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Conversations about how civilizations get built, and how they come apart.

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  1. 6d ago

    Is Black Culture a Manufactured Identity? | The Construct EP8 with Chad O. Jackson

    Filmmaker Chad O. Jackson on the political invention of blackness, the weaponization of victimhood, and the ideological battle for the soul of Western civilization. Get my work delivered straight to your inbox: liamoutloud.substack.com 00:00 Introduction 00:54 Is Black Culture a Manufactured Identity? 11:10 How the Left Uses Art to Shape Society 18:38 Why Conservatives Lost the Culture War 26:34 Crowd Psychology and the Coming Social Unrest 34:08 Is the West Facing a Noah’s Ark Moment? 38:43 Why Modern Ideologies Turn Against Civilization 46:19 Victimhood, Residential Schools and Tulsa 53:05 Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard and the Psychology of Resentment 59:48 Why Christianity Makes People Uncomfortable 1:07:07 Why Following Christ Requires Surrender 1:11:22 Immigration, Multiculturalism and Christian Ethics 1:18:17 Christianity, Freedom and the Foundations of Western Law 1:24:51 The West’s Three Possible Futures 1:27:16 Chad O. Jackson’s The Myth of Blackness Follow Liam: Instagram - @liam.out.loud X - @liam_out_loud Facebook - www.facebook.com/im.liam.out.loud Follow Chad: Instagram - @chadojackson YouTube -  ⁨@ChadOJackson X - @ChadOJackson

  2. Oct 20

    How Feminism Turned Men and Women Against Each Other | The Construct EP7 with Kate Marland

    Kate Marland joins The Construct to discuss how a generation of women was taught to prize achievement over motherhood, replacing fulfilment with an abstract vision of success. We explore how women were liberated into a different kind of prison, why the free market can't fix the gender war it helped create, and how the sexual revolution has driven men and women further apart. Finally, we examine the loss of objective morality, the meaning of womanhood, and why rebuilding the family is the first step towards rebuilding civilization. Get my work delivered straight to your inbox: liamoutloud.substack.com 00:00 The Lie Women Were Sold About Success 07:23 The Collapse of Family Formation 14:30 The Liberation Trap 23:09 How the Free Market Fuelled the Gender War 30:04 When Capitalism and Feminism Become Idols 38:02 What Does It Mean to Be a Woman? 45:21 When Government Replaces the Family 54:17 The Sexual Revolution and the Loss of Morality 1:00:27 Sexual Double Standards and Modern Culture 1:07:16 Freedom Without Responsibility 1:14:08 Christianity, Virtue, and Rebuilding Civilization Follow Kate: www.withoutdiminishment.com X: x.com/kateemarland Follow Me: Instagram - @liam.out.loud X - @liam_out_loud Facebook - www.facebook.com/im.liam.out.loud

  3. Oct 13

    The Inquisition Left the Church and Entered Politics | The Construct EP6 with Arthur Versluis

    The impulse that burned Giordano Bruno in a public square never actually went away. Rather, it was secularized, leaving the Church and entering politics. Professor Arthur Versluis joins me to discuss the new inquisitions, the hunting of political heretics, the suppression of dissent, and why the West has become fundamentally anti-Western. We also explore the collapse of faith in higher education, Gnosticism, Plato’s Cave, and The Matrix, leading to one important question: Can a society be built by the people who leave the cave?Get my work delivered directly to your inbox: liamoutloud.substack.com00:00 Introduction — The New Inquisitions 01:41 The Origins of the New Inquisitions 04:00 How Heretic Hunting Became Political 10:35 What Is a Heretic? 12:05 Giordano Bruno and the Historical Inquisition 14:26 Cancel Culture and Modern Heretic Hunting 17:23 Is Heretic Hunting Human Nature? 18:34 Mao's Cultural Revolution and Collective Insanity 21:56 The Anti-Western West 25:57 How Civilizations Lose Their Founding Ideals 30:06 Why Americans Are Losing Faith in Universities 37:33 Herbert Marcuse and Repressive Tolerance 42:04 The Recurring Patterns of Intellectual History 44:27 The Matrix and Modern Gnosticism 47:06 What Is Gnosticism? 54:40 Plato's Allegory of the Cave 58:03 The Inquisition and Those Who Escape the Cave 59:09 Materialism and the Modern Worldview 1:04:38 Why Alternative Ways of Thinking Are Excluded 1:09:14 Is There Still Room for Dissent in Universities? 1:13:22 Rediscovering Secret Societies 1:14:37 Freemasonry, Rosicrucians and the Illuminati 1:20:42 The Problem With Conspiracy Narratives 1:21:55 Can We Build a Society Outside Plato's Cave? 1:23:21 Imagining an Alternative Civilization 1:25:29 Culture, Bureaucracy and Tolkien's Vision 1:28:04 Arthur Versluis's Work and the High Rose InstituteFollow Liam:Instagram: @liam.out.loudX: @liam_out_loudFacebook: www.facebook.com/im.liam.out.loudFollow Arthur: Website: arthurversluis.comHieros: hieros.institute

