Events, Negative Surprises, and Meaning

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This week on 1Dime Radio, I’m joined by Dr. Cadell Last, creator of Philosophy Portal, to unpack what feels like a shifting “world spirit” in politics and culture. We dig into the collapse of New Atheism, the move from reason to “spirit,” why Jordan Peterson landed when he did, and how religion and politics are re-emerging as answers to a modern crisis of meaning. Along the way we talk Marx, “events” like 9/11 that fracture shared narratives, and why capitalism keeps generating contradictions it cannot metabolize.

In the Backroom (Patreon exclusive), we go further into the global right-wing shift, the return of suppressed contradictions liberals and leftists avoid, and figures like Nick Fuentes for Part 2. In Part 3 (also on Patreon only), we then discuss the idea of “Nationalist Internationalism,” arguing that genuine international cooperation requires strong sovereign nations first, and that real internationalism has to pass through nationalism rather than cosmopolitan globalism.

Timestamps:

00:00:00  Nationalist Internationalism (The Backroom Preview)

00:04:01  The Conservative Zeitgeist

00:08:55  New Atheism's Rise and Fall

00:11:20  Jordan Peterson vs Sam Harris and the religion comeback

00:15:23  Why Marx's critique of religion is wrong

00:26:18  “Events” and the collapse of shared narratives

00:33:02  9/11, New Age mysticism, and the hunger for meaning

00:38:37  The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

00:43:43  Badiou: truth procedures and politics-as-religion

01:08:29  Religion vs science, the knowledge problem

01:20:22  God, Religion, and ideology

01:45:08  Backroom preview (Patreon): global right shift, Nick Fuentes, nationalist internationalism

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