REDACTED Culture Cast
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187: Four Genomes of Gun Control Arguments
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeArguments back and forth over gun control often follow consistent strains that resemble genetic lines through time. A bad argument of t...
188: James Lindsay on Woke Warfare
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeWhen it comes to conversation on 5th Generational Warfare, we often get bogged down in the discussion on defining the terms, so much so...
186: No, There Isn't a War on Masculinity
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeLook at the literature of Christian writers on Masculinity, and you'll see a long lineage of writers putting black ink to white pa...
185: C.B. Robertson on New Academia, Moral Philosophy, and the Counter Enlightenment
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeJust because Academia suffers from internal decay and the death of its legitimacy, doesn't mean we ought abandon the tenants of it...
184: I Hope this Ages Poorly
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeSome arguments are like communism: you cannot completely stamp them out, and every once in a while and old dispute must rise to the sur...
183: The Horns of the Dilemma with Christian Nationalism
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeWhat does Gun Control and Christian Nationalism have in common? Particularly, the rhetoric against them. While bad arguments of a simil...
182: J Drago on the Trivial and the Significant, AI, and Transhumanism
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThere's plenty of buzz on the topics of such as AI and transhumanism when it comes to individual agency, questions about what it m...
181: Preemtive Self Defense
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThere is a strain that runs through current political ideology that divides mankind into two parts. Some call them oppressors and oppre...
179: The Anatomy of a Dictator
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeIn a recent clip, a speaker on MSNBC described Christian Nationalism as believing that Rights exclusively come from God, or at least, t...
180: Nic Magjack3r on Training Before and After a Gunfight
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe idea of combat being some rite of proving is neither new, nor something to be trivialized. Dreams of glory, the horrors of war, cyn...
178: Intellectual Casualties
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeIf we are going to talk about ideological and information warfare, we would be foolish to ignore the intellectual or ideological injuri...
177: SHOT SHOW 2024 Full Panel with Gridbase, Collin Underdahl, Luke Brown, and More
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeAudio Warning: This was our first attempt at a recording with this many people. It's not the best sound but the conversation is wo...
176: Two Examples of Culture as Attack Vector
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeTwo recent events (depending on how you interpret the news cycle) help point out the relevance of Culture as a potential attack vector....
175: The Putin Interview
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeYou can tell a lot about a person by the way they responded to the mere existence of Tucker Carlson's interview of Vladimir Putin....
174: Moral Injury
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeWhile medication has focused on treating the physical injuries that can contribute to PTSD, it remains ill equipped to address moral in...
173: Christianity in Gun Culture
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeGun Culture is amalgamous. Christ is eternal. There's a Christian Trend. How are we to approach it?Are we here because it it fits...
172: A Bar Fight and Mob Mentality
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeIt is possible to look at a situation that takes place within our culture, acknowledge that happened was wrong, even to offer aid, with...
171: SHOT SHOW 2024 Culture Report
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeA side note, for those who read these: SHOTSHOW has a strange effect on the industry, where for those who attend, it seems quite easy t...
170: The End of a Secular Age
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to Me2023 was a painful year, and the sentiment is that it's only beginning. The question remains, what is the IT that is only beginni...
169: Kenneth W. Royce on Manhood and the Duty to Protect
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe landscape of discussion on masculinity hosts many tribes. Some demand specialization, others, annihilation. All of which appear unh...
168: The Ends Never Justify The Means
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe Ends Justify The MeansYou have to break a few eggs to make an OmeletteAnd similar phrases are not only used to moraly justify atroc...
167: What Makes Civil War so Dangerous
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe subject of Civil War is once again in the mainstream, this time brought forward by a trailer by the very namesake. Dark Humor gets ...
166: Why Men Go Off to War
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeBy my estimation, since the Second World War, the West has taken for granted why men will voluntarily go off to war. It generally minim...
165: Fifteen Years in Gun Culture
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeIf entrance into the military counts as initiation into Gun Culture (it doesn't, but work with me here), then I have spent 15 year...
164: Bargain Bin Tactician on Music to Gun Culture's Gear Orthodoxy
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeWe don't talk about gear too much on the REDACTED Culture Cast, but when we do, we do it with a flair of the unorthodox. Cody, the...
