The General Eclectic #3.2 "The Disintegration Machine"

Jan 20, 2023

Rod and Kale record a conversation about the prophetic vision of Lewis' That Hideous Strength as a way into the notion of the Experience Machine, and the allure of the blue-pill versus the red-pill. See the links below for all the titles they discuss.

 

Connecting Lewis with Iain McGhilchrist, they jump off into a discussion about Left Hemispheric bias and the turn towards madness in modernity.

 

The stakes are high; no higher than humanity and the forces that would blithely take us into the post-human.

 

Topics (in order) with links (affiliated):

 

- That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3kjKKRk

- The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist: https://amzn.to/3XG0yMB

- The Matter With Things by Iain McGilchrist: https://amzn.to/3kv0LEf

- Hartmut Rosa on Resonance: https://amzn.to/3J1pBpE

- Rod on the Experience Machine: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/robert-nozicks-experience-machine/

- Rod on Young Christian and Eager to Escape: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/young-christian-and-eager-to-escape/ 

- Churchill: "we build our buildings, and they in turn build us"

- Homo Deus and the prophets of post-humanity

- the idea of embodied reality in Crawford's Soulcraft book: https://amzn.to/3ZQupUw

- The World Beyond Your Head: https://amzn.to/3XpImHm

- The Disintegration Machine vs. the Experience Machine

- Hierophany at Chartres

- Paul Connerton's How Societies Remember: https://amzn.to/3ku3o9m

- Is our "holy story" really profane?