S5 · E83
Friday · 1 hr 1 min
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Boreas Podcast
George Boreas
Mimetic theory takes on everything.
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- English
- BPS4 · E82June 10 · 1 hr 6 min
E Michael Jones: Science and Politics
Send us Fan Mail Dr. E Michael Jones is back, this time to discuss the historical influence of philosophy and science on culture. How modern science has been used to justify modern forms of political oppression. The conversation references Dr. Jones' book Logos Rising, and is relevant to the serial theme I've been running lately on the history of metaphysics.
- BPS4 · E81May 31 · 1 hr 9 min
Explaining Everything and Nothing (Part V)
Send us Fan Mail The fifth and final part of the "Metaphysics Scandal" series asks what happened after Scholasticism broke. The answer is two roads — empiricism and rationalism — that look like opposites but in the extreme arrive at the same destination: a world scrubbed of God and person, leaving only function. What drove both roads is older than either. It is the Promethean spirit — the will to possess knowledge by force rather than receive it as gift. Today, an endpoint of that arc is artificial intelligence: the moment when function threatens to become total, when the machine that cannot be a face is offered as a substitute for one. Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical calls it an anthropological crisis, not a technological one. This episode is an attempt to explain how we got here.
- BPS4 · E80May 29 · 1 hr 6 min
Mimesis and Scholasticism (Part IV)
Send us Fan Mail Parts I through III traced mimesis in Ancient Greek philosophy, René Girard's mimetic theory, the Scripture and the Church Fathers. Here in Part IV, we arrive at Medieval Scholasticism. It is said to have baptized Aristotle. With that, it also built a great intellectual edifice that set off the modern Western academia. But Aristotelian demonstratio and scientia is based on natures and teleology, not persons and imitation. The change of focus set a chain reaction that caused the nominalist and pietist reactions, Reformation, scientific and political revolutions, and ultimately, modernity.
- BPS4 · E79May 24 · 57 min
Eden and the Mimetic Crisis (Part III)
Send us Fan Mail Parts I and II covered the role of imitation in philosophy: essential, but incomplete. In this Part III we compare the account of imitation in René Girard's mimetic theory to the scriptural narrative of the Fall. We are made to imitate: Scripture says man is created in the image and likeness of God. The trouble in Eden starts not because Adam and Eve decided to imitate God. It's the mode of their imitation. In turning to perceive God as their rival, they take the Serpent as their model. From the simple story of the Fall, we can derive the whole mimetic anthropology of rivalry, scapegoating, and sacred violence found in Girard's writings millennia later.
- BPS4 · E78May 14 · 54 min
Role Models and Philosophers (Part II)
Send us Fan Mail Part 2 after René Girard and the Philosophers. Girard argued that Plato and the philosophers who followed him sidelined imitation — neglecting the rivalrous, appropriative mimesis that drives human conflict. Plato did quiet over the dangerous side of imitation. But imitation is everywhere in classical metaphysics. It's the engine of Plato's cosmos and Aristotle's telos, and the master principle of the Platonic-Christian tradition that follows. This episode traces how imitation became the hidden axiom of Western thought — and how, two and a half millennia later, Girard's mimetic theory helps us rediscover it. Featuring spoiled philosophers, autistic scientists, narcissistic gods, and the long shadow of Plato's classroom.
- BPS4 · E77May 11 · 51 min
René Girard and the Philosophers (Part I)
Send us Fan Mail While Plato was teaching his students to contemplate the eternal forms, the theatre portrayed women of Thebes tearing a king apart with their bare hands. I talk about how the founding gesture of philosophy was walking away in silence from archaic scapegoating, blood sacrifice, etc., and that René Girard, twenty-five centuries later, gets us to turn around and take a close, analytical look.
- BPS4 · E76April 21 · 1 hr 23 min
Newton vs Athanasius Part II: Athanasius
Send us Fan Mail In Part I we saw Newton's anti-Trinitarianism and his science as a single revolution, opposed to the idea that divine form can enter matter and restructure it from within. This week, the counter-argument. We turn to the man in the opposing corner: Athanasius of Alexandria. We introduce his magnum opus, On the Incarnation. First, the metaphysics — form, matter, ousia, the Image. We then interpret the main thesis, which is that the same Divine Logos who created the world became incarnate to save it. The closing questions consider the social consequences of scientism derived from Newton's vision, with its cosmos of inert matter governed at a distance, in which the Incarnation becomes unthinkable, and in which persons too become bundles of forms and properties tossed and turned by impersonal forces.
