Some thoughts about Albion’s Seed [https://amzn.to/3yJb0t8] for the Fourth of
July, and why this incredibly fractious group of (by modern standards)
patriarchal authoritarian illiberals all got together to design a system of
government with freedom of speech, religious toleration, due process, separation
of powers, etc.

Also why, if they could see our current situation, they would be grossed out,
but would not be remotely “blackpilled”, and if you explained the meaning of
that word to them would laugh at you and tell you to nut up.

#2: The Frontier Was Always Closed (To You)

I’ve been chewing on five or six different essays for the last several months,
and they’ve never come out quite right, and I’ve realized that they’re all
aiming in roughly the same direction.

Progressives and Nietzschean/post-Christian rightists understand the message of
Jesus in roughly the same way — both view the gospel of Jesus Christ as a
radical abolition of human hierarchy — they just disagree about whether that’s a
good thing.

It’s completely at odds with everything I believe about who he was and what he
taught, but it is an easy conclusion to draw from the four or five verses that
ordinary people have memorized.

And however facile and incoherent it may be, this understanding of what Christ
was Really All About clearly has broad social currency, which is why Christendom
has been absolutely helpless in the face of progressivism for the last century
or more. Most casual Christians are already progressives, they just don’t know
it yet — so when it is introduced to them explicitly, the transition is
completely natural, almost automatic.

So this episode is just an initial attack on that problem. I’ve never done a
solo podcast before, so it’s a stream of consciousness, but I wasn’t having much
success writing all this stuff down, and I needed to get it out of my head.

#1: The Lord Jesus

The unnaturally preserved podcast of Dr. John Cook Bennett

Bennett's Phylactery