  4. Oct 5

    The Rule of Law Is a Myth | The Construct EP5 with Bruce Pardy

    The West's political class likes to think of itself as the leaders of the free world. But what if we are not even free, and what happens when rulers don't recognize any limits on their power? Bruce Pardy joins me on The Construct to discuss how social justice turned the law from a shield into a sword, why we have already breached the threshold of two-tier justice, and the paradox of the state, where you can't be free with it and you can't be free without it. The failure of the West to recognize this inversion of law has led to bureaucratic tyranny. "We live in a managed society," says Bruce. 00:00 — Intro 00:54 — Why the Law Is Ambiguous 05:26 — Rule of Law vs. Rule by Law 10:13 — Are Courts Really Apolitical? 12:39 — When Judges Become Policymakers 15:02 — Canada’s Two-Tier Justice System 19:42 — Why the Law Is Losing Public Respect 20:44 — Can Morality Be the Basis of Law? 26:44 — What Does It Actually Mean to Be Free? 31:26 — Objective Reality vs. Individual Freedom 33:36 — Can Freedom Exist Without Shared Values? 36:24 — The Limits of Consent 38:46 — Does Individual Freedom Destroy Culture? 42:21 — Do Irrational People Still Deserve Freedom? 44:24 — Nozick’s Tale of the Slave 46:48 — Every Law Is Ultimately Backed by Force 48:44 — The Paradox of the State 50:46 — Why the U.S. Constitution Failed to Limit Government 53:02 — How Bruce Would Rewrite the Constitution 55:29 — Individual Justice vs. Group-Based Justice 57:32 — Reparations and Historical Group Claims 1:00:01 — Who Should Be Allowed to Become a Citizen? 1:03:11 — Why Immigration Restrictions Became Taboo 1:06:30 — The Rise of the Managerial State 1:08:50 — Delegation, Deference and Discretion 1:10:53 — Why Bad Policy Isn’t the Real Problem 1:12:15 — How Do You Fight an Invisible Bureaucracy? 1:14:30 — Why People Voluntarily Give Up Freedom 1:16:22 — Why Conservatives Keep Failing to Change the System 1:18:40 — Can Radical Reform Avoid Authoritarianism? 1:21:05 — Is Canada Beyond Reform? 1:23:22 — Good Constitution or Good People? Follow Liam: Instagram: @liam.out.loud X: @liam_out_loud Facebook: www.facebook.com/im.liam.out.loud Follow Bruce Pardy: Website: rightsprobe.org Substack: brucepardy.substack.com X: x.com/BrucePardy

  5. Sep 27

    The Totalitarian Playbook: How Free Societies Lose Themselves | The Construct EP4

    What is totalitarianism and how does it operate? There is a commonality between the worst of the 20th century regimes that is not often discussed. From crisis, propaganda, manufactured enemies and two-tier justice to surveillance, institutional capture, atomization and the destruction of competing loyalties, I outline the playbook. Finally, I look at what happens when truth can no longer travel upward, the warning signs to watch for, and what individuals can do to resist the lie. Get my work delivered directly to your inbox: liamoutloud.substack.com 00:00 Intro 01:41 Dictatorship vs. Totalitarianism 06:25 When Doctrine Becomes Total 08:51 Ressentiment and the True Believer 11:19 Crisis Creates the Opening 16:07 The Permanent Enemy 18:29 The Hollow Individual 23:15 Loneliness and the Totalitarian Man 25:41 Propaganda and Political Language 30:20 Doublethink and Paramoralisms 32:43 The Censor Inside Your Head 35:10 No Freedom of Silence 37:30 Rewriting the Past 42:13 Manufacturing Enemies 44:32 Mao’s Anti-Rightist Campaign 51:27 Two-Tier Justice 58:28 Pathocracy and Negative Selection 01:05:32 Forced Complicity 01:10:14 Dependency and the Command Economy 01:12:37 Surveillance and the Stasi 01:17:31 Why the Family Matters 01:22:10 When the Regime Goes Blind 01:26:58 Six Diagnostic Questions 01:31:38 The Antidote to Totalitarianism 01:34:01 Seven Types Under a Totalitarian System 01:36:23 Resistance Starts With the Individual 01:41:13 The Totalitarian Playbook Recapped 01:43:34 Technology Raises the Stakes Follow Liam:Instagram: @liam.out.loud X: @liam_out_loud Facebook: www.facebook.com/im.liam.out.loud

