Rod and Kale talk about the war in the context of the Anglo and Chinese polarity and the West’s demand to be moral versus the Chinese demand to be obeyed. Why does the West have Billionaires, but Russia has Oligarchs?

They go on to discuss the fragility of civilizational networks and the fragility of global economics.

Will Twitter spark World War III? Lindsey Graham’s takes to twitter and calls on a would-be Brutus.

They go on to discuss technology and a post-human future, the logic of transhumanism, and John the Savage.

They close on a discussion of Russian art and moral panic, and the simplified scripts we use to make sense of the complex world.

Links:

• Orban Interview: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/viktor-orban-interview-mandiner/
• Fifth Column Taibbi episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/348-w-matt-taibbi-richard-perle-in-new-jersey-putin/id1097696129?i=1000552854933
• Aaron Renn on Gen Xers: https://aaronrenn.substack.com/p/generation-x-finally-steps-into-the?r=57as1&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
• Matthew Crawford: https://www.matthewbcrawford.com/new-page-1-1
• Helena’s Substack: https://lacroicsz.substack.com/p/by-any-other-name?s=r
• Paul Kingsnorth: https://emergencemagazine.org/fiction/the-basilisk/
• Kale’s article “Things Are Broken”: https://onepeterfive.com/things-are-broken-we-need-to-upgrade-our-sense-making-apparatus/
• Scruton’s Video Essay: https://vimeo.com/549715999