163: Broad vs Narrow Culture War
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeIf war is simply conflict between Governments or states, and the use of armies targets the politcal, which economic warfare attacks a p...
162: Brent aka One One Bravo on Volunteering Time, Community in Demonstration
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MePutting community building into practice, Brent built a community through volunteering his time and experience to put on events for tho...
161: Politics, Economics, and Culture
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThree methods of approach, three subject that produce the context for our lives. We take a look at three different subjects: Politics, ...
160: Early Thanksgiving with Paigeosity - Cultural Momentum
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeNow that the holidays have breached your calendar with a flash bang and a flame-thrower, we've got Paigeosity back on the show to ...
159: The False Idol of Dichotomy
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThose who encounter violence and war will be tempted to see themselves a combination of the light and the darkness in this world. Vario...
158: War Takes Place in the Fringes
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeIn the mind of Clausewitz wars had a beginning and and end, or at least they should. But when we look at the ways peoples have waged wa...
157: Regular Israel vs Irregular Palestine
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeAs the Levant once again gathers the attention of the world, we have an opportunity to learn about not only how wars are fought, but ho...
156: The Myth of the Free Thinker
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeIt can be quite funny to watch fools opine grandly about how they are, themselves, a free thinker, without a single consideration for w...
155: Marcus Singletary and Luke Brown
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeTwo guests join the show today, both with former appearances on the REDACTED Culture Cast, and both with a strong take on the grime and...
154: All War is Holy War, All War is Religious
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe argument is made, time and time again, that if we could just get rid of religion, we would be able to end all wars. Yet that belief...
153: Gun Culture Deserves to Disappear
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeAt the beating heart of this community and culture is the idea that all men are created equal. That there is no distinction between cit...
152: Hyper-Awareness will Get You Killed
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeBy now, most of us are familiar with the trope of the hyper-alert, hyper-aware veteran who's level of situational awareness often ...
151: A Returning Medieval Ethic of War
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeMuch of how we describe ethics in war comes from a tradition that was born relatively recently in comparison to the history of warfare....
150: Tim Selbrede on Defining and Discerning Terrorism and Propaganda
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeAnother Ranger joins the show, this time one with the capability to pass the high standards of the Ranger Regiment when it comes to fun...
149: Gun Culture Doesn't Just Eat Its Own, We Actively Refuse to Support One Another
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeHow much of this community consists of freeloaders, riding on the coattails of those putting in the work? How many people in this commu...
148: RUIN, Decay, and Permanence
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeEverywhere we look, it appears that the world is falling apart. The institutions have been corrupted, and not by crafty tyrants whose s...
147: Peter Ildefonsa on Responsibility Precedes Right
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeHailing from a family with an adventuresome past, Peter Ildefonse joins the show to argue that our Rights reside downhill from our resp...
146: Sleeper Cells, Insurgents, Guerrilla, and Getting Recce Wrong
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeWe're hearing politicians and pundits wax poetic about the threat of sleeper cell terrorists attacking America. All attention is t...
145: The OPSEC Leviathan
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeOPSEC, short for Operation Security is Military Jargon for keeping information vital to the security and success of an operation out ou...
144: How the News becomes Religion
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe idea of the news is a fascinating one. Somehow, the individual who's job it is to give you the news is supposed to accomplish ...
143: War Unlimited
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeIn the movies, the bad guys willingly target women and children. The good guys fight with honor, even when faced with chaotic situation...
142: A Higher War
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe Bible makes many references to war, some of them as if they were already history to the penman of the Old Testament, some of them y...
141: Irregular vs Regular Fighters
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeAs we consider the consequences of decentralization, we look to history to consider what the past has to show about different types of ...
140: How Moral Philosophy Clears the Fog of War
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe idea of war isn't as simple as the Patriot or Braveheart like it to be. How do we consider the weight of conflict in an regula...
139: Resentment in Gun Culture
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe opposite of elitism should be something like equality. But the inverse of gatekeeping in Gun Culture has manifested in resentment. ...
138: Tyler of Longhouse Preparedness on Moral Foundations
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe graveyard of Empires and male suicide both point to the same thing: without a solid moral foundation you open yourself up to not on...
