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Immediately after Allan Bloom published The Closing Of The American Mind, everyone wanted a piece of him. Especially TV pundits on the right. Though Bloom himself was a deeply liberal (and gay) author, scholar, and educator, he could see the writing on the wall: the fixation that his "team" had on "democratising" higher education, and its obsession with unworkable notions of abstract "equality" were destroying the culture. And he wanted to stop it.

A two-part lecture delivered at Gonzaga College in 2011. I have stitched them together into a single presentation here.

It's an extremely popular myth, especially nowadays. But there is zero good evidence to support this myth. Proper historians will still say this out loud. But their numbers are shrinking, as the zeitgeist of anti-white bigotry grows stronger by the year...

I have always thought that Charleton Heston was an underused actor. He has a great deal more range and intensity than most people are willing to give him credit for. Here, he gets a chance to really test himself. Against Kenneth Branagh's brash scenery-chewing bravado, Heston appears subtle and in total command of his emotions. He also seems easily as aware of the layers of irony in this scene. Actors playing at acting, in a play about a play. And through all of that fog, the truth is so piercing coming from Heston, that it leaves me with a lump in my throat every time I watch it.

I originally recorded this in 2014. I am only now uploading it to Rumble, because Rumble didn't exist in 2014. What if HAL is not the character you think he is? Everyone wants him to be the evil one. Is he? Let's explore this question.

My Tribute to the 2020 EVENT. Borrowed from the BBC.

Leon Theramin plays a song on his own invention (the Theramin)

While Microsoft may be the biggest software company in the world, not every computer user is a fan of their products, or their way of doing business. While Microsoft's Windows became the most widely used operating system for personal computers in the world, many experts took issue with Microsoft's strict policies regarding licensing, ownership, distribution, and alteration of their software. The objections of many high-profile technology experts, most notably Richard Stallman, led to what has become known as "the Open Source Movement," which is centered on the belief that computer software should be free both in the economic and intellectual senses of the word. Eventually, one of Stallman's admirers, Linus Torvalds, created a new operating system called Linux, a freely distributed software which many programmers consider to be markedly superior to Windows. Revolution OS is a documentary that examines the genesis of the Open Source Movement, and explores and explains the technical and intellectual issues involved in a manner understandable to computer aficionados and non-techheads alike.

Tom Kurtz and others reminisce about the creation of the BASIC computer language, and its revolutionary effect on computing in the 1970s and 1980s.

From March of 1998 to April of 1999 an independent documentary film crew followed a team of software engineers at Netscape Communications as they lived through a watershed moment in the brief history of their company, and the Internet. The documentary follows the lives of a group of Netscape engineers in Silicon Valley. It covers Netscape's last year as an independent company, from their announcement of the Mozilla open source project until their acquisition by AOL. It particularly focuses on the last-minute rush to make the Mozilla source code ready for release by the deadline of March 31, 1998, and the impact on the engineers' lives and families as they attempt to save the company from ruin. A little less than three years later the "dot com bubble" would pop, and the entire landscape on the internet would change forever. There are many hints of that impending doom in this video, and the makers didn't even know they'd included them. After Andy Baio uploaded the documentary to his personal website for the release of Mozilla Firefox 3 in 2009, director David Winton requested it be taken down, pending his decision about future distribution under a free content license. It has since been released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 US license.

Could I interest you in everything all of the time? A little bit of everything all of the time... Apathy's a tragedy, and boredom is a crime Anything and everything and anything and everything And anything and everything All of the time

The Mother of All Demos is a name given retrospectively to Douglas Engelbart's December 9, 1968, demonstration of experimental computer technologies that are now commonplace. The live demonstration featured the introduction of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor.

Contemporary philosopher Roger Scruton presents a fascinating argument for the importance of beauty in our art and in our lives, and explores what truly is and is not beautiful, regardless of its beholder.

Two Anglo-Analytical philosophers fail to understand what God is, and proceed to spend an hour debating the existence of something that never existed.

