REDACTED Culture Cast

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Dec 1, 2023 • 30min

163: Broad vs Narrow Culture War

Talk Back to MeIf war is simply conflict between Governments or states, and the use of armies targets the politcal, which economic warfare attacks a people's market or access to resources, what would it look like for a hostile country to use culture as an attack vector in a warlike fashion? Define it too broadly and innocent people will suffer as they get swept up alongside insurgents, producing a breeding ground for more conflict. Define it too narrowly, however, and insurgencies will be left to roam free under the guise of humanitarian aid or religious organizations. Much of American culture lives in contradiction. It wants it's government to stay out of their business, except when it comes to supporting it. It's okay with government meddling, so long as it's bothering someone else. And anarchy provides no alternative. In this episode we revisit Politics, Economics, and Culture as three different attack vectors between peoples, and take a look at pitfalls to avoid when scrying culture as a potential attack vector. Support the REDACTED Culture Cast at redactedculture.locals.comSSP and boutique products at redactedllc.comFollow us on Instagram at @redactedllc
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Nov 29, 2023 • 2h 22min

162: Brent aka One One Bravo on Volunteering Time, Community in Demonstration

Talk Back to MePutting community building into practice, Brent built a community through volunteering his time and experience to put on events for those who wanted to attend. Instead the basic Pistol and Rifle classes, they went well beyond including shooting from and around vehicles, to a version of a foreign weapons day. An antidote to the pessimism that hangs over Gun Culture, this conversation demonstrates that not only can we visualize what we want to see, but put it to action. AS two veterans, we address differences and similarities between out similar timeframe in the military. From TBI, to leading a platoon versus teaching in the civilian world. Until recently, Civilian training looked like leveled courses, but we're seeing that shift. Enjoy the Episode as we engage with both sides of Gun Culture, engage in the subject of training, and building a vision for the future. Brent can be found on Instagram at: @brent.bb.beyondHis business: @oneonebravollcAnd Beyond. Support the REDACTED Culture Cast at redactedculture.locals.comSSP and boutique products at redactedllc.comFollow us on Instagram at @redactedllc
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Nov 27, 2023 • 44min

161: Politics, Economics, and Culture

Talk Back to MeThree methods of approach, three subject that produce the context for our lives. We take a look at three different subjects: Politics, Economics, and Culture to consider what we are working with when it comes to either side of the Is-Ought divide. Politics deals with governing systems, whereas economics deals with markets, but how to people formulate how these systems should function is a different question entirely. Correction in the description: Hume's Fork refers to the difference between A-Priori and A-Posteori Information. More on that Later. Closing Music: "Make It Right" by The Toxic AvengerSupport the REDACTED Culture Cast at redactedculture.locals.comSSP and boutique products at redactedllc.comFollow us on Instagram at @redactedllc
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Nov 22, 2023 • 2h 19min

160: Early Thanksgiving with Paigeosity - Cultural Momentum

Talk Back to MeNow that the holidays have breached your calendar with a flash bang and a flame-thrower, we've got Paigeosity back on the show to talk about cultural momentum. Don't forget to steamroll your family members when it comes to Gun Culture while eating the meatbird. For all the bluster Gun Culture blows about being elite, or an elitist, or an expert, it rarely takes the time to adequately consider what it is that makes someone truly an expert at something like CQB. The military is, contrary to their role in society, mostly concerned with looking good for a certain political class of officer. The Individual citizen, however, might bring a new wave of cultural momentum to the fight. Here we are. Sit back and enjoy with PaigeosityFollow Paige in Instagram at @paigeosity Find her work at shop.paigeosity.comSupport the REDACTED Culture Cast at redactedculture.locals.comSSP and boutique products at redactedllc.comFollow us on Instagram at @redactedllc
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Nov 20, 2023 • 38min

159: The False Idol of Dichotomy

Talk Back to MeThose who encounter violence and war will be tempted to see themselves a combination of the light and the darkness in this world. Various forms of religious iconography, as well as cultural keystones mimic this concept as if a person can be servant to two masters, wrestling between them. But the source of light has no equal. The concept of dichotomy as a form of identification becomes an idol, steeped deeply in one's worldview.Support the REDACTED Culture Cast at redactedculture.locals.comSSP and boutique products at redactedllc.comFollow us on Instagram at @redactedllc
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Nov 17, 2023 • 41min

