The General Eclectic with Rod Dreher #2.17 "Our Metaphysical Catastrophe and the Darkness Underneath."

Nov 9, 2022

 

 

Rod and Kale kick off their weekly show with a discussion about the darkness hovering just below the surface. FBI chaplains, covering abuse, the compelling nature of the trans narrative and cultural boredom.

 

We move on to discuss Hanby's Metaphysical Catastrophe and the need for real authority.

 

-conversations with an FBI Chaplain and the darkness under the surface

-the evil you fight works on you; you are changed by what you fight

-the compelling nature of the trans narrative

-power of sexuality outside of norms

-affluence and boredom, and the preconditions for cultural collapse

-The Beautiful Ones

-Hartmut Rosa's Resonance, and the limitations of the material

-need to Struggle and the First Man and the Underground man

-Need for norms and the creation of idiots

-the limits of conservative legalism

-Hanby's Metaphysical Catastrophe and the lack of Authority

-McGilchrist's Left Hemisphere temptation

-Shigilov's plan

-Matthieu Pageau and the Language of Creation

-Hopkin's Grandeur of God and Hiedegger's Standing Reserve

-Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: the balance of power and meaning

-We must contend with the fact that our world is not Christian

-the law absent spirit is tyranny; the Grand Inquisitor

-are we all just LARPing?

-Avatar Politics and senate races

-Megyn Kelly and Trump's position of primacy

-Statesmanship

-Synod on Synodality extension and a defacto Vatican III

-"good guys" and "bad guys"

-Peter and Paul's listening tours