578 – Topics

00:03 Sum total: cultural war, framed by culture, fundamental consensus, culture first – politics and economics second, what is culture, sum total of human activity, art-literature-music-religion, the organic whole, ideal of freedom and individual rights, organic cultural evolution, monarchy, British and American history, dynamics of culture, politics and economics, moral philosophy, America as a national anomaly, geographic advantage, Adam Smith and the flow of history

21:55 Supreme culture clash: nomination and swearing in of Brett Kavanaugh, civility and uncivil behavior, who’s winning the cultural war, intense uncivilized reaction to Kavanaugh, presumption of innocence, Christine Blasey Ford, what America exemplifies, individualism within the collective, Karl Marx, post-modern culture, America under siege within, Democratic Party as the party of tribalism, Columbus Day, indigenous culture war, nation within nation, hierarchy of culture and politics – which came first, Constitution as definition of America

39:20 Water into wine: Kavanaugh not the issue, excess of reaction was inevitable, Constitution and branches of government, Democrats on losing streak – lost House in 2010 – lost Senate in 2014 – lost Presidency in 2016 – lost Supreme Court in 2018, tactics of the Left, Karl Marx’s class struggle, collectivist nature of the Left, the Right and individualism, Trump as symbol of individualism, borderless ideology, national values

48:50 Bordered by ideology: Steven Harper’s somewheres and anywheres, nation state vs global community, sovereignty of the nation state, setting national boundaries, open borders and globalism, changing attitudes towards immigration, immigrating for welfare, sustaining populations, population fertility rate and cultural dilution

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