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BHoP#063 The Pinkerton Owners` Circumscription Society

October 21, 2021 ·

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about preparing for economic collapse and answer a listener question about reading books. They then delve into the history of surveillance in early America: its technological limitations, its use before and during WWI, the growing desire for surveillance with increasing ethnic and ideological diversity, increasing possibility for surveillance with advances in technology and the urbanization of the American population, and finally, how slavery to the system is its ultimate goal.

Further research on surveillance: James Bamford, Edward Snowden, William Binney.

Many thanks to our sponsors, Blessed Sacrament Lutheran Church in Hayden, ID and Our Savior Lutheran Church and School in Pagosa Springs, CO

Dr Koontz – Agrarian, Egghead – Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne
Rev Fisk – Author, Fanatic – St Paul Rockford

BHoP#057 Off Limits Thoughts and Where to Find Them

September 9, 2021 ·

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk spend this second episode on the collapse of empires discussing post-World War I Germany and the Hitler’s rise to power in the wake of the economic devastation imposed on Germany by the victors, and the consequential necessity of creating limits on the thinking of the populace to secure his position. Dr Koontz sees some parallels with America today in the form of unchecked economic inflation, rapid social and moral change, as well as the saturation of media.

Dr Koontz – Agrarian, Egghead – Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne
Rev Fisk – Author, Fanatic – St Paul Rockford

BHoP#014 1787 Didn’t Plan for That – From Suleyman to Orange Man Bad

November 12, 2020 ·

In Part Two on the Ottoman Empire Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about the secularization of the national identity of the Turks and their modern unsecularization, rebuilding after collapse, and the impossibility of maintaining a society without religious ideology.

Dr Koontz – Agrarian, Egghead – Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne
Rev Fisk – Author, Fanatic – St Paul Rockford

BHoP#013 When Your Country Falls Apart

November 5, 2020 ·

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about what happens when empires fall. They discuss the history of the Ottoman Empire and how it compares to what may soon happen in America, as well as discussing America’s Elites and where they come from.

Dr Koontz – Agrarian, Egghead – Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne
Rev Fisk – Author, Fanatic – St Paul Rockford