- BPS4 · E75April 19 · 1 hr 29 min
Newton vs Athanasius Part I: Newton
Send us Fan Mail Most people know Isaac Newton as the father of modern science. Fewer know that two thirds of his written output was on alchemy and theology — and that he kept it secret because it would have gotten him hanged. This week I read my essay Newton Contra Athanasius, tracing the strange inner life of the man behind the mechanical universe: the abandoned child who reimagined God as a distant sovereign, the secret Arian who spent decades building a forensic case against one of the greatest theologian of the early Church, and the unwitting architect of a worldview that is only now beginning to crack.
- BPS4 · E74March 27 · 58 min
Hidden Grammar: Shakespeare, Joyce, and Girard
Send us Fan Mail William Shakespeare, James Joyce, and René Girard walk into a bar... And share a secret: the price of literary genius is the torment of mimetic cuckoldry, resolved through a type of repentance. I talk about how Girard found this secret in Shakespeare, and how Joyce had already encoded it in a single chapter of Ulysses, where Stephen Dedalus, presenting his Shakespeare theory to a roomful of erudite groundlings, ends up outcast as their scapegoat. The mob wins in the short term, but the artist persists.
- BPS4 · E73March 22 · 1 hr 2 min
Quebec: The Original White Minority
Send us Fan Mail My French-Canadian friend Martin joins me to discuss the history of Quebec. Discover how this province, once the stronghold of French Catholic conservatism, underwent a rapid secular revolution in the 1960s. What role did the Catholic Church and later secular nationalism play in preserving Quebec's unique identity against Anglo dominance? We explore the demographic strategy of "La Revanche des Berceaux" – Revenge of the Cradles – and delve into the consequences of the shift from Catholicism to secular nationalism. What can the history of Quebec teach us about the demographic challenges facing the broader Western world today?
- BPS4 · E72March 18 · 41 min
Sex, Power, and Bill Clinton
Send us Fan Mail Why did Bill Clinton survive the Lewinsky scandal? Not because of legal technicalities or partisan loyalty. Because he understood something about power that most people still don't: a nation addicted to sexual liberation cannot condemn its president for doing what it has been taught to celebrate. In this essay I follow E. Michael Jones's Libido Dominandi from the Illuminati's blueprint for soft control through blackmail and moral compromise, through Clinton's presidency, all the way to the Epstein files. The thesis is simple and devastating — the moral law is the only thing that protects the poor, and the powerful know it. That's why they work so hard to tear it down.
- BPS4 · E71February 20 · 1 hr 8 min
E Michael Jones: Sexual Liberation and Political Control
Send us Fan Mail Dr. E. Michael Jones returns to discuss the history of sexual revolution. We explore its connection to personal vice and political control. We go over influential figures like Adam Weishaupt, Sigmund Freud, Wilhem Reich, Claude McKay, Bill Clinton, and Jeffrey Epstein. Dr. Jones also explores the role of sexual liberation on mass entertainment, the feminist movement, Black music, psychological control, and blackmail. We touch on sexual transgression and Jewish influence as the hidden grammar of government and revolution.
- BPS4 · E70February 2 · 1 hr 18 min
Sexual Repression
Send us Fan Mail Wilhelm Reich, the pupil of Sigmund Freud and the founding father of sexual liberation, argued that sexual repression produces fascism. So why were the top ranks of the Nazi party crawling with homosexuals? In this episode, I refer to E. Michael Jones' book Libido Dominandi and René Girard's mimetic theory to show that Reich had it exactly backwards—it's not sexual repression that produces fascism and perversion, but sexual liberation. We cover Ernst Röhm's creative legal defense, Magnus Hirschfeld's blackmail files, why the Nazis burned evidence of their own degeneracy, and how the same link between homosexuality and fascism is alive and well in the dissident right today.
