristophanes' The Clouds. Note: the Asses pointed towards Nuke ritual is The Thinkery's exhaultation of "Vortex".

Michael, acabo de ver e ouvi-lo sobre a crise da modernidade. Esta catastrofe nos vem acompanhando ha decadas e cada vez com maior gravidade. Admiro sua ousadia na critica a ela por seu abandono dos grandes valores e virtudes do mundo classico antigo, tendo em vista a forte oposicao do pensamento de esquerda em manter um patrulhamento sobre qualquer visao que nao seja em identificar a crise senao no capitalismo. Enfatisar como voce faz, recorrendo a Leo Strauss, Heidegger e Dugan (de quem nunca ouvi falar, mas vou pesquizar), filosofos ou pensadores negados pelo pensamento de esquerda e apontar na religiosidade ao inves da secularizacao um caminho de restauracao... me leva por associacao a Simone Weil... Tenho acompanhado uma serie dos mais variado videos sobre ela. Pergunto-me pois se o interesse que vem despertando nao corresponde ao mesmo levantado por voce? --- Acharia bem oportuno que voce considerasse essa discussao...

Hi Michael, do you know where can I buy Dugin's books in UK?

@millerman

10 күн бұрын

No, sorry. You can try the publisher Arktos.

I believe you can think of modernity as the epistemological crisis. The rise of science persuaded people that the scientific method was the only way to certainty. But beginning with Descartes, philosophers began to show that certain fundamental questions couldn’t be answered that way. So, unwilling to return to the philosophy of the past and lacking another approach, the Western world has been plunged into uncertainty ever since.

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In my view, the Crisis of modernity is the evolutionary unfoldment of the glorification of the individual. This has led both to vertical alienation (from the Soul or Self) and horizontal anomie (from Social bonds and relations of society). Man has crucified himself on the cross of matter only to be resurrected in a new form. For one, I don't see us going back to tradition but building a new society on well defined individual rights and internalized social responsibilities.

I don't remember which Pope said it but he said Modernity is the synthesis of all heresies.

@Ivan-ln3wh

Ай бұрын

It was Pope Pius X. He wrote a great encyclical titled Pascendi Dominici Gregis. It's a short read, and I highly recommend it to anyone reading this comment 👍

@matthewgaulke8094

Ай бұрын

@@Ivan-ln3wh thank you for providing that information.

to answer your question...it's about power....the crisis of Modernity and the reaction to it...there is definitely a power grab part to it

Crisis in everthing yep its all manufactured chaos

@JonathanSigwart

Ай бұрын

It's all manufactured crisis

its really funny how you always try to insert strauss into the line plato to heigegger. he is not an instigator or someone who sets am agenda, but just an explainer (even a chosen one)...

@millerman

Ай бұрын

I don't "try to insert him." I learned so much from him and I try to give him the prominent place at the table that he deserves and that reflects my understanding of the basic issues. If you want more information about how I understand Strauss in relation to Heidegger and Dugin, as well as some other thinkers, you can look up my dissertation/book called Beginning with Heidegger (HeideggerBook.com). I doubt I'd teach at all if it wasn't for Strauss, who I regard as the Gold Standard teacher. I mention him because he's important, insightful, and wise. Cheers, thanks for watching and commenting.

Michael, I love your question, Is the West in postmodernity crisis, definitely yes and the world also in postmodernity crisis

Comfort... Degeneration of human character...

You forget Nietzsche, bud!

@millerman

Ай бұрын

im1776.com/2023/09/07/on-nietzsche/

Bit vague …

@millerman

Ай бұрын

It's an overview mate. You also have to put some effort into getting something out of it...if you want way more detail, substance, and specifity, go study those authors as your next step, or you can take a course at MillermanSchool.com. thanks for watching

There's a crisis alright...WW3 incoming.

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