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Dr Sebastian Morello joins Katherine Bennett and Gavin Ashenden in conversation about his recent article for Catholic Unscripted which can be found here:
https://www.catholicunscripted.com/post/the-eternal-saruman-starmer-s-mind-of-metal-and-wheels
a conversation which relates to Katherine's article found here:
https://thecatholicherald.com/it-is-the-clash-between-good-and-evil-not-right-and-left-that-defines-the-course-of-the-human-history/
The trio discuss the political settlement of Middle Earth as they diagnose the problems around us today, before offering a prognosis centred around a commitment to Christendom.
00:00 Introduction
02:02 The importance of LOTR for these times
03:55 A move towards 'Great Men' History
04:47 The Future of Nations and Christ the King
07:38 Archetypes in Lord of the Rings
11:37 The danger of the Mechanical Mind
15:01 Modernity elevates the wrong kind of man
18:49 The Devil hates Organisms
22:14 The problem with the Left/Right divide
26:31 The need to Commit to Christendom
29:30 The desecration of the landscape
30:25 Modernity is the subordination of the organism to the mechanism
30:43 Why we don't need Greta Thunberg
32:10 The importance of Our Lady as the incarnation of Creation