David Cayley on Illich and Institutions

David Cayley on Illich and Institutions

Author: frontporchrepublic July 5, 2021 Duration: 37:07
Canadian radio broadcaster David Cayley pulls up a chair to discuss Ivan Illich, a renegade priest and professor who argued against schools, missionaries, and modern medicine. Cayley, author of Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey, walks listeners through Illich’s thought and its applications to current tests like the pandemic. Guest Host: Michael Sauter Highlights 0:30 Murdock asks, “Storied thinker or Tolstoy story?” 2:15 David Cayley, a man of Ideas 3:00 Sauter conversation with Cayley begins 4:00 Cayley on cassette 8:00 Corruption of the best is the worst, the West in a nutshell 10:15 Charles Taylor in the secular amen corner 11:45 Place, Limits, and Liberty (and Illich) 12:45 Freedom and the Wackosphere 13:45 What is enough? 15:45 “Three Dimensions of Public Choice” 18:00 Technologies you can’t put down 21:00 Free-relatedness and dependency on others 22:15 The risk of birth 24:30 Doorways to nowhere 27:00 Computerized people and COVID 29:30 Cayley’s death cult 31:00 Apocalypse and revelation 33:30 Beware an institutionalized Incarnation 35:30 Illich and friends around the table Resources Full interview and Sauter review Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey davidcayley.com Obituary in The Lancet The Death of Ivan Ilyitch Find Your Way Home

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