Ideas Have Consequences

And of course, you're, you're, you find all of the anxieties of your great-grandparents to be increasingly irrelevant to the actual problems that you face.

I mean, one way I think about it, you know, Richard Weaver, I think he, he says in Ideas Have Consequences that we, our minds operate at three levels.

We have our specific beliefs and about things.

We have our principles and convictions.

You're going to find lots of other books that these guys write, and every one of them is worth reading.

But The Road to Serfdom, The Conservative Mind, and then The Philosophical Side of Conservatism, Richard Weaver's book, Ideas Have Consequences.

Everybody uses that phrase now.

That's the book that the phrase comes from, Ideas Have Consequences.

Any of those books you're going to have to read multiple times to make sense of them, especially Weaver.

You're going to have to read Weaver at least three times before he begins to make sense to

And each episode, we're going to be digging into a different idea that appears in the culture.

This is Ideas Have Consequences with me,

Larry Alex Taunton.

welcome to another episode of ideas have consequences with me larry alex taunton and on this occasion with the young seth gruber seth how are you doing excellent it's good to be on your

show again it's been a couple years

and it's been great to be on the porch today we're actually starting to experience a little bit of autumn weather yeah exactly Seth, to acquaint you with my audience, let's start by talking a little bit about who you are and what you do.

Larry Alex Taunton.

The reason I fell in love with your show was because of the title.

That all things being equal ideas are what ultimately matters.

You know, there was a great 20th century American historian named Richard Reaver who wrote a book called Ideas have consequences.

And there's a contemporary historian named Gary Gertzel who's looked at what he describes as these paradigms that kind of govern our politics, even if we don't necessarily think about them in those terms or see them.

But from roughly the period of the Royal Sierra Walk Commission until about the 1970s, we had a kind of paradigm, a shared understanding of markets, of government, of society.

What is that question in particular?

Well, I think at least one of the questions, the kind of question the critical theorists are saying is, what's wrong with the world, right? So I don't know if you've ever stumbled upon the work by Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences.

And Richard Weaver is writing in the late 40s, Right when the critical theorists, you know, it's one of the eras they're writing in.

So Horkheimer and Adorno, two of these gentlemen, write a book called Dialectic of Enlightenment.