33:00 Ruling class
Mainstream media
Legacy media
34:00 New York Times
Authenticity and sincerity
36:00 Mexican food
37:00 Profilicity
38:00 Gaylord Mueler
41:00 Right brain left brain
42:00 Iain McGilchrist
45:00 Secular Koranism
Method acting
46:00 Aztecs
47:00 US foreign policy
48:00 Ruling class
49:00 A pleasing ruling class
50:00 Flexible morals
51:00 Consensus
53:00 The Meaning Crisis
54:00 Caught short
56:00 Bears in Mississippi
57:00 Alligator hunting
1:04:00 Secular Koranism
1:05:00 Proposals and ideas exist
1:06:00 Western values
I am actually concerned about the West in that it does not have a functioning moral system. The religion of the West is not really Christianity, is it? It is actually liberal democracy because Christendom - a portmanteau word for "a Europe of Christian kingdoms" - ended in 1918. I say this because three of the Great Powers ie the Austrian Empire, the German Empire and the Russian Empire became republics. While the Austrian and German Emperors both abdicated, the entire Russian Royal Family were exterminated by the Red Guards.
My thesis is that the moral and political operating system of the West is not even Christianity any more but liberal democracy.
I fear Western governments have not tidied up their rooms of political theory in centuries and now don't want to have a real dialogue about it.
That is because they do not want US citizens knowing where the complete list of their unalienable rights is to be found or arguing with their ruling classes about anything at all.
As for Muslims, sadly, they do not appreciate the difference between being a monarchy and being a constitutional republic.
But then neither do the British or the Israelis.
1:07:00 Iran
1:08:00 Sunni and Shia divide
1:09:00 WW1 and WW2
Nicholas II was refused asylum by George V.
1:10:00 Ra Ra Rasputin
1:11:00 Christendom ended in 1918.
1:12:00 Downton Abbey
Dynasty, Dallas and Falcon Crest
1:13:00 Game of Thrones
1:14:00 Arrested Development
1:15:00 Soap operas like Peyton Place
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