The General Eclectic The American Conservative

Rod and Kale discuss the shift in corporate virtue signaling and the move to make the states pay for their crimes. Are corporations more powerful than the government? They move on to talk about institutional capture and the challenges of raising not only religious kids but also basically conservative kids. They then tack to a conversation about the impending doom of the Derek Chuavin trial. Is it a disaster in the making? What is the responsibility for those with large megaphones and platforms?

Kale discusses a recent Substack in which Ross articulates the dilemmas facing Christian's in light of our current cultural exhaustions, what Ross works out in more detail with his latest book The Decadent Society. Rod joins Kale to continue the conversation and they talk about post-Obergfell, the Integralist response, and pessimism regarding where we stand.
 
Ross's The Decadent Society: The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success: Douthat, Ross: 9781476785240: Amazon.com: Books
 
Charles Taylor The Secular Age: A Secular Age: Taylor, Charles: 9780674986916: Amazon.com: Books
 
Ross's Substack on Christian Cul-de-sacs: Reactions (substack.com)
 
Rod's post on Discord Discord Servers: Woke Friends Consider Her A Leper | The American Conservative
 
Rod's response to Ross's Substack: Cosmos & Chickadee | The American Conservative
 
Rod's Sex After Christianity (a MUST read): Sex After Christianity | The American Conservative

In The General Eclectic #13, Rod and Kale discuss woke parents and school committees, social credit and social media, Lil Nas X and anti-Christian culture, and more.
 
Links:
Woke Parents Enemies list: In Aftermath Of Enemies List, School Committee Pledges To ‘Silence The Opposition’ | The Daily Wire and Teachers Compile List Of Parents Who Question Racial Curriculum, Plot War On Them | The Daily Wire
 
Rod's post on Two College Guys visit: 'Lovely People' & The Social Credit System | The American Conservative
 
Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism: The Origins of Totalitarianism: Arendt, Hannah: 9780156701532: Amazon.com: Books
 
Lil Nas's Satan Sneakers: Lil Nas X's Satan Shoes | The American Conservative
 
Lil Nas's NPR interview: Lil Nas X On His Children's Book, 'C Is For Country,' And Playing To Kids : NPR
 
Plenty Coups: Who Is The Plenty Coups Of The Christians? | The American Conservative
 
The Church as Culture: The Church as Culture by Robert Louis Wilken | Articles | First Things
 
Final Pagan Generation: The Final Pagan Generation by Edward J. Watts - Paperback - University of California Press (ucpress.edu)
 

In The General Eclectic #11 Rod and Kale recap more of the Woke March, but pivot to a larger discussion about more field notes from the emergent Soft Totalitiarianism. Rod's book Live Not By Lies continues to sell well, though with a virtual legacy media blackout. They move on to discuss the necessity to be unafraid of being a Weird Christian and the siren call for Bougie Conformity. Towards the end, these two Gen X'ers break form and offer an earnest thanks and plea to the audience for prayers. Links:
 
A military lawyer loses his job for an emoji tagged post about January 6: Is The US Military Being Purged Of Rightists? | The American Conservative
 
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi tells us what real Christians are: Antiracist, Anti-Christian | The American Conservative
 
A Live Not By Lies reading group in Massachusetts: MFI | Massachusetts Family Institute – Massachusetts Family Institute | Faith. Family. Freedom. (mafamily.org)
 
Pastor Paul Vanderklay's podcast with Kale: (48) Christian Education: Between the Table and the T-shirt with Brett Salkeld and Kale Zelden - YouTube
 
Live Not By Lies: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents (eighthdaybooks.com)

In episode #11, we discuss the return of Jordan Peterson, both in the form of his new book Beyond Order (Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: Peterson, Jordan B.: 9780593084649: Amazon.com: Books) but to the world of Podcasting.
 
In particular, his episode with Jonathan Pageau: (43) The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - Season 4 Episode 8: Jonathan Pageau - YouTube
 
It is a must watch video, and we see Peterson coming to that frightening point where the narrative and objective world meet.
We go on to discuss Rod's trip to Birmingham, and then Tucker Carlson's row with the woke military.
 
Other links:
"Gotcha Video": (43) Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism - YouTube 
Biblical Lectures: (43) Biblical Series I: Introduction to the Idea of God - YouTube
 
Tactical Faith: Celebrating 10 Years! - Tactical Faith
 
Rod's Substack: Daily Dreher (substack.com)

In #10 Rod and Kale discuss the normalization of cultural nihilism and the capture of the modes of production. We discuss: 
-The California Enshrinement of Throuples: The Whale And The Net | The American Conservative
-The capture of the Civil Rights movement and Justice Kennedy's infamous establishment on personal definition of destiny
-Christopher Caldwell's The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties: Caldwell, Christopher: 9781501106897: Amazon.com: Books
-E.J. Dionne's claim that Biden has rolled back the culture war: Opinion | Biden is rolling back the culture war. The country should thank him. - The Washington Post
-Pillar discussion about +Wuerl, +Gregory, and +Tobin and the ongoing rot of church corruption: The Pillar (pillarcatholic.com) (a no-brainer sub)
-Bari Weiss's Woke Cult comes to your favorite Prep Schools: The Miseducation of America’s Elites | City Journal (city-journal.org)