Does the Second Amendment community and other right-wing conservative types need a new foundation or a new mythos, so to speak, to support their belief systems?

That's what we're going to be talking about today.

Welcome back to another episode of T-Rex Talk on this podcast.

We have talked an awful lot about the need for foundations and standards and having a true north.

In fact, we beat that drum quite a bit, specifically, specifically me. There is a need in our community and the United States at large for more unshakable convictions. But convictions need anchors. If they're going to be actually unshakable, they have to be attached to some immovable things, some foundations. And this podcast is going to be about

somebody who agrees with me, although we probably couldn't disagree more on where those

foundations need to come from. I was reading an article by Richard Hannanaya, who is not someone

that I generally recommend, but he is one of these

right-wing-ish commentators, one of the new rationalists on the internet trying to figure

some of these things out, even though he has changed his position on a bunch of stuff.

Tech community, people read him, like, he's a very smart guy. But let's get into what he actually believes.

Well, this article doesn't get into that so much, but it has a bunch of his initial presumptions in it.

The name of the article is building a mythos for the non-Christian right. And this is a very important

topic for us to discuss within the gun community or the

Second Amendment community or whatever it is that we actually want to call ourselves. And I'll get

into that in a minute. But let's start with the opening of his article. He lays out a couple of

presuppositions, saying conservatives

have their own intellectuals. But those on the right cannot primarily rely on a belief in the

good sense of our elite institutions and how the marketplace of ideas currently operates to validate

their opinions. They therefore often seek solace in religion.

So right off the bat there, good observations on the elites. Academia is pretty far left.

Journalists, when you look at how they donate to political causes, 90% of them donate exclusively to Democrats.

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