Paul Kingsnorth: Blizzard of the World

Paul Kingsnorth: Blizzard of the World

Author: frontporchrepublic November 12, 2023 Duration: 1:03:14
Paul Kingsnorth delivered the keynote address at the 2023 FPR conference in Madison, Wisconsin.  With help from a diverse band of fellow travelers including Jewish-Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen, Anglo-Catholic social critic Malcolm Muggeridge, and the prophetic French-Egyptian Sufi Rene Guenon, the unexpectedly Irish Orthodox Kingsnorth takes listeners on a tour of techno-mirages, holy wells, and green deserts in a search for culture-seeding saints.      Highlights 2:00       Jeff introduces Paul 3:30       Paul introduces his thrift shop shirt 7:30       The disquiet of machine things 12:30    Surface debates and the depths beneath 19:00    Mumford and some on the suicide of the West 25:00    Anti-culture and real culture-making 29:00    Who is on the throne? (Or Paul as a sociological Bill Bright) 35:00    Transhumanist candor 38:00    Signs of light and darkness with Guenon and Spengler 47:00    A reluctant convert 50:00    Leaving the broken center for the margins 60:00    Short on saints    Resources Paul’s Substack and an interview at FPR On "AI Demonic" at Touchstone “The Cross and the Machine” at First Things Conference videos Conference co-sponsor Plough Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home

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