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As a massive convoy of truckers and their supporters makes it way to Canada's capital, attracting enthusiastic support and a lot of attention around the world, we consider Saul Alinsky's thirteen "rules for radicals," and how these rules relate specifically to the reaction to this movement.

The influence of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals has had a pernicious effect on the political sphere since its publication in 1971. In this episode, we'll begin an examination of Alinsky's tactics, and the ideology that forms their foundation: pragmatic action to win power. In order to fight wisely, we need to know our enemy and the methods he uses, so that we recognize them for what they are and learn how to counter them.

For the past two years, much of the world has been in a near-permanent "state of exception" because of what is described as a "public health crisis." In this episode, we consider the importance of the current situation as a battle of worldviews, using Giorgio Agamben's article "Religion as Medicine" as our starting point.

People who oppose mask mandates are often characterized as selfish individualists who care more about their personal comfort than for the safety, well-being, and comfort of others. In this episode, we challenge that mischaracterization of "anti-maskers" by going back in time to 1957, and an article about the use of masks in tuberculosis wards. We'll see how the use of masks as a religious talisman is a serious issue that should lead us to challenge the idea that obeying mask mandates is beneficial or even morally acceptable.

In this year-end show, we take a look at the year that has almost come to a close, and look forward to the year ahead. As the title of Steve Deace's recent book says, "Do what you believe, or you won't be free to believe it much longer." Using portions of Deace's book, we'll consider why it appears that freedom is endangered by encroaching tyranny, and how we can best do what we believe.

Last week we considered how the news media distorts reality and warps the minds of uncritical consumers. In this week's episode, we'll consider 10 things that we can do to, in the words of John Zada, "mitigate the impac the news has on our individual lives, and on our society."

In this week's episode, we examine how the news media distorts reality and, in the words of author John Zada, "warps our minds" when we fail to be critical and skeptical consumers of its product.

Thomas Sowell refers to the intellectual elite as "The Anointed," and their ideology as "The Vision of the Anointed." In this episode we continue the discussion of Episode 30 about this vision, its presuppositions and goals, and how to see through the often articulate arguments of "the anointed."

In his book Dispatches from the Vaccine Wars, Dr. Christopher A. Shaw devotes a chapter to "Vaccine Ideology and Religion." In this episode, we'll use Shaw's book as a springboard to discuss the debate over vaccines and vaccine mandates in the context of two contrasting worldviews, and the religious nature of the modern medical and scientific establishment.

In today's episode, we consider the place of the "intellectual class" in our world. We'll consider the dangers of deferring to what Thomas Sowell calls "the Anointed Class," the intelligentsia, and the class of experts whose influence only continues to grow. We also discuss why it's so important for us to know what the intellectual class is up to, since its ideas act as a contagion that threaten to infect the whole of society, and how we can confidently stand our ground in this battle.

In this episode, we'll look at the philosophical foundations of UNESCO, the United Nations' Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, as outlined by the organization's first director, Julian Huxley. Huxley's "scientific evolutionary humanism" still informs this organization's activities, as we'll see in this episode.

One of the most important factors leading to the "Sexual Revolution" of the 20th Century was the publication of The Kinsey Report (Sexual Behavior in the Human Male) in 1948. In this episode, we'll examine the work of Alfred Kinsey, his methodology, the contents of his report, and look at how his study led to societal changes that continue to the present day.

Margaret Mead's book "Coming of Age in Samoa" took the world by storm when it was published in 1928, and, according to Sherwood Washburn, "influenced the way people were brought up in the United States" (and throughout the western world, really). It was not until the 1980s that Mead's study was revealed as being a serious misrepresentation of the culture and character of Samoa. But by that time, the damage had already been done. In this episode, we take a look at Margaret Mead's work - a case study in academic and intellectual dishonesty.

In this episode we continue our study of the social justice movement in the evangelical church by introducing the topic of Liberation Theology. We see that there are various types of connections between the Liberation Theology movement and the current movement for "social justice" within the church, and that the history of Liberation Theology has a lot to teach us about how we should evaluate the Social Justice movement.

As we continue our study of "social justice," we turn to several Scripture passages that are among many used by Christian advocates of the social justice movement - Exodus 22, Job 29, and Leviticus 25, and consider whether they can rightly be used to support the tenets of the social justice movement.

We hear a lot about "social justice," but not a lot about what "justice" actually is, let alone "social" justice. In this episode, we begin an in-depth look at the issues surrounding social justice, starting with definitions of "justice" and "social justice."

What does a 100 year-old political movement have to do with our rapidly-changing 21st Century society? As it turns out, a whole lot! In this episode, we begin an in-depth look at Technocracy, using Patrick Wood's book Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation as our starting point. Patrick Wood's website is www.technocracy.news, and it is a very helpful source for the most up-to-date news on how the technocratic agenda is progressing on the world stage.

In May of this year, the UK Department of Defence, in partnership with the German Bundeswehr Office for Defence Planning, published "Human Augmentation: The Dawn of a New Paradigm. In this episode, we revisit the ever-important subject of Transhumanism as we take a look at some highlights (or lowlights) from the planning offices of the British and German militaries.

This week, what had previously been considered a "conspiracy theory" worthy of censure was suddenly transformed into an acceptable subject to be discussed on Facebook. In this episode, we consider what happens when "conspiracy theory" becomes "conspiracy reality."

Policy Horizons Canada has looked into our future, and has discovered that it is transhumanist. In this episode, we take an in-depth look at Policy Horizons' document, "Exploring Biodigital Convergence." We examine the worldviews that shape the forecasts being made by this Canadian governmental organization, and evaluate its conclusions according to the Biblical, Christian worldview. Is there a "Brave New World" in our future? Or does it look more like a dystopian nightmare? Policy Horizons Canada: https://horizons.gc.ca/en/about-us/ Exploring Biodigital Convergence: https://horizons.gc.ca/en/2020/02/11/exploring-biodigital-convergence/ The Global Foresight Group: http://theglobalforesightgroup.com/about

Many, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, claim that any concern about the "Great Reset" is just a "conspiracy theory." In this episode, we learn that it is anything but, as we look at the Canada Beyond 150 document, "Capital and Debt."

Over the past year we have heard this refrain more and more: "Don't question the science." In this episode, we'll take a look at the chimerical research being done at the Salk Institute in California, and what this type of research means for our understanding of the purpose, place, and ethics of science. When it often appears that the question guiding scientific experimentation is, "What can we do," and not, "What should we do," there are many serious questions that need to be asked, and serious decisions to be made about the place, role, and limitations of science.

In this episode we learn how to create a mass society made up of compliant and unthinking followers - in other words, the history of compulsory schooling. Beginning with John Taylor Gatto's book The Underground History of American Education, we see one of the ideological movements that has led us to the situation in which we find ourselves today.

The early twentieth-century eugenics movement did its best to win over Christians to the cause of genetic purity - and experienced a great deal of success. In this episode, we look at how and why the eugenicists work to co-opt influential Christians, why many Christians were taken in by eugenicist ideology, and how similar movements continue to do the same today.

In 1922 Margaret Sanger's best-known book, The Pivot of Civilization, was published. In this episode we'll take an in-depth look at Sanger's message in this book, and the influence that her ideology continues to have on society nearly a hundred years later.