Why We Have a Crisis of Meaning - Stephen Blackwood

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🗓️ 22 September 2024

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Stephen Blackwood is the founding President of Ralston College, a new university in Savannah, Georgia, dedicated to freedom of thought and enquiry. He grew up on a small farm in Canada, was educated in Classics (BA, MA) and Religion (PhD), and has held visiting positions at Harvard University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Cambridge. His book on the Roman poet-philosopher-statesman, Boethius, was published by Oxford University Press. Find out more about Ralston College: https://www.ralston.ac/ Check out Stephen's website: https://www.stephenjblackwood.com/ Follow Stephen on X: https://x.com/stephenblackwd Sponsors: Discover the foundations of Western civilization with 321—a free online course on God, the world, and your place in it. Explore at https://321course.com/trigger Protect your home with 20% off any new SimpliSafe system when you sign up for Fast Protect Monitoring. Go to https://SIMPLISAFE.COM/TRIGGER Join our Premium Membership for early access, extended and ad-free content: https://triggernometry.supercast.com OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | [email protected] | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/#mailinglist Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So I am myself tired of hearing conservatives who say they believe in transmitting the
0:08.0	wisdom of the past to the next generation criticize as if simply this is the case
0:12.3	if we want to know look at what the progressive left or whatever has criticized as if simply this is the case.
0:12.5	We don't know, look at what the progressive left or whatever has done to us.
0:15.8	I mean, that's just a victimhood mentality that they're supposed to say that they don't like.
0:20.0	And I think that what we see on the ground is that that is an inherently and profoundly
0:24.3	alienating depressing degrading worldview and we see that we see it play out in social media
0:29.2	We see it play out in the collapse of our communities. What is the life that you want?
0:33.4	And if we're not building from the answers that people give in those moments,
0:37.0	you know, we've got it wrong.
0:40.0	Stephen Blackwood finally, welcome to Trigonometry. Thanks for having me.
0:43.1	Oh, it's a pleasure.
0:43.8	We've been talking for a long time.
0:45.4	I've seen, we actually had a chance to chat in America
0:49.0	when I was on tour with Jordan.
0:50.2	You're one of the people working closely with him on Arc and many other things.
0:55.0	And we had the most fascinating conversations, which is one of the things we'd like to do today.
1:00.1	And the first question, really, you are someone who's thought a lot and talked a lot about what we call the crisis of meaning in the West.
1:07.5	What does that mean exactly and what how would you describe it?
1:12.0	Well I think when I was to start with a question of, you know, what is meaning?
1:16.0	And, you know, we're living in a kind of age that thinks that, you know, we can individually define everything and kind of, you know, make ourselves up as we go,
1:22.0	define ourselves whoever we like, and there's a kind of you know make ourselves up as we go define ourselves whoever we like and
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