Our Foundations Podcast

From the Middle Ages through the Renaissance through the Reformation, education evolved with different approaches, interpretations, and manifestations. Today, there are many similar aspects to scholasticism as well as movements similar to the shift to humanism. The technology of the internet enables some of this and much is driven through ideological motivations. From the Trivium to filters of the...

From the Black Death to the feudal system to the rise of the merchant class, changing times meant changing roles and changing answers. Education and secular knowledge became more sought through these shifts. Cracks in the system were visible then as they have been in modern history. Tech companies are acting out many of the same shifts that were seen in the middle ages.     - Website -  http://www...

How do the parallels play out when looking at specific examples? I take some historical examples, largely related to warfare, and run the comparison. These include the Crusades, the Hussites, Edward IV from the War of the Roses, the Thirty Years War, and more. Also, I'm making another T-shirt order so email me if you want one.     - Website -  http://www.ourfoundations.podbean.com/ - Email -  ourf...

The hierarchies among various ruling class institutions follow a pattern throughout history. There are certain roles that are played, certain incentives that exist, conflicts of interest between the players, strategies for ruling, and so on that are explored in this episode through the Season 2 lens of comparing the Reformation (ish) time period to our modern day.    - Website -  http://www.ourfou...

All institutions rise and fall. From the Roman Empire to the pre Reformation Church to the current State, there are patterns of this that repeat themselves clearly. For the future, we can only speculate but unless these historical patterns break, we can get a rough idea of how things will develop on a macro level. This episode looks at what happened when Rome and the Church fell and what would lik...

What do big oil, Microsoft, social media and the internet have in common? This episode dives into the common aspects of these business models that end in large amounts of profit and control. The concept of the internet as a system for control is explored along with some precautions for future potentialities.    - Website -  http://www.ourfoundations.podbean.com/ - Email -  ourfoundations@protonmai...

Power on an institutional level shifts and evolves continuously through history. This episode explores some of these shifts around the Reformation and today through war and economics. As always, the parallels are strong between the decentralization of the Church and centralization of the State historically and current trends of decentralizing politics and centralizing corporate interests.    - Web...

Continuing the trend of a macro survey, some key shifts of the Reformation time period are compared with modern shifts. These include the source of morality and law, the role of the State, the Church, and corporations, decentralization of religion and politics, propaganda, the treaties of Augsburg and Westphalia, and more.   - Website -  http://www.ourfoundations.podbean.com/ - Email -  ourfoundat...

This is the first episode of the second half of season 2. The interviews are concluded and the rest of the season will be a solo format with shorter episodes. This episode takes a macro view on ideological movements and how they evolve. This includes movements such as the early church and the Reformation, the founding of the United States and it's current political issues, and the technological re...

"Pan-Optic is a podcast featuring conversations between a critical theorist and a management consultant, cohosts (and longtime friends) Juan Pablo Melo and Jason Margaritis respectively. Pan-Optic relates theories of communication, power, and technology to practical institutional issues, and everyday life." Our collaboration series covers the topics from Season Two but also many related topics tha...

"Pan-Optic is a podcast featuring conversations between a critical theorist and a management consultant, cohosts (and longtime friends) Juan Pablo Melo and Jason Margaritis respectively. Pan-Optic relates theories of communication, power, and technology to practical institutional issues, and everyday life." Our collaboration series covers the topics from Season Two but also many related topics tha...

"Pan-Optic is a podcast featuring conversations between a critical theorist and a management consultant, cohosts (and longtime friends) Juan Pablo Melo and Jason Margaritis respectively. Pan-Optic relates theories of communication, power, and technology to practical institutional issues, and everyday life." Our collaboration series covers the topics from Season Two but also many related topics tha...

"Pan-Optic is a podcast featuring conversations between a critical theorist and a management consultant, cohosts (and longtime friends) Juan Pablo Melo and Jason Margaritis respectively. Pan-Optic relates theories of communication, power, and technology to practical institutional issues, and everyday life." Our collaboration series covers the topics from Season Two but also many related topics tha...

