Why We Have a Crisis of Meaning - Stephen Blackwood

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.

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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.

00:00 Trailer
00:39 We’re living in a meaning crisis
02:36 What is meaning?
04:38 Ideological nihilism
06:37 Losing our religion
09:15 Architecture betrays ideology
11:08 People no longer sacrifice for higher causes
14:41 Importance of beautiful buildings
18:26 How city living affects us
22:14 SPONSOR: 321 Course
23:24 Will decadence inevitably lead to our demise?
25:53 Ravenous for meaning
27:31 Transcendence through selflessness
32:27 What is Western civilization?
37:11 Upholding the sanctity of the individual creates successful societies
40:45 Freedom also creates instability
43:08 We’ve knocked out our own load-bearing structures
45:15 Malicious iconoclasm
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48:51 We must call evil by its name
51:52 The psychological brokenness behind woke rebellion
54:20 We’ve failed our young people
56:03 Modernisation has led to dislocation
59:12 We are not adapted to handle this technology
1:00:58 Why people turn to Marxism & other ideologies
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