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Talk Back to Me Decentralization will have its consequences, and to centralized authority, it will look like collapse. This comes with a warning. A suicide deemed martyrdom on one side of the globalized country may radicalize the actions of another, who takes it out on innocent children. This is the underground precursor to holy war, only one half of the equation doesn't necessarily believe t...

Talk Back to Me Which Way Western Man? In a recent action, Texas has signed into law the requirement for adult content websites to implement age verification. In response, figures such as David Hogg commented the following on X "It’s crazy Texas sees porn as a greater threat to public health than the AR-15 used in Uvalde." either inadvertently identifying pornography as a potential risk...

Talk Back to Me Arguments back and forth over gun control often follow consistent strains that resemble genetic lines through time. A bad argument of the 60's is reborn as if it were a new idea in 2013, only to be killed off quickly, but be resurrected again less than 10 years later.  What are these argumentative strains when it comes to Gun Control? In this episode, four different genomes of...

Talk Back to Me When it comes to conversation on 5th Generational Warfare, we often get bogged down in the discussion on defining the terms, so much so that we are exhausted before getting to the application. James Lindsay joins the REDACTED Culture Cast as a guest to discuss not simply the description of how "woke" is used in a war-like fashion,  but how to address it and what the rules...

Talk Back to Me Look at the literature of Christian writers on Masculinity, and you'll see a long lineage of writers putting black ink to white paper on the war waged on masculinity. Does it disregard the conflicts they face? No. But does the imagery and metaphor of warfare do itself justice?  Is there a war on masculinity? Is it true, or, is Christian Masculinity being persecuted? What is th...

Talk Back to Me Just because Academia suffers from internal decay and the death of its legitimacy, doesn't mean we ought abandon the tenants of it's development. C.B. Robertson returns as a guest to present an argument regarding the use of language and how it applies to reality. Accurately conveying ideas from one person to another must pass through the lens of individual subjectivity an...

Talk Back to Me Some arguments are like communism: you cannot completely stamp them out, and every once in a while and old dispute must rise to the surface only for us all to realize that it's something stupid we are debating. The comparison of competition shooting to tactical shooting is one of those subjects, full of passionate attempts at equivocating the two things and then claiming one t...

Talk Back to Me What does Gun Control and Christian Nationalism have in common? Particularly, the rhetoric against them. While bad arguments of a similar fashion do not make a justification for either, they do help illustrate the way rhetoric functions.  If not already, Christians should be prepared to face the horns of this dilemma: either chose to be condemned as a Christian Nationalist, or be g...

Talk Back to Me There's plenty of buzz on the topics of such as AI and transhumanism when it comes to individual agency, questions about what it means to be human. However, such topics inevitably lead to ethical questions beyond if we can stretching deeper into whether we should. J Drago joins the show to talk about these subjects and more. At the heart of the Identity Crisis in the West wres...

Talk Back to Me There is a strain that runs through current political ideology that divides mankind into two parts. Some call them oppressors and oppressed, others see it as fascists and anti-fascists, but at the core it is the dividing of the population into two different categories: those who will inevitably do evil by their nature, and those who are justified in using violence so long as it is...

Talk Back to Me In a recent clip, a speaker on MSNBC described Christian Nationalism as believing that Rights exclusively come from God, or at least, they are not granted by the State. Historically, the prevalence of this belief led to the persecution and even killing of Christians.  When a State sees itself as the granter or generator of Rights, it cannot abide by citizens appealing to a higher p...

Talk Back to Me The idea of combat being some rite of proving is neither new, nor something to be trivialized. Dreams of glory, the horrors of war, cynicism towards honor, and a demystification as pseudo-enlightenment all appear in both literature and the stories we tell ourselves and each other. In this conversation with Nic Magjack3r, he tells the story of his first gunfight, beginning long befo...

Talk Back to Me If we are going to talk about ideological and information warfare, we would be foolish to ignore the intellectual or ideological injuries that a person may receive. On this this show we have talked about moral injuries where a person experiences a situation where they take part in, or are unable to stop an event which directly contradicts their moral system or values.  In a similar...

