Best of the West Book Club
Live discussions with me and Dr Michael Robillard
US Army veteran and philosopher Dr Robillard and I are starting our livestream book club today on my YouTube channel today at 8pm BST.
You can find out more about Dr Robillard at his Substack here and his YouTube channel here.
Here is the link for today’s discussion:
SEPT: ‘The Power of the Powerless’, Vaclav Havel.
How a dissident greengrocer who refused to put up a sign in his window can help you show a spine.
OCT: The Last Superstition, Ed Feser
Understand the philosophical mistakes underlying the chaos of modern culture.
NOV: Plato's Republic, Book VIII and first part of Book IX.
Understand the decline of the polis from the ideal state through four stages of degeneration.
DEC: The Case for Patriarchy, Timothy J. Gordon.
Understand why no Christian feminism is possible.
JAN: Aristotle and Aquinas on envy.
Understand woke totalitarian psychology.
FEB: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, Pinio Correa de Oliveira
Understand how cultural revolutions work and what works to fight back.
MAR: Nietzsche on ressentiment.
Understand how envious revolutionaries invert values - weakness is better than strength - and how this differs from Christian hierarchy.
APR: The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis.
Understand how generations of children were hollowed out in the education system.
MAY: Augustine, The City of God, Books XI and XII.
The hierarchy of the universe and why evil exists.
JUNE: Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.
The only Shakespeare play to be banned in a democracy. What can it tell us about power, great men and heroism?
Also planned:
Eric Voegelin, The New Science of Politics. Why modern politics is a substitute religion.
Various books on masculinity, leadership and combat.
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Audio-only versions of the discussions will be released as podcasts on my Substack.
Very interesting. The woke ideology reminds me of how young girls behave when they bully: it gives them the power over others they crave. Also they don't have to be 'smart'. I take the the woke lack of rationality to be deliberate, the revenge of the stupid.