Blackboard lecture on Soviet Ideological Subversion, given by Yuri Bezmenov

Yuri Bezmenov was born in 1939 in a suburb of Moscow. He was the son of a high ranking Soviet Army officer. He was educated in elite Soviet schools, and served as a KGB agent in India, where after a time, he defected to the United States through Greece and Canada. His work in the KGB gave him exceptional insight into KGB subversion tactics, and the manipulation of western media and "useful idiot" intellectuals, who functioned as tools of Soviet propaganda in the west. This discussion is the introduction to his lecture, which will also be posted on this channel.

A lecture by G. Edward Griffin on the Communist theory and practice of revolution, particularly as applied to the United States. In spite of the widespread belief that Communism is dead, this lecture given in 1968 is far from outdated. Communism has changed its name to Social Democracy but continues to be a dynamic revolutionary force around the world. Drawing upon Marxist revolutionary textbooks, Mr. Griffin shows that there are two kinds of revolution: violent and non-violent. The non-violent stage is accomplished in the name of democracy, and that is where most of the action is happening in America today.

Produced, written, and directed by Adam Curtis for the BBC The documentary explores the various ways that governments, global organizations and corporations have used Freud's theories. Freud and his nephew Edward Bernays, who was the first to use psychological techniques in public relations, are discussed in part one. His daughter Anna Freud, a pioneer of child psychoanalysis, is mentioned in part two. Wilhelm Reich, an opponent of Freud's theories, is discussed in part three. Along these lines, The Century of the Self asks deeper questions about the roots and methods of consumerism and commodification and their implications. It also questions the modern way people see themselves, the attitudes to fashion, and superficiality. In part four the main subjects are Philip Gould, a political strategist, and Matthew Freud, a PR consultant and the great-grandson of Sigmund Freud. In the 1990s, they were instrumental to bringing the Democratic Party in the US and New Labour in the United Kingdom back into power through use of the focus group, originally invented by psychoanalysts employed by US corporations to allow consumers to express their feelings and needs, just as patients do in psychotherapy. Curtis ends by saying that, "Although we feel we are free, in reality, we—like the politicians—have become the slaves of our own desires..." The culmination of the Great Divorce, when the west left Aristotelian Virtue behind, and adopted the individual will as it's new God.

Dick Proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin on the shore of Twin Lakes, Alaska. The first summer he scouted for the best cabin site, and cut and peeled the logs he would need for his cabin. Dick returned the next summer to finish the cabin where he lived for over 30 years. Dick filmed his adventures, and Bob Swerer later turned the film into a video so we can all watch this amazing man build his cabin by hand. Watch through Dick's eyes as he documents his dream with his 16mm wind-up Bolex camera, capturing his own amazing craftsmanship, the stunning Alaskan wildlife and scenery and even a visit from his brother Ray (Jake). His epic journey takes you on a vacation away from the hustle and bustle of today's fast-paced society, and is a true breath of fresh air.

Narrated by Ronald Reagan Introductory remarks by Alexander Kerensky Produced, Directed, and Edited by Sid O. Fields Documentary Films, Inc. From the Stingray Collection

Wherein I play some games on my 2600+ for your distraction and amusement

Immediately after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Professor Jane Elliott used the minimal group paradigm to perform an experiment that would teach her students about racial discrimination. The minimal group paradigm has shaped an entire methodology in social psychology. Basically, you establish differences between a set of subjects in order to divide them into separate groups. This technique allows researchers to show how many different traits are necessary to create defined groups, and then analyze the subjects’ behavior within their groups. But this paradigm has been, and is today, being weaponized to create a new Marxist Class Consciousness, based on the bogus 19th century idea of "race". This is then being wedded to a false theory of race conflict, in an attempt to foment a revolution.

Trying helvum patchbay

A short selection of Christmas carols performed in front of Blackwell's Oxford, 10 December 2023.

Wherein I try my best not to fail badly at Atari Games