Talk Back to Me Audio Warning: This was our first attempt at a recording with this many people. It's not the best sound but the conversation is worth the wait. In this grand episode of the REDACTED Culture Cast, we are joined by New and Returning faces appear to discuss industry innovation, who we'd like to see come to SHOT SHOW, and center on Culture, Community, and Calling. A trade sho...

Talk Back to Me Two recent events (depending on how you interpret the news cycle) help point out the relevance of Culture as a potential attack vector. In the interview by Tucker Carlson, Putin accused Ukraine of breaching the separation of church and state by banning the practice of orthodox Christianity. To us in the west, the nuance of this decision can easily be lost, considering that we are c...

Talk Back to Me You can tell a lot about a person by the way they responded to the mere existence of Tucker Carlson's interview of Vladimir Putin. Cries of outrage, traitor, and denouncements, as loud as they were, quickly faded, and so should our intellectual respect for the minds attached to the mouths and keyboards making such claims. But all is not so simple, nor so clear, in the internat...

Talk Back to Me While medication has focused on treating the physical injuries that can contribute to PTSD, it remains ill equipped to address moral injuries one may encounter in war. Beyond the stigma placed on military veterans, and a cruel incentive program directed at their mental health, the idea of PTSD, when reduced to merely physiological responses to trauma, only looks at half the problem...

Talk Back to Me Gun Culture is amalgamous. Christ is eternal.  There's a Christian Trend. How are we to approach it? Are we here because it it fits the marketing quota? How do we deal with authenticity being the current icon? I do not know the artist for the closing song. Reach Out.  -- Up your helmet camo game: pickup the REDACTED x AXL Squid Scrim Kit at axladvanced.com Support the REDACTED...

Talk Back to Me It is possible to look at a situation that takes place within our culture, acknowledge that happened was wrong, even to offer aid, without trying to turn it into a movement. In an time where a public display of implied suffering can be a financially lucrative grift, we are all in danger of become jaded and cold hearted towards our own people.  One form of entryism uses the (often l...

Talk Back to Me A side note, for those who read these: SHOTSHOW has a strange effect on the industry, where for those who attend, it seems quite easy to get in, and for those who do not, it appears exclusive, and sometimes with dramatic consequences. If it comes across as elitist and exclusionary, please forgive me. For many, SHOTSHOW is the one time a year where all our industry friends come toge...

Talk Back to Me 2023 was a painful year, and the sentiment is that it's only beginning.  The question remains, what is the IT that is only beginning? What is the cause or explanation of the upheaval? Books have been written on the subject, and they pile up on bookshelves and in influencer's reading lists, but do they end up helping or perpetuating the problem. In this episode, I put forw...

Talk Back to Me The landscape of discussion on masculinity hosts many tribes. Some demand specialization, others, annihilation. All of which appear unhappy about the state of masculinity in the West. Questions about masculinity are ultimately inquiries about not only his identity, but about society, government, and how we should live. Kenneth W. Royce, Author of over 15 books, provides the Modules...

Talk Back to Me The Ends Justify The Means You have to break a few eggs to make an Omelette And similar phrases are not only used to moraly justify atrocities, but are wielded rhetorically as a call to action instead of a moral argument.  Whether a case of desperation, or of utilitarian ends, we take a look a this form of moral argumentation and see if it holds water.  Three layers challenge the l...

Talk Back to Me The subject of Civil War is once again in the mainstream, this time brought forward by a trailer by the very namesake. Dark Humor gets many of us through our tough times, but if this means anything, it's that we're not there yet.  As a result, we are once again engaging with Just War Theory, having to do with some problems that the classic model struggles with, particular...

Talk Back to Me By my estimation, since the Second World War, the West has taken for granted why men will voluntarily go off to war. It generally minimizes it into some semblance of the male fantasy or selfish ambition or patriotism. However, how we, ourselves make these decisions, or think about Just War Theory as individuals, has consequences for our lives that go well beyond internet clout. As...