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Anthony, Nick, and E. Antony discuss available paths for young men looking to weather the Kali Yuga. They are joined by guest Travis Corcoran (@MorlockP), who also talks the Free State Project in the Out of Left Field question.
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Notes:
4:30 – Introducing Travis
19:41 – The Kali Yuga and four archetypes of survival
28:37 – #1: The Gentleman Farmer*
56:51 – #2: The Hermit Monk*
1:12:09 – #3: The Travelling Tradesman*
1:28:56 – #4: The Humble Patriarch*
1:44:01 – Nationalists must have children to maintain their people
2:03:28 – Out of Left Field – Assessment of the Free State Project
*As promised, here is a visualization of the four Archetypes along three social dimensions
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Music:
Opening Music: “Омут” by Vintergata (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1312299/omut
Closing Music: “Hoch, Hoch” by Raulin de los Bosques
https://www.jamendo.com/track/420777/hoch-hoch
Morlock Publishing
http://morlockpublishing.com/
Thomas Barghest on Social Atomization
http://www.socialmatter.net/2016/02/15/the-radioactivity-of-atomic-individualism/
John Adams’ farm Peacefield
http://www.nps.gov/adam/index.htm
Scott Alexander on Class
http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/30/staying-classy/
The Life of St. Antony of Egypt
https://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/ANTONY.HTM
The Mike Rowe Foundation promoting a livelihood in the trades
http://profoundlydisconnected.com/
The Protoevangelium of James
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0847.htm
A primer on passivism (note: NOT pacifism, apologies if unclear)
http://thefutureprimaeval.net/passivism-and-the-procedure/
Moldbug on right wing folk activism
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2011/07/right-wing-terrorism-as-folk-activism.html
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Definitely an episode rootless cosmopolitans should listen to.
Poe called Thoreau, his imitators, and his worshipers “Frogpondians.” He castigated them for pretending to be roughing it, while Southerners and Westerners were actually conquering the frontier. The Southern Agrarians tackled many of these themes in the 1930’s. I suggest their opus, “I’ll Take My Stand,” if you have not yet read it. I tend to view most things through the lens of the cosmopolitan, centralized, corporatized, industrialized, statist North of tame subjects versus Jefferson’s South of limited, rural, agrarian societies and a distant, nearly-powerless federal government that has no impact on the daily lives of the free citizens. I think that Thoreau can be explained in this manner.