137: Biden to Announce new Gun Violence Office
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeOn Thursday, the 22nd of September 2023, the Biden Administration announced that a new Office of Gun Violence Prevention would come int...
136: Killing vs Shooting
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MePolitics aside, we're intuitively aware that there's a difference between killing and shooting. When Gun Culture gets dramati...
135: Summoning Demons for MultiCulturalism
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeWhile the utopia of Multiculturalism tempts with ideas as thorough as us "all getting along," it quickly breaks down in the r...
134: Vengeance, the Corruption of Justice
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeYou have heard it said, "Vengeance is mine, says the Lord."You have also heard it said that those who pursue Vengeance will n...
133: The Overton Window and Its Consequences
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe Overton Window gets referenced most in political and social conversation, and it refers to the spectrum of socially acceptable norm...
132: Choice and The Law of Excluded Middle
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeOne of the three fundamental laws that dictate formal logic is the law of excluded middle. In propositional logic it looks like this:A ...
131: Exhortation: The Government Betrayed You, So What?
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeWith great passion, people across the internet and the world will try to convince us not to trust the government. To some, this is a no...
130: Angel Cortes // Gang Violence vs Ranger Battalion, and Community Building
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeWhen I joined the Army, I distinctly remember one man in basic training say that he had enlisted so that he could be a part of the bigg...
129: The View From Above Fallacy
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeHave you ever heard someone go about explaining the two sides to an argument, only to later discover they're involved in one side ...
128: How We Think About Faith
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThose of us millennials who grew up in the American church will likely find this sentiment familiar: we read of the faithlessness of th...
127: TELOS
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeTelos, Teleology, and the question of what is the end goal? In addition to the existential crisis, which turns out to be the contempora...
126: Sovereignty
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeBoth Politics and Theology place a heavy weight on the concept of sovereignty. Just like the idea of Human Rights, there's a diffe...
125: How to be a Christian in the Military
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to Me"How Can you Be a Christian in the Military?" What kind of answer are you looking for? Are you looking for a worldview or a s...
124: Is Gun Culture Materialistic?
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeSo as not to be mistaken for a trap, Betteridge's Law applies here. There's a difference between materialism and accusing so...
123: Dualism, Descartes, Plato, and The Mind
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeWe stand on the shoulders of Giants, who have gone before us, as men, just like us, to try to understand what it true and what it means...
122: Euthyphro Dilemma and the Gods
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe question asked by Socrates gets to the heart of how we think about who or what God is. Many of the arguments regarding God falter o...
121: The State of REDACTED, 2023
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe singularity will change, the world will remain the same. REDACTED is a strange conglomeration of those who know, and those who sus...
120: Ethan Walters on How to [Not] get Killed by the FBI
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe events that took place in our recent history draw attention once again that there's a difference between the ideal when it com...
118 Pt 2: Literally Me Explained with Collin Underdahl
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe meme-ability of Blade Runner 2049 serves as a testament to the its grasp on the human condition at this time. The parallels between...
119: Clairvoyance and Achievement
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe pursuit of Knowledge is its own reward, or so the saying goes. And although this saying might have some immediate motivating value ...
118 Pt 1: Collin Underdahl on Dismantling Gossip
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe funny thing about Gossip, is that, like murder or stealing, it's nearly a universally opposed activity, at least when others a...
117: Godless Fools
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe Fool Says in his heart "There is No God." With the slow collapse of the New Atheist movement in the background, we are ma...
116: Beau Doboszenski on The Casualty of Trust
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeBeau Doboszenski returns to address what might be the greatest casualty of the contemporary world: Trust. While it goes hand-in-hand wi...
115 Pt 2: Ian Strimbeck on Fitness and Death
29 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeWe've all likely heard it before: if you're not fit, you're going to die. If that's the stick, what does the carrot...
115 Pt 1: Ian Strimbeck of RuneNation: Contentment as Antidote to the Rat Race
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeWe're all familiar with the Rat Race in Gun Culture. Call it Keeping Up with the Jones if you want, but the effect extends beyond ...
