Bowden On America And The Crisis Of The West

Circumstances intervened to prevent a MD show this week, so I encourage listeners to enjoy this classic speech from Jonathan Bowden. I have listened to this one–and almost all of his speeches–over twenty times.

“The important thing is to get people emotionally. And it’s to appeal to the forces and wellsprings in their mind which are eternal, and which underpin rationality. The power of irrational belief as spiritual codification, of mystical belief, of belief in identity, of the need for communitarianism, and the need to belong, is immensely powerful.”