787 – Topics

00:03 Apollo and Dionysus: Ayn Rand’s prophetic recognition of civilization’s collapse, comparing Right and Left to Apollo and Dionysus, stopping oil, the Left’s culture of death, Return of the Primitive, the nature of order, architecture, the nature of chaos

17:00 And then there’s Woodstock: Apollo 11 in July 1969, epitome of reason and rationality, Western culture capable of heading to the stars, the greatest generation vs the boomer generation, Kennedy’s speech, Kennedy’s assassination marks descent into madness, the sixties revolution, listening to the Beatles, the anti-oil revolt and extinction rebellion, the demand for order in music and poetry

33:00 Karl Marx’s primitive ideology: from railroads to the moon, Rand’s choice of the word primitive, Marxism pretending to be rational science, development of the internal combustion engine, capitalism and alienation, end goal is dictatorship of the proletariat, back to Utopia, the rejection of man as a rational being

50:15 Mass man: the two archetypes, the mass man, the man of reason is a solitary person, the making of civilization as an individual undertaking, the entropy and death cult of Europe, Dionysian man is incapable of engaging in rational discussion

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