This is Monica Perez and welcome to our first episode of our reading and discussion of the book,

Makers of the Modern Mind by Thomas P. Neal, PhD.

So the last series of books were Jim Keith.

It was mass control about mind control.

It was the octopus, the story of Danny Castellaro.

And I wanted to do something that was a little more academic, a little more down the line

mainstream, and give you the facts from an intellectuals,

you know, an intellectual academic researcher's point of view and see if you understand

how we got here.

And I would say you can go down rabbit holes for each of the people in this book.

Some of the actual items in the book dangle those threads.

And I do want to say that when I read these books, I've read them before.

I wouldn't read a book to you that I haven't read before, screened thoroughly, but it's always

been a while.

So it's been years since I've read this book. And I, so I will enjoy the wonderment of, of rediscovering some of the little

tidbits in here. And of course, I do not agree with, you know, the stuff that I read if I have no idea if I'm going to agree or disagree

with this stuff, I'll probably let you know as we go along. And I hope that you enjoy it.

Okay. Makers of the Modern Mind.

Thomas P. Neal was a professor of history at St. Louis University.

And let's see, preface to the second edition, which is what this is.

The first edition of this book appeared in 1949, according to the criteria used for selecting the 11 men treated in that edition,

it seemed that John Dewey should have been included as a maker of the modern mind.

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