Join Douglas Wilson, Dr. Joseph Bood, Brian Sovey, Eric Kahn, and myself on March 1st,

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pricing ends on Thursday, August 31st. So go and visit rightresponseconference.com to register today. We hope to see you at the

conference in March. So there's a book called Return of the strong gods. And what it's

emphasizing, the strong gods versus weak gods comparing and contrasting, it's saying not necessarily gods as actual deities, but it's emphasizing, the strong gods versus weak gods, comparing and contrasting, it's saying

not necessarily gods as actual deities, but it's saying in terms of traditions. So the strong

gods would be things like faith, church, religion, patriarchy, fathers, family, those kinds of

things. Weak gods would be the Enlightenment. It would be Freud. It would be

Marx. It would be Darwin. And ultimately, the comparing and contrasts is between strong and weak,

but another way to word it is between closed and open societies and traditions. And basically the post-war sentiment is what

the author is getting at. He's saying that we have a very novel and very recent phenomenon the way that

people think. The way that Westerners think is not the way we always have. It's a very recent

phenomenon. And it's all in light of the first and particularly the

Second World War, that one of our biggest concerns and one of the biggest steering mechanisms

for every decision we make, how we craft education, how we craft our traditions, how we craft our

politics, how we craft economies and markets, all of it is geared

towards this. Don't ever let there be an Adolf Hitler again. We are terrified of the potential

of a strong authoritarian leader. Just for the record, I'm not a flat earther. I'm also not

pro-Hitler. Just to make that clear,

I think you guys know that, but somebody, you know, will make it go viral on YouTube and they'll

say, see, he's pro-Hitler. I'm not pro-Hitler. But what we're recognizing, I think, is that the pendulum

has overswung, we've overcompensated, and in the name of

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