Here is the first mobile DHP episode in a while, recorded over the course of my commute to & from work. (BTW, the audio is much improved over previous in-the-car recordings!)

Join CJ as he discusses:

• The basic concept of this alliance, including its origins and the symbiotic nature of it
• How religion most effectively fulfilled the legitimizing function for the rulers for most of history
• How “intellectuals” now increasingly fulfill that function since religiosity has declined in many parts of the world
• A few of the ways in which the modern state is aspiring to be god-like in terms of omniscience & omnipotence
• The possibility that the standard liberal/conservative split is at least partially explained by a split between people who prefer their rulers to be legitimized by secular intellectuals & those who prefer their rulers to be legitimized by clergy

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External Links

• Murray Rothbard’s “Anatomy of the State”

Is there a New Counterculture movement?  If so, what is it?  Can we define it, or at least describe it?  Might you be a part of it, even if in a small way, even if you don’t realize it?

Join CJ as he discusses:

• Why cultural, artistic, and/or intellectual movements are often hard to identify without hindsight (either after they’ve fizzled out entirely, or at least jumped the shark)
• What the Old Counterculture was, and its problems
• Defining what the New Counterculture is (as CJ sees it) by describing a nonexistent, archetypal New Counterculturalist individual in terms of his or her age, religiosity, career, political views, lifestyle, etc.
• CJ’s take on the degree to which he himself (at least somewhat) fits the mold
• Reasons why the New Counterculture has more potential to achieve lasting, positive change

(image Revolt Submit Switch Stock Photo courtesy Stuart Miles/freedigitalphotos.net)

Two distinct groups of people — banksters and control freaks — between them account for most, if not all, of the evil in the world in the past, present, and presumably (and unfortunately) for the foreseeable future as well.

“Look Ma — no hands!”:  This is a guerrilla episode done in the car with absolutely NO NOTES!

Join CJ as he discusses:

• What he means by ‘Banksters’ and ‘Control Freaks’
• The symbiotic relationship between these two distinct species of statists
• How control freaks use “wedge issues” to split the non-elite people against each other (for the purposes of getting votes), and how this has the effect — whether intentional or not on the part of the control freak in question — of making it easier for the banksters to maintain their position vs. everyone else

External Links

• Dennis Leary’s classic rant from Demolition Man
• Clip from the same movie about everything that is “not good for you” is bad & hence illegal

Join CJ as he discusses historical examples of people saving themselves, such as:

• The story of Xenophon and the Ten Thousand, a group of Greek mercenaries who were left stranded in the heart of the Persian Empire & had to fight their way home
• The story of Frederick Douglass, who liberated himself from slavery, educated himself, and became a top abolitionist activist
• The Russo-Finnish Wars that took place during World War II, and the contrast of how Finland fared with how states such as Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, & Estonia fared
• Jews who either escaped or fought against the Nazis during World War II
• [NOTE:  I accidentally said “the Soviets suffered fewer than 100 casualties” while conquering eastern Poland in 1939; it should have been “fewer than 1,000.”]