- BPS4 · E69January 25 · 1 hr 19 min
The Church as Founding Sacrifice of Modernity
Send us Fan Mail What if modernity's original sin isn't colonialism or slavery, but something earlier and deeper—the looting of the Catholic Church? In this episode, I explore E. Michael Jones's claim that the Dissolution of Monasteries was a "looting operation" that financed the birth of capitalism, and I read it through René Girard's theory of the founding sacrifice: the idea that civilizations are built on blood they can't acknowledge. From Cain's murder of Abel to Romulus killing Remus to Brutus stabbing Caesar, the pattern repeats—and I argue that the Protestant destruction of Medieval Christendom fits the template exactly. The result is modern man: triumphant, progressive, moralizing, and haunted by a guilt he cannot name or confess. Nietzsche saw it: "God is dead, and we have killed him. Who will wipe this blood off us?"
- BPS4 · E68January 11 · 1 hr 9 min
E Michael Jones: Usury
Send us Fan Mail Dr. E. Michael Jones discusses how usury transforms economy and culture: conflict of usury and labor, the historical transition from feudalism to capitalism, sexual liberation and usury, and the psychology of usury. We discuss the denial of limit in the sexual and economic realms. Transition from feudalism to capitalism in the British Isles: dissolution of monasteries and the capitalist science and ideology that followed in the wake. The impact of usury today on inflation and education. And more.
- BPS4 · E67Dec 24, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min
The Anti-Manifesto
Send us Fan Mail Marx promised workers had nothing to lose but their chains. But what if the real chains aren't economic—they're mimetic? In this final installment of The Anti-Manifesto, I lay out what revolution could never accomplish: a genuine escape from the tyranny of capital. Not by seizing the means of production, but by understanding that capital itself is generated by our converging desires—and that walking away is the one move the system can't counter. From the Ten Commandments read in reverse to the sadomasochistic logic of usury, from stumbling blocks that ensnare the innocent to the ascetic wisdom that breaks the spell, this is the counter-prescription to every manifesto ever written. You have nothing to lose but your idols. The final, fifth part of a five-part series.
- BPS4 · E66Dec 23, 2025 · 59 min
E Michael Jones: Medjugorje
Send us Fan Mail Dr. E Michael Jones returns to Boreas Podcast to recount his personal history investigating and writing on the Medjugorje apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a history summarized in his 1998 book "The Medjugorje Deception: Queen of Peace, Ethnic Cleansing, and Ruined Lives." Dr. Jones communicated with highest-level representatives of US goverment and the Catholic Church during his investigative work. Our discussion touches on the suspect spirituality of the phenomena and morality of the individuals involved in promoting them to thousands of pilgrims over the decades, and on their connection to regional, global, and church politics and controversies.
- BPS4 · E65Dec 20, 2025 · 1 hr
Das Kapital Mistake
Send us Fan Mail Marx titled his magnum opus Das Kapital, yet he completely botched what capital actually is. Here's the real definition: capital is the power to influence the behavior of others—and it's generated not by factories or machinery but by converging desires. The moment two people want the same fish, that fish becomes capital. If Elon Musk survives nuclear apocalypse alone in a bunker with mountains of gold and machines, his capital is exactly zero—because capital exists in relationships, not objects. This is why Marx, the ultimate "supply guy," couldn't see that the dainty lady shopping for dresses and the factory owner exploiting workers are caught in the same mimetic web. In this episode, I argue that capital has existed "since the monkeys," that both capitalists and communists worship the same materialist idol, and that the real escape isn't revolution or free markets—it's walking away from the fascination entirely. Part 4 in a 5-part series.
- BPS4 · E64Dec 18, 2025 · 1 hr 6 min
Knights and Kapitalists
Send us Fan Mail Marx got feudalism wrong. Medieval knights weren't cunning exploiters hoarding the means of production—they were sacrificial figures whose privilege was justified by their willingness to die in battle. In this episode, I trace the strange transition from sacred warfare to sacred shopping, revealing how European aristocrats literally traded away their power for diamond buckles (Adam Smith's words, not mine). What emerges is a picture Marx couldn't see: capitalism and communism aren't opposites but rival cults worshipping the same materialist idol through different rituals. The real story isn't class struggle—it's Christianity slowly weaning Western civilization off the violent sacred of war toward the (somewhat) less bloody sacred of economic competition. And the communists? They responded to this progress by lunging backward into the most archaic form of resolution: mob formation, scapegoating, and blood sacrifice on an industrial scale. Part 3 of a 5-part series.