Paul VanderKlay's Podcast From Leaving Education through Embracing Formation to Bitcoin Monastery Villages
Sep 29, 2025
In this fascinating discussion, thinkers Jordan Hall and Annie Crawford bring unique insights into the intersection of education, culture, and spirituality. Hall presents compelling arguments on education as a battleground in cultural warfare, emphasizing the shift to fifth-generation warfare targeting our sensemaking. Crawford defines true education as soul formation, insisting it's essential for discipleship. Together, they explore the failure of public schooling to nurture souls and envision grassroots alternatives, including community-based approaches and a monastic digital future.
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Education As A Strategic Battlefield
- Education is a central move in cultural warfare because it shapes the soul and communal orientation.
- Jordan Hall argues education cultivates whole humans who can discern callings and resist hostile epistemic attacks.
From Kinetic War To Cognitive War
- Warfare has evolved from kinetic to propaganda to personalized cognitive attacks that dissolve shared reality.
- Fifth-generation warfare targets identities, epistemology, and networks rather than just territory.
State And Market Can't Own Education
- Jordan Hall claims neither the state nor the market can legitimately steward education's core purpose.
- He locates education historically in the commons, then the sacred, and ultimately reality ordered around God.