  6. Sep 19

    The West is Losing WWIII and Doesn't Know It | The Construct EP3 with Doomberg

    Doomberg joins The Construct to explain why the West is losing World War III, as well as why its leaders may be too blinded by their own propaganda to see it. We discuss the war in Ukraine, the collapse of the postwar order, Europe’s energy crisis, depopulation theories, and the growing power of Russia and China. From energy and industrial capacity to lateral thinking and global conflict, this conversation examines whether the West’s decline is the result of incompetence or design. Get my work delivered directly to your inbox: liamoutloud.substack.com 00:00 Energy, war and the fate of nations 01:29 The West isn’t playing chess 04:25 Is the chaos incompetence—or design? 08:30 Depopulation, degrowth and the Club of Rome 10:54 The real history of Malthusianism 17:08 Energy is life 21:52 Why Europe is dangerously exposed 26:29 Doomberg: Ukraine has already lost 30:21 Why nobody reads what Putin says 34:41 When leaders believe their own propaganda 37:04 Power, psychopathy and political delusion 41:06 World War III and the collapse of the old order 49:19 How Russia and China remember World War II 53:12 Competing narratives of global power 55:41 Who is ultimately responsible? 59:54 The illusion of linear causation 1:02:17 How lateral thinking works 1:07:01 Can America still police the world? 1:11:15 China and the destruction of Western industry 1:13:21 The dollar, Wall Street and the Pentagon 1:15:47 Where to find Doomberg Follow Liam: Instagram: @liam.out.loud X: @liam_out_loud Facebook: www.facebook.com/im.liam.out.loud Subscribe to Doomberg: newsletter.doomberg.com

  7. Sep 12

    The West Is Being Taught to Hate Its Own History | The Construct EP2 with Tom FitzGerald

    What is Western civilization and is it in decline? Tom FitzGerald joins The Construct to discuss the forgotten achievements of the Middle Ages, the traits shared by history's greatest leaders, the morality of conquest and the ideological rewriting of the West's past. Lastly, we examine what historical films get wrong and why young men need heroes worth aspiring toward. 00:00 — What Defines Western Civilization?05:40 — Is the West Truly in Decline?11:54 — The Myth of the Dark Ages20:14 — Alexander the Great and the Leaders Who Made History28:15 — What History’s Greatest Men Had in Common37:13 — The Oppressor–Oppressed View of History46:04 — Conquest, Human Sacrifice and Just War55:48 — Colonization and the Myth of Inherited Guilt1:02:10 — How Hollywood Rewrites History1:10:51 — What Happens When a Culture Destroys Its Heroes1:19:48 — Historical Films, Higher Ideals and Lessons for Young Men Get my work delivered directly to your inbox: liamoutloud.substack.comFollow Liam: Instagram: @liam.out.loud X: @liam_out_loud Facebook: www.facebook.com/im.liam.out.loudFollow Tom: IG: www.instagram.com/tomfitzgerald._ YT: www.youtube.com/@TomFitzgerald_History Newsletter: auctoritas.ie/newsletter

  8. Sep 2

    Why Canada Refused to Help America Investigate Mexican Cartels with Sam Cooper | The Construct EP1

    Investigative journalist Sam Cooper reveals how foreign states, drug cartels and organized crime networks have infiltrated Canada’s institutions and economy. We examine the criminal takeover of trucking routes, China’s theft of Western research and the political forces enabling it all. Is Canada merely weak, or has the country become willfully blind to its own capture? 00:00 - Introduction 01:04 - Cartel-linked trucking networks in Canada 04:53 - How organized crime infiltrates the trucking industry 07:21 - The Wolfpack Alliance and Canada’s gang landscape 10:49 - Crime networks as transnational businesses 14:10 - Law enforcement, political pressure, and institutional inaction 18:48 - Elite networks, foreign influence, and national decline 25:06 - Where organized-crime money goes 29:31 - Is organized crime an unavoidable part of geopolitics? 34:06 - Trade disputes, alliances, and global security 40:14 - Manufacturing, tariffs, and strategic self-sufficiency 42:31 - COVID, biolabs, and the Winnipeg Lab questions 51:09 - China’s Thousand Talents Program and IP theft 55:15 - Culture wars, foreign influence, and social movements Get my work delivered directly to your inbox: liamoutloud.substack.com Follow me: Instagram: @liam.out.loud X: @liam_out_loud Facebook: www.facebook.com/im.liam.out.loud Follow Sam: www.thebureau.news x.com/scoopercooper

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Conversations about how civilizations get built, and how they come apart.

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  • Creator
    Liam Out Loud
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    8
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Liam Out Loud
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    The Construct

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