For thousands of years, humanity has been pulled between two opposing paradigms. Where one paradigm recognizes the moral reason built into the fabric of the universe itself as well as human nature, the other outlook asserts that the universe is governed by cold utilitarianism devoid of moral virtue. One promotes systems fit for free people…
Month: July 2023
Horizon 2100 Moscow: Growth Needs of Humanity in the 21st Century and Beyond
On August 24, Matthew Ehret, representing the Rising Tide Foundation and Canadian Patriot Review delivered the following remarks at Moscow’s Horizon 2100 Summit sponsored by the Center for Modelling the Future. The presentation ‘Open vs Closed Systems: Growth Needs of Humanity in the 21st Century and Beyond’ was delivered to dozens of youth from around…
Is Philosophy Relevant in the Age of Science?
In this interview on Zain Khan Live, The Rising Tide Foundation’s Matthew Ehret, and renowned Pakistani philosopher Abdul Manan explore the relationship of philosophy and science with a focus on the figures of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Bertrand Russell. How do these popular philosophers fail to bridge the gap separating these two worlds? Are…
Why H.G. Wells’ World Brain and Yuval Harari’s Hackable Human Will Not Succeed
The following is the transcript of a lecture I delivered this past March in Basel, Switzerland as part of the Kernpunkte Kongress. Why H.G. Wells’ World Brain and Yuval Harari’s Hackable Human Will Not Succeed A Study on the Abolition of Man By Cynthia Chung In 2018 Yuval Harari delivered a presentation to the World Economic…
Escaping Huxley’s Island: Psychedelics, Scientific Paganism and the Changing Images of Man
In Aldous Huxley’s final novel, The Island, the Ultimate Revolution and predictive programming guru presents a subtly different and more nuanced version of the original Soma culture depicted in his Brave New World. While Huxley’s earlier novel presented a culture in which a magical drug called “Soma” was used to chemically regulate people’s inner worlds…
Philosophy, Food for the Living Soul or algorithmic matrix for bio-machines?
The Rising Tide Foundation was happy to present Dr Quan Le who delivered a two part interactive lecture on the topic of philosophy, epistemology and the use/misuse of logic. Dr Le outlined the purpose of his presentations with the following introductory remarks which are followed by his two part lecture series We just read Kepler’s…
Nazis, the British, and the Middle East
By Cynthia Chung The following is a chapter from my book The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set. For all one-year paid subscribers you can receive the full PDF copy of the book, just contact me through my substack if you are interested.[Note to Reader: The intention of writing this chapter is not to in…
Who Really Created the Middle East Terror Apparatus?
By Cynthia Chung The following is a chapter from my book The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set. For all one-year paid subscribers you can receive the full PDF copy of the book, just contact me through my substack if you are interested. For further context on the Balfour Declaration see Chapter 2 of…
Islamic Roots and al-Khwarizmi’s Algebra
On Sunday June 25, 2023 The Rising Tide Foundation hosted a lecture on universal history and science titled ‘Islamic Roots and al-Khwarizi’s Algebra’. In this lecture, professors Pascal Chevrier and Kevin Champagne introduced the contours of history that shaped the islamic renaissance and which was in turn shaped by this renaissance movement. Special focus was…
The Everlasting Civilization
By Dr. Quan Le I would like to offer some of my musings on Universal History- More precisely on the theoretical possibility of an everlasting civilization. That idea is in total contradiction with the meditations by the illustrious French author & poet Paul Valéry (1871-1945) having written in “La Crise de l’Esprit” (The Crisis of…