  Benjamin Jacobs is the host of the Wittenberg to Westphalia podcast. His show is focused on the history of Europe with much of the content to date covering the Middle Ages chronologically. He comes on for this interview to discuss the Early Modern Period which broadly covers the time period between the fall of the Roman Empire through the Reformation. This is the final segment of our interview....

Benjamin Jacobs is the host of the Wittenberg to Westphalia podcast. His show is focused on the history of Europe with much of the content to date covering the Middle Ages chronologically. He comes on for this interview to discuss the Early Modern Period which broadly covers the time period between the fall of the Roman Empire through the Reformation. This is the third installment of our discussio...

Benjamin Jacobs is the host of the Wittenberg to Westphalia podcast. His show is focused on the history of Europe with much of the content to date covering the Middle Ages chronologically. He comes on for this interview to discuss the Early Modern Period which broadly covers the time period between the fall of the Roman Empire through the Reformation. In part 2 here, we get into a lot about econom...

Benjamin Jacobs is the host of the Wittenberg to Westphalia podcast. His show is focused on the history of Europe with much of the content to date covering the Middle Ages chronologically. He comes on for this interview to discuss the Early Modern Period which broadly covers the time period between the fall of the Roman Empire through the Reformation. In this first section, we discuss life after t...

Part 3 of the Corona Virus Special. To wrap up this series, the focus will be on institutions, groups, and larger power players. These would be international corporations, foundations, world groups (WHO, World Bank, etc.), and governments. Mixed with this are some observations on tech, data, and surveillance and how these are contributing to the shifts being paralleled in season 2.      - Website...

This is part 2 of the Corona Virus Special. I focus on the impact of this pandemic on individuals and the social psyche along with a few tangents on related information from previous episodes. I also highlight some solutions to go with these problems in the form of agorism and self sufficiency.    - Website -  http://www.ourfoundations.podbean.com/ - Email -  ourfoundations@protonmail.com - Patreo...

This is a special episode in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and the synchronicities between current events and the themes of Season 2. I've been discussing shifts in power, economics, politics, institutions, etc. and we are seeing many similar shifts playing out today. I'm taking a few episodes to highlight these parallels. This opening episode of the "Corona Special Series" is focused on an overv...

Steve Guerra is the host of the History of the Papacy Podcast, which began in 2013. In 2017, Steve began working on Beyond the Big Screen, a podcast which delves into the fascinating stories behind films through lively interviews. In this final segment of our interview, part 3, we talk about the "invention" of the numerical value of 0, the 30 years war, and a lot about institutional shifts both th...

Steve Guerra is the host of the History of the Papacy Podcast, which began in 2013. In 2017, Steve began working on Beyond the Big Screen, a podcast which delves into the fascinating stories behind films through lively interviews. In part 2, we get past the more purely historical outline and begin to cover economics, sociology, historiography, the printing press, and more.   Steve Guerra info: - h...

Steve Guerra is the host of the History of the Papacy Podcast, which began in 2013. In 2017, Steve began working on Beyond the Big Screen, a podcast which delves into the fascinating stories behind films through lively interviews. In this episode, part 1 of our interview, we take a survey of the historical time period of the Middle Ages through the Reformation with a focus on the influence of and...

Dr. Norman Horn is the founder and editor of the Libertarian Christian Institute and an author with a focus on theology, science, economics, engineering, and political theory. In this second half of the interview, we get into political power shifts, the future of tech and State, other ties to Christianity, and more.   Norman Horn info: - https://libertarianchristians.com/  -  @LCIOfficial  - The L...

Dr. Norman Horn is the founder and editor of the Libertarian Christian Institute and an author with a focus on theology, science, economics, engineering, and political theory. In this first half of the interview, we discuss most of the theology related topics and begin to get into the political theory. This includes why some choose to believe in God, how different people interpret political theory...