Tragedy in Tennessee

The American Mind

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🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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There's no sugarcoating the horror of what happened in Nashville this week as a disturbed young woman murdered six people, three of them aged 9 years old. The shooter was wrapped up in transgender extremism, a fact which has unveiled a ghoulish relish for the death of Christians in contemporary culture. Meanwhile, as megacorporations charge forth with reckless abandon in an AI arms race, some interesting characters are calling for a national pause on the unproven technology. But is that just a makeshift bandage over a much deeper, festering wound? The editors, with special guest Helen Roy, deconstruct the social contagions at work in the US as well as the potential threat of AI before reminding you, as always, to read the damn site.

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0:00.0	coming up on this episode of The Round Table.
0:02.9	If we're going to think clearly about what sort of phenomena are going to
0:10.3	increase those pressures to a point where we go from whatever it is 19 or 20
0:18.8	quorum, quote, mass shootings a year to hundreds or thousands,
0:24.4	what will contribute to those pressures? Well, a belief that reality does not exist,
0:32.4	and we live in a simulation, a belief that everything about the human person is totally
0:38.2	mutable, a belief that someone's thoughts about you can pose an existential threat to your life,
0:46.7	and a belief that the only thing that can restore human agency in a world conquered by calculating
0:57.6	machines is the unfettered exercise of the imagination. All of these forces are at work right now
1:05.6	in pushing and pulling individuals in the direction of seeing, quote, unquote,
1:14.0	trans identities as sacred, as earning a sort of ticket to retributive justice.
1:25.6	You know, when you see a person caught in the grip of this matrix of spiritual attitudes,
1:36.0	murder, multiple Christian children, you really start to reckon with what kinds of forces are going
1:47.2	to lead toward a true epidemic of slaughter in America. And topping it all off, if you live in a country
1:55.5	where, well, yes, you don't want to break any laws, but if you're the right kind of person,
2:00.0	well, you can break laws, you can commit crimes, you can kill people, and nothing will happen to you.
2:08.2	That's only going to make it worse. So we are playing with fire here.
2:17.4	Hello, and welcome, once again, to the roundtable of your weekly publishers and editors'
2:41.2	podcast, you're at the American Mine. I'm your host, Spencer Clayvin, features editor of the
2:47.0	American Mine, and I'm joined this week by editor James Loss Managing Editor, Seth Barron,
2:52.9	publisher and president, Ryan Williams, and it's always great to be joined also by contributing
3:00.4	editor, Ellen Roy. And if usually, even in darker moments, I
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