Ep. 114: Crossing the Rubicon

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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When was Rome doomed? What about America? In this episode of Young Heretics, Spencer Klavan tells the famous story of Julius Caesar's choice to invade Rome, but with a twist: since no one knows exactly what happened in that fateful moment, the story becomes an opportunity for reflection on the great conflict between destiny and free will. This is the first of a series on the fall of Rome and the future of America.

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0:00.0	My fellow Americans, Pride Month is over.
0:03.7	Welcome to America Month.
0:09.8	We do not celebrate Pride Month here on Young Heretics.
0:14.5	It has become a symbol of, I think, all that is bizarre and ritualistic
0:20.5	about the new woke faith.
0:22.5	The kind of, I call it the grand interpenetration of all into all.
0:26.3	The idea that we're all just going to be able to rearrange our bodies
0:29.5	it will and, you know, just pursue every possible kind of pleasure in public and so forth.
0:35.7	And so this is not a show on which Pride Month is celebrated,
0:39.7	but it is a show on which America is celebrated.
0:42.7	And I think that if Pride gets a whole month, it's only fair that we should extend
0:47.5	the 4th of July into the entire month of July.
0:50.9	So I hope you will join me in declaring July America Month.
0:54.1	And I have a bunch planned for you to kind of celebrate and contemplate
0:58.1	the meaning of the 4th and the country and so forth.
1:01.3	And of course, this being Young Heretics, it's going to be a little bit different
1:04.3	than your typical, you know, what's going on in politics.
1:07.1	Today, it's going to be a much deeper dive at pulling back the camera,
1:10.7	thinking a little bit about the nature of this country in the history of the West.
1:15.3	Because one of the things that the classical education can do.
1:18.5	Remember this show, right?
1:19.7	As I always say, it's the classical education that you didn't know you were missing.
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