Jon Askonas on the Technological Age, “Post-Reality", and Marxism

In This Episode:

• Jon Askonas joins the podcast to discuss how a technological age makes conservative and traditional values obsolete, and how to overcome this problem
• why Karl Marx has to teach conservatives about analyzing and understanding “historical materialism,“ the fundamental material elements of society
• what really drove the disintegration of a shared conception of reality, and how to navigate the “post-real” world

Texts Mentioned:

• “Why Conservatism Failed” by Jon Askonas
• The Market and Other Orders by F.A. Hayek
• Ideas Have Consequences by Richard Weaver
• Revolt of the Public by Martin Gurri 
• “Reality: A Post-Mortem” by Jon Askonas

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