Ep. 4031 The Left Is FURIOUS Over the COMEBACK of Classical Education!!!
Turley Talks
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🗓️ 6 July 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan, a prominent iconographer and public intellectual, shares insights on the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and culture at the ACCS conference. He discusses the implications of AI in geopolitics, emphasizing the dangers of a technology-driven society that may compromise human values. Through a focus on fairy tales and traditional narratives, Jonathan advocates for a return to classical education to cultivate wisdom and connection in an increasingly digital world.Â
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Highlights:
- "AI's rapid implementation poses a risk of sacrificing core human values."Â
- "The importance of fairy tales in instilling wisdom and cultural understanding."Â
- "A call for a return to classical education as a response to technological dependence."Â
- "Exploring the relationship between visual art and storytelling in shaping narratives."Â
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| 0:00.0 | The liberal globalist order is at its brink and awakening a new conservative age. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Dr. Steve Turley. |
| 0:08.1 | Join me every day as we discover answers to today's toughest challenges and explore the revitalization of conservative civilization. |
| 0:17.9 | This is Turley Talks. |
| 0:24.5 | Jonathan, I'm nervous now. Do you know why I'm nervous? |
| 0:29.7 | Why? Because I think I listen to a podcast of yours where you sit back and you say you like to listen to how people introduce you. And you're always fascinated at it. And now I'm like, okay, how do I introduce |
| 0:36.6 | you? It's just because I have, I just, I'm a little bit of a, like I, I, you're a chameleon. Yeah, you're complex. I have a lot of things. Here's, and I decided this is how I'm going to introduce you, you are without a doubt one of my favorite YouTubers. Well, that's a very kind. Without a doubt. |
| 0:54.7 | If you have not subscribed to Jonathan's symbolic world, you got to do that literally right |
| 1:01.3 | now because you're not going to get richer and deeper analyses and takes in culture. |
| 1:08.4 | I love the way you analyze culture. |
| 1:11.7 | But you are, I mean, formally, though, you're an iconographer. |
| 1:15.1 | I would say I'd call you a public intellectual, for lack a better term. |
| 1:19.1 | You basically get paid to think. |
| 1:22.6 | Yeah, I guess that's true. |
| 1:23.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.5 | And you are the creator of the symbolic world. And it's a wonderful |
| 1:32.6 | channel. And I urge everyone to subscribe to this right now. You will not be disappointed. Absolutely |
| 1:39.0 | beautiful. So I think probably half our audience knows you anyway. They've seen you around. You're |
| 1:43.7 | pretty prolific. So I've been wanting to chat with you forever. Yeah. We have like little exchanges, Instagram, different places, and it just never happens. I'm happy. Yeah. So, though, it's such an honor. So you just came back from ARC in the UK. You want to give us a little... Sure. I mean, Ark is something that |
| 2:05.8 | Jordan Peterson started a few years ago, I think it was about four years ago now, with Philip |
| 2:10.7 | Stroud. And, you know, it was really in some ways Jordan wanted to do something like a kind of reaction to Davos, something that was, that had the same kind of gravitas, but was moving away from the value that Davos was promoting. And the big purpose was to open up the Obertin window to be able to talk about things that that weren that were taboo like talking about family yeah |
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