Kale sits down with Tara Ann Thieke to discuss The Machine, Spirits, Technology and the struggle to be human.
In the first half of the show they talk about what it could mean to be in a "post-Christian" world and the limits of the liberal order, and in particular what the implications are for people raised in this order and the reality of the meaning crisis. In the second half they talk about spirits.
Topics covered:
- Ellul and Illich
- Edith Stein
- paying attention to the face as an antidote to memes
- human person as Icon rather than thing or instrument
- curating your own social media game
- Spirits and compulsion
- Millennials have been lied to
- Benedict Option for those who have "timed out"
- the spirit of Ahriman
- Buffered and Porous models
- no neutrality in the spirit world
