Extraordinary work! Thank you for this! We gotta get that sacred back, ya'll. Grow a garden, unplug from the machine and get to know our neighbors. Let's get local, yo. 🙂
What an extraordinary voice of wisdom. Cutting to the heart of things. Not being distracted by the shiny things by the side of the straight and narrow path. I always feel strengthened by listening to him.
"A different spiritual struggle is given for our times, linked with many difficulties and much stumbling. We were given a journey that is accomplished not in the clear light of day but at night by the pale light of the moon and stars. For our guidance we are given the sacred and Holy Scriptures: the Holy Fathers of the later times speak directly to us. Together with the guidance of the Scriptures it is beneficial to have the advice of those close by, specifically those who themselves were guided by Scriptures. Do not think our spiritual struggle will lack sorrows and martyr's crowns: no! It is linked with martyrdom. This martyrdom is like the languor of Lot in Sodom: the soul of the righteous languished before the sight of endless and uncontrollable fornication. And we languish, surrounded everywhere by minds of those who violated truth, those who are in a prodigal bond with deception, infected by their hatred for the Scriptures that are inspired by God, armed with blasphemy, slander and hellish mocking. Our spiritual struggle has value before God: for His scales weigh our debility, our means , our circumstances and our very time" - St. Ignatious Brianchininov
Paul is a sober and serious thinker in a time when everything seems designed to derange us. I admire his ability to be entertaining while addressing the most profound and complex topics. I have to be honest here, I am online more than is wise, but there is something to boosting those things that provide meaning and commenting with care. When all the world is drawn into the woods, it's perhaps a good idea to journey into the dark and lure those willing towards the light. To end on a positive note, the young are not as portrayed on MSM, they are very media savvy, aware of the manipulation and do not like it. As any reader of history knows, you cannot smother opposition, you are merely supressing it and it the pressure will eventually flip the lid. Good times are ahead, we must keep this in mind and not lose hope as this is exactly what they want.
In a world where many words are falling short. These are words that needed to be said. Bravo Paul. This conversation is well behind schedule. But if we wish to thread the needle. This is where it begins.
As we've fallen into the realm of the Earthly@ The Total State must be constructed to cope* Out of fear, then inability as "the machine" begins to run itself for itself,~ The Techne of this Technological Society= will be Managed by the new Ruling Class! and it will be wielded for one thing, to consolidate power° However such techne will intoxicate our Elite thus retard the circulation○ And once they are impotent the society's decay is inevitable¤ You are here ^ ............... {footnotes} @ Strauss' assessment of modern politics as Machiavellian vs Platonic Classical Virtues/the eternal shadows and the cave; biblical sins of the flesh *Auron MacIntyre's concept of The Since 1945 Hegemonic Secularized Distributed Cognitive Entity that runs the globe ~Paul Kingsnorth's term = Jacques Ellul's masterpiece ! James Burnham's "Managerial Revolution" ° Bertrand de Jouvenel's "On Power: It's Nature and The History of Its Growth" ○ Vilfredo Pareto's "elite circulation" ¤ Oswalt Spengler's morphological analogy in "Decline of The West"
Thank You Paul for doing what it takes to be able to speak still, even if it's about an ugly, ghastly scary non-world, your knife, that cuts it up into it's little shreds of vain pride, still shines in our night though.Truth has to be said with intelligent and compassionate anger from now on, if we are to keep on wanting to speak.This truth may not give us another chance anymore, i fear, but it will still set us free for the end, which, among all sad things, is still the best ever when hope is no longer to be had. Lead away to The Rivers North of The Future with lasting majesty, oh King, dear Paul.
Paul says, "No need to listen to me, go listen to Leonard." Leonard in some of his last words said, "Listen to the hummingbird whose wings you cannot see - don't listen to me; Listen to the butterfly whose days but number three - don't listen to me; Listen to the Mind of God which doesn't need to be - don't listen to me."
big fan of paul but it isn't true to say that the digital is reprogramming us; what's pernicious about it is how it exploits our *existing programming*, human psychology and its various weaknesses
Absolutely brilliant talk Paul. RIchness of meaning in every sentence. I had to pause it several times to digest what you'd just said. I wrote down two of the ideas to think about them more.
"Religions devised for a social purpose, like Roman emperor-worship or modern attempts to 'sell' Christianity as a means of 'saving civilisation'," (looking at you, Peterson, ARC, Orban & co.) "do not come to much. The little knots of Friends who turn their backs on the 'World' are those who really tranform it." -C.S. Lewis, _The Four Loves, Collins Fount Paperbacks, 1983, p. 65.
You’ve captured this brilliantly. I was initially hopeful of Peterson’s entry into Christian discussion, but like you said, he has waxed far too long about the psychological utility of Christianity and said very little about his relationship with Jesus. I fear this is leading the people down the wrong path. By contrast I commend Russell Brand for his vulnerable and humble testimony of faith as he has come to know Jesus.
this was man ..weaving a halo for himself out of long grown quotes ...sometimes quoting the quote back to us several times ...he'd love to be a Catholic ..but there's Vatican ll ..so ah let's become an Othodox Christian ...and maybe later he can weave it back into some kind of Celtic/ Catholic othodoxy .....it's interesting how easy belief becomes once one decides to join the "cult" whichever "cult" this may be ..this explains why there are so many intelligent church men/ women ..so i 'm left after listening to him with the impression ..that he would quite like to become a saint ...on the margins of this new blossoming of religion ....i'm not criticising this, i'm just noticing it ...
Or maybe, as he himself puts it, he's come home. As for wanting to be a saint, I should think he'd find that idea scarier than becoming a Christian! That was challenging enough. I hear humility in his words and I don't know what makes you say that 'belief comes easy'. How do you know?!
@@catherinelawrence424 ....he thinks he's home, belief comes easy because once you decide to believe ..all you do is believe and there's a whole community there to belong to and your in the circus .like a clown has to believe in his tricks a religious person has to believe also , or you can just "practice" without belief like a lot of Irish Catholics do, they just go through the motions and they have been kind of indoctrinated from birth in this belief ..so it's anon off switch ...but practicing is just a part of being part of a whole ..it's just how it is. ... it's easier to believe than not believe, this guy is talking waffle ..but it sounds good unless you really question what he is on about ..he's a practicing charlaton .but he doesn't. realize it or do it malevolently, he's just afraid of the big bad world and wants to hide behind fancy ideas notions and has a knack for waffle
@@edmundhamill2916 You can't be a 'practising charlatan' without knowing it! A charlatan sets out to dupe. I think Kingsnorth has made a commitment to belief (that may include doubt). Like Peter he says ' to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.' Just because *you* don't think Christianity is true it doesn't follow that nobody else * really* does.
