Tuesday, 22 September 2026

Michael Sartori: "The Meaning Crisis is a luxury belief of the spoilt and affluent."


Michael Sartori's long and short version of his book available on Amazon

1:00  Pamphlet
2:00  Nietzsche
3:00  Writing as self-analysis
4:00  Existentialism
5:00  "God Is Dead."
6:00  Hitler's favourite philosopher
The Will to Power
8:00  Existentialists are atheists.
Heidegger
11:00  Philosophy merges into politics.
12:00  Bees in our bonnets
13:00  Moral philosophy has to come from practical reason. 

14:00  Should we obey God's laws? What are God's laws? Does God exist?

Immanuel Kant
16:00  Jordan Peterson
17:00  Principle of Universalisability
21:00  Sexual morality
Schopenhauer
22:00  Problem of the Will
26:00  Rebellion and loss of credibility
27:00  The matriarchy
28:00  Western governments cannot even give the impression of good government.
29:00  Rousseau
30:00  The Meaning Crisis
32:00  Slave Morality
33:00  Voting
34:00  Rebellion
35:00  The Meaning Crisis is a luxury belief of the spoilt and affluent. 
39:00  Our culture of casual sex militates against stable communities.
41:00  Marxism and Rousseau
Rousseau had a challenging wife. 
43:00  Autonomous individuality - sexual liberation from the rules of marriage and good parenting - for all policed by the state
44:00  The Noble Savage and the Social Contract

46:00  Jewish theology is the Jewish philosophy of believing that good will be rewarded and evil punished in this life and the next by the supreme and eternal Abrahamic God who forbade idolatry and blasphemy as well as internalising the Noahide laws and avoiding mortal sin.

48:00  Abuse of power
49:00  Solomon died an idolater.
50:00  Absolute monarchy is absolutely corrupt. 
51:00  Trump's lies and broken promises

54:00  There is no religious obligation of jihad in Christianity making Christians adopt the fallback policy of praying to Jesus instead of solving their problems with facts and logic. 

55:00  The unmotivated slave
1:00:00  What shall we do after we have killed God?

1:02:00  The problem of corrupt rulers is easily solved once people are prepared to call out hypocrites and liars as well as those who make illogical and unsound arguments. 

1:04:00  Pursuing happiness under God's laws
1:05:00  Eternal recurrence
1:07:00  Fellowship and community

1:08:00  Whether or not we think God actually exists or was a Creation of Man created to assist Man in his politics, morality or spiritualty, we should obey the laws supposed to be from God to reap the benefits of organised religion eg the rule of law enjoyed under patriarchy as well as economic, social and political stability. 

1:09:00  We are more likely to enjoy meritocracy under a republic than in a monarchy.

1:10:00  Slave/Master Morality

1:13:00  Envy is thoughtcrime leading to mortal sin. 

1:15:00  We should think of our spouse as unique.  

1:18:00  We are all the Slaves of God including the Emperor of China under the Mandate of Heaven.

Theosis

Is God a divine father or a tyrant?

1:20:00  We are creatures of our time and circumstances.

1:22:00  Fear of competition

1:23:00  If we get more rights in a theocracy than in a liberal democracy, why wouldn't the rational atheist choose the better system?

1:24:00  Rebellion and the American Revolution

1:25:00  Republican Rome

1:26:00  The Republic of Rome became an absolute monarchy.

1:27:00  The Year of the Five Emperors

1:28:00  The rules of marriage were liberated in imperial Rome. 

1:30:00  The virtue of lifelong marriages

1:31:00  O G Rose

1:32:00  Settling

1:33:00  Not allowed to return to your original spouse after divorce in the Torah?

1:34:00  Religion was created to maintain the eugenic practice of marriage. 

1:35:00  The virgin bride and virgin bridegroom

1:36:00  Nietzsche won't make you atheist.

1:37:00  It seems the Koran does  not say virgins should only marry virgins. 

1:40:00  Repentance and redemption

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