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🗓️ 9 September 2023
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0:00.0 | of modern revolutionary philosophy. |
0:03.0 | And then we'll work our way up to today and we'll see how that revolutionary philosophy |
0:06.5 | is at work in the establishment's plans for austerity, ESG, lockdowns, and all the measures |
0:15.8 | they want to put in place to enforce a technocracy. |
0:18.9 | The Establishment, Fire in the the minds of men by James Billington, |
0:22.1 | the origins of the revolutionary faith. He's of course not a conspiracy theorist, but a person |
0:27.4 | who was as an academic and a historian archiving and chronicling the history of revolutionary |
0:33.4 | philosophy and thought from the time of the French Revolution all the way up until the early 20th century. |
0:39.4 | And James Bellington noted that to really understand today's revolutionary philosophies, |
0:44.8 | you have to go back to the faith of the original revolutionaries at the time of and right |
0:50.4 | before the French Revolution and their influences. |
0:53.1 | What were they influenced by? Well, they were influenced by philosophies like Platonism. There was a Byzantine Platonist named Pleithon |
1:02.0 | that influenced Spinoza, that influenced Weishop and other Jacobins. And the philosophy of Pythagoras played a key element, as well as the |
1:14.6 | philosophies of ancient pre-Socratics like Heraclitus. Heraclitus taught that all is fire and all |
1:20.7 | is flux. And so one of the things that the early Illuminists, people like Weishopped in a guy called Buenarote, who were really influential on |
1:30.7 | the Jacobins in the French Revolution, they decided to take certain symbols from ancient |
1:36.8 | mystical religions like the Zoroastrians. And Zoroastrianism is a dualistic religion |
1:41.9 | that believes that there's always these two principles |
1:45.5 | eternally fighting with each other throughout history, and that never ends. It's an eternal |
1:50.2 | dualistic dialectical battle. That becomes kind of the basis for later hermetic philosophers |
1:57.4 | like Hegel, who will influence people like Marx. But before we get to that, we |
2:02.5 | understand that the French revolutionary philosophers had a radical view of equalitarianism across |
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