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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Welcome to the Myth of the 20th Century. The podcast airs on Fridays. --- Brought to you by --- Adam Smith, Hank Oslo, Nick Mason, and Hans Lander Notes: Crime is a complex subject in Japan. Known today for its relatively safe streets, wealthy citizens, and polite society – the reputation is something the Japanese like to promote – even in some cases going so far as to ignore reports of crime so as not to inflate the government statistics. [ 286 more words ]

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It takes a single commercial break to see the patterns in modern American television: an upper middle class white man seeking insurance to protect his family hugs the attractive black woman who fits into size two skinny jeans. This is followed by an advertisement for the low price point Old Navy brand within the Gap Inc. multinational retailer. In that advertisement, a fit black man throws snowballs with a light-eyed, light-haired white woman, as their mixed race kid laughs and hugs them. [ 909 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, Hank Oslo, Nick Mason, and Hans Lander Notes: The 2000 US Presidential Election was notable for its relatively lackluster set of key issues surrounding tax cuts and social security reform. The events afterwards, however, were anything but insubstantial, as America plunged headlong into its War on Terror during the Bush Administration, raising questions regarding how Al Gore may have responded differently to 9/11. [ 226 more words ]

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There was a king, who was already old, and had but one son. Once upon a time he called this son to him, and said to him, "My dear son! you know that old fruit falls to make room for other fruit. My head is already ripening, and maybe the sun will soon no longer shine upon it; but before you bury me, I should like to see your wife, my future daughter. [ 3,752 more words ]

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Tranquil, foamy waves lap the beach. No such waves can wash away this defeat. Seven years of war, seven years of Glory, are At an end. Sacred Laconia, our only homeland, We–homoioi, perioeci, mothakes–defended You to the last. Courageous Euclidas, unwilling To submit to Sphacterian end, stood your ground, Like Leonidas at Thermopylae. Others though, not honorable enough To withstand the storm, flee, and seek Egyptian escape… [ 58 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, Hank Oslo, Nick Mason, and Hans Lander Notes: It has been described as “Bannon’s ‘Bible’”. The ‘Fourth Turning’, published in 1997, describes Anglo-American civilization as going through a series of four main generational phases, cycling from ‘Founding’, ‘Awakening’, ‘Unraveling’, and ‘Crisis’. [ 254 more words ]

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Empires rise and fall. Rustic pastoralists take over docile farmers to rule, the beginning stage of empire. Ibn Khaldun used asabiyyah to explain why; social cohesion and group consciousness allows for a stronger force not yet corrupted to conquer and rule. Nietzsche cited a more barbarous and fully human, therefore fully animal, type of man who would be cruel and hard enough to form an aristocracy to rule. [ 2,479 more words ]

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BRICRIU of the Bitter Tongue made a great feast one time for Conchubar, son of Ness, and for all the chief men of Ulster. He was the length of a year getting the feast ready, and he built a great house to hold it in at Dun-Rudraige. He built it in the likeness of the House of the Red Branch in Emain, but it was entirely beyond all the buildings of that time in shape and in substance, in plan and in ornament, in pillars and in facings, in doors and in carvings, so that it was spoken of in all parts. [ 4,644 more words ]

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The edge of doom descried atop The battered bark over billow’s sway Spattering hiss, salt-sharped fury Froth-white moon over face and hilt Tack over gale-whipped waves, gripped Tight rope twist, tracking stars Palm’s blisters burst burning Eyes only on Orion’s belt. Determined to meet with mettle in battle To clash and conquer, sea-courser he steered. Indwelling depths, the dreaded lair’s… [ 99 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, Hank Oslo, Nick Mason, and Hans Lander Notes: Leo Frank – a man lynched in 1915 for allegedly murdering a young girl Mary Phagan at the pencil factory he ran in Atlanta, Georgia – is a relative unknown to most ordinary Americans. [ 193 more words ]

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As the “Flaming Youth” of America slept around and drank bathtub gin during the heady days of Prohibition, their European counterparts in Paris and Berlin were busy engaging in even more debauched pleasures. Mel Gordon’s Voluptuous Panic proves that although Weimar Berlin produced some of the greatest artistic creations in modern history (the films for Fritz Lang and the Expressionist horror classics Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr. [ 3,154 more words ]

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The form of propaganda known as False Definition, the third type described by Richard Weaver in his essay collection In Defense of Tradition, is the broadest and most flexible of the three major forms. False Definition includes gaslighting, goalpost-shifting, appeal to authority, appeal to consensus, the logical fallacy of False Cause and Begging the Question, and nearly any other argument that relies on purposeful manipulation of the meaning of words. [ 1,986 more word ]

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