Welcome to the Myth of the 20th Century. The podcast airs on Fridays. --- Brought to you by --- Adam Smith, Hans Lander, Alex Nicholson, Hank Oslo and special guest P.T. Carlo Notes: “The House meets this Saturday to respond to a situation of great gravity. We are here because, for the first time for many years, British sovereign territory has been invaded by a foreign power. [ 608 more words ]

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The foods of a people can say a lot about its past, its hidden desires, and its fate. The roast-beef-eating English looked down on the ragout-based cuisine of their French neighbors as representative of that country’s extravagance and softness. In 1735, Richard Leveridge, a singer and song-writer, composed the famous “Roast Beef of Old England,” an expression of English nationalism that associated a simple, meat-based diet with solid manliness and sobriety. [ 1,475 more word ]

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pacta sunt servanda as he rapped upon the stand his hand into a fist came crashed the glass’s water rung pacta sunt servanda with sweat and veins engorged impacted thudding fleshly flop quivering at the word pacta sunt servanda outward spittle flew and frothed smacking ever forceful trills crescending falling song They agreed. They must be, should be, a worthy aim and goal They agreed. They could be, might be, perhaps they even will

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Sparta-Potsdam-Moscow. The “National Bolsheviks” of the Weimar period rallied around this cry. Sparta represented a type of porto-Prussian socialism, with the entire social body based around the all-male military and its campaigns. Potsdam represented true Prussian socialism, while Moscow represented what many thinkers in the 1920s and 1930s considered to be the world’s inevitable future. This is a very concise rendering of a complex topic, around which there is confusion. [ 2,041 more words ]

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Welcome to the Myth of the 20th Century. The podcast airs on Fridays. --- Brought to you by --- Adam Smith, Hans Lander, Alex Nicholson with special guest James LaFond Notes: Sports are a multi-billion industry, commanding their own television networks, smart apps, clothing line endorsements, and even their own dedicated majors in universities. But what is largely a spectator pastime for most today, sports in the past were much more local community activities that one might take part in as an informal gathering, or going back to more ancient times, as part of a tribalistic ritual based on their ultimate origins in warfare, hand to hand combat, and hunting. [ 188 more words ]

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In a sane society, no one would have to justify why he believes the same principles that his ancestors did for hundreds of years before. Over the entire history of European civilization, from the discovery of agriculture until, say, 2009, I doubt that a single member of my genetic tree believed that “demiflux” was a valid gender--nor if I consulted most ancestors from over the last few hundred years at random would they have any difficult answering: [ 1,676 more word ]

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Economists are definitely moronic on average on a number of issues, most notably immigration and human biodiversity, and prioritizing economic growth as the only measure of human welfare. But all these objections can equally be expressed in the language of economics. The first says that human capital is partially heritable and unevenly distributed, and there are positive externalities from individual human capital and from cultural or social cohesion. [ 3,515 more words ]

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Welcome to the Myth of the 20th Century. The podcast airs on Fridays. --- Brought to you by --- Adam Smith, Hans Lander, Nick Mason, Hank Oslo and Alex Nicholson Notes: For most of the world, New Years is a time of colder temperatures, slower work schedules, and hopefully also one of reflection and resolution. In our increasingly complex and interconnected world, distilling major events and tying them into one's own personal life is a challenge on a daily, let alone yearly, basis. [ 825 more words ]

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Welcome to the Myth of the 20th Century. The podcast airs on Fridays. --- Brought to you by --- Nick Mason, Hans Lander, Adam Smith with Titus Flavius Notes: This is special holiday broadcast from a show we recorded a while back with Titus Flavius as guests on KulturKampf, focusing on the writings of Ernst Jünger, German soldier during World War I and author of ‘Storm of Steel’. [ 144 more words ]

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Welcome to the Myth of the 20th Century. The podcast airs on Fridays. --- Brought to you by --- Adam Smith, Nick Mason, Hank Oslo, Hans Lander and Alex Nicholson Notes: Emerging from the ruins of World War II, West Germany elected Konrad Adenauer as Chancellor in 1949, noting his capable management as Mayor of Cologne during the first World War on through 1920s. [ 524 more words ]

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Welcome to the Myth of the 20th Century. The podcast airs on Fridays. --- Brought to you by --- Adam Smith, Nick Mason, Hank Oslo, and Alex Nicholson Notes: “Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment. Back here I can’t even hold a job washin’ cars.” The dichotomy runs deeper, for American John Rambo, Vietnam war hero and Congressional Medal of Honor winner, returns to a society that bears little resemblance to the military culture of brutal discipline and clearly defined rules: follow orders, complete the mission, watch my back, I’ll watch yours. [ 139 more words ]

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“surely”, said I, “I thus must need” “To search better, search night and day” “In all tongues, that I might say” “‘I found the book I wished to read;’” -E Antony Gray There is much contempt among the rightly-disaffected competent at the enforced incompetence and mediocrity pushed and sold at all levels of the establishment. We are all familiar with the education industrial complex. [ 1,711 more word ]

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Welcome to the Myth of the 20th Century. The podcast airs on Fridays. --- Brought to you by --- Adam Smith, Nick Mason, Hans Lander, and Alex Nicholson Notes: Hidden just beneath ordinary American society lies a population that will or already has been processed by the criminal justice system. According to the CIA, 16 million Americans are estimated to go to prison at some point, a population larger than Ecuador, and 65 million have a criminal record by age 23 – more people than there are in all of the United Kingdom. [ 119 more words ]

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Although Salazar’s Estado Novo met its ultimate demise at the hands of multi-decade communist subversion, numerous factors undermined its efficacy in the interim. Indirect contributors included the unending geopolitical hurdles that muddled its efforts in the Colonial Wars: the abrupt power decline of its oldest ally, the United Kingdom; the opposition at times the world’s two super-powers, the United States and the Soviet Union; and the scrambles to preserve alliances with a shifting cast of nations, including France, West Germany, Rhodesia, South Africa, and hodgepodge of states in the Third World. [ 6,576 more words ]

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There was once on a time an old king who was ill, and thought to himself, "I am lying on what must be my death-bed." Then said he, " Tell Faithful John to come to me." Faithful John was his favorite servant, and was so called, because he had for his whole life long been so true to him. When therefore he came beside the bed, the King said to him, "Most faithful John, I feel my end approaching, and have no anxiety except about my son. [ 3,077 more words ]

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