158: War Takes Place in the Fringes

Talk Back to MeIn the mind of Clausewitz wars had a beginning and and end, or at least they should. But when we look at the ways peoples have waged war against each other, the timelines more often reveal a long fringe on either end of the conflict. These blurry edges may manifest on a timeline, as well as in the use of irregulars to wage unlimited warfare. In today's culture war, as it is described, the fighters are not only non-state actors, but informants, ideologues, and activists who utilize insurgent-like activity to sow disruption in a population. With the globalization of media and the internet, we in the west are starting to see this happen more and more. The question remains: what do we do about it?Support the REDACTED Culture Cast at redactedculture.locals.comSSP and boutique products at redactedllc.comFollow us on Instagram at @redactedllc
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Nov 16, 2023 • 13min

157: Regular Israel vs Irregular Palestine

Talk Back to MeAs the Levant once again gathers the attention of the world, we have an opportunity to learn about not only how wars are fought, but how those similarities are repeated the world over. Israel, being considered a nation-state, is expected to engage in regular warfare, against an opponent not held to the same standard in political discourse. The importance of this war remains immensely personal to some, but to all, it serves as a model by which to understand one form of asymmetrical warfare. And when we look into the history of war, it's not as unusual as the media portrays. Whether we look at how Special Operations engage in war, or at the history of American warfare, we find similar examples of irregular warfare as a means to an end. Support the REDACTED Culture Cast at redactedculture.locals.comSSP and boutique products at redactedllc.comFollow us on Instagram at @redactedllc
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Nov 15, 2023 • 28min

156: The Myth of the Free Thinker

Talk Back to MeIt can be quite funny to watch fools opine grandly about how they are, themselves, a free thinker, without a single consideration for what that means other than a cookie-cutter-counter-culture to the presumed status quo. The phrase has rotated through the decades, including free-thinker, critical thinker, independent thinker, or someone who thinks for themselves as an intellectual version of the virtue signal. Let's take a look into what it means to honestly think for yourself. Enjoy!Support the REDACTED Culture Cast at redactedculture.locals.comSSP and boutique products at redactedllc.comFollow us on Instagram at @redactedllc
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Nov 8, 2023 • 2h 7min

155: Marcus Singletary and Luke Brown

Talk Back to MeTwo guests join the show today, both with former appearances on the REDACTED Culture Cast, and both with a strong take on the grime and grit of both this culture and the industry. At the table, we have three voices: an Active Duty Soldier, a Veteran, and a Citizen. And in good faith, we bring more than more complaints to your table. - The difference between the Culture and the Industry. - What their differing goals are or should be. - Community Building, in a Tangible Environment. - Gun Culture Eat's it Own. LIKE, Subscribe, and Share. No Community Grows in Isolation. Follow Marcus on Instagram: @skypirate_actual and at @cloakedentrycoFor Courses: cloakedentryco.comFollow Luke Brown on Instagram at : @southpawlukeSupport the REDACTED Culture Cast at redactedculture.locals.comSSP and boutique products at redactedllc.comFollow us on Instagram at @redactedllc
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Nov 7, 2023 • 35min

154: All War is Holy War, All War is Religious

Talk Back to MeThe argument is made, time and time again, that if we could just get rid of religion, we would be able to end all wars. Yet that belief requires a willing ignorance to what religion is and how, at the core of each and every philosophy, is a fundamentally religious idea. The idea that we could eliminate war from taking place wherever there are men reveals more about the person who believes it, than about the world as it is. Clausewitz described War as politics by another means, or at least poor translations of "On War" suggest that. Mao and Lenin viewed war as a part of Culture, or at least the way they waged their campaigns certainly implied so. And then there's the question of economics, that if we could solve the problem of scarcity in the world, we would end all reason for men to go to war with one another. Each of these theories portrays different metaphysical ideas, different worldviews. And how we think of them in relation to war affects how we believe we ought fight one. Support the REDACTED Culture Cast at redactedculture.locals.comSSP and boutique products at redactedllc.comFollow us on Instagram at @redactedllc

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