Kali Tribune

Category: Podcast

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Knowledge / Podcast

Appetite for Destruction

In this podcast we provide the exposition of traditional notion of evil as privation, with the customary KT spin: as contemporary intellectual climate tends to reject the old fashioned metaphysics of evil – where evil is just an addendum to the metaphysics of good – because it is, supposedly, inadequate to explain the “horrors of 20th Century”, we introduce two real life examples of evil people to illustrate just how deep into depravity the seemingly innocuous act of privation can go.

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Ask Kali / Knowledge / Podcast

KT Answers, pt.3: All or Nothing

In the third episode of our Q&A podcast we address the questions about the nature of substance, being, person and soul, while pointing out the pitfalls of confusing the popular Science Fiction narratives with the philosophy proper.

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Knowledge / Podcast / Politics

Harmony of Tongues

In this podcast Mihai attempts to answer questions of ethnicity, race, nationalism and the ontological place of sexes from the perspective of Eastern Church and its Tradition.

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Ask Kali / Podcast

KT Answers, pt.2: Peoples, Nations, Wars and Turning of Other Cheek

In the second part of our Q&A session we answer to questions about what is ethnicity (or people) and can it be defined, whereas Christian dictum of turning the other cheek is at odds with historical reality, why the political community should have origin that its member cannot re-create, how Internet based Right could just be a homosexual grooming operation and much, much more. Also we provide some thoughts on Schopenhauer and the way we discern between what is useful and what is superfluous for the kind of philosophy we practice on KT.

 

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Ask Kali / Podcast

KT Answers, pt.1: Cosmic Ego and the Devil in Psychoanalysis

As we received quite a lot of question and none of them an easy one, we’ll need more than one podcast to provide answers. In this one, we pick two easiest ones: what is Ego and what was Rene Guenon’s charge against psychoanalysis. These two subjects are not unrelated and can be treated quite similarly from the metaphysical perspective which encompasses what is usually understood as purely psychological set of problems. We explain how Ego can be a metaphysical principle, why it is in fact the most precise expression of what is meant by elementary material particle, how it relates to time and why it is by its very nature destructive towards the past. Finally, we give some everyday examples of Ego-principle working in our day and age, especially as a conditio sine qua non of popular culture and entertainment.

As for Guenon’s verdict on psychoanalysis, we explain his method and approach, as well as why he did consider it to be a crypto-diabolic practice.

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Knowledge / Podcast

Basic Notions of Metaphysics: Being and Having

Why does one forget so many things in the course of one’s life? Why, on the other hand, the knowledge we retain has some peculiar, non-quantifiable, qualities to it? What it means to be in the know? These are the questions we’ll try to answer in this podcast, by referring them to one all encompassing distinction – that between ‘Being’ and ‘having being’. As always we begin with real life examples of the problem and in the course of discussion touch upon the important subject of personal identity, i.e. we denounce the error of identifying the person with the consciousness, an error that becomes quite apparent when reflecting on act of sleep and of having dreams. Also, we turn to our previous work on Nicholas of Cues’ De Visione Dei to provide us with some aid in addressing the problem on the higher level, once we abandon the ground of everyday experience.

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Analysis / Podcast

The Great Unsustainable Yawn

The apocalyptic predictions of “globalist takeover” in the midst of the COVID19 crisis seem to focus on the so-called “Great reset”, a new “agenda” for changing the world in few weeks time. We on KT, however, are not that impressed with this new episode of the sustainable development soap opera that’s been running for decades now, written and directed in, as it seems, rather ad hoc manner and would rather see Greta Thunberg episode again. For this reason we give a brief rundown on what the idea of sustainable development entails and reference our previous work on the subject, notably the analysis of the 1992. Agenda 21 document, which is, more or less, a blueprint for this, as it seems to us, by now largely failed doctrine.

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Analysis / Podcast / Politics

Hard to be a God

We all heard so much about infantile masses, of an ability to hide in the anonymous mass – in a word: the first association we tend to get when we think in terms of mass man is irresponsibility. However, rarely do we hear anything about equally deprived mass responsibility; rarely, of course, except on Kali Tribune. 

In this podcast we’ll address the subject of the flip side of popular power – popular responsibility as exemplified by idea, prevalent among the masses, that every problem and indeed everything occurring in this world is due to man or, more precisely, average man.

To demonstrate the absurdity of this notion and some of its possible roots, we’ll employ the help Joseph de Maistre, with the special focus on ideas from his essay On the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions, most eminently his insight into impossibility of creating the a priori legislature and the inferiority of written, i.e. systematized, laws and the impossibility of sovereignty coming from below.

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Podcast

Transcripts Project

A number of readers asked for transcripts of some of our initially unscripted podcasts. Hereby we announce the experiment of making meaningful transcripts and present the first one.