114: Ethan "Gypsy" Walters - One Lap in the Arena
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeGypsy Walters in this episode that covers the breadth and depth of Gun Culture. So much has changed in the past decade within the circl...
113: In Defense of Gatekeeping
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeAdmittedly it can be a semantic game, but when it comes to gatekeeping, the conversation within Gun Culture has become almost entirely ...
112: Tribe and Tribalism, Community and Cult
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeTen years ago "Tribe" led the charts as a buzzword. Today, the word is community. If it's a good thing, we call it being...
111: Principles in Tension
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeFor fun, we are going to engage in one of those classic topics: Capitalism vs. Socialism. While it is common for us to hear that Socia...
110: Conspiracy Theory as Gnostic Mysticism
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeWhen we hear the words "Conspiracy Theory" we instinctually recognize that the language is loaded with implication. Because i...
109: Death to Pornography
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeWith all that sweet, sweet awareness that The Sound of Freedom drummed up, and for good reason, we're going to address the elephan...
108 Part 2: Will Spencer of the Renaissance of Men on Protecting in a Time of Fragility
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeIf the role of a man is to protect and provide for his family, what does that look like in an era where even self-defense is contorted ...
108 Part 1: Will Spencer of Renaissance of Men - Reconciliation of the Sexes
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeReconciliation is a term often used in theological conversations, as well as in attempts to resolve conflicts within families. What Fem...
107: An Old Evil and the Demoralization that Follows
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe culture war has shifted its attention to an old evil: Slavery. While we start by navigating some of the responses, the conversation...
106: Night Vision and Resentment
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeWhat does Night Vision have to do with Resentment. For those ingrained in both the Culture War and the Firearms Community, it may not c...
105: Some People Have It
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThroughout history we have a long list of examples of both individuals and empires that divided all of humanity between those above and...
104: Declaration or Manifesto?
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeWhat's the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Manifesto of a Mass Murderer? As we celebrate the 4th of Jul...
103: Multiculturalism: Fruit Without a Vine
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe Philosopher's Stone, Mysticism, Alchemy. When we try to turn Lead into Gold, we do so blind to the consequences. When we try t...
102: Generalizations and Semantics
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeLike stolen valor, Gun Culture takes misplaced generalizations seriously, even personally, when people representing our ideals in the p...
101 Part 2: Marcus Singletary of Cloaked Entry Co. - Accepting Consequences with Conviction
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeWhat is it that makes our enemies most dangerous? What about Special Operations? We quickly go to tools, infrastructure, and logistics....
101 Part 1: Marcus Singletary of Cloaked Entry Co. - Everyone's a Fed
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeWhat happens when the joke becomes reality? When the inside mischief of collective humor goes the wrong way? We've examples in rec...
100: Jack Donovan on Masculinity, Violence, and Myth
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeIf the Gun Culture of the 1990's had a mythology to be described by the mainstream media, it would be centered around an approachi...
099: A Priori vs A Posteriori Justifications and Violence
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeWhy are our leaders setting us up for failure? Which ones are aware of the trap, and which ones are merely following the language of th...
098: Jake Kunsky of JK Armament on Suppressor History, Culture, and Dark Competition
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeThe proliferation of Suppressors across the broader reaches of what we call Gun Culture may serve as counter to the doom-sayers of the ...
097 Part 2: Jordan of Finance and Maneuver // Risk and Reward
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeIn this second half, the conversation continues on questions that haunt every man. Fables, expectations, and rites of passage, common m...
097 Part 1: Jordan of Finance and Maneuver - Cliffside.
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeMore than just Gun Culture is reeling from an atomized society. As a result, the term "community" rides from one circle to an...
096: Need is Not Enough
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeBetter to have it and not Need it, then to Need it and not Have it. This simple justification may work in a pinch, but in the long run...
095 Pt 2: Luke Brown aka Southpaw Luke, Duty Begets Joy
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeMotivation, Meaning, and Purpose stand out in the 21st Century as missing from society. On the one hand, this may be the problem our er...
095 Pt 1: Luke Brown aka Southpaw Luke on Odysseus, Meaning, and Republic
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talk Back to MeOne of the pleasures of engaging with Philosophy, is that it nearly requires one to read the old texts. There's a reason we so oft...